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Myanmar’s judicial defense of the indefensible
Dec 02, 2019 11:00A 444-page report issued in September 2018 by the United Nations Fact-Finding Mission concluded that there was evidence of atrocities by Myanmar security forces against the Rohingya warranting criminal prosecution for crimes against humanity, war crimes, and genocide.
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Rohingya refugees need rights, not restrictions
Nov 28, 2019 20:02Some high-level officials of the Bangladeshi government have recently expressed concern that the Rohingya refugees residing in their country represent a security threat to Bangladesh and the wider region. Under this premise, they have implemented a series of restrictions on the Rohingya communities in the refugee camps. But there no facts to back up their claim.
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Gambia’s gallant goal to redress plight of Rohingya Muslims
Nov 22, 2019 17:44“Gambia deserves praise for filing an official complaint against Myanmar with the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague for violations of the United Nations’ 1948 Genocide Convention linked to abuses against its Muslim Rohingya minority.” This was part of an article written by staff writers of Keyhan International under the heading: “Gambia’s gallant goal to redress plight of Rohingya Muslims”.
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Suu Kyi set to contest Rohingya 'genocide' case at world court
Nov 21, 2019 07:11Myanmar's de facto leader and Nobel peace laureate Aung San Suu Kyi will head a delegation to the UN's top court to defend a case accusing her country of genocide against Rohingya Muslims, the government said Wednesday.
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War crimes court approves probe into crimes against Myanmar's Rohingya
Nov 15, 2019 08:00The International Criminal Court (ICC) has approved a long-awaited full investigation into crimes against the Rohingya minority in Myanmar, which has systematically driven Muslims across the border to Bangladesh.
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Gambia takes global lead in justice for Rohingya
Nov 15, 2019 07:39Recently, the government of The Gambia gave the 740,000 Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh a hint of something unfamiliar to them: hope. The West African country accomplished that by filing an official complaint against Myanmar with the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague for violations of the United Nations’ 1948 Genocide Convention linked to abuses against its Muslim Rohingya minority.
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Myanmar’s Suu Kyi sued for first time over Rohingya
Nov 14, 2019 12:26Human rights groups in Latin America have filed a case against Myanmar’s de facto leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, and members of the country’s military to hold them accountable for the state-sponsored atrocities perpetrated against the Rohingya Muslim minority group.
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Myanmar faces genocide accusations for persecuting Rohingya
Nov 12, 2019 08:29Myanmar’s government faces accusations of involvement in genocide regarding the persecuted Rohingya Muslims in a lawsuit filed by Gambia at the International Court of Justice (ICJ).
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Bangladesh ‘uncertain’ about relocating Rohingya to remote island
Nov 04, 2019 13:17The relocation of thousands of Rohingya Muslims from overcrowded refugee camps in Bangladesh to a remote, flood-prone island in the country is not certain to happen, Bangladeshi officials say.
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Bangladesh’s troubling Rohingya relocation plan
Nov 01, 2019 14:20In its Cox’s Bazar refugee camps, Bangladesh has generously provided a modicum of safety and dignity to the Rohingya refugee survivors of the Myanmar military campaign of widespread and systematic violence in late 2017. But the durability of that safety and dignity is now in doubt.