Press TV- Myanmar has detained dozens of Rohingya Muslim refugees it claims voluntarily crossed the border back into their home country from Bangladesh over the last four months, pending a decision to pardon them before resettlement. A total of 58 Rohingya refugees have returned to Myanmar after they could no longer find it tenable to live in ...

Press TV- Myanmars military chief claims that Rohingya Muslim refugees who return to the country will be safe as long as they stay in camp areas and model villages designated for them. "There is no need to be worried about their security if they stay in the areas designated for them," Senior General Min Aung Hlaing told a United Nations delegation ...

Press TV- A United Nations (UN) official says the ethnic cleansing of the Rohingya Muslim community is continuing in Myanmar, despite denials by the government in Naypyidaw of any violence against the minority Muslims. More than 700,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled Myanmar since its military launched a bloody campaign against them across the western ...

Press TV- Bangladesh has formally handed over to Myanmar's Home Minister Lieutenant General Kyaw Swe a list of more than 8,000 Rohingya Muslim refugees as Dhaka moves to launch their repatriation under an agreement signed between the two countries last year. The delivery of the list occurred after officials of the two countries held a meeting ...

Press TV- The United Nations has warned that more than 100,000 Rohingya Muslims in Bangladeshi refugee camps will be in grave danger with the mid-year monsoon season on its way. Landslide and flood risk hazard mapping reveal that at least 100,000 people are in grave danger from these risks and require relocation to new areas or within the neighborhoods ...

Press TV- A deal signed between Bangladesh and Myanmar for the repatriation of Rohingya Muslim refugees into their homeland in Myanmars state of Rakhine may not be implemented soon, authorities in Bangladesh have suggested. A Bangladeshi Foreign Ministry official said Tuesday that the January 21 deadline set as the date for the start of repatriation ...

Press TV- Aid groups from across the world have stressed that the Rohingya Muslim refugees returning to Myanmar from Bangladesh must be allowed to settle in their original homes. More than a dozen humanitarian organizations, including Save the Children and Oxfam, said in a joint statement on Saturday that they were concerned by recent announcements ...

un.org.ir- Rohingya refugees fleeing into Bangladesh have reported horrific stories of sexual violence. One woman, Shakila, said she was raped after being forced to watch the murder of her husband and infant daughter. Sexual and gender-based violence often increases during crises. Responding to violence against women in development and humanitarian ...

Press TV- Bangladesh says it has agreed with Myanmar on repatriating hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslim refugees back to Myanmar amid widespread expressions of distrust of the process among the displaced. Bangladeshi Foreign Minister Abul Hassan Mahmood Ali announced on Saturday that the two sides signed a repatriation agreement for the ...

Press TV- Prominent human rights groups have called on international agencies to monitor the safe return of Rohingya Muslims to Myanmar, as global pressure mounts on the countryover state-sponsored violence that has externally displaced hundreds of thousands from the minority group. On Thursday, Myanmar and Bangladesh signed an agreement for ...

Tasnim Head of the Relief and Rescue Organization of the Iranian Red Crescent Society (IRCS) Morteza Salimi said the Islamic Republic plans to build a field hospital in Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh. The Iranian ambassador to Dhaka informed us today that the Bangladeshi government has agreed to designate a plot of land for Iran to build a ...

IRNA Head of the Iranian Red Crescent Society (IRCS) said on Saturday that the entitys humanitarian relief consignments to the Muslims in Myanmar will not be suspended. Talking on the sidelines of the International Poster Exhibition titled Religious Genocide in Myanmar, Ali Asqar Peyvandi said that IRCS is working to promote peace and friendship ...

IRNA - Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei on Tuesday donated funds for the Myanmar refugees. According to the Leader's official website, following Supreme Leader's Representative Hojatoleslam Abdolhossein Moezzi report on the catastrophic status of Myanmar Muslims, the Leader donated 10 billion rials (1 dollar=33,...

American Herald Tribune | HARUN YAHYA: In the face of the historical disasters humanity has experienced, a majority of the world has developed some sort of reflex to 'close their eyes' and 'play ostrich. Many leaders, administrators and representatives around the world prefer to remain indifferent and unresponsive to these catastrophes. When asked ...