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Aung San Suu Kyi Slammed For Silence on Rohingya Persecution

Caroline Henshaw AFP Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi on Friday stood accused of failing to protect Myanmar’s Rohingya Muslims from what rights groups...

Myanmar Troops Fire at Rohingya Women, Children Fleeing to Bangladesh

YANGON (IINA) – Violence in western Myanmar has caused hundreds of Rohingya Muslims to attempt to flee across the border into Bangladesh, as the...

The Public Loves Myanmar’s New War on Rohingya

  Poppy McPherson | Foreign Policy One year after a historic election put a civilian government in charge, the country’s army is using brutal methods to regain...

Myanmar Move to Arm Buddhists in Rakhine May Encourage More Attacks on Rohingya Muslims

Myanmar’s plans to arm and train non-Muslim residents in the troubled north of Rakhine state is likely to “aggravate an already dire human rights...

Pakistani Police Arrest More Than 100 Opposition Activists

  ISLAMABAD (AFP): Pakistani police on Sunday arrested more than 100 supporters of opposition politician Imran Khan who entered Islamabad days before a planned protest...

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