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Friday prayers in Marawi

Fernando G. Sepe Jr., ABS-CBN News
Posted at Oct 27 08:43 PM

Capt. Mujib Ladjabuan, division chaplain of the 1st Infantry Division Tabak, prays with fellow Muslims at the Masjid Abubakr Sidiq in Bgy. Basak Malutlut in Marawi City on Friday.  Read more »

Myanmar army opens probe amid reports of killings, abuse of Rohingya Muslims

Reuters
Posted at Oct 14 12:43 AM

YANGON - Myanmar's military has launched an internal probe into the conduct of soldiers during a counteroffensive that has sent more than half a million Rohingya Muslims fleeing to Bangladesh, many saying they witnessed killings, rape and arson by troops. Read more »

Refugees cross the river

Fred Dufour, AFP
Posted at Oct 10 06:57 PM

Rohingya refugees walk after crossing the Naf river from Myanmar into Bangladesh in Whaikhyang on Monday. A top UN official said on October 7 Bangladesh's plan to build the world's biggest refugee camp for 800,000-plus Rohingya Muslims was dangerous because overcrowding could heighten the risks of deadly diseases spreading quickly. Read more »

Rohingya Muslims flee Myanmar in new surge

Reuters
Posted at Oct 09 11:08 PM

COX'S BAZAR, Bangladesh - Thousands of Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar fled to Bangladesh on Monday in a new surge of refugees driven by fears of starvation and violence the United Nations has denounced as ethnic cleansing. Read more »

OPINION: Are the Rohingyas the Palestinians of Southeast Asia?

Karim Raslan — Ceritalah ASEAN
Updated as of Sep 25 05:29 PM

Sadek Ali Hassan is a forty-four-year-old teacher living in Malaysia. He is also a Rohingya. Sadek has spent over a quarter of a century living outside his homeland. When I meet him in the small, ramshackle madrassah he runs for the children from his community in the Selangor suburb of Ampang, he's at first reluctant to talk about his past.  Read more »

Suu Kyi urged to push for end to violence on Rohingya

Reuters
Posted at Sep 19 04:48 AM

NEW YORK - Britain, France and Australia urged Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi on Monday to push for an end to military violence against Rohingya Muslims, while her national security adviser said those who had fled could return but the process had to be discussed. Read more »

Saviours or profiteers? Bangladesh fishermen rescue Rohingya, for a price

Simon Lewis, Reuters
Updated as of Sep 15 10:49 AM

For tens of thousands of Rohingya Muslims, an informal fleet of small wooden fishing boats has meant deliverance from what they say is an indiscriminate assault on their villages by the Myanmar army. Deliverance, however, comes at a price.  Read more »

U.N. seeks help for Rohingya fleeing Myanmar 'ethnic cleansing'

Reuters
Posted at Sep 15 02:31 AM

DHAKA/YANGON - The United Nations appealed on Thursday for massive help for nearly 400,000 Muslims from Myanmar who have fled to Bangladesh, with concern growing that the number could keep rising, unless Myanmar ends what critics denounce as "ethnic cleansing". Read more »

Myanmar army violence against Rohingya 'unacceptable': Tillerson

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Sep 15 12:57 AM

U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on Thursday condemned violence against Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar as "unacceptable", as thousands of refugees continue to stream across the border into Bangladesh. Read more »

U.N. chief urges Myanmar to halt attacks on Rohingya

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Sep 14 02:57 AM

United Nations chief Antonio Guterres acknowledged Wednesday that Rohingya Muslims were being ethnically cleansed in Myanmar as he called for a halt to a military campaign in Rakhine state. Read more »

Myanmar's Suu Kyi to skip U.N. assembly to deal with Rohingya crisis

Wa Lone. Reuters
Posted at Sep 13 04:02 PM

Myanmar's national leader Aung San Suu Kyi, facing outrage over ethnic violence that has forced about 370,000 Rohingya Muslims to flee to Bangladesh.  Read more »

Al Qaeda warns Myanmar of 'punishment' over Rohingya

Reuters
Posted at Sep 13 03:53 PM

Al Qaeda militants have called for support for Myanmar's Rohingya Muslims, who are facing a security crackdown that has sent about 400,000 of them fleeing to Bangladesh, warning that Myanmar would face "punishment" for its "crimes." Read more »

OPINION: As Rakhine burns, Muslim Burmese ponder fate

Karim Raslan - Ceritalah ASEAN
Posted at Sep 08 04:02 PM

In light of recent events concerning the Rohingya in Myanmar, I contacted Muslim Burmese friends to get a sense of how they viewed things.    Read more »

Mediterranean rescue ship sets sail to aid Rohingya

Reuters
Posted at Sep 07 04:01 AM

LONDON - A charity ship that rescued migrants in the Mediterranean is sailing to the Bay of Bengal to deliver food, clothing and medical assistance to Rohingya Muslims fleeing violence in Myanmar, the group's head said on Wednesday. Read more »

WATCH: Muslims in Marawi mark Eid al-Adha as fighting continues

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Sep 03 02:27 PM

Muslims in Marawi celebrate Eid al-Adha on the grounds of a school, at an evacuation center and a mosque even as heavy fighting continues to rock their city.  Read more »

Myanmar urges Rohingya Muslims to help hunt insurgents amid deadly violence

Reuters
Posted at Sep 03 02:12 PM

Myanmar urged Muslims in the troubled northwest to cooperate in the search for insurgents, whose coordinated attacks on security posts and an army crackdown have led to one of the deadliest bouts of violence to engulf the Rohingya community in decades. Read more »

Eid Mubarak

Mark Demayo, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Sep 01 10:50 AM

Muslims listen to the morning sermon at the Golden Mosque in Manila during Eid al-Adha or the Feast of the Sacrifice, on Friday.  Read more »

Bodies wash up in Bangladesh as Rohingya Muslims flee Myanmar

Reuters
Posted at Sep 01 12:53 AM

COX'S BAZAR, Bangladesh - Bangladeshi border guards have recovered two dozen bodies from the country's shore in the last two days, as tens of thousands of Rohingya Muslims make desperate attempts to flee the worst violence involving the Myanmar minority in at least five years. Read more »

Saudi Arabia says ready to welcome over 2 million pilgrims

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Aug 30 01:38 AM

The Saudi authorities said Tuesday that they were ready to welcome more than two million Muslims from around the globe for this week's hajj pilgrimage to Islam's holiest sites.   Read more »

Thousands of non-Muslims evacuated as violence flares in northwest Myanmar

Wa Lone and Ruma Paul, Reuters
Posted at Aug 27 04:04 PM

Myanmar government has evacuated at least 4,000 non-Muslim villagers amid ongoing clashes in northwestern Rakhine state, the government said, while thousands of Rohingya Muslims fled across the border to Bangladesh. Read more »