Myanmar military court to probe violence against Rohingya
Press TV – A military court in Myanmar will investigate the army’s conduct during a crackdown on the persecuted Rohingya Muslims that…
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Iran ready to help restore stability in Myanmar: President
IRNA – Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani said on Saturday that Tehran was ready to help restore security and stability in Myanmar so…
UN says new Myanmar curbs threatening 50,000 Rohingya
Press TV – The UN says new government curbs on aid activities are affecting at least 50,000 people in Myanmar’s beleaguered Rakhine state,…
Myanmar seizes more Rohingya Muslims fleeing Rakhine
Press TV – Myanmar’s authorities have intercepted a boat with 93 Rohingya Muslims who were fleeing apartheid conditions at internal displacement camps…
Ex-Iran FM expresses concerns over Rohingya Muslims conditions
IRNA – Former Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki described the conditions of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar as critical and concerning. Many Muslims…
Genocide continues in Myanmar, says U.N. investigator
The Wall Street Journal | Farnaz Fassihi: U.N. investigators said on Wednesday that Myanmar has continued its campaign of “genocide” against Rohingya…
Myanmar roundly shamed over human rights inquiry panel
Press TV – Various human rights activists and observers have roundly denounced Myanmar’s decision to appoint a commission of inquiry into widespread…
Rohingya Muslims subjected to systematic massacre, rape in Myanmar: Rights group
Press TV – An international group of medical experts says evidence collected from Rohingya Muslims’ accounts proves that the highly-persecuted minority is…
Rohingya lawyer Kyaw Hla Aung awarded Aurora Prize
Iranian Diplomacy- Rohingya Lawyer recently awarded the $1.1m Aurora Prize for Awakening Humanity says his people are under serious discrimination just because…
Award-winning lawyer says Rohingya must be recognized as Myanmar citizens
Press TV – An award-winning lawyer says the stateless Rohingya Muslims must be recognized as citizens of Myanmar so that they can…
Myanmar detains Rohingya refugees ‘voluntarily’ returning
Press TV- Myanmar has detained dozens of Rohingya Muslim refugees it claims voluntarily crossed the border back into their home country from…
UN: Myanmar government destroying Rakhine’s Rohingya Muslims
Press TV – The UN Secretary General’s Special Adviser for the Prevention of Genocide says all the evidence he has received shows that…
Symbolic court in Iran sentences Myanmar’s Suu Kyi to 25 years in jail
Tasnim– Myanmar’s de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi and commander-in-chief Min Aung Hlaing went on trial during a ‘popular court’ in…
UN demands unhindered access to Rohingya camps newly built in Myanmar
Press TV- The United Nations (UN) has called on Myanmar to grant aid agencies unhindered access to camps that have been built…
Iran urges global community to solve Rohingya crisis
IRNA – The situation of the Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar is very serious, an Iranian diplomat said Sunday urging the global community…
UNICEF: Rohingya children trapped in appalling conditions in Myanmar’s Rakhine state
FNA- The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) reported that more than 60,000 Rohingya children remain nearly forgotten, trapped in appalling camps in…
Myanmar’s Suu Kyi avoids topic of abuse against Rohingya in meeting with UN official
Press TV – Myanmar’s de facto leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, has conspicuously avoided talking about reports of Rohingya Muslim women and…
Iran’s positive vote to Myanmar resolution registered at UN
IRNA – Iran’s positive vote to the resolution on violation of human rights in Myanmar was registered at United Nations (UN) on…
Why Iran abstained from voting on Myanmar resolution?
