TEHRAN (IQNA) – Myanmar leader and Nobel peace prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi departed on Sunday for the UN’s top court in The Hague to defend the country against charges of genocide of its Rohingya Muslim minority.
News ID: 3470058 Publish Date : 2019/12/08
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Myanmar struck back on November 15 after a surge of global legal pressure over its alleged crimes against the Rohingya, branding an investigation by the International Criminal Court (ICC) "not in accordance with international law".
News ID: 3469890 Publish Date : 2019/11/16
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Gambia filed a case at the United Nation’s top court against Myanmar accusing it of committing genocide against the Rohingya Muslim minority.
News ID: 3469855 Publish Date : 2019/11/11
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Bangladesh will start relocating Rohingya Muslims to a flood-prone island off its coast next month as several thousand refugees have agreed to move, a government official said on Sunday.
News ID: 3469703 Publish Date : 2019/10/20
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Muslim leaders from all states and regions of Myanmar are forming a temporary committee to press the civilian-led government to reopen shuttered mosques across the country.
News ID: 3469488 Publish Date : 2019/09/24
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Rohingya Muslims remaining in Myanmar still face a "serious risk of genocide", UN investigators said on Monday (Sep 16), warning the repatriation of a million already driven from the country by the army remains "impossible".
News ID: 3469419 Publish Date : 2019/09/16
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Two years after hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims fled Myanmar’s Rakhine State to neighboring Bangladesh, conditions are not yet ready for their return.
News ID: 3469259 Publish Date : 2019/08/27
TEHRAN (IQNA) – On this day two years ago, the Myanmar military, aided by local Buddhist mobs and miscreants from other ethnic groups, began a barbaric crackdown on the Rohingya Muslim community in northwest Rakhine.
News ID: 3469242 Publish Date : 2019/08/25
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Police in Myanmar said Friday it is on the lookout for three people who led a mob that threatened Muslim worshippers at three make-shift mosques in Yangon.
News ID: 3468545 Publish Date : 2019/05/18
TEHRAN (IQNA) – The world must cut off financial and other support for Myanmar’s armed forces, a UN fact-finding mission said on Tuesday, repeating a call for top generals to be prosecuted for abuses against the Rohingya Muslim minority.
News ID: 3468515 Publish Date : 2019/05/14
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Iranian President Hassan Rouhani expressed hope that with the establishment of peace and security in Myanmar, Rohingya Muslim refugees can return to the country quickly.
News ID: 3468091 Publish Date : 2019/03/09
TEHRAN (IQNA) – The Free Rohingya Coalition (FRC) will host an international conference at Barnard College, Columbia University in New York City on Feb. 8 and 9.
News ID: 3467862 Publish Date : 2019/02/03
TEHRAN (IQNA) – More than 720,000 Rohingya Muslims are living in camps in Bangladesh after they were driven out of Myanmar's northern Rakhine state during a military campaign in 2017 that the United Nations has described as ethnic cleansing.
News ID: 3467730 Publish Date : 2019/01/19
TEHRAN (IQNA) – The CEO of Twitter has faced fierce criticism for promoting Myanmar as a tourist destination in a series of tweets despite hundreds of thousands of Muslim refugees fleeing human rights abuses that the UN says amounts to genocide.
News ID: 3467430 Publish Date : 2018/12/10
TEHRAN (IQNA) – A new exodus of boats carrying Rohingya Muslims fleeing from Myanmar has begun, with at least six boats carrying hundreds of refugees intercepted at sea or washing ashore over the past month.
News ID: 3467390 Publish Date : 2018/12/05
TEHRAN (IQNA) – A United Nations committee on Friday endorsed a resolution turning up the heat on Myanmar over the persecution of its Rohingya Muslim minority.
News ID: 3467235 Publish Date : 2018/11/17
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Southeast Asian nations will call for those responsible for atrocities in Myanmar’s Rakhine state to be held “fully accountable”, according to a statement prepared for a regional summit, reflecting a stronger line being taken within the group.
News ID: 3467209 Publish Date : 2018/11/13
TEHRAN (IQNA) – The governments of Bangladesh and Myanmar are to push ahead with the repatriation of thousands of Rohingya Muslims this week, despite objections by the UN, and against the wishes of the refugees, who spoke of being “terrified” at being sent back.
News ID: 3467193 Publish Date : 2018/11/11
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Facebook Inc on Monday said a human rights report it commissioned on its presence in Myanmar showed it had not done enough to prevent its social network from being used to incite violence.
News ID: 3467160 Publish Date : 2018/11/06
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Bangladesh and Myanmar agreed on Tuesday to begin by November the repatriation of hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims who fled to Bangladesh to escape a Myanmar army crackdown, though doubts about a speedy return are likely to persist.
News ID: 3467112 Publish Date : 2018/10/30
