Tag Archives: Myanmar Ethnic Conflict

• Myanmar’s noble lady in distress 16 September 2017 | Laden Tshering Samdup This post has 4 comments

  The Myanmar issue needs to be handled with compassion to both sides and to prevent at all cost another democratic nation falling under the despotic rule of China. ...

• Wrong to rail against Dalai Lama for not condemning violence on Rohingya Muslims 13 September 2017 | Omair Ahmad This post has 2 comments

  The Dalai Lama has multiple times condemned attacks on Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar, but people have turned to blame him, in one of the cases of moral blindness that is shocking in its idiocy ...

• Myanmar faces mounting pressure over Rohingya refugee exodus 12 September 2017 | Reuters Staff This post has 2 comments

  Pressure mounted on Myanmar on Tuesday to end violence that has sent more than 300,000 Muslims fleeing to Bangladesh, with the United States calling for the protection of civilians. ...

• Aung San Suu Kyi breaks silence on Myanmar violence 6 September 2017 | Saphora Smith This post has 8 comments

  Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi broke her silence Wednesday on a refugee crisis that has sent 146,000 Rohingya Muslims fleeing from Myanmar into neighbouring Bangladesh. ...

• ‘The world is waiting’: Malala urges Aung San Suu Kyi to act over Rohingya violence in Myanmar 4 September 2017 | Anthony Pearce This post has 5 comments

  Malala Yousafzai, the UN Messenger of Peace, has called on Myanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi to condemn the “tragic and shameful” treatment of Rohingya Muslim in the country. ...

• Thousands of Rohingya flee as fighting escalates in Myanmar 29 August 2017 | Sam Jahan This post has no comments yet

  At least 6,000 Rohingya civilians fleeing renewed violence in Myanmar are stranded near the border with Bangladesh which is blocking their entry, a senior Bangladeshi official said Tuesday. ...

• Aung San Suu Kyi denies Rohingya ethnic cleansing allegations 6 April 2017 | Eleanor Ross This post has no comments yet

  The Nobel Prize winner told the BBC’s Fergal Keane that there were issues in Rakhine State where the Muslim Rohingya live, but said it did not go as far as ethnic cleansing. ...

• Myanmar pursuing ‘ethnic cleansing’ of Rohingya: UN official 25 November 2016 | Sam Jahan, and Caroline Henshaw in Yangon This post has one comment

  Myanmar is engaged in "ethnic cleansing" of Rohingya Muslims, a UN official has said, as reports emerged Friday of troops shooting at villagers as they tried to flee. ...

• Deadly clashes in Myanmar threaten rebel peace bid 19 September 2016 | Hla-Hla Htay This post has no comments yet

  At least eight people have been killed and thousands displaced by clashes in southeast Myanmar, rebels and border forces said Monday, violence that threatens to undercut the new government's ...

• Brokers tricking Rohingya children onto trafficking boats 19 May 2015 | Esther Htusan This post has no comments yet

  The boy was shoved onto the wooden vessel with hundreds of other Rohingya Muslims. For days, the 14-year-old sat with his knees bent into his chest, pressed up against sweaty bodies in the cabin's rancid heat. ...