Story Archive
2019-07-18
Villages are reported burned by Myanmar troops in areas cut off by information clampdowns, Yanghee Lee says.
2019-07-17
Rights groups say the move is not enough to stop rampant human rights violations in Rakhine state or elsewhere.
2019-07-16
Commander-in-Chief Min Aung Hlaing, three others blamed for ethnic cleansing, extrajudicial killings.
2019-07-16
The army-backed party rules out supporting any proposals besides its own ideas.
2019-07-15
‘The Arakan Army has not tortured me or ordered me to perform forced labor,’ says the captive.
2019-07-12
He also raises questions about the accuracy of CCTV video recordings at his daughter’s school.
2019-07-12
The move come in response to RFA reports that 15 villagers died during or after interrogations by security forces in Rakhine state.
2019-07-11
Analysts say the government’s handling of the Arakan Army could harm already fragile peace talks.
2019-07-10
The Ministry of Home Affairs says they were raising funds and taking other actions "inimical to Singapore’s security.'
2019-07-09
A military spokesman denied villagers’ accounts of a roundup and search for Arakan Army fighters.
2019-07-09
Sheikh Hasina rejects U.S. lawmaker’s proposal for Dhaka to annex Myanmar’s Rakhine State.
2019-07-08
The first use of the law on an ethnic army is seen as complicating a fragile peace process.
2019-07-05
Scorched-earth tactics were a central feature of the army’s expulsion of 750,000 Rohingya in 2017.
2019-07-03
Bereaved family members say their son had been tortured during interrogations about his connections to the Arakan Army.
2019-07-02
Zaw Win Hlaing’s family members say he was severely beaten and tortured while in custody.
2019-07-02
One convicted protester is the 70-year-old mother of a man who died in police custody on June 6.
2019-07-01
Politicians offer to post aid requests for constituents on social media and seek help from officials.
2019-06-28
Truck convoy was hired by the Red Cross and was traveling close to nighttime curfew hours.
2019-06-27
Yanghee Lee, the UN’s special rapporteur on human rights in Myanmar, discusses the Myanmar military, Rohingya refugees, displaced ethnic Rakhines, and Aung San Suu Kyi.
2019-06-26
A military spokesman says the truth will come out during their trial on terrorism charges.
2019-06-25
Some see hypocrisy in purportedly reformist Aung San Suu Kyi government’s silencing of social media in conflict zones.
2019-06-24
The latest eruption of hostilities occurs as parts of the state grapple with an internet service shutdown by the government.
2019-06-21
The Arakan Army says government forces used choppers to ‘randomly bomb’ mountains near a Rakhine village.
2019-06-20
Original 27 were arrested after a skirmish on suspicion of helping the AA.
2019-06-20
Some also call for the resignation of UN top leadership for mishandling the ethnic cleansing of the Rohingya in 2017.
2019-06-19
Nay Zar Htun faces charges for a court protest aimed at winning her brother’s release.
2019-06-19
Than Maung Chae left his village in April after receiving the anonymous threat and was murdered six days after he returned in June.
2019-06-18
The elderly suffer atrocities at the Myanmar Army’s hands and poor treatment from the humanitarian community.
2019-06-18
The Buddha Dhamma Prahita Foundation was outlawed last year, but observers say shutting it down could foment public unrest.
2019-06-18
Panel’s chairman says he does not know if report due in September will be made public.
