Renaud Egreteau asks how the legislature could provide more oversight on the recent Rakhine State crisis.
Category: Rakhine
Rohingya refugees still fleeing from Burma to Bangladesh: UNHCR
Rohingya refugees continue to flee Burma for Bangladesh even though both countries set up a timetable last month to allow them to start to return home, the UN refugee agency…
Another member of ANP leadership quits party
Kyaw Zaw Oo, a member of the Arakan National Party’s Central Executive Committee, has become the latest politician to the defect from the increasingly enfeebled ethnic Rakhine political party, which…
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.”
Landmines 'apparently targeting' military convoys in Rakhine
State media says one person was injured when military trucks hit landmines in Burma’s troubled Rakhine State this week.