Myanmar

In a meeting with his Burmese counterpart, Bangladeshi Foreign Minister Hasan Mahmud urged Myanmar to honor its promise of repatriating Rohingya refugees living in overcrowded camps in Cox’s Bazar, Anadolu Agency reported yesterday. The two diplomats met on the sidelines…

The UN Human Rights Council is urging an immediate end to violence and human rights abuses in Myanmar. A recently passed resolution expresses deep concern over the ongoing crisis, highlighting widespread abuses by both the military and opposition groups, the…

More than a quarter of Myanmar’s public schools, around 13,700 out of 48,753, have been forced to close due to the ongoing civil war in the country, RFA reported yesterday citing the military junta’s Ministry of Education. In western Chin…

The Rohingya minority in Myanmar’s Rakhine State are confronting a dire situation, with the United Nations warning of the risk of “genocidal violence” similar to the atrocities they suffered in 2016-2017, the Independent reported yesterday. Thomas Andrews, the UN special…

Heavy rains have caused rivers in Myanmar’s Kachin state to overflow, displacing an estimated 10,000 people, RFA reported yesterday. This flooding could be worse than the record set in 2004, according to relief workers involved in ongoing relief operations. Overflowing…

A British rights group is sounding the alarm over a surge in violence against Myanmar’s Rohingya Muslim minority, Al Jazeera reported yesterday. The Burmese Rohingya Organisation UK (BROUK) warns of an “intensifying genocide” as fighting between the military and the…

The UN’s top human rights official, Volker Türk, has condemned the horrific situation in Myanmar, UN News reported. Türk described the military regime’s use of “war tactics” like beheadings and drone attacks against civilians as “atrocity crimes.” The crisis stems…

Tens of thousands of Rohingya, a Muslim minority group, are feared to be caught in the escalating conflict between the Arakan Army (AA) and the Myanmar junta in the western Rakhine region, Arab News reported yesterday. The AA, which is…

The ethnic Arakan Army insurgent group announced that Myanmar’s military junta has murdering 53 civilians, including 48 men and 5 women, during a raid on the village of Byain Phyu in Rakhine State last week, RFA reported. According to the…

In a troubling development in Myanmar’s ongoing conflict, reports indicate that the country’s military junta is forcibly recruiting members of the persecuted Rohingya minority to bolster its dwindling ranks. This comes as the junta faces increasing pressure from the ethnic…