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A United Nations legal expert has voiced concern over India's plan to deport on Wednesday seven Rohingya to Myanmar, where the army is accused of ethnic cleansing of the Muslim minority. The men have been held in prison in Assam state on charges of illegally ...

The U.N. Human Rights Council agreed Thursday to set up a team to collect evidence of alleged crimes by Myanmar against its Rohingya minority that one day could be used to prosecute suspected perpetrators. Bangladeshi President Sheikh Hasina accused Myanmar of failing to honor a ...

A U.S. government investigation has found that Myanmar's military waged a planned, coordinated campaign of mass killings, gang rapes and other atrocities against the Southeast Asian nation's Rohingya Muslim minority. The State Department report, reviewed by Reuters ahead of its expected public release on Monday, ...

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Thursday called on the Myanmar government to pardon and release two imprisoned Reuters journalists as soon as possible. "I hope that the government will be able to provide a pardon to release them as quickly as possible," Guterres told reporters ...

The International Criminal Court's prosecutor opened a preliminary probe on Tuesday into Myanmar's alleged crimes against Rohingya Muslims, including killings, sexual violence and forced deportations. Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda will look at whether there is enough evidence to warrant a full investigation into Myanmar's military crackdown, ...

Myanmar government leader Aung San Suu Kyi said on Thursday the jailing of two Reuters journalists had nothing to do with freedom of expression and they can appeal against their seven-year sentences. Suu Kyi, in her first public comment on the case since the two ...

The jailing of two Reuters journalists shreds what remains of Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi's reputation as a rights champion, critics say, after she failed to come to their defense or speak up for the persecuted Rohingya minority. Suu Kyi was once a staunch ...

In a landmark case seen as a test of progress toward democracy in the Southeast Asian country, a Myanmar judge on Monday found two Reuters journalists guilty of breaching a law on state "secrets," sentencing them to seven years in prison. Yangon Northern District Judge ...

The grainy black-and-white photo, printed in a new book on the Rohingya crisis authored by Myanmar's army, shows a man standing over two bodies, wielding a farming tool. "Bengalis killed local ethnics brutally," reads the caption. The photo appears in a section of the book ...

Skulls and other remains of massacred tribespeople used in the colonial era for experiments to push claims of European racial superiority were handed over by Germany to Namibia at a church ceremony in Berlin. In what historians call the first genocide of the 20th century, ...

Findings of a U.S. State Department investigation into Myanmar's Rohingya crisis are "consistent" with those of a report by U.N. investigators released this week that called for Myanmar's commander-in-chief and other generals be tried for genocide, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations said ...