Rohingya Crisis

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Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is likely to visit India in October to discuss several bilateral and regional issues, including the long-pending pact on the Teesta water sharing and the Rohingya crisis, Foreign Minister Dr A K Momen said here on Sunday. (Photo: File)

B'desh PM to visit India in Oct; Teesta water sharing, Rohingya crisis on agenda

Hasina's alliance, dominated by her party Awami League, won the general election with a thumping majority in December last year.

05 Aug 2019 9:55 AM

According to Amnesty International, more than 750,000 Rohingya refugees, mostly women and children, fled Myanmar and crossed into Bangladesh after Myanmar forces launched a crackdown on the minority Muslim community in August 2017. (Photo: ANI)

Rohingya crisis can destabilise region if not solved: Bangladesh President

Rohingya, who belong to the Rakhine state in Myanmar, have been facing extreme persecution by authorities and majority Buddhists.

16 Jun 2019 12:50 PM

‘The problem lies with Myanmar as they don't want to take back the Rohingyas by any means though Naypyidaw signed an agreement with Bangladesh promising to repatriate them,’ Dhaka Tribune quoted Hasina as saying on Sunday. (Photo: AP)

Hasina accuses Myanmar of being hesitant in taking back Rohingyas

PM Hasina also expressed concerns about security factors involving Rohingyas as many were found to be engaged in criminal activities.

10 Jun 2019 2:58 PM

Dhaka and Naypyidaw have agreed last month to begin by mid-November the repatriation of hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims. (Representational image)

US seeks voluntary, dignified return of Rohingyas from Bangladesh to Myanmar

State Department also said it agreed with assessment of UNHCR that conditions in Myanmar are not yet conducive for returns of Rohingyas.

12 Nov 2018 11:06 AM

The five members have been identified as Sayub (36), his wife Safiya Kathum (29), his brother Irshad (27), Safiya's brother Anwar Shah (11) and her six-month-old baby Safiyan. United Nations (UN) refugee Identity cards were recovered from them. (Photo: ANI)

5-member Rohingya family detained, interrogated by Kerala police

As per the preliminary probe, the family arrived from Hyderabad to Thiruvananthapuram on Monday night.

03 Oct 2018 10:50 AM

Suu Kyi is the first person to have her honorary Canadian citizenship revoked. (Photo: AP | File)

Canada revokes Myanmar leader Suu Kyi's honorary citizenship

The Senate voted unanimously to strip Suu Kyi, Myanmar's civilian leader, of the symbolic honour bestowed on her in 2007.

03 Oct 2018 9:47 AM

Guterres recalled his visit to the country as the High Commissioner for Refugees, during which he said the president of Myanmar asked him to resettle Rohingya in some other countries. (Photo: File)

India should support Bangladesh on Rohingya crisis: UN Secretary General

Guterres said that to keep population in such 'discriminatory situation' is 'an invitation for terrorist groups' to exploit the situation.

03 Oct 2018 8:05 AM

Suu Kyi's democratically-elected government remains in a delicate power balance with the generals, whose presence in parliament gives them an effective veto on constitutional changes. (Photo: File | AP)

Canada revokes Aung San Suu Kyi's honorary citizenship over Rohingya crisis

Suu Kyi's reputation has been tarnished by her refusal to call out atrocities against Rohingyas, which Ottawa recently termed a genocide.

28 Sep 2018 1:43 PM

UN investigators called on Myanmar army chief and other top generals to be prosecuted for 'genocide; against the Rohingya minority. (Photo: File)

UN has 'no right to interfere' says Myanmar army chief

No country, organisation or group has the 'right to interfere in and make decisions over sovereignty of a country', report said.

24 Sep 2018 2:17 PM

The aggressor fled when the refugees living in the area came out hearing the commotion. (Photo: ANI)

Rohingya camp leader murdered by unknown assailants in Bangladesh

The deceased, whose throat was slit by attackers had been leader of C11 block since beginning of recent Rohingya crisis.

19 Jun 2018 2:21 PM

For the 700,000 Rohingya Muslims who have fled to southeast Bangladesh in the past nine months, the approaching monsoon season poses the most serious threat since they were violently expelled from Myanmar. (Photo: File/AFP)

Rohingyas in Bangladesh afraid as monsoon poses serious threat to their lives

'Our families would be killed. We constantly fear that rain could trigger a landslide,' says 53-yr-old Rohingya Muslim refugee.

28 May 2018 2:17 PM

The United Nations and the United States described it as ethnic cleansing, an accusation which Myanmar denies. (Photo: File)

7 Myanmar soldiers sentenced to 10 years for Rohingya massacre

The Rohingya men from the northern Rakhine village of Inn Din were buried in a mass grave in September 2017 after being hacked to death.

11 Apr 2018 11:06 AM

The vessel carrying 56 people was intercepted by Malaysian maritime authorities near the northwestern island of Langkawi (Photo: AFP)

Dozens of Rohingyas reach Malaysian shores as Thailand closes doors

Many Rohingyas ended up in Muslim-majority Malaysia and Indonesia because Thailand stuck to a policy of not accepting the vessels.

03 Apr 2018 6:36 PM

Though Rohingya have always been persecuted in the country, it got much worse after 2012, when violence in Rakhine killed hundreds and drove about 140,000 people, most of them Rohingya, from their homes to camps. (Photo: File)

In Yangon, Rohingya fear rising persecution, hatred

Bloody military operations that followed Rohingya militant attacks in August have driven nearly 700,000 Rohingya into refugee camps.

12 Feb 2018 6:38 PM

‘We are deeply, deeply troubled by those reports of mass graves,’ State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert told a regular news briefing. (Photo: File)

Rohingya crisis: US ‘deeply, deeply troubled’ by news of mass graves in Myanmar

Myanmar's army had said that the security forces had discovered a mass grave on the edge of a village in Rakhine State.

02 Feb 2018 4:07 PM

The graves are the newest piece of evidence for what looks increasingly like a genocide in Myanmar’s western Rakhine state against the Rohingya. (Photo: File)

Reports, mass graves in Myanmar confirm massacre of Rohingyas

The Myanmar government regularly claims such massacres of the Rohingya never happened.

02 Feb 2018 3:35 PM

Nearly 700,000 Rohingya have fled their villages into Bangladesh since the Myanmar military’s crackdown following Aug 25 attacks by Rohingya insurgents. (Photo: File/Representational)

UN official says Rohingya crisis has ‘hallmarks of genocide’

Lee said that Myanmar’s actions were ‘amounting to crimes against humanity.’

01 Feb 2018 6:24 PM

Richardson's resignation also came after Myanmar and Bangladesh failed to meet a January 23 deadline to begin the complex and contested repatriation of refugees. (Photo: AP)

US diplomat resigns from Suu Kyi panel on Rohingya crisis

Bill accused Suu Kyi of a 'furious response' to his calls to help free two Reuters journalists arrested while reporting on Rakhine crisis.

25 Jan 2018 3:16 PM

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

The inclusion of Myanmar's Maung Maung Soe on the list was perhaps the most dramatic move in terms of US foreign policy. (Photo: File/Representational)

US sanctions top Myanmar general for atrocities against Rohingyas

The Trump administration announced penalties against 13 people worldwide in all.

22 Dec 2017 1:15 PM

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