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Thousands of Rohingya Muslims flee Myanmar: NGO
Thousands of Rohingya Muslims have been forced to flee Myanmar over the past ten days amid a renewed crackdown on the minority group in the Southeast Asian country, an NGO says.
Chris Lewa, director of the Rohingya advocacy group Arakan Project, said on Saturday that at least 8,000 Rohingyas have fled Myanmar’s northern state of Rakhine on cargo ships for neighboring countries since October 15.
The mass exodus comes amid a campaign of arrests by the government which has caused panic among Myanmar’s Rohingya Muslim community.
Rohingyas could face indefinite detention under a new government plan that requires them to either accept ethnic reclassification and register as Bengalis or be detained.
Local authorities have reportedly rounded up a number of community and religious leaders and tortured some of them to death.
Myanmar’s 1.3 million Muslims, who are denied citizenship, are said to be one of the world’s most persecuted communities.
Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar have faced torture, repression and neglect since the country's independence in 1948.
The Myanmar government has been repeatedly criticized by human rights groups for failing to protect the Rohingya Muslims.
Hundreds of Rohingyas have been killed and over 140,000 displaced in attacks by extremist Buddhists over the past two years.
IS extremists ‘have murdered 200 tribesmen’ in Iraq
THE Islamic State jihadist group has in recent days executed more than 200 members of an Iraqi tribe that fought against it, officials and a tribal leader say.
Accounts varied as to the exact period in which the Sunni Albu Nimr tribesmen were killed in various areas of Iraq’s Anbar province, but the executions were all said to have been carried out within the last 10 days.
Police Colonel Shaaban al-Obaidi said there were more than 200 people killed, while Faleh al-Essawi, the deputy head of the Anbar provincial council, put the toll at 258.
The victims, “including women and children, all of them from the Albu Nimr tribe,” were killed “during the past three days,” Essawi said.
“Anyone who carries the Nimrawi family name on his personal ID” is targeted and killed by IS, he added, referring to the name carried by members of the tribe.
Sheik Naim al-Kuoud al-Nimrawi, a leader of the tribe, said that 381 of its members were killed “from the 24th of last month until today.”
IS extremists lined up and shot dead at least 50 tribesmen, women and children in Iraq’s Anbar province Sunday, officials said, the latest mass killing committed by the group.
There, the militant group killed at least 40 men, six women and four children, lining them up and publicly killing them one by one, Sheikh Naim al-Gaoud, a senior figure in the targeted Al Bu Nimr tribe, told The Associated Press.
Another 17 people were kidnapped by the militant group, he said.
An official with the Anbar governor’s office corroborated the account, speaking on condition of anonymity as he was not authorised to brief journalists.
IS has overrun large areas of Anbar, and the killings are likely aimed at discouraging resistance from powerful local tribes, who will be key to any successful bid to retake the province.
Pro-government forces have suffered a string of setbacks in Anbar in recent weeks.
That has prompted warnings that the province, which stretches from the borders with Jordan and Saudi Arabia to the western approach to Baghdad, could fall entirely.
The militant group has overrun a large part of Anbar province in its push to expand its territory across Iraq and Syria.
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The UN mission in Baghdad said that at least 1273 Iraqis were killed in violence in October, a slight increase compared to last month amid the Islamic State group’s assault
