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BURMESE MILITARY ACKNOWLEDGES KILLINGS IN INN DIN
It's not as though there are human remains lying around everywhere, said John Sifton, Asia advocacy director at Human Rights Watch... READ MORE›
MYANMAR GENERAL HIT BY US SANCTIONS
Rohingya crisis Myanmar general hit by US sanctions... READ MORE›
MYANMAR BARS UN HUMAN RIGHTS ENVOY YANGHEE LEE
Myanmar's government has barred a UN human rights investigator from visiting the country and withdrawn cooperation with her for the rest of her tenure... READ MORE›
DESTRUCTION OF ROHINGYA VILLAGES CONTINUES: HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH
In late November, Myanmar and Bangladesh signed an agreement covering the return of Rohingya who fled across their mutual border to escape the violence in Rakhine... READ MORE›
AT LEAST 6,700 ROHINGYA KILLED IN MYANMAR
About 630,000 Rohingya have fled Myanmar into Bangladesh to escape what the United Nations has called ethnic cleansing... READ MORE›
UN 'CANNOT RULE OUT ROHINGYA GENOCIDE'
The United Nations human rights chief has said an act of genocide against Rohingya Muslims by state forces in Myanmar cannot be ruled out... READ MORE›
POSSIBLE 'ELEMENTS OF GENOCIDE' IN MYANMAR
Possible 'elements of genocide' in Myanmar UN rights chief... READ MORE›
POPE FRANCIS ENDS ASIA TOUR AFTER MEETING ROHINGYA
More than 620,000 Rohingya have crossed into Bangladesh since a militant attack on police posts in late August sparked a deadly crackdown by the Myanmar military... READ MORE›
POPE FRANCIS ENDS ASIA TOUR AFTER MEETING ROHINGYA
More than 620,000 Rohingya have crossed into Bangladesh since a militant attack on police posts in late August sparked a deadly crackdown by the Myanmar military... READ MORE›
POPE ENDS SENSITIVE TRIP TO ASIA AFTER SEEKING ROHINGYA FORGIVENESS
Dear friends in Myanmar and Bangladesh, thank you for your welcome! Francis said on Twitter as his flight took off... READ MORE›
POPE FRANCIS BLESSES ROHINGYA MUSLIM REFUGEES
Pope Francis had refrained from using the term while in Myanmar earlier in the week... READ MORE›
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›
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›
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›
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›
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›
ROHINGYA WERE RAPED SYSTEMATICALLY BY MYANMAR'S MILITARY, REPORT SAYS
Human Rights Watch found that the raping of Rohingya Muslim women and girls was even more widespread than earlier suspected... READ MORE›
HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH ACCUSES MYANMAR MILITARY OF WIDESPREAD RAPE
Human Rights Watch spoke to 52 Rohingya women and girls who fled to Bangladesh, 29 of whom said they had been raped... READ MORE›
TRUMP ASIA TOUR FOCUSES ON TRADE, NOT HUMAN RIGHTS
President Trump's abdication of human rights was front and centre at this Asean summit, leaving a big hole in that defence... 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, MYANMAR AGREE TO HALT THE OUTFLOW OF ROHINGYA
More than 600,000 Rohingya from northern Rakhine have fled to Bangladesh since Aug. 25, when Myanmar security forces began a scorched-earth campaign against Rohingya villages... READ MORE›
WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE ROHINGYA CRISIS
Rohingya Muslims represent the largest percentage of Muslims in Myanmar, with the majority living in Rakhine State... READ MORE›
BURMESE ARMY KILLED HUNDREDS OF ROHINGYA MUSLIMS
The continuing exodus of Rohingya Muslims has become a major humanitarian crisis and sparked international condemnation of Buddhist-majority Burma, which still denies atrocities are taking place... READ MORE›
DRONE SHOWS THOUSANDS OF ROHINGYAS FLEEING
Jump to media player Fleeing Rohingyas say it's the Myanmar army... READ MORE›
Trending News Headlines : Magway
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›
'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›
UK ACCUSED OF DOING CHINA'S BIDDING AFTER POLICE RAID HOME OF TIANANMEN SQUARE SURVIVOR OVER PEACEFUL PROTEST
Dr Jiang, traumatised after witnessing seeing Chinese soldiers shoot fellow unarmed protesters at Tiananmen Square in 1989, was re-arrested in 1995 before fleeing China in 2003... 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›
EXCLUSIVE: OVERRULING DIPLOMATS, U.S. TO DROP IRAQ, MYANMAR FROM CHILD SOLDIERS' LIST
Human Rights Watch said in January that it had learned that militias had been recruiting child soldiers from one Iraqi refugee camp since last spring... 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›
4 CARTOONS THAT SUM UP THE ABSURDITY OF SAUDI ARABIA LEADING A UN HUMAN RIGHTS PANEL
Cartoons taunting Saudi Arabia's membership of the United Nations human rights council have gone viral on social media after the kingdom executed 47 people in one day... 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›
'LADY SOS': THE WOMAN SAVING SYRIAN REFUGEES AT SEA
Muslims and refugees are being scapegoated and alienated as attacks claimed by ISIL rise, Human Rights Watch says... 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›
LOOMING CRUCIFIXION SPARKS GLOBAL CALLS TO SPARE LIFE OF YOUNG SAUDI ALI MOHAMMED AL-NIMR
Many Western countries, including the United States and Australia, have diplomatic and trading ties with Saudi Arabia... READ MORE›
GOVERNMENT URGED TO REVEAL ITS ROLE IN GETTING SAUDI ARABIA A UN HUMAN RIGHTS ROLE
Exclusive UK Government urged to reveal its role in getting Saudi Arabia onto UN Human Rights Council... 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›
THAILAND GENERAL JAILED FOR HUMAN TRAFFICKING AT MASS TRIAL
Manas Kongpan is jailed for 27 years as dozens are convicted of human trafficking at a mass trial... READ MORE›
THE STORY NOT BEING TALKED ABOUT IN MYANMAR
In Yangon, news of the humanitarian crisis in Myanmar's western region of Rakhine is largely untold... READ MORE›