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Kofi Annan visits Rohingya camp in B'desh
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Dhaka [Bangladesh], Jan. 29 (ANI): A three-member team of the Rakhine Commission headed by former United Nation (UN) chief Kofi Annan on Sunday visited the Rohingya camp in Balukhali area of Ukhiya in Cox's Bazar in Bangladesh.
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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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Myanmar handling northern Rakhine, a lesson in how to make 'bad situa
Updated : 8 years, 6 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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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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Dozens of Muslim women reportedly raped in Myanmar's northern Rakhine
Updated : 8 years, 6 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, 6 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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12 more people killed in Myanmar's Rakhine state
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Naypyidaw [Myanmar], Oct.12 (ANI): At least twelve people have been killed in clashes between armed men and troops in Myanmar's Rakhine state.
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Nine Myanmar policemen killed by insurgents in Rakhine border attack
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
London [UK], Oct. 10 (ANI): At least nine Myanmar Police officers were killed and four others injured on Sunday in multiple attacks on border guard posts along the Myanmar's troubled frontier with Bangladesh.
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'Impartial' Rakhine Commission will not police human rights: Kof
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Naypyidaw [Myanmar], Sept. 9 (ANI): Former United Nations secretary general Kofi Annan, who is to head the Rakhine State Advisory Commission in Myanmar, has assured the people that he will assuage concerns over the potential partiality of the commission, saying its mandate is to take on boar
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