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By Kyaw Ye Lynn YANGON, (AA): Myanmar has invited foreign ministers from Southeast Asian nations for talks in an effort to reduce regional concerns over a situation in western Rakhine State in which anything from 76 to 400 Rohingya Muslims have died. A military crackdown in Rakhine that followed Oct. 9 attacks on police […]

7th Dec 2016

Myanmar: Int’l cooperation ‘critical’ to resolve Rohingya crisis

By Kyaw Ye Lynn YANGON, (AA): Former United Nations chief Kofi Annan has called on the international community to cooperate further with Myanmar’s government to resolve conflicts between Rakhine Buddhists and Rohingya Muslims in the country’s troubled Rakhine State. Annan, who chairs an Advisory Commission tasked with helping find solutions to stop ongoing violence […]

25th Nov 2016

UK: UN urged to press Myanmar over Rohingya crackdown

By Kyaw Ye Lynn YANGON, Myanmar (AA): A United Kingdom-based Rohingya organization has called on the United Nations and international community for urgent action in pressing Myanmar’s government to lift all restrictions on humanitarian aid in western Rakhine State. Maungdaw Township in the troubled state’s north has been under military lockdown since Oct. 9 […]

23rd Nov 2016

UK group delivers Rohingya petition to Myanmar embassy

LONDON (AA): A U.K.-based pressure group has delivered a thousands-strong petition to Myanmar’s London embassy calling on the country’s government to confront the crisis plaguing the Rohingya minority. Burma Campaign U.K. said Tuesday it delivered 3,164 signatures on a petition calling on Myanmar’s NLD-led government to tackle hate speech, lift humanitarian aid restrictions, repeal a […]

17th Nov 2016

Myanmar again urged to allow Rakhine rights abuse probe

By Kyaw Ye Lynn YANGON, (AA): An international rights group called on Myanmar’s government Thursday to immediately allow independent monitors and journalists to verify reports of mass destruction and other rights abuses in western Rakhine State. The army-run Myawaddy newspaper has claimed that mass arson attacks on Rohingya villages in a northern area of […]

16th Nov 2016

Myanmar: US urges Govt to prevent violence in Rakhine; 70 Rohingya Muslims killed

By Esra Kaymak Avci WASHINGTON (AA): The U.S. on Tuesday urged the government of Myanmar to do more to stem violence in western Rakhine state where nearly 70 Rohingya Muslims have been killed by security forces in the past week. State Department spokeswoman Elizabeth Trudeau said a U.S. delegation currently holding talks in Myanmar […]

14th Nov 2016

Myanmar reports more fatal clashes in Rakhine

By Kyaw Ye Lynn YANGON, (AA): Myanmar’s military has killed at least 28 suspected attackers during fresh fighting in troubled Rakhine State, according to official media Monday. Since last month’s fatal attacks on police, dozens of people — including soldiers and suspected attackers (among them two women) — have been killed, or have died, […]

26th Oct 2016

Myanmar urged to probe new rights violations in Rakhine

By Kyaw Ye Lynn YANGON, (AA): United Nations human rights experts have called on Myanmar to address growing reports of violations in western Rakhine State after areas housing the country’s Muslim Rohingya minority were torched following fatal attacks on police station outposts. In the more than two weeks since armed individuals killed nine officers […]

20th Oct 2016

Myanmar military detains 11 more for Rakhine attacks

By Kyaw Ye Lynn YANGON, (AA): A further 11 people have been arrested in military clearance operations in Myanmar’s western Rakhine State following raids on police outposts earlier this month in which nine officers died. Two of those held subsequently died in detention Wednesday, although they are understood to have been in poor health […]

11th Oct 2016

Myanmar: 3 more die in latest Rakhine violence, incl Muslims

By Kyaw Ye Lynn YANGON, (AA): Police have tightened security in Myanmar’s western Rakhine State after three people were killed in a clash Monday as troops hunted for a group who stormed police border points Sunday killing nine police officers. Global Rohingya advocacy groups have claimed that following the attacks more than ten “innocent” […]

