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ASEAN urges accountability for Myanmar atrocities
Oct 02, 2018 12:45The foreign ministers of Southeast Asian nations have called on Myanmar to probe state-sponsored atrocities against Rohingya Muslims.
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Canada MPs vote to strip Myanmar’s Suu Kyi of honorary citizenship
Sep 28, 2018 13:41Canadian lawmakers have voted unanimously to revoke the honorary citizenship of Myanmar's de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi in response to crimes committed against the Rohingya Muslim minority.
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Irked by genocide report, Myanmar army chief says UN has no right to ‘interfere’
Sep 24, 2018 14:15Striking a defiant tone, Myanmar’s army chief says the United Nations has no right to meddle in his country’s “internal" issues, a week after the world body’s investigators called for him and fellow top generals to stand trial for “genocide” against minority Rohingya Muslims.
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UN: Myanmar generals should face genocide charges
Sep 18, 2018 15:14The United Nations (UN) has reiterated its call for the prosecution of Myanmar’s top military officials for what the international body has conclusively decided is genocide against the Rohingya Muslim minority group.
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UN calls for new body to prosecute Myanmar crimes
Sep 10, 2018 14:41The United Nations (UN)’s new human rights chief has called for the establishment of “an independent international mechanism” to prepare criminal indictments against Myanmar’s military for atrocities committed against the Rohingya Muslim community.
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ICC says it has jurisdiction over Myanmar crimes against Rohingya
Sep 06, 2018 19:04The International Criminal Court says it has jurisdiction to probe the forced deportations of Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar to neighboring Bangladesh as a possible crime against humanity.
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Myanmar sentences Reuters journalists to 7 years in jail, prompts reactions
Sep 03, 2018 12:44A court in Myanmar has sentenced two Reuters journalists to seven years behind bars for what it called “breaching” a state secrets act while reporting on the military’s ethnic-cleansing campaign against Rohingya Muslims, a ruling that quickly drew harsh criticisms from all over the world.
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‘Myanmar publishes fake photos of Rohingya crisis’
Sep 01, 2018 12:34The grainy black-and-white photo, printed in a new book on the Rohingya crisis authored by Myanmar's army, shows a man standing over two bodies, wielding a farming tool. "Bengalis killed local ethnics brutally," reads the caption.
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UN hints Myanmar leader complicit in Rohingya genocide
Aug 30, 2018 13:37The United Nations (UN)’s top human rights official says Myanmar’s leader Aung San Suu Kyi should have resigned last year over a state-sponsored campaign of terror against Rohingya Muslims in the country’s northwestern state of Rakhine.
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World’s Most Persecuted Community Still Waiting for Justice
Aug 29, 2018 11:29It seems there is a deliberate negligence by world counties towards what appears to be the never-ending atrocities against the Rohingya Muslims of Myanmar, of whom over a million are languishing in squalid conditions in the refugee camps of Bangladesh, exposed to the harshness of the monsoon rains, while nothing could be expected from the super-rich Arab states such as Saudi Arabia and UAE, which are engaged in the merciless genocide of the fellow Arabs of Yemen.