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Myanmar to refuse entry to UN investigators probing Rohingya abuses

YANGON: Myanmar will refuse entry to members of a United Nations probe focusing on allegations of killings, rape and torture by security forces against Rohingya...

Myanmar bars Rakhine documentary from film festival

YANGON: Myanmar's censors have barred a documentary on festering religious tensions between Buddhists and Rohingya Muslims in Rakhine state, a film festival organiser said...

Bangladesh detains Rohingya attempting boat trip to Malaysia

DHAKA: Bangladesh has arrested more than a dozen people from Myanmar's Rohingya Muslim minority and two men accused of trying to smuggle them illegally...

Hardline Myanmar monk visits strife-torn Rakhine State

YANGON: Hardline Myanmar monk Wirathu, once dubbed the "face of Buddhist terror" for his anti-Muslim diatribes, toured Rakhine State on Thursday in a provocative...

Myanmar must work to close Rohingya camps, says Kofi Annan panel

YANGON: Myanmar should immediately start letting Rohingya Muslims return home and ultimately close rundown camps for the displaced in its western Rakhine state, a...

Indonesia urges ‘significant steps’ on Rohingya issue

SINGAPORE: Myanmar should take significant steps to achieve peace in Rakhine state, Indonesia's foreign minister said Friday, warning that the bloody crackdown on the...

U.S. ‘deeply troubled’ by U.N. report of Myanmar atrocities against Muslims

WASHINGTON: The United States is "deeply troubled" by the findings of a United Nations report that said soldiers in Myanmar's Rakhine State had committed...

Sartaj Aziz to attend OIC session convened to address Rohingya’s problems

ISLAMABAD: Adviser to Prime Minister on Foreign Affairs Sartaj Aziz will lead Pakistan delegation to the Extraordinary Session of the Council of Foreign Ministers...

UN rights envoy arrives in Rakhine to probe genocide of Rohingya Muslims

NAYPYIDAW, Myanmar: The UN's rights envoy for Myanmar arrived in troubled Rakhine state on Friday for a trip north to probe allegations of horrific abuse...

Muslim man found dead after speaking to media in Myanmar’s Rakhine state

YANGON:The headless body of a Muslim villager has been found days after he spoke to reporters on a rare government-guided media tour of restive...

21,000 Rohingya flee to Bangladesh from Myanmar: IOM

DHAKA: More than 20,000 Rohingya have fled to Bangladesh in recent weeks, humanitarian officials said on Tuesday, following a bloody crackdown by the army...

Hundreds more Rohingya houses razed in Myanmar’s Rakhine: HRW

YANGON: Up to 30,000 people have been displaced by the ensuing violence, according to the UN, half of them over a two-day period when...

UN calls for probe into Myanmar crackdown on Rohingya

YANGON: The United Nations has called for a probe into allegations that Myanmar troops have killed civilians and torched villages in northern Rakhine state,...

Suu Kyi says Myanmar struggling to establish democracy

NEW DELHI: Myanmar is struggling to establish full democracy after 50 years of military rule, de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi said Wednesday...

Kofi Annan to advise Myanmar on Rohingya community

YANGON: Former UN chief Kofi Annan will advise Myanmar's new government on resolving conflicts in Rakhine, a region divided on religious grounds and home to the stateless Muslim Rohingya, it was announced Wednesday.

Buddhists torch Myanmar mosque as religious tensions spike

YANGON: Nearly 100 police guarded a northern Myanmar village Saturday after a Buddhist mob burned down a mosque, a police officer said. This is the second attack of its kind in just over a week as anti-Muslim sentiment swells in the Southeast Asian nation.

Myanmar lifts state of emergency in conflict-torn Rakhine state

Myanmar President Thein Sein, in a surprise move hours before leaving office, lifted a state of emergency in the restive western state of Rakhine, imposed after clashes between Buddhists and minority Rohingya Muslims in 2012.

Victims of barbarism; persecuted Rohingya desperate for help from Muslim countries

Rohingya Muslims have been subjected to much torture, persecution and oppression in the recent past. Here's what you need to know about the persecuted Muslim community and why are they being tormented as such, in Myanmar.
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