-
Bangladesh continues relocation of Rohingya refugees to island
Dec 29, 2020 12:08Bangladesh has started relocating a second group of Rohingya Muslim refugees to a flood-prone island in the Bay of Bengal.
-
Bangladesh starts 'coercive' relocation of Rohingya refugees to remote island
Dec 04, 2020 13:13Bangladesh has started forced removal of hundreds of Rohingya Muslim refugees to a controversial facility at a remote island in the Bay of Bengal.
-
Rights groups urge Bangladesh to halt relocation of Rohingya
Dec 03, 2020 12:26Human rights groups have urged Bangladesh to immediately stop its plan to relocate thousands of Muslim Rohingya refugees to a remote, flood-prone island in the Bay of Bengal.
-
Myanmar votes in general elections amid exclusion of Rohingya Muslims
Nov 08, 2020 11:35People in Myanmar have voted in the country’s general elections, with Aung San Suu Kyi’s political party widely expected to win as her government excluded thousands of voters from the ethnic Rohingya group.
-
UN chief hopes Myanmar poll would help return of persecuted Rohingya
Nov 07, 2020 07:57UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has expressed hope that the November 8 general elections in Myanmar would open the door for the repatriation of hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslim refugees "in safety and dignity."
-
Rohingya Muslim refugees living in ‘open prison’ in Myanmar: HRW
Oct 08, 2020 11:57The Human Rights Watch (HRW) has denounced as an “open prison” the refugee camps housing tens of thousands of Rohyngia Muslims in Myanmar's western state of Rakhine and called for an immediate end to the mass detention of the ethnic minority.
-
Rights body questions integrity of upcoming Myanmar vote amid conflict, pandemic
Sep 24, 2020 13:34An international rights organization has cast doubt on the integrity of the upcoming general elections in Myanmar, as tens of thousands of minorities in the Buddhist-majority country remain without the right to vote.
-
European Parl. excludes Suu Kyi from Sakharov Prize community for crimes against Rohingya
Sep 11, 2020 05:38The European Parliament has formally removed Myanmar's de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi from the "Sakharov Prize community" because of her "acceptance" of state-sponsored crimes against the persecuted Rohingya community in Rakhine state.
-
Two Myanmar soldiers at ICC after confessing to Rohingya killings
Sep 08, 2020 17:50Two Myanmarese soldiers have been taken to the International Criminal Court (ICC) after confessing to their participation in the 2017 massacre of countless Rohingya Muslims, two news organizations and a rights group say.
-
Nearly 300 Rohingya refugees land in Indonesia's Aceh after 6 months at sea
Sep 07, 2020 09:43Almost 300 Rohingya refugees believed to have been at sea for six months landed in Indonesia's Aceh province in the early hours of Monday, Indonesian authorities have confirmed.