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Myanmar's coup leaders purge Suu Kyi govt., name 11 new ministerial replacements
Feb 02, 2021 04:34Myanmar’s ruling junta, which detained the country’s leader Aung San Suu Kyi through a coup, has announced a purge against her government, removing two dozen ministers and deputies and naming 11 replacements.
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Myanmar's Suu Kyi urged people to 'resist' military coup before arrest
Feb 01, 2021 11:44Myanmar’s de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi has called on people to reject the coup, before she was arrested by the military which has now taken over the country.
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Myanmar's military says has 'detained' Aung San Suu Kyi
Feb 01, 2021 02:39Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi and President Win Myint as well as other senior figures from the ruling party have been detained while the country's military says it is taking control of the country for one year.
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Bangladesh sends another group of Rohingya Muslims to a remote island
Jan 29, 2021 09:28Bangladesh has sent a third group of Rohingya Muslim refugees to a controversial facility at a remote island that was surfaced only 20 years ago, in the Bay of Bengal.
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Hundreds of Rohingya go missing from Indonesian refugee camp
Jan 28, 2021 08:30Hundreds of Rohingya Muslim refugees have gone missing from a makeshift camp in Indonesia’s Aceh Province, raising fears that they may have been smuggled to neighboring Malaysia.
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In Myanmar’s Rakhine, families of the disappeared seek answers
Jan 23, 2021 06:46Myanmar’s armed forces, known as the Tatmadaw, are notorious for committing rights abuses with impunity, most notably following a brutal 2017 crackdown on Rakhine State’s mostly Muslim Rohingya that sent 740,000 fleeing to Bangladesh.
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Huge fire guts Rohingya refugee camp in Bangladesh, destroys belongings
Jan 15, 2021 02:35Thousands of Rohingya refugees from Myanmar have been left without shelter after a huge fire swept through an overcrowded camp in southeast Bangladesh.
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Bangladesh to send hundreds more Rohingya to remote island
Dec 27, 2020 05:48Bangladesh is set to send hundreds more Rohingya Muslim refugees to a controversial facility at a remote island in the Bay of Bengal, weeks after it started their force removal from border with Myanmar.
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Bangladesh starts 'coercive' relocation of Rohingya refugees to remote island
Dec 04, 2020 09:43Bangladesh has started forced removal of hundreds of Rohingya Muslim refugees to a controversial facility at a remote island in the Bay of Bengal.
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Rohingya refugees coerced into going to remote Bay of Bengal island: Aid workers
Dec 04, 2020 05:18Rights groups and humanitarian workers say some of the thousands of Rohingya refugees being shipped to a Bangladeshi island have been coerced into going to the remote, flood-prone place.