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- Myanmar: Investigate Deadly Crackdown Against Rakhine Protesters in Mrauk-U
At the same time, four or five police officers shot at us from a distance . . . I don’t know how many police officers shot us. The guns sounded like there were more than three or four officers [shooting]. two police officers. According to the government, 20 police officers were injured during the incident.
- Congress, Don't Further Normalize Military Relations With Burma
a regime who’s nuclear and missile programs the Trump administration has made a cornerstone of its foreign Burma was one of a handful of priority countries that the Trump administration physically dispatched officials While Burmese military officials deny having any ties beyond “normal relations” with North Korea, publically
- Afghan Children Recruited to Fight in Syria
There are no official public statistics on its size, but according to an interview published in the Revolutionary recruiter approached him while he was trying to renew his residency permit at the Bureau for Aliens and Foreign Immigrants Affairs (BAFIA) office in a city outside Tehran. While Iran officially claims that all Afghans living in Iran who join the Fatemiyoun division are volunteers that the government has proposed offering incentives such as a path to citizenship for families of foreign
- Hundreds of Rohingya Refugees Stuck at Sea With ‘Zero Hope’
While Thailand eventually convicted nine officials of participating in human trafficking schemes, no Rohingya intensified in 2017 when the Buddhist-majority military in Myanmar unleashed what United Nations officials
- From Cyprus to Syria: Turkey’s Continued Invasions
The Turkish military code-named the invasion “Operation Attila,” named after Attila the Hun (reigned According to the official website of the Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, “Cyprus has never been We will break the arms and legs of officials, of the Prime Minister [Alexis Tsipras] and any minister
- The Cost of Escalating Violence in Afghanistan
five Taliban suicide bombers attacked the Intercontinental Hotel, killing at least 22 people, mostly foreigners Some have even called for the execution of Taliban prisoners; government officials saidthey were considering In principle, and notwithstanding President Trump’s 29 January remarks, top U.S. officials say the new Defense Department officials reported in late January, with data from October 2017, that more territory political-civil front, including parts of the leadership and representatives in the Doha political office
- Sahel: Atrocities by the security forces are fueling recruitment by armed Islamists
appear to be reprisal killings in direct response to the deaths of soldiers, something the commanding officers
- What created the blueprint for Rohingya genocide in Myanmar? Western colonialism
In 1974, the Rohingyas had their identity stripped and were classified as “foreigners” by the state. In 2013, Win Myaing, the official spokesperson of the Rakhine State Government said “How can it be ethnic Earlier this year more than 1,000 Rohingya were killed in a new crackdown by the Myanmar state, say UN officials Boris Johnson’s cowardly response as the Foreign Secretary only further idolised a woman who passes off
- Myanmar Says it Will Not Grant Visas for UN Fact-finding Mission on Rakhine
efforts to investigate reported army atrocities in the strife-ridden western state of Rakhine, with the foreign On Thursday, however, Kyaw Tin, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affair, told parliament Myanmar's embassies crackdown in parts of Rakhine state following a deadly raid on border guard posts in October 2016, which officials On April 11, a top-level Myanmar government official briefing foreign diplomats, U.N. agency personnel The foreign ministry's stance was supported by members of parliament at the hearing.
- Call for Applications: Summer Institute for Genocide Studies and Prevention
academic inquiry. (2) Encourage participating institutions to develop courses, academic modules and foreign Assistant Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Keene State College and the Academic Programs Officer
- Years Of U.S. Government Lies Could Soon Result In A Kurdish Massacre
American officials designed that fiction to enable the anti-ISIS strategy adopted under President Barack Foreign Fantasies Versus Local Realities Squaring U.S. policy in Syria with the country’s increasingly The official U.S. line is that all parties should remain focused on ISIS. “The Syrian Democratic Forces in their meetings with the U.S. officials and the [anti-ISIS] coalition officials have been very clear that although they will be seeking support in Afrin, they will not be
- Aung San Suu Kyi met by protesters, criticism upon receiving Freedom of London award
criticism by human rights groups upon being awarded an Honorary Freedom of the City of London during an official state visit to the UK ahead of peace talks. Some groups including the Burmese Rohingya Organisation UK, Restlessbeings and Kachin National Organisation UK started a petition to “denounce” and “condemn” the protests, claiming that “Suu Kyi has been working constitutionally barred from being president, Suu Kyi is the de facto leader of Burma and serves as its foreign











