The
Burma Star was awarded for one or more days of operational services during the war between December 1941 and September 1945.
The United Nations and other international organisations have been clear that conditions for the Rohingya to return to
Burma (Mayanmar)have not yet been met.
About 700,000 mostly Muslim Rohingya have fled largely Buddhist
Burma to Bangladesh after a military crackdown in August 2017 that the United Nations has called ethnic cleansing.
"I spoke to one young woman who had been on the phone to her aunt in Rakhine in Myanmar (
Burma).
International donors, who would be needed to fund the massive repatriation effort, should insist that
Burma and Bangladesh invite the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) to join in drafting a new tripartite agreement that ensures adherence to international standards.
More than 620,000 Rohingya have fled from
Burma into Bangladesh since August 25, when the army began what it called "clearance operations" following an attack on police posts by a group of Rohingya insurgents.
In a statement issued here Tuesday, LCCI President Abdul Basit, Senior Vice President Amjad Ali Jawa and Vice President Mohammad Nasir Hameed Khan said that Muslims in
Burma were being burnt alive and beheaded.
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Burma spans nearly 40 years of Myanmarese history, from 1926 to 1965.
Burma was the first to help the Philippines when the country was hit by Supertyphoon 'Yolanda' (international name: Haiyan) in 2013.