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Myanmar troops involved in killing Rohingya Muslims, army admits
Jan 10, 2018 17:55Myanmar’s army chief has posted an announcement admitting that security forces had a hand in killing members of the Rohingya minority group and dumping their bodies in a mass grave.
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Journalists covering crimes against Rohingya charged in Myanmar
Jan 10, 2018 12:53Two Reuters journalists, who covered the ongoing state-sponsored crackdown against Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar, have been officially charged for breaching a colonial-era law.
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Rohingya: Don't Allow Criminals to Succeed
Jan 09, 2018 09:19Is the crisis facing the Rohingya Muslims in Burma over? Heart wrenching images of feeble old women, little babies, and desperate toddlers fleeing from a marauding Burmese military may have moved off TV screens, but does it mean that their plight is over?
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Bangladesh court upholds govt. ban on Rohingya Muslim refugees marrying citizens
Jan 08, 2018 20:12A Bangladesh court has upheld a government ruling banning marriage between its citizens and refugees from Myanmar's persecuted Rohingya Muslims.
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About 48,000 expected births to complicate situation in Rohingya camps in Bangladesh: Aid group
Jan 05, 2018 15:54An aid agency has warned that thousands of expected new childbirths at refugee camps set up for Rohingya Muslims in Bangladesh could seriously complicate the situation at the already-resource-strapped sites.
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Bangladesh to repatriate 1st group of Rohingya Muslim refugees
Dec 29, 2017 18:03Bangladesh has prepared for the repatriation of 100,000 Rohingya Muslim refugees to Myanmar under an agreement between the two countries.
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Rohingya at risk of deadly diphtheria face shortage of medics: MSF
Dec 28, 2017 19:45An international medical charity says health workers in Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh are struggling with a shortage of medics to administer antitoxins to patients infected with diphtheria.
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Myanmar’s Suu Kyi avoids topic of abuse against Rohingya in meeting with UN official
Dec 27, 2017 09:27Myanmar’s de facto leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, has conspicuously avoided talking about reports of Rohingya Muslim women and girls being raped by military forces and Buddhist militia in the western Rakhine State during a recent meeting with a senior UN official.
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Myanmar blocks UN investigator amid Rohingya crackdown
Dec 20, 2017 14:23The United Nations (UN)’s independent investigator on the situation of human rights in Myanmar has been denied access to the country, amid a deadly crackdown on minority Rohingya Muslims there.
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Protest campaign launched in Myanmar over arrest of journalists
Dec 17, 2017 09:21A group of journalists in Myanmar has started a campaign to protest the government’s detention of two journalists covering state-sponsored violence against minority Rohingya Muslims in the country’s west.