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CNN
April 17, 2018
However, in January the military admitted involvement in the killing of 10 Rohingya buried in a mass grave. Seven soldiers were sentenced to 10-year prison terms with hard labor last week over the killings. The Rohingya have long faced persecution in Buddhist-majority Myanmar, which describes them asÃâà...
Tamil Guardian
April 15, 2018
The President of the Philippines has apologised to Burmese leader Aung San Suu Kyi for saying genocide was taking placing in Myanmar. President Duterte said last week that his country would provide sanctuary for Ronhingya muslims fleeing “genocide”, angering the Myanmar government. However theÃâà...
euronews
April 13, 2018
MANILA (Reuters) – Philippine leader Rodrigo Duterte apologised to Myanmar counterpart Aung San Suu Kyi on Friday for saying genocide was taking taken place in her country, saying his remark was a satirical barb at the West for not taking in Rohingya Muslims. The United Nations and rights groups sayÃâà...
iPolitics.ca
April 13, 2018
The Conservative opposition is calling on the government to use all political and diplomatic measures to hold those, including Myanmar's government, responsible for the genocide of Rohingya people. Conservative MP David Sweet issued a statement Thursday in response to Bob Rae's final report on theÃâà...
The Straits Times
April 13, 2018
MANILA (REUTERS) - Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte apologised to Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi on Friday (April 13) for saying genocide was taking place in her country, saying his remark was a satirical barb at the West for not taking in Rohingya Muslims. The United Nations and rights groupsÃâà...
CNN
April 12, 2018
I wonder, if you have ever imagined what it would be like to be a young Rohingya like me who was raised in the shadow of what amounts to a decades-long genocide. I was born in Maungdaw township in 1991. My life began to fall apart in my first year when my birth certificate was confiscated during aÃâà...
The Guardian
April 11, 2018
Two Reuters journalists arrested while investigating a massacre of Rohingya Muslims will face trial in Myanmar after a court rejected a motion to drop the case ... Myanmar has faced global condemnation and accusations of extrajudicial killings, ethnic cleansing and genocide as about 700,000 RohingyaÃâà...
The Guardian
April 10, 2018
In a filing published on Monday, the court prosecutor, Fatou Bensouda, listed the well-documented mistreatment of Rohingya and cited the UN special envoy for human rights who described it as bearing the “hallmarks of genocide”. She argued that although Myanmar was not a member of the court, the factÃâà...
Washington Examiner
April 10, 2018
Facebook is the Internet for most Burmese, and rumor after false rumor, spread on Facebook along with doctored photographs, has contributed to the ongoing genocide against the Rohingya community. For example, a single false rumor on Facebook in 2012, about Rohingyas bringing weapons in fromÃâà...
Asian Correspondent
April 6, 2018
PHILIPPINE President Rodrigo Duterte said he was willing to accept Rohingya refugees feeling from Burma (Myanmar) after he acknowledged that “genocide” was taking place in the country. He encouraged Europe to do their part and accept some of the 700,000 Rohingya Muslims that have fled intoÃâà...
GMA News
April 5, 2018
President Rodrigo Duterte said on Thursday "genocide" was taking place in Myanmar and he was willing to accept Rohingya Muslim refugees fleeing from it, though Europe should help too. The United Nations and rights groups say some 700,000 people, most of them Rohingya, have fled from MyanmarÃâà...
Vox
April 2, 2018
Facebook's fake news problems extend far beyond Russian trolls interfering in US elections. Overseas, false stories have turned into tools of political warfare — most notably in Myanmar, where government forces have carried out a campaign of ethnic cleansing against the Rohingya, the country's MuslimÃâà...
CNN
December 31, 1999
The rhetoric is aimed almost exclusively at the disenfranchised Rohingya Muslim minority, a group which has been the target of a sustained campaign ..... Zarni says the country has a "long ideological tradition by which genocides are acceptable," which can partially be explained by support of the enemiesÃâà...
Foreign Policy (blog)
December 31, 1999
And for good reason: Since August 2017, brutal army attacks on this Muslim ethnic minority have sent more than 750,000 people — 90 percent of the Rohingya population living in Rakhine state — fleeing over the border to Bangladesh, in what can only be described as a coordinated campaign of genocide.
TechCrunch
December 31, 1999
“Six months ago I asked your general counsel about Facebook's role as a breeding ground for hate speech against Rohingya refugees,” Leahy said. “Recently, U.N. investigators blamed Facebook for playing a role in inciting the possible genocide in Myanmar, and there has been genocide there.”.
