Reuters International NOV 16, 2016 – Men clean fishing nets near a Rohingya refugee camp outside Sittwe, Rakhine state, Myanmar November 15, 2016. Picture taken on November 15, 2016. REUTERS/Soe Zeya Tun (reuters_tickers) By Serajul Quadir and Wa Lone DHAKA/SITTWE, Myanmar (Reuters) – Hundreds of Rohingya Muslims are fleeing a […]
Source: The Guardian A court in Myanmar has sentenced a Dutch citizen to three months in prison for interfering with a religious observance by unplugging an amplifier broadcasting a late-night […]
Source: Reuters By Wa Lone and Simon Lewis | SITTWE, MYANMAR A team led by former U.N. chief Kofi Annan began to address the plight of Myanmar’s persecuted Rohingya Muslims […]
Source: BBC A 6.8-magnitude earthquake in central Myanmar on Wednesday killed four people and damaged dozens of ancient structures dotting the plains of Bagan. President Htin Kyaw visited the area […]
Posted 02 Jul 2016 13:56 PHOTOS Myanmar has struggled to contain bouts of deadly religious bloodshed in recent years, with bristling sectarian tensions and rising Buddhist nationalism posing a challenge to the government AFP/Ye Aung Thu YANGON: A mob wielding weapons razed a Muslim prayer hall in northern Myanmar, state […]
Source. Dawn YANGON: Myanmar’s new civilian government should prioritise ending deep discrimination against the Rohingya and other Muslims in restive Rakhine state, a United Nations envoy said Friday. Yanghee Lee, the UN Special Rapporteur on Myanmar, was speaking after a nearly two-week visit to the Buddhist-majority nation, her first since […]
Source: Washington Monthly by Joshua Kurlantzick Of all the ethnic, racial, and religious minorities in the world, wrote the Economist last year, the Rohingya, a Muslim ethnic group, may well be the most persecuted people on the planet. Today nearly two million Rohingya live in western Myanmar and in Bangladesh. […]
Source: Reuters WASHINGTON | BY DAVID BRUNNSTROM Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi has a moral responsibility to try to ease tension between majority Buddhists and minority Rohingya Muslims, her […]
Source: Reuters BY HNIN YADANA ZAW AND TIMOTHY MCLAUGHLIN Hundreds of demonstrators, including Buddhist monks, denounced the United States for its use of the term Rohingya to describe Myanmar’s stateless Muslim community during a protest outside of the U.S. embassy in Yangon on Thursday. The Rohingya, most of whom live […]
By SEBASTIAN SHAKESPEARE FOR THE DAILY MAIL PUBLISHED: 23:51 GMT, 24 March 2016 She is a Nobel Peace Prize laureate and a beacon of saintly integrity in the West who remained under house arrest for 15 years in her native Burma. However, there is another side to Burmese politician Aung […]
Source: Tribune Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Myanmar politician Aung San Suu Kyi recently lost her cool during an interview with BBC’s Mishal Husain. After getting grilled by the BBC presenter, […]
By THE EDITORIAL BOARDJAN. 25, 2016 The government of Myanmar’s departing president, Thein Sein, oversaw the systematic persecution of the country’s Rohingya Muslim minority — a human rights debacle that […]
Burma’s Stateless Muslims: The World’s Most Persecuted Minority By Katrin Kuntz in Sittwe, Burma Will Baxter/ DER SPIEGEL In Burma, thousands of members of the Rohingya Muslim minority are fleeing persecution from Buddhists. Abused by smugglers, they are being turned away from Malaysia, Indonesia and Thailand. Nuralam often sits awake […]
theguardian: by Simon Lewis — Influential group of monks also plans to encourage people to vote for candidates who ‘will not let our race and religion disappear’ in this year’s elections An influential group of Buddhist monks in Burma is proposing to ban Muslim schoolgirls from wearing headscarves, in the latest sign […]
BANGKOK | BY AMY SAWITTA LEFEVRE AND KANUPRIYA KAPOOR Southeast Asian nations agreed on Friday to intensify search and rescue efforts to help vulnerable “boat people” stranded in the region’s seas, as Myanmar said its navy had seized a vessel off its coast with more than 700 migrants aboard. More […]
BANGKOK | BY AMY SAWITTA LEFEVRE AND KANUPRIYA KAPOOR Southeast Asian nations agreed on Friday to intensify search and rescue efforts to help vulnerable “boat people” stranded in the region’s seas, as Myanmar said its navy had seized a vessel off its coast with more than 700 migrants aboard. More […]
Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama smiles as he arrives to give a religious talk at the Tibetan Children’s Village School in Dharmsala, India, on Thursday. (AP) AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE Published — Friday 29 May 2015 SYDNEY: The Dalai Lama has urged fellow Nobel peace laureate Aung San Suu Kyi […]
Religion News Service | By Brian Pellot Posted: 05/19/2015 2:56 pm EDT Updated: 05/19/2015 2:59 pm EDT (RNS) Hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims live in squalor in Myanmar’s western Rakhine State. That number has been falling fast as thousands flee by land and sea in search of better lives […]
There was so much hope for her as a moral leader in Myanmar, but power (or politics) has changed her ZAFAR SOBHAN 03.23.15 TOMAS MUNITA/THE NEW YORK TIMES In the face of scathing criticism from international human rights groups, supporters of the sainted Aung San Suu Kyi are left with […]
Ethnic Rohingya women and children whose boats were washed ashore on Sumatra Island board a military truck to be taken to a temporary shelter in Seunuddon, Aceh province, Indonesia, on Sunday. (AP Photo/S. Yulinnas) MARGIE MASON | AP Published — Sunday 10 May 2015 Last update 10 May 2015 […]