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Senators ask US to sanction Myanmar army chief
Senators called Wednesday for the United States to slap sanctions on Myanmar’s army chief, saying more needed to be done to bring accountability ... World News -
ICC team probes Rohingya atrocities in Bangladesh
A team from the office of the International Criminal Court prosecutor was in Bangladesh on Wednesday for a preliminary probe into alleged atrocities ... World News -
Angelina Jolie visits Rohingya camps, says refugees’ plight ‘shames us all’
UN refugee agency special envoy Angelina Jolie on Tuesday visited camps in Bangladesh for Muslim Rohingya refugees from Myanmar and condemned the ... World News -
How likely are Myanmar’s generals to face prosecution for genocide?
UN Special Rapporteur for Human Rights in Myanmar, Professor Yanghee Lee, on Friday called for the Myanmar Army Chief, Senior General Ming Aung Hlaing ... Middle East -
Two Reuters journalists lose appeal against 7-year sentence in Myanmar
Two Reuters journalists jailed for seven years for breaching Myanmar's Official Secrets Act while reporting on a massacre of Rohingya Muslims lost an ... Digital -
Terror to triumph: A young Rohingya woman’s journey to the impossible
On the first day of the school year at the Asian University for Women in southern Bangladesh, groups of teenage girls in skinny jeans, sleeveless tops ... Features -
Britain says Reuters journalists jailed in Myanmar are innocent
British Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt said on Friday that two Reuters journalists jailed in Myanmar on charges of breaking the country’s ... Television & Radio -
Rally to mark one year since arrest of Myanmar Reuters journalists
Protesters in Yangon Wednesday will mark one year since the arrest of two Myanmar Reuters journalists who exposed a massacre of Rohingya Muslims in ... Television & Radio -
Myanmar authorities drop ‘incitement’ charges against journalists
A Myanmar court dismissed on Friday a case against three senior journalists from the country’s largest private newspaper, after authorities in ... Print -
Facebook: Human rights report shows it should do more in Myanmar
Facebook Inc on Monday said a human rights report it commissioned on its presence in Myanmar showed it had not done enough to prevent its social ... Digital -
Appeals filed for two Myanmar Reuters journalists in secrets case
Lawyers for two Reuters journalists sentenced to seven years in prison in Myanmar for possession of official documents are appealing the verdict, the ... Print -
The never-ending Rohingya genocide
The genocide against the (remaining) Rohingya in Myanmar is “ongoing” and the government has no interest in establishing a fully ... Middle East -
Concerns raised as India deports Rohingya Muslims to Myanmar
The deportation of seven Rohingya Muslims to Myanmar by the Indian Government has outraged the United Nations and human rights activists who are ... Features -
India to begin deportations of Rohingya Muslims to Myanmar
India plans to send seven Rohingya Muslims back to Myanmar in the first deportation of members of the Myanmar minority group since the Home Ministry ... World News -
Amal Clooney defends case of journalists jailed in Myanmar
The lawyer representing two journalists imprisoned in Myanmar for what critics say was merely doing their jobs on Friday urged the government of Nobel ... Print -
US report: Myanmar military waged planned, coordinated mass killing of Rohingya
A US government investigation has found that Myanmar’s military waged a planned, coordinated campaign of mass killings, gang rapes and other ... Features -
Nikki Haley says Suu Kyi defense of jailing of Reuters journalists ‘unbelievable’
Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi said on Thursday the jailing of two Reuters journalists had nothing to do with freedom of expression and they can ... World News -
Aung San Suu Kyi must share responsibility for the Rohingya genocide
The scrupulously conservative UN has finally issued a report calling for the military leadership in Myanmar, including the Commander-in-Chief Min Aung ... Middle East -
Myanmar court sentences Reuters reporters to seven years in jail
A Myanmar court sentenced two Reuters journalists to seven years in prison Monday for illegal possession of official documents, a ruling that comes as ... Digital -
Myanmar releases 75 more child soldiers, UNICEF says
Myanmar's military has released 75 child soldiers, a UN agency said, its first discharge this year as part of a gradual process to end decades of ... World News -
The Rohingya crisis: One year on
The UN Fact Finding Mission to Myanmar has finally published its report on the forced expulsion of 700,000 Rohingya from Myanmar to Bangladesh over ... Middle East -
Myanmar rejects damning UN genocide probe on abuses against Rohingya
Myanmar rejected Wednesday the findings of a UN probe alleging genocide by its military against the Rohingya, in a strident government response to a ... World News -
Facebook bans Myanmar army chief, others in unprecedented move
Facebook said on Monday it was removing several Myanmar military officials from the social media website and an Instagram account to prevent the ... Digital -
Myanmar generals had ‘genocidal intent’ against Rohingya, UN finds
Myanmar’s military carried out mass killings and gang rapes of Muslim Rohingya with “genocidal intent” and the commander-in-chief ... World News -
How the Rohingya marked ‘black day’ anniversary of Myanmar violence
Rohingya refugees on Saturday marked the anniversary of a deadly military crackdown in their Myanmar homeland that drove 700,000 of the persecuted ... Features -
Aung San Suu Kyi did not deserve to deliver the Singapore Lecture
The Singapore Lecture is one of the highlights of intellectual life in Singapore each year, and the invitation to deliver it is as much an honor of ... Middle East -
Myanmar’s failed experiment with democracy
Myanmar has come a long way since its days as a closed authoritarian state led by a military junta which characterised most of its history. One could ... Middle East -
Myanmar appoints panel to probe Rohingya abuses
Myanmar has established a commission of inquiry to probe allegations of human rights abuses in conflict-torn Rakhine state, authorities said on Monday ... World News -
Myanmar’s state counselor and whitewash commissions
As more and more international bodies refer to Myanmar’s treatment of the Rohingya as genocide, Aung San Suu Kyi did what she does best to ... Middle East -
Reuters reporter says Myanmar police planted ‘secret’ papers
A jailed Reuters reporter told a court in Myanmar on Monday that documents he is accused of breaking state secrets laws to obtain were planted by a ... Print