TEHRAN (IQNA) – Pope Francis is demanding that the international community take "decisive measures" to resolve the causes of the mass exodus of Rohingya Muslim refugees from Myanmar, breaking his recent silence over what the UN has declared to be a textbook case of "ethnic cleansing."
News ID: 3464569 Publish Date : 2017/11/30
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Pope Francis insisted Tuesday that Myanmar’s future depends on respecting the rights of each ethnic group, an indirect show of support for Rohingya Muslims who have been subject to decades of discrimination and a recent military crackdown described by the UN as a textbook campaign of “ethnic cleansing.”
News ID: 3464551 Publish Date : 2017/11/29
TEHRAN (IQNA) – The UN Human Rights Council is expected to hold a special session on killings, rapes and other crimes committed against Muslim Rohingya in Myanmar that have driven more than 600,000 into Bangladesh since August, UN sources said on Monday.
News ID: 3464544 Publish Date : 2017/11/28
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Myanmar’s de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi was announced the 2017 International Islamophobe of the Year on Sunday.
News ID: 3464530 Publish Date : 2017/11/27
TEHRAN (IQNA) – In August, responding to the first reports of Rohingya Muslims fleeing an army-led crackdown in Myanmar, Pope Francis called on his flock to pray for “our Rohingya brethren.”
News ID: 3464526 Publish Date : 2017/11/26
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Myanmar and Bangladesh signed an accord on Thursday over terms for the return of hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims who have fled to Bangladesh, both governments said, amid concern that Myanmar’s powerful army could prove obstructive.
News ID: 3464500 Publish Date : 2017/11/23
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Myanmar has subjected Rohingya Muslims to long-term discrimination and persecution that amounts to “dehumanizing apartheid,” Amnesty International said Tuesday in a report that raises questions about what those who have fled a violent military crackdown would face if they returned home.
News ID: 3464483 Publish Date : 2017/11/21
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Myanmar’s persecution of Rohingya Muslims in recent months, which has uprooted a half-million people and been condemned by the United Nations as ethnic cleansing, has been corroborated by many graphic accounts of killings, sexual violence and other atrocities.
News ID: 3464440 Publish Date : 2017/11/16
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Myanmar's military denied widespread accounts of violence, including murder, rape and destruction of property, against the persecuted Rohingya Muslim community in Rakhine state.
News ID: 3464432 Publish Date : 2017/11/15
TEHRAN (IQNA) – A draft of the statement to be issued after a Southeast Asian summit makes no mention of the exodus of Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar’s Rakhine state following a military crackdown that has been described by the United Nations as ethnic cleansing.
News ID: 3464412 Publish Date : 2017/11/13
TEHRAN (IQNA) – A Kiwi aid worker who has worked in Gaza and similar conflict zones is describing the plight of the Rohingya people fleeing Myanmar as beyond belief.
News ID: 3464400 Publish Date : 2017/11/12
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Iran’s foreign ministry spokesman said the country has been diligently pursuing the resolution of the ongoing Rohingya Muslim crisis in Myanmar.
News ID: 3464364 Publish Date : 2017/11/08
TEHRAN (IQNA) – The UN Security Council unanimously approved a statement Monday strongly condemning the violence that has caused more than 600,000 Rohingya Muslims to flee from Myanmar to Bangladesh, a significant step that still fell short of a stronger resolution that China opposed.
News ID: 3464361 Publish Date : 2017/11/07
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Tents have been set up by the Iranian Red Crescent Society (IRCS) on the paths of Arbaeen pilgrims to collect aid for Rohingya Muslim refugees.
News ID: 3464350 Publish Date : 2017/11/06
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina called on parliamentarians across the Commonwealth countries to exert pressure on Myanmar to halt its persecution of the Rohingya Muslim minority and repatriate the 622,000 who crossed the border into Bangladesh since the start of its military crackdown.
News ID: 3464340 Publish Date : 2017/11/05
TEHRAN (IQNA) – The United Nations (UN) at the Security Council session on November 2 called the situation of the over 800,000 Rohingya refugees as likely the “most acute” among that of the 65 to 66 million people forcibly displaced in the world.
News ID: 3464329 Publish Date : 2017/11/04
TEHRAN (IQNA) – An official with the Iranian Red Crescent Society (IRCS) estimated that over one million Rohingya Muslims have fled violence in Myanmar and entered Bangladesh.
News ID: 3464279 Publish Date : 2017/10/29
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Buddhists in Myanmar on Wednesday blocked aid workers from visiting a camp for displaced Rohingya Muslims in the central part of Rakhine State, where the United Nations fears the spread of violence that has already displaced hundreds of thousands.
News ID: 3464258 Publish Date : 2017/10/26
TEHRAN (IQNA) – As a growing number of Canadians demanded action on the Rohingya crisis — many calling for Ottawa to revoke the Burmese (Myanmarese) leader Aung San Suu Kyi's honorary Canadian citizenship — Karen MacArthur was flying over Northern Rakhine state, ground zero for the Rohingya Muslims’ plight.
News ID: 3464244 Publish Date : 2017/10/24
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Myanmarese soldiers are continuing to rape and murder Rohingya Muslims in the country’s Rakhine state, according to the United Nations Commissioner for Human Rights.
News ID: 3464208 Publish Date : 2017/10/21
