Showing posts with label Myanmar. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Myanmar. Show all posts

Monday, 27 May 2013

Yangon: Suu Kyi denounces two-child limit on Myanmar Rohingya families

Myanmar pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi talks to reporters after giving a speech at the first meeting of the central executive committee of the National League for Democracy party in the Royal Rose hall in Yangon May 27, 2013.

Credit: Reuters/Soe Zeya Tun
(Reuters) - Myanmar opposition leader and pro-democracy champion Aung San Suu Kyi condemned on Monday a policy by a district government to limit Muslim Rohingya families to two children in an effort to curb their population growth.

Friday, 24 May 2013

Myanmar: Buddhists from Bangladesh resettle in Myanmar, Rohingya Muslims cry foul

Minority Rohingya Muslims who have long alleged persecution by the Buddhists in Myanmar, say Buddhist families from Bangladesh are now being resettled on their land.



Friday, 1 February 2013

Call to help Rohingya as more arrive in Thailand

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Friday urged all involved countries to provide assistance to Rohingya refugees leaving Myanmar.

Monday, 27 August 2012

MYANMAR: 'Thousands of Rohingyas dead'

Number of growing casualties played down by authorities, says refugee

By RAM ANAND, Malay Mail, Kuala Lumpur.

FOOD BOXES: Rohingya volunteers preparing packages of sardines to be delivered to the Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh — Pix: Arif Kartono

Monday, 2 July 2012

Myanmar’s minority Muslims under attack


A Rohingya Muslim village burns in recent violence in Myanmar

Amnesty International has accused Myanmar’s army of “indiscriminate attacks” against the Rohingya, which are tantamount to “war crimes.”

Friday, 15 June 2012

Myanmar Fighting Tests Suu Kyi as Politician Before Nobel Speech


Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, center, leaves the Swiss Federal Palace with Swiss Foreign minister Didier Burkhalter, second right, in Bern. Photographer: Sebstien Bozon/AFP/GettyImages

Clashes in western Myanmar involving Muslim Rohingyas are giving opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi one of her first political tests since an April by-election win that prompted Western nations to ease sanctions.