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February 26, 2021 |
Dr Ramzy Baroud What is taking place in Myanmar right now is a military coup. There can be no other description for such an unwarranted action as the dismissal of the government...

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February 3, 2021 |
Feras Abu-Helal The situation in Myanmar is fluid, and all scenarios are possible following the military coup. It is worth looking, therefore, at generalisations about coups rather than specifics, from an...
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Yemen Bangladesh on Monday began relocating the 2nd batch of Rohingya refugees to a remote island, amid concerns from rights groups, Anadolu reports. Speaking to Anadolu Agency over the phone,...
Turkey's state aid agency on Sunday finished handing out blankets to 5,000 Rohingya families in Bangladesh's refugee camps on the eve of the arrival of winter, Anadolu Agency reports. "As part...
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) and the Republic of Myanmar have signed a joint agreement to establish diplomatic relations, WAM reported yesterday. The agreement was signed by the UAE's...
Saudi Arabia has reportedly threatened to return Bangladeshi workers from the kingdom if the country does not issue passports to some 54,000 Rohingya Muslims who have been living in...
Two Myanmar soldiers have gone on record confirming for the first time the atrocities committed by the army against the country's Rohingya Muslim minority. The two defectors said on...
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The coronavirus pandemic has presented a serious test to how different societies and countries can work together to tackle an unprecedented force. Many governments and individuals have grappled the...
Malaysian authorities are scrambling to track down about 2,000 Rohingya men who attended a religious gathering that has led to a big spike in coronavirus cases across Southeast Asia,...
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March 10, 2020 |
Anjuman Rahman Arab silence on the looming genocide of the Uyghur Muslims in China is deafening. Supposedly influential and powerful Arab states look on as the persecution continues. There are an...
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WHO American educational children's television series "Sesame Street" is trying to help refugee children suffering from war by airing on channels in the Middle East, including Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, and...
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January 20, 2020 |
Yvonne Ridley We are approaching that time of year when people of many faiths and none come together in unity to mark Holocaust Memorial Day, which serves as a stark reminder...
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Serbia![A woman stands on the debris of her house targeted by cross border Indian troops in Kashmir on 23 December 2019 [CHUDARY NASEER/Anadolu Agency]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/20191223_2_39982340_50608468.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
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January 2, 2020 |
Lukman Harees According to Amit Shah, the national President of India's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), "Infiltrators are like termites in the soil of Bengal. The BJP Government will...
Saudi Arabia has stated that it has provided over $17 billion to refugees around the world over the past two decades and has hosted over a million Syrian, Yemeni...
The Israeli newspaper Haaretz has highlighted the country's "shameful role" in the Myanmar military regime's "genocidal campaign" against the Rohingya Muslim minority, citing Tel Aviv's arms sales to the...
The Israeli ambassador was mistaken to have sent a "GOOD LUCK" message to Myanmar ahead of World Court hearings on accusations the state committed genocide against Rohingya Muslims, Israel's...
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Read part 1 and part 2 Honestly, why should we blame the West, which claims to defend human rights, for their crimes against Muslims when the blame and all...
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Read part 1 here Populism and chauvinism have overtaken countries around the world which have elected leaders based on racist perspectives. Ever since Donald Trump's election victory in the...
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Israel's sale of weapons to Myanmar has been criticised by the UN in a report calling on the international community to impose targeted sanctions and an arms embargo on...
Israel has banned military officials from Myanmar from attending its weapons fairs as long as the Southeast Asian state remains under international sanctions and arms embargos. Israel's Foreign Ministry...
Saudi Arabia, Russia, and 35 other states have written to the United Nations supporting China's policies in its western region of Xinjiang, according to a copy of the letter...
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Venezuela Representatives of Myanmar's military were in attendance at Israel's "largest, government-supported security and weapons conference in Tel Aviv" on Tuesday, reported +972 Magazine. According to reports, "the officials arrived...
Myanmar is committing an act of genocide against Rohingya Muslims, Bangladesh's ambassador to Turkey said Wednesday, Anadolu reports. M. Allama Siddiki was speaking at a seminar in Ankara titled...
A new report by Amnesty International has accused Israel of selling arms and intelligence equipment to serial human rights violators, including the United Arab Emirates (UAE), South Sudan and...
Israel still maintains "warm ties" with Myanmar and is downplaying human rights concerns, a new report by the Times of Israel has uncovered today. Despite allegations of genocide of...
A top UN official on Friday urged Saudi Arabia not to deport members of the persecuted Rohingya community to Bangladesh but instead to grant them refugee status, Anadolu Agency reports....
Britain's former foreign minister William Hague called on Thursday for greater efforts to prosecute rape in conflict zones such as Myanmar, Nigeria and Iraq, six years after he launched...
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October 16, 2018 |
Yvonne Ridley Israel does not owe its existence to the genocide of the Jews during the Second World War but, without a doubt, the Holocaust played a significant role in speeding...
"Israeli weapons are used in the ethnic and religious cleansing carried out by the Myanmar army against the Rohingya minority, resulting in the persecution of 700,000 Muslims who were...
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August 30, 2018 |
Alastair Sloan A key UN body has ruled that genocide was committed recently by the Burmese military. The atrocities, widely reported at the time, were against the Rohingya people, an ethnic...
The UN on Monday called for an investigation and prosecution of Myanmar's top military officials for genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes against the Rohingyas, as reported on...