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No peace with Myanmar government in sight, powerful rebel group warns
Feb 23, 2017 16:46The head of Myanmar's most powerful ethnic rebel group has threatened to derail the government's wobbling push for peace as fierce fighting in the country's restive borderlands has reached a critical point.
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Myanmar ‘ends military ops in troubled Muslim-majority state’
Feb 16, 2017 04:53Government officials in Myanmar say the army has ended the “clearance operations” in the country’s troubled Rakhine State, where a four-month, all-out military crackdown targeted ethnic Rohingya Muslims.
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Myanmar police to probe allegations of abuse against Muslim Rohingyas
Feb 13, 2017 10:53Myanmar’s police are to conduct a “departmental enquiry” to determine whether law enforcement officers have committed human rights violations against the Muslim Rohingyas in the Buddhist-majority country.
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Malaysian ship carrying aid for Rohingya Muslims arrives in Myanmar
Feb 09, 2017 12:11A Malaysian ship carrying hundreds of tonnes of aid, including food and medicine, to help members of the persecuted Rohingya Muslim minority has arrived in Myanmar.
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HRW slams Bangladesh’s plan to relocate Rohingya refugees
Feb 09, 2017 11:05Human Rights Watch (HRW) has called on the Bangladeshi government to drop a plan for the relocation of Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar to a remote island.
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Myanmar crackdown has allegedly killed 1,000 Rohingya: UN officials
Feb 08, 2017 13:29More than 1,000 Rohingya Muslims have allegedly been killed in Myanmar amid the army's intensified crackdown on members of the minority group, two senior United Nations officials have disclosed the horrifying fact.
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Guterres horrified by report of Rohingyas raped by security forces
Feb 08, 2017 06:10UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres "was horrified" by a report concerning the sexual abuse of members of the Muslim Rohingya ethnic minority in Myanmar by security forces, says a United Nations spokesman.
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Myanmar army, police ‘gang rape’ Rohingya women systematically: HRW
Feb 06, 2017 14:30Human Rights Watch (HRW) says Myanmarese government forces have committed “rape and other sexual violence” against women and girls of the Muslim Rohingya ethnic minority while carrying out their so-called counter-militancy operations in the western province of Rakhine.
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UN rights chief urges end to rights violations against Rohingya Muslims
Feb 03, 2017 08:41The UN human rights chief has blasted Myanmar for committing “grave” human rights violations against its Rohingya Muslims, calling on the Naypyidaw government to stop the crimes against the persecuted minority.
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Bangladesh to relocate Rohingya refugees to remote island
Jan 30, 2017 12:19Authorities in Bangladesh have controversially decided to encamp tens of thousands of Rohingya refugees from neighboring Myanmar at a remote offshore location.