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COX'S BAZAR, Bangladesh: Pressure mounted on Myanmar to end violence that has sent about 370,000 Rohingya Muslims fleeing to Bangladesh, with the United States calling for protection of civilians and Bangladesh urging safe zones to enable refugees to go home. But China, which competes for influence in its southern neighbour with the United States, said it backed Myanmar's efforts to safeguard "development and stability". The government of Buddhist-majority Myanmar says its security forces are fighting Rohingya militants behind a surge of violence in Rakhine state that began on Aug. 25, and they are doing all they can to avoid harming civilians. The government says about 400 people have been killed in the fighting, the latest in the western state. The top U.N. human rights official denounced Myanmar on Monday for conducting a "cruel military operation" against Rohingya, branding it "a textbook example of ethnic cleansing". The United St...
Burma: Ensure Aid Reaches Rohingya https://t.co/CH15uSQiCR pic.twitter.com/phDcfKFucD — Human Rights Watch (@hrw) September 12, 2017 https://www.hrw.org/news/2017/09/11/burma-ensure-aid-reaches-rohingya …
File Photo Union Minister of State for Home, Hansraj Ahir, today said Rohingya Muslim refugees who have been living in Jammu have no right to live here and will be sent back. “The Rohingyas have no right to live in Jammu and Kashmir and therefore will be sent back at an appropriate moment,” the minister said addressing a press conference here. “We have asked the state government to collect all details of Rohingyas living in Jammu, their families, what business they do, how much threat they are to law and order problem, what kind of activities they are involved in, etc,” the minister said. Ahir, who visited some areas along the International Border to assess the situation there, asserted that there will be no compromise in dealing with militants and those coming from Pakistan with guns will not be allowed to go back alive. "We are working to ensure peace in Kashmir by winter. It is our commitment to ensure safety and security of the people and also along the borders,...