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Governments around the world condemn Myanmar’s military coup

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…

Myanmar’s leaders, including Nobel laureate and de facto head of state Aung San Suu Kyi, have repeatedly defended the military crackdown. (AFP)

Why the Gambia’s plea for the Rohingya matters for international justice

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…

Aung San Suu Kyi has been accused of “election fraud and lawless actions” during the polls, state-run newspaper Global New Light of Myanmar reported. (Franck Robichon/Reuters)

Aung San Suu Kyi at the ICJ: when the personal is political

Myanmar’s leader personally faces allegations while avoiding the task of changing the country’s trajectory

Aung San Suu Kyi has been accused of “election fraud and lawless actions” during the polls, state-run newspaper Global New Light of Myanmar reported. (Franck Robichon/Reuters)

Freed Myanmar journos a symbol of Suu Kyi’s tarnished image

Suu Kyi was once the darling of the foreign media, but her silence over the persecuted Rohingya minority has drawn widespread condemnation

Reuters reporters Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo gesture as they walk to Insein prison gate after being freed, after receiving a presidential pardon in Yangon, Myanmar. (Ann Wang/Reuters)

Myanmar grants jailed Reuters journalists amnesty

Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo were mobbed by media as they stepped out of Yangon’s notorious Insein prison after their lengthy detention

Wa Lone in police custody. The case against has become a cause celebre for press freedom. (Ann Wang/Reuters)

Top Myanmar court rejects appeal of Reuters journalists

Reporters Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo have been behind bars since their arrest in December 2017 under the colonial-era Official Secrets Act

Myanmar is the second biggest source of opium in the world after Afghanistan, with Shan state its main production hub. (Ye Aung Thu/AFP/Getty Images)

Myanmar’s opium farmers cling on to lucrative crop

In 2018, the area of opium poppy cultivation in the country dropped by 10% to 37 300 hectares from the previous year

Wa Lone (Reuters)

Myanmar court rejects appeal by jailed Reuters journalists

Ruling decried as ‘another injustice’ against Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo, who were investigating 2017 killings of Rohingya

Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo had been investigating the September 2017 killings of 10 Rohingya Muslims in conflict-scarred Rakhine state. (Reuters)

Myanmar Reuters journalists appeal seven-year sentence

Their conviction in September sparked widespread global condemnation

Wa Lone in police custody. The case against has become a cause celebre for press freedom. (Ann Wang/Reuters)

Messages of support for Myanmar Reuters reporters as they mark year in jail

Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo were arrested in Yangon on December 12 and handed seven-year jail sentences under a state secrets law

Myanmar military commander-in-chief, Senior General Min Aung Hlaing, attends a military exercise at Ayeyarwaddy delta region in Myanmar, February 3 2018. (Lynn Bo Bo/Reuters)

The Myanmar generals accused of ‘genocide’

​A UN probe is calling for six members of Myanmar’s military to be investigated for ‘genocide’ against the Rohingya

Eskom’s balance sheet was poor and affected its ability to secure long term bonds from the market, according to Eskom CEO Phakamani Hadebe. (Paul Botes/M&G)

Suu Kyi defends court decision to jail Reuters reporters

Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo were each imprisoned for seven years last week for breaching the country’s hardline Official Secrets Act

About 700 000 Rohingya fled the Myanmar army crackdown. (Jorge Silva/Reuters)

Myanmar rejects ICC ruling to probe Rohingya deportations

Following the International Criminal Court’s unprecedented ruling, Myanmar says it has no obligation to respect it

Myanmar’s leaders, including Nobel laureate and de facto head of state Aung San Suu Kyi, have repeatedly defended the military crackdown. (AFP)

Myanmar rejects UN probe findings of Rohingya ‘genocide’

On Monday, a UN probe detailed evidence of genocide and crimes against humanity ‘perpetrated on a massive scale’ towards the Rohingya.

Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo had been investigating the September 2017 killings of 10 Rohingya Muslims in conflict-scarred Rakhine state. (Reuters)

Myanmar court postpones verdict for Reuters journalists

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

A handful of soldiers have been charged by Myanmar for involvement in a single massacre but UN special rapporteur Yanghee Lee has tempered expectations that Myanmar’s generals would stand trial anytime soon. (Reuters)

Catalogue of abuse: Seeking justice for the Rohingya

Different teams of investigators in the world’s biggest refugee camp in Bangladesh have been quietly documenting the events of 2017

Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh. A 0.3% tax would generate enough to secure life’s necessities for many tens of millions of the world’s most vulnerable. Photo: File

UN dithers over Rohingya genocide

Such a definition would spark international action, but even refugee status is not being granted

Socialism on the streets: Metalworkers’ union Numsa during a recent march to Parliament in Cape Town.

China’s activity on reclaimed reef threatens to raise regional tensions

Beijing has been turning reefs and islets into islands and installing military facilities such as runways and equipment on them

Cambridge Analytica CEO Alexander Nix

Myanmar social media anger after Pope uses ‘Rohingya’ word

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.

​Myanmar’s leader Aung San Suu Ky

Myanmar’s Suu Kyi makes first visit to crisis-hit northern Rakhine

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.