Crisis in Myanmar’s Kachin means jungle treks to escape war
Source: Associated Press By MIN KYI THEIN MYITKYINA, Myanmar (AP) — As the Myanmar army’s bombs started falling near her home in Kachin state, Nlam Numrang Doi and her neighbors […]
Top-level UN team meets Myanmar leader in Rohingya probe
Source: Associated Press NAYPYITAW, Myanmar (AP) — Ambassadors from the U.N. Security Council probing Myanmar’s crisis over its ethnic Rohingya Muslim minority met Monday with the country’s leader and military […]
Rohingya refugees tearfully plead for U.N. Security Council help
Reuters International This content was published on April 29, 2018 British United Nations Ambassador Karen Pierce consoles a twelve-year-old Rohingya refugee near Cox’s Bazar, in Bangladesh, April 29, 2018. REUTERS/Michelle […]
Myanmar military put on UN blacklist for sexual violence
Source: Associated Press By EDITH M. LEDERER UNITED NATIONS (AP) — A new U.N. report puts Myanmar’s armed forces on a U.N. blacklist of government and rebel groups “credibly suspected” of carrying out rapes and other acts of sexual violence in conflict for the first time. An advance copy of […]
Myanmar’s arguments are baseless, Bangladeshi FM says
YUSUF SELMAN İNANÇ @yusufsinanc DHAKA A boy naps under the shade of a tree after an early Sunday fire razed down a Rohingya camp in the Kalindi Kunj area […]
Myanmar repatriates first Rohingya refugee family: government
Reuters International This content was published on April 15, 2018 YANGON (Reuters) – Myanmar on Saturday repatriated the first Rohingya family from nearly 700,000 refugees who have fled to […]
Myanmar says ‘seriously concerned’ over war crimes prosecutor move on Rohingya jurisdiction
Rohingya Muslim men with their hands bound kneel as members of the Myanmar security forces stand guard in Inn Din village on Sept 2, 2017.PHOTO: REUTERS YANGON (REUTERS) – The […]
End the Buddhist terror in Myanmar now
Source: Religion News Service By Hozan Alan Senauke | April 11, 2018 Rohingya Muslims, who crossed over from Myanmar into Bangladesh, carry an elderly woman in a basket and walk toward a refugee […]
Rohingya in camp tell Myanmar official they survived attacks
Source: Associated Press By JULHAS ALAM DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — A Myanmar Cabinet minister on Wednesday visited a sprawling refugee camp in Bangladesh for Rohingya Muslims, who described the violence […]
Myanmar official meets Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh camp
Source: Associated Press By JULHAS ALAM DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — A Myanmar Cabinet minister on Wednesday visited a sprawling refugee camp in Bangladesh for Rohingya Muslims, who described the violence that forced them to flee Myanmar and presented a list of demands for their repatriation. Social Welfare Minister Win Myat […]
Seven Myanmar soldiers sentenced to 10 years for massacre exposed by Reuters
Reuters International This content was published on April 10, 2018 Ten Rohingya Muslim men with their hands bound kneel in Inn Din village September 1, 2017. Handout via REUTERS (reuters_tickers) […]
Myanmar groups say Facebook hasn’t controlled hate speech
Source: Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Civil society and rights groups in Myanmar said Facebook has failed to adequately act against online hate speech that incites violence against the country’s […]
Rights lawyer Amal Clooney to represent Reuters reporters held in Myanmar
Reuters International This content was published on March 29, 2018 Amal Clooney attends a security council meeting at U.N. headquarters during the United Nations General Assembly in New York […]
U.N. chief ‘shocked’ by top Myanmar general’s comments on Rohingya
Reuters International This content was published on March 27, 2018 FILE PHOTO: Rohingya refugees build shelter with bamboo at the Jamtoli camp in the morning in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, […]
UNHCR chief pessimistic on deal for Rohingya returns to Myanmar
Reuters International This content was published on March 16, 2018 U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi, attends a meeting of Latin America and Caribbean for the global pact […]
Myanmar says UN findings on human rights lack credibility
Source: Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Myanmar’s government on Tuesday rejected two reports presented to the U.N. Human Rights Council that concluded it committed extreme human rights violations, probably amounting […]
Rohingya crisis: UN envoy says refugees facing ‘forced starvation’
Source: BBC News Myanmar has not stopped its ethnic cleansing of the Rohingya people in Rakhine state, a United Nations human rights official said on Tuesday. The UN envoy’s assessment […]
Rohingya refugees test Bangladeshi welcome as prices rise and repatriation stalls
Reuters International This content was published on February 28, 2018 Bangladeshi farmer Jorina Katun stands among the Rohingya Muslims camped out on her land near the Kutapalong refugee camp […]
North Korea, Myanmar in a sanctions-busting embrace
Source. Asia Times. The revelations of Myanmar’s continued missile-related imports from North Korea show that the two sides’ military relations are alive and well despite Naypyitaw’s repeated claims that they have been severed. They also underscore that Myanmar’s autonomous and powerful military, and not the civilian elected government, continues to […]
‘Whitewashing’ genocide in Myanmar
Jan 30,2018 – JORDAN TIMES – RAMZY BAROUD Although the genocide of the Rohingya minority in Myanmar has gathered greater media attention in recent months, there […]