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Myanmar MPs pass $15mn for Rakhine border fence amid crackdown on Rohingya
Feb 24, 2018 04:53Myanmar’s legislators have passed a military budget of nearly $15 million to erect a fence along its border with Bangladesh in Rakhine State, which has been used by the country’s minority Rohingya Muslims to flee the military’s state-sponsored ethnic cleansing campaign underway in the area.
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Myanmar bulldozing Rohingya villages to destroy its ‘crime scenes’
Feb 23, 2018 10:10New satellite imagery shows that the government of Myanmar is bulldozing more than dozens of already-burned-out Rohingya Muslim villages in the west of the country in an attempt to destroy evidence of violence committed by the military, rights groups say.
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Bangladesh accelerates plan to put Rohingya refugees on isolated island
Feb 22, 2018 10:52The government in Bangladesh is rapidly pushing a controversial plan to relocate some 100,000 Rohingya Muslim refugees from Myanmar to an isolated and flood-prone island in the Bay of Bengal, where they may be stranded forever.
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Bomb blast kills 2 in Myanmar bank
Feb 21, 2018 13:59Two people have been killed and several wounded when a bomb exploded at a bank in northern Myanmar, a security officer says.
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Bangladesh says to meet with Myanmar on Rohingya trapped at border
Feb 19, 2018 15:36Representatives from Bangladesh and Myanmar are set to meet to discuss the repatriation of thousands of Rohingya Muslims trapped on a strip of unclaimed land between the two countries, Bangladeshi officials say.
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Canada imposes targeted sanctions against Myanmar general
Feb 16, 2018 15:17Canada has imposed "targeted sanctions" against a Myanmar general who led an army crackdown that forced over hundreds of thousands of minority Rohingya Muslims to flee to neighboring Bangladesh.
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UN to take part in Rohingya repatriation, says Bangladeshi minister
Feb 12, 2018 16:52Bangladesh has signed a deal to involve the United Nations in the controversial process of returning persecuted Rohingya refugees to Myanmar's state of Rakhine, the country’s junior foreign minister says.
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Myanmar to take unspecified action over Inn Din massacre
Feb 11, 2018 10:56Myanmar says it will take unspecified action against a number of security forces and civilian individuals in connection with a recent massacre in a Rohingya Muslim village, during which 10 Muslims — whom Naypyidaw has previously called “terrorists” — were executed summary-style.
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"Journalists arrested by Myanmar over massacre story"
Feb 09, 2018 11:00The Reuters news agency has confirmed the long-held view that two of its journalists who have been detained by Myanmar were taken into custody for covering state-sponsored violence against minority Muslims in the Southeast Asian country.
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Myanmar using food as quiet weapon against Rohingya: Reports
Feb 08, 2018 12:10The government in Myanmar is using food as a quiet weapon against minority Rohingya Muslims in the country’s troubled west, new reports reveal.