Story Archive
2019-12-31
Experts say the AA is following the pattern of other ethnic armies in imposing taxes in areas it controls.
2019-12-30
Rights activists decry the lack of transparency and the government's denial of the mass killings in question.
2019-12-30
The Sagaing region residents say they were not given promised payments for confiscated farmland.
2019-12-30
About 162,000 predominantly ethnic Karen civilians remain internally displaced in southeastern Myanmar.
2019-12-27
Officials react to an NGO’s report that calls measures including barbed-wire fencing and watchtowers “counterproductive.”
2019-12-27
The national army says the abductions are meant to disrupt government control in northern Rakhine state.
2019-12-27
Aungthabyae village official Moe Lin says he tried to mediate a conflict between villagers and police.
2019-12-26
Ichiro Maruyama says his government does not believe Myanmar carried out genocide against Rohingya Muslims.
2019-12-26
The rebel Arakan Army was detaining Ye Thein when the armed assault occurred.
2019-12-23
Senior officers broke the law by revealing the child's identity and must now be charged, protesters say.
2019-12-23
The military claims that the blockade is necessary to prevent the flow of supplies to the Arakan Army.
2019-12-20
Rohingya women and children are being trafficked from refugee camps, Bangladeshi minister tells BenarNews.
2019-12-20
The 14-year-old’s aunt is an accomplice in efforts to send her to work in China.
2019-12-20
Their traffickers meanwhile remain at large.
2019-12-19
Delegation visited refugee camps in Cox’s Bazar to discuss repatriation efforts.
2019-12-19
Aung San Suu Kyi opens the new facility on Rakhine state’s Munaung Island.
2019-12-19
Many of those apprehended during the first half of the year came for jobs in the mining and gambling industries.
2019-12-18
But state officials say farmers will be paid only for their lost crops, calling the land they work 'unoccupied.'
2019-12-17
Some remain closed, though, as authorities in the Wa region carry out studies to determine which may open again.
2019-12-17
Rights groups urge humane treatment for possible trafficking victims.
2019-12-16
Very few Rohingya refugees have returned to Myanmar, fearing continued violence and systematic discrimination.
2019-12-16
After being sentenced on another charge, protester Paul Lu had handed the judge a broken scale to show his distrust of Myanmar's court system.
2019-12-13
Critics say she ignored facts, human suffering as she rehashed discredited talking points.
2019-12-13
Stephen Rapp, former U.S. ambassador-at-large for war crimes issues at the State Department's Office of Global Criminal Justice, discusses the Rohingya genocide hearing.
2019-12-12
Aung San Suu Kyi’s performance appealed to loyalists, but few others.
2019-12-11
Allegations against Myanmar’s security forces are “incomplete and misleading,” de facto leader tells ICJ.
2019-12-11
Human Rights Watch catalogs 'absurd defense arguments' as Myanmar leader ignores key facts at the International Court of Justice.
2019-12-10
Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi, who is leading the country’s defense team, observed the first day of the hearings in The Hague.
2019-12-10
Thousands defy government rule against protests as genocide case opens at the International Court of Justice.
2019-12-09
Some believe police and township officials go lightly on crimes by foreign residents in township on the city's outskirts.
