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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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Rohingya's will have to go back: Jitendra Singh
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Sept 5 (ANI): Minister of State (MoS) for Prime Minister's Office Jitendra Singh, in a blatant statement, on Tuesday asserted that the Rohingya Muslims will have to leave India.
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61 Thai officials jailed for trafficking Rohingya Muslims, Bangladeshis
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Bangkok [Thailand], July 20 (ANI): In Thailand's largest human trafficking case, the Bangkok Criminal Court has convicted and sentenced a very high-profile former three-star general and 61 other defendants, including ex-officials for trafficking Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar and Banglad
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Myanmar should provide citizenship to Rohingya Muslims:UNHCR
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Dhakar [Bangladesh], July11 (ANI):After visiting two refugee camps in Cox's Bazar on the south-east coast, where hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims are living in camps, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Filippo Grandi has observed that granting citizenship to
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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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Rohingya Muslims 'abused': Myanmar rejects UN interference
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
London [U.K.] May 3 (ANI): Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi has rejected the United Nations Human Rights Council's (UNHRC) decision to investigate allegations of crimes and inhumane treatment by Myanmar's security forces against minority Rohingya Muslims.
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Rohingya issue: UN to send fact-finding mission to Myanmar
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], Mar. 24 (ANI): The United Nations Human Rights Council on Friday decided to send an independent international fact-finding mission to Myanmar to investigate alleged human rights violations in the country, against the ethnic Rohingya Muslims in particular.
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Baloch is graver issue than Rohingya Muslims: Activist
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], Mar. 13 (ANI): As the Baloch political and human rights activists have demanded a special rapporteur in the United Nations to probe gross human rights violations in Pakistan's Balochistan province, Baloch activist Ahmar Mastikhan has stressed that Balochistan is a
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Myanmar nationalists protest Malaysian aid for Rohingyas
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Yangon [Myanmar], Feb. 10 (ANI): Nationalists in Myanmar staged a demonstration as a Malaysian ship carrying food and humanitarian aid for Rohingya Muslims arrived in the former capital Yangon claiming that the aid was a form of political exploitation.
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Myanmar to start process for Rohingya repatriation from B'desh
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Dhaka [Bangladesh], Jan. 13 (ANI): Bangladesh Foreign Minister A. H. Mahmood Ali has said that Myanmar has expressed interest in repatriating 65,000 Rohingya Muslims who entered Bangladesh in the last two months.
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