• The soldiers insulted, "Buddhist monks in Rakhine are bastard and trouble makers, always. (arakan.news)
  • He was raised in a rigidly Buddhist, Burmese family, and two of his uncles were influential Buddhist monks. (persecution.com)
  • That changed during a second outbreak of turmoil in Myanmar, the Saffron Revolution of 2007, when she watched in horror on TV as soldiers gunned down protesting Buddhist monks in the streets. (pulitzercenter.org)
  • Meanwhile, thousands of Buddhist monks have defied government warnings and continue to demonstrate. (truthdig.com)
  • On Monday night, Brigadier-General Thura Myint Maung, the minister of religion, issued a televised warning to all monks to obey Buddhist rules that prohibit the clergy from engaging in political activities. (truthdig.com)
  • Armed troops have now been deployed after tens of thousands of Buddhist monks and civilians again defied the army's warning to stay off the streets. (truthdig.com)
  • Buddhist monks have taken about 20 members of the security forces hostage in central Burma, a day after clashes at a protest rally. (smallwarsjournal.com)
  • A row of Buddhist monks walk to collect morning alms from devotees in Mandalay, Myanmar, Sunday, March 14, 2021. (thediplomat.com)
  • The Buddhist monks, the housewives union - they were all joining in the street,' recalls student activist Khin Ohmar. (wkar.org)
  • The protests initially began over increased fuel prices and these evolved into larger demonstrations led by pro-democracy activists and Buddhist monks. (factsanddetails.com)
  • Demonstrations led by Buddhist monks against the military junta brought 100,000 people into the streets of Yangon on September 24 calling for national reconciliation and the release of Aung San Suu Kyi. (factsanddetails.com)
  • Hundreds of thousands of Buddhist monks and believers marched in the biggest cities of Burma, peacefully demanding justice, relief from soaring prices and democratic reform. (factsanddetails.com)
  • Many who joined the protests were ordinary people moved by the courage of marching Buddhist monks to take their own stand against the government. (factsanddetails.com)
  • Significantly, Buddhist monks have marched by the hundreds in several cities, adding a stamp of spiritual authority to the protest movement in this deeply devout country. (factsanddetails.com)
  • Troops supporting the military junta that seized power in Myanmar more than a year ago have reportedly killed four Buddhist monks in a township in northwestern Myanmar. (buddhistdoor.net)
  • The Irrawaddy news website reported that the four monks died when a mortar shell struck a Buddhist monastery in Pale Township, Sagaing Region, on 13 May. (buddhistdoor.net)
  • Between the 1 February 2021 coup and mid-April 2022, 38 Buddhist monks and one Buddhist nun were killed, RFA reported, citing data from junta press releases, local media reports, and interviews. (buddhistdoor.net)
  • Buddhist monks in Myanmar are estimated to number in excess of 500,000, mainly centered in and around the cities of Yangon and Mandalay, along with some 75,000 Buddhist nuns. (buddhistdoor.net)
  • Unimaginable atrocities, committed by Myanmar's armed forces, local militia and even Buddhist monks. (blogspot.com)
  • At least 22 people, including three Buddhist monks, were shot dead at close range in central Myanmar last week, in what opponents of military rule say was a massacre of civilians conducted by the army. (arabnews.pk)
  • We will then visit the market at the bottom of the temple which sells a range of Buddhist goods, including monks robes, alms bowls and other items. (exotic-holidays.hk)
  • Villagers from Pha Yar Poun village are sleeping on the ground after Myanmar army set fire their houses on September 3. (arakan.news)
  • Buddhist villagers and Myanmar troops killed 10 Rohingya men in Rakhine state. (abc.net.au)
  • Buddhist villagers attacked some of them with swords and soldiers shot the others dead, the military had said. (abc.net.au)
  • Buddhist villagers reported no attack by a large number of insurgents on security forces in Inn Din. (abc.net.au)
  • Unlike most stories on the crisis to date, theirs drew not on victim accounts, but primarily on interviews with local Buddhist villagers and Myanmar soldiers who claimed to have taken part in the killing and grave-digging. (kpbs.org)
  • R euters has published a detailed investigation into the massacre of 10 Rohingya men by Myanmar soldiers and villagers, that it says led to the detention of two of its reporters. (time.com)
  • According to Reuters' special report, published Thursday, Myanmar soldiers detained and executed 10 Rohingya men and teenage boys with the help of local Buddhist villagers in Rakhine state's Inn Din village on Sept. 2. (time.com)
  • Two days before the attack, villagers say, soldiers were seen buying 12 large containers of acid at a nearby village's market. (indiatimes.com)
  • At the same time, another group of soldiers closed in from the north, encircling Gu Dar Pyin and trapping villagers in a tightening noose. (indiatimes.com)
