The federal government announced on Friday $ 2.55 million in funding to United Nations agencies grappling with a huge influx of Rohingya refugees fleeing Myanmar in recent weeks to escape what the UN’s human rights chief has called a “textbook example of ethnic cleansing.” CBC | World News
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Amnesty International says it has turned up evidence of an “orchestrated campaign of systematic burnings” by Myanmar security forces targeting dozens of Rohingya villages, a the mass exodus of Rohingya Muslims fleeing to Bangladesh continues. CBC | World News
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Pressure mounts on Myanmar to end violence that has sent more than 300,000 Rohingya Muslims fleeing to Bangladesh, with the United States calling for protection of civilians and Bangladesh urging safe zones to enable refugees to go home. CBC | World News
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Myanmar’s military has been accused of planting land mines in the path of Rohingya Muslims fleeing violence in its western Rakhine state, with Amnesty International reporting two people wounded Sunday. CBC | World News
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To be Rohingya in 2017 is to be The Other. It is to face that most enduring and insidious human sentiment: bigotry, writes Nahlah Ayed. CBC | World News
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The UN Refugee Agency reports a surge in the number of Rohingya Muslims who have crossed into Bangladesh from Myanmar, with an estimated 270,000 arriving in the last two weeks. CBC | World News
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Journalists see new fires burning in a Myanmar village abandoned by Rohingya Muslims and pages ripped from Islamic texts left on the ground, intensifying doubts about government claims that members of the persecuted minority have been destroying their own homes. CBC | World News
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Aid officials said relief camps were reaching full capacity as thousands of Rohingya refugees continued to pour into Bangladesh on Sunday fleeing violence in western Myanmar CBC | World News
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