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Bangladesh stops 84 Rohingya from perilous sea journey
May 18, 2019 09:15Bangladesh authorities prevented 84 Rohingya refugees from Myanmar from attempting a perilous boat journey to Malaysia, officials said Saturday.
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UN calls for 'sustained' aid access to people in need in Rakhine
May 15, 2019 10:50"We need access, predictable, sustained access, to reach the people in need," a UN official has said regarding those displaced by conflict in Myanmar's western state of Rakhine.
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UN urges world to end support for Myanmar’s military
May 14, 2019 12:05The United Nations (UN)’s fact-finding mission on Myanmar has called on all countries to cut financial and other ties with the country’s military over genocide targeting minority Rohingya Muslims.
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Myanmar’s troops shoot dead six, detain scores over suspected rebel links in Rakhine
May 03, 2019 02:09Myanmar security forces have shot dead at least six people and detained nearly 300 others in the troubled Western State of Rakhine amid the ongoing fighting between the army and ethnic rebels.
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Deaths of inmates in Myanmar military prison spark outcry
Apr 26, 2019 13:42The deaths of three suspected Buddhist rebels in a military prison in Myanmar have sparked new fears about impunity for the country’s military.
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Over 50 believed dead in collapse at Myanmar jade mine
Apr 23, 2019 23:40More than 50 people were feared to have been killed in Myanmar when jade miners and machinery were buried under a mound of tailings late on Monday, a member of parliament and a rescue worker said.
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Myanmar’s top court upholds jail terms for Reuters journalists
Apr 23, 2019 06:29Myanmar’s top court has upheld seven-year jail sentences for two Reuters journalists who had been reporting the massacre of Rohingya Muslims by the country’s military and Buddhist mobs, despite a testimony by one police official that the two were set up.
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Five killed as Myanmar military chopper attacks Rohingya Muslims
Apr 04, 2019 15:07At least five people have been killed and more than a dozen others wounded after a military helicopter attacked a group of Rohingya Muslims gathering bamboo in Myanmar’s troubled Rakhine state.
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Bangladesh stops 30 Rohingya Muslims from leaving
Feb 08, 2019 16:13Bangladeshi security forces have stopped 30 Rohingya refugees from heading to the more prosperous and Muslim-majority Malaysia, officials say.
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Myanmar villagers flee fresh fighting in Rakhine state
Feb 08, 2019 02:21Scores of tribal villagers in western Myanmar have crossed into Bangladesh in recent days amid fierce fighting between the army and ethnic rebels in the restive Rakhine state.