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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 asÃÂ ...
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 theÃÂ ...
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 sayÃÂ ...
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 theÃÂ ...
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 groupsÃÂ ...
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 aÃÂ ...
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 RohingyaÃÂ ...
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 factÃÂ ...
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 fromÃÂ ...
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 intoÃÂ ...
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 MyanmarÃÂ ...
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 MuslimÃÂ ...
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 enemiesÃÂ ...
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.”.
ABC News
February 11, 2018
... that killed hundreds and drove about 140,000 people — predominantly Rohingya — from their homes to camps for the internally displaced, where most remained until last year's fresh violence, the scale of which has led to accusations that Myanmar's army carried out ethnic cleansing or even genocide.
CBS News
February 8, 2018
... where most of the Rohingya lived. However, more than a dozen interviews by The Associated Press with the most recent refugees show growing desperation, as the noose tightens around their communities in what U.N. officials have said may be a genocide. The U.N. and human rights groups such asÃÂ ...
The News International
February 4, 2018
The plan to repatriate Rohingya refugees without any protection, or the guaranteeing of their basic rights is part of a larger campaign to whitewash the crimes of the Myanmar government and to, once more, defer the protracted crisis of the Rohingya. Although the cruelty experienced by the Rohingya goesÃÂ ...
Omaha World-Herald
February 3, 2018
Between 2008 and 2012 a violent campaign to convert them to Buddhism culminated in 100,000 Rohingya living in internal refugee camps within Myanmar. The regime cut off communication links between them and the outside world and expelled “Doctors Without Borders” for trying to provide a minimalÃÂ ...
Express.co.uk
February 2, 2018
UN special envoy on human rights in Mynamar Yanghee Lee said: “These are part of the hallmarks of a genocide. You can see it's a pattern.” Mohammad Rayes, 23, a teacher who watched the atrocity said: “People were screaming, crying, pleading for their lives, but the soldiers just shot continuously.”à...
South China Morning Post
January 17, 2018
To Abdul and other Rohingya I spoke with in refugee camps, the injustice being perpetrated on them is clearly genocide. When Abdul arrived in Bangladesh in late 2016, he was sure that the community of nations would not allow the violence to continue. But as months passed, diplomats and expertsÃÂ ...
The Nation
January 15, 2018
He was in Lahore to take part in a panel discussed titled 'Rohingya: Inside the Burmese Genocide' held under the aegis of Information Technology University and Punjab government at Al-Hamra Hall. Omar Waraich from Amnesty International, the other panelist, made the debate so vibrant by putting toughÃÂ ...
BBC News
January 11, 2018
Myanmar's army has admitted for the first time its soldiers were involved in the killing of Rohingya Muslims in recent violence in Rakhine state. It said an inquiry had found that four members of the security forces were involved in the killing of 10 people in Inn Din village near Maungdaw. The report said theÃÂ ...
HuffPost
January 11, 2018
Four years ago, as I sat in a cozy coffee shop writing a Huffington Post entry on the Syrian Civil War that remains depressingly relevant today, people died in Syria. They died for no crime than that of being more powerless than their executioners. They died, and the world did nothing. Our country did nothing.
The Good Men Project (blog)
January 10, 2018
Four years ago, as I sat in a cozy coffee shop writing an article about the Syrian Civil War—which remains depressingly relevant today—people died in Syria. They died for no other crime than for being more powerless than their executioners. Meanwhile, the world did nothing. The United States did nothing.
The Independent
January 8, 2018
Last week the governments of Bangladesh and Myanmar signed a deal to return the Rohingya to Rakhine. But many worry that they will face further reprisals if they return, and there was no mention of what would happen to those who refused to go backÃÂ ...
Mirror.co.uk
January 6, 2018
Singer Jessie Ware close to tears over Rohingya children's chilling drawings of horrific genocide. There are the usual ... They were drawn by Rohingya youngsters who had fled from Myanmar to a safe haven in Bangladesh after witnessing families being butchered and raped. Many of the traumatisedÃÂ ...
Rappler
January 5, 2018
But today, in Myanmar, Facebook is helping fuel a genocide against the Rohingya people. Based on our research in Myanmar and in Cuba, we argue that internet usage in Myanmar is dangerous. Unbridled connection to Facebook creates what we call a “virtual coercive”, a digital space that bolstersÃÂ ...
Quartz
January 3, 2018
The radio carried codes during the First World War, but later became a household fixture. Early telephones were leased in pairs but after Western Union, a telegraph company, adopted “exchanges,” it led to rapid long-distance communication. Likewise, mobile phones have evolved from bulkyÃÂ ...
Jacobin magazine
December 28, 2017
In Myanmar's ongoing massacre of the Rohingya — a two-million person strong Muslim minority — the country's military has burned hundreds of villages, destroyed thousands of homes, and slaughtered 6,700 people. Gang rape, torture, and infanticide have punctuated the egress of the Rohingya, moreÃÂ ...
