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Nobel laureates warn Aung San Suu Kyi over 'ethnic cleansing' of Rohingya
Letter says Myanmar’s leader and peace prize winner has failed to act as ‘grossly disproportionate’ crackdown on minority Muslim group kills hundreds
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Border Guard Police torturing Rohingya in Arakan
The video clip is witness of torturing Rohingyas by Myanmar's Border Guard Police in #KoeTanKoukVT, #Rathedaung Township, Arakan(RakhineST), Myanmar. l
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50,000 Rohingya Muslims flee to Bangladesh from Myanmar
Some 50,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled to Bangladesh from Myanmar, the foreign ministry in Dhaka said Thursday, seeking shelter from a bloody crackdown by the army. Bangladesh has stepped up patrols to try to stem the tide of refugees crossing the border since an eruption of unrest in Myanmar’s western state of Rakhine in early October.
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Rohingya Muslim man’s headless body found in river after speaking to journalists
The body of a decapitated Rohingya Muslim man has been found in a river in in Myanmar just days after he spoke to journalists. The man had spoken to Burmese reporters on a rare Government-sanctioned media tour of an area within the Rakhine state, which has been on lockdown for more than two months since its border posts were attacked by militants.
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Baby Dinosaur's 99 Million-Year-Old Tail, Encased In Amber, Surfaces In Myanmar
Millions of years ago, a dinosaur about the size of a sparrow had a bad day. It got stuck in resin. Paleontologists recently came across the rare amber fossil containing its tail in Myanmar.
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Who will help Myanmar's Rohingya? - BBC News
They have been described as the world's most persecuted people. Rejected by the country they call home and unwanted by its neighbours, the Rohingya are impoverished, virtually stateless and have been fleeing Myanmar in droves and for decades.
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Muslims are being 'ethnically cleansed' and no one is talking about it
Rohingya Muslims in Burma are being ethnically cleansed, according to a UN official, and government soldiers have allegedly killed children and raped women in the northern Rakhine state.
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New satellite imagery of Burma’s Rakhine State shows 820 newly identified structures destroyed in five different ethnic Rohingya villages
Alarming new satellite images confirm that the destruction in Rohingya villages is far greater and in more places than the government has admitted. High-definition satellite imagery shows 820 newly identified structures destroyed in five different ethnic Rohingya villages between November 10-18, 2016.
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Mystery debris lands in northern Myanmar, says state media
A large metal object has fallen from the sky into a jade mining area in north Myanmar, state media say. The cylindrical object, found on Thursday in Kachin state, is 4.5m (15ft) long and 1.2m wide. Another piece of metal with Chinese writing on it tore through the roof of a nearby house at about the same time, but no injuries were reported. It is thought that the incident might be related to the launch of a Chinese satellite. Trouble in orbit: Growing problem of space junk
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Strengthening Tropical Cyclone to Target Myanmar to India
A strengthening tropical cyclone will unleash heavy rain and strong winds on areas from western Myanmar to northeast India and Bangladesh this week.
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Miners uncover a huge jade stone worth $170 million in Myanmar
Miners in Myanmar have unearthed a huge jade stone weighing 175 tonnes, and worth an estimated US$170 million.
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Italy, Myanmar quakes show Earth's seismic volatility
It's also not unusual to have two big earthquakes on the same day.
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Myanmar Hit by 6.8 Magnitude Earthquake
A 6.8 magnitude earthquake struck central Myanmar at a depth of 84km, the US Geological Survey says.
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Generation Wave
In November 2015, history was made in Burma. Ending half a century of military dominance, the National League of Democracy won a landslide victory. Led by Aung San Suu Kyi, who stood by her people through years of political imprisonment, this is the story of the youth movements that helped make this victory possible. By Jeremy Suyker.
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Myanmar mob burns down mosque - BBC News
A mob burns down a mosque in northern Myanmar in the second attack of its kind in just over a week.
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Burma's Rohingya Facing 'Final Stages of Genocide'
Experts say the long-persecuted community is on brink of "mass annihilation."
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Knife-armed Buddhist mob attack Muslims and set Myanmar mosque ablaze
A crowd of Buddhists has set fire to a mosque in the north of Myanmar, furious that a Muslim place of worship was built near a Buddhist pagoda in the predominantly Buddhist country. The attack happened on Friday, 1 July, in the village of Hpakhant in Kachin state. The attackers, who were "wielding sticks, knives and other weapons", overwhelmed security forces before burning the temple down, according to state-owned Global New Light of Myanmar.
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Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi: The dark side of the hero
This is the story of the Nobel Peace Prize winner and crimes against humanity.
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Myanmar is quietly experiencing its largest uprising in years
You won’t hear much about it from international media. But Myanmar, exalted by the West for veering toward democracy, is in the middle of its largest civilian uprising in nearly a decade. Like practically all uprisings in Myanmar, where a domineering army still holds immense power, this revolt is turning bloody. But similarities to past dissident movements end there. Because the protesters are Christian, there are no burgundy-robed Buddhist monks stoically facing down troops in the street.
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Aung San Suu Kyi Apologizes For Not Becoming Myanmar's President
The Nobel Peace laureate released a letter Thursday explaining the situation and apologizing for "not fully fulfilling the people's desire" by becoming their president.
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