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Nine months on, the search for Rohingya babies born of rape

Nick Perry and Redwan Ahmed, Agence France-Presse
Posted at May 17 05:53 PM

COX'S BAZAR, Bangladesh – Aid workers are scouring the world's largest refugee camp for pregnant Rohingya rape victims, with a rush of births anticipated nine months after Myanmar forces unleashed "a frenzy of sexual violence" against women and girls from the Muslim minority. Read more »

Rohingya Muslims face difficult Ramadan in refugee camps

Nick Perry, Agence France-Presse
Posted at May 16 04:05 PM

Nearly 700,000 Rohingya fled the violence for Bangladesh, where they squat in bamboo and tarpaulin shacks on dirt slopes. Read more »

19 dead in fighting between Myanmar army, rebels: military

Richard Sargent, Agence France-Presse
Posted at May 12 07:46 PM

The military stands accused of carrying out an ethnic cleansing campaign against the stateless minority in Rakhine. Read more »

UN Security Council pushes Myanmar on accountability over Rohingya

Reuters
Posted at May 10 07:48 AM

The United Nations Security Council urged Myanmar’s government on Wednesday to carry out transparent investigations into accusations of violence against mainly Rohingya Muslims in the country’s Rakhine state and to allow immediate aid access to the region. Read more »

China resists push at U.N. for Myanmar probe of attacks on Rohingya

Agence France-Presse
Posted at May 09 02:09 AM

China is resisting a British-led push at the U.N. Security Council to increase pressure on Myanmar to try those responsible for attacks on the Rohingya, according to a draft statement seen by AFP on Tuesday. Read more »

UN Security Council puts spotlight on Rohingya refugee crisis

Michelle Nichols, Reuters
Updated as of Apr 29 06:47 AM

Myanmar and Bangladesh agreed in January to complete a voluntary repatriation of the refugees within two years. Read more »

Boat carrying 76 Rohingya lands in Indonesia

Reuters
Posted at Apr 20 07:25 PM

The group, which included eight children and 25 women, suffered from varying degrees of fatigue and dehydration, authorities said. Read more »

Myanmar repatriates first Rohingya family: government

Agence France-Presse
Updated as of Apr 15 11:26 AM

Myanmar has repatriated the first Rohingya family from 700,000 refugees who fled to Bangladesh to escape a brutal military campaign, despite UN warnings that a safe return is not yet possible. Read more »

Myanmar says ICC lacks jurisdiction to probe Rohingya crisis

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Apr 13 09:40 PM

Some 700,000 people from the stateless Muslim minority fled Myanmar's Rakhine state to Bangladesh following Rohingya insurgent attacks. Read more »

Duterte sorry over Myanmar 'genocide' comments

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Apr 13 07:20 PM

The president issued a public apology a week after describing the military crackdown on the country's Rohingya minority as a "genocide". Read more »

Conditions in Myanmar 'not conducive' to Rohingya return: UN

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Apr 08 03:14 PM

Conditions in Myanmar's crisis-hit northern Rakhine state are "not conducive" to bringing back Rohingya from Bangladesh, the UN told AFP, in remarks that jar with the country's insistence that it is ready for returnees.   Read more »

Duterte cites 'genocide' in Myanmar, says he will accept refugees

Reuters
Posted at Apr 05 10:38 PM

MANILA - President Rodrigo Duterte said on Thursday "genocide" was taking place in Myanmar and he was willing to accept Rohingya Muslim refugees fleeing from it, though Europe should help too. Read more »

Myanmar minister to visit Rohingya camps in Bangladesh

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Apr 04 07:42 PM

A Myanmar minister will tour camps for Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh, an official said Wednesday, the first such visit since Myanmar's army drove nearly 700,000 members of the Muslim minority over the border.   Read more »

ASEAN leaders tackle Rohingya crisis and urge South China Sea calm

Agence France-Presse
Updated as of Mar 18 04:09 PM

Australia and its ASEAN neighbors vowed to boost defense ties while stressing the importance of non-militarization in the disputed South China Sea Sunday at a summit where the "complex" Rohingya crisis took center stage. Read more »

Protesters take aim at Southeast Asia leaders in Sydney

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Mar 17 05:41 PM

Thousands demonstrated on the sidelines of an Australia-ASEAN special summit, where Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has vowed to tackle human rights issues. Read more »

UN investigators cite Facebook role in Myanmar crisis

Tom Miles, Reuters
Updated as of Mar 13 08:26 AM

"I’m afraid that Facebook has now turned into a beast...We know that the ultra-nationalist Buddhists have their own Facebooks and are really inciting a lot of violence and a lot of hatred against the Rohingya or other ethnic minorities."    Read more »

'Ethnic cleansing' of Myanmar's Rohingya continues: UN

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Mar 06 03:58 PM

Some 700,000 Rohingya have fled over the border to Bangladesh since the violence erupted in August, bringing with them a consistent testimony of murder, rape, and arson by soldiers and vigilante mobs. Read more »

3 bombs hit capital of Myanmar's Rakhine state

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Feb 24 03:55 PM

Three bombs exploded early Saturday in the capital of Myanmar's Rakhine state, a cauldron of ethnic tensions roiled by insurgencies and a military crackdown on the Muslim Rohingya, injuring 1 policeman, officials said.   Read more »

How Myanmar forces burned, looted and killed in a remote village

Wa Lone, Kyaw Soe Oo, Simon Lewis and Antoni Slodkowski, Reuters
Posted at Feb 09 08:08 AM

The killings in the coastal village of Inn Din marked another bloody episode in the ethnic violence sweeping northern Rakhine state, on Myanmar's western fringe. Nearly 690,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled their villages and crossed the border into Bangladesh since August. Read more »

Myanmar denies report of mass graves in Rakhine

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Feb 03 08:03 PM

The denial was a response to a report that alleges a massacre by soldiers and the existence of at least five previously unreported mass graves. Read more »