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Pope’s visit in Myanmar highlights horrific crimes against Rohingya
Reacting to the remarks by Pope Francis during his visit to Myanmar today, Ming Yu Hah, Amnesty International’s Deputy Campaigns…
November 28, 2017
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Rohingya returns in Myanmar unthinkable until apartheid system is dismantled
In response to news that the governments of Myanmar and Bangladesh have signed an agreement to return close to a…
November 23, 2017
Press Release
State Department Acknowledges Ethnic Cleansing in Myanmar
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson called the sustained and systemic attacks on the Rohingya population by the Myanmar military “ethnic…
November 22, 2017
Report
Myanmar: Rohingya trapped in dehumanizing apartheid regime
The Rohingya people in Myanmar are trapped in a vicious system of state-sponsored, institutionalized discrimination that amounts to apartheid, said…
November 20, 2017
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Amnesty International Responds to Tillerson’s Myanmar Meetings
In response to Secretary Tillerson’s meetings with government and military officials in Myanmar, Joanne Lin, national director of advocacy and government relations…
November 15, 2017
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Myanmar military attempts to whitewash crimes against humanity targeting Rohingya
In response to findings released today after the Myanmar military’s internal investigation into violence in northern Rakhine State since August…
November 13, 2017
Report
‘My World Is Finished’: Rohingya Targeted in Crimes against Humanity in Myanmar
More than 530,000 Rohingya men, women and children have fled northern Rakhine State in terror in a matter of weeks…
October 17, 2017
Report
Between a Rock and a Hard Place
With the world’s fastest growing refugee crisis developing on its doorstep, Thailand must take concrete action to reverse its long-standing…
September 28, 2017
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UN: Myanmar Rohingya exodus exposes abject failure of world leaders to deliver solution to refugee crisis
As almost 400,000 refugees flee ethnic cleansing in Myanmar, world leaders meeting at the UN General Assembly should hang their…
September 18, 2017
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New landmine blasts in Myanmar point to deliberate targeting of Rohingya
Two new landmine incidents today, including a blast blowing off a young man’s leg, bring to three the number of…
September 10, 2017
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Myanmar: Army landmines along border with Bangladesh pose deadly threat to fleeing Rohingya
Myanmar’s security forces planted internationally banned antipersonnel landmines along its border with Bangladesh which have seriously injured at least three…
September 8, 2017
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Official response to Rakhine and Rohingya crisis in Myanmar ‘unconscionable’
The statement by Myanmar’s leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s office, which claims that the government is defending all the people…
September 6, 2017