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U.N. PANEL SEEKS RARE REPORT FROM MYANMAR REGIME ON RAPES AND SLAYINGS OF ROHINGYA WOMEN
A United Nations women's rights panel called on Myanmar on Tuesday to report within six months on rapes and sexual violence against Rohingya women and girl... READ MORE›
POPE CALLS FOR UNITY IN MYANMAR WITHOUT SAYING 'ROHINGYA'
Rohingya refugees line up to get food aid from a local NGO after arriving from Myanmar at the Balukali refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh... READ MORE›
POPE AVOIDS ROHINGYA TERM IN SPEECH
Pope Francis has delivered a keynote speech in Myanmar, demanding respect for each ethnic group but without referring specifically to its Muslim Rohingya community... READ MORE›
POPE MEETING SUU KYI ON MYANMAR REFUGEE CRISIS AMID OUTCRY
Suu Kyi studied at Oxford before returning to Myanmar and being placed under detention for 15 years during the country's long military dictatorship... READ MORE›
ROHINGYA RETURN TO MYANMAR 'PUTS THEM IN TIGER'S GRASP'
Bangladesh's main opposition party criticised the government for selling itself to the Myanmar government in order to get an agreement to remove the Rohingya... READ MORE›
MYANMAR'S AUNG SAN SUU KYI STRIPPED OF BRITISH HONOR AHEAD OF MEETING WITH POPE FRANCIS
Myanmar's de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi cancelled her trip to the United Nations General Assembly in New York... READ MORE›
POPE FRANCIS TO MEET AUNG SAN SUU KYI ON FIRST FULL DAY IN MYANMAR
Pontiff to meet country's civilian leader a day after meeting military general in charge of crackdown on Rohingya minority... READ MORE›
POPE SET FOR KEY MYANMAR SPEECH
Pope set for key Myanmar speech and meeting with Aung San Suu Kyi... READ MORE›
POPE FRANCIS ARRIVES IN MYANMAR
Pope Francis Arrives in a Myanmar Tarnished by Rohingya Crackdown... READ MORE›
ANALYSIS | THE WORD THE BURMESE LEADERSHIP DOES NOT WANT THE POPE TO SAY DURING HIS VISIT
Pope Francis waves to well-wishers as he is driven past the Shwedagon Pagoda after his arrival Monday in Rangoon, Burma... READ MORE›
POPE HEADS TO MYANMAR AND BANGLADESH, AND INTO ROHINGYA CRISIS
Francis is also due to meet the country's civilian leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, and army chief Min Aung Hlaing... READ MORE›
POPE FRANCIS ARRIVES IN MYANMAR AMID ROHINGYA CRISIS
His trip comes as the Myanmar government is accused of ethnically cleansing its Rohingya Muslim minority, more than 600,000 of whom have taken shelter in neighbouring Bangladesh... READ MORE›
POPE FACES TIGHTROPE ACT IN MYANMAR AMID ROHINGYA CRISIS
Pope Francis has arrived in Myanmar as the country grapples with the Rohingya crisis... READ MORE›
FRANCIS SETS OFF FOR TRICKY TRIP
He is scheduled to meet Myanmar's de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi, and the head of the country's military... READ MORE›
ROHINGYA TO STAY IN TEMPORARY SHELTERS AFTER MYANMAR RETURN
Rohingya refugees who return to Myanmar following a Bangladesh-Myanmar repatriation agreement will initially have to live in temporary shelters or camps, Dhaka said Saturday... READ MORE›
DEAL ON ROHINGYA REPATRIATION INCHES FORWARD, BUT HURDLES REMAIN
In late October, officials in Myanmar ordered the harvesting of fields that had been deserted in the Rohingya exodus... READ MORE›
BURMA HAS COMMITTED 'ETHNIC CLEANSING,' U.S. SAYS. WHERE DOES AUNG SAN SUU KYI GO FROM HERE?
