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Canada declares Myanmar treatment of Rohingya to be genocide

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UN chief urges pardon for 2 journalists jailed in Myanmar

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FILE - In this file photo dated Thursday, Jan. 28, 2016, Chief Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda waits for the start of the trial against former Ivory Coast president Laurent Gbagbo at the International Criminal Court in The Hague, Netherlands. Bensouda says she is launching a preliminary investigation to establish if there is enough evidence to merit a full-blown investigation into deportations of hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar into Bangladesh. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

World court opens preliminary probe into Rohingya expulsions

By MIKE CORDER - Associated Press

FILE - In this Sunday, Oct. 22, 2017, file photo, a Rohingya Muslim woman, Rukaya Begum, who crossed over from Myanmar into Bangladesh, holds her son Mahbubur Rehman, left and her daughter Rehana Bibi, after the government moved them to newly allocated refugee camp areas, near Kutupalong, Bangladesh. A team of independent investigators examining alleged violence and killings in Myanmar that caused hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims to flee their homes have issued a searing critique of the United Nations' own operations in the country just as bloodshed erupted in August 2017. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin, File)

Experts air new concerns about UN response to Myanmar crisis

By JAMEY KEATEN - Associated Press

EU urges release of jailed journalists in Myanmar

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Aung San Suu Kyi, the State Counsellor of Myanmar, gestures during a one-on-one discussion at the World Economic Forum's meeting at the National Convention Center Thursday, Sept. 13, 2018, in Hanoi, Vietnam. Suu Kyi says the country's handling of its Rohingya Muslim minority crisis could have been handled better. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)

Aung San Suu Kyi says handling of Rohingya could have been better

By Elaine Kurtenbach - Associated Press

Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi addresses participants during the opening session of the World Economic Forum on ASEAN Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2018 in Hanoi, Vietnam. The World Economic Forum has attracted hundreds of participants for the three-day forum with the theme: ASEAN 4.0: Entrepreneurship and the Fourth Industrial Revolution. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)

Myanmar’s Suu Kyi to skip UN General Assembly session

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CORRECTS DATE In this Monday Sept. 10, 2018, photo, a Thai policeman stands inside Foreign Correspondents' Club of Thailand during an event titled: &quot;Will Myanmar's General Ever Face Justice for International Crimes&quot; in Bangkok, Thailand. Police shut down a forum organized by foreign journalists to discuss whether senior military officers in Myanmar should face justice for alleged human rights abuses committed by their forces against Rohingya Muslims and other ethnic minorities. (AP Photo/Tassanee Vejpongsa)

Thai police shut down journalists’ discussion about Rohingya

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Myanmar's government spokesman Zaw Htay talks to journalists during a press briefing at the Presidential Palace in Naypyitaw, Myanmar, Friday, Sept. 7, 2018. (AP Photo/Aung Shine Oo)

Myanmar rejects int’l court’s right to Rohingya probe

By MIN KYI THEIN - Associated Press

In this March 21, 2018, photo, Marip Lu sits in her family's shelter in a refugee camp in northern Kachin State, Myanmar. Marip Lu, 24, claims she was kidnapped by traffickers and suffered six years of captivity, rape and abuse deep in China. As the demand for &quot;brides&quot; in China rises, The Associated Press has pieced together the tragic ordeal of one woman who escaped, but had to leave her son behind. (AP Photo/Esther Htusan)

6 Years Gone: Myanmar woman escapes brutal China captivity

By TODD PITMAN and ESTHER HTUSAN and DAKE KANG - Associated Press

Judges rule ICC has jurisdiction over Rohingya deportations

By MIKE CORDER - Associated Press

In this March 21, 2018, photo, Marip Lu sits in her family's shelter in a refugee camp in northern Kachin State, Myanmar. Marip Lu, 24, claims she was kidnapped by traffickers and suffered six years of captivity, rape and abuse deep in China. As the demand for &quot;brides&quot; in China rises, The Associated Press has pieced together the tragic ordeal of one woman who escaped, but had to leave her son behind. (AP Photo/Esther Htusan)

6 Years Gone: Myanmar woman escapes brutal China captivity

By TODD PITMAN and ESTHER HTUSAN and DAKE KANG - Associated Press

FILE - In this Nov. 1, 2015, file photo, Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi speaks during an election campaign rally of her National League for Democracy party for upcoming general election in Yangon, Myanmar. Myanmar's government looks as if it's under siege from an international community concerned about the condition of its nascent democracy, with widespread calls for a genocide tribunal to hold its military to account for brutal treatment of its Muslim Rohingya minority. (AP Photo/Khin Maung Win, File)

World criticism doesn’t have Suu Kyi or Myanmar on the ropes

By GRANT PECK - Associated Press

Than Zaw Aung, right, a lawyer of two Reuters journalists, talks to journalists during a press briefing together with Pan Ei Mon, second left, wife of Reuters journalist Wa Lone, Chit Su Win, second right, wife of Reuters journalist Kyaw Soe Oo, and Khin Maung Zaw, left, a lawyer of two Reuters journalists, at a hotel Tuesday, Sept. 4, 2018, in Yangon, Myanmar. A Myanmar court sentenced two Reuters journalists to seven years in prison Monday on charges of illegal possession of official documents, a ruling met with international condemnation that will add to outrage over the military’s human rights abuses against Rohingya Muslims. (AP Photo/Thein Zaw)

Wives of jailed Myanmar reporters shocked by verdicts

By AUNG NAING SOE - Associated Press

Reuters journalist Wa Lone, center, is escorted by polices upon arrival at the court Monday, Sept. 3, 2018, in Yangon, Myanmar. A Myanmar court sentenced two Reuters journalists, Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo, to seven years in prison Monday for illegal possession of official documents, a ruling that comes as international criticism mounts over the military's alleged human rights abuses against Rohingya Muslims. (AP Photo/Thein Zaw)

The Latest: US ambassador condemns reporter convictions

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Reuters journalist Wa Lone, center, talks to journalists as he is escorted by police to leave a court in Yangon, Myanmar Monday, Sept. 3, 2018. The court in Myanmar has sentenced two Reuters journalists to seven years in prison for illegal possession of official documents, a ruling that comes as international criticism mounts over the military's alleged human rights abuses against Rohingya Muslims. (AP Photo/Thein Zaw)

Myanmar court sentences Reuters reporters to 7 years in jail

By Victoria Milko and Aung Naing Soe - Associated Press

Villagers uprooted, highway disrupted by Myanmar flood

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David Baulk, center, a specialist from Fortify Rights, a non-profit human rights organization, talks to journalists during a launching of a report on Myanmar's Kachin State at a hotel Thursday, Aug. 30, 2018, in Yangon, Myanmar. Others present; Amy Smith, left, executive director of Fortify Rights, and La Rip, right, executive director of Kachin Development Group (KDG). Katchin State is enmeshed in an armed conflict between the government and the ethnic rebels of the Kachin Independence Army, which has driven many civilians into refugee camps. (AP Photo/Thein Zaw)

Rights group sees blocked aid to Myanmar Kachin as war crime

By VICTORIA MILKO - Associated Press

United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Goodwill Ambassador Cate Blanchett during a Security Council meeting on the situation in the Myanmar, Tuesday, Aug. 28, 2018 at United Nations headquarters. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

Cate Blanchett: Nothing prepared me for Rohingya suffering

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

UN chief urges accountability for Myanmar crimes on Rohingya

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press