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Myanmar: Military probe team to investigate human rights abuse in Rakhine
Updated : 8 years, 9 months ago IST
Yangon [Myanmar], Feb. 10 (ANI): An investigation team led by Lt. Gen. Aye Win has been formed by Myanmar's military organisation, Tatmadaw, to probe allegations of human rights violations committed by security forces in the country's northern Rakhine State.
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Myanmar Govt sponsors three-day visit of journalists to northern Rakhine s
Updated : 8 years, 9 months ago IST
Naypyidaw [Myanmar], Dec. 21 (ANI): The Myanmar government has sponsored a three-day visit of 13 journalists to Maungdaw and Buthidaung areas, which have been under lockdown since October attacks on border guard posts.
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Myanmar handling northern Rakhine, a lesson in how to make 'bad situa
Updated : 8 years, 9 months ago IST
New York [United States], Dec. 17 (ANI): Expressing concern over the situation in Myanmar's northern Rakhine, the top United Nations human rights official warned that the Government's "short-sighted, counterproductive, even callous" approach to the handling of the crisis
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Dozens of Muslim women reportedly raped in Myanmar's northern Rakhine
Updated : 8 years, 9 months ago IST
Naypyidaw [Myanmar], Oct. 27 (ANI): Human rights groups have alleged that dozens of Muslim women have been raped by state security forces in the northern Rakhine State during counter-insurgency operations there.
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Violence erupts again in Myanmar's Rakhine state
Updated : 8 years, 9 months ago IST
Naypyidaw [Myanmar], Oct. 17 (ANI): The weekend was marked by violence and arrests in Myanmar's northern Rakhine State as a young teacher was shot and an attack on security personnel ended in the deaths of three assailants.
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