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Level of Myanmar army brutality 'hard to fathom': UN probe

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Sep 19 05:06 AM

Myanmar's army has used unfathomable levels of violence against minority Rohingya, UN investigators said Tuesday, calling for the military to be removed from politics and top generals to be prosecuted for genocide. Read more »

Suu Kyi defends court decision to jail Reuters journalists

Reuters
Updated as of Sep 13 12:48 PM

HANOI - Myanmar government leader Aung San Suu Kyi on Thursday said two jailed Reuters journalists can appeal their seven-year sentence, and that their jailing had nothing to do with freedom of expression. Read more »

Myanmar rejects ICC decision over Rohingya crisis

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Sep 08 01:02 AM

Myanmar on Friday "resolutely" rejected a ruling by the International Criminal Court empowering the tribunal to probe alleged crimes against the Rohingya even though the Southeast Asian nation is not a member of it. Read more »

ICC says can rule on Rohingya deportations from Myanmar

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Sep 07 12:19 AM

The International Criminal Court said Thursday it had jurisdiction to probe the forced deportation of Rohingya Muslims by Myanmar's military as a possible crime against humanity. Read more »

US joins in outcry against Myanmar's jailing of 2 reporters

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Sep 04 09:13 AM

The United States on Monday condemned the jailing in Myanmar of 2 Reuters journalists who had reported on a massacre of Rohingya Muslims in that country, calling it "deeply troubling" and urging the men's immediate release. Read more »

Reuters journalists get 7 years in prison

Stringer, Reuters
Posted at Sep 03 09:03 PM

Detained Reuters journalists Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo leave Insein court after listening to the verdict in Yangon, Myanmar on Monday. Read more »

Reuters reporters jailed for seven years in Myanmar 'state secrets' case

Richard Sargent and Hla-Hla Htay, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Sep 03 02:56 PM

Two Reuters journalists accused of breaching Myanmar's state secrets law during their reporting of a massacre of Rohingya Muslims were jailed for seven years Monday, drawing outrage over the attack on media freedom and calls for their immediate release. Read more »

Aung San Suu Kyi won't be stripped of Nobel Peace Prize

Reuters
Posted at Aug 30 02:03 AM

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 mass killings of Muslim Rohingya, the Norwegian Nobel Committee said on Wednesday. Read more »

Myanmar rejects UN probe on Rohingya abuses

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Aug 29 12:02 PM

Myanmar rejected Wednesday the findings of a UN probe alleging genocide by its military against the Rohingya, in a strident government response to a damning report on the crisis.  Read more »

Myanmar army chief must be prosecuted for 'genocide': UN probe

Agnès Pedrero, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Aug 27 06:16 PM

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.  Read more »

Rohingya protest for ‘justice’ on crackdown anniversary

Nick Perry and Redwan Ahmed, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Aug 25 06:21 PM

Many wept as they recalled the brutal killings and rapes inflicted on the Muslim minority last year as 700,000 fled across the border. Read more »

Rohingya issue brought to the ICC

Mohammad Ponir Hossain, Reuters
Posted at Aug 25 12:40 AM

Rohingya refugee children ride on the human-powered ferris wheels in the Kutupalong camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, Friday. A group of 130 lawmakers from the group, Asean Parliamentarians for Human Rights, have called on the International Criminal Court to investigate Myanmar for crimes in Myanmar's Rakhine state. Read more »

Rohingya mark Eid, one year after Myanmar crisis began

Nick Perry, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Aug 22 01:19 PM

Nearly one million Rohingya Muslims marked Eid al-Adha on Wednesday in the world's largest refugee camp, almost a year to the day since a brutal military crackdown drove the persecuted minority from Myanmar in huge numbers. Read more »

The Rohingya lists: refugees compile their own record of those killed in Myanmar

Clare Baldwin, Reuters
Posted at Aug 18 01:59 AM

KUTUPALONG REFUGEE CAMP, Bangladesh - Mohib Bullah is not your typical human rights investigator. He chews betel and he lives in a rickety hut made of plastic and bamboo. Sometimes, he can be found standing in a line for rations at the Rohingya refugee camp where he lives in Bangladesh. Read more »

Myanmar rejects ICC probe on Rohingya crisis

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Aug 10 01:39 AM

Myanmar said Thursday that a request at the International Criminal Court to probe the mass deportation of Rohingya Muslims from the country was "meritless" and should be rejected. Read more »

Filipino to lead Myanmar panel probing Rohingya abuses

Reuters
Posted at Jul 31 08:04 AM

A Filipino will lead a commission of inquiry established by Myanmar to probe allegations of human rights abuses in conflict-torn Rakhine state, authorities said on Monday, as the country faces growing calls for accountability over accusations of ethnic cleansing against Rohingya Muslims. Read more »

Japanese, Philippine diplomats to help probe abuses against Rohingya

Kyodo News
Posted at Jul 30 10:47 PM

Myanmar's government announced Monday it has formed a commission involving former Philippine and Japanese diplomats to probe allegations of human rights abuses in Rakhine State where the military has been accused of committing atrocities against Rohingya Muslims. Read more »

World Cup fever still raging in Rohingya refugee camps

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jul 20 11:49 AM

The World Cup may be over but passion for the game burns bright in the world's largest refugee camp, where Brazil and Argentina flags still flutter alongside the red and green of Bangladesh, which hosts nearly a million Rohingya Muslims forced out of Myanmar. Read more »

Killings sow fear inside Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh

Reuters
Posted at Jul 05 02:50 AM

COX'S BAZAR/DHAKA - Bangladesh is deploying thousands of extra police to Rohingya refugee camps in the south, officials said, after a series of mostly unexplained killings that have sown fear among hundreds of thousands of people who have fled from neighbouring Myanmar.   Read more »

OPINION: Counting our blessings this Eid

Karim Raslan -- Ceritalah ASEAN
Posted at Jun 14 02:36 AM

As we celebrate another Hari Raya Aidilfitri, we must certainly not take our circumstances – especially the freedom of religion – for granted.  Read more »