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US to declare Myanmar junta committed genocide against Rohingya
Updated : 4 years ago IST
Washington [US], March 21 (ANI): The United States is set to declare that the Myanmar military's violence against the Rohingya minority amounts to genocide and crimes against humanity, media reports said on Sunday.
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Voting underway in Myanmar's 'fundamentally flawed' elections
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
Naypyitaw [Myanmar], November 8 (ANI): Voting began on Sunday in Myanmar's general elections with State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi's National League of Democracy (NLD) expected to retain power.
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US working on sanctioning Myanmar officials for oppressing Rohingya: State
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
Washington [US], October 23 (ANI/Sputnik): The United States is "actively working" on sanctioning Myanmar military officials responsible for the oppression of the Rohingya minority, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Richard Albright told reporters on Thursday.
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UN rights expert welcomes ICJ ruling on Myanmar to protect Rohingyas
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
New York [USA], Jan 23 (Sputnik/ANI): UN human rights expert Yanghee Lee has welcomed the International Court of Justice's (ICJ) ruling that Myanmar must protect the Rohingya minority but emphasised that allegations of crimes against the community remain to be addressed, the Office of the Hi
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Myanmar violence looks like ethnic cleansing: U.S. envoy
Updated : 8 years, 5 months ago IST
New York [U.S.A.], September 29 (ANI): The violence against the Muslim Rohingya minority in Myanmar appears to be a classic case of "ecpoite thinking cleansing", the United States envoy to the UN said, on Thursday.
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