Australia slaps sanctions on Myanmar army top brass
Australia on Tuesday slapped travel and financial sanctions on five top Myanmar military officers, accused of overseeing brutal violence against Rohingya Muslims by units under their...
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Myanmar ‘bulldozes Rohingya villages after cleansing campaign’
Myanmar has bulldozed at least 55 villages that were emptied of their Rohingya Muslim inhabitants during violence that began last year, Human Rights Watch said on...
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The Cyprus News Digest, in collaboration with the Cyprus Mail brings you an in-depth analysis of some of the latest developments in international and local...
Bangladesh to complete Rohingya return in two years
Bangladesh said on Tuesday it would complete the process of returning within two years many of the hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims who had fled...
US sanctions Myanmar general, others for abuses, corruption
The United States on Thursday imposed sanctions on 13 “serious human rights abusers and corrupt actors” including Myanmar general Maung Maung Soe, who oversaw this year’s brutal...
Pope ends sensitive trip to Asia after seeking Rohingya forgiveness
Pope Francis ended a diplomatically tricky trip to Asia on Saturday, seeking the forgiveness of Rohingya Muslim refugees in Bangladesh after his controversial decision to...
Myanmar, Bangladesh sign Rohingya return deal
Myanmar and Bangladesh signed a memorandum of understanding on Thursday, a senior Myanmar official told Reuters, for the return home of hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees who...
US calls Myanmar operation against Rohingya ‘ethnic cleansing’
The United States on Wednesday labeled the Myanmar military operation against the Rohingya population “ethnic cleansing” and threatened targeted sanctions against those responsible for what...
China calls for Myanmar, Bangladesh to resolve Rohingya crisis
China called for a ceasefire in Myanmar’s Rakhine State so that Rohingya Muslim refugees can return from Bangladesh, proposing a three-stage approach to the crisis as...
Seven Rohingya drown as boat capsizes off Bangladesh (Update)
Four Rohingya Muslims, a man, woman and two children, drowned when a small wooden fishing boat carrying dozens of refugees fleeing ethnic violence in Myanmar capsized off...
Rohingya Muslims flee Myanmar in new surge
Thousands of Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar fled to Bangladesh on Monday in a new surge of refugees driven by fears of starvation and violence the...
UN fears ‘further exodus’ of Muslim Rohingya from Myanmar
The United Nations braced on Friday for a possible “further exodus” of Muslim Rohingya refugees from Myanmar into Bangladesh six weeks after the world’s fastest-developing refugee emergency...
Rights group accuses Myanmar of crimes against humanity
Myanmar is committing crimes against humanity in its campaign against Muslim insurgents in Rakhine state, Human Rights Watch said on Tuesday, calling for the UN...
Myanmar protesters try to block aid shipment to Muslim Rohingya
Buddhist protesters in Myanmar threw petrol bombs to try to block a shipment of aid to Muslims in Rakhine state, where the United Nations has accused the...
Myanmar faces mounting pressure over Rohingya refugee exodus
Pressure mounted on Myanmar on Tuesday to end violence that has sent some 370,000 Rohingya Muslims fleeing to Bangladesh, with the United States calling for...
UN sees ‘textbook example of ethnic cleansing’ in Myanmar
The United Nations’ top human rights official on Monday slammed Myanmar for conducting a “cruel military operation” against Rohingya Muslims in Rakhine state, branding it...
Red Cross fills UN void in Myanmar’s violence-torn region
The Red Cross organisations are scaling up operations in Myanmar’s violence-riven north-west, after the United Nations had to suspend activities there following government suggestions that...
Explosions near Myanmar Bangladesh border amid Rohingya exodus
Two blasts rocked an area on the Myanmar side of the border with Bangladesh on Monday, accompanied by the sound of gunfire and thick black...
Nearly 90,000 escape Myanmar as humanitarian crisis looms
Nearly 90,000 Rohingya have fled to Bangladesh since violence erupted in Myanmar in August, pressuring scarce resources of aid agencies and communities already helping hundreds of thousands...
Thousands more Rohingya flee Myanmar violence flares
Nearly 9,000 Rohingya Muslims, many sick and fearing for their lives, have fled the worst violence to grip northwest Myanmar in at least five years,...