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US leads calls for Myanmar military to be held to account for Rohingya crackdown
AFP, Published on 29/08/2018
» UNITED NATIONS: Several countries, including the United States, called Tuesday for Myanmar military leaders accused of orchestrating the repression of the country's Rohingya minority to be brought before international justice.
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Amnesty: Myanmar army killed at least hundreds of Rohingya
Associated Press, Published on 18/10/2017
» Myanmar security forces killed hundreds of men, women and children during a systematic campaign to expel Rohingya Muslims, Amnesty International said in a new report Wednesday that calls for an arms embargo on the country and criminal prosecution of the perpetrators.
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Aung San Suu Kyi to keep Nobel Peace Prize
Reuters, Published on 30/08/2018
» STAVANGER, Norway: The Nobel Peace Prize to Aung San Suu Kyi will not be withdrawn in the light of a United Nations report that said Myanmar's military carried out genocide in its mass murders of Muslim Rohingya, the Norwegian Nobel Committee said on Wednesday.
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Something to celebrate
Asia focus, Ismira Lutfia Tisnadibrata, Published on 17/02/2020
» The Indonesian government has added another cultural event of its ethnic Chinese community to its official list of top attractions in a bid to lure more domestic and international tourists.
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The Big Issue: Cleansing the deep South
Alan Dawson, Published on 13/04/2014
» The week before Songkran was no holiday for Yala. The provincial capital was hit by coordinated bomb attacks on Sunday, and more on Monday. The large, destructive bombs killed one person and wounded 28. Clearly, the attacks had goals other than murder.
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'Survival struggle': Ethnic standoff drives new phase of Tigray war
AFP, Published on 14/07/2021
» HUMERA (ETHIOPIA) - Asfaw Abera fled his homeland in northwestern Ethiopia three decades ago, stealing away on foot into Sudan as soldiers and ethnic Tigrayan rebels exchanged fire nearby.
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'We won't back down': Ethnic militias rush to Tigray border
AFP, Published on 15/07/2021
» ADI ARKAY (ETHIOPIA) - When war broke out last year in Ethiopia's northern Tigray region, Solomon Alabachew acted fast, grabbing his Kalashnikov and rushing to the front with his fellow ethnic Amhara militia fighters.
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With Rohingya gone, Myanmar's ethnic Rakhine seek Muslim-free 'buffer zone'
AFP, Published on 16/03/2018
» KOE TAN KAUK (MYANMAR) - Buddhist flags hang limply from bamboo poles at the entrance to Koe Tan Kauk, a "model" village for ethnic Rakhine migrants shuttled north to repopulate an area once dominated by Rohingya Muslims.
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Massacres, war fuel ethnic fervour in Ethiopia's Amhara
AFP, Published on 26/07/2021
» BAHIR DAR (ETHIOPIA) - As he set off to vote in Ethiopia's national election, Tesfahun Sisay chose his outfit with purpose, pulling on a T-shirt emblazoned with a man's face and a Kalashnikov rifle.
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Thousands flee fresh fighting in northern Myanmar
Published on 28/04/2018
» YANGON: Thousands of people have fled renewed fighting between the Myanmar army and ethnic insurgents in Kachin state, a United Nations official said, as a long-simmering conflict intensifies.
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