United Wa State Army mark anniversary
Burma’s largest ethnic army celebrated their 23-year anniversary with a military parade and sporting events in the group’s northern territory
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Army chief urges soldiers to obey law, citing Rohingya massacre
Burma’s army chief Min Aung Hlaing has told military personnel in the country that they must obey the law, citing as an example the sentencing of seven soldiers for a massacre of Rohingya Muslim men that was the subject of a Reuters investigation.
Coalition of ethnic armed groups ready to join Panglong summit, awaits invite
The Federal Political Negotiation and Consultative Committee releases a statement reiterating the ethnic armed coalition’s intention to join the upcoming third iteration of the government-led 21st Century Panglong Conference, if the bloc is officially invited to do so.
Wa, Mongla groups ‘accept’ nationwide ceasefire accord: govt peacemaker
A member of the government’s Peace Commission says the United Wa State Army and the National Democratic Alliance Army, the latter also known as the “Mongla group,” accept the Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement, an accord that the two influential ethnic armed groups had previously spurned.
My big fat Wa wedding: 112 couples tie the knot, UWSA-style
No less than 112 grooms and 112 brides took nuptial vows and tied the knot in the largest marriage celebration seen in Wa territory for two years.
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Bulldozing Rohingya villages was not ‘demolition of evidence,’ official says
Burma has bulldozed the remains of Rohingya Muslim villages to make way for refugee resettlement, not to destroy evidence of atrocities, an official leading reconstruction efforts in the troubled northern state of Rakhine said on Monday.
Thailand decorates Burma’s army chief amid Rohingya Crisis
Commander-in-Chief Senior General Min Aung Hlaing was granted the Knight Grand Cross (First Class) of the Most Exalted Order of the White Elephant.
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How Burmese security forces burned, looted and killed in a remote Rakhine State village
Reuters pieces together what happened in the days leading up to the killings in Inn Din, drawing for the first time on interviews with Buddhist villagers who confessed to torching Rohingya homes, burying bodies and killing Muslims.
Veteran former US diplomat quits Burma’s ‘whitewash’ Rohingya crisis panel
Veteran US diplomat Bill Richardson has resigned from an international panel set up by Burma to advise on the Rohingya crisis, saying it was conducting a “whitewash” and accusing the country’s leader Aung San Suu Kyi of lacking “moral leadership.”
ARSA says 10 found in Rakhine State grave were ‘innocent civilians’
Rohingya Muslim insurgents say 10 Rohingya found in a mass grave in Burma’s troubled Rakhine State last month were “innocent civilians,” and not members of their group.
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Head of new crisis panel urges access to Rakhine State
Humanitarian workers and journalists should be given free access to Burma’s Rakhine State, where violence has prompted some 650,000 Rohingya Muslims to flee to Bangladesh, the head of a new international advisory panel on the crisis said.
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Burma says it is still working with UN, but wants a rights investigator who is fair
Burma wants to continue working with the United Nations on human rights but its investigator must be fair, the foreign ministry said on Thursday, a day after special rapporteur Yanghee Lee was barred from visiting the country.
Tatmadaw appoints general to probe mass grave in Rakhine State
Burma’s army says it has appointed a senior officer to investigate whether any members of the security forces were involved in the killing of 10 people whose bodies have been uncovered in a mass grave in Rakhine State.
‘As if life has stopped in its tracks,’ Red Cross says of Rakhine State
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 the Red Cross said on Wednesday.
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New multinational ‘advisory team’ for Rakhine State created
President Htin Kyaw has established yet another governmental body to address the situation in troubled Rakhine State, this one comprised of Burmese and foreign members including the chairman of the Myanmar National Human Rights Commission and a former US presidential aspirant.
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EU calls for equal rights for all in troubled Rakhine State
Burma must guarantee “equal rights” for everyone in troubled Rakhine State as talks on repatriation of more than 620,000 Rohingya Muslims who have fled to Bangladesh gather steam, the new EU ambassador to the country said on Thursday.
Pope Francis meets army chief Min Aung Hlaing
Burma’s army has denied accusations of murder, rape, torture and forced displacement that have been made against it.
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Pope to walk diplomatic tightrope on Burma-Bangladesh trip
Pope Francis visits Burma next week, a delicate trip for the world’s most senior Christian to a majority-Buddhist country accused by Washington of the “ethnic cleansing” of Muslim Rohingya people.
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China tells Tatmadaw it wants closer ties
China wants closer ties with Burma’s military to help protect regional peace and security, a senior Chinese general told the visiting head of the Southeast Asian country’s army.
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US calls security forces’ operations in Rakhine State ‘ethnic cleansing’
The United States calls the Burmese military operation against the Rohingya population “ethnic cleansing” and threatens targeted sanctions against those responsible for what it describes as “horrendous atrocities.”
Rohingya refugee children in Bangladesh in dire state: UNICEF
Nearly 340,000 Rohingya children are living in squalid conditions in Bangladesh camps where they lack enough food, clean water and health care, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said on Friday.
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Burma Army chief says Rohingya not native, refugee numbers exaggerated
Rohingya Muslims are not native to Burma, the army chief told the US ambassador in a meeting in which he apparently did not address accusations of abuses by his men and said media was complicit in exaggerating the number of refugees fleeing.
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West edges toward punishing army leaders over Rohingya crisis: sources
The European Union and the United States are considering targeted sanctions against Burmese military leaders over an offensive that has driven more than 500,000 Rohingya Muslims out of the country, officials familiar with the discussions say.
Burma says bodies of 28 Hindu villagers found in Arakan State
Burmese government forces found on Sunday the bodies of 28 Hindu villagers who authorities suspected were killed by Muslim insurgents last month, at the beginning of a spasm of violence that has sent 430,000 Muslim Rohingya fleeing to Bangladesh.
Army chief urges Arakan’s internally displaced to return home
Burma’s army chief called on Thursday for people internally displaced by violence in Arakan State to go home and rebuild communities, but he made no mention of 422,000 Rohingya Muslims who fled to Bangladesh to escape his forces’ operations.
State counsellor denies going ‘soft’ on military
Aung San Suu Kyi rejects a suggestion that she is soft on the military, which the United Nations has accused of ethnic cleansing, saying her relationship with the generals was normal and her objective was national reconciliation.
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Aid group warns of death among Rohingya in Bangladesh
Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh could die due to a lack of food, shelter and water, given the huge numbers fleeing violence in Burma, an aid agency warned on Sunday, as authorities began moving people to camps to streamline the distribution of help.
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In a first, Arakan crisis unites NLD, army and public
If there’s one thing that unites Aung San Suu Kyi’s party, the army that once tried to crush her, and the majority of people in mostly Buddhist Burma, it is their vehement dislike of Rohingya Muslims, seen as a threat to national security.
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UN chief warns Arakan State violence could destabilise region
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres appealed to Burmese authorities on Tuesday to end violence against Rohingya Muslims in Arakan State, warning of the risk of ethnic cleansing and regional destabilisation.
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Burma sees insurgents behind Rohingya killings in Arakan State
Officials say Rohingya insurgents are behind a slew of killings in northern Arakan State, which has been racked by violence in recent months.
