But in his address to Tuesday's special council session, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein went even further... READ MORE›
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›
The UN rights chief called Tuesday for a fresh international investigation into Myanmar's abuses against its Rohingya Muslim minority, warning of possible elements of genocide ... READ MORE›
Possible 'elements of genocide' in Myanmar UN rights chief... READ MORE›
The UN rights chief called Tuesday for a fresh international investigation into Myanmar's abuses against its Rohingya Muslim minority, warning of possible elements of genocide ... READ MORE›
In Bangladesh, Pope Francis uses the one word he would not say in Burma Rohingya... READ MORE›
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 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›
Oxford city council votes unanimously to strip Myanmar leader of award over her response to repression... READ MORE›
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 Francis has arrived in Myanmar as the country grapples with the Rohingya crisis... READ MORE›
He is scheduled to meet Myanmar's de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi, and the head of the country's military... READ MORE›
In late October, officials in Myanmar ordered the harvesting of fields that had been deserted in the Rohingya exodus... READ MORE›
Burmese leader Aung San Suu Kyi at the 13th Asia Europe Foreign Ministers Meeting in Naypyidaw, Burma, on Nov. 20... READ MORE›
Bangladesh has signed a deal with Myanmar to return hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims who fled a recent army crackdown... READ MORE›
US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson says Myanmar's military action against the minority Muslim Rohingya population constitutes ethnic cleansing... READ MORE›
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›
-- 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›
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›
Myanmar's de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi cancelled her trip to the United Nations General Assembly in New York... READ MORE›
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›
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›
Suu Kyi said Myanmar values the understanding for the country China has expressed on the Rakhine state issue and agrees to the China-proposed three-phase solution... READ MORE›
More than 600,000 Muslim Rohingya have fled to neighboring Bangladesh since late August, driven out by a military clearance operation in Buddhist majority Myanmar's Rakhine State... READ MORE›
In October, students at St Hugh's College at the University Oxford dropped Aung San Suu Kyi's name from its common room... READ MORE›
Myanmar security forces slit the throats of Muslim Rohingya and burned victims alive, watchdogs said in a report on Wednesday that cited mounting evidence... READ MORE›
Human Rights Watch spoke to 52 Rohingya women and girls who fled to Bangladesh, 29 of whom said they had been raped... READ MORE›
But Washington has been careful to draw a distinction between Suu Kyi's fledgling civilian administration and the military, who controls all security policy... READ MORE›
Meanwhile, Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi's various Rohingya commissions are continuing their work... READ MORE›
I am still waiting for my fellow Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi to do the same ... READ MORE›
Since the 1970s, only 34,000 Rohingya have been registered with the UN in Bangladesh, Tan said, with estimates of unregistered refugees in the hundreds of thousands... READ MORE›
Antonio Guterres, UN secretary-general, called on the government of Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi on Tuesday to end the violence against the Rohingya... READ MORE›
At least five children have drowned after a boat carrying Rohingya refugees fleeing violence in Myanmar sank early on Wednesday, Bangladeshi border guards have said... READ MORE›
It was her first national address on the violence in northern Rakhine state that has seen more than 400,000 Rohingya Muslims cross into Bangladesh... READ MORE›
Nobel Peace Laureate Malala Yousafzai said in a statement that Ms Suu Kyi should condemn the tragic and shameful treatment of the Rohingya... READ MORE›
Zeid Raad Al Hussein urged Myanmar to end the cruel military operation in Rakhine state... READ MORE›
Myanmar's Nobel Peace Prize winning Aung San Suu Kyi is facing intense scrutiny over her response to the plight of her nation's Rohingya population... READ MORE›
It was the fast-flowing river that doomed the inhabitants of Tula Toli... READ MORE›
On arrival at Sittwe, the Rakhine state capital, we were given instructions... READ MORE›
Such a recasting of her role has disappointed Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi's fellow Nobel Peace Prize laureates... READ MORE›
The latest round of violence in Myanmar's Rakhine State began last month when Rohingya fighters attacked about 30 police posts and army bases, prompting a military crackdown... READ MORE›
An organisation which says it has saved more than 40,000 people from the Mediterranean is to move its operations to Asia to help the Rohingya people... READ MORE›
The ceasefire announced on Saturday in a statement by the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army ARSA is scheduled to start on Sunday... READ MORE›
More than half of the 400,000 refugees who have fled Myanmar for Bangladesh since late August are children, and hundreds came without parents, Unicef said... READ MORE›
Those onboard were escaping weeks of bloodshed in Myanmar's Rakhine state, and seeking the safety of neighbouring Bangladesh... READ MORE›
Rakhine-based Rohingya fighters, who emerged in October last year, say they have no ties to any 'terrorist group'... READ MORE›
The plan targets 1.2 million people, including all Rohingya refugees, and 300,000 Bangladeshi host communities over the next six months, he said... READ MORE›
Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi does not control Myanmar's military, but she has yet to criticize its crackdown on the Rohingya... READ MORE›
To be Rohingya in 2017 is to be The Other. It is to face that most enduring and insidious human sentiment bigotry, writes Nahlah Ayed... READ MORE›
Annie Gowen The Washington Post Washington begins to sour on Aung San Suu Kyi amid mounting ethnic violence Rohingya militants in Burma Terrorists or freedom fighters?... READ MORE›
Devoid of concern for human rights or universal values, it was not the speech of a world leader... READ MORE›
Bangladesh authorities plan to expand a refugee camp at Kutupalong near the border town of Cox's Bazar to accommodate the Rohingya... READ MORE›
The influx adds to about 300,000 Rohingya, already located in camps around the Bangladeshi city of Cox's Bazar... READ MORE›
De facto leader responds to growing international criticism by attacking 'fake news' about the plight of Rohingya Muslims... READ MORE›
Myanmar authorities accuse Muslim Rohingya militants of killing 28 Hindus in restive Rakhine state... READ MORE›
Last week at least 46 Rohingya were found dead along the banks of the Naf River, which forms part of the border between Myanmar and Bangladesh... READ MORE›
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›
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