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The UN says it's getting daily reports of rapes and killings in Myanmar
GENEVA (Reuters) - The United Nations is getting daily reports of rapes and killings of the Rohingya minority in Myanmar and independent monitors are being barred from investigating, the U.N. human...
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Myanmar's potential genocide could be the downfall of the country's fledgling...
Since October 9th, political conflict has re-emerged in Myanmar’s Rakhine state. The global media has reported widely on the atrocities committed against the Muslim minority known as the Rohingya, with...
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Myanmar will investigate police abuse of Rohingya muslims
Yangon (AFP) - Myanmar's government on Monday pledged to investigate a video apparently showing police beating and kicking Rohingya civilians, a rare admission that authorities may have carried out...
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Myanmar faces growing danger from ISIS supporters as persecution of Rohingya...
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Myanmar faces a growing danger of attacks by foreign supporters of Islamic State (IS) recruited from Southeast Asian networks in support of persecuted Muslim Rohingyas,...
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'There was no hope for us': How a slave from Myanmar exposed human-rights...
“There was no hope for us. Every day was the same. We’d wake up at 5am. I would have to do everything from catching the fish, jumping down into the nets, to cleaning them and even the cooking. There...
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China may have an ulterior motive to play peacemaker in Myanmar
KACHIN STATE, Myanmar — In early March, Myanmar’s government sat down with a coalition of ethnic rebel groups, including the Kachin Independence Army (KIA), trying to jump-start peace negotiations that...
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Southeast Asian narco-gangs are churning out new highs faster than they can...
Bangkok (AFP) - Southeast Asian drug cartels are diversifying the narcotics they produce, the UN's crime agency warned Wednesday, with more than 160 new highs hitting the market in the last eight...
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A military plane carrying 116 has gone missing in Myanmar
Yangon (AFP) - A Myanmar military plane carrying 116 people went missing on Wednesday between the southern city of Myeik and Yangon, according to the office of the army chief and an airport...
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Bodies and debris from missing Myanmar military plane carrying 122 people...
YANGON (Reuters) - Bodies and debris were found in the water on Thursday after a Myanmar military plane vanished over the Andaman Sea with 122 soldiers, family members and crew on board, the military...
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Inside Myanmar’s ghost town capital city, which is 4 times the size of London...
The capital city of Myanmar, Naypyidaw, is 7,054 square kilometres in size, roughly four and a half times the size of London (1,569 square kilometres), according to The Independent.But the city is a...
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China says 'talk' it plans to build a military base in Pakistan is 'pure...
BEIJING (Reuters) - China said on Thursday that talk the country was building a military base in Pakistan was pure speculation, after a Pentagon report earlier this month singled out Pakistan as a...
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'China is not Father Christmas': India's concern about Beijing's expansion...
China's growing influence in its near abroad has stirred concern among its neighbors, none more so than India.New Delhi regards Beijing's expansion — through military and commercial agreements alike —...
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Bangladesh is ramping up its border patrols to stop the influx of Rohingya...
COX'S BAZAR, Bangladesh/YANGON (Reuters) - Bangladesh has stepped up patrols on its border with Myanmar, following reports that about 1,000 Rohingya Muslims crossed into the country in the past two...
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At least 110 dead, including women and children, as Myanmar military sweep...
May Yu River (Myanmar) (AFP) - Smoke billowed from at least three burning villages in the remote section of Rakhine state where Myanmar's military is carrying out sweeps for militants, an AFP reporter...
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Rohingya Muslims flee after more than 2,600 houses were burned down in their...
The conflict between the Rohingya, a Muslim minority in Myanmar, and Myanmar officials spilled over last week when more than 2,600 houses were burned down in northwest Myanmar, a Rohingya-majority...
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Rohingya exodus continues in Burma amid accounts of 'beheadings'
children have been beheaded and civilians burned alive, according to witness testimony amid claims that Burma's military and paramilitary forces are committing "genocide" or a "pogrom" against the...
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90,000 Muslims flee Myanmar amid government-backed persecution
BANGKOK (Reuters) - The systematic persecution of minority Muslims is on the rise across Myanmar and not confined to the northwestern state of Rakhine, where recent violence has sent nearly 90,000...
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Myanmar is reportedly laying landmines along the Bangladesh border
Myanmar has been laying landmines across a section of its border with Bangladesh for the past three days, according to reports citing two government sources in the Bangladeshi capital of Dhaka.The...
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Myanmar working with China, Russia, to avoid UN rebuke over persecution of...
YANGON/SHAMLAPUR, Bangladesh (Reuters) - Myanmar said on Wednesday it is negotiating with China and Russia to ensure they block any UN Security Council censure over the violence that has forced an...
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