21st Sep 2016

Myanmar: Illegal mosques to be demolished in Rakhine

By Kyaw Ye Lynn YANGON, (AA): A senior government official in Myanmar’s troubled Rakhine State has pledged to tear down all illegally constructed buildings including mosques and Muslim religious schools, according to a report Wednesday. More than 3,000 structures including 12 mosques and 35 madrasas (religious schools) built without permission from local authorities in […]

23rd May 2016

Myanmar: Suu Kyi urges for space to address ‘Rohingya’ issue

By Kyaw Ye Lynn YANGON, (AA): Myanmar’s State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi has urged the international community to give her administration “enough space” to solve the issue of Rohingya Muslims in western Rakhine State. The statement came Sunday, after a meeting with U.S secretary of state John Kerry in Nay Pyi Taw, which […]

14th May 2016

Myanmar monks & nationalists march to ban ‘Rohingya’

By Kyaw Ye Lynn YANGON, (AA):- Several hundred nationalists have taken to the streets of Myanmar’s second largest city to call on the government to declare within three days that there is no Rohingya ethnicity in the country. Protesters at the unauthorized Mandalay demonstration — attended by monks and nationalist activists — demanded that […]

3rd May 2016

Myanmar: Boat disaster victims Muslim, but which ones?

By Kyaw Ye Lynn YANGON, (AA): A minority ethnic group has denied that its members perished in a recent boat disaster off Myanmar despite evidence to the contrary, raising the suggestion that one Muslim group may be posing as another to gain humanitarian aid. The Myanmar Times claimed Monday that those who died were […]

4th Apr 2016

Myanmar: New Myanmar minister scolded over ‘anti Muslim’ comment

By Kyaw Ye Lynn YANGON, (AA): Muslim officials in Myanmar jumped to the defense of Aung San Suu Kyi’s government on Sunday after its new religious affairs minister appeared to make comments detrimental to the country’s Muslims. The National League for Democracy (NLD) only took power Friday after a landslide win in December elections. […]

26th Nov 2015

Myanmar rejects campaign to strip Muslims of citizenship

By Joshua Carroll YANGON, (AA) – Myanmar’s deputy immigration minister has rejected an appeal by nationalists to strip hundreds of Muslims of citizenship, local media reported Wednesday, marking a rare show of government defiance of Buddhist hardliners. Just over 200 Muslims in conflict-hit Rakhine state were granted citizenship as part of a government verification process that started […]

11th Nov 2015

US concerned about Muslims barred from Myanmar elections

WASHINGTON (AA): A U.S. official on Tuesday expressed concerns about Myanmar polls where hundreds of thousands of Muslims were barred from voting and running in the elections. “We have raised our concerns about the removal of voting rights from individuals previously afforded the right to vote, regardless of religion or ethnicity,” said State Department spokesman Mark Toner. […]

5th Nov 2015

Myanmar: Fears remain over exclusions days before vote

By Joshua Carroll YANGON, (AA): With just three days to go before voters take to the polls in Myanmar, concerns continue to be raised about barriers to participation. When election officials released the final list of candidates to stand in the Nov. 8 vote more than a hundred candidates — including many Muslims — were excluded, underlining a […]

18th Oct 2015

Myanmar: Suu Kyi warns against race, religious divisions

YANGON (AA): Myanmar’s opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi called on voters Saturday not to be influenced by divisions over race and religion during her first visit to conflict-stricken Rakhine state in 15 years. However, she her and other parties have refused to run Muslim candidates for the election and have refused to accept Rohingya […]

28th Sep 2015

Myanmar: Doubts mount about country’s election as Muslims excluded

By Joshua Carroll YANGON, (AA): Myanmar election officials have released the final list of candidates to stand in a highly anticipated general election on Nov. 8. However, more than a hundred including many Muslims were controversially excluded from the list released this week, underlining a series of problems that threaten to damage the poll’s […]

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