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TEHRAN (defapress)- Scores of tribal villagers in Western Myanmar have crossed into Bangladesh in recent days amid fierce fighting between the army and ethnic rebels in the restive Rakhine state.
News ID: 75475 Publish Date : 2019/02/08
'Profoundly Dismayed':
TEHRAN (defapress)- Amnesty International stripped Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi of its highest honour over her "indifference" to the atrocities committed by the country's military against the Muslim-majority Rohingya.
News ID: 73682 Publish Date : 2018/11/13
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TEHRAN (defapress) - Myanmar government leader Aung San Suu Kyi will not attend the UN General Assembly in New York next week, media reported on Wednesday, amid growing calls for Myanmar's security forces to be held accountable for alleged crimes against Rohingya Muslims.
News ID: 72365 Publish Date : 2018/09/12
Myanmar's government rejected a United Nations' report on mass killings and gang rapes of Rohingya, which calls for Myanmar officials to face genocide charges over their campaign against the Muslim minority.
News ID: 72079 Publish Date : 2018/08/29
Investigators working for the UN's top human rights body said Monday that top Myanmar military leaders should be prosecuted for genocide against Rohingya Muslims.
News ID: 72036 Publish Date : 2018/08/27
Thousands of Rohingya Muslim refugees rallied in Bangladesh, calling for justice on the anniversary of Myanmar’s deadly crackdown on the persecuted ethnic minority group.
News ID: 71994 Publish Date : 2018/08/25
A UN Spokesman on Wednesday called for "effective access" for humanitarian aid organizations to enter into Myanmar's Rakhine state, where thousands of Rohingya Muslims faced persecution from security forces.
News ID: 71941 Publish Date : 2018/08/23
More than 24,000 Rohingya Muslims have been killed by Myanmar’s state forces since August 2017, according to a new report.
News ID: 71865 Publish Date : 2018/08/19
The United Nations Security Council called on Myanmar to create the right conditions for the safe return of tens of thousands of Rohingya Muslim refugees to their home country from neighboring Bangladesh.
News ID: 71374 Publish Date : 2018/07/24
Special UN Envoy to Myanmar Christine Schraner Burgener has said that the return of 900,000-plus Rohingya refugees stranded in Bangladesh to Myanmar will take time.
News ID: 71369 Publish Date : 2018/07/24
Myanmar authorities made “extensive and systematic preparations” for attacks on Rohingya civilians during the weeks and months before militants attacked police in August 2017, said a Bangkok-based human rights group in a report.
News ID: 71296 Publish Date : 2018/07/20
The UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar on Wednesday urged the International Criminal Court (ICC) to investigate and prosecute those responsible for possible war crimes and crime against humanity in Myanmar.
News ID: 70980 Publish Date : 2018/06/28
The European Union imposed sanctions on military officials in Myanmar on Monday over their role in the systematic human rights violations against Rohingya Muslims in Rakhine state where a brutal military campaign last year forced nearly 700,000 to flee to Bangladesh.
News ID: 70949 Publish Date : 2018/06/26
Myanmar and UN agencies signed an agreement Wednesday that could lead to the return of some of the 700,000 Rohingya Muslims who fled brutal persecution by the country's security forces and are now crowded into makeshift camps in Bangladesh.
News ID: 70552 Publish Date : 2018/06/06
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TEHRAN (defapress)- Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi said that country’s positive vote to a resolution on the violation of human rights of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar has been registered at the United Nations.
News ID: 67753 Publish Date : 2017/12/27
TEHRAN (defapress) - The top UN human rights official has said he would not be surprised if a court one day ruled that acts of genocide had been committed against the Rohingya Muslim minority in Myanmar, according to a television interview to be shown on Monday.
News ID: 67579 Publish Date : 2017/12/18
TEHRAN (defapress) – Myanmar and Bangladesh have agreed on a repatriation of hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims.
News ID: 67114 Publish Date : 2017/11/23
TEHRAN (defapress) - The UN Security Council (UNSC) said Friday that it seeks to end the violence in Myanmar's northwestern Rakhine State, to push for humanitarian access to victims and for the return of more than half a million refugees to their homes.
News ID: 66395 Publish Date : 2017/10/14
TEHRAN (defapress) – Top Iranian cleric Ayatollah Nasser Makarem Shirazi called on the country’s Foreign Ministry to adopt whatever diplomatic approaches it can to force the government of Myanmar to stop the persecution of Muslim people in the Buddhist-majority country.
News ID: 66158 Publish Date : 2017/10/05
TEHRAN (defapress) - The UN committees for women's and children's rights called on Myanmar's authorities on Wednesday to immediately stop violence in northern Rakhine state, which hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims have fled in the past six weeks.
News ID: 66139 Publish Date : 2017/10/04
