Myanmar

  • ‘Myanmar publishes fake photos of Rohingya crisis’

    ‘Myanmar publishes fake photos of Rohingya crisis’

    Sep 01, 2018 12:34

    The grainy black-and-white photo, printed in a new book on the Rohingya crisis authored by Myanmar's army, shows a man standing over two bodies, wielding a farming tool. "Bengalis killed local ethnics brutally," reads the caption.

  • Myanmar aid restrictions likely 'war crime': Rights group

    Myanmar aid restrictions likely 'war crime': Rights group

    Aug 31, 2018 07:26

    A rights group says government restrictions on lifesaving aid for internally displaced people in northern Myanmar could constitute a war crime.

  • UN hints Myanmar leader complicit in Rohingya genocide

    UN hints Myanmar leader complicit in Rohingya genocide

    Aug 30, 2018 13:37

    The United Nations (UN)’s top human rights official says Myanmar’s leader Aung San Suu Kyi should have resigned last year over a state-sponsored campaign of terror against Rohingya Muslims in the country’s northwestern state of Rakhine.

  • Dam overflow floods 100 villages in Myanmar

    Dam overflow floods 100 villages in Myanmar

    Aug 29, 2018 15:14

    Monsoon rains caused a central Myanmar dam to overflow early Wednesday, inundating about 100 villages and blocking the country's biggest highway, a government official said.

  • EU executive to hold meeting on UN Myanmar report this week

    EU executive to hold meeting on UN Myanmar report this week

    Aug 27, 2018 17:03

    The European Union's executive in Brussels will hold a meeting this week with the authors of a UN report that called for prosecution of Myanmar's army chief and five other top military commanders for genocide against the country’s Rohingya Muslim minority.

  • UN: Myanmar military killed, raped Rohingya Muslims with ‘genocidal intent’

    UN: Myanmar military killed, raped Rohingya Muslims with ‘genocidal intent’

    Aug 27, 2018 14:16

    A UN fact-finding mission says Myanmar’s military has carried out a series of “shocking” rights violations against Rohingya Muslims, including mass killings and gang rapes, adding the country’s commander-in-chief and other generals should stand trial for “genocide” and war crimes against the minority group.

  • UNICEF warns of 'lost generation' of Rohingya children

    UNICEF warns of 'lost generation' of Rohingya children

    Aug 23, 2018 13:46

    The United Nations says hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslim children lack proper education both in Myanmar and border camps in Bangladesh, warning that the Myanmarese kids could become “a lost generation.”

  • Body of evidence: The scars of the Rohingya Muslims

    Body of evidence: The scars of the Rohingya Muslims

    Aug 22, 2018 10:33

    Rohingya refugee Mohammad Sikander felt a flash of pain as a bullet — fired by a Myanmar soldier — tore into his shoulder.

  • Myanmar’s Suu Kyi strikes cold note on ousted Muslims

    Myanmar’s Suu Kyi strikes cold note on ousted Muslims

    Aug 22, 2018 03:35

    Myanmar’s leader Aung San Suu Kyi says Bangladesh is responsible for the start of the repatriation process of the Rohingya Muslims who have fled state-sponsored violence in Myanmar — and who are awaiting safety guarantees to return — warning that the risk of “inter-communal violence” remains once the minority Muslims do return.

  • HRW skeptical of Myanmar inquiry into Rohingya abuses

    HRW skeptical of Myanmar inquiry into Rohingya abuses

    Aug 18, 2018 13:31

    Human Rights Watch has warned that a panel set up by Myanmar to probe atrocities against Rohingya Muslims in Rakhine state does not seem to be performing its task in a “serious and impartial” manner.