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Footage emerges showing Myanmar police beating Rohingya Muslims

A Rohingya couple whose two elder sons were taken by the Myanmarese military pose for a photograph with their younger children after their escape from Myanmar, in a refugee camp in Teknaf, in Bangladesh, November 24, 2016. (Photo by AFP)

A new video has emerged showing Myanmar’s police using excessive force against Rohingya Muslims in the western state of Rakhine.  A front-page story on Monday in the state-owned Global New Light of Myanmar newspaper said that the video clip was recorded by a police constable. The footage shows Myanmar’s police beating ...

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Myanmar to “write history” without Muslims

Myanmar to write ‘history’ without Muslims

Myanmar´s religious affairs ministry plans to write a book to prove the Rohingya are not indigenous to the country, as tensions grow over a brutal military crackdown on the Muslim minority. Almost 27,000 Rohingya have crossed into Bangladesh since the beginning of November, the UN said on Tuesday, fleeing a ...

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Yemeni forces pound Saudi positions with artillery shells

Yemeni forces pound Saudi positions with artillery shells

The Yemeni army and allied fighters from the Popular Committees have attacked two military bases inside Saudi Arabia, killing at least one Saudi soldier and injuring scores of others.   One of the artillery attacks was launched against Saudi positions in Makhrooq area of Jizan province, in which one soldier was killed and ...

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