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Myanmar erases names of Rohingya villages, UN map makers follow suit

The satellite images show the base built on the site of Kan Kya doubled in size in the past year and two helipads were added. A new road has been built over the site of another razed village nearby ...

11 September 2020, 3:36

A police officer stands in a house that was burnt down during the days of violence in Maungdaw, Myanmar, on 30 August 2017

Facebook shares ‘first data set’ on Myanmar with UN investigators

Myanmar denies genocide and says its forces were conducting legitimate operations against militants who attacked police posts

26 August 2020, 6:55

Rohingyas flee Rakhine state in Myanmar due to military atrocities to neighbouring Bangladesh

Three years in review

No end in sight to Rohingya crisis

Myanmar has not taken a single Rohingya back home till date although the crisis enters the fourth year within a couple of days amid “lack of conducive conditions” in Rakhine required for a safe and ...

24 August 2020, 8:24

In this file photo taken on October 19, 2017 Rohingya refugees who were stranded walk near the no man`s land area between Bangladesh and Myanmar in the Palongkhali area next to Ukhia. Hundreds of desperate Rohingya Muslims still pour over the Myanmar border into Bangladesh camps every week, six months into the refugee crisis.

Suu Kyi confirms contesting for second term in Myanmar election

International reputation of Aung San Suu Kyi slumped over Myanmar's treatment of Rohingya Muslims but she remains popular at home, where her image is undented by accusations of complicity in ...

4 August 2020, 11:38

Dhaka to share ordeal of Rohingyas with global youths

The virtual Rohingya camp tour will be one of the segments of "Dhaka OIC Youth Capital 2020" to introduce the forcibly displaced persecuted Rohingya community from Rakhine state in Myanmar to global ...

26 July 2020, 2:56

'Ensure voting rights, restore citizenship rights for Rohingya'

The government of Myanmar should ensure all voting-age Rohingya-including Rohingyas in Bangladesh-have the right to vote, said Fortify Rights on Friday as Myanmar is heading for next national ...

10 July 2020, 11:27

Myanmar urged to ensure voting rights, restore citizenship rights for Rohingya

Myanmar’s fresh 'clearance operations'

Another Rohingya exodus in the offing?

When the whole world is busy combating the deadly novel coronavirus and struggling for a vaccine to retain the collapsing economy, the army-controlled authoritarian regime in Myanmar has sketched out ...

1 July 2020, 11:43

This file photo taken on 21 October, 2016 shows armed Myanmar army soldiers patrolling a village in Maungdaw located in Rakhine State as security operation continue following the 9 October, 2016 attacks by armed militants.

Thousands in western Myanmar flee as army plans operations, monitors say

The letter, signed by the administrator of Rathedaung township, Aung Myint Thein, told village leaders he had been informed the operations were planned in the township's Kyauktan village and nearby ...

28 June 2020, 10:16

Some Myanmar journalists work from shadows

Suu Kyi's administration has brought charges against 31 journalists ranging from unlawful association to terrorism to criminal defamation since she came to power, according to local rights group Athan

13 June 2020, 3:10

Photographs of Myanmar State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi hung in a shop in Yangon, Myanmar, on 23 January 2020

At least 1000 Rohingya stranded at sea as Southeast Asia seals borders: Amnesty

At least 1,000 Rohingya are stranded at sea as Southeast Asian nations tighten their borders to keep out the new coronavirus, Amnesty International said on Friday, urging action to ensure they were ...

16 May 2020, 5:40

A drawing by a surviving Rohingya refugee child depicting his two months at sea on a wooden trawler en route to Malaysia, is seen in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, on 30 April 2020

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