( 19.10.2018 ) News today.

Six Rohingya Die in IDP Camp Blaze in Myanmar’s Rakhine State (RFA )
2 US State Department officials arrive today( The Daily Star, Bangladesh )
Switzerland president voices ‘strong’ support for Bangladesh on Rohingya crisis( bdnews24.com )
Washington’s South Asia official to visit Bangladesh ( bdnews24.com )
Spanish delegation for raising global awareness ( The Daily Star, Bangladesh )

UK Wants Accountability for Crimes Committed in Rakhine State ( The Irrawaddy )

Rohingya Tell Delhi Police to Kill or Bomb Their Camp Than Ask For Biometric Details( News18.com )
Powerful image is an 'uncomfortable' win for photographer here for World Press Photo Exhibition( The Straits Times )

Rohingya Tell Delhi Police to Kill or Bomb Their Camp Than Ask For Biometric Details ( News18.com )

Six dead in fire at Rohingya camp in Myanmar( Frontier Myanmar )

A Rohingya Villager’s Forensic Quest for Justice ( Video ) ( The Wall Street Journal )

Deadly fire hits Rohingya camp ( SBS )

Aung San Suu Kyi's brother launches legal bid to sell lakeside family home where Burma leader lived under house arrest ( The Telegraph )

6 Rohingya Died in Fire at Sittwe IDP Camp ( The Irrawaddy )

New British Ambassador discusses Myanmar’s democratic progress, press freedom and the Rakhine crisis ( Mizzima )

UN Security Council to meet on Myanmar atrocities report ( i24NEWS )

Wan Azizah regrets Suu Kyi has done little on Rohingya issue(Bernama - Malaysian National News )

( 19.11.2016 ) Reports of Rohingyas at Bangladesh border 'false' ( Reuters )

YANGON • Myanmar's state media has denied Bangladesh border guards' accounts of Rohingya Muslims fleeing conflict at home by trying to cross into the northern neighbour.

A commanding officer of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) said on Friday his staff provided food and medicine to 82 people, including women and children, attempting to leave Myanmar, but turned them back from the frontier. Two boats with 86 people were pushed back last Tuesday.

State-run English newspaper Global New Light of Myanmar said yesterday a newly created information task force had found the reports to be untrue.

"An inquiry into news reports by Reuters that nearly 200 people fleeing Myanmar had been arrested and repulsed yesterday by Bangladesh border guards has been found to be false," said the newspaper, quoting BGB officials.

Soldiers have flooded the north of Rakhine state, along Myanmar's frontier with Bangladesh, responding to attacks by alleged Muslim militants on border posts on Oct 9.

Sixty-nine suspected insurgents and 17 members of the security forces have been killed since the violence began, according to official reports. Earlier this month, Myanmar denied accusations by the Rohingya that its military had killed people fleeing the conflict, which has displaced up to 30,000 people.

Rohingya residents have told Reuters that hundreds have tried to flee to Bangladesh after fighting intensified a week ago. The United Nations refugee agency has said the border should be kept open for people fleeing violence.

The Global New Light of Myanmar said the government planned to create an investigation commission to look into the "violent attacks in Maungdaw", the region in Rakhine at the centre of the unrest.

The report did not specify whether the probe would include an investigation of allegations of human rights abuses that the UN, the United States and Britain have called for.

REUTERS

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(03.06.2015 )Imran writes to UN Chief on plight of Rohingya Muslims ( Daily Mail-PK)

Jun 03, 2015

ISLAMABAD – In an open letter to United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan said that silence and complete inaction by the UN on the continuing plight and persecution of the Rohingya Muslims of Myanmar is a shameful testatment to the failure of the UN to fulfill its basic principles of upholding human rights and protecting people from genocide.

Khan said that more that 120,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled abroad under desperate circumstances and conditions in the past three years.

“Even today the Rohingyas have been abandoned on the high seas with no humanitarian assistance forthcoming,” he added.