Press TV - The UN says new government curbs on aid activities are affecting at least 50,000 peoplein Myanmars beleaguered Rakhine state, where persecuted Rohingya Muslims are mainly based. Earlier this month, the so-called Rakhine State government blocked non-governmental organizations and UNagencies from travelling to rural areas in northern and ...

Press TV - Myanmars authorities have intercepted a boat with 93 Rohingya Muslims who were fleeing apartheid conditions at internal displacement camps in Rakhine State and heading to Malaysia. Moe Zaw Latt, director of the government office in the southern coastal town of Dawei, said on Tuesday that Myanmars navy had seized the vessel and detained ...

Press TV- Myanmars military chief claims that Rohingya Muslim refugees who return to the country will be safe as long as they stay in camp areas and model villages designated for them. "There is no need to be worried about their security if they stay in the areas designated for them," Senior General Min Aung Hlaing told a United Nations delegation ...

Press TV - The UN Secretary General's Special Adviser for the Prevention of Genocidesays all the evidence he has received shows that the Myanmar government tried to utterly destroy Rohingya Muslims in Rakhine state. On Tuesday, Adama Dieng said that if the evidence recently presented to him was proven, it would "constitute the crime of genocide....

Press TV- The United Nations (UN) has called on Myanmar to grant aid agencies unhindered access to camps that have been built near the border with Bangladesh to house the tens of thousands of Rohingya Muslim refugees who face repatriation from Bangladesh. The Taung Pyo Letwe refugee camp, built by Myanmaroutside the town of Maungdaw in Rakhine ...

FNA- The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) reported that more than 60,000 Rohingya children remain nearly forgotten, trapped in appalling camps in central Rakhine where the shelters teeter on stilts above garbage and excrement. Partners have identified about 20 children separated from their families during the violence but estimate the total ...

Press TV- A deal signed between Bangladesh and Myanmar for the repatriation of Rohingya Muslim refugees into their homeland in Myanmars state of Rakhine may not be implemented soon, authorities in Bangladesh have suggested. A Bangladeshi Foreign Ministry official said Tuesday that the January 21 deadline set as the date for the start of repatriation ...

Press TV - Over 600,000 Rohingya Muslim refugees have fled Myanmar for Bangladesh since violence against the persecuted minority erupted in Rakhine state in August, the United Nations say. In a report released on Sunday, the UN-led Inter-Sector Coordination Group (ISCG) said an estimated 603,000 refugees from Rakhine had crossed the border into ...

American Herald Tribune | GEARID COLMIN: On the 15th of September the dead bodies of a family were discovered by Burmese security forces In Mayu Mountain Rakhine state.The family are believed to be Daingnet minorities. The murders have been blamed on the Arakanese Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA, formerly Harakah al Yakin) a terrorist group with links ...

Press TV - Thousands of panic-stricken Rohingya Muslims have fled the fresh tide of violence in Rakhine, with Myanmars leader and the armed group involved in clashes with government forces in the troubled state trading accusations of fueling the turmoil. On Monday, Aung San Suu Kyi accused the so-called Rohingya fighters of burning down homes ...

Press TV- Buddhists in a village in Myanmars troubled state of Rakhine have imposed a blockade on hundreds of Rohingya Muslims living in the area, effectively barring them from work and shopping for their basic needs while imposing restrictions on peoples access to drinking water. Residents of Zay Di Pyin said on Tuesday that about 700 Rohingyahad ...

Press TV - Myanmar has deployed 500 soldiers to the Muslim-majority northern part of Rakhine state amid fears of another wave of crackdown on Rohingya Muslims. Two military sources based in the northwestern state said the decision was taken after seven Buddhists were found dead in mountains near the town of Maungdaw last week. One of the ...