Rohingyas

World’s failure to act over Myanmar is ‘stain on collective conscience’, court told

L'ex-icône birmane de la démocratie Aung San Suu Kyi va mener une délégation auprès de la plus haute juridiction de l'ONU afin de défendre la Birmanie, confrontée à une pression juridique croissante sur le sort de la minorité musulmane des Rohingyas, a indiqué le gouvernement.

The US action against senior army officers comes as the military has continued to 'commit human rights violations'.

17/08/18 - 18:47 - The Treasury Department announced Friday that it had imposed economic sanctions on Burmese security forces for what American officials said was their role in “ethnic cleansing” against Rohingya Muslims and “widespread human rights abuses” against other ethnic minority groups.

13:59 - On Nov. 23, the governments of Myanmar and Bangladesh signed an agreement to return the Rohingya refugees — more than 600,000 people who escaped from Rakhine state in western Myanmar to Cox’s Bazar in Bangladesh — after ethnic cleansing carried out by Myanmar’s armed forces since August.

El Pontífice da un espaldarazo a la criticada Aung San Suu Kyi e invoca, sin citarlos directamente, los derechos humanos de los rohingya

12:56 - Dacca alerta de que la situación es "insostenible" y exige a Myanmar que cambie de postura