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Mystery debris lands in northern Myanmar, says state media
A large metal object has fallen from the sky into a jade mining area in north Myanmar, state media say. The cylindrical object, found on Thursday in Kachin state, is 4.5m (15ft) long and 1.2m wide. Another piece of metal with Chinese writing on it tore through the roof of a nearby house at about the same time, but no injuries were reported. It is thought that the incident might be related to the launch of a Chinese satellite. Trouble in orbit: Growing problem of space junk
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New satellite imagery of Burma’s Rakhine State shows 820 newly identified structures destroyed in five different ethnic Rohingya villages
Alarming new satellite images confirm that the destruction in Rohingya villages is far greater and in more places than the government has admitted. High-definition satellite imagery shows 820 newly identified structures destroyed in five different ethnic Rohingya villages between November 10-18, 2016.
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Muslims are being 'ethnically cleansed' and no one is talking about it
Rohingya Muslims in Burma are being ethnically cleansed, according to a UN official, and government soldiers have allegedly killed children and raped women in the northern Rakhine state.
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Who will help Myanmar's Rohingya? - BBC News
They have been described as the world's most persecuted people. Rejected by the country they call home and unwanted by its neighbours, the Rohingya are impoverished, virtually stateless and have been fleeing Myanmar in droves and for decades.
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Baby Dinosaur's 99 Million-Year-Old Tail, Encased In Amber, Surfaces In Myanmar
Millions of years ago, a dinosaur about the size of a sparrow had a bad day. It got stuck in resin. Paleontologists recently came across the rare amber fossil containing its tail in Myanmar.
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Rohingya Muslim man’s headless body found in river after speaking to journalists
The body of a decapitated Rohingya Muslim man has been found in a river in in Myanmar just days after he spoke to journalists. The man had spoken to Burmese reporters on a rare Government-sanctioned media tour of an area within the Rakhine state, which has been on lockdown for more than two months since its border posts were attacked by militants.
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50,000 Rohingya Muslims flee to Bangladesh from Myanmar
Some 50,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled to Bangladesh from Myanmar, the foreign ministry in Dhaka said Thursday, seeking shelter from a bloody crackdown by the army. Bangladesh has stepped up patrols to try to stem the tide of refugees crossing the border since an eruption of unrest in Myanmar’s western state of Rakhine in early October.
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Border Guard Police torturing Rohingya in Arakan
The video clip is witness of torturing Rohingyas by Myanmar's Border Guard Police in #KoeTanKoukVT, #Rathedaung Township, Arakan(RakhineST), Myanmar. l
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Nobel laureates warn Aung San Suu Kyi over 'ethnic cleansing' of Rohingya
Letter says Myanmar’s leader and peace prize winner has failed to act as ‘grossly disproportionate’ crackdown on minority Muslim group kills hundreds
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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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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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'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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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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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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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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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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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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'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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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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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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