On Monday (February 1, 2021), Myanmar’s army declared a one-year state of emergency and selected a general as acting president of the country, after apprehending a civilian leader Aung San…
Rohingyas
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Shafaqna Pakistan:While the horrific treatment of the Rohingya in Myanmar has been repeatedly condemned by many quarters and also resulted in various protests across Pakistan, the simple truth of the…
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Shafaqna Pakistan:The highest court of the United Nations, the International Court of Justice, will on Thursday be issuing its much-anticipated decision on a request for “emergency measures” in a landmark genocide case against…
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Shafaqna Pakistan: John Austin felt that international laws lacked a certain legal component with regards to enforceability because there was no empowered body that could implement the law and hand out…
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Shafaqa Pakistan:The International Court of Justice (ICJ) has launched genocide hearings against Myanmar, as the first major legal attempt to bring the country to justice over horrific atrocities committed against…
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Shafaqna Pakistan:US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has said that China’s treatment of Muslims, including the Uighurs, in western China was an “enormous human rights violation” and Washington will continue…
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Shafaqna Pakistan : Some 200,000 Rohingya rallied in a Bangladesh refugee camp to mark two years since they fled a violent crackdown by Myanmar forces, just days after a second…
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The United States has imposed sanctions on Myanmar’s military chief and three other top officers over their role in the atrocities against the Rohingya Muslim minority group in the Buddhist-majority…
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Shafaqna Pakistan: You must have seen the images of a brutal killing that has been going on in Burma for a long time as Buddhists are burning villages and killing…
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Canada’s parliament voted unanimously on Thursday to effectively strip Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi of her honorary Canadian citizenship over the Rohingya crisis. Ottawa had given the long-detained democracy…
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The International Criminal Court has opened a preliminary probe into Myanmar military’s crimes, including killings, sexual violence and forced deportations, against members of the Rohingya Muslim minority group in the…
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The grainy black-and-white photo, printed in a new book on the Rohingya crisis authored by Myanmar’s army, shows a man standing over two bodies, wielding a farming tool. “Bengalis killed…
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Foreign ministers from Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC) have launched a campaign to mobilize international support for action against Myanmar over the Rohingya refugee crisis. Foreign ministers and diplomats…
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The United Nations has warned that more than 100,000 Rohingya Muslims in Bangladeshi refugee camps will be in grave danger with the mid-year monsoon season on its way. “Landslide and…
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Amnesty International has called for an independent investigation into rights abuses in Myanmar’s Rakhine state after the country’s army admitted its troops were involved in the murder of 10…
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The United Nations’ human rights chief has suggested that “elements of genocide” are present in a state-sponsored campaign of violence against minority Rohingya Muslims in Buddhist-majority Myanmar. “Can anyone —…
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Myanmar has subjected Rohingya Muslims to long-term discrimination and persecution that amounts to “dehumanising apartheid,” Amnesty International said Tuesday in a report that raises questions about what those who…
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Last week, when I was planning a trip to Quetta for training, Mujeeb Hashmi, a friend from work, asked me to wear shalwar kameez, not only to the airport…
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Human Rights Watch (HRW) says nearly 300 villages of the persecuted Rohingya Muslim minority have been burned in Myanmar since the outbreak of the latest military offensive in restive…
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United Nations doctors’ have confirmed numerous reports of sexual assaults committed by Myanmarese military against Rohingya women. According to Reuters, doctors treating some of hundreds of thousands…