TEHRAN, July 12, YJC - A Human Rights Watch representative criticized Myanmar for refusing to give visas to a UN team probing abuse of Rohingya Muslims, saying the refusal amounts to “a slap in the face” of victims.
TEHRAN, July 3, YJC - The European Union has urged Myanmar to protect journalists from "intimidation, arrest or prosecution" after a number of journalists were detained across the Southeast Asian country.
TEHRAN, June 30, YJC - Myanmar said it will refuse entry to the members of a United Nations fact-finding mission tasked with investigating allegations of crimes by Myanmar’s security forces against Rohingya Muslims.
TEHRAN, June 13, YJC The United Nations says its top official in Myanmar is being changed, with sources citing her failure to protect the rights of the oppressed Rohingya Muslims as the reason behind the decision.
TEHRAN, May 20, YJC -Chinese navy ships are visiting Myanmar and will conduct communications, search and rescue, and other joint exercises with the Myanmar navy, China’s defense ministry said on Saturday.
TEHRAN, May 3, YJC -Myanmar’s de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi has rejected a decision by the United Nations' rights council to investigate allegations of killings, rape and torture by army forces against Rohingya Muslims in the county’s troubled Rakhine State.
TEHRAN, April 11, YJC - China and Myanmar signed an agreement on an oil pipeline between the neighboring countries after almost a decade of talks, local media reported Tuesday.
TEHRAN, April 9, YJC -The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has called for the release of the Rohingya children detained by Myanmar’s government as part of a heavy-handed crackdown on the Muslim minority group in Rakhine State.
TEHRAN, April 2, YJC - Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi's party won nearly half of the seats contested in by-elections on Sunday, the first vote since it swept to power a year ago and an early indication of support for her administration amid increased fighting with ethnic armed groups and slower economic growth.
A United Nations official has deplored “harrowing” acts of violence and discrimination against the Rohingya in Myanmar, calling on the country to put an end to its crackdown on the Muslim minority.
More than 1,000 Rohingya Muslims have allegedly been killed in Myanmar amid the army's intensified crackdown on members of the minority group, two senior United Nations officials have disclosed the horrifying fact.
The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) has called on the United Nations (UN) to intervene in Myanmar’s Rakhine State, where it says the escalation of violence against Rohingya Muslims could lead to “genocide.”
Heavy fighting in Myanmar’s northern state of Kachin has forced thousands of people to flee their homes and prevented a United Nations (UN) special envoy from visiting the embattled area near the Chinese border, activists say.
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has written to the United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres to demand international action to stop rights violations against the Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar.
An aid flotilla organized to deliver food and emergency supplies from Muslim majority Malaysia to Rohingya Muslims is yet to receive permission to enter Myanmar, raising fears of confrontation and deterioration of already-tense ties between the countries.
The flotilla will sail from Malaysia for Myanmar's crisis-hit Rakhine State on January 10, the Malaysian organizer said on Friday. It would be carrying 1,000 tonnes of rice, medical aid and other essentials for the Rohingya population.
Malaysia has been highly critical of the violent crackdown by Myanmar's government in Rakhine, which has killed scores of people and displaced 30,0000 Rohingya, amid allegations of abuses by security forces.
The organizers of the flotilla had applied for permission through Myanmar’s embassy in Kula Lumpur to cross into the Buddhist-dominant country, but have yet to receive a reply, according to the Malaysian Consultative Council of Islamic Organizations secretary general Zulhanis Zainol.
“Even if we do not receive a response, we will continue to sail as we believe this is an important humanitarian mission," he said.
Myanmar's presidential office, however, said it had obtained no such request, adding that it would “not receive” the flotilla without permission.
“If they are looking for trouble, we will not accept that," Zaw Htay, the spokesman for the presidential office.
“No non-Myanmar citizens can enter our body of water without our permission. If they do, we will respond - we will not attack them, but we will not receive them."
Earlier this month, Malaysia urged the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) to coordinate humanitarian aid and investigate alleged atrocities committed against Rohingya Muslims.
An estimated 150,000 to 200,000 Rohingyas, displaced by violence, live in Malaysia.
In an open letter on Thursday to the United Nations Security Council, a group of 23 human rights activists, including Nobel laureates and current and former business and political leaders, criticized Myanmar’s leader Aung San Suu Kyi for failing to ensure human rights for the minority Rohingya Muslims facing persecution in the Buddhist-dominant country.
Rakhine has been the scene of communal violence at the hands of Buddhist extremists since 2012. Hundreds of people have been killed and tens of thousands have been forced from homes to live in squalid camps in dire conditions in Myanmar, Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia.
The government in Myanmar denies full citizenship to the 1.1 million Rohingya population, branding them illegal immigrants from Bangladesh. However, the Rohingyas are believed to be a community of ancient lineage in Myanmar.
According to the UN, the Rohingyas are one of the most persecuted minorities in the world.
The global community has warned Myanmar that the ongoing human rights violations in Rakhine could amount to “crimes against humanity.”
(Press TV)
YANGON, Jan 20, 2015 (AFP) - A senior US diplomat Tuesday criticised Myanmar's policies which impose severe restrictions on the Muslim Rohingya community in Rakhine, saying they "oppress" people in the strife-torn state.
TEHRAN, YJC. -- The Human Rights Watch has called on Myanmar’s government to adopt effective measures aimed at putting an end to attacks against the Rohingya Muslims in the Asian country.