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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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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 bulldozing Rohingya villages to destroy its ‘crime scenes’
Feb 23, 2018 10:10New satellite imagery shows that the government of Myanmar is bulldozing more than dozens of already-burned-out Rohingya Muslim villages in the west of the country in an attempt to destroy evidence of violence committed by the military, rights groups say.
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Bangladesh accelerates plan to put Rohingya refugees on isolated island
Feb 22, 2018 10:52The government in Bangladesh is rapidly pushing a controversial plan to relocate some 100,000 Rohingya Muslim refugees from Myanmar to an isolated and flood-prone island in the Bay of Bengal, where they may be stranded forever.
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Bangladesh says to meet with Myanmar on Rohingya trapped at border
Feb 19, 2018 15:36Representatives from Bangladesh and Myanmar are set to meet to discuss the repatriation of thousands of Rohingya Muslims trapped on a strip of unclaimed land between the two countries, Bangladeshi officials say.
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UN to take part in Rohingya repatriation, says Bangladeshi minister
Feb 12, 2018 16:52Bangladesh has signed a deal to involve the United Nations in the controversial process of returning persecuted Rohingya refugees to Myanmar's state of Rakhine, the country’s junior foreign minister says.
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Protests rock Bangladesh as court jails Zia for five years
Feb 08, 2018 14:34A court in Bangladesh has sentenced opposition leader Khaleda Zia to five years in jail after convicting the two-time former premier of embezzling money meant for an orphanage.
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100,00 Rohingya refugees in grave danger from monsoon rains, UN warns
Jan 29, 2018 10:50The United Nations has warned that more than 100,000 Rohingya Muslims in Bangladeshi refugee camps will be in grave danger with the mid-year monsoon season on its way.
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UN demands unhindered access to Rohingya camps newly built in Myanmar
Jan 24, 2018 12:02The United Nations (UN) has called on Myanmar to grant aid agencies unhindered access to camps that have been built near the border with Bangladesh to house the tens of thousands of Rohingya Muslim refugees who face repatriation from Bangladesh.
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Rohingya citizenship, safety need addressing before repatriation: UN
Jan 22, 2018 16:25The UN refugee chief says more time is needed to prepare the return of Rohingya Muslim refugees in Bangladesh to western Rakhine state in Myanmar.