The Rohingya Revisited

Nearly a year ago, I wrote an article outlining reasons why the ICC should take action in Myanmar (also known as Burma) in order to stop continued religious and ethnic violence towards the Rohingya. During 2013, not surprisingly, the anti-Muslim violence in Myanmar...

Holocaust museum highlights Myanmar’s Rohingya

The Associated Press Washington’s Holocaust Memorial Museum is highlighting the plight of Myanmar’s beleaguered Rohingya Muslims this week. An exhibition of stark, black-and-white images of the stateless Rohingya is being projected at night onto the...
Myanmar’s ethnic armies present ceasefire draft

Myanmar’s ethnic armies present ceasefire draft

By IRIN Photo: Contributor/IRIN “What talks?” ask people displaced from conflict in Kachin State’s largest IDP camp LAIZA, 7 November 2013 (IRIN) – Eighteen of Myanmar’s ethnic armed groups recently gathered in the rebel-controlled Kachin...
Myanmar activist facing long prison sentence

Myanmar activist facing long prison sentence

By ALIRAN Human rights defender Kyaw Hla Aung remains arbitrarily detained in Myanmar over three months after he was arrested in connection with his peaceful activities. reports Amnesty International. Kyaw Hla Aung – Photograph: Nils Horner/Sveriges Radio He has been...
Burma: Lest we don’t see, a genocide is in the making

Burma: Lest we don’t see, a genocide is in the making

By ALIRAN It is time for Burma’s pro-democracy movement to speak out against the targeted attacks on the Muslims in that country, says Bonojit Hussain. “We have to ask ourselves whether we may have over-romanticised its battles against the junta as a broader quest to...