Mar 31, 2013 | News / Article
Posted by Alex Caring-LobelIn 2007, inspiring images of Burmese Buddhist monks leading their compatriots in demonstrations of civil resistance flooded the Western media. Just five years after the series of protests curiously referred to as the “Saffron Revolution”...
Mar 31, 2013 | News / Article
YANGON: Tens of thousands of Rohingya Muslims living in squalid, flood-prone camps in western Myanmar after fleeing communal unrest face “imminent danger” from looming monsoon rains, the UN warned on Friday.An estimated 125,000 Rohingya and other Muslims have...
Mar 31, 2013 | News / Article
(AP)YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — Myanmar’s government on Saturday rejected remarks by a U.N. human rights official suggesting that the authorities bear some blame for recent mob attacks by Buddhists on minority Muslims that killed dozens of people. The U.N. official,...
Mar 31, 2013 | News / Article
by Agence France PresseJEDDAH, Saudi Arabia – The head of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation said on Saturday that ministers from OIC states will meet on April 14 in Saudi Arabia to discuss deadly violence against Muslims in Myanmar. Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu...
Mar 30, 2013 | Uncategorized
By AYE KYAWT KHAING / THE IRRAWADDY RANGOON—A much-delayed government inquiry into last year’s sectarian violence in Arakan State is due for release in two days, but investigation commission members said on Friday that they did not know if it would be publicized as...
