Myanmar’s army says that security forces have discovered a mass grave on the edge of a village in Rakhine State, and have launched an investigation.

A total of 40 new Rohingya villages have been ravaged between October and November in Rakhine State of Myanmar, according to an analysis of satellite imagery.

The top UN human rights official has said he would not be surprised if a court one day ruled that acts of genocide had been committed against the Rohingya Muslim minority in Myanmar, according to a television interview to be shown on Monday.

Nineteen envoys of 15 countries visit Rohingya refugee camps in Ukhia upazila of Cox’s Bazar.

It is almost the end of 2017 and as usual, many of us will begin to reflect and set resolutions for 2018.

The United States has identified one person and it might impose sanctions on over the brutal crackdown in Myanmar against minority Rohingya Muslims and is examining others, US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson says.

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The UN Refugee Agency will begin distributing warm clothing to Rohingya refugees sheltered in Cox’s Bazar of Bangladesh from Sunday, the organisation says.

A total of 8,44,227 Rohingyas have undergone biometric registration till December 14, an official release says.

The world renowned 114 organisations and 32 individuals in a joint statement underscores the need for prioritising protection of the civilians in Rakhine and called upon the Myanmar authority to address the roots of the conflict.

Surveys conducted by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in refugee settlement camps in Bangladesh estimate that at least 6,700 Rohingya, in the most conservative estimations, were killed in Myanmar between August 25 and September 24 after violence broke out in its Rakhine state.

UN Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs Jeffrey Feltman says the 'origins and solutions to the Rohingya crisis rest in Myanmar'.

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As women narrate their stories of shame– of how they were raped repeatedly by Myanmar army to the media, the case becomes even more convincing for UN special representative of secretary general to put soldiers on dock at the ICC in Hague, as she promised. Only one problem, and not a small one at that, may throw the spanner in the wheel – that Myanmar is not a signatory to the Rome Statute to the ICC.

The Cox's Bazar district administration has imposed a weeklong ban on NGOs involved in distributing aid to Rohingyas at Ukhia and Teknaf from Monday to restore discipline in local business apparently affected by illegal relief trade.

A delegation of Myanmar working group will visit Bangladesh on December 19 to ascertain the modalities for execution of the bilateral deal signed between Dhaka and Naypyidaw for repatriation of forcibly displaced Rohingya people.

Bangladesh launches a vaccination campaign against diphtheria and other preventable diseases for Rohingya children aged six weeks to six years living in 12 camps and temporary refugee settlements in Cox’s Bazar.

Human Rights Watch has disapproved of the Rohingya repatriation deal inked between Bangladesh and Myanmar, and said it will “be bad” for the refugees.

The Philippines bank through which $81 million stolen from Bangladesh’s central bank was channelled in February 2016 has accused Dhaka’s monetary authority of covering up its negligence and demanded that it stop making the bank a “scapegoat.”

Three Rohingya camps in Cox’s Bazar lack basic facilities like food, health and shelter, rights activist Sultana Kamal says. There is a continued risk of human trafficking at the refugee camps, Sultana Kamal added while addressing a press conference at the Dhaka Reporters Unity (DRU).