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FILE: Rohingya candidate Abdul Rasheed, a member of the Democracy and Human Rights Party, poses for a photo in the party's office in Yangon on 12 August 2020. Picture: AFP

Rohingya muslims

Rohingya politicians excluded from Myanmar election

By Reuters

His father was a civil servant. But when the country goes to the polls in November, the businessman will not be able to stand as a candidate because officials...

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

    Two Rohingya women killed in Myanmar shelling

    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 conflict-torn northern Rakhine state.

    934 days ago
  • FILE: Myanmar police escort Rohingya Muslims back to their camp in Sittwe, Rakhine state, on 30 November 2018. Nearly 100 Rohingya Muslims were forced back to Myanmar's Rakhine state after being detained at sea en route to Malaysia, police said on 28 November, stirring fears of a fresh refugee boat crisis. Picture: AFP

    Top UN court orders Myanmar to prevent Rohingya genocide

    The International Court of Justice rejected arguments made by Myanmar's civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi in The Hague in December and set out urgent steps for the majority Buddhist nation to end the violence.

    936 days ago
  • FILE: A handout photo released on 10 December 2019 by the International Court of Justice shows Myanmar's State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi attending the start of a three-day hearing on the Rohingya genocide case before the UN International Court of Justice at the Peace Palace of The Hague. Picture: AFP

    Myanmar's Suu Kyi warns genocide case could reignite Rohingya crisis

    In her closing arguments after a three-day hearing at the International Court of Justice, Myanmar's de facto civilian leader issued a stark warning to judges that allowing The Gambia's case against Myanmar to go ahead could 'undermine reconciliation'.

    978 days ago
  • FILE: Ousted Myanmar’s civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi. Picture: United Nations

    Thousands in Myanmar rally behind Suu Kyi ahead of Hague court date

    The ICJ lawsuit was brought by Gambia, a tiny, mainly Muslim West African state that alleges Myanmar breached the UN's Genocide Convention with its bloody 2017 crackdown on the Rohingya.

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

    Gambia files Rohingya genocide case against Myanmar at World Court - minister

    In its filing, Gambia asked the court to grant so-called provisional measures to make sure Myanmar immediately 'stops atrocities and genocide against its own Rohingya people'.

    1008 days ago
  • FILE: 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

    No Rohingya turn up for repatriation to Myanmar

    "The Myanmar government raped us and killed us. So we need security. Without security we will never go back," Rohingya leader Nosima said, according to a statement released by the refugees.

    1090 days ago
  • FILE: After fleeing violence in Myanmar, Rohingya refugees live in overcrowded makeshift sites in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. Photo: UNHCR

    Malaysia calls for "justice" and citizenship for Rohingya Muslims

    Myanmar does not recognise the Rohingya as citizens, instead officially labelling them "Bengalis", short-hand for illegal immigrants from neighbouring Bangladesh.

    1151 days ago
  • FILE: Aung San Suu Kyi, General Secretary of Myanmar’s National League for Democracy. Picture: United Nations Photo.

    Myanmar parly approves panel to discuss constitution despite military protest

    The move comes as both civilian and military leaders face growing international pressure over an army crackdown on Rohingya Muslims in 2017.

    1287 days ago
  • FILE: Myanmar police escort Rohingya Muslims back to their camp in Sittwe, Rakhine state, on 30 November 2018. Nearly 100 Rohingya Muslims were forced back to Myanmar's Rakhine state after being detained at sea en route to Malaysia, police said on 28 November, stirring fears of a fresh refugee boat crisis. Picture: AFP

    Rohingya sent back to Myanmar camps hungry and in debt

    Images of hungry and thirsty refugees huddled on boats have stirred memories of a 2015 crisis, when thousands of fleeing Rohingya were stuck at sea.

    1348 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

    100 Rohingya found off Myanmar's south coast en route to Malaysia

    The group of 106 people were discovered floating in a wooden boat on the Andaman Sea just off the shore of Kyauktan township an hour south of Myanmar's commercial capital of Yangon.

    1369 days ago
  • Human rights lawyer Amal Clooney. Picture: AFP.

    Amal Clooney appeals to Suu Kyi for reporters' release

    The two fathers were jailed for seven years earlier this month, fueling international outrage.

    1417 days ago
  • FILE: 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

    US accuses Myanmar military of 'planned and coordinated' Rohingya atrocities

    The US State Department report, which was released on Monday, could be used to justify further US sanctions or other punitive measures against Myanmar authorities, US officials told Reuters.

    1421 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.

    1447 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.

    1450 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

    Myanmar says willing to take back all Rohingya refugees

    Since August 2017, about 700,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled a military crackdown in mainly Buddhist Myanmar, many reporting killings, rape and arson on a large scale, UN and other aid organisations have said.

    1536 days ago
  • FILE: A baby in a basket is one of 1.2 million Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh. Picture: @UNICEF/Twitter

    Rohingya refugees tearfully plead for UN Security Council help

    Several tearful women and girls threw themselves at British UN Ambassador Karen Pierce as they recounted what had happened to them.

    1570 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.

    1573 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.

    1582 days ago
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