  • According to the report, the killings were performed by Myanmar soldiers and Buddhist villagers. (benroxholdings.com)
  • International Conference on Burma/Myanmar Studies. (wikipedia.org)
  • The men pleaded not guilty to breaking the Official Secrets Act - a law rarely prosecuted since its institution in 1923, back when Myanmar was still known as Burma under British colonial rule. (kpbs.org)
  • Myanmar, formally known as Burma, is just over a month away from its first general election on 8 November. (designindaba.com)
  • President Bush has weighed in on the massive protests in Burma (Myanmar), saying he will boost sanctions against the country's abusive military government. (truthdig.com)
  • At that time the British colonial government ran Bangladesh and Burma and allowed this movement, even though the Buddhist Burmese opposed it. (strategypage.com)
  • Burma never let the Rohingya become citizens, which helped stoke tensions between the Moslems and Buddhists. (strategypage.com)
  • Until two years ago, Myanmar, also known as Burma, was ruled by the longest-running military dictatorship in the world. (wkar.org)
  • Buddhist monastics are highly influential in Myanmar (formerly Burma), a predominantly Theravada Buddhist country. (buddhistdoor.net)
  • One photo caption in Urdu says "This new jihadi force has entered Burma, Myanmar, under the leadership of Commander Abu Sufiya and Abu Arif. (investvine.com)
  • Ethnic violence between minorities and the Burmese majority have left an estimated 500 000 people displaced in eastern Myanmar and another 800 000 Muslims in western Myanmar, known as the Rohingya, are stateless and lack the most basic of human rights. (designindaba.com)
  • The Chinese are paying Burmese soldiers in the north to provide additional security for natural gas and petroleum pipeline construction, as well as hydroelectric dams being built in the north. (strategypage.com)
  • This is partly because the Chinese paid Burmese soldiers are being particularly brutal with any tribal peoples who get close to the Chinese workers and equipment. (strategypage.com)
  • Lastly, anybody familiar with Burmese politics will immediately know the "repatriate girl" refers to Aung San Suu Kyi, who returned to Myanmar in 1988 and quickly dominated the political stage through the NLD. (thediplomat.com)
  • 8 of 8 - Myo Myint, a former Burmese soldier and 1988 activist, at the offices of the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners in Mae Sot, Thailand, in 2006. (wkar.org)
  • Myo Myint, a former Burmese soldier and 1988 activist, at the offices of the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners in Mae Sot, Thailand, in 2006. (wkar.org)
  • We recommend Feel Myanmar, a typical Burmese restaurant popular with the locals. (exotic-holidays.hk)
  • First, you'll meet with the venerable monk who will discuss the importance of meditation in the life of the Burmese Buddhist people (in English). (exotic-holidays.hk)
  • Refugees have spoken of massacres in villages, where they say soldiers raided and burned their homes. (scmp.com)
  • But this time, the military is also using the same methods against people and villages of its own Buddhist Bamar ethnic majority. (nbcnews.com)
  • The Myanmar military is blocking access to food and shelling villages and 5,200 people have been displaced since December. (amnesty.org.au)
  • Myanmar security forces have shelled villages and blocked civilians from accessing food and humanitarian assistance in Rakhine State, Amnesty International said today, amid a crackdown since armed attacks by the Arakan Army in early January. (amnesty.org.au)
  • Dozens of Buddhists from neighbouring villages, their faces partly covered with scarves, loaded the possessions they found into about 10 pushcarts. (indiatimes.com)
  • They were interviewed separately, come from a variety of villages in Myanmar and now live spread across several refugee camps in Bangladesh. (blogspot.com)
  • A vast pogrom is under way in Myanmar: to date, the ethnic cleansing has driven 800,000 minority Rohingya out of the country, with hundreds of their villages leveled. (icit-digital.org)
  • Some are trapped in their villages surrounded by the Myanmar army and Buddhist vigilantes while others have escaped to the forests. (icit-digital.org)
  • The stream of desperate refugees who escape across the riverine border bring with them stories of rape, murder and the torching of villages by soldiers and Buddhist mobs. (wionews.com)
  • The victim's testimonies highlighted how soldiers and local Buddhists massacred families burned hundreds of villages and carried out gang-rapes. (asianews.network)
  • Arakan Army and Myanmar army has been fighting in Rakhine State since last year. (arakan.news)
  • Inn Din is a village in northern Rakhine State, Myanmar. (wikipedia.org)
  • The village is in the south of Rakhine State, located on the coast of the Bay of Bengal, at the western margin of Myanmar. (wikipedia.org)
