Rohingya crisis

Foreign Office urges international community to work together to mitigate tragedy

The army has denied genocide, saying it was carrying out a legitimate operation against Rohingya militants

Pence voiced Washington's strongest condemnation yet of Myanmar's treatment of Rohingya Muslims

The defiant response is the army chief's first public reaction since a UN fact-finding mission

Some 700,000 Rohingya fled the crackdown and most are now living in refugee camps in neighbouring Bangladesh

Most refugees are either jobless or stuck at the bottom of the labour ladder

Myanmar's leaders have come under fire for taking little punitive action against the military

The UN adopted a called on Myanmar to rein in its military in a statement issued in November

Many Rohingya refugees fear returning to a country where they saw their relatives murdered by soldiers

The bombs exploded in three different locations around Rakhine state

"hate-filled rhetoric" by leaders was normalising discrimination against minorities

G-8 ask the security council to discuss the fate of displaced Rohingyas

Chief Minister clarified that logistical problems protracted the issue

Military takes responsibility of the killings, says action will be taken against members of security forces

The stateless Rohingya have been the target of communal violence for years in Buddhist Myanmar

The rights group interviewed 52 Rohingya women and girls, including 29 rape survivors, three of them girls under 18

Other foreign recipients of the Freedom of Dublin include John F Kennedy, Nelson Mandela and Mikhail Gorbachev

Militant raids had sparked a ferocious military crackdown on the local Muslim population

Believes Bangladesh is stalling til it obtains millions of dollars as international aid

One in five Rohingya children under five is acutely malnourished

Thousands of cases of child malnutrition amid shortages of food, water and medicines in aid camps

Rights groups have said they have found evidence of abuses by the insurgents on villagers

Refugee Rights Programme Director says customary international law prohibits returning Rohingya to Burma

The United Nations say around 200,000 children need urgent support

China is of the few foreign friends of Myanmar's former junta