Obama urges Myanmar to stop violence against Rohingyas

SITTWE RESCUERS were on Tuesday searching for 58 missing Rohingya Muslims whose boat capsized in western Myanmar as they fled a looming cyclone, state media said, as the storm threatened thousands living in makeshift camps. The boat, which sank ...

Authorities in Myanmar struggled on Wednesday to evacuate tens of thousands of people, most of them Rohingya Muslims, before a cyclone reaches camps in low-lying regions that have been their home since ethnic and religious unrest last year. Cyclone ...

The Burmese government on Monday morning began to relocate some of the thousands of displaced Rohingya Muslims stuck in camps in western Burma, as a tropical cyclone moves closer to battering the conflict-torn region, according to local sources. ...

A woman from the Pauktaw township carries her son in a Rohingya internally displaced persons camp outside Sittwe on Wednesday. (Photo: Reuters) A massive evacuation to clear low-lying camps ahead of a cyclone has run into a potentially deadly snag: ...

The Myanmar government had planned to move some 38,000 internally displaced people, most of them Rohingya Muslims, who have complained of severe abuse at the hands of the Burmese Army. Authorities in Myanmar struggled on Wednesday to evacuate tens ...

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Several boats carrying Rohingya Muslims have capsized off western Burma leaving many people missing, aid agencies say. The boats, said to be carrying about 100 passengers, were evacuating people ahead of a powerful Cyclone Mahasen. The vessels ...

WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENTA Muslim woman, displaced by recent violence in Kyukphyu township, cries after arriving at the Thaechaung refugee camp outside of Sittwe in this October 28, 2012 file photo. REUTERS/Soe

The approaching storm is a tropical depression named Mahasen and is expected to strengthen into a cyclone and threatens a region of Myanmar where about 140,000 victims of ethnic and religious unrest are living in camps.