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Lost generation of Rohingya kids face a bleak future
Aug 01, 2019 21:10The boy’s eyes lit up when he talked about his dream of becoming a doctor. Seven-year-old “Mohammad” is a Rohingya Muslim from Myanmar. I met him at a learning center at a refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, in early July 2019. After sharing his aspirations, Mohammed quickly remembered reality. “I know my dreams will never come true,” he said with a faint smile.
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US imposes sanctions on Myanmar army chief over Rohingya crimes
Jul 17, 2019 05:20The United States has imposed sanctions on Myanmar's military chief and three other top officers over their role in the atrocities against the Rohingya Muslim minority group in the Buddhist-majority country.
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Why Myanmar is losing the Rakhine war
Jul 05, 2019 23:41The military regime in what used to be Burma has carried out a genocide of the Rohingya Muslims, who are now determined to fight and defeat the aggressors of their homeland.
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UN: Army, Buddhists committing war crimes in western Myanmar
Jul 03, 2019 16:41United Nations (UN) Special Rapporteur to Myanmar says its security forces and rebels are committing human rights violations against civilians in the country’s west that may amount to new war crimes.
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Myanmar must grant citizenship to Rohingya: UN official
Jun 27, 2019 07:49A top UN investigator says Myanmar must grant citizenship to Rohingya Muslims, who have fled genocide in the Buddhist-majority country and who are currently living squalidly in neighboring Bangladesh.
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Myanmar military charged with ‘war crimes’ in Rakhine
May 29, 2019 11:34Rights group Amnesty International has charged Myanmar’s military with committing “war crimes” against an ethnic Buddhist group in Rakhine State, after worldwide condemnation of the army for committing horrific atrocities against local Muslims there.
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Bangladesh stops 84 Rohingya from perilous sea journey
May 18, 2019 13:45Bangladesh authorities prevented 84 Rohingya refugees from Myanmar from attempting a perilous boat journey to Malaysia, officials said Saturday.
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UN calls for 'sustained' aid access to people in need in Rakhine
May 15, 2019 15:20"We need access, predictable, sustained access, to reach the people in need," a UN official has said regarding those displaced by conflict in Myanmar's western state of Rakhine.
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Deaths of inmates in Myanmar military prison spark outcry
Apr 26, 2019 18:12The deaths of three suspected Buddhist rebels in a military prison in Myanmar have sparked new fears about impunity for the country’s military.
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Myanmar’s top court upholds jail terms for Reuters journalists
Apr 23, 2019 10:59Myanmar’s top court has upheld seven-year jail sentences for two Reuters journalists who had been reporting the massacre of Rohingya Muslims by the country’s military and Buddhist mobs, despite a testimony by one police official that the two were set up.