Boulder Daily Camera
December 27, 2017
U Kyaw had traveled to Dhaka, Bangladesh, to attend a conference on the crisis — the International Conference Ending the Slow Burning Genocide of Rohingya by Myanmar — and took a side trip to Cox's Bazar. The man relayed that five Myanmarese soldiers came to his home and three of them raped hisÃÂ ...
TeenVogue.com
December 27, 2017
Part of me felt responsible for the genocide being committed against the Rohingya, an unrecognized Muslim ethnic minority, and another part felt guilty for my privilege of safety in a first-world country, thousands of miles away from the violence. I couldn't just stand by and let the cruelty continue––I knew IÃÂ ...
teleSUR English
December 19, 2017
This is the second time this month that Al Hussein has referred to the eradication of Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar as having "elements of genocide.” Only a court judge can declare whether or not a genocide is taking place, but Al Hussein says, “It wouldn't surprise me in the future if the court were toÃÂ ...
New York Times
December 15, 2017
In the past I've referred to Myanmar's atrocities against its Rohingya Muslim minority as “ethnic cleansing,” but increasingly there are indications that the carnage may amount to genocide. The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, backed by a Myanmar-focused human rights organization called Fortify Rights,ÃÂ ...
Sky News
December 13, 2017
"They're more people being killed and martyred, more internally displaced refugees than there was in the whole Yugoslav campaign so it is purely will to intervene which is missing." General Dallaire is not the only one to have warned of imminent genocide being planned in Myanmar against the Rohingya.
Hurriyet Daily News
December 11, 2017
“The violence against the Rohingya in Northern Rakhine in Burma … may also constitute crimes against humanity and even genocide,” the report by parliament's Foreign Affairs Committee said. The report -- Violence in Rakhine State and the U.K.'s response -- was released on Dec.11. It described a lack ofÃÂ ...
ABC Online
December 14, 2017
The estimate is based on surveys of surviving refugees in Bangladesh and is the first attempt to quantify the number of fatalities since early September, when Myanmar authorities said 394 Rohingya had died, claiming the casualties were mostly militants. Since then, Myanmar has blocked almost allÃÂ ...
Sky News
December 14, 2017
As Sky News reported earlier this month, thousands remain stranded on beaches and the land behind them has been mined by Myanmar's military. General Dallaire says he has seen the same methods used before. He told Sky News: "You're into the mist of a very slow moving and very deliberate genocideÃÂ ...
Hurriyet Daily News
December 11, 2017
“The violence against the Rohingya in Northern Rakhine in Burma … may also constitute crimes against humanity and even genocide,” the report by parliament's Foreign Affairs Committee said. The report -- Violence in Rakhine State and the U.K.'s response -- was released on Dec.11. It described a lack ofÃÂ ...
BBC News
December 5, 2017
The United Nations human rights chief has said an act of genocide against Rohingya Muslims by state forces in Myanmar cannot be ruled out. Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein was addressing a Human Rights Council session in Geneva. More than 600,000 Rohingya have fled to Bangladesh to escape violenceÃÂ ...
CNN
November 25, 2017
Myanmar's military also denies genocide, saying it is targeting Rohingya militants that launched deadly attacks on police posts on August 25. Rohingya refugees speak of indiscriminate killings, rape and torched villages -- charges the military also reject. The UN has described it as a "textbook example ofÃÂ ...
CBC.ca
November 20, 2017
Yasmine Ullah says the current plight of the Rohingya Muslims — which has forced more than 600,000 refugees to flee Myanmar — is genocide and she wants the international community to recognize it. Ullah, a Rohingya Muslim who left Myanmar at the age of three, lived in Thailand as a refugee beforeÃÂ ...
Dhaka Tribune
November 20, 2017
Speakers at a plenary session in Dhaka Lit Fest (DLF) on Friday said that the ongoing persecution on the Rohingyas in Myanmar's Rakhine ...
The Guardian
November 14, 2017
“The facts laid out in this report demonstrate that state security forces targeted the Rohingya group with several of the enumerated acts in the law of genocide,” the report says. Andrea Gittleman, a program manager for the Holocaust Museum's Simon-Skjodt centre for the prevention of genocide, said: “TheÃÂ ...
Sky News
November 12, 2017
The Rohingya crisis "seems a textbook example of ethnic cleansing", ... the definition of the crime in Article II of the UN's Genocide Convention.
Catholic Herald Online (blog)
November 10, 2017
More than 600,000 people – more than half the entire Rohingya population – have now fled across the border from Burma to Bangladesh.
The Guardian
November 10, 2017
Over the past two months, more than 600,000 Rohingya people have been driven from their homes, had their land destroyed, and endured ...
Voice of America
November 3, 2017
With seemingly no end to the crisis that has displaced some 600,000 Muslim minority Rohingya from Myanmar, senior U.S. State Department ...
Coconuts
November 1, 2017
“Violence against Rohingya is national policy in Myanmar, so I don't want to ... “Clearly, in the case of the Rohingya genocide, Facebook have ...
Slate Magazine
October 31, 2017
Rohingya refugees wait to receive food at a camp in Ukhia in ... But there are important reasons to avoid invoking genocide liberally. And like ...
