A top U.N. investigator said Tuesday "it's still an open-ended question" about how much Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi could be implicated in human rights violations against Rohingya Muslims. Marzuki Darusman said it was "probably the case" that Suu Kyi, a Nobel Peace prize ...
65,000 displaced in Myanmar's Rakhine and Chin states since January amid rebel violence: U.N. expert
Tens of thousands of people have been displaced across Myanmar's Rakhine and Chin states this year, as the military battles ethnic Rakhine Buddhist rebels, a U.N. rights expert said Monday. "Up to 65,000 people have been displaced by the conflict across northern Rakhine and southern ...
600,000 Rohingya still in Myanmar are at 'serious risk of genocide,' U.N. warns
Rohingya Muslims remaining in Myanmar still face a "serious risk of genocide," U.N. investigators said Monday, warning that repatriation of a million already driven from the country by the army remains "impossible." The fact-finding mission to Myanmar, set up by the Human Rights Council, last ...
Bangladesh's Hasina blames Myanmar for Rohingya repatriation failure
Bangladesh's prime minister has blamed Myanmar for the failure of a recent attempt to repatriate Rohingya refugees, saying its neighboring country did not do enough to win the community's trust. The comments from Sheikh Hasina came three weeks after a fresh push to return the ...
Japan opens World Cup qualifying with 2-0 away win against Myanmar
Shoya Nakajima's and Takumi Minamino's first-half goals led Japan to a 2-0 win away over Myanmar as the Samurai Blue opened their 2022 World Cup qualifying campaign with a victory. Japan picked apart the Myanmar defense early and often, slowed nearly as much by Thuwanna ...
A Bangladesh university has suspended a student for being Rohingya, officials said Sunday, as impatience with the refugees grows following a second failed attempt to repatriate them to Myanmar. Some 740,000 of the Muslim minority fled to southeast Bangladesh after a military crackdown in Myanmar's ...
Bangladesh bans mobile phone access in Rohingya camps, stunning refugees
Bangladesh on Monday ordered operators to shut down mobile phone services to almost 1 million Rohingya refugees living in camps in the country's southeast, an official said. The move follows an outbreak of violence in recent weeks at the camps, most of whose residents fled ...
Myanmar says military holding rare court martial after Rohingya mass grave probe
Myanmar said its military was conducting a rare court martial following a probe into mass graves in crisis-hit Rakhine state, two years after a bloody crackdown drove some 740,000 Rohingya into Bangladesh. In February 2018, an Associated Press report alleged at least five mass graves ...
Myanmar lacks 'will' to repatriate Rohingya and hasn't dismantled refugee camps, Bangladesh says
Bangladesh on Thursday accused Myanmar of lacking the "will" to repatriate the Rohingya, as the spat between the countries grew over the recent failed attempt to return the stateless minority to their homes. Nearly a million Rohingya live in squalid camps in southeast Bangladesh, 740,000 ...
200,000 Rohingya refugees rally to mark 'Genocide Day' in Bangladesh camp
Some 200,000 Rohingya rallied in a Bangladesh camp Sunday to mark two years since they fled a violent crackdown by Myanmar forces, just days after a second failed attempt to repatriate the refugees. During the brutal August 2017 offensive, around 740,000 of the Muslim minority ...
Japan continues to help Myanmar whitewash the Rohingya crisis
Irresponsible investment will only embolden the Myanmar government and military to further whitewash the heinous acts committed against the Rohingya.
No peace in Myanmar if no military prosecutions, U.N. expert says
There will be no long-term peace in Myanamar and no return of Rohingya refugees unless there is accountability for the "brutality" of the Asian country's military forces, a member of the U.N. Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Myanmar said Friday. Radhika Coomaraswamy, a Sri Lankan ...
