Myanmar

Britain, Sweden urge Security Council to work for end to plight of Rohingya Muslims

Sep 14, 2017 05:06

Britain and Sweden have urged the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) to call for an end to Myanmar's crackdown on Rohingya Muslims in Rakhine state.
Iran seeks to send delegation to Myanmar over Rohingya plight

Sep 14, 2017 04:57

Tehran says it has called for a visit of an Foreign Ministry delegation to Myanmar to discuss ways to end the plight of the Rohingya Muslims in the Southeast Asian country.
OIC urges Myanmar to allow in UN investigators

Sep 13, 2017 12:00

The world’s largest Muslim organization has called on Myanmar to allow United Nations investigators into a violence-stricken state in the country where the military and Buddhist mobs are conducting “systematic brutality” against minority Muslims.
OIC leaders urge swift end to violence against Rohingya Muslims

Sep 10, 2017 19:03

Senior leaders of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) member states have stressed the importance of taking swift action to put an immediate end to the ongoing brutal violence against the Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar.
Reactions continue to Myanmar crackdown on Rohingya

Sep 10, 2017 16:46

World countries continue to harshly react to a deadly crackdown by Myanmar’s government on minority Rohingya Muslims in a western state in the country.
Najib Razak says Myanmar's Rohingya Muslims face systematic atrocities

Sep 09, 2017 17:26

Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak says Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar face systematic atrocities, including torture, rape and murder, which have recently forced several hundred thousands of members of the persecuted minority to seek refuge across the border in neighboring Bangladesh.
President raps global inaction on violence against Rohingya Muslims

Sep 09, 2017 14:36

President Hassan Rouhani has denounced the failure of international organizations and bodies to take action toward putting an end to the violence against the Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar, saying the Muslim world cannot remain silent on the plight of the minority group.
FM urges swift UN action on Rohingya crisis

Sep 08, 2017 14:37

Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has warned about the continuation of the ongoing crackdown on Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar, urging the international community and the United Nations in particular to take swift action to end the crisis.
New fires in Rohingya village refute Myanmar government claims

Sep 08, 2017 06:51

Journalists who have toured villages in a crisis-stricken state in Myanmar have reported new fires burning in a village that has been abandoned by Rohingya Muslims, casting further doubt on government claims that the Muslims are burning down their own homes.
Killing of Rohingya Muslims suggests 'organized plot': IRGC

Sep 08, 2017 05:31

Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) says the ongoing killing in Myanmar amid the indifference of human rights groups has all the signs of an organized plot against Muslims.