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Myanmar blocks UN investigator amid Rohingya crackdown
Dec 20, 2017 10:53The United Nations (UN)’s independent investigator on the situation of human rights in Myanmar has been denied access to the country, amid a deadly crackdown on minority Rohingya Muslims there.
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Protest campaign launched in Myanmar over arrest of journalists
Dec 17, 2017 05:51A group of journalists in Myanmar has started a campaign to protest the government’s detention of two journalists covering state-sponsored violence against minority Rohingya Muslims in the country’s west.
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UN chief urges release of journalists in Myanmar
Dec 15, 2017 09:00United Nations chief Antonio Guterres has slammed Myanmar for arresting two journalists covering the “tragedy” of the Rohingya Muslims in the Southeast Asian country.
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Red Cross says life has ‘stopped’ in Myanmar's Rakhine
Dec 13, 2017 13:43The International Committee of the Red Cross says life has "stopped" in Rakhine state due to the fear of violence, nearly four months after a new wave of crackdown by the government erupted against the persecuted Rohingya Muslims.
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Myanmar military’s rape of Rohingya women methodical, sweeping: AP report
Dec 11, 2017 10:57A new investigation reveals that Rohingya Muslim women have been subjected to “methodical” and “sweeping” rape by Myanmar’s military forces in Rakhine State, where a government-backed ethnic cleansing campaign has been underway against the minority group.
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Rohingya refugees must return to own homes, aid groups say
Dec 09, 2017 08:47Aid groups from across the world have stressed that the Rohingya Muslim refugees returning to Myanmar from Bangladesh must be allowed to settle in their original homes.
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UN warns against hasty return of Rohingya to Myanmar
Dec 08, 2017 11:07The United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR) said on Friday that peace and stability must be restored in Myanmar's northern Rakhine State before any Rohingyas can return from Bangladesh, under international standards on voluntary repatriation.
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Rohingya refugees still fleeing from Myanmar to Bangladesh, says UN refugee agency
Dec 07, 2017 16:10The UN refugee agency says persecuted Rohingya Muslims continue to flee Myanmar for neighboring Bangladesh even though both countries set up a timetable last month to allow them to start to return home.
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In Bangladesh, Pope Francis calls Myanmarese Rohingya Muslims by ethnic name
Dec 02, 2017 10:57In an encounter with Myanmarese Muslim refugees in Bangladesh, Pope Francis breaks his silence and addresses them by their historical name Rohingya for the first time during his trip, begging forgiveness for all the sufferings the persecuted minority group has gone through.
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Pope, in Bangladesh, avoids to utter Rohingya
Nov 30, 2017 16:06Pope Francis has arrived in Bangladesh from Myanmar, urging the international community to address the plight of hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims in the country.