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With the United Nations convening this week for its annual General Assembly of speeches and meetings, several issues are taking center stage. In addition to discussing the looming threat of a nuclear-capable North Korea, tensions with Iran, and combatting climate change, world leaders are also addressing the growing and increasingly dangerous crisis brewing between the Rohingya […]
Amid the ongoing crisis with Myanmar’s Rohingya Muslim population, de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi issued a steadily defiant public address yesterday, effectively dismissing international claims of ethnic cleansing and other crimes on behalf of Myanmar’s military. Over 400,000 Muslims from Myanmar’s ethnic Rohingya minority in Rakhine state have fled to neighboring Bangladesh, and […]
Myanmar said on Friday a visiting US official would not be allowed to go to a region where violence has triggered an exodus of nearly 400,000 Rohingya Muslims that the United Nations has branded a “textbook example of ethnic cleansing”. US Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Patrick Murphy will voice Washington’s concerns about the Rohingya and […]
The number of Rohingya who have fled fighting in western Myanmar has climbed sharply to 270,000, placing a huge strain on camps in Bangladesh where they are seeking shelter, the United Nations refugee agency said Friday. On Thursday, the United Nations agency said that about 164,000 Rohingya had fled since fighting broke out in late August. Two […]
KUTUPALONG MAKESHIFT CAMP, Bangladesh (Reuters) – As fellow Muslims were celebrating the end of Ramadan late in June, Noor Ankis and her neighbors buried her husband at the refugee camp in Bangladesh where he had lived for years. Mohammed Ayub’s body – his throat slit and hands tied behind his back – had been found […]
Debris and three bodies have been found of the Myanmar Chinese made Y-8-200F military transport plane that went missing while flying over the Andaman Sea. The Andaman Sea is located west of Thailand and to the south of Myanmar. Three bodies – those of two adults and a child – were found by a navy ship 35km […]
A military aircraft belonging to the Myanmar Army disappeared Wednesday afternoon over Andaman Sea. Different reports indicate that there were anywhere from 100 to 120 military personnel, family members, and flight crew aboard when it went missing. One source within the airport that has requested anonymity claims the aircraft left with 105 passengers and 11 […]
The emergence of Harakah al Yaqin, the first Rohingya Muslim insurgent group to organize in Myanmar in decades, signals a dangerous new phase in a crisis that is increasingly attracting the attention of extremists in Pakistan and the Middle East. Unknown six months ago, the group has ignited a conflict in Rakhine State that has marred […]
Rebels dressed as police officers attacked a number of military and police outposts in Myanmar’s restive Kokang region on Monday, killing as many as 30. The rebels reportedly belong to the Myanmar Nationalities Democratic Alliance Armies (MNDAA), a collection of armed groups waging a sustained military campaign against the government. The MNDAA claimed responsibility for the […]
I felt that deep, invigorating burn in my thighs as I heaved myself up the third mountain that day. It was a familiar burn, but the place was new. I wasn’t trudging upward next to my Ranger buddies in Georgia, nor was I heading to a target up some desolate mountain in Afghanistan. I was […]
China is extending its sway over an autonomous enclave run by Myanmar’s most powerful ethnic armed group, sources in the region told Reuters, bolstering Beijing’s role in the peace process that is the signature policy of Aung San Suu Kyi. The “foreign policy” of the self-proclaimed Wa State is closely monitored by Beijing, senior officials […]
Rights group Amnesty International says the actions of Myanmar’s military may constitute “crimes against humanity” after allegations of violence against the Rohingya Muslim minority. Its report accuses Burmese forces of murdering civilians, rape and torture. Myanmar’s military has denied accounts of atrocities and says it is conducting anti-terrorist raids in Rakhine. At a meeting of […]
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