Tag Archives: Myanmar

• Aung San Suu Kyi says she wants to run for president 6 June 2013 | Kelly Macnamara This post has no comments yet

  Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi on Thursday declared her intention to run for president, calling for all of the country's people to share the fruits of its dramatic reforms. ...

• Unrest rocks Myanmar after woman ‘torched’ 29 May 2013 This post has no comments yet

  Houses and mosques were set ablaze by mobs in a town in eastern Myanmar after a Buddhist woman was allegedly "torched" by a Muslim man, authorities said Tuesday, in a fresh bout of religious violence. ...

• HRW accuses Myanmar of ‘ethnic cleansing’ 22 April 2013 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. ...

• Dalai Lama says he has “more freedom” to visit Christian and Muslim countries 13 September 2012 | Shreya Roy Chowdhury This post has no comments yet

  A Buddhist leader he may be, but the 14th Dalai Lama says he feels he has "more freedom to visit Christian and some Muslim countries than Buddhist ones." ...

• Burma ends censorship 20 August 2012 | Kyaw Kyaw Aung. Translated by Khin May Zaw. Written in English by Richard Finney. This post has no comments yet

  The Burmese government announced on Monday the lifting — after 50 years — of direct censorship of print media. ...