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427 Rohingya May Have Drowned In Two Shipwrecks In May: UN
The United Nations said it feared that 427 Rohingya, Myanmar's persecuted Muslim minority, had perished at sea in two shipwrecks on May 9 and 10 off the Myanmar coast.
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UN Chief Condems Myanmar Military's Deadly Attack On Rohingya Civilians
UN chief Antonio Guterres condemned on Thursday recent attacks by Myanmar's military that reportedly killed scores of civilians in western Rakhine state.
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Myanmar Army Behind Facebook Pages Spewing Hate Speech Against Rohingya: UN Probe
Myanmar's military was behind dozens of seemingly unrelated Facebook pages spewing hate speech against the Rohingya prior to its dramatic 2017 crackdown against the mostly Muslim minority, a UN probe found Wednesday.
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Myanmar Junta Jails Japanese Filmmaker For 10 Years For Fueling Dissent
Japanese filmmaker Toru Kubota has previously made documentaries on Myanmar's Muslim Rohingya minority and "refugees and ethnic issues in Myanmar".
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Facebook Fails to Detect Hate Against Rohingya Muslims
A new report has found that Facebook failed to detect blatant hate speech and calls to violence against Myanmar’s Rohingya Muslim minority years after such behaviour was found to have played a determining role in the genocide against them.
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Facebook Has Not Shared ‘Evidence’ of Serious International Crimes in Myanmar: UN Investigator
Facebook has not released evidence of “serious international crimes”, despite vowing to work with investigators looking into abuses in the country including against the Rohingya Muslim minority, says head of a UN investigative body.
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"Next Move On Rohingya, They Don't Belong To 6 Minorities": Union Minister
More than 13,700 foreigners, including Rohingya Muslims and Bangladeshi nationals, are settled in Jammu and Samba districts, where their population has increased by over 6,000 between 2008 and 2016, according to government data.
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Myanmar Seizes Boat Carrying 173 Rohingya Off South Coast: Official
Myanmar authorities detained 173 ethnic Rohingya aboard a boat off the southern coast, authorities said on Tuesday, amid signs that more members of the Muslim minority group are making perilous sea voyages to escape persecution.
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Genocide Court Case Risks 'Reignition' Of Rohingya Crisis, Warns Suu Kyi
Nobel peace laureate Aung San Suu Kyi warned on Thursday that a genocide case at the UN's top court over Myanmar's treatment of the Rohingya Muslim minority risked restarting the crisis.
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Myanmar Army Chief Denies Systematic Persecution Of Rohingya
Myanmar's army chief, who is facing international calls that he be prosecuted for genocide against the Rohingya Muslim minority, has denied any systematic army persecution and said such accusations were an insult to his country's honour.
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427 Rohingya May Have Drowned In Two Shipwrecks In May: UN
The United Nations said it feared that 427 Rohingya, Myanmar's persecuted Muslim minority, had perished at sea in two shipwrecks on May 9 and 10 off the Myanmar coast.
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UN Chief Condems Myanmar Military's Deadly Attack On Rohingya Civilians
UN chief Antonio Guterres condemned on Thursday recent attacks by Myanmar's military that reportedly killed scores of civilians in western Rakhine state.
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Myanmar Army Behind Facebook Pages Spewing Hate Speech Against Rohingya: UN Probe
Myanmar's military was behind dozens of seemingly unrelated Facebook pages spewing hate speech against the Rohingya prior to its dramatic 2017 crackdown against the mostly Muslim minority, a UN probe found Wednesday.
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Myanmar Junta Jails Japanese Filmmaker For 10 Years For Fueling Dissent
Japanese filmmaker Toru Kubota has previously made documentaries on Myanmar's Muslim Rohingya minority and "refugees and ethnic issues in Myanmar".
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Facebook Fails to Detect Hate Against Rohingya Muslims
A new report has found that Facebook failed to detect blatant hate speech and calls to violence against Myanmar’s Rohingya Muslim minority years after such behaviour was found to have played a determining role in the genocide against them.
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Facebook Has Not Shared ‘Evidence’ of Serious International Crimes in Myanmar: UN Investigator
Facebook has not released evidence of “serious international crimes”, despite vowing to work with investigators looking into abuses in the country including against the Rohingya Muslim minority, says head of a UN investigative body.
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"Next Move On Rohingya, They Don't Belong To 6 Minorities": Union Minister
More than 13,700 foreigners, including Rohingya Muslims and Bangladeshi nationals, are settled in Jammu and Samba districts, where their population has increased by over 6,000 between 2008 and 2016, according to government data.
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Myanmar Seizes Boat Carrying 173 Rohingya Off South Coast: Official
Myanmar authorities detained 173 ethnic Rohingya aboard a boat off the southern coast, authorities said on Tuesday, amid signs that more members of the Muslim minority group are making perilous sea voyages to escape persecution.
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Genocide Court Case Risks 'Reignition' Of Rohingya Crisis, Warns Suu Kyi
Nobel peace laureate Aung San Suu Kyi warned on Thursday that a genocide case at the UN's top court over Myanmar's treatment of the Rohingya Muslim minority risked restarting the crisis.
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Myanmar Army Chief Denies Systematic Persecution Of Rohingya
Myanmar's army chief, who is facing international calls that he be prosecuted for genocide against the Rohingya Muslim minority, has denied any systematic army persecution and said such accusations were an insult to his country's honour.