Burmese leader Aung San Suu Kyi at the 13th Asia Europe Foreign Ministers Meeting in Naypyidaw, Burma, on Nov. 20... READ MORE›
BANGLADESH INKS DEAL WITH MYANMAR TO REPATRIATE ROHINGYA MUSLIM REFUGEES
The agreement was inked following a meeting between Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi and Bangladesh's Foreign Minister Abul Hassan Mahmood Ali in Naypyitaw, Myanmar's capital... READ MORE›
DEAL SIGNED TO RETURN MYANMAR ROHINGYA
Bangladesh has signed a deal with Myanmar to return hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims who fled a recent army crackdown... READ MORE›
US CALLS MYANMAR ACTION 'ETHNIC CLEANSING'
US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson says Myanmar's military action against the minority Muslim Rohingya population constitutes ethnic cleansing... READ MORE›
U.S. DECLARES ATTACKS ON BURMESE ROHINGYA MUSLIMS AS 'ETHNIC CLEANSING'
Matthew Smith, co-founder of Fortify Rights, a human rights organization working in Burma, said Tillerson's statement was nevertheless a significant step toward holding Burmese officials accountable... READ MORE›
ROHINGYA ACTIVIST: SUU KYI IS DENYING OUR EXISTENCE
-- Lotte Leicht LotteLeicht1 November 19, 2017 Aung San Suu Kyi, in her first public statement, had backed the military for their handling of the Rohingya crisis... READ MORE›
AMID ROHINGYA EXODUS, SUU KYI BLAMES WORLD CONFLICTS PARTLY ON ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION
Myanmar has been widely criticized for the military crackdown that has driven more than 620,000 Rohingya to flee Rakhine state into neighbouring Bangladesh... READ MORE›
AUNG SAN SUU KYI BLAMES WORLD CONFLICTS ON ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION
Myanmar's de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi cancelled her trip to the United Nations General Assembly in New York... READ MORE›
CHINA OFFERS SOLUTION TO MYANMAR'S ROHINGYA CRISIS
More than 600,000 Muslim Rohingya have fled to Bangladesh since late August driven out by a military clearance operation in Buddhist majority Myanmar's Rakhine State... READ MORE›
THE ROHINGYA PEOPLE DESERVE SO MUCH BETTER
As the influx of Rohingya pouring into Bangladesh from Myanmar continues, UNHCR press officer Vivian Tan looks at ways of addressing the most desperate situation... READ MORE›
'HELP ME!' BOY CRIED AS ROHINGYA BOAT FLEEING MYANMAR CAPSIZED
AP Photo Across the churning black water, Alam Jafar could see his frantic seven-year-old son gasping for breath, his arms flailing just above the ocean's surface... READ MORE›
BANGLADESH'S NEWS-STARVED ROHINGYA REFUGEES TUNE IN TO 'WHATSAPP RADIO' DESPITE DODGY INFO SOURCES
Sitting in his hillside grocery shop in a Bangladesh refugee camp, Rohingya Muslim Momtaz-ul-Hoque takes a break to listen to an audio recording on his mob... READ MORE›
BANGLADESH IS NOW HOME TO ALMOST 1 MILLION ROHINGYA REFUGEES
Nurij, 65, an exhausted Rohingya, receives water after she is carried to a port in Teknaf, Bangladesh, after crossing from Burma, on Oct. 25... READ MORE›
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POPE FRANCIS DECRIES ATROCITIES ON ROHINGYA MUSLIMS
READ MORE Rohingya refugees from Myanmar tell of trauma Security forces in Myanmar reportedly burned down entire villages and opened fire at people fleeing burning homes... READ MORE›
THOUSANDS OF ROHINGYA FLEE MYANMAR AMID TALES OF ETHNIC CLEANSING
Numbering about 1.1 million, there are now estimated to be more than 400,000 Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh... READ MORE›
ROHINGYA EXODUS CONTINUES AFTER 73,000 FLEE MYANMAR
In recent days, tens of thousands of Rohingya have crossed into Bangladesh to escape mass killings they say are being perpetrated by Myanmar forces... READ MORE›
ERDOGAN ACCUSES MYANMAR OF 'GENOCIDE' AGAINST ROHINGYA
The Rohingya are reviled in Myanmar, where the community of roughly one million people are accused of being illegal immigrants from Bangladesh... READ MORE›
FOOD AID FOR 80,000 ROHINGYA BLOCKED BY MYANMAR
Rakhine state is where the country's Muslim Rohingya minority group has allegedly faced systematic persecution since unrest broke out in 2012... READ MORE›
'I AM ROHINGYA' FOLLOWS THE JOURNEY OF A YOUNG WOMAN FROM HER HOME IN MYANMAR TO A REFUGEE CAMP IN BANGLADESH.
'I am Rohingya' follows the journey of a young woman from her home in Myanmar to a refugee camp in Bangladesh... READ MORE›
MALAYSIAN SHIP WITH AID FOR ROHINGYA DOCKS IN MYANMAR
We've document atrocities, serious crimes that have been committed by Myanmar's security forces, Matthew Smith, executive director of the group Fortify Rights, told Al Jazeera... READ MORE›
POLICE TO INVESTIGATE ABUSE OF ROHINGYA CAUGHT ON VIDEO
Selfie-style video filmed by border guard police shows officers kicking, punching and slapping Rohingya men... READ MORE›
UN CHIEF URGES RESTRAINT BY MYANMAR FORCES IN RAKHINE
Antonio Guterres 'deeply concerned' by reports of security crackdown which killed hundreds of Rohingya Muslims... READ MORE›
DOZENS OF FLEEING ROHINGYA DIE AFTER BOATS CAPSIZE
READ MORE 'Fire and destruction ' as Myanmar army targets Rohingya Most of Myanmar's estimated one million Rohingya Muslims live in northern Rakhine state... READ MORE›
WHICH COUNTRY IS THE MOST GENEROUS IN THE WORLD?
