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    298 Search results for "communal violence"

    Arts Communal Violence Lead Story News

    Children’s art depicts pain of communal violence

    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.

    Culture Feature Lead Story News

    Join Hands to End Violence Against Women and Girls

    Today is the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, which marks the start of the global 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence. The diplomatic missions of[…]

    Lead Story News Rohingya

    Wirathu denies fuelling Rakhine violence

    Rakhine was experiencing “Bengali terrorism”, Wirathu said on Saturday as he emerged from a one-year preaching ban.

    Arakan Lead Story News Rohingya

    UN rights chief brands Arakan violence a ‘textbook’ example of ethnic cleansing

    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.”

    Arakan Lead Story News Rohingya

    Displaced Rohingya in camps face aid crisis after latest violence

    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.

    Arakan Lead Story News Rohingya

    Rohingya flee for Bangladesh amid latest violence in Arakan

    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.

    Lead Story News Rohingya

    Over half of Rohingya girls who fled violence became child brides: UN

    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.

    Arakan Lead Story News Rohingya

    Annan expresses ‘deep concern’ over Arakan violence

    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.

    Arakan Lead Story News Rohingya

    Govt softens stance on alleged Islamist ties to Arakan violence

    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.

    Analysis Contributor Lead Story News Opinion

    ‘Groupism’ and sectarian violence in Arakan

    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.

    BRIEF – Thein Sein warns ‘zero tolerance’ against those instigating violence

    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[…]

    Lead Story Mandalay Division News

    Suu Kyi condemns fake NLD statement, calls for violence in Mandalay to be contained

    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.

    Communal Violence Lead Story News Politics Rohingya

    Communal tensions running high in Sittwe

    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.

    Ethnic issues Lead Story News

    Burma minister slams govt response to Sandoway 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.

    Sandoway: latest victim of communal chaos video

    Ethnic issues Lead Story News Video

    Sandoway: latest victim of communal chaos

    Security forces have contained the fresh bout of deadly violence in Arakan state’s Sandoway district.

    Lead Story News Politics

    UK parliament speaker issues warning over religious violence

    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

    ASEAN officials address anti-Muslim violence in Burma video

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    ASEAN officials address anti-Muslim violence in Burma

    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[…]

    News Politics

    Rangoon’s economy hit by threat of violence

    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

    News Politics

    Two more Burma towns under curfew as violence spreads

    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

    News Politics

    Sectarian violence spreads as mobs target Muslim communities in Pegu

    Religious clashes continued to spread through Burma late on Monday night, as Muslim homes and businesses in two townships of Pegu division were ransacked

    News Politics

    Thousands flee as Arakan violence spreads

    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

    News Politics

    Authorities target Rohingya after violence: HRW

    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

    Arakan Lead Story Migrants Issues News

    NLD: Migrant crisis solution lies in rule of law, democracy

    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.

    Aid Conflict Lead Story News

    UNOCHA announces $190m budget

    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.

    Four men found guilty of Mandalay murder video

    Crime Lead Story News Video

    Four men found guilty of Mandalay murder

    Four men were sentenced to ten years in prison with hard labour on Tuesday for the killing of a Muslim man during communal violence in Mandalay in early July.

    Lead Story News

    New homes ready for displaced Meikhtila villagers

    Around 1,500 people displaced by communal violence in central Burma’s Meikhtila have been awarded homes in a newly built housing complex, according to a project official.

    UN rapporteur meets peace-keepers in Mandalay video

    Human Rights Lead Story News Video

    UN rapporteur meets peace-keepers in Mandalay

    UN Special Rapporteur has been presented with findings from an inquiry into Mandalay’s communal violence, as she visited the city on Wednesday.

    Lead Story Mandalay Division News

    Curfew in Mandalay townships eased after three weeks

    Authorities in Mandalay have relaxed the eight-hour curfew imposed upon seven townships three weeks after communal violence broke out.

    Human Rights Lead Story News

    EU initiates human rights dialogue with Burma

    The EU lays out a list of 21 “benchmarks” which it expects the Burmese authorities to fulfill, including: cooperation with the UN; the release of all political prisoners; the strengthening of rule of law; greater media freedom; and “effective measures to combat intolerance, communal violence and hate speech”.

    Communal Violence Lead Story News

    Meikhtila IDPs face water shortages, sanitation issues

    Some 900 Muslims from Meikhtila in central Burma who lost their homes in communal violence just over a year ago are now facing water shortages and sanitation-related diseases at the cramped shelter where they reside.

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