TEHRAN, August 27 -The European Union's executive in Brussels will hold a meeting this week with the authors of a UN report that called for prosecution of Myanmar's army chief and five other top military commanders for genocide against the country’s Rohingya Muslim minority.
TEHRAN, August 27 -Facebook has removed the account of the Myanmar military’s commander-in-chief and a number of other pages tied to the country on the same day that he was singled out in a UN report for war crimes against Rohingya Muslims.
TEHRAN, August 27 -A UN fact-finding mission says Myanmar’s military has carried out a series of “shocking” rights violations against Rohingya Muslims, including mass killings and gang rapes, saying the country’s commander-in-chief and other generals should stand trial for “genocide” and war crimes against the minority group.
TEHRAN, August 27 - Myanmar’s military carried out mass killings and gang rapes of Muslim Rohingya with “genocidal intent” and the commander-in-chief and five generals should be prosecuted for orchestrating the gravest crimes under law, U.N. investigators said on Monday.
TEHRAN, August 26 -The United States will continue to hold accountable those responsible for what he described as the “abhorrent ethnic cleansing” of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Saturday.
TEHRAN, August 21 -The United Nations is awaiting “effective access” to the Myanmar region where 700,000 Rohingya Muslims were driven out in an army crackdown, months after agreeing with the government to aid the return of refugees, the U.N. country head said on Tuesday.
TEHRAN, August 18 -The United States has imposed sanctions against four Myanmar military and police commanders and two army units responsible for the atrocities against minority Rohingya Muslims in the Buddhist-majority country.
TEHRAN, August 18 -Mohib Bullah is not your typical human rights investigator. He chews betel and he lives in a rickety hut made of plastic and bamboo. Sometimes, he can be found standing in a line for rations at the Rohingya refugee camp where he lives in Bangladesh.
TEHRAN, July 30 -Monsoon floods in Myanmar have killed at least 11 people and forced more than 100,000 to flee their homes, government officials say, as rescue workers ferry stranded residents to safety by boat.
TEHRAN, July 30 - Monsoon floods in Myanmar have killed at least 11 people and forced more than 100,000 to flee their homes, government officials said on Monday, as rescue workers ferried stranded residents to safety by boat.
TEHRAN, July 30- Kyaw Soe Oo, one of two Reuters journalists accused of obtaining state secrets in Myanmar, told a court on Monday that the information in documents police say were found on his mobile phone was already public.
TEHRAN, July 29 - Rising floodwaters have killed at least five people and forced tens of thousands from their homes across swathes of Myanmar, a government official told AFP on Sunday, as heavy monsoon rains continue to batter the Mekong region.
TEHRAN, July 21 - An international group of medical experts says evidence collected from Rohingya Muslims' accounts proves that the highly-persecuted minority is subjected to systematic massacre and rape in Myanmar.
TEHRAN, July 15 - At least 15 people were killed and dozens injured in a landslide at a jade mine in northern Myanmar's jade mining region, state media and officials said Sunday.
TEHRAN, July 10 -A Myanmar court has charged two Reuters reporters with breaching the colonial-era Official Secrets Act. They face up to 14 years in prison if convicted.
TEHRAN, June 27 - The United Nations human rights investigator on Myanmar called on the government on Wednesday to "dismantle the system of discrimination" against the Muslim Rohingya minority and to restore their rights to citizenship and property.
TEHRAN, June 27 -Cambodia’s National Election Committee (NEC) on Wednesday said 50,000 observers, including some from China, Myanmar and Singapore, will monitor a general election next month, which is widely expected to be a landslide victory for Prime Minister Hun Sen after the main opposition party was dissolved last year.
TEHRAN, June 27 -Human rights group Amnesty International says Myanmar’s top military officials must be tried at the International Criminal Court (ICC) for crimes against humanity over atrocities against the Rohingya Muslim minority in the Buddhist-majority country.
TEHRAN, June 26 -The European Union (EU) is well supportive of the government in Myanmar — which has been quietly condoning a brutal military crackdown on members of the Muslim Rohingya community there — and recent sanctions imposed by the bloc on individual Myanmarese police personnel amount to nothing more than an attempt at appeasing some Europe-based Muslims, says a commentator.