Rohingya Crisis

Eamon Gilmore, European Union's Special Representative for Human Rights spent a full day in Cox's Bazar and met the Rohingyas who fled from Myanmar over the past six years

In August 2017, Myanmar's military launched what it called a clearance campaign in Rakhine state in the country's west in response to an attack by a Rohingya insurgent group

The minister said detection and deportation of illegal migrants, including the Rohingya from Myanmar, after due process of nationality verification was a continuous process

The plea has sought a direction to the Centre and the state governments to identify, detain and deport all illegal immigrants and infiltrators

UNHCR has warned that conditions are not safe for the repatriation of Rohingya to Myanmar from Bangladesh

The UN fact-finding mission released an explosive report last month that called on the council to refer the Myanmar situation to the International Criminal Court in The Hague

US will provide the fund in additional humanitarian assistance, of which $156 million would go to refugees and host communities in Bangladesh

More than 650,000 Rohingya Muslims fled Rakhine in August 2017 after Myanmar's army launched a massive crackdown in its northern state

Last year, ARSA militants attacked a Hindu village in Myanmar and rounded up some men, women, and children, the majority of whom were killed

The murders were part of a larger army crackdown on the Rohingya

SC had directed the Centre to file a 'comprehensive status report' giving details of conditions in Rohingya refugee camps in various states

"Around 150 families have already left the camp for Bangladesh as they were afraid they might be forcefully sent back to Rakhine

The resignation deals an embarrassing public blow to Suu Kyi as her civilian government grapples with a crisis that has sent hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslim refugees fleeing into Bangladesh

"The government of Myanmar has informed UN Special Rapporteur Yanghee Lee that all access to the country has been denied and cooperation withdrawn for the duration of her tenure," the OHCHR said

Nobel laureate is in China to attend CPC's meeting with political leaders from across the globe

This is the first time that large number of people from the community were apprehended from Tripura

Govts such as Myanmar's are sensitive to foreign opinions

The statement follows a visit last week to Myanmar by Tillerson, who met with State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi

There is global outrage over the distressing plight of dispossessed Rohingya in Bangladeshi camps currently

Over 600,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled Myanmar's violence hit Rakhine state to neighbouring Bangladesh