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Myanmar bulldozes what is left of Rohingya villages
Associated Press, Published on 23/02/2018
» First, their villages were burned to the ground. Now, Myanmar's government is using bulldozers to literally erase them from the earth -- in a vast operation rights groups say is destroying crucial evidence of mass atrocities against the nation's ethnic Rohingya Muslim minority.
Food used as weapon in Rohingya ethnic cleansing
Associated Press, Published on 09/02/2018
» NAYAPARA REFUGEE CAMP, Bangladesh: - Abdul Goni says the Myanmar government was starving his family one stage at a time.
'Systematic slaughter': Rohingya mass graves confirmed
Associated Press, Published on 02/02/2018
» BALUKHALI REFUGEE CAMP, Bangladesh: The faces of the men half-buried in the mass graves had been burned away by acid or blasted by bullets. Noor Kadir finally recognised his friends only by the colours of their shorts.
Myanmar army's popularity surges amid Rohingya crackdown
Associated Press, Published on 17/01/2018
» Activist Nyo Tun spent 10 years as a political prisoner locked away by Myanmar's military in the notorious Insein prison, where he endured beatings and other cruelty for his efforts to bring democracy.
Grown child-refugee now helps others flee Myanmar
Associated Press, Published on 16/11/2017
» KUTUPALONG, Bangladesh: Zahida Begum does not remember her home village, a tiny speck amid the mountains and forests of Myanmar. She was only 18-months-old when her mother smuggled her across the Naf River on a fishing boat, carrying her into Bangladesh.
Men describe rape, torture by Sri Lanka government
Associated Press, Published on 09/11/2017
» LONDON: One of the men tortured in Sri Lanka said he was held for 21 days in a small dank room where he was raped 12 times, burned with cigarettes, beaten with iron rods and hung upside-down.
Rohingya being wiped off Myanmar’s map
Associated Press, Published on 20/09/2017
» YANGON: For generations, Rohingya Muslims have called Myanmar home. Now, in what appears to be a systematic purge, the minority ethnic group is being wiped off the map.
How the insurgency behind Myanmar attacks grew
Associated Press, Published on 01/09/2017
» Armed with machetes and rifles, a ragtag band of insurgents comprised of members of Myanmar's Muslim Rohingya minority launched unprecedented attacks last week, triggering fighting with security forces that has left more than 100 people dead and forced at least 18,000 to flee into neighbouring Bangladesh.
Myanmar Buddhists seek tougher action on Rohingya
Associated Press, Published on 31/08/2017
» Several hundred Buddhist nationalists, including monks, rallied in Myanmar's largest city on Wednesday to urge stronger action against insurgents from the Muslim Rohingya minority for attacks on police last week.
18,000 Rohingya flee Myanmar violence into Bangladesh
Associated Press, Published on 30/08/2017
» COX'S BAZAR, Bangladesh -- The International Organization for Migration said Wednesday that 18,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled fresh violence in Myanmar and crossed into Bangladesh, with “hundreds and hundreds” stranded in no man's land at the countries' border.