An installation and a documentary about the notorious residential school system amplify calls to define such deaths worldwide as genocide
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 […]
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 and Kyaw Soe Oo were arrested in Yangon on December 12 and handed seven-year jail sentences under a state secrets law
The London-based global human rights organisation said it was revoking the Ambassador of Conscience Award it gave Suu Kyi in 2009
Lawyers for two Myanmar Reuters journalists have filed an appeal against their seven-year jail sentence
Amnesty International calls on leaders to deal with the human rights crises around the world
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
The case has sparked an outcry among the international community as an attempt to muzzle reporting on the crackdown by Myanmar’s security forces
‘Nazi Germany and apartheid South Africa dwell in my mind as I try to understand our histories, our now and our possible futures’
Different teams of investigators in the world’s biggest refugee camp in Bangladesh have been quietly documenting the events of 2017
Two Reuters reporters accused of breaking Myanmar’s draconian secrecy law during reporting of a Rohingya massacre must face trial, a judge said Monday
Such a definition would spark international action, but even refugee status is not being granted
Mail & Guardian pictures editor Paul Botes presents some of the most striking images from 2017
An estimated 655 000 refugees from the stateless group have poured across the border into Bangladesh, fleeing ethnic cleansing.
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.
Nobel peace laureate Malala Yousafzai and mainly Muslim countries in Asia led a growing chorus of criticism aimed at Myanmar and its civilian leader
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.
Bangladesh border guards have turned back three more boats carrying more than 100 Rohingya Muslims who have fled religious violence in Burma.
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/ 13 February 2009
Abhisit Vejjajiva has admitted that authorities set boat people from Burma adrift, following weeks of allegations of cruelty against the migrants.
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/ 30 January 2009
Burma’s junta stepped into the Rohingya crisis on Friday, denying any of the people washing up in Thailand, India and Indonesia were from its soil.