Residents who were forced to flee from their homes during anti-Muslim rioting last month in Mandalay division’s Meikhtila are disappointed that they are still unable to return home due to attempted arson attacks
Aung San Suu Kyi emphasized the need for security in Burma while speaking to members of the Japanese and foreign media on Wednesday.
Aung San Suu Kyi says there is no easy answer to the sectarian violence that has rocked Burma. Speaking to students at Tokyo University she called for a dialogue and[…]
Reports of what actually took place in the central Burmese town of Meikhtila are still emerging, but IDPs are beginning to speak out about the events they witnessed
In his first address to the nation since last week’s religious violence, President Thein Sein promises to be tough on the perpetrators.
The looming threat of religious violence in Rangoon is beginning to take its toll on the economy, after authorities force businesses to close early and residents are too scared to venture outside their homes
Sectarian violence in central Burma has spread to three other towns in the area including Ywartan village, south of Meikhtila. More than 2,000 people have been displaced due to the[…]
Nearly 1,000 Muslim Rohingyas remain incarcerated in northern Arakan state, where campaigners say they are subject to “pervasive” abuses and at least 68 people are believed to have died in custody
Thousands of Muslim Rohingyas, who were uprooted after sectarian clashes in western Burma last year, are still not registered as internally displaced persons by the government and continue to be denied humanitarian assistance
An angry policeman gestures and shouts in Arakanese. The road is blocked with wooden fences and cords of barbed wire. A local man wrapped in a puffy coat and woollen[…]
The government has threatened legal action against the Rakhine Nationalities Development Party for publishing pictures of the woman whose rape and murder sparked sectarian violence in June
There are disturbing parallels between the way current violence in Arakan state is being described, and how past atrocities committed by the Burmese government were covered
Aung Naing Oo compares the crisis in Arakan state between the Muslim Rohingya and Buddhist Arakanese to what happened in Yugolsavia in the 1990’s
Thousands have been forced to flee their homes as the latest bout of communal riots between Buddhists and Rohingya Muslims continues to spread through Arakan state in western Burma
A group of Arakanese monks have called for Rohingya “sympathisers” to be targeted and exposed as “national traitors” while tensions again flare between Buddhists and Muslims in Burma’s westernmost state
Three people were killed after a violent scuffle erupted following a dispute between a fishery operator and locals in Irrawaddy division’s Kyonpyaw township
Three Burmese migrant workers in southern Thailand’s Phang-nga and Songkhla provinces were shot and killed by unknown gunmen in two separate incidents on 25 July
After an argument erupted in Rangoon’s Hlegu township, an army captain struck a local official in the head with a pistol then shot him through the shoulder
Pascal Khoo-ThweMar 20, 2009 (DVB), Historically, March is the month of violence in Burma. Over the course of almost half a century, March has repeatedly stood out as a bloody[…]
Pascal Khoo-ThweMar 20, 2009 (DVB), Historically, March is the month of violence in Burma. Over the course of almost half a century, March has repeatedly stood out as a bloody[…]
Jun 23, 2008 (DVB), Following the adoption last week of a United Nations Security Council resolution on sexual violence as a weapon of war, women's rights activists hope it can[…]
Jan 2, 2008 (DVB), The All-Burmese Monks Alliance called on the people of Burma to support their struggle against the regime, but stressed that they should not use violence, in[…]