  • Seven Myanmar soldiers have been sentenced to '10 years in prison with hard labour in a remote area' for participating in a massacre of 10 Rohingya Muslim men in a village in north-western Rakhine state last September, the army said. (abc.net.au)
  • One boat attempted to set sail from the southern coast of Bangladesh on Wednesday, the coast guard said, while several vessels left Rakhine state in western Myanmar, according to Rohingya leaders, aid workers and a monitoring group. (theglobeandmail.com)
  • They live mostly in Rakhine state, where they have co-existed uneasily alongside Buddhists for decades. (scmp.com)
  • Ties between Bangladesh and Myanmar have soured since about 740,000 Rohingya Muslims fled the Buddhist-majority country in 2017 following a military clampdown in restive Rakhine state. (thedailystar.net)
  • Myanmar Government continues to claim Rohingyas have no historical claim to Myanmar or Rakhine state and that they descend from present day Bangladesh and Bengal came under Islamic settlement only after 12th century. (spur.asn.au)
  • Three weeks of ethnic and religious violence in the northwest ( Rakhine State, the northwestern coast just south of Bangladesh) have left at least 29 dead (16 Moslems, 13 Buddhists), over a hundred wounded, over 3,000 buildings burned, and more than 30,000 people driven from their homes. (strategypage.com)
  • She is one of about a million Rohingya refugees who fled their ancestral home in north Rakhine state, which is said to be one of the poorest states in Myanmar. (other-news.info)
  • These violations come after a UN Fact-Finding Mission called for the criminal investigation and prosecution of senior Myanmar officials for crimes under international law against the Rohingya population in Rakhine State, and against ethnic minorities in Kachin and northern Shan States. (amnesty.org.au)
  • The Arakan Army has fought the military as part of an alliance of armed groups in northern Myanmar and, as it has moved its attention to Chin and Rakhine State in recent years, has clashed sporadically with security forces there. (amnesty.org.au)
  • The graves are the newest piece of evidence for what looks increasingly like a genocide in Myanmar's western Rakhine state against the Rohingya, a long-persecuted ethnic Muslim minority in the predominantly Buddhist country. (indiatimes.com)
  • In Myanmar, those violations now appear to include its treatment of journalists, with two Reuters reporters arrested and charged by the government late last week, accused of leaking documents on brutal military-led attacks on Rohingya Muslims in Rakhine State. (blogspot.com)
  • Of those Rohingyan refugees who made it across the Naf River (separating Rakhine state, home to the Rohingya, from Bangladesh's Cox's Bazar), gun-toting Bangladeshi soldiers ordered them to go back. (icit-digital.org)
  • It recommended that Bangladesh and Myanmar immediately halt plans to return refugees to Rakhine State until they can ensure a process of voluntary, safe and dignified return. (asianews.network)
  • But that version of events was contradicted by accounts given by Rakhine Buddhist and Rohingya Muslim witnesses . (abc.net.au)
  • The two journalists were in Myanmar reporting on a massacre of members of the country's Rohingya Muslim minority. (kpbs.org)
  • It began in June last year, and in October there were attacks by Rakhine Buddhists on Rohingya Muslim communities that the New York-based group Human Rights Watch said amounted to ethnic cleansing. (thenationalnews.com)
  • However, the AP's reporting shows a systematic slaughter of Rohingya Muslim civilians by the military, with help from Buddhist neighbours - and suggests many more graves hold many more people. (indiatimes.com)
  • Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi faced rising global pressure Tuesday to solve the crisis for her nation's displaced Rohingya Muslim minority, meeting the UN chief and America's top diplomat in the Philippines. (wionews.com)
  • The UN has said conditions in Rakhine, where Buddhists have protested against the repatriation, are not conducive for returns and the special envoy on human rights, Yanghee Lee, on Thursday urged a halt to the "rushed plans. (theglobeandmail.com)
  • LASHIO, MYANMAR // Hundreds of Muslim families sheltered in a heavily guarded Buddhist monastery yesterday after two days of violence in the northern Myanmar city of Lashio that left Muslim-owned properties in ruins and heightened fears over an escalating religious conflict. (thenationalnews.com)
  • About 1,200 Muslims were taken to Mansu Monastery after Buddhist mobs terrorised the city on Wednesday, a move that could signal the resolve of a government criticised for its slow response to previous religious attacks. (thenationalnews.com)
  • Thein Maing, who sheltered at the monastery with his wife and six children, said they had only dared to leave their home when they saw soldiers patrolling the streets on Wednesday. (thenationalnews.com)
