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Bangladesh completes registration of 8,44,227 Rohingya refugees
Updated : 8 years, 2 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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UN Chief calls on Myanmar to free arrested journalists
Updated : 8 years, 2 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [United States], Dec 15 (ANI): Condemning the arrest of two journalists in Myanmar, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres stated that their arrest indicated that press freedom is shrinking in Southeast Asian country and the international community must do all it can to get th
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6700 Rohingya killed in Myanmar: MSF
Updated : 8 years, 3 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [United States], Dec 14 (ANI): At least 6,700 Rohingya were killed between August and September after violence broke out in Myanmar's northern restive Rakhine state, according to the Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF).
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UN human rights chief cites 'elements of genocide' in Myanmar's Rohingya c
Updated : 8 years, 3 months ago IST
Dhaka [Bangladesh], Dec 5 (ANI): The United Nations (UN) Human Rights Chief Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein on Tuesday condemned the brutal attacks at and decades-long discrimination against the Rohingyas, citing they could contain "elements of genocide."
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India sends relief material to Myanmar
Updated : 8 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], November 25 (ANI): India has sent relief material for distribution amongst the displaced persons in Myanmar's restive Rakhine State.
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Amnesty says Myanmar promoting 'apartheid' of Rohingyas
Updated : 8 years, 3 months ago IST
New York [United States], Nov.21 (ANI): A study prepared by the New York-based Amnesty International has charged the Government of Myanmar with promoting and practicing a form of "apartheid" against the Rohingya population in that country's northern Rakhine state.
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Rohingya crisis:Aung San Suu Kyi meets UN chief, Tillerson
Updated : 8 years, 4 months ago IST
Manila [The Philippines], Nov.14 (ANI): Myanmar'State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi, who is under rising global pressure to solve the Rohingya crisis in northern Rakhine State, has had meetings here with United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres and U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerso
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UN calls on Myanmar to end excessive military force in Rakhine state
Updated : 8 years, 4 months ago IST
New York [USA], November 7 (ANI): Strongly condemning the widespread violence in Myanmar's Rakhine state, which has led to the displacement of over 600,000 members of the country's minority Muslim Rohingya community, the United Nations Security Council has called on the Myanmar Government
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Tillerson to visit Myanmar amid Rohingya crisis
Updated : 8 years, 4 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [U.S.A.], Nov. 3 (ANI): United States Secretary of State Rex Tillerson will be visiting Myanmar on November 15 to meet and consult with senior Burmese leaders and officials on actions to address the humanitarian crisis in Rakhine State and the U.S. support for Burma's democra
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Myanmar seeks to amend repatriation agreement with Bangladesh
Updated : 8 years, 4 months ago IST
Dhaka [Bangladesh], November 2 (ANI): Myanmar is working towards bringing amendment of the 1993 agreement with Bangladesh that allows repatriation of the Rohingya refugees from Bangladesh, who fled to the neighbouring countries, in wake of clashes with the military.
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Bangladesh PM Hasina in Forbes' list of most powerful women
Updated : 8 years, 4 months ago IST
Dhaka [Bangladesh], Nov 2 (ANI): Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has emerged as the 30th most powerful woman, according to the Forbes' list of 100 most powerful women in the world this year.
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Suu Kyi makes first visit to Rakhine since breakout of violence
Updated : 8 years, 4 months ago IST
Naypyidaw [Myanmar], Nov 02 (ANI): Myanmar's de facto leader, Aung San Suu Kyi made her first visit to the violence ridden northern Rakhine state on Thursday since violence broke out, as per media reports.
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