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UN to probe Myanmar crackdown on Rohingya
Jan 06, 2017 11:23The United Nations is conducting a probe into a harsh military crackdown on Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar following reports of rapes, killings, and torture against the minority group in the Buddhist-dominated country.
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Rights groups slam Myanmar abuse cover-up
Jan 05, 2017 10:49Human Rights Watch (HRW) and other rights groups have accused Myanmar of trying to cover up abuses perpetrated by the country’s government forces against Rohingya Muslims in the western state of Rakhine.
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Footage emerges showing Myanmar police beating Rohingya Muslims
Jan 02, 2017 15:02A new video has emerged showing Myanmar’s police using excessive force against Rohingya Muslims in the western state of Rakhine.
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Nobel laureates slams Aung San Suu Kyi over atrocities aganst Rohingyas
Dec 30, 2016 04:04Nobel peace laureates have joined in the global outcry against Myanmar’s leader Aung San Suu Kyi over the widespread rights violations under her rule.
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Rohingya Muslims: World's most persecuted minority
Dec 27, 2016 09:18Rohingya Muslims of Myanmar are one of the most persecuted minorities in the world. They have faced torture, neglect and repression since Myanmar’s independence in 1948. The Muslim minority group has witnessed attacks by extremist Buddhists in Myanmar. The violence has forced nearly 100,000 of them to flee the country.
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Headless body of Muslim man found in Myanmar's Rakhine
Dec 23, 2016 15:20The decapitated body of a Muslim villager has been discovered in Myanmar's western state of Rakhine.
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Pressure mounts on Myanmar as state crimes against Muslims documented
Dec 19, 2016 10:36An international rights group has warned Myanmar that its widespread military crackdown on the Rohingya community may amount to crimes against humanity, as a meeting of ASEAN foreign ministers convenes in the country to discuss means of ending the plight of the ethnic Muslims.
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Rights group wants ASEAN countries to act on Rohingya plight
Dec 18, 2016 05:44Human Rights Watch (HRW) has urged countries from the Association of Southeast Asia Nations (ASEAN) to make strong efforts at an emergency meeting of the group to resolve the ongoing Rohingya crisis in Myanmar.
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Myanmar military behind torching of Rohingya villages: HRW
Dec 13, 2016 10:33Human Rights Watch says evidence shows Myanmar’s military is behind the torching of villages belonging to persecuted Rohingya Muslims in Rakhine State, urging the government to allow aid agencies and media into the troubled region.
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Myanmar urged to allow aid deliveries to Rakhine
Dec 09, 2016 16:47Several Western countries have called on Myanmar's government to allow humanitarian aid deliveries to Rohingya Muslims in the western state of Rakhine.