15 killed as Myanmar insurgents attack elite military college

By Reuters,

Myanmar insurgents killed at least 15 people on Thursday, most of the members of the security forces, in attacks on an elite military college and othe...

elite military college , Myanmar insurgents , Northern Alliance

ICC prosecutor seeks Bangladesh and Myanmar investigation

By Reuters,

The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court on Wednesday moved closer to opening a full investigation into alleged crimes against the Rohingya ...

Bangladesh , ICC prosecutor , investigation , Myanmar , ROHINGYA

Two Reuters reporters freed in Myanmar after more than 500 days in jail

By Reuters,

Two Reuters journalists jailed in Myanmar after they were convicted of breaking the Official Secrets Act walked free from prison on Tuesday after more...

Jailed reuters reporters , Myanmar

Two Reuters reporters jailed in Myanmar freed after over 500 days

By Reuters,

Two Reuters journalists jailed in Myanmar after they were convicted of breaking the Official Secrets Act walked free from a prison on the outskirts of...

Kyaw Soe Oo , Wa Lone

Second group of Rohingya Muslims found on Malaysian beach: police

By Reuters,

Thirty-seven people believed to be Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar were found on a beach in northern Malaysia on Monday, police said, the latest arrival...

Malaysia , ROHINGYA

U.N. urges social media, investors to promote human rights in Myanmar

By Reuters,

Social media firms and foreign investors must do more to ensure they support human rights in Myanmar, U.N. Special Rapporteur Yanghee Lee said on Tues...

Myanmar , social media , U.N , U.N. Human Rights Council

Bangladesh tells U.N. Security Council cannot take more Myanmar refugees

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Bangladesh told the United Nations Security Council on Thursday that it cannot take any more refugees from Myanmar, some 18 months after more than 700...

Bangladesh , ROHINGYA

Angelina Jolie visits Rohingya camps, says refugees’ plight ‘shames us all’

By Reuters,

U.N. refugee agency special envoy Angelina Jolie on Tuesday visited camps in Bangladesh for Muslim Rohingya refugees from Myanmar and condemned the wo...

Angelina Jolie , ROHINGYA REFUGEES , Sheikh Hasina , U.N

Angelina Jolie visits Rohingya camps, says refugees’ plight ‘shames us all’

By Reuters,

U.N. refugee agency special envoy Angelina Jolie on Tuesday visited camps in Bangladesh for Muslim Rohingya refugees from Myanmar and condemned the wo...

Angelina Jolie , Bangladesh , ROHINGYA

Rohingya end hard year still in limbo

By VOA,

More than 750,000 Rohingya Muslim refugees who fled military attacks in Myanmar remain in Bangladesh camps as future repatriation and resettlement pla...

Bangladesh , Brad Adams , Chairman Ed Royce , International Criminal Court (ICC). , Kyaw Hla Aung , Rakhine state , ROHINGYA , Rosario Manalo , unicef

Myanmar court due to hear appeal in case of jailed Reuters reporters

By Reuters,

A Myanmar court is on Monday due to hear an argument in the appeal of two Reuters reporters sentenced to seven years in jail on charges of breaking th...

Aung San Suu Kyi , Bangladesh , Kyaw Soe Oo , Myanmar , Rakhine state , ROHINGYA , U.N , Wa Lone

Myanmar says policeman found dead near border with Bangladesh

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The body of a missing Myanmar policeman was found on the country’s troubled border with Bangladesh, state media and officials said on Sunday after a...

Bangladesh , Lt. Colonel Tin Han Linn , Major Mohammad Iqbal , Myanmar , ROHINGYA , U.N

Facebook takes down more Myanmar accounts over military links

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Facebook Inc (FB.O) has removed hundreds of additional accounts, pages and groups in Myanmar from its social networks after discovering what it called...

U.N. Security Council mulls Myanmar action; Russia, China boycott talks

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The U.N. Security Council is considering action to push Myanmar to work with the United Nations to address the Rohingya refugee crisis, although China...

Ambassador Hau Do Suan , Ambassador Ma Zhaoxu , Bangladesh , Britain , china , France , Myanmar , Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi , Rakhine state , Rohingya Community , russia , The United States , U.N. Security Council

‘We can’t go anywhere’: Myanmar closes Rohingya camps but ‘entrenches segregation’

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As the world was focused on abortive efforts to begin repatriating hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees from Bangladesh to Myanmar last month, h...

Aung San Suu Kyi , Khin Maung , Knut Ostby , Myanmar , Rakhine , ROHINGYA , Win Myat Aye

At site of Rohingya Massacre, Burmese villagers say little

By VOA,

Kyaw Soe Moe, the head man of this northern Rakhine state best known as the site of a massacre of 10 Muslim men and boys by their Buddhist neighbors a...

Myanmar seizes boat carrying 93 fleeing Rohingya camps for Malaysia

By Reuters,

Authorities in Myanmar have seized a boat carrying 93 people, apparently Rohingya Muslims, fleeing displacement camps in western Myanmar’s Rakhine S...

Myanmar , ROHINGYA

Myanmar police shoot, injure four in raid on Rohingya camp

By Reuters,

Myanmar police shot and injured four Rohingya Muslims on Sunday, after detaining two men accused of smuggling people out of a camp for displaced peopl...

Ah Nauk Ye camp , Malaysia , Rakhine state , Rohingya Community , Thailand , U.N , Yangon , Zaw Htay

Over 100 suspected Rohingya Muslims arrested aboard boat in Yangon, official says

By Reuters,

More than 100 suspected Rohingya Muslims were arrested aboard a boat in Yangon, Myanmar’s largest city, officials said, raising fears of a fresh wav...

Bangladesh , Myanmar , ROHINGYA MUSLIMS , Yangon

‘If we go they will kill us’: Rohingya refugees fear repatriation to Myanmar

By CNN,

Rohingya refugees who fled a brutal army crackdown last year say they are terrified of going back to Myanmar, as authorities begin the process of repa...

Aung San Suu Kyi , Bangladeshi , Hassan Noor Saadi , Michelle Bachelet , Mike Pence , Mohammad Abdul Kalam , Myanmar , Rakhine state , ROHINGYA , UNDP , UNHCR