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ICC launches investigation into Myanmar’s crimes against Rohingya Muslims
Sep 19, 2018 02:41The International Criminal Court has opened a preliminary probe into Myanmar military's crimes, including killings, sexual violence and forced deportations, against members of the Rohingya Muslim minority group in the Southeast Asian nation.
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UN: Myanmar generals should face genocide charges
Sep 18, 2018 10:44The United Nations (UN) has reiterated its call for the prosecution of Myanmar’s top military officials for what the international body has conclusively decided is genocide against the Rohingya Muslim minority group.
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Myanmar finally grants UN first access to Rakhine before Rohingya returns
Sep 12, 2018 10:22The United Nations has begun assessment of conditions in Myanmar's Rakhine state after it was finally given permission to operate there for the first time since violence escalated last year and forced more than 700,000 Rohingya Muslims to flee to neighboring Bangladesh.
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UN calls for new body to prosecute Myanmar crimes
Sep 10, 2018 10:11The United Nations (UN)’s new human rights chief has called for the establishment of “an independent international mechanism” to prepare criminal indictments against Myanmar’s military for atrocities committed against the Rohingya Muslim community.
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ICC says it has jurisdiction over Myanmar crimes against Rohingya
Sep 06, 2018 14:34The International Criminal Court says it has jurisdiction to probe the forced deportations of Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar to neighboring Bangladesh as a possible crime against humanity.
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Myanmar’s Israeli weapons for genocide of Rohingya Muslims worsens the holocaust
Sep 04, 2018 04:43The regime in Myanmar which for the past few years is engaged in an unabated genocide of the Rohingya people, is now being supplied by the Zionist entity with sophisticated weapons to speed up the killing of Muslims.
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Myanmar sentences Reuters journalists to 7 years in jail, prompts reactions
Sep 03, 2018 08:14A court in Myanmar has sentenced two Reuters journalists to seven years behind bars for what it called “breaching” a state secrets act while reporting on the military’s ethnic-cleansing campaign against Rohingya Muslims, a ruling that quickly drew harsh criticisms from all over the world.
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Myanmar sentences Reuters journalists to 7 years in jail, prompts reactions
Sep 03, 2018 03:39A court in Myanmar has sentenced two Reuters’ journalists to seven years behind bars for what it called “breaching” a state secrets act while reporting on the military’s ethnic-cleansing campaign against Rohingya Muslims, a ruling that quickly drew harsh criticisms from all over the world.
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‘Myanmar publishes fake photos of Rohingya crisis’
Sep 01, 2018 08:04The grainy black-and-white photo, printed in a new book on the Rohingya crisis authored by Myanmar's army, shows a man standing over two bodies, wielding a farming tool. "Bengalis killed local ethnics brutally," reads the caption.
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Myanmar aid restrictions likely 'war crime': Rights group
Aug 31, 2018 02:56A rights group says government restrictions on lifesaving aid for internally displaced people in northern Myanmar could constitute a war crime.