  • School administrator Mar Mar said she was trying to get students to safe hiding places in ground-floor classrooms when two of four Mi-35 helicopters hovering north of the village began attacking Friday, firing machine guns and heavier weapons at the school, which is in the compound of the village's Buddhist monastery. (newser.com)
  • When the air attack stopped, about 80 soldiers entered the monastery compound, firing their guns at the buildings. (newser.com)
  • Above, pockmarks from bullets on a wall of a Buddhist monastery in Nam Nein village, Pinlaung township in Shan state of Myanmar on March 12, 2023. (arabnews.pk)
  • A spokesman for the KNDF said its soldiers entered Nan Neint on Sunday and found dead bodies scattered at a Buddhist monastery. (arabnews.pk)
  • There are similar cases taking place across the country at this point, especially in the northwest of Myanmar," Kyaw Moe Tun, who refused to leave his position as Myanmar's United Nations envoy after the military seized power, told the AP. (nbcnews.com)
  • He said 300 soldiers and 200 police were enforcing security in Lashio, a city of 130,000 people near Myanmar's northeastern border with China. (thenationalnews.com)
  • In a rare admission last month, Myanmar's army admitted that its soldiers were responsible for the 10 Rohingya deaths, but it has since denied a report by the Associated Press revealing more mass graves . (time.com)
  • Meanwhile on Sunday, Win Myat Aye, Myanmar's Minister for Social Welfare and Resettlement, said they were ready to receive more than 2,000 Rohingya Muslims on November 15, the first from 5,000 people verified by Myanmar, reported Reuters. (asianews.network)
  • This morning after breakfast, we'll start the day with a visit Shwedagon Pagoda J ??_ , Myanmar's most revered Buddhist monument. (exotic-holidays.hk)
  • Refugees said soldiers and local Buddhists carried out mass killings and rape during the violence last year, while the UN has accused the military of "genocidal intent. (theglobeandmail.com)
  • Also in an unusual move, the Myanmar military issued a statement acknowledging that the killings took place - doing so the same day that Reuters published its story, complete with images of the 10 bloodied bodies piled into a single shallow grave immediately after their murder. (kpbs.org)
  • More than 80 people have died in killings of three or more in the Sagaing region alone, including those in Done Taw, since August, according to data from the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners, or AAPP, a group that monitors verified arrests and deaths in Myanmar. (nbcnews.com)
  • The refugees have given shocking accounts of killings and mass rapes by Myanmar soldiers and Buddhist mobs. (trendtoday.org)
  • They are overwhelmingly from predominantly Buddhist ethnic minorities, including the Mro, Khami, Daingnet and Rakhine. (amnesty.org.au)
  • About 89.8 per cent of the population of this Southeast Asian nation identify as Buddhists, predominantly followers of the Theravada tradition, according to census data for 2016. (buddhistdoor.net)
  • The United Nations have to visit the Myanmar government leader Aung San Suu Kyi urged the northwest of the country. (hotrecentnews.com)
  • At the time, a senior UN official alleged that the Myanmar government was seeking to rid the country of its Muslim minority - an accusation that has repeatedly been made by human rights groups. (scmp.com)
  • Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) yesterday handed back a Myanmar soldier more than two months after he strayed across the border into a jungle in the Muslim-majority nation, a senior official said. (thedailystar.net)
  • Bangladesh and Myanmar signed an agreement in November 2017 for the repatriation of the Rohingya, but the persecuted Muslim minority has refused to go back unless they are granted citizenship and other rights. (thedailystar.net)
  • The unrest in Lashio shows how far anti-Muslim violence has spread in the Buddhist-dominated country as it emerges from decades of hardline military rule. (thenationalnews.com)
  • A senior police officer said the man who died was a Muslim, and those injured were all Buddhists, including a journalist who was attacked by a Buddhist mob. (thenationalnews.com)
  • The violence was sparked by reports on Tuesday that a Muslim man had badly burnt a Buddhist woman. (thenationalnews.com)
  • Sha hid in a grove of coconut trees near the river with more than 100 others and watched as the soldiers searched Muslim homes. (indiatimes.com)
  • Hundreds of anti-Muslims mob try to attack and destroy some Muslim houses and shops followed by a clash between Buddhists and Muslims men. (blogspot.com)
  • Soldiers shouting anti-Muslim obscenities while shooting people. (blogspot.com)
  • The government claims the Rohingya have burned their own homes and killed Buddhists and Hindus, a claim repeated by some residents. (scmp.com)
  • The foot soldiers are the Bengali terrorists & the Guinea pigs are the Rohingyas and collateral damage are the Myanmar Buddhists & Hindus. (spur.asn.au)
