Life has stopped in its tracks in Burma’s northern Rakhine State where an estimated 180,000 Rohingya remain, fearful after violence drove 650,000 to flee to Bangladesh, the International Committee of…
Day: December 13, 2017
Two local Reuters reporters detained in Yangon
Two Burmese reporters for the Reuters news bureau in Yangon were detained on Tuesday evening in the commercial capital’s northern suburbs.
Booze ban reinforced at sacred site
“Spirits are often poured into energy drink bottles, packed in cases, and then sneaked up the Mount Kyaiktiyo trail.”
UN envoy urges Security Council to visit Burma, Bangladesh
A top UN official recounted to the Security Council on Tuesday “heartbreaking and horrific accounts of sexual atrocities” by Burmese soldiers against Rohingya Muslim women, urging the body to visit…