Home » rohingya muslims

You Searched For "Rohingya Muslims"

In this Sept. 25, 2017 file photo, Rohingya Muslim children, who crossed over from Myanmar into Bangladesh, wait to receive handouts near Balukhali refugee camp, Bangladesh. (Photo: AP)

'Ongoing genocide' against Myanmar's Rohingya Muslims: UN...

Report by UN investigators said top Myanmar generals, including the Commander-in-Chief, must be investigated and...

25 Oct 2018 1:03 PM IST

Myanmars de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi looks on during the 9th Asean summit in Manila. (Photo: AFP)

Amnesty International strips Aung San Suu Kyi of highest honour

Amnesty International said it was revoking Ambassador of Conscience Award it gave Suu Kyi in 2009 while she was still...

13 Nov 2018 11:04 AM IST

A Rohingya refugee reacts while holding his dead son after crossing the Naf river from Myanmar into Bangladesh in Whaikhyang on Monday. AFP

Fighting only option against state violence: Rohingya militants

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

7 Jan 2018 2:36 PM IST

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...

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

5 Jan 2018 3:29 PM IST

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...

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 IST

Federica Mogherini. (Photo: AP)

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...

23 Feb 2018 7:01 PM IST

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)

Widows camp': Rohingya women find solidarity in B'desh refugee...

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

6 Feb 2018 11:15 AM IST

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...

1 Feb 2018 1:45 AM IST

Most Rohingya refugees in the Bangladeshi camps also say they will not return to a state where their villages have been torched and where they allege atrocities by the army and ethnic Rakhine locals. (Photo: AFP)

UN council heads to Bangladesh and Myanmar to see Rohingya

The recent spasm of violence began when Rohingya insurgents staged series of attacks Aug 25 on about 30 security...

27 April 2018 2:08 PM IST

Some 700,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled over the border since August to escape a bloody military crackdown that has left a trail of torched villages in its wake as refugees allege murder and rape by Myanmars armed forces. (Photo: File)

Conditions in Myanmar 'not conducive' for Rohingyas to return: United...

Myanmar and Bangladesh signed a repatriation deal in November but not one refugee has returned.

8 April 2018 5:46 PM IST

Social media and the sharing economy have created opportunities by leveraging online networks to build trust and remove market barriers. (Photo: Pixabay)

UN urges social media, investors to promote human rights in Myanmar

Myanmar denies allegations of mass killings and rape and says its military offensive.

6 March 2019 2:47 PM IST

The 30-year-old went missing in May, according to media reports, and a crime of passion was suspected as she had been pregnant and married to another man at the time. (Photo: File/Representational)

Myanmar forces kill 6 suspecting rebel-links

Myanmar security forces shot dead at least six people in the perturbed western state of Rakhine for their links with...

3 May 2019 10:19 AM IST