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China believes that Burma is now ready to take back hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims sheltering in Bangladesh who have fled violence in the former Burma, the Chinese government’s top diplomat tells his Bangladeshi counterpart.
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The United States on Thursday placed Burma on its list of worst offenders of human trafficking and accused it of using child soldiers amid global criticism over human rights abuses by the country’s military against the minority Rohingya Muslims.
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The outgoing UN human rights chief kept Burma under the microscope in parting remarks to the UN Human Rights Council on Monday, noting the government’s failure to cooperate with multiple probes into alleged rights abuses.
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Members of the US House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly on Tuesday in favor of legislation to pressure Burma to improve its record on human rights.
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China’s defence ministry has called on armed groups in northern Burma to show restraint and declare an immediate ceasefire after conflicts in the region killed three Chinese citizens.
International Relations Lead Story News Rohingya
The US government’s aid chief urged Burma on Sunday to take “concrete steps” to guarantee the rights of Rohingya Muslims and to show sincerity in that endeavour in order to encourage hundreds of thousands who have fled the country to return.
International Relations Lead Story News Rakhine
The United States indirectly criticised China on Monday for shielding Burma from strong UN Security Council action over a military crackdown against mainly Rohingya Muslims that the US and other countries have denounced as ethnic cleansing.
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China on Sunday condemned fighting in Burma between Burmese government troops and ethnic militants near the Chinese border, which had caused people to flee into Chinese territory.
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Burma’s perennially contentious relationship with the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation moved no closer toward amicability this week as the two sides traded barbs over the situation in Rakhine State, where a mass exodus of Rohingya Muslims tied to allegations of ethnic cleansing has heaped global censure on the government.
International Relations Lead Story News Rohingya
The UN Security Council has urged Burma’s government to carry out transparent investigations into accusations of violence against mainly Rohingya Muslims in Rakhine State and to allow immediate aid access to the region.
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China does not want the UN Security Council to tell Burma that credible, transparent investigations into accusations of violence against mainly Rohingya Muslims are important, according to proposed amendments to a British-drafted statement.
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Britain’s UN envoy suggests the UN Security Council could consider helping Burma collect evidence of crimes committed during a military crackdown of the Rohingya, denounced by the world body as ethnic cleansing after most recent bout of persecution of the Muslim minority last year.
International Relations Lead Story News Rakhine
UN Security Council envoys began a four-day visit to Bangladesh and Burma on Saturday to see firsthand the aftermath of a Burmese military crackdown that Britain, the United States and others have denounced as ethnic cleansing of Rohingya Muslims.
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The English football club Leeds United may be kicking itself this week after its boisterous announcement that it will be bringing the squad to Burma next month was met with widespread condemnation.
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United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has tapped Switzerland’s ambassador to Germany, Christine Schraner Burgener, to be his special envoy on Burma, UN sources said on Wednesday.
International Relations Lead Story News Rohingya
The US government is conducting an intensive examination of alleged atrocities against Rohingya Muslims, documenting alleged atrocities in an investigation that could be used to prosecute Burma’s military for crimes against humanity, said US officials.
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Southeast Asian leaders will focus on trade wars, the crisis in Burma and security tensions in the disputed South China Sea at a summit this weekend, but it’s highly unlikely there will be any headline-grabbing progress on the issues.
International Relations Lead Story News Rohingya
Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said on Tuesday more international pressure was needed on Burma to take back Rohingya refugees, rejecting a claim by the Burmese government that it had repatriated a family of five.
International Relations Lead Story News Rohingya
Bangladesh has failed to persuade aid agencies to sign up to its plan to move 100,000 Rohingya refugees to a remote island in June, internal documents show, amid fears they could be trapped there at the mercy of cyclones, floods and human traffickers.
International Relations Lead Story News Rohingya
The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court has asked it to rule on whether it has jurisdiction over the deportations of Rohingya people from Burma to Bangladesh, a possible crime against humanity, according to a filing published on Monday.
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Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said on Thursday “genocide” was taking place in Burma and he was willing to accept Rohingya Muslim refugees fleeing from it, though Europe should help too.
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Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop said she will raise human rights concerns with Burmese and Cambodian leaders during a three-day summit of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) that begins in Sydney on Friday.
International Relations Lead Story News Rohingya
Crimes verging on genocide were being committed against the Rohingya minority in Burma, and those crimes bore “the fingerprints of the Myanmar government and of the international community,” the United Nations special adviser on the prevention of genocide said on Tuesday.
International Relations Lead Story News Rohingya
Burma’s “ethnic cleansing” of Rohingya Muslims is continuing, a senior UN human rights official said on Tuesday, more than six months after insurgent attacks sparked a security response that has driven nearly 700,000 people into Bangladesh.
International Relations Lead Story News Rohingya
Bangladesh will send a protest note to Burma over an increased security presence near a portion of their border where thousands of Rohingya Muslims have been sheltering just inside Burma, a Bangladesh border guard official said on Thursday.
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Thousands of Rohingya Muslims have fled a strip of land on the border between Burma and Bangladesh after the two countries met to discuss resettling them, an official and a community leader said.
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European Union foreign ministers agreed on Monday to prepare sanctions against Burmese generals over the killings of Rohingya Muslims and to strengthen the EU arms embargo, accusing state security forces of grave human rights abuses.
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The European Union will start preparing sanctions against Burmese generals over killings of Rohingya Muslims by formally calling on the bloc’s foreign policy chief next week to draw up a list of possible names, two diplomats said.
International Relations Lead Story News Rohingya
Burmese and Bangladeshi representatives held talks about 5,300 Rohingya Muslims trapped on a strip of unclaimed land between their two countries and visited the area on Tuesday, officials and Rohingya refugees told Reuters.
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During a visit to Thailand, Senior-General Min Aung Hlaing talked to Bangkok Post reporters on the occasion of his receiving a royal decoration from Thailand, the Knight Grand Cross (First Class) of the Most Exalted Order of the White Elephant.
