All posts tagged "Myanmar"
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1.9KRohingyaNon swimmer Rohingya boy floats on oil drum from Myanmar to Bangladesh
Nabi Hussain owes his life to a yellow plastic oil drum. The 13-year-old Rohingya boy could not swim, and had never even...
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1.8KRohingyaNearly 300 Rohingya villages burnt since August: Human Rights Watch
Nearly 300 Rohingya villages have been burnt since the current phase of violence began in Myanmar this year, said the rights group...
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1.5KRohingyaRohingya boat toll rises to 23 as more bodies found
Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh: The bodies of another nine refugees have washed up in Bangladesh after an overloaded boat carrying scores of desperate...
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3.2KRohingyaBangladesh Islamists want ‘government to train and arm the Rohingya’
Chittagong: Thousands of Islamist hardliners marched in Bangladesh’s port city of Chittagong on Friday calling for the government to arm Rohingya Muslim refugees...
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3.5KInternationalAung San Suu Kyi stripped of Oxford honour over Rohingya criticism
London: An honour bestowed on Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi by the city of Oxford has been withdrawn as a reaction to...
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1.7KInternationalMore than two million new refugees this year: UN
Geneva: Conflicts, violence and persecution in Myanmar, South Sudan, Syria and elsewhere have forced more than two million people to flee as refugees...
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5.1KPhotoPhoto Essay: Between the Devil and the deep blue sea, children of the Rohingya…
Jammu: The Rohingyas, a stateless ethnic group loathed by many of Myanmar’s Buddhist majority, were forced to leave their homes after a...
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2.1KRohingyaMyanmar Buddhist mob attacks aid shipment for Rohingya
Yangon: Police in western Myanmar had to fire warning shots after a Buddhist mob tried to block humanitarian aid headed to an area...
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2.6KRohingyaUS to provide $32 million in aid to Rohingya
New York: In what is to be the first response to Rohingya ‘mass exodus’ from the Trump administration, the United States will contribute...
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Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina says Myanmar must take back Rohingya
Dhaka, Bangladesh: Bangladesh’s Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has reiterated her government’s call for Myanmar to take back some 420,000 Rohingya Muslim refugees who...
