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Bangladeshi Parents Fear for Lost Generation of Rohingya Children

Two years after a brutal ethnic cleansing campaign forced around 700,000 Rohingya to flee Myanmar for Bangladesh, refugees are still trapped in unbearable conditions in overcrowded camps, Amnesty International said…

August 29, 2019
Bina Bala, a 22-year-old woman who survived a massacre of Hindu villagers by the armed group, Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA) on 25 August 2017. She is pictured in Kutupalong refugee camp in Bangladesh in September 2017, where she was briefly before being returned to Myanmar in October 2017. She told Amnesty International. “[The men] held knives and long iron rods. They tied our hands behind our backs and blindfolded us. I asked what they were doing. One of them replied, ‘You and Rakhine are the same, you have a different religion, you can’t live here. He spoke the [Rohingya] language. They asked what belongings we had, then they beat us. Eventually I gave them my gold and money.”

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Filmmaker Sentenced To One Year In Prison In Myanmar For Facebook Post

Responding to the decision by the Insein Township Court to sentence filmmaker Min Htin Ko Ko Gyi to one year in prison on charges of undermining the military, Nicholas Bequelin,…

August 29, 2019
Myanmar human rights activist and film director Min Htin Ko Ko Gyi speaks to journalists after a court verdict in Yangon on August 29, 2019. - A Myanmar filmmaker was sentenced to a year in prison on August 29 after he criticised the military, as free expression advocates warn of "grave threats" to those who challenge the powerful armed services. (Photo by Sai Aung MAIN / AFP) (Photo credit should read SAI AUNG MAIN/AFP/Getty Images)

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BRIEF-MYANMAR HUMAN RIGHTS CRISIS (7.26.19)

Impunity reigns supreme in Myanmar, where the military has committed some of the gravest crimes under international law, in particular against the Rohingya in Rakhine State, and in Kachin and…

July 30, 2019

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Human Rights on Capitol Hill late June Edition

To view PDF version click here: Human Rights on Capitol Hill late June Human Rights on Capitol Hill  published by Amnesty International USA  June 26, 2019  In this edition of…

June 26, 2019

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Human Rights on Capitol Hill June Edition

To view PDF version click here: Human Rights on Capitol Hill June Human Rights on Capitol Hill  published by Amnesty International USA  June 12, 2019  In this edition of Human…

June 12, 2019

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“No one can protect us”: War crimes and abuses in Myanmar’s Rakhine State

Following a recent investigation in Myanmar’s Rakhine State, Amnesty International has gathered new evidence that the Myanmar military is committing war crimes and other human rights violations. The military operation…

May 29, 2019
Rohingya refugees from Myanmar's Rakhine state arrive near the Khanchon border crossing near the Bangaldeshi town of Teknaf on Septebmer 5, 2017. Nearly 125,000 mostly Rohingya refugees have entered Bangladesh since a fresh upsurge of violence in Myanmar on August 25, the United Nations said September 5, as fears grow of a humanitarian crisis in the overstretched camps. The UN said 123,600 had crossed the border in the past 11 days from Myanmar's violence-wracked Rakhine state. / AFP PHOTO / K M Asad (Photo credit should read K M ASAD/AFP/Getty Images)