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Two years after a brutal ethnic cleansing campaign forced more than 740,000 Rohingya men, women and children to flee Myanmar for Bangladesh, the majority remain trapped in unbearable conditions in overcrowded camps, denied security and education. Amnesty International Australia campaigner Nikita White said: “So long as Rohingya people cannot return to safety and with citizenship …
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As someone born to stateless parents, and who has been stateless all my life, I found it impossible to imagine a life of freedom, respect, opportunities and love. It is a life I thought I would never experience. I fled Myanmar (Burma) when I was 16, boarding many boats to seek a country I could …
The Australian Government should immediately end military ties with Myanmar, Australia’s foremost international human rights and development organisations jointly said today. They called on the Australian government to impose targeted sanctions on military commanders responsible for atrocities committed against ethnic Rohingya, and to press for an international mechanism to assist future prosecutions. As Australia commences …
Report names 13 officials with a key role in murder, rape and deportation of Rohingya. Myanmar’s security forces committed nine distinct types of crimes against humanity; responsibility goes to the top of the chain of command. Calls for accountability, including a UN Security Council referral to the ICC. Amnesty International has gathered extensive, credible evidence …
New evidence gathered inside Rakhine State points to gruesome massacre of Hindus Men, women and children rounded up and killed, execution-style Access for UN, independent investigators urgently needed A Rohingya armed group brandishing guns and swords is responsible for at least one, and potentially a second, massacre of up to 99 Hindu women, men, and …
“An arms embargo and targeted sanctions are urgently needed to send a message that these violations will not be tolerated. There is also an urgent need for unfettered and sustained humanitarian access throughout northern Rakhine State.” – Matthew Wells, Senior Crisis Advisor at Amnesty International The Myanmar security forces’ devastating campaign against the Rohingya population …
Amnesty International is clear that governments, such as Australia’s, who continue to train Myanmar’s military are propping up a force that is carrying out a vicious campaign of violence against the Rohingya that amounts to crimes against humanity. Amnesty calls on Australia to immediately cease providing training to the Myanmar military and to use …
The Myanmar authorities must immediately release two journalists from the Reuters news agency who have been arbitrarily detained for investigating military abuses in Myanmar’s Rakhine State, Amnesty International said. The two journalists, Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo, are due in court today. They had been investigating the recent military operations in Rakhine State when …
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