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Bangladesh envoy apprises India of problems faced due to Rohingya exodus
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], September 9 (ANI): Bangladesh High Commissoner Syed Muazzem Ali met Indian Foreign Secretary S. Jaishankar in New Delhi on Saturday and apprised him of the problems caused due to Rohingya Muslims amid their rising exodus from Myanmar's Rakhine State.
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Myanmar's Rohingyas issue is similar to India's Kashmir: Suu Kyi
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Yangon [Myanmar], September 7 (ANI): Equating Rohingya Muslims issue in the Rakhine state with India's Kashmir issue, Myanmar's State Councillor Aung San Suu Kyi on Thursday said there is a similarity between Rohingya and Kashmir issue.
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Rohingya Muslims issue one of the biggest, will take time to be resolved:
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Yangon [Myanmar], September 7 (ANI): Myanmar State Councillor Aung San Suu Kyi on Thursday said that the issue of the Rohingya Muslims is one of the biggest challenges, dating back to pre-colonial times and hence, will take time to be resolved.
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Stakeholders should find solution to extremist violence in Rakhine state:
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Nay Pyi Taw [Myanmar], September 6 (ANI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday said that India shares Myanmar's concern on extremist violence in the Rakhine state and that he hopes that all stakeholders can find a solution, in which the unity and the territorial integrity of the coun
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Rohingya muslims may be threat to Bangladesh's security: Foreign mini
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Dhaka [Bangladesh], June 16 (ANI): Bangladesh Foreign Minister Abul Hassan Mahmood Ali has said that the Rohingya muslims, migrants from the Rakhine state of Myanmar, may be a threat to the national security.
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Myanmar's northern Rakhine state enjoys peace after months of violenc
Updated : 8 years, 6 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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Myanmar: Military probe team to investigate human rights abuse in Rakhine
Updated : 8 years, 6 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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UN rights expert to assess potential abuses in northern Myanmar
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New York [US], Jan. 7 (ANI): An independent United Nations expert will assess the human rights situation in Myanmar starting next week, it was announced yesterday, following increasing concerns about civilians in Kachin State and the escalating violence in Rakhine State.
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Myanmar Govt sponsors three-day visit of journalists to northern Rakhine s
Updated : 8 years, 6 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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Malaysian armed forces chief meets Myanmar President
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Naypyidaw [Myanmar], Dec. 6 (ANI): Malaysian armed forces chief General Zulkifeli Mohd Zin met with Myanmar's president U Htin Kyaw and Commander-in-chief Senior General Min Aung Hlaing on Monday to smoothen the ties between the two sides following recent diplomatic sparring over violen
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Bangladesh pushes back 107 Rohingyas
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Dhaka [Bangladesh], Nov. 24 (ANI): Bangladesh has strengthened security along its border with Myanmar to prevent the entry of Rohingyas who are trying to cross into its territory illegally due to violence in the Rakhine state that has claimed the lives of at least 86 people and displaced 30,
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B'desh asks Myanmar to take up cause of Rohingya Muslims
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Dhaka [Bangladesh], Nov. 23 (ANI): The Bangladesh Foreign Ministry has expressed "tremendous concern" over the ongoing persecution of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar's Rakhine state.
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