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International News

Malaysian authorities hold 202 Rohingya from boat off Langkawi

Malaysian authorities have detained more than 200 ethnic Rohingya, including five children, after they intercepted a boat off the coast of the northwestern island of Langkawi. The wooden vessel was found adrift just over one nautical mile (2.2 kilometres) from one of the island's luxury beach resorts on Sunday morning, the Malaysian maritime enforcement agency said in a statement. The group of 152 men, 45 women and five children were […]

today6 April 2020

International News

UN fails to agree on action over order against Myanmar on Rohingyas

The UN Security Council on Tuesday discussed the International Court of Justice's order that Myanmar must do all it can to prevent genocide against the Rohingya Muslims, but failed to agree on a statement. Myanmar’s ally China as well as Vietnam, which is part of the regional Association of Southeast Nations along with Myanmar, objected, diplomats said, speaking on condition of anonymity because the meeting was closed. Instead, the European […]

today5 February 2020

International News

ICJ orders Myanmar to take steps to protect Rohingya

The Rohingya Muslim minority "remain at serious risk of genocide" said the United Nations' top court on Thursday, as it ordered "provisional measures" against Myanmar. Myanmar had not proposed any measures aimed at ensuring the Rohingya's right to exist, and conditions necessary for emergency measures to be taken in the country have been met, ruled the International Court of Justice (ICJ). The country must abide by the genocide convention, of […]

today23 January 2020

International News

UK ambassador demands ‘proper investigation’ into Rohingya crisis

Myanmar must carry out a "proper investigation" into alleged crimes against the country's minority Rohingya population, Britain's ambassador to the United Nations said. Karen Pierce called on Tuesday for the "root causes" of the crisis - which has seen hundreds of thousands of Rohingya flee Myanmar for neighbouring Bangladesh as a result of what the UN has described as a "textbook example of ethnic cleansing" by government security forces - […]

today2 May 2018

Events

#Survivor Campaign – Rape as a weapon of war

Official statistics on how many women and children have been victims of sexual violence and rape in various “hot” wars around the world are extremely difficult to come by. The high number of under reported cases makes it almost impossible to form a definitive number to the scourge. What can be said, without doubt however, is that rape in war is a massive problem and that rape is used as […]

today19 April 2018

International News

Myanmar jails soldiers involved in Rohingya massacre

Seven Myanmar soldiers have been sentenced to prison for their involvement in the massacre of 10 Rohingya men in Rakhine state last September, the army said on Tuesday. The military said in a statement that seven soldiers were "sentenced to 10 years with hard labour at a prison in a remote area" for "contributing and participating in murder". It added that legal proceedings against the police personnel and civilians "involved […]

today11 April 2018

International News

Rohingya crisis: UN envoy says refugees facing ‘forced starvation’

Myanmar has not stopped its ethnic cleansing of the Rohingya people in Rakhine state, a United Nations human rights official said on Tuesday. The UN envoy's assessment of a continued "campaign of terror and forced starvation" comes six months after a military crackdown caused a mass exodus of Rohingya Muslims. Some 700,000 people have fled to neighbouring Bangladesh since August. They have since told of murder, rape and arson by […]

today6 March 2018

International News

Myanmar accused of ‘bulldozing’ proof of crimes against Rohingya

Myanmar's government has razed at least 55 villages once populated by Rohingya, destroying with them evidence of crimes against the persecuted minority, according to Human Rights Watch (HRW). Satellite images released by the rights group on Friday show that, between December 2017 and mid-February, areas that were once full of buildings and greenery had been completely cleared. HRW described the actions by Burmese security forces as an "ethnic cleansing campaign" […]

today24 February 2018

International News

AP finds evidence for graves, Rohingya massacre 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 […]

today2 February 2018

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