Rakhine

After spending more than a year behind bars despite global outcry over their convictions

Raising fears of a fresh wave of dangerous voyages after a 2015 crackdown on people smugglers

UN pleas for investigating the country's military leaders for genocide but Myanmar rebuffs the calls

UN to set up a body to prepare evidence of human rights abuses in Myanmar

Authorities in mainly Buddhist Myanmar deny carrying out large scale human rights abuses

The council is urging Myanmar to allow the safe return of the Rohingya

The bloody incident in September last year is the only atrocity to which the military has admitted

Nearly 700,000 Rohingya have been driven out of Rakhine state and are living in crowded refugee camps in Bangladesh

It was not immediately clear why the rally descended into violence

Government says insurgents trying to delay repatriation

Five members of the security forces wounded

Half of Myanmar's Rohingya population have fled since August, joining around 400,000 already in Bangladesh

They cut short expenses for Durga Pooja celebrations to fund relief projects instead

Rights groups have accused army of trying to push Rohingya Muslims out of Myanmar

Almost all said the perpetrators were men in uniform who they identified as Myanmar military

UN has called for a de-escalation of the situation, reestablishment of law and order, protection of civilians

Amnesty International also blasts Myanmar's Suu Kyi over Rohingya crisis

Communal violence has torn through Rakhine state since August 25

Leader who bends too far to international will could lose support of people she governs

Last month, India said it wanted to deport 40,000 Rohingya refugees who left Myanmar in previous years

Displaced include ethnic Rakhine Buddhists, persecuted Rohingya Muslim minority

Tens of thousands of Rohingyahave fled a military operation in the northwestern state

Soldiers have killed several dozen people and arrested scores in their hunt for attackers