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Pope Francis landed in Myanmar on Monday morning. This is the first visit of a Catholic church leader to the Southeast Asian country, which is predominantly Buddhist.

With his arrival in Myanmar on Monday, the first visit of a Catholic church leader to the Southeast Asian country begins for Pope Francis. The highlight is a meeting between the Argentinian and the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize and de facto Head of Government of Myanmar Aung San Suu Kyi.

The repatriation of refugee Rohingya from Bangladesh to Myanmar takes place with the assistance of the UN refugee organization UNHCR and starts in two months. The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Bangladesh said that on Saturday.

The US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson called for an independent investigation into alleged human rights violations against Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar on Wednesday. He did that after a meeting with military and civilian leaders from the Asian country.

Human rights organizations responded to a report from the Myanmar Army, which denies any involvement of soldiers in cruelties against the Rohingya population. According to Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, it is clear that impartial research is offered by the United Nations.

The United States is taking action against Myanmar and considering many other sanctions due to the treatment of the Rohingya Muslims in that country. That told the US Department of Foreign Affairs Monday.

Already a million Rohingya Muslims fled from Myanmar to neighboring Bangladesh. An untenable situation, the UN Envoy of that country, calling on Myanmar, to recapture the refugees.

The European Union releases millions of euros for humanitarian aid to Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar fleeing to Bangladesh.

Children of fugitive Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar are also threatened by major dangers in neighboring Bangladesh, such as desperate living conditions and diseases. There must be protection for them and their families and support for safe, voluntary and dignified return, UNICEF proposes, the United Nations Children's Fund.

Over 40 members of the US Congress have asked the government for a new entry ban for high-ranking military personnel from Myanmar.

Wild elephants have killed four refugees, three children and a woman, died when they were robbed by a provisional shelter for Rohingya in Bangladesh. Four wounded had to be taken to a hospital.

The Catholic University of Leuven has removed the name of Myanmar government leader Aung San Suu Kyi from a chair. According to the Belgian newspaper Le Soir, the founders of the chair find that the Nobel laureate winner is no longer a positive example because she does not express enough views on the Rohingya crisis. In the meantime, more than half a million people from the Islamic minority group have been killed for the violence of the government army.

The Myanmar forces have started their own investigation into the behavior of soldiers in the state of Rakhine. More than half a million Rohingya flew in front of a violent outbreak.

Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi is 'upset' about the crisis with Rohingya refugees in her country and is determined to resolve it. But she has to take care that she does not focus on the situation even more, said one of her advisors on Friday.

Security troops in Myanmar have robbed a half million Rohingya brutally in the northern state of Rakhine. Their houses, villages and harvests were destroyed to prevent them from returning.

Aid workers have safely secured 25 bodies in Bangladesh after a refugee boat turned around. According to the police, the physical remains of thirteen children, eleven women and a man.

More than 11,000 Rohingya refugees were pulled from Myanmar to Bangladesh on Monday. That confirmed UNHCR UN Refugee, which announced with the local authorities to set up a temporary shelter center.

Huge groups of Rohingya Muslims continue to fly to Bangladesh. Reporters from Reuters Press Office saw how thousands of people crossed the border from Myanmar on Monday.

A return of Rohingya fleeing to Bangladesh has the highest priority for Myanmar. Both countries agreed Monday to set up a working group to return more than half a million refugees.

The World Food Program (WFP) has asked the international community $ 75 million (over EUR 63 million) on Sunday to face the worst of the Rohingya in the next six months. Hundreds of thousands of members of this Muslim minority flew to Myanmar for violence in Bangladesh.

In Myanmar a mass grave was discovered with 28 deaths, including several children. According to the army, it is Hindus killed in a robbery by rebels of the Muslim minority Rohingya.

At a Thai capital, Bangkok airport, the customs have picked up three Vietnamese people with fifteen horns in their suitcases. Estimated market value of ivory amounts to around 360,000 euros, the newspaper Bangkok Post reports Sunday.

Human rights organization Amnesty International says there are still fires in villages in Myanmar inhabited by the Rohingya Muslims. The organization says calling on new satellite photos taken Friday, the Washington Post reported.

The army of Myanmar has called on the fledgling population of the state of Rakhine to return home. It is time for 'national races' to rebuild the community. General Min Aung Hlaing did not mention the 422,000 Rohingya who fled the area.

Hundreds of protesters tried to prevent aid in Myanmar from being delivered. The angry Buddhists believed that the aid was intended only for Rohingya Muslims.

The government in Myanmar is concerned about the situation in the state of Rakhine, where thousands of Rohingya Muslims fled. Vice-President Henry Van Thio said that at the United Nations meeting in New York.

Britain strikes an 'educational program' for the forces in Myanmar because of the humanitarian crisis in that country. According to the British Government, the program can only be resumed if an 'acceptable solution has been found for the current situation.'

UN chief António Guterres called on state crafts in the North Korea issue on Tuesday. 'It's time to act as state men, because we can not walk to a war,' he said. According to observers, the criticism was based on the policy of US President Donald Trump.

Certainly two Rohingya refugees were killed in wildlife in Bangladesh. The animals stormed the police at night by an improvised refugee camp in the Cox's Bazar district.

A trade mission from the European Parliament to Myanmar is postponed because of the violence against Islamic Rohingya in the country. 'It would be the wrong signal to talk about trade now,' said D66 European Parliamentary Marietje Schaake.