Rohingya Crisis
Ethnic Rohingya are heavily persecuted in Myanmar and thousands risk their lives each year on long, dangerous sea journeys to try to reach Malaysia, Indonesia.
Updated 20 Oct, 2024 11:23am
UNHCR says if the death toll is confirmed, it will be the biggest loss of life so far this year.
Published 22 Mar, 2024 07:30pm
After a $125 million donation shortfall, monthly food vouchers have been cut from $12 to $10 per person starting in March, the UN WFP announced.
Updated 03 Mar, 2023 09:56am
Police demand hefty bribes from refugees under threat of arrest, says HRW report.
Published 17 Jan, 2023 01:24pm
Foreign minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar will hold talks with his Bangladeshi counterpart on water sharing, trade, border issues.
Published 04 Mar, 2021 02:02pm
Authorities have not found the original boat, thought to be now carrying around 500 people.
Updated 25 Jun, 2020 09:17am
Burning of villages was a tactic used on a large scale by the military in Rakhine in 2017, investigations say.
Updated 27 May, 2020 08:46am
Guterres says 308 refugees on Bhashan Char island should be moved to camps after their time in quarantine is completed.
Published 17 May, 2020 01:24pm
Captain of the fish trawler, carrying 500 men, also died.
Updated 17 Apr, 2020 07:45am
It was not immediately clear where the group started their boat journey.
Updated 15 Feb, 2020 09:36am
Officials say the passengers were enticed by traffickers to board the boat headed for Malaysia.
Published 11 Feb, 2020 06:59pm
The Rohingya remain “at serious risk of genocide,” says presiding Judge Abdulqawi Yusuf.
Published 23 Jan, 2020 04:22pm
Panel admits "war crimes"; activists term report as a "whitewash".
Published 21 Jan, 2020 11:27am
Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi says the country will always be at China's side.
Updated 18 Jan, 2020 11:31am
Bhasan Char is ready for habitation.
Updated 18 Jan, 2020 09:02am
Ichiro Maruyama has been previously quoted as saying that potential trade sanctions on Myanmar would be “nonsense”.
Updated 15 Jan, 2020 03:34pm
Says the exodus of hundreds of thousands of Muslims was the unfortunate result of a battle with insurgents.
Updated 12 Dec, 2019 08:42am
The leader acknowledges use of disproportionate force at times, says the conflict is “complex and not easy to fathom”.
Updated 11 Dec, 2019 04:35pm
Myanmar leader is expected to repeat denials, justify military "clearance operations" as counterterrorism measures.
Published 10 Dec, 2019 08:07pm
Gambia's lawsuit accuses Myanmar of genocide — the most serious international crime — against Rohingya Muslim minority.
Published 08 Dec, 2019 01:56pm
Nobel laureate is preparing to defend the country at the UN’s highest court on Dec 10.
Published 02 Dec, 2019 11:05am
Suu Kyi will personally lead a team to The Hague to "defend the national interest of Myanmar," her office says.
Updated 21 Nov, 2019 08:36am
UN investigators and rights groups say Myanmar forces carried out mass rapes, killings and burning of Rohingya homes.
Published 03 Nov, 2019 06:26pm
Rights groups warn the island might not be able to withstand violent storms during the annual monsoon season.
Published 20 Oct, 2019 02:28pm
"There are three large camps. We’ll fence the three camps with barbed wires," says Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan.
Updated 27 Sep, 2019 08:45am
At least 13 refugees have been killed in alleged gunfights between criminals and officers since a local leader’s murder.
Updated 23 Sep, 2019 08:50am
"It will become a legal issue whether or not there is an element of culpability here," says fact-finding mission chair.
Updated 18 Sep, 2019 08:55am
Myanmar is "denying wrongdoing, destroying evidence [and] refusing to conduct effective investigations", says UN report.
Published 16 Sep, 2019 03:44pm
“We've seen Myanmar could not win Rohingya's trust in creating a conducive situation [in Rakhine] for their return.”
Published 12 Sep, 2019 10:14pm
Formal education in Bangladesh is forbidden for refugees.
Updated 09 Sep, 2019 08:27am
