Tillerson calls for credible probe into rights abuses in Myanmar 11/15/2017 10:31:50 AM U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson attends as U.S. President Donald Trump holds a bilateral meeting with Indias Prime Minister Narendra Modi alongside the ASEAN Summit in Manila, Philippines November 13, 2017 NAYPYITAW (Reuters) NOV. 15, 2017 - U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on Wednesday called for a credible investigation into allegations of human rights abuses against Rohingya Muslims after a meeting with Myanmar’s civilian and military leaders. More than 600,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled to Bangladesh since late August, driven out by a Myanmar military counter-insurgency clearance operation in Rakhine State that a top U.N. official has described as a textbook case of “ethnic cleansing”. “Scenes of what occurred are just horrific,” Tillerson told a joint news conference with Aung San Suu Kyi, the de facto head of a civilian administration that is less tha...

U.N. fears 'further exodus' of Muslim Rohingya from Myanmar 10/7/2017 7:43:51 AM Some 515,000 Rohingya have arrived in Bangladesh in an unrelenting movement of people GENEVA/YANGON (Reuters) - Oct. 6, 2017-  The  United Nations  braced on Friday for a possible “further exodus” of Muslim Rohingya refugees from Myanmar into Bangladesh six weeks after the world’s fastest-developing refugee emergency began, U.N. humanitarian aid chief said. Some 515,000 Rohingya have arrived in Bangladesh from Myanmar’s western state of Rakhine in an unrelenting movement of people that began after Myanmar security forces responded to Rohingya militant attacks with a brutal crackdown. The United Nations has denounced the Myanmar military offensive as ethnic cleansing but Myanmar insists its forces are fighting “terrorists” who have killed civilians and burnt villages. Rights groups say more than half of more than 400 Rohingya villages in the north of Rakhi...