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Post CAB nod, BJP to reach out to refugees, explain benefits
Updated : 6 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi (India), Dec 12 (ANI): After its big push to the Citizenship Amendment Bill (CAB) that helped it sailed through Parliament, making way for the grant of Indian citizenship to the persecuted non-Muslim minority refugees from the three neighbouring countries, the Bharatiya Janata Part
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Aung San Suu Kyi rejects genocide charges against Myanmar
Updated : 6 years, 3 months ago IST
The Hague [Netherlands], Dec 11 (ANI): Nobel peace prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi on Wednesday categorically rejected charges of the genocide of the Rohingya Muslim minority, which have been placed against Myanmar's military by West African nation of Gambia.
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China condemns US passing Uighur crackdown bill
Updated : 6 years, 3 months ago IST
Beijing [China], Dec 4 (ANI): China on Wednesday came down heavily on the United States after the House of Representatives approved a bill that would require the Trump administration to toughen its response to Beijing's crackdown on its Muslim minority in Xinjiang, mostly ethnic Uighurs, who
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Myanmar officials hold repatriation talks with Rohingya in Cox's Bazar
Updated : 6 years, 8 months ago IST
Dhaka [Bangladesh], July 28 (ANI): A visiting delegation of Myanmar government officials to Cox's Bazar, the southeast coastal district in Bangladesh with the largest number of Rohingya camps, held repatriation talks with the Muslim minority on Saturday and tried to convince them to return t
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Sri Lanka reacts to UN Special Advisers' statement on sectarian violence
Updated : 6 years, 10 months ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], May 27 (ANI): Rohan Perera, Sri Lanka's permanent representative to the United Nations, on Sunday, criticised two UN representatives for expressing alarm over the "growing acts of violence on the basis of religion," particularly in the North Western Province of the count
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US urges China to release Muslim minorities detained 'arbitrarily'
Updated : 6 years, 12 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], March 28 (ANI): The United States has asked China to release the Muslim minorities "arbitrarily detained" by the communist country and "end its repression".
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Opposition mega show failed to represent Muslim interest: Azam Khan
Updated : 7 years, 2 months ago IST
Firozabad (Uttar Pradesh) [India], Jan 20 (ANI): The recent TMC-led mega opposition rally in Kolkata where Samajwadi Party (SP) chief Akhilesh Yadav had participated did not adequately represent the interests of the Muslim minority, senior party leader Azam Khan has said.
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International Criminal Court to investigate crimes against Rohingyas
Updated : 7 years, 6 months ago IST
The Hague [The Netherlands], Sep 07 (ANI): The International Criminal Court (ICC) has the jurisdiction to investigate the crimes that have been committed against the Muslim minority Rohingya community in Myanmar's Rakhine state, the court ruled on Thursday.
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UN Chief proposes solution to Myanmar to address Rohingya crisis
Updated : 8 years, 5 months ago IST
New York [U.S.A], September 29 (ANI): UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has termed massive exodus of Rohingya Muslim minority as the 'world's fastest-developing refugee emergency' and proposed three things for the Myanmar government to address the humanitarian crisis.
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Suu Kyi bats for resisting collateral damage in counter-terrorism operatio
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Naypyitaw [Myanmar], September 20 (ANI): The majority-Buddhist Myanmar is no stranger to the anti-muslim sentiment, even as the country's government has long denied citizenship to the Rohingyas, with the argument that they are illegal Bangladeshi immigrants.
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Trying to help all those who're in distress: Suu Kyi on Dalai Lama's 'Budd
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Naypyitaw [Myanmar], September 20 (ANI): Myanmar State Councillor Aung San Suu Kyi has been facing mounting international pressure for her handling of violence in the Rakhine state and the Rohingya refugee crisis.
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Myanmar leader Suu Kyi explains why she didn't name 'Rohingyas' in state a
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Naypyitaw [Myanmar], September 20 (ANI): When Myanmar State Councillor Aung San Suu Kyi broke her silence over the Rohingya refugee issue and delivered a State of the Union address at Naypyitaw on Tuesday morning, she refrained from referring to the Muslim minority as 'Rohingyas', inviting t
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