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Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi delivers a national address in Naypyidaw on September 19, 2017. (AFP)

Suu Kyi, Myanmar Government ‘Burying their Heads in the Sand’

by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Sep 19, 2017 | World

In her first public remarks on the violence against Rohingya Muslims, Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi condemned on Tuesday any human rights violations in the turbulent Rakhine state as rights groups said a systematic purge was being committed against the minority...

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United Wa State Army (UWSA) soldiers march during a media display in Pansang, Wa territory in northeast Myanmar October 4, 2016. REUTERS/Soe Zeya Tun

Human Rights Watch Pushes for Sanctions against Myanmar Army

by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Sep 18, 2017 | World

Human Rights Watch urged world leaders to impose sanctions on Myanmar’s military, which is accused of driving out more than 400,000 Rohingya Muslims in an orchestrated “ethnic cleansing” campaign. The call from the rights group came as the United...

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MWL’s Sec-Gen Mohammed al-Isa at the Conference on Civilization Interaction between US and Muslim World (SPA)

MWL Sec-Gen: Rohingya Crisis Is Terrorism

by Moaz al-Omari | Sep 18, 2017 | Middle East

New York – The Muslim World League (MWL) is prepared to send an official delegation to Myanmar to support Rohingya Muslim minorities who are being persecuted. MWL’s Sec-Gen Mohammed al-Isa confirmed that the bloodshed in Myanmar was no less criminal than the terrorism...

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A member of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) tells a Rohingya girl not to come on Bangladesh side, in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, August 27, 2017. REUTERS/Mohammad Ponir Hossain

Myanmar Hints It May Not Take Back Rohingya

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Sep 18, 2017 | World

Yangon- Aung San Suu Kyi is preparing to address Myanmar on the violence against Rohingya Muslims for the first time in an attempt to soothe global outrage. The nationally-televised turn will break a near silence since the ulcerous ethnic and religious hatreds in...

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Rohingya refugees arrive near the a makeshift refugee camp Bangladesh. (Reuters)

Bangladesh Starts Immunization of Rohingya Refugees amid Health Fears

by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Sep 17, 2017 | World

Authorities in Bangladesh kicked off on Sunday an immunization campaign among Muslim Rohingya refugees as an aid group warned that many could die due to a lack of food, shelter and water. The campaign started in a crowded border camp as the country struggled to take...