Mar 28, 2013 | News / Article
Tim Marshall – Foreign Affairs Editor (Sky News HD)Amid the cries for freedom, justice, democracy, few activists lauded by visiting journalists bother with minority rights.This week’s outbreak of sectarian racist violence in Burma is a reminder that the...
Mar 28, 2013 | News / Article
By Steven HsiehHuman Rights Watch says Burma’s discriminatory policies against Rohingya Muslims could lead to a permanent, segregated state.The Burmese government is potentially paving the way for long-term segregation through discriminatory policies against a...
Mar 26, 2013 | News / Article
Sectarian violence spread further into the heartland of Burma on Tuesday, with officials reporting at least two mosques and dozens of homes destroyed in riots. Police and witnesses say there were no casualties reported in the overnight violence in two communities in...
Mar 26, 2013 | News / Article
Buddhist monks and politicians have used an unshackled media to stoke anti-Muslim violence.By MURRAY HIEBERTAND GREGORY POLING Just two years into Burma’s reform program, the country’s transition to democracy is threatened from an unexpected direction. An...
Mar 26, 2013 | News / Article
By SHIBANI MAHTANI The U.S. Embassy has warned against travel to parts of Myanmar after clashes between majority Buddhists and minority Muslims that authorities said killed at least 40 people last week in the central town of Meikhtila. The warning comes amid new...
Mar 26, 2013 | News / Article
AFP – Muslim homes have been targeted with “brutal efficiency” in deadly new unrest in Myanmar, a UN envoy who has just been to the troubled country said Tuesday. Envoy Vijay Nambiar said that “incendiary propaganda” had been used to stir unrest between Buddhist...
