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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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Rohingya group urges EU support for probe into 'Myanmar's Crimes
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Ankara [Turkey], Mar. 13 (ANI): A group representing Rohingya in Europe has called on the European Union to support a United Nation (UN)-led investigation into "Myanmar's Crimes against Rohingya."
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Qatar to fund for Rohingyas in Malaysia
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Dhaka [Bangladesh], Feb. 18 (ANI): Around 56,000 Rohingya refugees living in Malaysia will be given access to education, training and healthcare using funds contributed by the Qatar government.
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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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HRW urges Bangladesh to reject Rohingya relocation plan
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New York [USA], Feb. 9 (ANI): The Human Rights Watch (HRW) has urged Bangladesh to immediately drop its plan to transfer Rohingya refugees from the Cox's Bazar area to Thengar Char, an uninhabited coastal island, saying the move would deprive them of their rights to freedom of movement,
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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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Term 'Rohingya' missing from Suu Kyi's letter to B'des
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Dhaka [Bangladesh], Jan. 15 (ANI): In a letter to Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, Myanmar State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi has conveyed that Naypyidaw wants to address the Rohingya issue and other concerns in a spirit of good neighbourliness, trust and mutual understanding.
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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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Bangladesh asks visiting Myanmar delegation to stop Rohingya influx
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Dhaka [Bangladesh], Jan. 12 (ANI): Expressing concern over continued influx of Rohingya Muslims, Dhaka has asked Naypyidaw to immediately halt the exodus of Rohingyas and repatriate all their nationals staying in Bangladesh for years.
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Special envoy from Myanmar to visit Bangladesh today, may discuss Rohingya
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Dhaka [Bangladesh], Jan. 10 (ANI): A special envoy from Myanmar is scheduled to arrive in Dhaka on Tuesday for a three day visit with speculations that the Rohingya influx may be discussed.
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