Tag: Myanmar Rohingya
Myanmar defiant as Amnesty pulls Suu Kyi award
NAYPYIDAW: Myanmar authorities and citizens leapt to the defence of Aung San Suu Kyi Tuesday after Amnesty International stripped her of its top award...
Comment on the Rohingya crisis skipped in Southeast Asia summit draft...
A draft of the statement to be issued after a Southeast Asian summit makes no mention of the exodus of Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar’s...
Myanmar’s Suu Kyi arrives on first visit to crisis-battered northern Rakhine
YANGON: Myanmar’s leader Aung San Suu Kyi arrived on her first visit to conflict-battered northern Rakhine State on Thursday, an official said, an unannounced...
Mass cholera vaccinations begin in Rohingya camps
Thankhali (Bangladesh): The United Nations launched one of its biggest ever cholera vaccination drives in the vast refugee camps of southeast Bangladesh Tuesday amid...
Rohingya refugee boat capsizes on way to Bangladesh, 12 dead: police
COX‘S BAZAR, Bangladesh: A boat carrying Rohingya Muslim refugees to Bangladesh capsized and at least 12 people, most of them children, drowned, police said...
Lack of access to Myanmar’s Rakhine state ‘unacceptable’: UN
The lack of humanitarian access granted by Myanmar's government to Rakhine state, where more than half a million Rohingya Muslims have fled violence, is...
India struggles to rein in border flows of cattle and Rohingya
NEW DELHI: Stopping Rohingya refugees from crossing India’s porous eastern border with Bangladesh is straining the resources of guards battling to halt a flow...
Rohingya forced from Myanmar say army redoubling push to clear villages
Rohingya refugees arriving in Bangladesh amid a fresh exodus from strife-torn Myanmar have described whole villages being emptied and thousands marching to the border...
Bangladesh, Myanmar agree to draw up plan for refugee repatriation: minister
DHAKA: Bangladesh and Myanmar agreed on Monday to set up a “working group” to plan the repatriation of more than half a million Rohingya...
Bangladesh to press for Muslim refugees’ return to Myanmar
DHAKA: Bangladesh opens talks with neighbouring Myanmar on Monday with the aim of securing the return home of more than half a million Rohingya...
Fear of epidemic disaster as disease stalks Rohingya camps
Rashida Begum steers clear of the water pump near the reeking latrine shared by more than 100 families in a grim corner of Bangladesh...
Death toll from Rohingya refugee boat is set to pass 60:...
Geneva: The death toll from a boat which capsized off Bangladesh carrying Rohingya refugees is set to pass 60, the UN migration agency said...
Volunteers help reunite Rohingya families divided in refugee camps
Seven-year-old Hasina only sat down for a moment's rest from chasing aid trucks that are a lifeline for Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh. When she...
UNHCR alarmed at violence against Rohingya in Sri Lanka
COLOMBO: The United Nations on Wednesday raised concern for the safety of Rohingya Muslim asylum seekers in Sri Lanka after Buddhist monks and hardline...
Government will take over burned Myanmar land: minister
YANGON: Myanmar’s government will manage the redevelopment of villages torched during violence in Rakhine state that has sent nearly half a million Rohingya Muslims...
HRW says Myanmar forces laying landmines along border to stop Rohingya
Human Rights Watch on Saturday confirmed the Bangladeshi officials' allegations that security forces of Myanmar were laying landmines alongside the border to hinder and...
Bangladesh’s PM at UN proposes ‘safe zones’ for Myanmar’s Rohingya
UNITED NATIONS: Bangladesh´s prime minister on Thursday proposed creating UN-supervised safe zones inside Myanmar to protect Rohingya Muslims who are fleeing a military crackdown...
