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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 Nov 29 04:02 PM

"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
Updated as of Sep 02 08:23 PM

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 »

Salute! Pinay wins White House photography contests

ABS-CBN North America News Bureau
Updated as of Jan 31 11:56 AM

A Filipina American photojournalist recently swept up awards at an annual photo contest held by the White House.  Read more »

UN urges rethink of Rohingya repatriations to ensure safeguards

Zeba Siddiqui and Bill Tarrant, Reuters
Posted at Jan 24 08:39 AM

The UN refugee agency and other groups have urged a rethink of the plan to send Rohingya refugees back to Myanmar amid fears of forced repatriations and the inability of aid agencies to ensure the safety of hundreds of thousands who fled bloodshed at home.   Read more »

Myanmar blames Bangladesh for delayed Rohingya return

Agence France Presse
Updated as of Jan 23 11:30 PM

Nearly 690,000 Rohingya escaped to Bangladesh after a brutal Myanmar army crackdown began last August Read more »

Myanmar finalizes Rohingya repatriation preparations as doubts mount

Yi-Mou Lee, Reuters
Posted at Jan 20 05:24 PM

Myanmar was making final preparations to take back the first batch of Rohingya Muslims who had fled conflict in troubled Rakhine state, state media said on Saturday, despite growing doubts about the plan among refugees and in the United Nations. Read more »

Bangladesh agrees with Myanmar to complete Rohingya return in 2 years

Ruma Paul and Zeba Siddiqui, Reuters
Posted at Jan 16 05:40 PM

Bangladesh said on Tuesday it would complete the process of returning within 2 years many of the hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims who had fled a conflict in Myanmar, following a meeting of the neighbors. Read more »

Suu Kyi says Myanmar army admission on killings a positive step

Reuters
Posted at Jan 13 01:20 AM

YANGON - Myanmar's civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi said on Friday it was "positive" that the country's military was taking responsibility for the actions of troops, after the army said soldiers were involved in killing 10 captured Rohingya Muslims. Read more »

Myanmar military says soldiers murdered 10 Rohingya

Reuters
Posted at Jan 10 11:45 PM

YANGON - Myanmar's military said on Wednesday its soldiers had murdered 10 captured Muslim "terrorists" during insurgent attacks at the beginning of September, after local Buddhist villagers had forced the captured men into a grave they had dug. Read more »

Myanmar police charge Reuters reporters under Official Secrets Act

Hla-Hla Htay, Agence France-Presse
Updated as of Jan 10 08:58 PM

The journalists had been reporting on the military campaign in Rakhine that has forced some 655,000 Rohingya Muslims to flee over the border to Bangladesh. Read more »

Rohingya insurgents say they have no option but to fight Myanmar

Robert Birsel, Reuters
Updated as of Jan 07 01:05 PM

Rohingya Muslim insurgents said on Sunday they have no option to fight what they called Myanmar state-sponsored terrorism to defend the Rohingya community, and they demanded that the Rohingya be consulted on all decisions affecting their future. Read more »

Rohingya rebel ambush in Rakhine wounds 3: Myanmar army

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jan 06 07:28 PM

The UN has accused Myanmar troops of waging an ethnic-cleansing campaign against the persecuted minority. Read more »

Bangladesh to send 100,000 Rohingya back to Myanmar

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Dec 30 01:01 AM

Bangladesh wants to send up to 100,000 Rohingya back to Myanmar in the first batch of repatriations of Muslim refugees who fled ethnic violence this year, officials said Friday. Read more »

Rohingya at risk of deadly diphtheria face shortage of medics, antitoxins

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Dec 29 12:05 AM

Health workers in Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh are struggling with a shortage of medics able to administer antitoxins to patients infected with diphtheria that has killed nearly two dozen people, aid officials said. Read more »