  • On a blistering hot October day last year, the air thick with impending rain, Myaing Myaing Nyunt and I lurch in a wooden oxcart toward Sa-ka-pin, a small village in the rich agricultural lowlands about 20 kilometers northeast of Mandalay, Myanmar. (pulitzercenter.org)
  • Kruse, 35, was working preparing teachers and students to study abroad in Mandalay, Myanmar for a year in 2016. (ebar.com)
  • Hundreds of families flee Buddhist mobs after two days of religious violence in the northern Myanmar city of Lashio. (thenationalnews.com)
  • KUALA LUMPUR, 10 Apr 2021 [Fik/News Sources]: At least 20 civilians in Myanmar lost their lives during protests in the region of Bago against the recent military coup that saw numerous elected government officials detained, local media reported on Saturday. (fikrokhabar.com)
  • She must reassure citizens in the border area that they are safe, despite reports that soldiers have raped Rohingya Muslims, civilians killed and houses destroyed. (hotrecentnews.com)
  • The new departures come as Myanmar prepares to take some of the refugees back after agreeing with Bangladesh to start repatriation on Nov. 15, despite widespread opposition from Rohingya, who say they will not return without guarantees of basic rights, including citizenship and freedom of movement. (theglobeandmail.com)
  • Chris Lewa, director of the Arakan Project, which has a network of sources across Rohingya communities, said the threat of being sent back to Myanmar could be pushing refugees to turn to smugglers. (theglobeandmail.com)
  • This week Bangladesh told the UN Security Council that it will no longer be able to take in refugees from Myanmar. (thedailystar.net)
  • Myanmar refugees who have fled from violence in Chin state, northwestern Myanmar, watch photos and videos of the violence at an undisclosed location, in India, on Dec. 13. (nbcnews.com)
  • Leaving a successful career in publishing behind, Berg facilitated over 40 workshops along the borders of Myanmar and in the United States and Canada since 2010, aimed at giving a voice to refugees whose stories are often impeded by the barrier of language. (designindaba.com)
  • In this special series of reports, IPS journalists travel to the border region between Bangladesh and Myanmar to speak with Rohingya refugees, humanitarian workers and officials about the still-unfolding human rights and health crises facing this long-marginalized and persecuted community. (other-news.info)
  • Too scared to speak out, Parul, the mother of two young children, rests inside the makeshift tent she now calls her home in Kutupalong in southeastern Bangladesh, which is hosting thousands of Rohingya refugees fleeing persecution in neighbouring Myanmar. (other-news.info)
  • The International Crisis Group has warned of serious security risks of "forced repatriation" of the Rohingya, just as Myanmar and Bangladesh prepare for the November 15 return of the refugees sheltered in Bangladesh. (asianews.network)
  • Highlighting another problem, it said that if refugees feared that they would be forced back to Myanmar, they may become desperate to leave the camps and to attempt dangerous sea journeys across the Bay of Bengal to Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia or other countries. (asianews.network)
  • Meanwhile, the UN's refugee agency on Sunday said that Rohingya refugees should be allowed to go and see the conditions in Myanmar before they decide to go back. (asianews.network)
  • A Myanmar court refused to dismiss a case against Reuters journalists Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo after their lawyers insisted last week that the evidence does not support the charges. (abc.net.au)
  • Half a year after Myanmar prosecutors announced they'd seek charges against two Reuters reporters for allegedly violating state secrets, a court in Yangon has ruled that the controversial case can proceed. (kpbs.org)
  • Among the brutal details in the Reuters report was an incident explained by Soe Chay, a retired soldier and local Buddhist villager who had been enlisted by security forces to dig the victims' grave. (kpbs.org)
  • The Reuters investigation of the Inn Din massacre was what prompted Myanmar police authorities to arrest two of the news agency's reporters," the news agency said in the report. (time.com)
  • On Tuesday, Myanmar' s Supreme Court declined the appeals of Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo, 2 Reuters press reporters who have actually been imprisoned in the nation given that December 2017, implicated of distributing state tricks relevant to nationwide security. (benroxholdings.com)
  • An alphabet book and a notebook lie on top of an elevated wooden floorboard of a middle school in Let Yet Kone village in Tabayin township in the Sagaing region of Myanmar on Saturday, Sept. 17, 2022, the day after an air strike hit the school. (newser.com)
  • In January 2018, the Myanmar military admitted that its soldiers and Rakhine paramilitaries had killed the ten Rohingyas in September of the previous year. (wikipedia.org)
