Oct 10, 2013 | News / Article
By Pitman (AP) BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN, Brunei (AP) — Just a few years ago Myanmar was an isolated dictatorship that embarrassed the Association of Southeast Asian Nations with its dismal human rights record. Now it’s poised to take over leadership of the 10-nation bloc...
Oct 7, 2013 | News / Article
Global Times Myanmar’s ruling Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) Saturday warned of grave danger and bad consequences if the 2008 constitution is abolished and redrawn. The country and the people will suffer the consequences arising from the move,...
Oct 7, 2013 | News / Article
By Dr. Maung Zarni “We (Buddhist sons of the Land) are here to burn down the houses of all Muslim (Kalar or “niggers”), and remove these ‘guests’ from our soil. You brothers, in our security forces, are invited to join us in this national...
Oct 7, 2013 | News / Article
South Asia Revealed New Zealand has reaffirmed to continue providing aid to Myanmar’s democratization process, official media reported Saturday. It was pledged by visiting Speaker of the House of Representatives of New Zealand David Carter when he called on Myanmar...
Oct 7, 2013 | Rohingya Issues
By Dr. Habib Siddiqui The House Foreign Affairs/Asia Sub-committee of the U.S. Congress recently held a hearing to examine the current political environment inside Burma (Myanmar), the growing human right abuses among its ethnic groups, and assess U.S. policy towards...
Oct 7, 2013 | News / Article
By PANGMU SHAYI When the delegation of Elders, a group formed of former world leaders and Nobel Peace laureates, led by former US President Jimmy Carter visited Myanmar [Burma] for three days in September, Kachins had high expectations of making their voices heard, as...
Oct 7, 2013 | News / Article
Associated Press THANDWE, Myanmar – Even as the president came to western Myanmar to urge an end to sectarian violence, security forces could not prevent Buddhist mobs from torching the homes of minority Muslims or hacking them to death, at times, unwittingly, even...
Oct 7, 2013 | News / Article
AFP The police have arrested 44 people in connection with the deadly anti-Muslim violence in western Myanmar, the state media said on Sunday, after the latest violence erupted during a presidential tour of the strife-torn region. Days of tensions in the town of...
Oct 7, 2013 | Rohingya Issues
Saudi Gazette THANDWE, Myanmar — The Buddhist mob mutilated and burned Khin Naing so severely his son couldn’t recognize the body, one of series of attacks that suggest a resurgence of a monk-led movement in Myanmar accused of stoking violence against Muslims. Flies...
Oct 7, 2013 | News / Article
Myanmar Asylum-Seekers & Refugees International Conditions are not in place yet for the organised repatriation of thousands of refugees along the Thai-Myanmar border, according to a report released Tuesday by The Border Consortium (TBC). The semi-annual report...
