The United States led governments around the world in calling for the restoration of Myanmar’s democracy on Monday after the military staged a coup, arresting civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi and other politicians
In early December, the International Court of Justice heard arguments filed by the Gambia against Myanmar for violations of the Genocide Convention. This included a request for “provisional measures”, asking that the UN court immediately order Myanmar to cease genocidal activities and to report to it within four months. Under the 1948 Genocide Convention any […]
Myanmar’s leader personally faces allegations while avoiding the task of changing the country’s trajectory
Suu Kyi was once the darling of the foreign media, but her silence over the persecuted Rohingya minority has drawn widespread condemnation
Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo were mobbed by media as they stepped out of Yangon’s notorious Insein prison after their lengthy detention
Reporters Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo have been behind bars since their arrest in December 2017 under the colonial-era Official Secrets Act
In 2018, the area of opium poppy cultivation in the country dropped by 10% to 37 300 hectares from the previous year
Ruling decried as ‘another injustice’ against Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo, who were investigating 2017 killings of Rohingya
Their conviction in September sparked widespread global condemnation
Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo were arrested in Yangon on December 12 and handed seven-year jail sentences under a state secrets law
A UN probe is calling for six members of Myanmar’s military to be investigated for ‘genocide’ against the Rohingya
Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo were each imprisoned for seven years last week for breaching the country’s hardline Official Secrets Act
Following the International Criminal Court’s unprecedented ruling, Myanmar says it has no obligation to respect it
On Monday, a UN probe detailed evidence of genocide and crimes against humanity ‘perpetrated on a massive scale’ towards the Rohingya.
Wa Lone, 32, and Kyaw Soe Oo, 28, have been detained in Myanmar’s infamous Insein prison since December in the case which has ignited a global outcry
Different teams of investigators in the world’s biggest refugee camp in Bangladesh have been quietly documenting the events of 2017
Such a definition would spark international action, but even refugee status is not being granted
Beijing has been turning reefs and islets into islands and installing military facilities such as runways and equipment on them
The Pope expressed that he had taken up the Rohingya cause in private in Myanmar, but a few days before, he chose not to publicly air their plight.
In an unannounced trip, she made her first visit an area that has seen most of its Rohingya Muslim population forced out by an army campaign.
Human rights activists are stepping up efforts to expose Israel’s long and covert history of supplying weapons and military training to regimes.
The November visit comes as unprecedented numbers of Rohingya flee into neighbouring Bangladesh because of increasing communal violence.
In a small village on the border of Myanmar and Bangladesh, some 520 000 more Rohingya have made camp in the latest eruption of violence.
Over 500 000 Rohingya have streamed into Bangladesh in the past five weeks and numbers are expected to swell again with another 10 000 waiting to move
Genocide doesn’t begin with mass murder. It’s a long, insidious process that can be stopped before it’s too late.
The Rohingya, a stateless Muslim minority, have faced decades of persecution in Myanmar where they are regarded as illegal immigrants.
The UN says 87 000 members of persecuted Muslim community have crossed into Bangladesh since violence erupted on August 25.
Myanmar, the US and Southeast Asian envoys are preparing for talks, following Malaysia’s announcement that it would assist migrants stranded at sea.
Burma’s junta arrested more people under the cover of darkness on Wednesday despite a crescendo of international outrage during a keenly watched United Nations mission to bring an end to a bloody crackdown on protests. At least eight truckloads of prisoners were hauled out of downtown Rangoon.