Foreign terrorist groups ‘most likely backing’ ARSA, says Min Aung Hlaing
“It is most likely that terrorist organisations based in other countries are backing the ARSA extremist Bengali terrorists,” he said.
“It is most likely that terrorist organisations based in other countries are backing the ARSA extremist Bengali terrorists,” he said.
Lead Story News Politics Rohingya
A UN envoy accuses Burmese authorities of conducting surveillance on some of the people she met on previous visits.
Lead Story News Photos Protest Rangoon Rohingya
Buddhist nationalists take to the streets to vent their ire at the international community for pressuring Burma to accommodate Rohingya boat people.
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Analysis Contributor Lead Story Rohingya
A former UK ambassador says the name “Rohingya” was unknown to British colonial administrators, and that Western insistence on using the term is not helping the Bengali community’s cause.
Census Lead Story News Rohingya
Census-takers are locked in a standoff with Rohingya householders in Arakan State as the Muslim minority decline to answer questions while the enumerators refuse to record their ethnicity on the census questionnaires.
Communal Violence Lead Story News
The UN General Assembly’s human rights committee passes a resolution urging Burma to give the stateless Rohingya minority equal access to citizenship and to crack down on Buddhist violence against them and other Muslims in the country.