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UN rights chief raps ‘serial denials’ of abuse by Myanmar
Mar 09, 2018 11:39The United Nations human rights chief says Myanmar is making “serial denials” of the state-sponsored abuses carried out against Rohingya Muslims, shortly after a Myanmarese official demanded evidence of alleged genocide.
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UN has strong suspicion genocide has happened in Myanmar
Mar 07, 2018 09:50The United Nations (UN)’s human rights chief has expressed strong suspicion that “acts of genocide” may have been carried out against Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar since August 2017.
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Myanmar’s Rohingya Muslims still languishing
Mar 04, 2018 14:08Rohingya refugees who are living in a no-man’s-land between Myanmar’s Tambru and Bangladesh’s Konarpara border areas are still in great need of aid support.
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Myanmar defends military build-up at Bangladesh border
Mar 02, 2018 10:42Myanmar has defended its military build-up near the border with Bangladesh, where thousands of Rohingya Muslim refugees have sheltered after fleeing a brutal military crackdown on their community.
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Bangladesh to protest to Myanmar over troops gathering at border
Mar 01, 2018 14:31Bangladesh will send a protest note to Myanmar over an increased security presence near a portion of their border where thousands of Rohingya Muslims have been sheltering just inside Myanmar, a Bangladesh border guard official said on Thursday.
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Rohingya escape after Myanmar threat
Feb 28, 2018 15:29Hundreds of Rohingya living in no man's land have left their makeshift camp and crossed into Bangladesh after soldiers from Myanmar used loudhailers to threaten them, community leaders said Wednesday.
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Myanmar's Suu Kyi blamed for Rohingya 'genocide'
Feb 28, 2018 15:19Three Nobel Peace laureates have charged Myanmar's de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi and the country's military with involvement in "genocide" for their role in violence against the Rohingya Muslim community in Rakhine state.
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EU agrees to prepare sanctions on Myanmar generals over Rohingya plight
Feb 26, 2018 12:58European Union foreign ministers have agreed to prepare sanctions against senior Myanmar military officers over "serious and systematic" rights abuses against the country's Rohingya Muslim community.
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UN chief calls for ‘unfettered humanitarian access’ in Myanmar's Rakhine hit by crackdown
Feb 26, 2018 12:44The United Nations has called on Myanmar authorities to “ensure unfettered humanitarian access” in Rakhine state, where state-sponsored violence has forced hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims to flee to neighboring Bangladesh.
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Myanmar MPs pass $15mn for Rakhine border fence amid crackdown on Rohingya
Feb 24, 2018 04:53Myanmar’s legislators have passed a military budget of nearly $15 million to erect a fence along its border with Bangladesh in Rakhine State, which has been used by the country’s minority Rohingya Muslims to flee the military’s state-sponsored ethnic cleansing campaign underway in the area.