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Crimes against humanity in Myanmar

Crimes against humanity in Myanmar

A UN report issued last month, based on interviews with 220 Rohingya among 75,000 who have fled to Bangladesh since October, said that Myanmar’s security forces have committed mass killings and gang rapes of Rohingya in a campaign that “very likely” amounts to crimes against humanity and possibly ethnic cleansing.

UN to probe crimes against Rohingya

A Myanmar policeman stands in a check point outside Rohingya refugee camp in Sittwe, Myanmar. — Reuters

With a stroke of red pen, Myanmar’s Rohingya fear losing right to return

Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar, Yanghee Lee addresses a news conference after her report to the Human Rights Council at the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, on Monday. — Reuters

Myanmar may be trying to ‘expel’ all Rohingya

A Rohingya refugee woman waits in line to collect food at Balu Kali Refugee Camp in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, in this March 2, 2017 file photo. — Reuters

Thousands of Rohingya refugees return to Myanmar

Rohingya refugee women wait to collect relief vouchers at Kutupalang Unregistered Refugee Camp in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, on Monday. — Reuters

Bangladesh starts head count for Rohingya relocation

Boys search for useful items among the ashes of burnt houses after fire destroyed shelters at a camp for internally displaced Rohingya Muslims in the western Rakhine State near Sittwe, Myanmar, in this May 3, 2016 file photo. — Reuters

Myanmar security forces probe Rohingya prison deaths

A Malaysian ship carrying aid for Rohingya arrives in Yangon’s Thilawa port while Myanmar port personnel looks on in this Feb. 9 file photo. — AFP

Malaysian ship carrying aid for Rohingya arrives in Bangladesh

This file screen grab from a YouTube video originally taken by Myanmar Constable Zaw Myo Htike (pictured at far L - looking at camera) shows a policeman (back L) kicking out at a Rohingya minority villager seated on the ground with others, in the village of Kotankauk during a police area clearance operation on Nov. 5, 2016. Three police officers have been sentenced to two months detention over the video showing them abusing Rohingya civilians. — AFP

Myanmar cops in Rohingya abuse video ‘didn’t intend to harm’

This file handout photograph shows a military official (C) briefing Myanmar Vice President Myint Swe (2nd R, in blue jacket), head of the Rakhine State Investigation Commission, during his visit to Gwazon, a Muslim majority village in Maungdaw located in Rakhine State near the Bangladesh border. — AFP

Myanmar rejects UN criticism of Rohingya abuse investigation

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Rohingya refugees visit a community health care center to receive health check-ups and free baby food at Kutupalang Unregistered Refugee Camp, in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh on Sunday. — Reuters

Myanmar police fire kills Bangladeshi fisherman

Members of Myanmar’s Advisory Commission on Rakhine State talk with displaced members of the Rohingya community as they visit Rohingya shelters in Bangladesh’s Cox’s Bazar on Sunday. — AFP

Dhaka pushes on with Rohingya island plan

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Rohingya fishermen launch a raft made of empty plastic containers to go fishing into the rough sea off of Tha Pyay Taw village, Maungdaw, western Rakhine state, Myanmar, in this Jan. 16, 2017 file photo. — AP

Banned from boats in Myanmar, Rohingya fish on rafts of junk

UN special rapporteur on Myanmar, Yanghee Lee, center right in blue jacket, is being escorted during a visit to the Rakhine ethnic Sein Pan Myaing village, near the town of Maungdaw in strife-torn Rakhine State near the Bangladesh border in this file photo. — AFP

Myanmar govt seeks time and space to solve Rohingya crisis

UN special rapporteur on Myanmar, Yanghee Lee, center right in blue jacket, is being escorted during a visit to the Rakhine ethnic Sein Pan Myaing village, near the town of Maungdaw in strife-torn Rakhine State near the Bangladesh border in this file photo. — AFP

Myanmar govt rebuffs Malaysia for organizing OIC meet on Rohingya

Foreign ministers of OIC member states in Kuala Lumpur, Thursday. — Courtesy photos

OIC slams persecution of Rohingya community

Malaysian PM tells Myanmar to "stop the killing" of Rohingya, as Muslims meet

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