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Myanmar shuts down Internet in Rakhine
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MANDALAY (UCAN): Authorities in Myanmar shut down Internet services in the troubled Rakhine State amid claims by local Buddhists, who are seeking greater autonomy, of human rights’ abuses by the security forces. |
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Bishop calls for talks over Rakhine crisis
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MANDALAY (UCAN): “Solving the problem with arms will not lead to a solution, so both sides need to go to the negotiable table (and work) towards stability and peace,” Bishop Alexander Pyone Cho of Pyay, said, as he called on all parties to return to the negotiation table as fighting escalates in Myanmar’s a Rakhine State. |
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United Nations appeals for humanitarian access to Myanmar’s restive areas
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MANDALAY (UCAN): Ursula Mueller, the United Nations (UN) assistant secretary-general for humanitarian affairs and deputy emergency relief coordinator, has called for unfettered humanitarian access to several crisis-hit states of Myanmar including the restive Rakhine state where large numbers of the Rohingya Muslim minority have fled security forces for Bangladesh since August 2017. |
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Rakhine’s displaced Hindus to be reptriated
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MANDALAY (UCAN): The government of Myanmar will start the repatriation of Hindu refugees to Rakhine on January 22. |
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A no no word for pope
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YANGON (UCAN): The upcoming visit of Pope Francis to the Union of Myanmar and Bangladesh has sparked fears and hopes in both countries. |
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Myanmar shuns United Nations mission
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MANDALAY (UCAN): Naypyidaw has denied visas to three members of a United Nations (UN) fact finding mission charged with an investigation into human rights violations against the Muslim Rohingya minority people by security forces in the Union of Myanmar. |
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Condition of displaced Muslims in Myanmar critical
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Mandalay (UCAN): Relief workers helping more than 300 people displaced by violence from a Muslim community in the Sagaing region in the northwest of the Union of Myanmar say they face critical shortages of food, clothing and other basic needs, after rioters from a Buddhist area burned homes and shops over the weekend of August 24 and 25. |
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