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Boy Dies, Thousands At Risk As Monsoon Rains Lash Rohingya Refugee Camps
Members of the Muslim minority group who fled rape, murder and brutality in Myanmar now face different threats in southeastern Bangladesh: flooding, landslides and disease.(Image credit: Jana Cavojska...
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Activists In Myanmar Say Facebook Needs To Do More To Quell Hate Speech
"The risk of Facebook content sparking open violence is arguably nowhere higher right now than in Myanmar," six Myanmar organizations wrote in an open letter to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg in...
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Rohingya Crisis Is Making Some In Myanmar Rethink Their Views Of Aung San Suu...
"All this likeness of Martin Luther King and Mahatma Gandhi, it's all make-believe," says the director of a civic organization in Yangon. "And now we know the real Aung San Suu Kyi."(Image credit: Aung...
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Reuters Reporters To Face Trial In Myanmar After Covering Rohingya Massacre
Despite international outrage, a Myanmar court has ruled that a case can proceed against Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo, who were arrested while reporting on the killings of 10 Rohingya men last fall.(Image...
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'There Must Be Justice': U.S. Sanctions Myanmar Soldiers For Rohingya Killings
The sanctions target four mid-level commanders and two units — but they failed to satisfy senators and activists alike, who say the U.S. has a ways to go to hold Myanmar accountable for its...
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'I Would Rather Die Than Go Back': Rohingya Refugees Settle Into Life In...
A year ago, Myanmar soldiers launched what the U.S. and the U.N. say was a campaign of ethnic cleansing against Rohingya Muslims. "I would rather drink poison than go back to Myanmar," says a...
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Forced To Flee Myanmar, Rohingya Refugees Face Monsoon Landslides In Bangladesh
This week marks a year since hundreds of thousands of Rohingya fled attacks in Myanmar. As refugees, they now live in huge camps in Bangladesh, with difficult conditions made worse by monsoon...
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Myanmar's Military Leaders Should Be Tried For Genocide, U.N. Investigators Say
A new report on the mass killings of Rohingya Muslims suggests six Myanmarese commanders be prosecuted. Investigators also say civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi did nothing to stop the attacks.(Image...
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After Dam Failure, Thousands Flee In Myanmar
Floodwaters are washing over residential areas in central Myanmar, driving whole villages of people from their homes. Authorities are conducting search and rescue operations for trapped people. (Image...
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In Bangladeshi Camps, Rohingya Refugees Try To Move Forward With Their Lives
Hundreds of thousands of refugees languish in the camps. UNICEF estimates that more than half the refugees are children. Some aid groups have warned that these children could become a lost...
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U.S. Officials Condemn Reuters Journalists' Convictions In Myanmar
Vice President Pence said the two journalists should be "commended — not imprisoned" for exposing human rights abuses in Myanmar. They were handed a seven-year prison sentence, inciting global...
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Myanmar's Suu Kyi: Rohingya Situation 'Could Have Been Handled Better'
Aung San Suu Kyi, who won the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize, has come under intense international criticism for her muted response to the army's campaign of terror against the Muslim minority.(Image credit:...
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Canada's Parliament Votes To Strip Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi Of Honorary...
The 1991 Nobel Peace Prize laureate's international reputation has taken a severe beating over her government's failure to halt atrocities against the country's Rohingya Muslim minority.(Image credit:...
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Rohingya Repatriation Set To Begin, As Amnesty Revokes Award To Aung San Suu Kyi
A long-planned deportation of refugees from Bangladesh back to Myanmar is set to begin this week. Rohingya are reportedly fleeing refugee camps to avoid being sent back to the country they...
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Pence Condemns Myanmar's Suu Kyi For Treatment Of Rohingya, Imprisoned...
Speaking at a regional summit in Singapore, the vice president called the persecution of Myanmar's Muslim minority "without excuse." He also called the jailing of two journalists "deeply...
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Plan Stalls To Repatriate Rohingya Refugees
Bangladesh has stressed that it will not repatriate anyone against their will. The plan sparked protests among some refugees, while others reportedly hid within refugee camps.(Image credit: Dar Yasin/AP)
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No Plans Of Leaving: Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg Fires Back At Critics
In an interview with CNN, Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that despite calls for his resignation, he is not stepping down.(Image credit: Chesnot/Getty Images)
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Insurgents Kill 7 Myanmar Security Forces In Independence Day Attack
Buddhist militants attacked four police posts in Myanmar's restive Rakhine state on the day the country celebrates its 1948 independence from Britain. (Image credit: Phyo Hein Kyaw/AFP/Getty Images)
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Amid Renewed Violence In Myanmar's Rakhine State, Arakan Army Returns To...
Since December, clashes between Myanmar security forces and the insurgency group have been on the rise. At least 30 have died and thousands have been displaced.(Image credit: Thet Aung/AFP/Getty Images)
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Gunmen Sentenced In The Death Of Myanmar Democracy Advocate Ko Ni
Ko Ni pushed for reform of the country's military-drafted constitution. A Muslim in the predominantly Buddhist country, he had just returned from a Jakarta visit to study interfaith peace.(Image...
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