A government spokesman on Wednesday moved quickly to refute a state media report that seven soldiers who were convicted for involvement in a high-profile massacre of Rohingya Muslims in Rakhine…
Day: April 18, 2018
26 die, 137 injured in Thingyan festivities
According to police data, nine persons were murdered, nine died in road accidents, and eight drowned.
More pressure needed on Burma to take back refugees, says Bangladeshi PM
Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said on Tuesday more international pressure was needed on Burma to take back Rohingya refugees, rejecting a claim by the Burmese government that it had…
36 political prisoners included in Thingyan presidential amnesty
Two Kachin pastors and a Buddhist abbot jailed for “Unlawful Association” are freed, but Reuters journalists remain behind bars.
Aid agencies fear for Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh’s island relocation plan
Bangladesh has failed to persuade aid agencies to sign up to its plan to move 100,000 Rohingya refugees to a remote island in June, internal documents show, amid fears they…