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Myanmar building military bases in burnt Rohingya villages
Updated : 8 years ago IST
London [UK], Mar 12 (ANI): Myanmar is allegedly building military bases on the top of razed Rohingya villages, where the Rohingyas once lived before their persecution by the country's security forces in August last year.
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Protests erupt in Pak over Christian man's alleged blasphemy
Updated : 8 years, 1 month ago IST
Lahore [Pakistan], Feb 21 (ANI): Scores of activists of religious parties surrounded a Christian colony in Lahore, demanding the arrest of a Christian man who allegedly posted blasphemous content on the social media.
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Bangladesh completes registration of 8,44,227 Rohingya refugees
Updated : 8 years, 3 months ago IST
Dhaka [Bangladesh], Dec 15 (ANI): Bangladesh has completed biometric registration of 8,44,227 Rohingya refugees who have crossed the border to escape persecution in neighbouring Myanmar's Rakhine state.
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Rohingya issue: B'desh calls for pressure on Myanmar
Updated : 8 years, 4 months ago IST
Dhaka [Bangladesh], Nov 6 (ANI): Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has urged the Commonwealth countries to force Myanmar to stop the persecution and take the Rohingya refugees back.
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U.K., Canada, Switzerland pledge to donate $33.5m for Rohingya refugees
Updated : 8 years, 5 months ago IST
Dhaka [Bangladesh], October 24 (ANI): The United Kingdom and Switzerland have pledged additional USD 24 million as assistance for the Rohingya refugees, who are fleeing to Bangladesh to escape the persecution of Myanmar's Rakhine State.
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Rohingyas face discrimination in Pakistan
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Lahore [Pakistan], September 28 (ANI): Pakistan's double standards stands exposed once again as on one hand Pakistan's government and Islamic groups have been making hue and cry over the "persecution" of the Rohingya Muslims in Rakhine by the Myanmar government, but on the other hand Rohingy
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'International community should take Pak to task over persecution of Chris
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], September 19 (ANI): Dr. Mario Silva, a former member of the Canadian Parliament and Executive Director of the International Forum for Rights and Security (IFFRAS), has appealed to the international community to intervene in the issue of the persecution of Christian mino
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Rohingya refugees in B'desh suffer from lack of food, medicines, clean wat
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Dhaka [Bangladesh], September 15 (ANI): The Rohingya Muslims, who have taken refuge in Cox's Bazar and Teknaf border areas in Bangladesh after they fled the barbarous persecution in Myanmar's Rakhine State, are now suffering due to an absence of food, shelters, medicines, sanitation facil
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Global voices getting louder against atrocities on Rohingyas in Myanmar: B
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Dhaka [Bangladesh], September 15 (ANI): Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday said that the entire world is raising its voice against the persecution of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar and was calling upon the Myanmar Government to take their citizens back.
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Repeal blasphemy law to make Pak safe place for minority Christians, says
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Brussels [Belgium], Aug.7 (ANI): Christians, who form about 1.6 percent of Pakistan's population, live in constant fear of persecution from extremist Islamic groups in that country because of legal strictures such as the draconian "Blasphemy Law", a woman Member of the Europea
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Congress corners PM Modi over MLA Raja Singh's 'Gujarat riots�
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 09 (ANI): With Bharatiya Janata Party MLA H Raja Singh calling on the Hindu community in West Bengal to respond the way Hindus did in Gujarat in 2002, the Congress Party said that by mentioning Gujarat riots, the former is trying to claim that Prime Minister Modi gove
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Chechnya gay persecution: Merkel urges Putin to take measures
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [U.S.A.], May 2 (ANI): German Chancelloer Angela Merkel has raised concerns over the reported persecution of gay men in Chechnya with Russian President Vladimir Putin, following a meeting in Sochi.
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