A new table claims Iraqis are the kindest to strangers, while Myanmar is the most generous country on earth... READ MORE›
ROHINGYA CAMPS IN BANGLADESH DESTROYED BY CYCLONE MORA
Bangladesh's border region, home to around 12,000 Rohingya refugees that fled Myanmar, faced the brunt of the storm... READ MORE›
ROHINGYA REFUGEES ACCUSE MYANMAR ARMY OF RAPE
Rohingya refugees who have escaped a military crackdown in Myanmar are accusing the army of raping women and girls... READ MORE›
ARSA REBELS DECLARE TRUCE AMID ROHINGYA CRISIS
The ceasefire announced on Saturday in a statement by the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army ARSA is scheduled to start on Sunday... READ MORE›
MYANMAR'S AUNG SAN SUU KYI TO SKIP UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY
Myanmar's suu kyi skips un assembly amid criticism over rohingya crisis... READ MORE›
DOZENS OF ROHINGYA MISSING AS BOAT SINKS OFF BANGLADESH
Boat packed with at least 31 people reportedly chased by a Myanmar army speedboat as it tried to reach Bangladesh... READ MORE›
MYANMAR MILITARY PLANE 'CARRYING 116' MISSING
A Myanmar military plane carrying more than 100 people has gone missing between Yangon and the southern city of Myeik, officials said... READ MORE›
BANGLADESH TO BUILD ONE OF WORLD'S LARGEST REFUGEE CAMPS FOR 800,000 ROHINGYA
Bangladesh authorities plan to expand a refugee camp at Kutupalong near the border town of Cox's Bazar to accommodate the Rohingya... READ MORE›
MORE THAN 200,000 ROHINGYA CHILD REFUGEES IN URGENT NEED OF HELP, UNICEF WARNS
An unprecedented 200,000 child refugees have fled Burma and are now in urgent need of help, Unicef has warned, as the Rohingya crisis reaches new proportions... READ MORE›
TWO ROHINGYA CHILDREN, WOMAN KILLED IN AID STAMPEDE
Several Rohingya refugees have told Al Jazeera that after arriving in Bangladesh, they have not received food, shelter or enough clean water... READ MORE›
FAR FROM MYANMAR VIOLENCE ROHINGYA IN PAKISTAN ARE SEETHING
Far From Myanmar Violence, Rohingya in Pakistan Are Seething... READ MORE›
BANGLADESH POLICE ALLOW ROHINGYA TO FLEE
The Myanmar government says their security forces are responding to an attack last month on more than 20 police posts by Rohingya militants... READ MORE›
'MASS HINDU GRAVE' FOUND IN MYANMAR
Myanmar authorities accuse Muslim Rohingya militants of killing 28 Hindus in restive Rakhine state... READ MORE›
'HEAVILY TRAUMATIZED ' ROHINGYA CHILDREN GO FROM TERROR IN MYANMAR TO REFUGEE CAMP CHAOS
Now they've traded the fear and terror of Myanmar's northern Rakhine state for the chaos of refugee camps in Bangladesh... READ MORE›
NEW EVIDENCE OF ROHINGYA VILLAGE BURNING
Myanmar's envoy to the UN has blamed the Rohingya insurgents for the violence in Rakhine state and said that his country would never tolerate such atrocities... READ MORE›
BANGLADESH PM SHEIKH HASINA ACCUSES MYANMAR OF COMMITTING 'ATROCITIES' ON ROHINGYAS
She also asked Myanmar to take steps to take back its nationals who have fled to Bangladesh following the violence... READ MORE›
MYANMAR SENTENCES 3 TO PRISON FOR DEPICTING BUDDHA WEARING HEADPHONES
The court in Yangon said the image denigrated Buddhism and was a violation of Myanmar's religion act, which prohibits insulting, damaging or destroying religion... READ MORE›
VENEZUELAN FAMILIES SCAVENGE FOR FOOD TO SURVIVE HUNGER
As the economic and political crisis deepens in Venezuela, so do the levels of hunger... READ MORE›
MYANMAR SAYS 'NO EVIDENCE' OF ROHINGYA GENOCIDE
A commission set up by Myanmar's government says it has so far found no evidence of genocide against Rohingya Muslims in Rakhine state... READ MORE›
BANGLADESH CALLS ON MYANMAR TO TAKE BACK ROHINGYA REFUGEES
Hasina said the Bangladeshi government would continue to support the Rohingya refugees, but that Myanmar needed to take steps to take their nationals back ... READ MORE›