Rohingya

The BJP clarified that the admissions were granted on the orders of the Supreme Court in December 2024 while the new government came to power only in February this year.

ICC prosecutor requests arrest warrants for the head of Myanmar's military regime

Senior Gen. Min Aung Hlaing, who took power from elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi in a coup in 2021, is accused of crimes against humanity for the deportation and persecution of the Rohingya.

Thousands of Rohingya flee to Bangladesh from violence in Myanmar, official says

Around 8,000 Rohingya Muslims have sought refuge in Bangladesh recently, fleeing intensified violence in Myanmar’s Rakhine state. The violence has escalated amid ongoing clashes between Myanmar’s military and the Arakan Army, an ethnic militia.

Illegal migration, continued stay of Rohingya have serious national security ramifications: Centre tells SC

In an affidavit filed in the apex court, the Centre has said India is not a signatory to the 1951 Refugee Convention and to the protocol relating to the Status of Refugees, 1967, and as such, whether or not any class of persons are to be recognised as refugees is a "pure policy decision".

Delhi HC refuses to direct Centre to restrain Facebook from 'promoting' hate speech against Rohingyas

"This court is of the opinion that the petitioners' suggestion during the hearing that there should be prior censorship of any publication of Rohingyas on Facebook is an example of 'a treatment that is worse than the disease'," the bench, also comprising Justice Manmeet PS Arora, said in the order.

Thousands of Rohingya refugees homeless after Bangladesh camp fire -UN

The U.N. Refugee Agency (UNHCR) said more than 2,000 shelters and over 90 facilities including hospitals and learning centres were destroyed in Sunday’s blaze.

Hasina’s India visit vital for regional peace, growth even amid pending issues

While Hasina won’t allow forces detrimental to India’s interests to operate from its soil, Bangladesh has been neutral in the Sino-Indian rivalry.

Rohingya Row: Who are the Rohingya people and what has caused them to flee Myanmar

The United Nations Refugee Agency places them among the “the most vulnerable groups of the forcibly displaced”. Over the last few decades, lakhs of them have taken treacherous journeys to escape the country they were born in. Rejected by their own people, the Rohingya are one of the largest stateless populations in the world.

US to declare Rohingya repression in Myanmar a ‘genocide’

Secretary of State Antony Blinken plans to make the long-anticipated designation on Monday at an event at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, according to the officials who spoke on condition of anonymity because the move had not yet been publicly announced.

Rohingya sue Facebook for $150 billion alleging role in violence

Lawyers filed a class-action lawsuit Monday in California saying Facebook's arrival in Myanmar helped spread hate speech, misinformation and incitement to violence that amounted to a substantial cause, and eventual perpetuation of, the Rohingya genocide."

Rohingya refugees sue Facebook for $150 billion over Myanmar violence

A U.S. class-action complaint, filed in California on Monday by law firms Edelson PC and Fields PLLC, argues that the company’s failures to police content and its platform’s design contributed to real-world violence faced by the Rohingya community. In a coordinated action, British lawyers also submitted a letter of notice to Facebook’s London office.

Some 10,000 refugees fled to India, Thailand from Myanmar: Secretary-General's Special Envoy on Myanmar tells UN

“In my daily contacts with stakeholders in Myanmar, I hear first-hand accounts about the dire situation. People suffer from deprivation, have no hope and live in fear,” Christine Schraner Burgener, Special Envoy of Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Myanmar, told the UN General Assembly on Friday.

15 dead, 400 missing in Rohingya camp blaze in Bangladesh: UN

The fire broke out Monday and left at least 50,000 people homeless as it ripped through their flimsy bamboo-and-tarpaulin shelters, according to police and aid groups. Terrified families fled with whatever they could carry, with distraught children separated from their children in the rush.

Fire guts hundreds of shelters in Rohingya refugee camp

The fire at Balukhali camp in Cox’s Bazar district broke out in the late afternoon and spread quickly through at least four blocks, said Mohammad Shamsud Douza, additional commissioner of the government’s Refugee, Relief and Repatriation Commission. He said at least four units of firefighters were struggling to control the blaze due to its rapid spread.

India detains scores of Rohingya ahead of expected deportation to Myanmar

At least 168 people from the Muslim minority from Buddhist-dominated Myanmar have been picked up by authorities in the northern territory since March 6, according to Mukesh Singh, Inspector General of Police, Jammu

Indian coast guard rescues 81 Rohingya on drifting boat, 8 dead, one missing

Another refugee was missing, External Affairs Ministry spokesman Anurag Srivastava said on Thursday, giving news of the rescue.

Rohingyas wary of future after CAA, don't want to return to Myanmar

"The situation for us is worse than that for anyone else who would not be given Indian citizenship. We will be sent back to a country that we fled to escape violence and returning there would be nothing less than a death warrant for us," said a Rohingya told PTI at a refugee camp in south Delhi.

Politics | Why Suu Kyi is right in saying ‘genocide’ claims are incorrect

The current narrative of ‘genocide’ of the Rohingyas in Rakhine is highly problematic from two distinct angles: The history of the Rohingya and the reality of law and order operations in Myanmar.

600,000 Rohingya still in Myanmar at 'serious risk of genocide': UN

The UN team said the 600,000 Rohingya still inside Myanmar's Rakhine state remain in deteriorating and "deplorable" conditions.

Rohingya militants condemn violence in refugee camps amid reports of killings

ARSA, which emerged with attacks on border posts in Myanmar's Rakhine state in 2016, is focused on winning rights for Rohingya, the mostly stateless Muslim minority long persecuted in Myanmar.

UNICEF boss urges Myanmar to enact Kofi Annan's recommendations on Rohingya crisis

Speaking at a forum in the capital, Naypyitaw, UNICEF executive director Henrietta Fore said children from the Rohingya Muslim minority, a persecuted and mostly stateless community from Buddhist-majority Myanmar, were living “a precarious and an almost hopeless existence” in camps in neighbouring Bangladesh.

India to deport second Rohingya group to Myanmar on January 3

India's Hindu nationalist government regards the Rohingya as illegal aliens and a security risk. It has ordered that tens of thousands of the community, who live in small settlements and slums, be identified and repatriated.

Bangladesh to seal off Rohingya camps during elections

Rohingya living in the southeastern border district of Cox Bazar will not be allowed out of their settlements from December 22.

US House describes crime against Rohingya in Myanmar as genocide

The atrocities have driven more than 7,00,000 Rohingya from their homes to Bangladesh, bringing the total Rohingya refugee population there to nearly 10 lakh.