A new investigation reveals that Rohingya Muslim women have been subjected to “methodical” and “sweeping” rape by Myanmar’s military forces in Rakhine State, where a government-backed ethnic cleansing campaign has been underway against the minority group. The investigation was conducted by the Associated Press based on interviews with 29 Rohingya women and girls, who survived […]

A sea of worshippers crowded into a football field in Yangon Wednesday for a historic open-air mass by Pope Francis, whose visit to Myanmar has been framed so far by his public sidestepping of the Rohingya crisis. Ranks of nuns sang in Latin, accompanied by organ music, as Francis — making the first papal visit […]

TEHRAN – Aung San Suu Kyi has been formally stripped of the Freedom of the City of Oxford award over her response to the repression of her country’s Rohingya Muslims. Oxford city council voted unanimously to permanently remove the honor given to the de facto leader of Myanmar in 1997, and said it did not […]

TEHRAN – Myanmar and Bangladesh signed a memorandum of understanding on Thursday for the return home of hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslim refugees who fled to the neighboring country to escape a Myanmar army crackdown. “We are ready to take them back as soon as possible after Bangladesh sends the forms back to us,” […]

TEHRAN  – Myanmar’s de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi said on Tuesday she hopes talks with Bangladesh this week will result in a memorandum of understanding on the “safe and voluntary return” of Rohingya Muslims who fled to Bangladesh in the past three months. A counter-insurgency operation launched in Myanmar’s Rakhine State has driven […]

TEHRAN – Myanmar’s security forces committed “widespread rape” against Rohingya women and girls as part of a campaign of ethnic cleansing in the country’s Rakhine State, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said in a report. A 15-year-old Rohingya girl told HRW that soldiers stripped her naked and dragged her from her home to a nearby tree […]

TEHRAN – To alleviate the severity of situation imposed upon the Muslims of Myanmar, Iranian Leader Ayatollah Khameni sent a charity sum of $300, 000. Iranian Leader, Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, allocated $300, 000 to the war-hit Muslims of Myanmar who are known as Rohingya Muslims, according to the public relations department of his office.

TEHRAN – The parliamentary representatives of OIC member states convened in Tehran on Saturday to hold the 38th meeting of the PUIC Executive Committee. Parliamentary representatives of Algeria, Azerbaijan, Benin, Indonesia, Lebanon, Mozambique, Pakistan, Turkey, Senegal, Mali, and Iraq joined the Iranian representatives to hold the 38th meeting of the PUIC (Parliamentary Union of the […]

The Israeli regime will not put an end to its sale of ammunition to Myanmar in light of incontrovertible evidence and United Nations data that the Southeast Asian nation’s military has perpetrated various forms of atrocities, including systematic rape and expulsions, against Rohingya Muslims. English-language Haaretz daily newspaper reported that a group of human rights activists had […]

Seven countries have called on the UN Security Council to convene a meeting to discuss the ongoing atrocities against Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar. According to a request seen by AFP on Friday, France, Britain, the US, Egypt, Kazakhstan, Senegal and Sweden asked UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres to brief the Security Council on Myanmar’s military […]