  • NATO treated the KLA as a legitimate representative of the Kosovar Albanians - just as the West is treating LTTE created TNA and soon Myanmar will see the emergence of a political party aligned to Rohingyas whom the West will back. (spur.asn.au)
  • The Rohingyas are now adopting the same tactic and soon we are likely to see plenty of false history emerging and it would be good for Myanmar to have their history properly documented and ensure that it cannot be tampered with even for payments. (spur.asn.au)
  • But since the elections last year, there's been more freedom of the press and that has included more public discussion by Buddhists about how much they dislike the Rohingyas. (strategypage.com)
  • Rohingyas have been fleeing Myanmar since August last year. (asianews.network)
  • The United Nations said conditions were not yet safe for the Rohingyas' return, in part because Myanmar Buddhists had been protesting against the repatriation. (asianews.network)
  • A burned structure with household goods is marked out near where bodies were found burned outside Taung Pauk village in the northwestern Sagaing region of Myanmar in July. (nbcnews.com)
  • It comes two weeks after Bangladesh and Myanmar agreed to begin the repatriation in mid-November, the deal for which they signed last year in November. (asianews.network)
  • Additionally, the UNDP, UN Refugee Agency and Myanmar signed a tripartite deal on Rohingya repatriation in June this year. (asianews.network)
  • Buddhist monk Ven. (arakan.news)
  • Soldiers stopped a minibus carrying even passengers including 81 years old Buddhist monk at the check point near the state capital, Sittway, and forced the car to park inside the military base on April 17. (arakan.news)
  • It also claims the recruits beheaded three Buddhists - including a monk - who, it says, were responsible for slaying Muslims. (investvine.com)
  • The junta soldiers perform security checks as workers returned to the site. (rfa.org)
  • Laila Khatun*, another survivor of mass gang rapes by the junta soldiers and other security forces, describes how she, her husband and four children were beaten and tied up inside her thatched home in south Aung Dawng village in Maundaw district and threatened with being burnt alive. (other-news.info)
  • Local resistance fighters attacked junta soldiers in urban Pale. (buddhistdoor.net)
  • Clashes between junta soldiers and local resistance groups are being reported on an almost daily basis. (buddhistdoor.net)
  • Horrific attacks on Rohingya Muslims of Myanmar, which have forced thousands to flee in recent days, have elicited no interest from the mass media. (truthdig.com)
  • Far removed from the myopic outlook of the West's armchair revolutionaries - not every friend of China is innocent - the "peaceful" Buddhists have used ARSA's alleged attacks to launch a campaign of ethnic cleansing and slaughter of the Rohingya. (icit-digital.org)
  • Displaced Rohingya women and children take shelter in a no-man's land between Bangladesh and Myanmar. (scmp.com)
  • Several trucks in Yangon carrying army supporters, with Myanmar flags and blaring nationalist songs, and some NLD members reported that security forces had ordered them to stay at home. (com.pk)
  • After zealously persecuting Christians for decades, a Myanmar Army officer made a mistake that led to a life-changing encounter with six imprisoned pastors. (persecution.com)
  • After completing high school, he joined the Myanmar Army and quickly rose through the ranks, eventually reaching the level of lieutenant colonel. (persecution.com)
  • But it is still fresh in her mind as she recalls the violence she and her family endured day after day when truckloads of army soldiers, along with local Buddhist men, came to violate women, loot valuables and burn homes while picking up young men in her village in Rajarbil in Maungdaw district in Myanmar. (other-news.info)
  • In the face of widespread "atrocities" against ethnic Rohingya people in Myanmar, the United States has been cautiously stepping up pressure on that country's army. (wionews.com)
  • The caption also claimed that the recruits recently destroyed two military combat vehicles of the Myanmar army, killing 17 soldiers. (investvine.com)
  • UN-mandated investigators have accused the Myanmar army of "genocidal intent" and ethnic cleansing. (asianews.network)
  • The army and the Government of Myanmar have denied the allegations. (hotrecentnews.com)
  • A handful of witnesses confirmed two other big graves near a hillside cemetery, not too far away from a school where more than 100 soldiers were stationed after the massacre. (indiatimes.com)
  • Fighting has been raging in the area for at least two weeks, with about 100 structures burnt down in and around the site of the alleged massacre in Nan Neint, according to local media reports, resistance forces and satellite images verified by Myanmar Witness, an organization that documents human rights violations. (arabnews.pk)
  • Then the soldiers burned down the homes, shooting anyone who couldn't flee, Sha said. (indiatimes.com)
