Tags - Rohingya
Police:
Rasa - Bangladesh border guards have killed one woman and left four others injured after they opened fire at a boat carrying Rohingya refugees fleeing an ongoing persecution and military crackdown in Myanmar.
News ID: 428882 Publish Date : 2017/04/13
Rasa - Myanmar authorities begin shutting down three displacement camps in the beleaguered Rakhine State, where persecuted Rohingya Muslims are mainly based.
News ID: 428839 Publish Date : 2017/04/11
Rasa - The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has called for the release of the Rohingya children detained by Myanmar’s government as part of a heavy-handed crackdown on the Muslim minority group in Rakhine State.
News ID: 428778 Publish Date : 2017/04/09
Rasa - Myanmar’s government has refused to recognize as ethnic-cleansing the ongoing persecution of Rohingya Muslims, who have been subject to a heavy-handed crackdown by the country’s military over the past months.
News ID: 428704 Publish Date : 2017/04/06
Rasa - A nascent Rohingya -linked armed group, which now calls itself the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ASRA), has called for international peacekeepers to protect the stateless persecuted Muslim minority in Myanmar’s Rakhine state.
News ID: 428516 Publish Date : 2017/03/29
Rasa - Myanmar's army chief has defended an ongoing crackdown against the persecuted Rohingya Muslims minority in Rakhine State after the UN pledged to probe a campaign of killing and torture by security forces there.
News ID: 428465 Publish Date : 2017/03/27
Rasa - Myanmar's army chief defended a military crackdown in Rakhine State on Monday after the UN pledged to probe claims security forces carried out a campaign of killing and torture against Rohingya Muslims there.
News ID: 428458 Publish Date : 2017/03/27
Rasa - The Rohingya Muslims, who fled persecution in Myanmar, recount their ordeals back at home, where they were subject to torture, rape and violence by the military.
News ID: 428413 Publish Date : 2017/03/25
Rasa - The top United Nations human rights body agreed on Friday to send an international fact-finding mission to investigate widespread allegations of killings, rape and torture by security forces against Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar’s Rakhine state.
News ID: 428389 Publish Date : 2017/03/24
Rasa - Hundreds of extremist Buddhists in Myanmar have staged a protest against a government plan to grant citizenship to some members of the persecuted Rohingya Muslim community.
News ID: 428264 Publish Date : 2017/03/19
Rasa - The European Union has called on the United Nations to urgently send an international fact-finding mission to Myanmar to investigate widespread crimes being committed by the government armed forces against persecuted Rohingya Muslims in Rakhine State.
News ID: 428199 Publish Date : 2017/03/16
Rasa - A panel led by former UN chief Kofi Annan says Myanmar needs to close the squalid camps in Rakhine State, where thousands of persecuted displaced Rohingya Muslims have been trapped for nearly five years, and allow them to return home.
News ID: 428197 Publish Date : 2017/03/16
Rasa - The UN special rapporteur on Myanmar has expressed concern that the Southeast Asian country may be seeking to "expel" all members of the persecuted Rohingya Muslim community from its territory.
News ID: 428143 Publish Date : 2017/03/14
Rasa - The United Nations has on several occasions warned about large-scale violence being committed against minority Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar’s Rakhine State, saying such acts of violence could amount to crimes against humanity.
News ID: 427775 Publish Date : 2017/03/01
Rasa - The UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar called for urgent action by local authorities to end the suffering of the Rohingya population in the South East Asian country.
News ID: 427747 Publish Date : 2017/02/28
UN:
Rasa - A United Nations official has deplored “harrowing” acts of violence and discrimination against the Rohingya in Myanmar, calling on the country to put an end to its crackdown on the Muslim minority.
News ID: 427734 Publish Date : 2017/02/27
Rasa - Hundreds of Rohingya who fled to Bangladesh to escape persecution in Myanmar have returned home, community leaders said Sunday, adding that most had gone back temporarily to fetch relatives.
News ID: 427523 Publish Date : 2017/02/19
Rasa - The Malaysian Nautical Aliya aid ship, carrying 2,200 tons of rice, emergency supplies and aid-workers, docked at Chittagong Port in Bangladesh, about 140km from Cox's Bazar where thousands of Rohingya Muslims take refuge, to aid the people of the community who are being hunted down and killed in Myanmar.
News ID: 427507 Publish Date : 2017/02/19
Rasa - A Malaysian ship has arrived in Bangladesh, carrying humanitarian aid for thousands of Rohingya Muslims who have escaped persecution in neighboring Myanmar.
News ID: 427369 Publish Date : 2017/02/14
Rasa - Myanmar authorities have sentenced a man belonging to the Muslim Rohingya ethnic minority to death for his alleged role in a deadly raid on border police posts, an incident that triggered a fierce military crackdown in the western state of Rakhine.
News ID: 427363 Publish Date : 2017/02/13