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    Tagged: Rakhine crisis

    DVB Debate Lead Story Video

    DVB Debate: Rakhine’s troubles in the spotlight

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    Economic development and “trust-building” were two key topics of a DVB Business Debate held earlier this year in Thandwe, Rakhine State, where panelists discussed the fraught inter-communal dynamics still bedeviling the state.

    International Relations Lead Story News Refugees Rohingya

    China says it feels Burma is ready to take back Rohingya

    China believes that Burma is now ready to take back hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims sheltering in Bangladesh who have fled violence in the former Burma, the Chinese government’s top diplomat tells his Bangladeshi counterpart.

    Human Rights International Relations Lead Story News

    Outgoing UN human rights chief keeps Burma on notice

    The outgoing UN human rights chief kept Burma under the microscope in parting remarks to the UN Human Rights Council on Monday, noting the government’s failure to cooperate with multiple probes into alleged rights abuses.

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    Lead Story News Rakhine

    Burma’s says it is willing to take back all Rohingya refugees

    Burma is willing to take back all 700,000 Rohingya Muslim refugees who have fled to Bangladesh if they volunteer to return, the country’s National Security Adviser Thaung Tun said on Saturday.

    Lead Story News Rakhine

    ARSA militants killed Hindu villagers in Rakhine violence: Amnesty

    Campaign group Amnesty International said on Tuesday it had gathered evidence that insurgents from a Rohingya Muslim armed group killed scores of Hindu civilians in August last year, amid a surge in violence in western Burma.

    International Relations Lead Story News Rohingya

    US aid chief to Burma: Take ‘concrete steps’ on Rohingya rights

    The US government’s aid chief urged Burma on Sunday to take “concrete steps” to guarantee the rights of Rohingya Muslims and to show sincerity in that endeavour in order to encourage hundreds of thousands who have fled the country to return.

    International Relations Lead Story News Rohingya

    UN Security Council pushes Burma on accountability over Rohingya

    The UN Security Council has urged Burma’s government to carry out transparent investigations into accusations of violence against mainly Rohingya Muslims in Rakhine State and to allow immediate aid access to the region.

    International Relations Lead Story News

    China does not want UN to pressure Burma on accountability

    China does not want the UN Security Council to tell Burma that credible, transparent investigations into accusations of violence against mainly Rohingya Muslims are important, according to proposed amendments to a British-drafted statement.

    International Relations Lead Story News

    UN could help Burma gather evidence of crimes against Rohingya: UK envoy

    Britain’s UN envoy suggests the UN Security Council could consider helping Burma collect evidence of crimes committed during a military crackdown of the Rohingya, denounced by the world body as ethnic cleansing after most recent bout of persecution of the Muslim minority last year.

    International Relations Lead Story News Rohingya

    US team in refugee camps investigating atrocities against Rohingya

    The US government is conducting an intensive examination of alleged atrocities against Rohingya Muslims, documenting alleged atrocities in an investigation that could be used to prosecute Burma’s military for crimes against humanity, said US officials.

    Lead Story News Rakhine

    Seven soldiers sentenced to 10 years for Inn Din village massacre

    Seven Burmese soldiers have been sentenced to “10 years in prison with hard labour in a remote area” for participating in a massacre of 10 Rohingya Muslim men in a village in northwestern Rakhine State last September, the army said on Tuesday.

    International Relations Lead Story News Rohingya

    Philippines’ Duterte cites ‘genocide’ in Burma, says will take refugees

    Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said on Thursday “genocide” was taking place in Burma and he was willing to accept Rohingya Muslim refugees fleeing from it, though Europe should help too.

    Lead Story News Rohingya

    UN chief ‘shocked’ by Min Aung Hlaing’s latest comments on Rohingya

    United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres expressed “shock” at comments by Burma’s military chief in which he said the Rohingya minority shared nothing in common with the rest of the population and that their demand for citizenship had stoked recent violence.

    International Relations Lead Story News Rohingya

    UN official says violence and torture continues on Rohingya

    Crimes verging on genocide were being committed against the Rohingya minority in Burma, and those crimes bore “the fingerprints of the Myanmar government and of the international community,” the United Nations special adviser on the prevention of genocide said on Tuesday.

    Lead Story News

    UN investigators cite Facebook role in Rakhine crisis

    UN human rights experts investigating a possible genocide in Burma said on Monday that Facebook had played a role in spreading hate speech there.

    Lead Story News Rakhine Rohingya

    Burma’s national security adviser says he wants to see ‘clear evidence’ of genocide

    Burma wants to see clear evidence to support accusations that ethnic cleansing or genocide has been perpetrated against its Muslim minority in Rakhine State, National Security Adviser Thaung Tun said on Thursday.

