Tag: Rakhine

Naypyidaw: Myanmar said on Thursday that it has asked Bangladesh to arrest and extradite more than 1,300 Rohingyas suspected of taking part in a rebel assault against government checkpoints in Rakhine state in August last year. The incident on August 25 led to a violent military operation in Myanmar against the alleged insurgents, triggering a […]

Dhaka: Bangladesh announced on Sunday that it was seeking China’s support to urge Myanmar for allowing more than 600,000 Rohingyas who fled sectarian violence in western Rakhine state to return. “Bangladesh wants China to create pressure on Myanmar to exp1edite the process” of repatriation of the Rohingyas, a member of the Bangladesh Foreign Ministry who did […]