TEHRAN, March 6- Myanmar’s “ethnic cleansing” of Rohingya Muslims was continuing, a senior U.N. human rights official said on Tuesday, more than six months after insurgent attacks sparked a security response that has driven nearly 700,000 people into Bangladesh.
TEHRAN, March 1 - Bangladesh will send a protest note to Myanmar over an increased security presence near a portion of their border where thousands of Rohingya Muslims have been sheltering just inside Myanmar, a Bangladesh border guard official said on Thursday.
TEHRAN, February 28 -Canada’s foreign minister says what has taken place against the Rohingya Muslim community in western Myanmar constitutes “ethnic cleansing.”
TEHRAN, February 24 -Three bombs rocked the capital of Myanmar’s restive Rakhine State, Sittwe, early on Saturday, police said, adding that a policeman was slightly injured and the authorities were still working to determine who was behind the bombings.
TEHRAN, February 23 - New satellite imagery shows that the government of Myanmar is bulldozing more than dozens of already-burned-out Rohingya Muslim villages in the west of the country in an attempt to destroy evidence of violence committed by the military, rights groups said.
TEHRAN, February 22 - A bomb blast killed two bank employees and injured 22 other people in Myanmar’s northeastern city of Lashio on Wednesday, the government and the military said.
TEHRAN, February 11 -Myanmar says it will take unspecified action against a number of security forces and civilian individuals in connection with a recent massacre in a Rohingya Muslim village, during which 10 Muslims — whom Naypyidaw has previously called “terrorists” — were executed summary-style.
TEHRAN, February 3 - North Korea violated United Nations sanctions to earn nearly $200 million in 2017 from banned commodity exports, according to a confidential report by independent U.N. monitors, which also accused Pyongyang of supplying weapons to Syria and Myanmar.
TEHRAN, January 17 -Myanmar police shot dead seven demonstrators and 12 were injured in troubled Rakhine State, after a local gathering celebrating an ancient Buddhist Arakan kingdom turned violent.
TEHRAN, January 15 -Myanmar is building a camp to temporarily house 30,000 Rohingya Muslims targeted for repatriation after fleeing violence in Rakhine State, state media reported on Monday, as Myanmar and Bangladesh meet to discuss how to implement a repatriation deal.
TEHRAN, January 10 - Myanmar’s military has admitted its security forces and Buddhist villagers killed 10 Rohingya Muslims whose bodies were found in a mass grave in a village in troubled Rakhine state.
TEHRAN, December 29 -Two Reuters journalists jailed in Myanmar for obtaining “important secret papers” were arrested just after being handed rolled papers by police officials in a restaurant to which they had been invited for dinner, their family members say.
TEHRAN, December 28 - The United Nations’ independent investigator into human rights in Myanmar has called for international pressure on China and Russia to try to get them to oppose human rights abuses in Myanmar.
TEHRAN, December 27 - Iran said the country’s positive vote to a resolution on the violation of human rights of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar has been registered at the United Nations.
TEHRAN, December 26 -Iranian mission to the UN called on Myanmar to deal with unresolved problems of its Muslims and restore revoked citizenship rights of them.
TEHRAN, December 24 - A US Defense Department spokesman says that Myanmar, which is widely censured for conducting ethnic cleansing against its Rohingya Muslim minority, has been invited to observe major US-Thai war games, dubbed Cobra Gold, along with other Asian militaries.
TEHRAN, December 19 - A mass grave has been found in Myanmar, at a location where minority Rohingya Muslims have been the target of state-sponsored violence for over a year.
TEHRAN, December 15 - Iran’s Red Crescent Society (IRCS) has dispatched medical teams to administer on-the-post treatment to Rohingya Muslim refugees who have fled Myanmar to escape military crackdown and ethnic violence, an official said.
TEHRAN, December 5 - Myanmar's security forces may be guilty of genocide against the Rohingya Muslim minority, the United Nations' top human rights official said on Tuesday, adding that more were fleeing despite an agreement between Myanmar and Bangladesh to send them home.