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Boats carrying fleeing Rohingya Muslims capsize
A protester belonging to the hardline Islamic Defenders Front holds a placard calling to “stop the massacre of Muslim Rohingya and Myanmar Buddhists cowards” during a rally near the Myanmar embassy in...
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Myanmar’s Suu Kyi slams 2-child limit for Muslims
Myanmar democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi delivers a speech during the National League for Democracy (NLD)’s first Central Executive Committee meeting in Yangon on May 27, 2013. Source: AFP Photo/Soe...
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Buddhist mobs attack Muslim homes for second day in Myanmar; one dead
A police officer stands near a mosque that was burnt during a riot between Buddhist and Muslims in Lashio township on May 29, 2013. (Reuters/Soe Zeya Tun) Lashio, Reuters—Buddhist mobs armed with...
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In Conversation with the Head of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation
Iyad Ameen Madani. (Asharq Al-Awsat) Jeddah, Asharq Al-Awsat—The latest meeting of foreign ministers from members of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) in Jeddah had the misfortune to be...
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1,600 Rohingya, Bangladeshi migrants rescued in Indonesia, Malaysia
Rohingya refugees line up for breakfast in the sport stadium of Lhok Sukon, North Aceh, Sumatra, Indonesia, on May 11, 2015, after being rescued from a boat off the North Aceh coast. (EPA/Zikri...
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Ordinary people help migrants as Asia struggles with crisis
A Rohingya migrant child, who arrived in Indonesia by boat, carries belongings while walking to a bigger shelter inside a temporary compound for refugees in Kuala Cangkoi village in Lhoksukon,...
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Myanmar should share responsibility for Rohingya crisis: US
Rohingya and Bangladeshi migrants at a temporary shelter in Bayeun village, Aceh province, Indonesia, on May 23, 2015. (EPA/Dedi Sahputra) Yangon, Myanmar, AP—Navy ships were scouring Southeast Asian...
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Myanmar rejects “unbalanced” Rohingya remarks in Oslo
In this picture taken on May 29, 2015, a Rohingya migrant child from Myanmar plays on a pile of clothes donated by Indonesian residents at a confinement camp for rescued Rohingya migrants from Myanmar...
View ArticleGulf Arab States Condemn the Continuing Racism and Human Rights Violations...
From ASHARQ AL-AWSAT English. The Arab Gulf states have condemned the continuing racial discrimination directed at the Rohingya Muslim minority in Myanmar and the … continue reading Gulf Arab States...
View ArticleU.S. Ambassador to Keep Using Term ‘Rohingya’ in Myanmar
From ASHARQ AL-AWSAT English. The new U.S. ambassador to Myanmar stressed on Tuesday that he will keep using the term Rohingya for the persecuted … continue reading U.S. Ambassador to Keep Using Term...
View ArticleThousands of Rohingya Flee to Bangladesh over Fear for their Lives
From ASHARQ AL-AWSAT English. Dhaka- The scale of human suffering of the Muslim Rohingya minority in Myanmar has been rising, as desperate people like … continue reading Thousands of Rohingya Flee to...
View ArticleMyanmar Denies Ethnic Cleansing of Rohingya Muslims
From ASHARQ AL-AWSAT English. Myanmar reiterated on Tuesday that there was no ethnic cleansing against Rohingya Muslims in the troubled state of Rakhine. A … continue reading Myanmar Denies Ethnic...
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