Feb 24, 2013 | News / Article
By Mohamed Farooq Last 21 February night at about 09 PM, numbers of Rakhine youths gather and shouted near the gate of Mohammad Gani, 42 years old, an educated Rohingya person in Boumo Para, Maungdaw. He shut down all his windows and doors of home for his family...
Feb 14, 2013 | News / Article
In every genocide the weakest and most vulnerable are the most likely to be targeted for extermination. For those communities that find themselves the target of ethnic cleansing their children are preyed upon without mercy. The aim of this merciless method of...
Feb 13, 2013 | News / Article
A prominent Rohingya human rights activist and interpreter, who has helped many international journalists travelling to the conflict-torn Arakan state in western Burma, was detained by authorities in Sittwe on Tuesday morning, local police have confirmed. Aung Win, an...
Feb 10, 2013 | News / Article
Myanmar hopes Thailand will allow more time for documenting an estimated one million migrant workers if the nationality verification (NV) process can’t be finished by the March 16 deadline. Deputy Labour Minister Myint Thein made the comment on Saturday during a...
Feb 10, 2013 | News / Article
ASEAN chief says offer turned down, even as tension between Buddhists and Rohingya Muslims simmers in Rakhine state. Myanmar has rejected an offer by the Association of Southeast Asian Nations to open talks aimed at quelling deadly communal violence there, according...
Feb 4, 2013 | News / Article
Burma, also known as Myanmar, was long considered a pariah state, isolated from the rest of the world and with an appalling human rights record. From 1962 to 2011, the country was ruled by a military junta that suppressed almost all dissent and wielded absolute power...
