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Buddhist Extremists Protest As Annan Takes Up Persecution of Burma’s Rohingyas

YANGON (AFP) — Buddhist hard-liners threatened on Monday to stage protests against a visit by former UN chief Kofi Annan to Myanmar’s strife-torn Rakhine...

Myanmar Urged to Probe the Death and Rape of Rohingya Woman

Kyaw Ye Lynn | Anadolu Agency YANGON, Myanmar — An international human rights group has urged Myanmar’s government to investigate the death and alleged rape of...

Buddhist Mob Destroys Mosque in Myanmar

YANGON (AFP) — Scores of police have been deployed to guard a village in central Myanmar where religious tensions are running high after a...

Turkey FM Visits Myanmar; Tells Rohingyas ‘Will Not Let You on Your Own’

Bayram Altug | Anadolu Agency RAKHINE, Myanmar  — Turkey’s Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu has been welcomed in Myanmar’s Rakhine State, where he spoke of Turkey’s support for...

SUU KYI CALLS FOR ‘SPACE’ AS KERRY PRESSES HER ON ROHINGYA PLIGHT

NAYPYITAW | LESLEY WROUGHTON | Reuters Myanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi asked to be given “enough space” to address the plight of her country’s Rohingya Muslim...

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