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‘The new evidence and the rebuilding that Amnesty has documented in our latest research shows that the Myanmar authorities are building over the top of the very places the Rohingya need to return to.’ (Representational Image/ AP)

In the name of development, Myanmar govt takes away Rohingya land

Rakhine state has been largely sealed off from rights groups, the media and UN investigators.

12 Mar 2018 2:36 PM

Nearly 700,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled to Bangladesh since August 2017 to escape a military crackdown in neighbouring Myanmar. Most now live in flimsy, bamboo-and-plastic structures perched on what were once forested hills. (Representational Image)

Depends on Allah: Rohingyas in B’desh camps brace for monsoons with hope

Bangladesh is lashed by typhoons, and the Rohingya camps are clustered in a part of the country that records the highest rainfall.

11 Mar 2018 7:13 PM

Protesters throw stones at security personnel amid tear smoke during a protest in Srinagar recently. (Photo: AP)

Jammu sits on powder keg: Hindu-Muslim divide widens

The other issue which has widened the gulf between the two communities is the presence of Rohingya Muslims in Jammu.

11 Mar 2018 2:34 AM

About 700,000 Rohingya have fled over the border to Bangladesh since August, with horrifying testimony of murder, rape and arson by soldiers and vigilante mobs. (Photo: File)

US Museum strips off Suu Kyi’s award due to Rohingya massacre

Suu Kyi, the country's symbol of democracy for decades, has come under heavy criticism for her refusal to stand up for the Rohingya.

08 Mar 2018 10:58 AM

The Rohingya believe the government is intentionally eviscerating the remnants of their culture to make it nearly impossible for them to return. (Representational Image)

Nothing left: Govt bulldozes Rohingya villages, genocide evidence along with it

‘When you see the pictures, it’s clear that whatever was left -- the mosques, the cemeteries, the homes -- they’re gone.’

24 Feb 2018 4:25 PM

Foreign ministers will also ask Mogherini and the EU's foreign service, the EEAS, on Monday to look at ways to strengthen the bloc's 1990s-era arms embargo on the Southeast Asian country that remains in place. (Photo: File)

After US, Canada, EU looking to levy sanctions on top Myanmar generals

Any new travel bans and asset freezes would be the EU's toughest measures yet to try to hold the military accountable for the abuses.

23 Feb 2018 7:01 PM

More than half the Rohingya refugees who escaped the bloodshed in Myanmar's westernmost Rakhine state are women and children, the UN Women agency said. They made it out alive but not without scars. (Photo: File)

‘Widows camp’: Rohingya women find solidarity in B’desh refugee settlement

Aid workers say women and girls are most at threat from predators and human traffickers lurking in the poorly supervised camps.

06 Feb 2018 11:15 AM

Supreme Court of India (Photo: Asian Age)

Centre tells top court not to intervene in Rohingya issue

Counsel Prashant Bhushan told the court that the remaining 20 per cent of the Rohingya refugees too should be allowed to enter India.

01 Feb 2018 1:45 AM

Serious communal violence between Rohingya and ethnic Rakhine Buddhists erupted in 2012 and sporadic unrest followed. (Photo: File/Representational)

Fighting only option against state violence: Rohingya militants

The United Nations condemned the Myanmar military campaign as ethnic cleansing. Buddhist-majority Myanmar rejected that.

07 Jan 2018 2:36 PM

More than 650,000 Rohingya have fled what the UN and others say is a campaign of ethnic cleansing by the Myanmar military. (Photo: File/Representational)

‘No place to be born’: 48,000 births projected in Rohingya refugee camps

Save the Children based its projection of new births on an estimate of how many of the refugees were pregnant.

05 Jan 2018 3:29 PM

Nauert also said that Bangladesh has been so generous in accepting hundreds of thousands of refugees and the US government has provided significant financial assistance to help. (Photo: File)

US appeals for ‘dignified,’ ‘voluntary’ return of Rohingyas

Some 625,000 Rohingya refugees have fled the Rakhine state of Myanmar to neighbouring Bangladesh in the last six months.

20 Dec 2017 6:21 PM

The figure is the highest estimated death toll yet of violence that erupted on August 25 and triggered a massive refugee crisis, with more than 6, 20,000 Rohingya fleeing Myanmar for Bangladesh in three months. (Representational image)

Myanmar: Rohingya death toll in first month of violence is 6,700

The UN and US have described the military operation as ethnic cleansing of the Muslim minority.

14 Dec 2017 3:47 PM

'Reuters reporters Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo have been reporting on events of global importance in Myanmar, and we learned that they have been arrested in connection with their work,' says Stephen J. Adler, President and Editor-in-Chief of Reuters. (Photo: Twitter/@stephenjadler)

2 journalists arrested in Myanmar, Reuters demand release

The journalists will be charged under colonial-era Official Secrets Act, penalty can be up to 14 years in prison.

14 Dec 2017 1:37 PM

The House passed a resolution on Tuesday urging immediate restoration of humanitarian access to the Rakhine state where unrest has forced over 600,000 Rohingya Muslims to flee to Bangladesh. (Photo: AP)

Rohingya row: US passes resolution on ethnic cleaning

More than 600,000 members of the minority Muslim group have fled across the border into Bangladesh since then.

07 Dec 2017 3:22 AM

Pope Francis is welcomed upon his arrival at the airport in Yangon. (Photo: AP)

Pope discusses ‘responsibility of Myanmar leaders’

Pontiff meets Army Chief who faces charges of grave atrocities against Rohingyas.

28 Nov 2017 1:56 AM

Myanmar’s union minister for the office of the state counsellor Kyaw Tint Swe, right, shakes hand with Bangladeshi foreign minister Abdul Hassan Mahmud Ali after signing the Arrangement on Return of Displaced Persons from Rakhine State in Naypyitaw. (Photo: AP)

Myanmar, Bangladesh sign Rohingya deal

Repatriation of refugees to start in 2 months; Fears that Myanmar Army may obstruct deal.

24 Nov 2017 12:55 AM

The talks between Suu Kyi and her Bangladeshi counterpart come ahead of a highly-anticipated visit to both nations from Pope Francis, who has been outspoken about his sympathy for the plight of the Rohingya. (Photo: AP/File)

Syu Kyi, Bangladesh minister meet; discuss Rohingya repatriation

The stateless Rohingya have been the target of communal violence and vicious anti-Muslim sentiment in mainly Buddhist Myanmar for years.

23 Nov 2017 4:18 PM

Myanmar Foreign Minister Aung San Suu Kyi, right, speaks during the Asia Europe Foreign Ministers (ASEM) meeting at Myanmar International Convention Centre Monday, Nov. 20, 2017, in Naypyitaw, Myanmar. (Photo: AP)

Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi blames conflicts on illegal immigration

Suu Kyi did not directly mention the refugee exodus as she welcomed European and Asian foreign ministers to Naypyitaw, capital of Myanmar.

20 Nov 2017 4:05 PM

The UN says the scorched-earth operation, which has left hundreds of villages burned to ash in northern Rakhine state, amounts to ethnic cleansing of the stateless minority. (Photo: AFP)

Myanmar Army Chief says, Rohingyas can return when ‘real citizens’ agree

The general’s comments came a day after he met with US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson.

16 Nov 2017 6:24 PM

‘I have not been silent...what people mean is what I say is not interesting enough,’ she said in a press briefing alongside US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson in the capital Naypyidaw. (Photo: AFP)

Aung San Syuu Kyi retorts, says she has not been silent on Rohingya issue

‘What I say is not meant to be exciting, it's meant to be accurate... not set people against each other,’ she said.

15 Nov 2017 7:51 PM

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