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19 October 2018 by Sareta Ashraph
What the Rohingya may learn from the Yazidi struggle for justice Nadia Murad's Nobel Peace Prize comes at the right time to hopefully refocus attention on the Yazidis' struggle for justice and security. But for the Rohingyas it is worth looking at how the Yazidis managed to mobilize and write t [...]
18 September 2018 by AFP
Level of Myanmar army brutality 'hard to fathom': UN probe Myanmar's army has used unfathomable levels of violence against minority Rohingya, UN investigators said Tuesday, calling for the military to be removed from politics and top generals to be prosecuted for genocide. In the most met [...]
6 September 2018 by AFP
Rohingya crisis: ICC steps in In a potentially decisive move, judges of the International Criminal Court consider that the crimes committed against Myanmar’s Rohingya people fall under its jurisdiction. The International Criminal Court said Thursday it had jur [...]
1 September 2018 by AFP
Myanmar releases 75 more child soldiers: UNICEF Myanmar's military has released 75 child soldiers, a UN agency said, its first discharge this year as part of a gradual process to end decades of forced recruitment of underage fighters. There are no concrete figures on how many c [...]
30 August 2018 by Thomas Kean
Rakhine: Time for a new approach The next few months will be an incredibly difficult period for Myanmar, dealing a succession of further blows to the image of the country, its transition and its political leaders, notably State Counsellor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi.  T [...]
23 August 2018 by UN News Center
UNICEF warns of ‘lost generation’ of Rohingya youth, one year after Myanmar exodus The refugee crisis in Bangladesh sparked by the mass exodus of people from Myanmar almost a year ago risks creating a “lost generation” of Rohingya children who lack the life skills they will need in future, the United Nations Chi [...]
23 August 2018 by AFP
Resilient and resourceful, Rohingya diaspora carve out new lives Driven from Myanmar over decades, Rohingya Muslims have been labelled the most persecuted people on earth. But resilience and ingenuity have led members of the stateless community to carve out new lives -- everywhere from refugee [...]
22 August 2018 by AFP
Rohingya mark Eid, one year after Myanmar crisis began Nearly one million Rohingya Muslims marked Eid al-Adha on Wednesday in the world's largest refugee camp, almost a year to the day since a brutal military crackdown drove the persecuted minority from Myanmar in huge numbers. Prayer [...]
19 August 2018 by AFP
'Everything's business': Rohingya crisis offers earning opportunity Captain Min Min, a Buddhist from Myanmar, looks on as a stream of Muslim Rohingya labourers zig-zag up narrow gangplanks hauling sacks of ginger from his boat onto Bangladeshi soil -- one of many seizing the economic opportunities [...]
17 August 2018 by AFP
Murders leave Rohingya camps gripped by fear A spate of bloody killings is fuelling unease in the Rohingya camps on the Bangladesh-Myanmar border, where overstretched police are struggling to protect nearly a million traumatised refugees from violent gangs. Just 1,000 police [...]
15 August 2018 by AFP
Belongings and belonging: the precious objects gathered by fleeing Rohingya The Rohingya had no time to consider what to take as Myanmar forces drove the Muslim minority into Bangladesh in a crackdown a year ago likened by the UN to ethnic cleansing. Some fled with little more than the clothes on their ba [...]
31 July 2018 by AFP
New Myanmar Rakhine commission denounced by observers A new commission set up by Myanmar to look into human rights abuses in Rakhine state has been criticised by observers on Tuesday as a "political gimmick", as the country tries to stave off further censure over its treatment of its [...]
25 July 2018 by YE MON/ Frontier
Controversy, progress at Myanmar's third Panglong peace conference  Although Myanmar's National League for Democracy government had planned to hold the 21st Century Panglong Union Peace Conferences twice a year, the third session of the gatherings intended to bring an end to civil conflict was po [...]
3 May 2018 by Clare Hammond, Frontier
Myanmar facing ICC referral unless ‘proper’ Rakhine probe conducted: UN Members of the United Nations Security Council have told Myanmar’s leaders there must be a “proper investigation” into a military crackdown in Rakhine State last August, which displaced almost 700,000 Rohingya Muslims to Banglades [...]
25 April 2018 by AFP
UN team to visit Myanmar's Rakhine next week: official A United Nations Security Council delegation which wants to see first-hand the impact of the Rohingya refugee crisis will arrive in Myanmar on Monday and visit Rakhine state, a senior government official said. It will be the highe [...]
17 April 2018 by AFP
Flawed return deal offers no way back for Rohingya refugees Bungling, distortion and diplomatic doublespeak have hollowed out the deal to repatriate Rohingya from Bangladesh to Myanmar, with refugees refusing to return to a homeland that remains perilously insecure. "We will have to stay h [...]
15 April 2018 by AFP
First Rohingya family repatriated to Myanmar: government Myanmar's government said it repatriated on Saturday the first family of Rohingya out of some 700,000 refugees who fled to Bangladesh to escape a brutal military campaign, despite UN warnings that a safe return is not yet possible [...]
11 April 2018 by Oliver Slow/ Frontier
Myanmar and the Southeast Asian press squeeze Across Southeast Asia – but especially Myanmar, Cambodia and the Philippines – journalists are facing arrest, intimidation and violence. On the afternoon of December 12 in Myanmar, Ma Pan Ei Mon asked her husband, Reuters journali [...]
17 March 2018 by AFP
Rohingya returnees won't be kept in camps 'forever': Myanmar official A Myanmar official in Rakhine state said Saturday that Rohingya refugees who return will not be held in newly-built camps "forever," as concerns mount over a vexed repatriation process and efforts to reshape communities in the cri [...]