    Lead Story News Rakhine Refugees Rohingya

    Bulldozing Rohingya villages was not ‘demolition of evidence,’ official says

    Burma has bulldozed the remains of Rohingya Muslim villages to make way for refugee resettlement, not to destroy evidence of atrocities, an official leading reconstruction efforts in the troubled northern state of Rakhine said on Monday.

    International Relations Lead Story News Rohingya

    Bangladeshi, Burmese officials visit Rohingya trapped at border

    Burmese and Bangladeshi representatives held talks about 5,300 Rohingya Muslims trapped on a strip of unclaimed land between their two countries and visited the area on Tuesday, officials and Rohingya refugees told Reuters.

    International Relations Lead Story News Refugees Rohingya

    Bangladesh says to meet with Burma on Rohingya trapped at ‘no-man’s land’ border

    Representatives from Bangladesh and Burma will meet on Tuesday to discuss the repatriation to Burma of more than 6,500 Rohingya Muslims trapped on a strip of unclaimed land between the two countries, Bangladeshi officials said.

    Interview Lead Story News Rakhine

    Thai head of Rakhine advisory body: ‘Suu Kyi still represents hope’

    Former Thai Foreign Minister Surakiart Sathirathai, head of the Advisory Board to the Committee for Implementation of the Recommendations on Rakhine State, discusses the challenges of his new role.

    International Relations Lead Story News

    US urges UN to hold Burmese military accountable for ‘ethnic cleansing’

    The United States on Tuesday described Burma’s denials of ethnic cleansing of Rohingya Muslims as “preposterous” as it called on the UN Security Council to hold the military accountable and pressure leader Aung San Suu Kyi “to acknowledge these horrific acts that are taking place in her country.”

    Lead Story News Rakhine Rohingya

    How Burmese security forces burned, looted and killed in a remote Rakhine State village

    Reuters pieces together what happened in the days leading up to the killings in Inn Din, drawing for the first time on interviews with Buddhist villagers who confessed to torching Rohingya homes, burying bodies and killing Muslims.

    International Relations Lead Story News Rakhine

    Time not right for visit, Burma tells UN Security Council

    Burma told the United Nations Security Council not to visit during February this year because it was “not the right time,” Kuwait’s UN Ambassador Mansour Ayyad Al-Otaibi said on Thursday, adding that the country did not completely reject the proposed trip.

    International Relations Lead Story News Rakhine

    Burma says Richardson was dropped from Rakhine advisory panel

    Veteran US diplomat Bill Richardson was pursuing “his own agenda” when he was asked to step down from Burma’s international advisory board on the Rohingya crisis, the Burmese government said on Thursday.

    Lead Story News Rohingya

    More Rohingya flee Burma as Bangladesh prepares to start repatriation

    Over 100 Rohingya Muslims have crossed into Bangladesh from Burma since Wednesday, with the latest refugees saying army operations are continuing in troubled Rakhine State, raising doubts about plans to send back 655,500 who had already fled.

    Lead Story News Rakhine

    Officials inspect repatriation sites in Rakhine; temporary camp for 30,000 slated

    Two senior government officials over the weekend inspected camps being readied in anticipation of the repatriation of hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees from Rakhine State, who are currently sheltering in neighbouring Bangladesh.

    Lead Story News Rakhine

    ARSA says 10 found in Rakhine State grave were ‘innocent civilians’

    Rohingya Muslim insurgents say 10 Rohingya found in a mass grave in Burma’s troubled Rakhine State last month were “innocent civilians,” and not members of their group.

    Lead Story News Refugees Rohingya

    Burma, Bangladesh to meet again amid doubts about Rohingya repatriation

    Officials from Burma and Bangladesh meet on Monday to discuss how to implement a deal signed in November on the repatriation of more than 650,000 Rohingya who have fled Burma since late August. But many say fear returning.

    International Relations Lead Story News Rakhine Rohingya

    ‘Important step,’ US ambassador says of admission security forces killed Rohingya

    Burma’s admission that soldiers were involved in the murder of 10 Muslims in September was an important step and the United States hoped it would be followed by more transparency and accountability, the US ambassador said on Thursday.

    Lead Story News Rakhine

    Rakhine chief minister says expect ‘terrorist’ threat to linger

    Rakhine State Chief Minister Nyi Pu has cautioned that Muslim militancy is a continuing threat in the western state, where a military vehicle was hit by an improvised explosive device last week, injuring at least five people.

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