Tag: Rohingya Muslims
Pence says Myanmar’s handling of Rohingya ‘without excuse’
SINGAPORE: Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi rebuffed criticism from United States (US) Vice President Mike Pence and other leaders on Wednesday over her...
India to begin deportations of Rohingya Muslims to Myanmar
GAUHATI: India plans to send seven Rohingya Muslims back to Myanmar, in the first deportation of members of the Myanmar minority group since the...
Bangladesh PM urges Myanmar to take back Rohingya Muslims
KOLKATA: Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Friday called for international pressure on Myanmar to take back hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims who...
US mulling sanctions over Myanmar’s treatment of Rohingya
WASHINGTON: The United States is taking steps and considering a range of further actions over Myanmar’s treatment of its Rohingya Muslim minority, including targeted...
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...
City of Oxford strips Aung San Suu Kyi of human rights...
LONDON: Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi has been stripped of a human rights award by the City of Oxford, where she was an...
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...
Myanmar’s Suu Kyi denies going ‘soft’ on military
YANGON: Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi has rejected a suggestion she is soft on the military, which the United Nations has accused of...
Nisar condemns govt’s silence over Kurrum drone attack
ISLAMABAD: Former interior minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan on Wednesday said it is surprising that Pakistan did not even issue a formal condemnation against...
PM Abbasi urged OIC to play role in raising voice for...
Pakistani Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi on Tuesday addressed the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) contact group.
Addressing the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), PM...
UN urged to punish Myanmar army over Rohingya ‘atrocities’
YANGON: Pressure grew on Myanmar on Monday as a rights group urged world leaders to impose sanctions on its military, which is accused of driving...
Suu Kyi set to break silence on Rohingya crisis
Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi was poised Tuesday to break her silence on a refugee crisis the UN has decried as "ethnic cleansing",...
Bangladesh restricts movement of 400,000 Rohingya refugees
DHAKA: Bangladesh restricted the movement of Rohingya refugees Saturday, banning them from leaving overcrowded border areas where over 400,000 who have fled violence in...
Bangladesh PM seeks help for Rohingya crisis as exodus tops 400,000
DHAKA: Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina headed for the UN General Assembly on Saturday to plead for global help coping with the Rohingya crisis, as...
Rohingya Muslim refugees forced to scramble for aid in Bangladesh
KUTUPALONG: Every day Sunabhan joins thousands of other Rohingya refugees by the roadside near her settlement in southern Bangladesh waiting for aid trucks to...
Seven bodies washed ashore taking Rohingya boat death toll to 100
Seven bodies believed to be those of Rohingya Muslims washed ashore in Bangladesh on Wednesday, officials said, highlighting the risks many of the persecuted...
Global split over Rohingya crisis as China backs Myanmar crackdown
Beijing's intervention appears aimed at heading off any attempt to censure Myanmar at the council when it convenes on Wednesday.
China was one of the few foreign friends of Myanmar's former junta.
