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FILE: After fleeing violence in Myanmar, Rohingya refugees live in overcrowded makeshift sites in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. Photo: UNHCR

Rohingya crisis

Two Rohingya women killed in Myanmar shelling

By AFP

Military spokesperson Zaw Min Tun told AFP said that one woman was killed on the spot by "heavy weapons" while another died after arriving at hospital in...

  • Reuters journalists Kyaw Soe Oo (C) waves beside colleague Wa Lone (L) as they walk out of Insein prison after being freed in a presidential amnesty in Yangon on 7 May 2019. Picture: AFP.

    Reuters reporters jailed in Myanmar freed from prison after more than 500 days

    The two reporters, Wa Lone, 33, and Kyaw Soe Oo, 29, had been convicted in September and sentenced to seven years in jail, in a case that raised questions about Myanmar’s progress toward democracy.

    1108 days ago
  • Myanmar authorities look at a group of Rohingya Muslim women walking on a field in Kyauktan township south of Yangon on 16 November 2018, after their boat washed ashore. Picture:  AFP

    93 Rohingya fleeing by boat sent back to Myanmar camps: police

    Three vessels carrying fleeing Rohingya have been seized and returned to Rakhine over the past two weeks, as the monsoon season gives way to more favourable sailing conditions.

    1267 days ago
  • A Rohingya Muslim refugee waits with others for food aid at Thankhali refugee camp in Bangladesh's Ukhia district on 12 January 2018. Picture: AFP

    Facebook says human rights report shows it should do more in Myanmar

    The move came hours after United Nations investigators said the army carried out mass killings and gang rapes of Muslim Rohingya with “genocidal intent.”

    1290 days ago
  • FILE: This file photo was taken on 24  August 2018 shows a Myanmar border guard police patrol watching over Rohingya refugees settlement in the 'no man's land' zone between Myanmar and Bangladesh border as seen from Maungdaw, Rakhine state during a government-organized visit for journalists. Picture: AFP.

    9 UN Security Council members ask to discuss Myanmar inquiry

    The crackdown followed attacks by Rohingya militants on security posts. Myanmar has denied committing atrocities against the Rohingya, saying its military carried out justifiable actions against militants.

    1310 days ago
  • Myanmar State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi (L) talks with Thai Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha during their dinner in Tokyo on 8 October 2018. Picture: AFP.

    Suu Kyi promises 'transparency' over Rohingya atrocities

    Aung Suu Kyi has seen a sharp fall from grace due to her failure to speak up following a brutal military crackdown on Myanmar's Rohingya minority.

    1318 days ago
  • FILE: United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein. Picture: AFP.

    UN chief: Suu Kyi should’ve resigned rather than excuse Rohingya genocide

    Aung San Suu Kyi has become notorious as the woman who refused to speak out against the military campaign on the Muslim minority.

    1357 days ago
  • Detained Myanmar journalist Wa Lone (C) speaks to reporters as he is escorted by police from a courthouse following his ongoing pre-trial hearing in Yangon on 9 July, 2018. Picture: AFP.

    [UPDATE] Verdict postponed in Myanmar's case against Reuters journalists

    Wa Lone, 32, and Kyaw Soe Oo, 28, are charged with breaching the Official Secrets Act, which carries a maximum sentence of 14 years in prison.

    1361 days ago
  • Rohingya refugees Zarina Begum (L), 20, and Latifa Begum (R), 30, hold their hours-old babies as they recover at an NGO-run maternity clinic in the Kutupalong refugee camp near Cox's Bazar. Picture: AFP.

    Anniversary of Rohingya crisis marked in Bangladesh camps, Myanmar

    Thousands of refugees, from children to the elderly, marched prayed and chanted slogans in events across the sprawling camps in southern Bangladesh. Many wore black ribbons to commemorate what they said was the start of the “Rohingya genocide”.

    1362 days ago
  • FILE: A baby in a basket is one of 1.2 million Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh. Picture: @UNICEF/Twitter

    Rohingya refugees fish in troubled waters to earn living in Bangladesh

    They are among nearly 700,000 Rohingya Muslims who fled a military crackdown, the United Nations and human rights groups say.

    1437 days ago
  • FILE: Reuters journalist Kyaw Soe Oo (C) talks to the media as he leaves after a court appearance in Yangon on 10 January 2018. Picture: AFP.

    Myanmar police witness says searched Reuters reporters' phones without warrant

    The reporters have told relatives they were arrested almost immediately after being handed some rolled up papers at a restaurant in northern Yangon by two policemen.

    1451 days ago
  • FILE: A baby in a basket is one of 1.2 million Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh. Picture: @UNICEF/Twitter

    UN Security Council pushes Myanmar on accountability over Rohingya

    Despite initial resistance by China to the Security Council pressing Myanmar on accountability, the 15-member body reached consensus agreement on the British-drafted statement.

    1470 days ago
  • A Rohingya Muslim refugee waits with others for food aid at Thankhali refugee camp in Bangladesh's Ukhia district on 12 January 2018. Picture: AFP

    Trump assures Bangladesh of US support amid Rohingya crisis

    A letter from Donald Trump was handed to Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at a meeting with US Ambassador Marcia Bernicat in Dhaka.

    1475 days ago
  • This undated photo shows newly arrived Rohingya refugees sit at Shamlapur beach in Cox's Bazar district, Bangladesh, after travelling for five hours in a boat across the open waters of the Bay of Bengal. Picture: Unicef

    US team in refugee camps investigating atrocities against Rohingya

    The undertaking, led by the State Department, has involved more than a thousand interviews of Rohingya men and women in refugee camps in neighbouring Bangladesh.

    1484 days ago
  • In September 2017, newly arrived Rohingya refugees from Myanmar walk through paddy fields and flooded land after they fled over the border into Cox’s Bazar district, Chittagong Division in Bangladesh. Picture: Unicef.

    Reuters wins Pulitzers for Philippines reporting, Rohingya photography

    The Pulitzers recognised Reuters in international reporting for exposing the methods of police killing squads in Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte’s war on drugs.

    1493 days ago
  • Myanmar Social Welfare Minister Win Myat Aye (lower 2nd L) talks to Rohingya refugees during his visit to the Kutupalong refugee camp in Bangladesh's Ukhia district on 11 April, 2018. Picture: AFP.

    How the families of 10 massacred Rohingya fled Myanmar

    The Rohingya homes in Inn Din were burned to the ground, and is now scattered across the world’s largest refugee camp in Bangladesh.

    1498 days ago
  • Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi. Picture: AFP

    EU raises concerns with Myanmar's Suu Kyi over detention of Reuters reporters

    The two are due to appear in court on Wednesday. It will be their second appearance in court and the prosecutor could request that charges are filed against them.

    1591 days ago
  • A UN assessment team talks to displaced people in Pauktaw camp in rural Rakhine, Myanmar, where more than 20,000 Rohingya live. Picture: United Nations.

    Head of new crisis panel urges access to Myanmar's Rakhine State

    Myanmar has severely curtailed access to Rakhine, where an army operation in response to attacks by Rohingya insurgents has been condemned by UN.

    1593 days ago
  • FILE: Pope Francis leads a mass on 15 February 2015 at St. Peters Basilica in the Vatican. Picture: AFP.

    Pope holds emotional meeting with refugees, says 'Rohingya' for first time

    Pope Francis also urged the world not to ignore refugees, persecuted minorities, the poor and vulnerable.

    1629 days ago
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