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A Rangoon art exhibition is featuring more than 300 drawings by children displaced by communal riots in Arakan State and the central Burmese city of Meikhtila over the last two years.
At least 112 people have been killed and scores more wounded in wave of communal violence between Muslims and Buddhists convulsing western Burma
Rakhine was experiencing “Bengali terrorism”, Wirathu said on Saturday as he emerged from a one-year preaching ban.
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The United Nations’ top human rights official on Monday slammed Burma for conducting a “cruel military operation” against Rohingya Muslims in Arakan State, branding it “a textbook example of ethnic cleansing.”
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Around 120,000 displaced people, mostly Rohingya Muslims, in camps in Arakan State are not receiving food supplies or healthcare after the United Nations and aid groups suspended operations following government accusations of supporting insurgents.
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About 1,000 Rohingya Muslims fleeing escalating violence in Burma had been halted at the border with Bangladesh, Bangladeshi security officials said on Saturday, as fresh fighting erupted in Burma’s northwestern Arakan State.
More than half of Rohingya Muslim girls who fled violence in western Burma ended up becoming child brides, according to a United Nations survey that also showed widespread domestic abuse.
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Former UN chief Kofi Annan, who chairs a commission on resolving Arakan’s problems, voices concern as the army reports a rising death toll from recent violence in the state.
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Burma’s government appears to be backing away from claims that attacks that took place in Arakan State earlier this month were carried out by a Islamist group with links to Pakistan.
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By not seeing ethnic groups like the Rohingya or the Rakhine as unitary collective actors, we are better able to avoid the trap of attributing collective responsibility.
President Thein Sein warned that the government now has a “zero tolerance” policy against rioters, and pledged that those who instigate violence or cause destruction will be dealt with. “The[…]
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Party leader Aung San Suu Kyi condemned the recent circulation of a fake NLD statement about last week’s riots in Mandalay as a political attack on her party.
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Arakanese Buddhists call for local police be given the right to use lethal force and demand that the UN and other international relief groups be expelled from the area; meanwhile, dozens of local Rohingyas are moving to IDP camps in fear of more violence.
A local government minister has blasted Burma’s “weak” response to the recent Muslim-Buddhist clashes in Arakan’s Sandoway township, which claimed seven lives.
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Security forces have contained the fresh bout of deadly violence in Arakan state’s Sandoway district.
The Speaker of the British House of Commons, John Bercow, warned during a speech at Rangoon University today that unchecked religious violence threatens to undermine Burma’s nascent reform process
Malaysian officials urge Burma to take stronger actions to prevent the persecution of Muslims and to bring perpetrators to justice. Malaysia’s Foreign Minister, Anifah Aman, made the comments during the[…]
US President Barack Obama threw his support behind Burmese President Thein Sein in his drive to reform a former pariah state but warned that a wave of violence against Muslims must stop
Communal conflict in Burma “tarnished” the country’s world image, President Thein Sein said Sunday, in the wake of violence targeting Muslims that saw dozens killed and sparked international concern
The looming threat of religious violence in Rangoon is beginning to take its toll on the economy, after authorities force businesses to close early and residents are too scared to venture outside their homes
Two more townships in central Burma were placed under a dusk-to-dawn curfew on Wednesday evening as religious violence targeting Muslims continues to spread across the country
The United States is closely monitoring how Burma leaders quell a wave of sectarian violence, urging them to respect human rights in ending the bloodshed, an official said Wednesday
Religious clashes continued to spread through Burma late on Monday night, as Muslim homes and businesses in two townships of Pegu division were ransacked
The recent explosion of religious violence in central Burma is part of a wider communal fracture that threatens to further the fast-changing nation, experts warn. An altercation over a gold[…]
Thousands have been forced to flee their homes as the latest bout of communal riots between Buddhists and Rohingya Muslims continues to spread through Arakan state in western Burma
The head of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) urged Burma’s pro-democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi Thursday to help end violence against the Muslim Rohingya community in her country
Burmese security forces have systematically abused the stateless Rohingya group after sectarian violence flared in northern Arakan state in early June, Human Rights Watch (HRW) reported on Thursday
Communal violence has left at least three dead in western Burma, where more than 60 people have been killed in unrest this month, government officials said Wednesday
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In a 1 June statement the NLD NLD pointed to communal violence in western Burma’s Arakan State as one of the principal causes of the crisis.
The UN office says more than 536,000 people in Burma – about one percent of the country’s population – have been affected by conflict or inter-communal violence and are in need of protection.
