Myanmar Home Minister Kyaw Swe, who is on a three-day visit to Dhaka, today met his Bangladeshi counterpart Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal and discussed along with senior officials the repatriation plan for Rohingya refugees

Myanmar outlines 3 stages for Rohingya repatriation: Bangladesh minister

A Myanmar government spokesman said "action according to the law" would be taken against seven soldiers, three members of the police force and six villagers as part of an army investigation

Myanmar says soldiers, police face action over village killings

The Bangladesh army began biometric registering of the refugees last year

Bangladesh says it is hosting over 1 million Rohingya

The crowd was trying to seize a government office

Seven ethnic Rakhine killed as Myanmar Police fire on rioters

Unlike the Rohingya Muslims who live in the same state, the Rakhine are recognised by the government as an ethnic group but are often marginalised under a system that favours the dominant Bamar (Burmese)

Who are Myanmar's Rakine?

WION Evening News Brief, 17 January 2018

Rohingya refugee camp comes up in West Bengal's South 24 Parganas

Bangladesh wants more than 655,000 refugees to start returning to Myanmar by the end of this month

Hindu refugees eagerly await return to Myanmar

They face up to 14 years in jail under the Official Secrets Act for allegedly possessing documents related to the army crackdown in Rakhine state - a highly sensitive issue in Myanmar.

Myanmar court remands detained journalists for two more weeks

Al Qaeda has called for the liberation of Arakan (what is today the Rakhine state of Myanmar)

Al-Qaeda calls on Bangladeshi Muslims to wage jihad against Myanmar Army

The talks focused on finding a solution to the crisis and safe return of the forcibly displaced Myanmar refugees.

Chinese foreign minister arrives in Bangladesh to discuss Rakhine refugees issue

The landmines were 'apparently targeting' army convoys, the state-run Global New Light of Myanmar newspaper said

Myanmar military trucks hit landmines in troubled Rakhine, one injured

There are close to a million Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh in desperate need of food, shelter and medical attention

The Rohingya: When the land you love burns

Bangladesh is planning to introduce voluntary sterilisation in its overcrowded Rohingya camps, where nearly a million refugees are fighting for space

Bangladesh eyes sterilisation to curb Rohingya population

A combination of escalating violence, worsening health and poor access to conflict zones in Myanmar's Rakhine state is fueling a humanitarian crisis that is spinning out of control, senior aid officials said on Thursday.

Myanmar's Rohingya crisis spinning out of control: Aid officials

More than 500,000 Rohingya have fled ethnic bloodshed in Myanmar in the past month

Rohingya fleeing Myanmar say Army redoubling efforts to clear out those who remain

The Rapid Action Battalion raided a village near the border with Myanmar late Monday to free the Rohingya Muslims who had been held there for a day, said Major Ruhul Amin

Bangladesh rescues 20 Rohingya held by refugee racket gang

The boat capsized just metres off the coast of Bangladesh on Thursday

Rohingya boat capsize: Death toll likely to cross 60, says UN

While both insurgency and terrorism advocate violence as a form of political act, there are fundamental differences between the two.

Rohingyas: Insurgents or Terrorists

More than half a million Rohingya Muslims have poured into Bangladesh in the last month, fleeing a vicious Myanmar military crackdown on Rohingya rebels that has gutted villages across northern Rakhine state

UN chief tells Myanmar to end 'nightmare' as 19 drown in Rohingya boat capsize

Myanmar's army chief on Saturday blamed Rohingya militants for an explosion outside a mosque in Rakhine state, as a rights group accused the military of starting fires in the region to prevent refugees from returning

Fires rage in Rakhine as Myanmar army blames Rohingya for mosque blast

Singh said that was because India is not a signatory to the 1951 UN Refugee Convention

India will not violate any international law by deporting Rohingyas: Rajnath Singh

Senior General Min Aung Hlaing, in a major speech on his plans for?Rakhine?state on his first visit there since the latest strife erupted, said the military had handled the situation as best as it could after a wave of coordinated attacks by Rohingya insurgents on Aug. 25.

Myanmar army chief urges internally displaced to return to Rakhine

Van Thio's remarks are even less likely than Suu Kyi's to mollify global concerns as he questioned the reasons for the flight of members of the Rohingya Muslim minority

Myanmar insists to UN that Rakhine improving

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