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Rights groups urge Bangladesh to halt relocation of Rohingya
Dec 03, 2020 08:56Human rights groups have urged Bangladesh to immediately stop its plan to relocate thousands of Muslim Rohingya refugees to a remote, flood-prone island in the Bay of Bengal.
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Suu Kyi's party claims landslide victory in Myanmar’s elections
Nov 09, 2020 10:41Myanmar’s ruling party, led by de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi, says it has secured enough seats in the parliament to form the next government.
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Myanmar votes in general elections amid exclusion of Rohingya Muslims
Nov 08, 2020 08:05People in Myanmar have voted in the country’s general elections, with Aung San Suu Kyi’s political party widely expected to win as her government excluded thousands of voters from the ethnic Rohingya group.
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UN chief hopes Myanmar poll would help return of persecuted Rohingya
Nov 07, 2020 04:27UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has expressed hope that the November 8 general elections in Myanmar would open the door for the repatriation of hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslim refugees "in safety and dignity."
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Far from home, Rohingya refugees face new peril on a remote island
Nov 06, 2020 05:12Three years ago, a military operation in Myanmar destroyed entire Rohingya Muslim villages. UN investigators say as many as 10,000 people were killed and more than 730,000 Rohingya fled the massacre for Bangladesh. The UN called it a "textbook ethnic cleansing."
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Amnesty report highlights Myanmar military’s disregard for civilian suffering
Oct 13, 2020 05:52Amnesty International has accused Myanmar’s army of human rights abuses against civilians in the states of Chin and Rakhine under the pretext of fighting an armed group called the Arakan Army.
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Rohingya Muslim refugees living in ‘open prison’ in Myanmar: HRW
Oct 08, 2020 08:27The Human Rights Watch (HRW) has denounced as an “open prison” the refugee camps housing tens of thousands of Rohyngia Muslims in Myanmar's western state of Rakhine and called for an immediate end to the mass detention of the ethnic minority.
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Ongoing oppression of Rohingya highlighted again
Oct 01, 2020 07:47A new report has highlighted the need for the international community to examine the ongoing oppression against the Rohingya. Myanmar is a nation whose history is marred by the struggle between those in power and those they oppress. In recent years this has been especially true of the ethnic Rohingya in the country’s western Rakhine State. They have faced decades of oppression, culminating most recently in a military campaign against them that is now being investigated as genocide by the UN.
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Rohingya refugees charge sexual assault on Bangladeshi island
Sep 27, 2020 07:15Rohingya refugees charge they are being held against their will in jail-like conditions and subjected to rape and sexual assault on a Bangladeshi island in the Bay of Bengal.
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Rights body questions integrity of upcoming Myanmar vote amid conflict, pandemic
Sep 24, 2020 10:04An international rights organization has cast doubt on the integrity of the upcoming general elections in Myanmar, as tens of thousands of minorities in the Buddhist-majority country remain without the right to vote.