For the past two months, I have served on an international panel designed to help the Myanmar government arrive at just and reasonable policies for its conflict in Rakhine state, including its long-suffering Rohingya minority. This week I resigned. The reason: I have little confidence in the body’s ability to address the …
A veteran US diplomat resigns from a panel on the Rohingya crisis, accusing Myanmar of a “whitewash”. Veteran US diplomat Bill Richardson has resigned from an international panel set up by Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi to advise on the Rohingya crisis. He claimed the panel was a “whitewash” …
Francis’s Myanmar address defends ethnic rights but does not directly refer to the Muslim community. Pope Francis has delivered a keynote speech in Myanmar, demanding “respect for each ethnic group” but without referring specifically to its Muslim Rohingya community. Rights groups had urged the Pope to use the term to …
BANGKOK — For the first time since Myanmar’s military unleashed violence against Rohingya Muslims in August, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, the Nobel laureate who heads the civilian government, on Thursday visited the state where the atrocities have been taking place. The United Nations and international rights groups have laid …
The ethnic cleansing of the Rohingya reveals what the world didn’t understand about hen Myanmar’s military regime released Aung San Suu Kyi from house arrest, in 2010, she had been the world’s most famous political prisoner for nearly two decades. Within a few weeks, she received a phone call of …
Some 420,000 Rohingya Muslims, a religious and ethnic minority community in Myanmar, have fled to neighboring Bangladesh since August this year. The United Nations has called the Rohingya the world’s most persecuted minority group and described the atrocities by Myanmar’s authorities as “ethnic cleansing,” whereby one group removes another ethnic or religious community through violence. But the persecution …
Myanmar’s de facto leader faces growing pressure for not addressing allegations of ethnic cleansing. Myanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi is facing mounting international pressure for her handling of violence in Rakhine state and the Rohingya refugee crisis. In a speech on Tuesday, Myanmar’s de facto leader condemned rights abuses but did …
Rohingya Muslims, who crossed over recently from Myanmar into Bangladesh, stand in a queue to receive food being distributed near Balukhali refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2017. YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — For generations, Rohingya Muslims have called Myanmar home. Now, in what appears to be a …
RANGOON, Burma — In her first major speech Tuesday on the worsening Rohingya crisis, Burma’s de facto leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, sidestepped allegations of atrocities committed against the stateless Muslim minority and cast the conflict as just one of many problems ailing the country. Appearing to cast doubt on claims …
Aung San Suu Kyi is scheduled to speak on Tuesday for the first time since the crisis. Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh could die due to a lack of food, shelter and water available for the huge numbers of them fleeing violence in Myanmar, an aid agency warned on Sunday. Nearly …
FILE – In this Friday, Aug. 11, 2017, file photo, Myanmar’s State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi delivers an opening speech during the Forum on Myanmar Democratic Transition in Naypyitaw, Myanmar. COX’S BAZAR, Bangladesh (AP) — With Myanmar drawing condemnation for violence that has driven at least 370,000 Rohingya to …
Could the stubbornness which sustained her in opposition stop her from changing her position now? She was the perfect symbol of democracy. Highly intelligent, well-read, articulate and photogenic. Set against this, the thuggish Burmese generals could never hope to capture the good opinion of the international media. Not that they …