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Myanmar must impartially probe attack on mosque: Amnesty
Jun 25, 2016 06:56Amnesty International has slammed as a “criminal offense” the ransacking of a mosque by extremist Buddhists in Myanmar, saying the new act of violence against Muslim minorities must not go unpunished.
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Myanmar Buddhists raid Muslim village, destroy mosque
Jun 24, 2016 04:39A group of about 200 Buddhist extremists have raided a Muslim village in central Myanmar, destroying parts of a mosque and forcing residents to seek refuge overnight in a police station.
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Fire destroys Rohingya’s shelters in Myanmar camp
May 03, 2016 04:50Fire has broken out at a Rohingya Muslim camp in western Myanmar, burning at least 50 shelters and leaving over 2,000 people homeless.
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Rohingya refugees found abandoned in Thai forest
Apr 27, 2016 15:25More than a dozen Muslim Rohingya refugees abandoned by human traffickers have been found in a forest area of southern Thailand, local Thai police officials say.
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Rohingyas victims of Myanmar boat accident: Report
Apr 20, 2016 08:59The nearly two dozen people who died in a boat incident off Myanmar’s coast are reportedly from the Rohingya Muslim minority fleeing persecution and violence in Myanmar’s western Rakhine State.
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6.9-magnitude quake strikes Myanmar, tremors felt in India, China
Apr 13, 2016 15:26An earthquake measuring 6.9 on the Richter scale has hit Myanmar, the US Geological Survey says, with tremors felt in neighboring India and China.
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Myanmar frees 113 political prisoners, jails two Muslim activists
Apr 09, 2016 08:20Myanmar’s de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi has issued an amnesty order for the release of 113 political prisoners, amid the sentencing of two Muslim peace activists to jail terms.
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Myanmar minister under fire over anti-Muslim remarks
Apr 04, 2016 12:13Myanmar’s minister of religious affairs and culture has come under fire for his offensive comments about Muslims in the Southeast Asian country.
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Myanmar’s 1st civilian president swears in
Mar 30, 2016 02:18Htin Kyaw is officially sworn in as Myanmar’s first democratically-elected civilian president, ending more than five decades of military rule in the country.
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Suu Kyi ‘angered because interviewer was Muslim’
Mar 26, 2016 02:12Myanmar's leading politician Aung San Suu Kyi was reportedly angered by the fact that a BBC presenter who grilled her during an interview back in 2013 was a Muslim.