Myanmar’s military for the first time admits to “possible wider patterns of violations” against Rohingya Muslims, who are a minority in the Buddhist-majority country.

Amnesty International says Myanmar’s military figures — including those believed to have committed serious human rights abuses — have financial dealings with a secretive conglomerate with links to international businesses.

Two Myanmarese soldiers are taken to the International Criminal Court (ICC) after confessing to their participation in the 2017 massacre of countless Rohingya Muslims, two news organizations and a rights group say.

Authorities in Myanmar disqualify six Rohingya politicians from contesting upcoming general elections for the lack of ID documents.

Rohingya Muslim refugees in Bangladesh hold a silent protest on the third anniversary of a crackdown on the Muslim minority by Myanmar that killed thousands of them.

Twenty six Rohingya refugees who had been feared drowned while trying to swim ashore on the Malaysian resort island of Langkawi are found alive, a coastguard official says.

Amnesty International calls on Malaysia to withdraw the caning sentences recently given to a group of Rohingya refugees from Myanmar.

Thousands of people flee their homes in Myanmar’s western state of Rakhine, as local officials warn them that the army is preparing “clearance operations” in the region.

Officials have reported the first confirmed case of COVID-19 in the overcrowded Rohingya refugee camp outside Cox’s Bazar in Bangladesh fearing a humanitarian disaster.

Coastguard officials in Bangladesh say they have rescued nearly 400 members of the ethnic Rohingya Muslim minority group aboard a ship that had been marooned at sea for weeks, adding that more than two dozen of them have lost their lives as a result of starvation.