Credit to Author: David Gilbert| Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2019 13:21:41 +0000
As millions of Indians are being stripped of their citizenship, rights groups say Facebook has given free rein to Hindu nationalist hate speech.
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Credit to Author: ggaviola| Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2019 22:57:03 +0000
WASHINGTON – The United States is hitting four top Myanmar generals, including the country’s commander in chief and his deputy, with sanctions over the mass killings of Rohingya Muslims.
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Read moreCredit to Author: ggaviola| Date: Tue, 28 May 2019 09:01:22 +0000
YANGON, Myanmar – Seven soldiers jailed for killing a group of Rohingya Muslims have been freed from a Myanmar jail despite serving less time than two reporters imprisoned for exposing the massacre.
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Read moreCredit to Author: ggaviola| Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2019 03:37:50 +0000
NAYPYITAW, Myanmar – Myanmar’s Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected the final appeal of two Reuters journalists and upheld seven-year prison sentences for their reporting on the military’s brutal crackdown on Rohingya Muslims.
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Read moreCredit to Author: ggaviola| Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2019 11:06:15 +0000
YANGON, Myanmar — More than 9,500 prisoners were ordered released Wednesday in Myanmar under a presidential amnesty, but they did not include two Pulitzer Prize-winning Reuters reporters.
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Read moreCredit to Author: ggaviola| Date: Fri, 05 Apr 2019 13:20:00 +0000
BANGKOK — The main United Nations human rights agency expressed concern Friday about an upsurge in fighting between Myanmar’s army and guerrillas of the Rakhine minority’s Arakan Army, especially attacks on civilians by both sides.
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Read moreCredit to Author: kadraneda| Date: Fri, 01 Mar 2019 04:48:35 +0000
Bangladesh’s foreign secretary on Thursday said his country will need to stop accepting more refugees from Myanmar.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Dennis Maliwanag| Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2019 23:13:17 +0000
Angelina Jolie on Tuesday urged Myanmar to show a genuine commitment to ending violence and displacement in its Rakhine state, where hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims have fled to neighboring Bangladesh for safety.
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GENEVA — Investigators working for the U.N.’s top human rights body said Monday that Myanmar military leaders should be prosecuted for genocide against Rohingya Muslims, taking the unusual step of identifying by name six of those it says were behind systematic crimes targeting the ethnic minority.
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Read moreGENEVA: United Nations investigators on Monday called for an international probe and prosecution of Myanmar’s army chief and five other top military commanders for genocide against the country’s Rohingya minority. “Myanmar’s top military generals, including Commander-in-Chief Senior-General Min Aung Hlaing, must be investigated and prosecuted for genocide in the north of Rakhine State, as well […]
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