On Sept. 2, Buddhist villagers and Myanmar troops killed 10 Rohingya men in Myanmar’s restive Rakhine state. Reuters uncovered the massacre and has pieced together how it unfolded. During the reporting of this article, two Reuters journalists were arrested by Myanmar police. Bound together, the 10 Rohingya Muslim captives watched their Buddhist neighbors dig a …
UN experts: At least 319 villages were partially or totally destroyed in Myanmar
Myanmar has refused to give UN investigators access to the country and blocked an independent and impartial investigation after destroying at least 319 villages, said Marzuki Darusman, the chairman of the UN’s Independent Fact-finding Mission on Myanmar. Darusman urged Rohingya Muslims not to return without adequate guarantees for human rights protection. “People continue to flee. …
UN: Rohingya being subjected to campaign of forced starvation
The UN assistant secretary-general for human rights says the nature of the violence against the Rohingya in Myanmar has changed from the frenzied blood-letting to a lower intensity campaign of terror. Myanmar is continuing its “ethnic cleansing” of the Rohingya with a “campaign of terror and forced starvation” in Rakhine state, a UN human rights …
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Rights group sees blocked aid to Myanmar Kachin as war crime
Myanmar has deliberately obstructed aid deliveries to civilians in war-torn Kachin and northern Shan states, actions that may amount to war crimes, a human rights group said on Aug. 30. Re-ignited fighting between Myanmar’s military and an armed Kachin rebel group has killed thousands of civilians and displaced over 100,000 since 2011. The Kachin Independence …
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Around 24,000 Rohingya Muslims killed, 18,000 raped
More than 24,000 Rohingya Muslims have been killed by Myanmar’s state forces since August 2017, according to a new report. The figures were revealed in the report – Forced Migration of Rohingya: The Untold Experience – released by the Ontario International Development Agency, which involved researchers and organizations from Australia, Bangladesh, Canada, Norway and the …
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U.S. accuses Myanmar military of ‘planned and coordinated’ Rohingya atrocities
An US government investigation has found that Myanmar’s military waged a “well-planned and coordinated” campaign of mass killings, gang rapes and other atrocities against the Southeast Asian nation’s Rohingya Muslim minority. The U.S. State Department report, which was released on September 24, could be used to justify further U.S. sanctions or other punitive measures against Myanmar …
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UN calls for genocide tribunal over Rohingya crisis
A United Nations fact-finding mission has released an extensive 440-page reportdetailing atrocities carried out by the Myanmar military against Rohingya Muslims, in support of its call for the country’s generals to face an international tribunal on charges of genocide. “Peace will not be achieved while the Tatmadaw remains above the law,” Marzuki Darusman, chair of the …
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Myanmar’s Suu Kyi defends jailing of Reuters reporters
Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo, who had been investigating the massacre of Rohingya in Rakhine state, were convicted last week of collecting state secrets by a court in Yangon. Suu Kyi’s response to the crisis has been slammed. Myanmar’s de facto leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, rejected claims that two Reuters journalists who were jailed last week …
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Myanmar army uses fake photos of ‘Muslims killing Buddhists’ in book on Rohingya crisis
Produced by Myanmar’s army, a new book on the Rohingya crisis contains numerous misrepresented photographs, including one image that incorrectly claims to be members of the Muslim minority killing Buddhists. The 177-page Myanmar Politics and the Tatmadaw: Part I features the army’s narrative on the military crackdown which was recently described as genocide by United Nations investigators. Much of the book’s content is sourced from the …
Reuters reporters jailed for seven years in Myanmar
Two Reuters journalists arrested in Myanmar while investigating a massacre of Rohingya Muslims have been found guilty of breaching the country’s Official Secrets Act and sentenced to seven years in prison. Wa Lone, 32, and Kyaw Soe Oo, 28, are being held in prison in Yangon after being arrested in December, in a landmark case that has …
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