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Patterns of impunity and deceit in Myanmar

Patterns of impunity and deceit in Myanmar

A UN supervised investigation is needed before more atrocities are committed against the Rohingya Muslims. Yet another deadly attack on Myanmar's persecuted Rohingya minority made the news recently, this time taking ...

Inside Burma: The Hidden Genocide
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Inside Burma: The Hidden Genocide

Video on the ongoing genocide of the Rohingya in Rakhine State, Myanmar and violence against Muslims in general. Created by International Business Times, UK ...

Myanmar Army Continues to Live in Denial Over Abuses

Myanmar Army Continues to Live in Denial Over Abuses

Min Aung Hlaing should start by apologising to the Myanmar people and admitting that the army has committed widespread abuses. Then the people of his country may start to believe that the army can actually play a rol ...

How EU Leaders Sold Out Burma

How EU Leaders Sold Out Burma

When David Cameron backed the suspension of EU sanctions on Burma in April 2012, he emphasised in no uncertain terms that they would return if President Thein Sein’s administration reneged on democratic reform ...

Is Oil One Reason For Genocide of Rohingya in Burma?

Is Oil One Reason For Genocide of Rohingya in Burma?

Human rights campaigners are warning that further ethnic cleansing of the Rhingya in Burma, which is being exacerbated by land clearances due to economic developments surrounding the Shwe Oil/Gas pipeline, could be i ...

Aung San Suu Kyi: From Icon to Political Player

Aung San Suu Kyi: From Icon to Political Player

The woman who was once the world's most famous political prisoner is now wearing the less glamorous mantle of a mere politician. In reality, the (in)famous Burmese politician does no justice for anyone. A slaughtered ...

Burma’s Airstrike On Democracy

Burma’s Airstrike On Democracy

“The fighting has intensified right now… We heard the sound of armaments and explosions three times last night… When we visited the refugee camps, the refugees’ faces reflect suffering, anxie ...

Mines of Monywa- what are the limits of Burma’s reform?

Mines of Monywa- what are the limits of Burma’s reform?

Originally published on The Activist Over recent weeks, events around the Letpadaung copper mine near Monywa have sent shockwaves through Burma’s fragile reform process. For months local people including Buddh ...

Blood and Gold: Inside Burma’s Hidden War

Blood and Gold: Inside Burma’s Hidden War

So far, more than 75,000 ethnic Kachin civilians have been driven from their ancestral lands. Human rights groups allege the Burmese army is intentionally attacking civilian areas, with wide-spread evidence of tortur ...

The Devaluation of the Nobel Peace Prize?

The Devaluation of the Nobel Peace Prize?

Two hundred and thirty-one people and organisations were nominated for this year’s Nobel Peace Prize, widely heralded as one of the most prestigious honours in global politics. Yet the five-person committee re ...

Rohingya NGO Calls on UN to Push Thein Sein

Rohingya NGO Calls on UN to Push Thein Sein

In a letter to the UN on Wednesday, the BROUK president said: “We appeal to world leaders to put pressure on President Thein Sein to provide safety and security and to restore Rohingya ethnic rights and citizen ...

Thein Sein: Burmese Gov’t Will Not Recognize 800,000 Rohingya Citizens

Thein Sein: Burmese Gov’t Will Not Recognize 800,000 Rohingya Citizens

Burma’s President Thein Sein told a visiting delegation from the United Nation’s High Commissioner for Refugees that the government will not recognize the Rohingya and are considering handing over the e ...

Cameron’s Asian Confusion: “Are You For Democracy Or Dictatorship???”

Cameron’s Asian Confusion: “Are You For Democracy Or Dictatorship???”

Immediately before Cameron's brave democratic politicking in Burma, he was in Indonesia playing an altogether different game. His shocking call for the renewal of arms sales to Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono’s despo ...

What Does Aung San Suu Kyi’s Historic Election Victory Mean For Burma?

What Does Aung San Suu Kyi’s Historic Election Victory Mean For Burma?

Historic barely begins to describe the events taking place in Burma. Less than two years on from a sham general election designed to entrench the rule of the military and its proxies, unprecedentedly free polling in ...

Human Rights Watch: Rape, torture plague Myanmar’s Kachin conflict

Human Rights Watch: Rape, torture plague Myanmar’s Kachin conflict

Source: The Sun Daily BANGKOK (March 20, 2012): Troops in Myanmar have murdered, tortured and raped civilians since fighting with separatists flared up around nine months ago in northern Kachin State, leading to the ...

Burma must end war in Kachin State

Burma must end war in Kachin State

President Thein Sein’s government is currently increasing troops for the offensive against the KIA in Kachin State and northern Shan State ...

HRW: Burmese Army Committing Abuses in Kachin State

HRW: Burmese Army Committing Abuses in Kachin State

Human Rights Watch conducted a fact-finding mission to the conflict areas in Kachin State in July and August, visiting abandoned villages and eight remote camps of internally displaced persons. Witnesses described se ...

Burma: Prisoner Amnesty Fail

Burma: Prisoner Amnesty Fail

Last week's prisoner amnesty in Burma was the latest in a series of superficial changes that have done nothing to move the country away from authoritarian military rule. Branded a ‘sick joke’ by Human Ri ...