Tag Archives: Myanmar Ethnic Conflict

  • Myanmar condemns Time magazine cover 24 June 2013 This post has no comments yet

    Myanmar's President Office issued a press release on Sunday's night, lashing out at the TIME magazine for featuring a Buddhist monk as "Buddhist Terror" on the cover of its July issue. ...

  • EU ends Myanmar sanctions, arms embargo remains 23 April 2013 | Claire Rosemberg This post has no comments yet

    EU foreign ministers agreed Monday to lift the last of the bloc's trade, economic and individual sanctions against Myanmar, hailing "a new chapter" with the once pariah state. ...

  • Dalai Lama pleads for Myanmar monks to end violence 22 April 2013 | Muhammad Lila This post has no comments yet

    Amid a damning new report showing official Myanmar complicity in ethnically cleansing entire Muslim towns and villages, the world's foremost Buddhist leader the Dalai Lama has pleaded to end violence. ...

  • HRW accuses Myanmar of ‘ethnic cleansing’ This post has no comments yet

    Myanmar has waged "a campaign of ethnic cleansing" against Rohingya Muslims, a leading rights watchdog said Monday, citing evidence of mass graves and forced displacement. ...

  • Fear stalks Yangon’s Muslims after Buddhist-led killings 10 April 2013 | Jared Ferrie This post has no comments yet

    An ultra-nationalist Buddhist creed is becoming more visible in Myanmar's commercial capital, Yangon, after monks from the apartheid-like movement helped stoke a wave of anti-Muslim violence in the central heartlands. ...

  • Myanmar Muslims kill 8 Buddhists in Indonesia 5 April 2013 This post has no comments yet

    A group of Myanmar Muslims beat eight Buddhists to death at an Indonesian detention centre Friday after they heard about communal violence in their homeland, police said. ...

  • At least 25 killed in Buddhist-Muslim clashes in Myanmar 22 March 2013 This post has no comments yet

    Charred bodies lay unclaimed on the streets of a riot-hit town in central Myanmar, witnesses said Friday, as global pressure mounted for an end to the Buddhist-Muslim unrest. ...