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Malaysia in pilot scheme to allow Rohingya refugees to work

25 Nov, 2016 25 views

By Beh Lih Yi KUALA LUMPUR (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – The U.N. refugee agency said on Thursday it was working with Malaysia on a pilot scheme to allow refugees from Myanmar’s persecuted Rohingya minority …

Indonesians protest at Myanmar embassy over Rohingya cause

25 Nov, 2016 31 views

AKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Hundreds of Indonesians, angered over the persecution of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar, protested Thursday outside the Myanmar Embassy in the Indonesian capital. Jakarta police spokesman Awi Setiyono said at least …

Home Ministry bans 21 publications ranging in topic from religion to homosexuality

25 Nov, 2016 71 views

Home Ministry bans 21 publications ranging in topic from religion to homosexuality PUTRAJAYA: The Home Ministry has banned 21 publications deemed to contain elements which could “adversely affect public order and thinking.” The books …

Indonesian army helicopter reported missing in Borneo

25 Nov, 2016 39 views

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesia’s military said it lost contact Thursday with an army helicopter carrying four soldiers in Indonesia’s part of Borneo. Army spokesman Brig. Gen. Sabrar Fadhilah said the Bell 412 EP …

Myanmar wants ethnic cleansing of Rohingya

25 Nov, 2016 37 views

Myanmar wants ethnic cleansing of Rohingya – UN official Media captionSoldiers are “killing men, slaughtering children, raping women”, says John McKissick of the UN refugee agency in Bangladesh Myanmar is seeking the ethnic cleansing …

They will kill us’: The Rohingya refugees fleeing torture and rape in Myanmar

25 Nov, 2016 132 views

They come by the thousands. Rohingya refugees from Myanmar’s northwestern Rakhine state are flooding across the border into Bangladesh. They’re fleeing violence that has plagued the state for weeks. Some refugees told CNN they …

More Rohingyas flee to Bangladesh as violence spreads in Myanmar

25 Nov, 2016 40 views

COX’S BAZAR, Bangladesh More Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar poured into neighboring Bangladesh this week, with some feared to have drowned after a boat sank during a bid to flee violence that has killed at …

Burma’s Million-Strong Rohingya Population Faces ‘Final Stages of Genocide

24 Nov, 2016 44 views

The long-persecuted ethnicity is on the verge of “mass annihilation,” say experts, with new evidence indicating government complicity Despite the U.S.-led rolling back of economic sanctions and internationally backed national elections taking place early …

Myanmar government legitimising genocide

24 Nov, 2016 64 views

Aung Suu Kyi’s government is legitimising genocide in Myanmar and it has abetted the persecution of the Rohingya minority, a London think tank has accused. Citing results from months of fieldwork in Myanmar’s Rakhine …