The military junta has honored Wirathu with a national award and says it will free thousands of prisoners.

A Rohingya teenager has been killed and at least six people injured when mortar shells fired from Myanmar exploded in Bangladesh.

The UN rights chief Michelle Bachelet recently said it remains unsafe for Rohingya refugees to return to Myanmar.

UN rights chief Michelle Bachelet says that it remains unsafe for Rohingya refugees to return to their homes in Myanmar, nearly five years after a crackdown there sparked an exodus to neighbouring Bangladesh.

A senior UN official is visiting Myanmar this week following the call from the UN Security Council for an immediate cessation of violence and unimpeded humanitarian access in the strife-torn country.

UN investigators have reported mounting evidence of crimes against humanity committed in Myanmar since the military takeover in February last year.

War crimes investigators have obtained thousands of documents which show how Myanmar's military planned its brutal purge of the Rohingya Muslims.

The UN’s top court rules in favor of investigation into reports that Myanmar military committed genocide against Rohingya Muslims.

Around 500 Rohingya has been arrested as they celebrated the Muslim festival of Eid al-Fitr on a popular beach in southeast Bangladesh. 

The US will formally declare that the Myanmar military's atrocities against the Rohingya Muslim minority constituted genocide and crimes against humanity, according to a report.