Oct 2, 2013 | Rohingya Issues
Morocco World News LONDON – Rohingya Muslims have been the main target of Buddhist groups, resulting in hundreds of deaths and the displacement of 120,000 people last year Buddhist rioters have killed four men and a 94-year-old woman and burnt down over 70...
Oct 2, 2013 | Rohingya Issues
YANGON (Reuters) – Security forces raced to contain deadly violence in Myanmar’s Rakhine state on Tuesday, police said, after mobs torched Muslim homes and Buddhist villagers were attacked in a third day of unrest in a region plagued by intractable...
Oct 2, 2013 | Rohingya Issues
(Burma Times) President U Thein Sein has arrived in Thandwe, as the town reels from days of violence and looting that has left at least four dead and seen as many as 70 homes razed. Touching down in Sittwe on October 1, U Thein Sein paid a visit to the state capital...
Oct 2, 2013 | News / Article
(Burma Times) Yangon – The United States is deeply concerned about recent reports of violence against Muslim-majority communities around Thandwe, Rakhine State. We are saddened to hear reports that at least one person was killed, several injured, and hundreds of...
Oct 1, 2013 | News / Article
BurmaTimes – Ibrahim Shah- Around twelve o’clock at midday on 29th September, a motorcycle owned by one Buddhist youth Maung Naing Oo was placed in front of a shop owned by the Chairman of Kaman Muslim party in Thandwe. The Buddhist youths started to argue harshly...
Oct 1, 2013 | News / Article
(Burmatimes) by WAM NEW YORK, 28th September 2013 (WAM)– The UAE has expressed concern over the acts of violence which target the Rohingya Muslim minority in Myanmar, and demanded the international community encourage the government of Myanmar to carry out its duty to...
Sep 29, 2013 | News / Article
By AP Former President Jimmy Carter talks to journalists during a news conference Thursday at Strand Hotel in Yangon, Myanmar. Carter and other former world leaders wrapped up a visit to Myanmar with calls to address spiraling Buddhist-led violence against minority...
Sep 29, 2013 | News / Article
Editor: Hou Qiang YANGON, Sept. 29 (Xinhua) — China’s Myanmar-language professor Su Xiuyu provided stipends on Sunday for 27 poor and outstanding Myanmar students to pursue university education under the name of “Professor Su-Xiuyu Fund”. Su,...
Sep 29, 2013 | News / Article
Xinhua Myanmar’s opposition party, the National League for Democracy (NLD) on Saturday urged to amend the country’s 2008 Constitution. The NLD-formed Constitution Amendment Committee said in an announcement that constitution amendments is necessary as rule...