MNA – The office of the Permanent representative of the Islamic Republic of Iran to New York explained the reason for Iran’s…
UN General Assembly calls on Myanmar to stop military campaign against Rohingya Muslims
Press TV – The United Nations General Assembly has called on Myanmar to halt its military campaign against Rohingya Muslims. On Sunday, a…
6,700 Rohingya killed in Myanmar only in one month: MSF
Press TV – The international medical charity Doctors Without Borders says at least 6,700 members of the persecuted Rohingya Muslim minority group…
Rights groups urge intl. monitoring of Rohingya’s return
Press TV- Prominent human rights groups have called on international agencies to monitor the safe return of Rohingya Muslims to Myanmar, as…
Myanmar forces burning Rohingya Muslims alive: Report
Press TV – A human rights group says Myanmar’s army has been slitting the throats of Rohingya Muslims and burning them alive.…
UNSC strongly condemns violence against Muslims in Myanmar
Press TV – The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) has strongly condemned government-sanctioned violence against Myanmar’s Muslim Rohingya minority. The UNSC expressed…
Iranian cleric urges Muslims not to remain silent on plight of Rohingya
Tasnim– Senior Iranian cleric Ayatollah Nasser Makarem Shirazi deplored the appalling conditions of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar and called on all Islamic…
Myanmar, Bangladesh agree to stop ‘outflow’ of Rohingya Muslims to Bangladesh
Press TV- Myanmar and Bangladesh have agreed to immediately halt the “outflow” of Rohingya Muslims into Bangladesh and take steps to return…
UN group says over 600,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled to Bangladesh
Press TV – Over 600,000 Rohingya Muslim refugees have fled Myanmar for Bangladesh since violence against the persecuted minority erupted in Rakhine…
Iranian jurists urge UN action on Rohingya Muslim crisis
Tasnim– A number of Iranian jurists and lawyers called on the United Nations secretary general to push for an end to the…
Dozens of Rohingya drowned en route to Bangladesh, 12,000 more flee
Press TV- At least 12 Rohignya Muslims, including six children, have been killed in yet another boat tragedy in waters off Bangladesh,…
Third batch of Iran’s aid reaches Rohingya Muslims in Bangladesh
Tasnim – Iran’s third consignment of humanitarian aid for the Rohingya Muslims fleeing violence at home in Myanmar has reached Bangladesh, the…
UN gearing up for heavy influx of Rohingya Muslim refugees
Press TV – The UN has announced that it is on “full alert” for a mass exodus of Rohingya Muslims as reports show…
Iranian cleric urges diplomatic pressure on Myanmar over Rohingya crisis
Tasnim – Top Iranian cleric Ayatollah Nasser Makarem Shirazi called on the country’s Foreign Ministry to adopt whatever diplomatic approaches it can…
Myanmar turning a deaf ear to world demands
October 5, The Iran Project – World countries continue to harshly react to a deadly crackdown by Myanmar’s government on minority…
HRW says Myanmar army raping and executing Rohingya Muslims
Press TV – Human Rights Watch says Myanmar’s military “summarily executed” and sexually assaulted dozens of Rohingya Muslims during a raid on a…
Iran working on humanitarian aid roadmap to Rohingya Muslims
MNA – Iran’s Foreign Ministry has held a meeting to finalize a roadmap for humanitarian assistance to Myanmars Rohingya Muslims. The Tuesday meeting on…
10,000 Rohingya waiting at border to cross into Bangladesh: Report
Press TV- Over 10,000 more Rohingya refugees fleeing a military crackdown at home in Myanmar’s Rakhine State have amassed near a crossing…
Who is responsible for ethnic cleansing in Myanmar?
American Herald Tribune | GEARÓID Ó COLMÁIN: On the 15th of September the dead bodies of a family were discovered by Burmese…
FM spox: Myanmar’s disregard for intl. community’s calls ‘unacceptable’
MNA– Iran’s FM Spokesman Ghasemi said the Burmese government’s disregard for international community’s calls on stopping violence against Rohingya Muslims is unacceptable.…
Amnesty urges UNSC to impose arms embargo on Myanmar
Press TV- Amnesty International has called on the United Nations Security Council to spare no efforts to end the brutal crackdown against…
900,000 Rohingya Refugees: The moment when humanitarian spirit failed
American Herald Tribune | HARUN YAHYA: In the face of the historical disasters humanity has experienced, a majority of the world has…