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Myanmar: Report names 13 officials with a key role in murder, rape and deportation of Rohingya
Amnesty International is launching a landmark new report on accountability for crimes against humanity targeting the Rohingya and the wider crisis in Myanmar’s northern Rakhine State.
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INLE LAKE - Myanmar
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Reuters Wins Pulitzer for Photography of Rohingya Crisis
(Warning: graphic content) An exhausted Rohingya refugee woman touches the shore after crossing the Bangladesh-Myanmar border by boat through the Bay of Bengal, in Shah Porir Dwip, Bangladesh September,2017
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Burma: Scores of Rohingya Villages Bulldozed
New satellite imagery reveals the Burmese government has been bulldozing scores of depopulated Rohingya villages in northern Rakhine State.
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'They Couldn't Hide all the Death.' 5 More Rohingya Mass Graves Found in Myanmar
The faces of the men half-buried in the mass graves had been burned away by acid or blasted by bullets. Noor Kadir finally recognized his friends only by the colors of their shorts. Kadir and 14 others, all Rohingya Muslims in the Myanmar village of Gu Dar Pyin, had been choosing players for the soccer-like game of chinlone when the gunfire began. They scattered from what sounded like hard rain on a tin roof. By the time the Myanmar military stopped shooting, only Kadir and two teammates were left alive.
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Shattered skulls and blood: Rohingya report Myanmar massacre
For six hours he hid in an upstairs room, listening to the crackle of gunfire and the screams of people being slaughtered outside his Myanmar home. With every footstep that drew near, every cry that pierced the air, 52-year-old Bodru Duza braced for the soldiers to find him, to kill him like all the others who had fled to his compound that morning seeking a safe place to shelter. They were being blindfolded and bound, marched away in small groups, then butchered and shot as they begged for their lives.
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Could Aung San Suu Kyi face Rohingya genocide charges?
Myanmar says its crackdown was a response to terror attacks, but new evidence raises questions.
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'Mass Hindu grave' found in Myanmar
The Myanmar authorities have accused Muslim Rohingya militants of killing 28 Hindu villagers whose bodies were allegedly found in a mass grave. The army says the bodies of 20 women and eight men and boys were found in two pits in northern Rakhine state. The state has been in turmoil since 25 August when Rohingya militants launched deadly attacks on police posts.
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Myanmar's Most Beautiful Sacred Sites
Glittering stupas, stepped temples, and candlelit monasteries reveal a long spiritual tradition. By Gulnaz Khan.
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Petition seeks to revoke Suu Kyi's Nobel over Rohingya crisis
Thousands of people have signed an online petition calling for the Nobel committee to revoke Aung San Suu Kyi's peace prize over the Myanmar government's treatment of its Rohingya Muslims.
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Thousands in Russia's Chechnya protest for Burma's Rohingya Muslims - France 24
In an apparent bid to raise his profile as Russia's most influential Muslim, Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov brought tens of thousands of people to the streets of the capital Grozny on Monday to protest the
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'Where Would I Go?' Thousands Of Rohingya Flee Myanmar After A Bloody Week
When state security forces entered the western Myanmar village of Chut Pyin in the midafternoon Sunday, they weren't alone. According to the survivors who spoke with Fortify Rights, an international aid group, armed residents of a nearby village mingled with the troops — but they both had a common target. Together, Fortify Rights says, the two groups wasted no time setting to work against the village's Rohingya, a predominantly Muslim ethnic minority in the country, paying no attention to whether their victims were men, women or children.
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Weekly wrap-up: Rare, Intense Storm Kills 16 in Moscow; Cyclone Mora Batters Bangladesh, Myanmar
A deadly storm lashed Moscow this week while a cyclone wreaked havoc in Myanmar and Bangladesh.
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A desperate escape
A closer look at the violent persecution of the Rohingya, a Muslim minority in Myanmar, and their exodus to Bangladesh. By Simon Scarr, Weiyi Cai, Wen Foo and Jin Wu.
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Aung San Suu Kyi: No ethnic cleansing of Myanmar Muslim minority
Aung San Suu Kyi has denied there is ethnic cleansing of the Muslim minority in Myanmar - despite widespread reports of abuses. In an exclusive interview with the BBC, the Nobel peace prize winner acknowledged problems in Rakhine state, where the Rohingya people live. But she said ethnic cleansing was "too strong" a term to use. Instead, Myanmar's de-facto leader said the country would welcome any returning Rohingya with open arms.
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Burmese government 'kills more than 1,000 Rohingya Muslims' in crackdown
The Burmese authorities may have killed more than 1,000 Rohingya Muslims during a recent crackdown on the minority group in the northeast Rakhine state, two unnamed UN officials have told the Reuters news agency. Authorities in Burma launched a military campaign against the Rohingya after militant elements of the group were accused of attacking police border posts in October last year.
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Pope issues stinging criticism of Myanmar's treatment of Rohingya
Pope Francis issued a stinging criticism of atrocities against Myanmar's Rohingya minority on Wednesday, saying they had been tortured and killed simply because they wanted to live their culture and Muslim faith.
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'Hundreds of Rohingyas' killed in Myanmar crackdown
Army has carried out mass killings of Muslim minority, UN rights office says, in possible ethnic cleansing.
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Banned From Boats in Myanmar, Rohingya Fish on Rafts of Junk
The ban is one small part of a sweeping and violent counter-insurgency campaign in Rakhine state, home to the long-persecuted Rohingya Muslim minority, where authorities have been accused of widespread abuses
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Burmese government dismisses images of 'Rohingya Alan Kurdi' as propaganda
Images have emerged of the body of a baby boy, reported to be a Rohingya Muslim child who drowned while fleeing violence in Burma’s Rakhine state. Non-state media are banned from entering the north of Burma – making it difficult to verify the the photograph – and the government has dismissed the image as “propaganda”.
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