  • COX'S BAZAR, BANGLADESH (AFP) - The World Health Organisation (WHO) warned on Monday (Sept 25) of a growing cholera risk in the makeshift refugee camps in Bangladesh where more than 435,000 Rohingya Muslims have sought shelter from unrest in Myanmar. (trendtoday.org)
  • The military has since moved considerable assets and troops into the region, which local activists and media reports have said include soldiers from the 99th Light Infantry Division (LID). (amnesty.org.au)
  • The Rohingya men from the northern Rakhine village of Inn Din were buried in a mass grave in early September after being hacked to death or shot by Buddhist neighbours and soldiers. (abc.net.au)
  • Described as the world's most persecuted people, 1.1 million Rohingya people live in Myanmar. (scmp.com)
  • Rohingya people say they are descendants of Muslims, perhaps Persian and Arab traders, who came to Myanmar generations ago. (scmp.com)
  • The Myanmar government treats them as stateless people, denying them citizenship. (scmp.com)
  • The ICRC has been present in Myanmar for over 30 years, providing humanitarian assistance to people affected by armed conflict and other situations of violence. (icrc.org)
  • The Myanmar military had stormed Done Taw at 11 a.m. on Dec. 7, he told the Associated Press, with about 50 soldiers hunting people on foot, killing 10 people including five teenagers. (nbcnews.com)
  • Since the military seized power in February, more than 1,375 people have been killed by soldiers and police, and more than 11,200 arrested, according to the AAPP. (nbcnews.com)
  • Muslims make up about 5 per cent of the estimated 60 million people in Myanmar. (thenationalnews.com)
  • In a Bangladesh meeting, Francis asks for forgiveness from a people being persecuted in Myanmar. (truthdig.com)
  • Government helicopters have attacked a school and village in north-central Myanmar, killing at least 13 people including seven children, a school administrator and an aid worker said Monday. (newser.com)
  • More than 20 people, including nine wounded children and three teachers, were also taken by the soldiers, she said. (newser.com)
  • Al-Jazeera reported: "At least 500 people led by pro-democracy activists in Myanmar have held a rare protest in Yangon over the government's arbitrary increase of fuel prices. (factsanddetails.com)
  • Myanmar has cut off access to Gu Dar Pyin, so it's unclear just how many people died, but satellite images obtained by the AP from DigitalGlobe, along with video of homes reduced to ash, reveal a village that has been wiped out. (indiatimes.com)
  • A volunteer in Tabayin assisting displaced people who asked not to be identified because of fear of government reprisals said the bodies of the dead children were cremated by the soldiers in nearby Ye U township. (dunyanews.tv)
  • Supporters say she must navigate a path between outrage abroad and popular feeling in a majority Buddhist country where most people believe the Rohingya are interlopers. (wionews.com)
  • Soldiers in the Ma Ga Dit district opened fire on demonstrators, leading to the deaths of at least 20 people, according to eyewitnesses. (fikrokhabar.com)
  • In Yangon, the former capital that remains Myanmar´s commercial hub, troops seized the city hall just ahead of the announcement, according to AFP journalist. (com.pk)
  • Picture taken on April 4, 2014 shows Myanmar policemen carrying an injured man during an anti-Muslims riot in Hlegu, on the out skirts of Yangon. (blogspot.com)
  • Its article headings clearly show their bias: Bhikku brigade", Buddhist Taliban", Attack on Muslims", Extremists BBS Majoritarian virus", Hamuruduwane Booruwane", Sinhala-Buddhist nationalism", bigotry of SinhalaBuddhism", haunted by the Mahawansa", … the labels that Sinhalese Buddhists have been tagged with that media enthusiastically promotes are many. (lankaweb.com)
  • Taliban training camp in Myanmar? (investvine.com)
  • Reports are making the round that the Taliban have recruited Rohingya Muslims, Bangladeshis and Indonesian nationals and are training them in an undisclosed camp in Myanmar, according to a posting in an Urdu-language Internet forum, "Bab-e-Islam Jihadi. (investvine.com)
  • Students led the protests, but were soon joined by civil servants, police, soldiers and ordinary citizens. (wkar.org)
  • In August and September 2007, there were large anti-government protests in Myanmar. (factsanddetails.com)
  • This is a black day for press freedom in Myanmar," Tirana Hassan of Amnesty International said Monday . (kpbs.org)
  • There was no sign of the Buddhist youths who had marauded through town, burning Muslims out of their homes the day before. (thenationalnews.com)
  • In particular, the stanza about tens of thousands of peacock soldiers marching for war became a potent slogan inspiring protest artwork . (thediplomat.com)
  • The world is witnessing yet another round of ethnic cleansing through terror directed against the defenceless and traumatized Rohingyan Muslims of Myanmar. (icit-digital.org)
  • Currently I'm based in Myanmar , and my role here is deputy head of sub delegation in a place called Sittwe, in the far west of the country, close to the border with Bangladesh. (icrc.org)
