Tag: Rohingya
-
600,000 Rohingya in Myanmar face ‘serious risk of genocide’: UN
Myanmar : Rohingya remaining in Myanmar’s Rakhine state face a “serious risk of genocide”, UN investigators have said, warning that the repatriation of a million others already driven from the country by the army remains “impossible”. In a damning report released on Monday, a United Nations fact-finding mission also called for top Myanmar generals, most notably army chief Min Aung Hlaing, to face…
-
Reuters reporters file appeal against prison sentence in Myanmar
Yangon : Two Reuters journalists sentenced to seven years in prison for violating Myanmar’s Official Secrets Act while investigating the killing of Rohingya in the country lodged an appeal on Monday. Than Zaw Aung, a defence lawyer representing the two Myanmar journalists Wa Lone, 32, and Kyaw Soe Oo, 28, told Efe news that he…
-
China, Russia fail to block Security Council briefing on Myanmar atrocities
By Arul Louis, United Nations : After China and Russia failed to block a briefing on Myanmar, the Security Council heard the head of an independent investigation into alleged atrocities against the Rohingya calling for prosecuting senior leaders of national forces on charges of genocide. The Chair of the Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Myanmar…
-
Stop bulldozing abandoned Rohingya villages, HRW urges Myanmar
Nay Pyi Taw : The non-profit Human Rights Watch on Friday urged the Myanmar government to stop the demolition of villages abandoned by the Rohingya minority in Rakhine state from where almost 700,000 members of the community have fled to Bangladesh. HRW said satellite images revealed that the government has bulldozed dozens of Rohingya settlements…
-
At least 71 people die in fighting between Myanmar army and Rohingya
Yangon : At least 71 people have been killed in the latest fighting between Rohingya Muslims and Myanmar security forces in the country’s Rakhine state, the office of de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi said Friday. In an updated toll, the State Counsellor’s office said 12 security officials had been killed and that “59…
-
US rejects Myanmar plea to call Rohingya ‘Bengalis’
YANGON: Myanmar and the United States appeared to agree to disagree on Tuesday on what to call the Southeast Asian nation’s beleaguered Muslim minority that Washington and most of the world know as Rohingya. Many Buddhists inside Myanmar prefer to call them “Bengalis”, arguing that the one million or so members of the minority are…
-
Discrimination against Rohingya ‘could lead to genocide’, UN
Addis Ababa (IINA) – Special Advisor to the UN Secretary General on the Prevention of Genocide Adama Dieng on Tuesday accused Myanmar’s government of allowing discrimination to continue against the country’s Rohingya Muslim community and warned that it could lead to genocide. “It was our hope that the new administration in Myanmar will address the…