Tag: Rohingya
Myanmar army replaces general in charge of Rakhine operation
YANGON: Myanmar’s army has replaced the general in charge of Rakhine state, an army media officer said on Monday, where an army operation drove...
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...
Myanmar blames Bangladesh for delaying repatriation process for Rohingya
YANGON: Myanmar has blamed Bangladesh for delaying the start of a repatriation process for hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslim refugees, saying it feared Dhaka...
Tillerson urges Myanmar army chief to end violence in Rakhine state
US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson urged Myanmar's army chief on Thursday to help end the violence in Rakhine state that has forced hundreds...
Myanmar must take back Rohingya Muslims, says India
India's foreign minister told Bangladesh's government that Myanmar must take back Rohingya Muslims to resolve one of Asia's largest refugee crises in decades, the government...
Rohingya refugee children living in dire conditions in Bangladesh camps: UNICEF
GENEVA: Nearly 340,000 Rohingya children are living in squalid conditions in Bangladesh camps where they lack enough food, clean water and healthcare, the United...
UN yet to determine if Rohingya crisis is genocide
GENEVA: The United Nations has yet to determine whether violence against Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar meets the legal definition of genocide, Jyoti Sanghera —...
Ten drown as Rohingya boat sinks off Bangladesh
At least 10 people drowned and dozens more are missing after a boat packed with Rohingya fleeing to Bangladesh sank on Monday, the latest...
Rohingya Muslims not native, refugee numbers exaggerated: Myanmar army chief
YANGON: Rohingya Muslims are not native to Myanmar, the army chief told the U.S. ambassador in a meeting in which he apparently did not...
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 feel like prisoners in giant Bangladesh camp
Hasina Begum's earliest memory is of watching the jungle cut down to expand the camp in Bangladesh that is the only home the 31-year-old...
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...
Are Pakistan’s Rohingya children of a lesser god?
Pakistani channels and government officials have unanimously condemned the situation in Myanmar. The government recently passed a resolution, calling the persecution of Muslims in...
Bangladesh’s mega refugee camp plan ‘dangerous’: UN official
DHAKA: A top United Nations official said on Saturday that Bangladesh's plan to build the world's biggest refugee camp for 800,000-plus Rohingya Muslims was dangerous...
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...