  • They are working with government scientists in Myanmar to forge the scientific and political links needed to drive malaria from her native country. (pulitzercenter.org)
  • The military junta in control of the country responded by announcing a two-month-long dusk-to-dawn curfew and repositioning armed soldiers. (truthdig.com)
  • We can't fully enjoy it because all these terrible things are happening in Myanmar," said Kruse, explaining that every evening and morning they are on the phone with friends and family in the country. (ebar.com)
  • The pagoda here is said to hold a hair of the Buddha and Buddhists from across the country come here to pay homage. (exotic-holidays.hk)
  • Last month, Myanmar further increased the number of troops in Rakhine, after seven Buddhists were found hacked to death. (scmp.com)
  • This combination of two satellite images provided by Maxar Technologies shows a comparison view of Jan. 6, 2018, left, and Nov. 12, 2021, right, before and after of the fires that recently burned numerous homes and structures in the town of Thantlang, Myanmar. (nbcnews.com)
  • At a photo opportunity at the top of her meeting with Tillerson, Suu Kyi ignored a journalist who asked if the Rohingya were citizens of Myanmar. (wionews.com)
  • We are not surprised to hear about the crisis in Myanmar. (spur.asn.au)
  • A Myanmar government spokesman could not be reached for comment. (theglobeandmail.com)
  • What is the Myanmar government saying? (scmp.com)
  • And there they have remained, behind bars, as international advocacy groups for free speech and journalism lauded their work with several awards - and leveled condemnations at the Myanmar government. (kpbs.org)
  • President Bush announced today that he planned to tighten sanctions against the military government in Myanmar and slap a visa ban on "those responsible for egregious human rights violations. (truthdig.com)
  • In mid August the Myanmar government abruptly rose fuel price that including a large hike in gasoline prices. (factsanddetails.com)
  • The Myanmar government regularly claims such massacres of the Rohingya never happened, and has acknowledged only one mass grave containing 10 "terrorists" in the village of Inn Din. (indiatimes.com)
  • The story was submitted in February 2018 as the reporters beinged in prison, and caused the jail time of 7 soldiers linked to the violence. (benroxholdings.com)
  • Three days after the Done Taw attack, the state-run Global New Light of Myanmar newspaper dismissed reports of the slayings as "fake news," accusing unidentified countries of "wishing to disintegrate Myanmar" by inciting bloodshed. (nbcnews.com)
  • Both news outlets reported that the Myanmar military looted valuables from the village. (amnesty.org.au)
  • Myanmar Now, an online news service, and other independent Myanmar media also reported the attack and the students' deaths. (dunyanews.tv)
  • A report in April by the US-based news service RFA indicated that 39 Buddhist monastics had been killed and 40 more imprisoned since the military seized power last year. (buddhistdoor.net)
  • Almost every villager interviewed by the AP saw three large mass graves at Gu Dar Pyin's northern entrance, near the main road, where witnesses say soldiers herded and killed most of the Rohingya. (indiatimes.com)
  • Rohingya refugee woman and children wade to the shore after crossing the Bangladesh-Myanmar border by boat through the Bay of Bengal in Teknaf. (scmp.com)
  • It was Britain that transported Muslims from then Bengal to Myanmar to work just as colonial rulers brought in South Indians to then Ceylon as cheap labor. (spur.asn.au)
  • The carnage at Done Taw is just one of the most recent signs that the Myanmar military is reverting to a strategy of massacres as a weapon of war, according to an Associated Press investigation based on interviews with 40 witnesses, social media, satellite imagery and data on deaths. (nbcnews.com)
  • According to historians, the Buddhist Deva dynasty ruled the region from the seventh to the middle of the eighth century. (wikipedia.org)
  • All of the royalties from the sale of the book are donated to refugee youth leaders dedicated to healing ethnic and religious divides and promoting peaceful coexistence in and along the borders of Myanmar. (designindaba.com)
  • Bangladesh in recent months has stepped up security near the border to curb smuggling of Yaba -- a popular methamphetamine pill -- across the border from Myanmar, he said. (thedailystar.net)
  • On September 27, soldiers and security forces fired automatic weapons into a crowd, killing perhaps dozens. (factsanddetails.com)
  • He said money had been taken from some houses, at a time when the Myanmar security forces controlled access to the village. (amnesty.org.au)
  • LTTE created their cadres and child soldiers from these Vanni poor and low caste Tamils. (spur.asn.au)
  • Unlike the Buddhist community, they speak a language similar to the Bengali dialect of Chittagong in Bangladesh. (scmp.com)