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Rohingya may have entered Bangladesh in recent Myanmar clashes
Reuters, Published on 21/06/2024
» DHAKA - Escalating violence in Myanmar's western Rakhine state in recent months may have spurred some Rohingya Muslims to cross into Bangladesh, a key refugee official said, although Dhaka insists it cannot accept more refugees from its war-torn neighbour.
Thousands of Rohingya feared trapped in fighting in western Myanmar
Published on 17/06/2024
» Tens of thousands of Muslim minority Rohingya are feared to be caught in fighting in western Myanmar, as a powerful armed ethnic group bears down on junta positions in a coastal town on the border with Bangladesh, which is reluctant to accept them.
Myanmar's Rohingya in crosshairs as fighting escalates in Rakhine
Published on 27/05/2024
» Myanmar's Muslim-minority Rohingya community is once again under threat of attacks and displacement as fighting between a powerful ethnic army and the country's ruling junta escalates in the western state of Rakhine, according to UN and aid agencies.
Myanmar rebel group claims control of town, denies targeting Rohingya
Published on 19/05/2024
» A powerful armed ethnic group in Myanmar said on Sunday it had won control over a town in the western state of Rakhine after weeks of fighting, denying accusations it had targeted members of the Muslim-minority Rohingya during the offensive.
Is ICJ genocide case legitimising junta?
Oped, Published on 23/02/2022
» Following the military-led "clearance operation" that forced 750,000 Rohingya to flee neighbouring Bangladesh, the West African nation of Gambia brought a case to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in November 2019 accusing Myanmar of violating the 1948 Genocide Convention.
More Rohingya migrants detained in Mae Sot
Reuters, Published on 20/05/2020
» Police in Tak have arrested 15 Rohingya Muslims on charges of illegal entry and are investigating the possibility that they could be victims of human trafficking.
Two die as Rohingya village shelled
Published on 25/01/2020
» YANGON: Two women, one pregnant, were killed and seven other people injured after Myanmar troops shelled a Rohingya village on Saturday, according to a lawmaker and a villager, two days after the UN’s highest court ordered the country to protect the minority.
Myanmar says 14 hostages freed in attacks on Rakhine rebels
Published on 28/10/2019
» YANGON: Myanmar's army said it had rescued 14 people seized by insurgents in restive Rakhine state after Arakan Army rebels reported many dead in military attacks on boats carrying soldiers and police said it had taken prisoners.
Myanmar army says to punish soldiers in Rohingya atrocities probe
Reuters, Published on 01/09/2019
» YANGON: Myanmar's army will court-martial soldiers after a new finding in an inquiry into atrocities in Rakhine state, from which more than 730,000 Rohingya Muslims fled a 2017 army-led campaign the United Nations says was executed with "genocidal intent".
Myanmar soldiers jailed for Rohingya killings freed early
Reuters, Published on 27/05/2019
» YANGON: Myanmar has granted early release to seven soldiers jailed for the killing of 10 Rohingya Muslim men and boys during a 2017 military crackdown in the western state of Rakhine, two prison officials, two former fellow inmates and one of the soldiers told Reuters.