Search For "rakhine"
Stop military operations, grant citizenship to Rohingya: UN chief
Updated : 8 years, 5 months ago IST
New York [USA], Sept 20 (ANI): UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres has called on Myanmar to put an end to its military campaign against Rohingya Muslims just hours after the country's de facto leader, Aung San Suu Kyi addressed the nation on the situation in Rakhine state.
Read More
UN chief urges global leaders to attain 'world peace' by repairing 'world
Updated : 8 years, 5 months ago IST
New York [USA], Sept 20 (ANI): United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday spotlighted several threats - including the nuclear peril and climate change and asserted on the need to create a better world.
Read More
India asserts situation in Rakhine State be handled with restraint, focuss
Updated : 8 years, 5 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], September 19 (ANI): India on Tuesday said that the situation in the Rakhine state should be handled with restraint, focussing on the welfare of the civilian population, at the 36th Session of the United States Human Rights Council.
Read More
Right time to speak, but she failed to provide solutions: Myanmar journo o
Updated : 8 years, 5 months ago IST
Naypyidaw [Myanmar], September 19 (ANI): Senior Myanmar journalist Mratt Kyaw Thu has said that it was the right time for Myanmar State Councillor Aung San Suu Kyi to speak on the Rohingya issue and their unprecedented exodus to Bangladesh, but she "failed to provide solutions to the problem
Read More
Suu Kyi's address on Rohingyas encouraging, contained positive message: In
Updated : 8 years, 5 months ago IST
Naypyitaw [Myanmar], September 19 (ANI): The Ambassador of India to Myanmar, Vikram Misri, on Tuesday said that Councillor Aung San Suu Kyi's State of the Union address on the Rohingya issue was encouraging and contained a very positive message.
Read More
UNICEF deputy representative hails Suu Kyi for inviting UN collaboration t
Updated : 8 years, 5 months ago IST
Naypyitaw [Myanmar], September 19 (ANI): The UNICEF Deputy Representative, Paul Edwards, on Tuesday hailed Myanmar State Councillor Aung San Suu Kyi's statement welcoming the collaboration with United Nations to resolve the Rohingya crisis and said that it is start of a new period.
Read More
Myanmar to start verification process for Rohingya refugees who wish to re
Updated : 8 years, 5 months ago IST
Naypyidaw [Myanmar], September 19 (ANI): Myanmar State Councillor Aung San Suu Kyi on Tuesday said the country would soon begin a verification process for the return of Rohingya refugees, who had fled the western Rakhine state, in a bid to aid those who wish to return.
Read More
Myanmar's leader Suu Kyi addresses nation over Rohingya crisis, says govt.
Updated : 8 years, 5 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
Read More
Suu Kyi to deliver State of the Union address on Rohingya crisis
Updated : 8 years, 5 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
Read More
SC to hear plea challenging decision to deport Rohingyas today
Updated : 8 years, 5 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], September 18 (ANI): The Supreme Court on Monday will hear plea filed by the two Rohingya immigrants, Mohammad Salimullah and Mohammad Shaqir.
Read More
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
Read More
UN Chief calls for effective action plan to address Rohingya problem
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New York (U.S.A.) Sept 14 (ANI): United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Wednesday reiterated his call for Muslims from Myanmar's Rakhine state to be granted nationality or at least a legal status that would allow them to lead a normal life, while also urging the international c
Read More