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Myanmar’s leaders, including Nobel laureate and de facto head of state Aung San Suu Kyi, have repeatedly defended the military crackdown. (AFP)

Why the Gambia’s plea for the Rohingya matters for international justice

In early December, the International Court of Justice heard arguments filed by the Gambia against Myanmar for violations of the Genocide Convention. This included a request for…

Wa Lone (Reuters)

Myanmar court rejects appeal by jailed Reuters journalists

Ruling decried as ‘another injustice’ against Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo, who were investigating 2017 killings of Rohingya

About 700 000 Rohingya fled the Myanmar army crackdown. (Jorge Silva/Reuters)

Myanmar rejects ICC ruling to probe Rohingya deportations

Following the International Criminal Court’s unprecedented ruling, Myanmar says it has no obligation to respect it

Myanmar’s leaders, including Nobel laureate and de facto head of state Aung San Suu Kyi, have repeatedly defended the military crackdown. (AFP)

Myanmar rejects UN probe findings of Rohingya ‘genocide’

On Monday, a UN probe detailed evidence of genocide and crimes against humanity ‘perpetrated on a massive scale’ towards the Rohingya.

Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo had been investigating the September 2017 killings of 10 Rohingya Muslims in conflict-scarred Rakhine state. (Reuters)

Myanmar court postpones verdict for Reuters journalists

Wa Lone, 32, and Kyaw Soe Oo, 28, have been detained in Myanmar’s infamous Insein prison since December in the case which has ignited a global outcry

A handful of soldiers have been charged by Myanmar for involvement in a single massacre but UN special rapporteur Yanghee Lee has tempered expectations that Myanmar’s generals would stand trial anytime soon. (Reuters)

Catalogue of abuse: Seeking justice for the Rohingya

Different teams of investigators in the world’s biggest refugee camp in Bangladesh have been quietly documenting the events of 2017

Freedom denied: Political detainees in the Kanjedza prison camp in Nyasaland

Rohingya deal aims to repatriate refugees ‘within two years’

A statement by the Bangladeshi government said the agreement aims to return Rohingya "within two years from the commencement of repatriation".

Freedom denied: Political detainees in the Kanjedza prison camp in Nyasaland

Rohingya refugees to start returning from January

An estimated 655 000 refugees from the stateless group have poured across the border into Bangladesh, fleeing ethnic cleansing.

Cambridge Analytica CEO Alexander Nix

Myanmar social media anger after Pope uses ‘Rohingya’ word

The Pope expressed that he had taken up the Rohingya cause in private in Myanmar, but a few days before, he chose not to publicly air their plight.

​Myanmar’s leader Aung San Suu Ky

Myanmar’s Suu Kyi makes first visit to crisis-hit northern Rakhine

In an unannounced trip, she made her first visit an area that has seen most of its Rohingya Muslim population forced out by an army campaign.

Israel has not divulged details of its ties to Myanmar’s military government

Israel maintains robust arms trade with rogue regimes

Human rights activists are stepping up efforts to expose Israel’s long and covert history of supplying weapons and military training to regimes.

Malaysia and Indonesia on Wednesday announced their countries would end a much-condemned policy of turning away boatloads of starving migrants.

Pope to visit Myanmar as anti-Rohingya hatred seethes

The November visit comes as unprecedented numbers of Rohingya flee into neighbouring Bangladesh because of increasing communal violence.

Freedom denied: Political detainees in the Kanjedza prison camp in Nyasaland

Rohingya feel like prisoners in giant Bangladesh camp

In a small village on the border of Myanmar and Bangladesh, some 520 000 more Rohingya have made camp in the latest eruption of violence.

Freedom denied: Political detainees in the Kanjedza prison camp in Nyasaland

10,000 Rohingya poised to move to Bangladesh as exodus swells again

Over 500 000 Rohingya have streamed into Bangladesh in the past five weeks and numbers are expected to swell again with another 10 000 waiting to move

Genocide scholars document a range of strategies of physical and psychological destruction which take place prior to mass killings.

Rohingya crisis: This is what genocide looks like

Genocide doesn’t begin with mass murder. It’s a long, insidious process that can be stopped before it’s too late.

Eskom’s balance sheet was poor and affected its ability to secure long term bonds from the market, according to Eskom CEO Phakamani Hadebe. (Paul Botes/M&G)

Myanmar leader has cancelled trip to UN General Assembly

Aung San Suu Kyi’s deputy will attend the UN general assembly to respond to questions on the Rohingya Muslims.

Myanmar pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi.

Suu Kyi and Myanmar face chorus of anger over Rohingya crisis

Nobel peace laureate Malala Yousafzai and mainly Muslim countries in Asia led a growing chorus of criticism aimed at Myanmar and its civilian leader

A handful of soldiers have been charged by Myanmar for involvement in a single massacre but UN special rapporteur Yanghee Lee has tempered expectations that Myanmar’s generals would stand trial anytime soon. (Reuters)

Thousands of Rohingya flee Myanmar violence in 10 days

The UN says 87 000 members of persecuted Muslim community have crossed into Bangladesh since violence erupted on August 25.