Burmese government denies ongoing genocide of Rohingya Muslims
Aung San Suu Kyi's ruling NLD party has also been accused of disseminating 'fake news' and imagery in a bid to discredit real reporting...
The Independent
Feb 3, 2017
Brazen Killing of Myanmar Lawyer Came After He Sparred With Military
The soft-spoken rights lawyer had devised a plan to replace Myanmar’s Constitution with one that would strip the military of its...
Genocide Watch
Feb 2, 2017
Asia’s Version of Aleppo is Happening in Burma
TRANSITION FROM military rule to democracy remains far from assured in Burma, where the military continues to be a formidable force. Now...
Editorial Board | The Post's View
Jan 27, 2017
Rohingya Children Give Eyewitness Accounts of Atrocities in Myanmar
Rohingya boys and girls as young as 11 and 12 spoke of atrocities they had witnessed that forced them to flee Myanmar’s Rakhine state in...
!a Radio Free Asia 1
Jan 23, 2017
Numbers speak volume: 4-decades of Myanmar's persecution of Rohingyas
Numbers speak volume: in 1978, 280,000 (in 4 months); in 1991-92, 260,000; in 2012 (130,000 IDP + 100,000 boat people) The framing has...
!a Maung Zarni 1
Jan 15, 2017
Myanmar’s Shameful Denial
Rohingya women near a refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, in November.CreditMohammad Ponir Hossain/Reuters Last month, President...
New York Times 1
Jan 15, 2017
Is the Myanmar government and military flirting with ‘acts of genocide’ against the Rohingya?
As a responsible Government, you don’t just go around hollering ‘genocide.’ You say that acts of genocide may have occurred and they need...
Michael Karnavas
Jan 15, 2017
What is Myanmar Tatmadaw/military doing in Rohingya region of N. Arakan/Rakhine?
Myanmar Tatmadaw, the creation of Fascist Japan, rediscovers its roots. I watched this last night. The methods used by Japanese...
!a Maung Zarni 1
Jan 13, 2017
Burma UN Rapporteur Blocked on Kachin State Visit as more Kachin minority groups flee war to China
VOA quoted Yanghee Lee as saying she had received “no cooperation from both the Union and Kachin State government—I was not allowed to...
News Compilations from various sources
Jan 12, 2017
Burma: Fresh fears for freedom of speech under Aung San Suu Kyi’s administration
THE 2015 election of the National League for Democracy (NLD) was a time of hope and celebration in Burma (Myanmar). High expectation...
Emma Richards | Asian Correspondent
Jan 11, 2017
The horror in Myanmar demands a response
We wanted a fairytale, but we're getting a horror story. After 15 years of detention in which she suffered abuse, psychological torture...
Editorial | The Sydney Morning Herald
Jan 11, 2017
Among the ghosts of Cambodia’s killing fields: on the set of Angelina Jolie’s new film
Can the Hollywood star’s Khmer-language film – with an all-Cambodian cast and crew – help a nation to confront the horrors of its past? ...
The Guardian
Jan 11, 2017
