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Hasina accuses Myanmar of being hesitant in taking back Rohingyas
Updated : 6 years, 11 months ago IST
Dhaka [Bangladesh], Jun 10 (ANI): Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has reportedly accused Myanmar of being hesitant in repatriating over a million Rohingya who fled ongoing sectarian conflict in the northern Rakhine State.
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Rohingya crisis: UNSC seeks investigation into human rights abuses
Updated : 8 years ago IST
Naypyidaw [Myanamar], May 3 (ANI): The United Nation Security Council (UNSC) team has asked the Myanmar government to conduct a proper investigation into alleged human rights abuses in northern Rakhine State.
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Myanmar team to visit Bangladesh to discuss Rohingya issue
Updated : 8 years, 5 months ago IST
Dhaka [Bangladesh], Dec.18 (ANI): A six-member Myanmar delegation is arriving here on Monday for a meeting to set up the joint working group (JWG) to facilitate the repatriation of Rohingyas who fled violence in northern Rakhine State between August 25 and now.
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40 Rohingya villages burnt in October and November, says HRW
Updated : 8 years, 5 months ago IST
New York [United States], Dec.18 (ANI): Satellite imagery over Myanmar has revealed that at least 40 new Rohingya villages were burnt down in the months of October and November in the country's northern Rakhine State.
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Amnesty says Myanmar promoting 'apartheid' of Rohingyas
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New York [United States], Nov.21 (ANI): A study prepared by the New York-based Amnesty International has charged the Government of Myanmar with promoting and practicing a form of "apartheid" against the Rohingya population in that country's northern Rakhine state.
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Rohingya crisis:Aung San Suu Kyi meets UN chief, Tillerson
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Manila [The Philippines], Nov.14 (ANI): Myanmar'State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi, who is under rising global pressure to solve the Rohingya crisis in northern Rakhine State, has had meetings here with United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres and U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerso
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Suu Kyi makes first visit to Rakhine since breakout of violence
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Naypyidaw [Myanmar], Nov 02 (ANI): Myanmar's de facto leader, Aung San Suu Kyi made her first visit to the violence ridden northern Rakhine state on Thursday since violence broke out, as per media reports.
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Brutal attacks on Rohingya meant to make their return almost impossible -
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], Oct 12 (ANI): Brutal attacks against Rohingya in northern Rakhine State have been well-organised, coordinated and systematic, with the intent of not only driving the population out of Myanmar but preventing them from returning to their homes, a new UN report based on in
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Myanmar's leader Suu Kyi addresses nation over Rohingya crisis, says govt.
Updated : 8 years, 8 months ago IST
Naypyidaw [Myanmar], September 19 (ANI): Myanmar State Councillor Aung San Suu Kyi has broken her silence on the Rohingya crisis in the country and has said that the government does not fear scrutiny by the international community, even as more than 4,00,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled from t
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Suu Kyi to deliver State of the Union address on Rohingya crisis
Updated : 8 years, 8 months ago IST
Nay Pyi Taw [Myanmar], Sept19 (ANI): Myanmar State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi will be delivering a State of the Union Address to the citizens of Myanmar and is expected to take questions from both domestic and foreign media on the humanitarian crisis posed by the coercive evacuation of over
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Myanmar envoy blames Rohingya insurgents for violence in Rakhine state
Updated : 8 years, 8 months ago IST
New York [United States], Sept. 13 (ANI): Myanmar's envoy to the United Nations Ambassador Kyaw Tin has blamed Rohingya insurgents for the violence in his country's northern Rakhine state and said that Yangon would never tolerate such atrocities.
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Myanmar's northern Rakhine state enjoys peace after months of violenc
Updated : 8 years, 9 months ago IST
Naypyidaw [Myanmar], Feb.16 (ANI): Myanmar's Ministry of Home Affairs and the Tatmadaw, the nation's armed forces establishment, have both confirmed that security clearance is in place in several areas of northern Rakhine State.
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