Myanmar

Myanmar ‘ends military ops in troubled Muslim-majority state’

Feb 16, 2017 04:53

Government officials in Myanmar say the army has ended the “clearance operations” in the country’s troubled Rakhine State, where a four-month, all-out military crackdown targeted ethnic Rohingya Muslims.
Myanmar police to probe allegations of abuse against Muslim Rohingyas

Feb 13, 2017 10:53

Myanmar’s police are to conduct a “departmental enquiry” to determine whether law enforcement officers have committed human rights violations against the Muslim Rohingyas in the Buddhist-majority country.
Malaysian ship carrying aid for Rohingya Muslims arrives in Myanmar

Feb 09, 2017 12:11

A Malaysian ship carrying hundreds of tonnes of aid, including food and medicine, to help members of the persecuted Rohingya Muslim minority has arrived in Myanmar.
HRW slams Bangladesh’s plan to relocate Rohingya refugees

Feb 09, 2017 11:05

Human Rights Watch (HRW) has called on the Bangladeshi government to drop a plan for the relocation of Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar to a remote island.
Myanmar crackdown has allegedly killed 1,000 Rohingya: UN officials

Feb 08, 2017 13:29

More than 1,000 Rohingya Muslims have allegedly been killed in Myanmar amid the army's intensified crackdown on members of the minority group, two senior United Nations officials have disclosed the horrifying fact.
Guterres horrified by report of Rohingyas raped by security forces

Feb 08, 2017 06:10

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres "was horrified" by a report concerning the sexual abuse of members of the Muslim Rohingya ethnic minority in Myanmar by security forces, says a United Nations spokesman.
Myanmar army, police ‘gang rape’ Rohingya women systematically: HRW

Feb 06, 2017 14:30

Human Rights Watch (HRW) says Myanmarese government forces have committed “rape and other sexual violence” against women and girls of the Muslim Rohingya ethnic minority while carrying out their so-called counter-militancy operations in the western province of Rakhine.
UN rights chief urges end to rights violations against Rohingya Muslims

Feb 03, 2017 08:41

The UN human rights chief has blasted Myanmar for committing “grave” human rights violations against its Rohingya Muslims, calling on the Naypyidaw government to stop the crimes against the persecuted minority.
Bangladesh to relocate Rohingya refugees to remote island

Jan 30, 2017 12:19

Authorities in Bangladesh have controversially decided to encamp tens of thousands of Rohingya refugees from neighboring Myanmar at a remote offshore location.
Prominent Muslim lawyer gunned down in Myanmar

Jan 29, 2017 14:18

A prominent Muslim lawyer and adviser to Myanmar's ruling National League for Democracy (NLD) party has been assassinated along with a taxi driver outside the country’s busiest airport.