Myanmar
10 days agoAmnesty International report claims Burma 'killed hundreds of Rohingya'
Burma security forces killed hundreds of men, women and children during a systematic campaign to expel Rohingya Muslims, Amnesty International has said in a new report.
11 days agoThousands more Rohingya cross border into Bangladesh
Thousands of Rohingya are continuing to flee violence and persecution in Burma and crossing into Bangladesh.
16 days agoBurma in talks with Bangladesh on return of 500,000 Rohingya Muslims
Burma's embattled leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, has called for national unity and created a committee that will coordinate all international and local assistance in violence-hit Rakhine state.
17 days agoRohingya tell UN they were told: 'If you do not leave, we will torch your houses and kill you'
UN claims 'coordinated and systematic' attacks on Rohingya are intended to prevent their return.
23 days agoConcern Worldwide warn of growing crisis as hunger and disease threat grows among Rohingya refugees
Concern Worldwide, Ireland’s largest humanitarian aid agency, has today confirmed it is treating Rohingya refugee children for severe acute malnutrition and fears diarrhoea and other water-borne diseases could break out if sanitation needs aren’t urgently met.
29 days agoMore than 60 feared dead in Rohingya refugee shipwreck
More than 60 people are either confirmed dead or presumed dead following the shipwreck of a boat carrying Rohingya Muslims fleeing from violence in Burma to Bangladesh, the UN migration agency said.
30 days agoAt least 10 children among Rohingya Muslims that have died after boat capsizes
At least 15 Rohingya Muslims, including 10 children, who were fleeing from recent violence in Burma died today when their overcrowded boat capsized in rough weather, a survivor and police said.
30 days agoAung San Suu Kyi 'will let Rohingya refugees return to Myanmar'
Aung San Suu Kyi has given an assurance that hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslim refugees who have fled Myanmar will be allowed to return, a British Foreign Office Minister has said.
39 days agoNews analysis: Rohingya Muslims being wiped off map after generations in Burma
Rohingya Muslims have called Burma home for generations. Now, in what appears to be a systematic purge, the minority ethnic group is, quite literally, being wiped off the map, writes Robin McDowell of Associated Press.
39 days agoLatest: Aung San Suu Kyi breaks silence over Rohingya crisis as international pressure mounts
Latest: Aung San Suu Kyi has defended her country's actions against the country's Muslim Rohingya minority, as international pressure to end the violence grows.
44 days agoThese shocking images show the horrors faced by the Rohingya refugees fleeing Burma
This series of imagery from AP and Getty Images puts their plight in context.
44 days ago400,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled Burma, says UN
Nearly three weeks into a mass exodus of Rohingya fleeing violence in Burma, thousands are still flooding across the border in search of help and safety in teeming refugee settlements in Bangladesh.
45 days ago176 ethnic Rohingya villages empty after recent Burma violence
A total of 176 ethnic Rohingya villages are now empty after all of their residents fled during recent violence in Rakhine state, Burma's presidential spokesman said.
49 days agoFood stocks dwindling at Rohingya refugee camps
Rohingya refugees from Burma packed into camps and makeshift settlements in Bangladesh have become desperate for scant basic resources and dwindling supplies.
50 days agoWho are the Rohingya Muslims and what’s going on in Burma?
According to the United Nations, 270,000 Rohingya people have entered Bangladesh after fleeing Burma since August 25.
53 days ago'Worrying' numbers of Rohingya refugees fleeing Burma violence, says UN agency
The UN refugee agency has said some 123,000 Rohingya refugees have fled to Bangladesh since violence erupted in Burma on August 25.
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