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Myanmar's Most Beautiful Sacred Sites
Glittering stupas, stepped temples, and candlelit monasteries reveal a long spiritual tradition. By Gulnaz Khan.
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'Mass Hindu grave' found in Myanmar
The Myanmar authorities have accused Muslim Rohingya militants of killing 28 Hindu villagers whose bodies were allegedly found in a mass grave. The army says the bodies of 20 women and eight men and boys were found in two pits in northern Rakhine state. The state has been in turmoil since 25 August when Rohingya militants launched deadly attacks on police posts.
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Could Aung San Suu Kyi face Rohingya genocide charges?
Myanmar says its crackdown was a response to terror attacks, but new evidence raises questions.
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Shattered skulls and blood: Rohingya report Myanmar massacre
For six hours he hid in an upstairs room, listening to the crackle of gunfire and the screams of people being slaughtered outside his Myanmar home. With every footstep that drew near, every cry that pierced the air, 52-year-old Bodru Duza braced for the soldiers to find him, to kill him like all the others who had fled to his compound that morning seeking a safe place to shelter. They were being blindfolded and bound, marched away in small groups, then butchered and shot as they begged for their lives.
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'They Couldn't Hide all the Death.' 5 More Rohingya Mass Graves Found in Myanmar
The faces of the men half-buried in the mass graves had been burned away by acid or blasted by bullets. Noor Kadir finally recognized his friends only by the colors of their shorts. Kadir and 14 others, all Rohingya Muslims in the Myanmar village of Gu Dar Pyin, had been choosing players for the soccer-like game of chinlone when the gunfire began. They scattered from what sounded like hard rain on a tin roof. By the time the Myanmar military stopped shooting, only Kadir and two teammates were left alive.
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Burma: Scores of Rohingya Villages Bulldozed
New satellite imagery reveals the Burmese government has been bulldozing scores of depopulated Rohingya villages in northern Rakhine State.
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Reuters Wins Pulitzer for Photography of Rohingya Crisis
(Warning: graphic content) An exhausted Rohingya refugee woman touches the shore after crossing the Bangladesh-Myanmar border by boat through the Bay of Bengal, in Shah Porir Dwip, Bangladesh September,2017
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INLE LAKE - Myanmar
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Myanmar: Report names 13 officials with a key role in murder, rape and deportation of Rohingya
Amnesty International is launching a landmark new report on accountability for crimes against humanity targeting the Rohingya and the wider crisis in Myanmar’s northern Rakhine State.
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Why Facebook is losing the war on hate speech in Myanmar
Reuters found more than 1,000 examples of content attacking the Rohingya and other Muslims on Facebook. A secretive operation to combat the vitriol has failed to stop it.
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How Facebook 'became a beast' in Myanmar
Decades of ethnic and religious tensions, a sudden explosion of internet access, and a company that had trouble identifying and removing the most hateful posts. It all added up to a perfect storm in Myanmar, where the United Nations says Facebook had a "determining role" in whipping up anger against the Rohingya minority. "I'm afraid that Facebook has now turned into a beast, and not what it originally intended," Yanghee Lee, UN special rapporteur on human rights in Myanmar, said in March .
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Suu Kyi defense of jailing of Reuters journalists 'unbelievable':...
Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi said on Thursday the jailing of two Reuters journalists had nothing to do with freedom of expression and they can appeal against their seven-year sentences, prompting a sharp rebuke from the United States.
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House of Commons unanimously votes to call Myanmar Rohingya killings a genocide
In a rare show of unanimity, MPs on Thursday agreed to call the campaign of ethnic cleansing against the Rohingya in Myanmar an act of genocide. Liberal MP Andrew Leslie, who is parliamentary secretary to the minister of foreign affairs, rose following question period to present a motion asking for unanimous consent among MPs from all parties to recognize as a genocide the killings, which began last summer, and to call for the generals and leaders responsible to be prosecuted for the crime under international law.
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Two Reuters Reporters Freed in Myanmar after more than 500 Days in Jail
Two Reuters journalists jailed in Myanmar after they were convicted of breaking the Official Secrets Act walked free from a prison on the outskirts of Yangon on Tuesday after spending more than 500 days behind bars.
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Myanmar pilot safely lands plane on its nose after landing gear...
A Myanmar pilot safely landed a passenger jet without its front wheels on Sunday, after landing gear on the Myanmar National Airlines plane failed to deploy, the airline and an official said. It was the second aviation incident in Myanmar this week, after a Biman Bangladesh Airlines plane skidded off the runway during strong wind in Yangon on Wednesday, injuring at least 17 of those on board.
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Myanmar orders internet shutdown in conflict-torn Rakhine state - telco operator
By Shoon Naing YANGON (Reuters) – Myanmar authorities ordered telecoms companies to shut down internet services in conflict-torn western Myanmar, a leading operator said on
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'We would Rather Die Now than be Kept in Here Forever' – Life Inside a Saudi Detention Centre for Rohingya Refugees – Byline Times
CJ Werleman documents his conversations with Faisal Thar Thakin, a Rohingya Muslim who has been held in the kingdom's notorious Shumaisi detention centre for the past six years.
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UN condemns Myanmar over human rights abuses against Rohingya
General assembly’s vote in favour of resolution also calls on Myanmar to urgently combat incitement of hatred
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Tens of thousands protest Myanmar coup despite internet ban
Tens of thousands of people took to the streets of Myanmar's cities on Saturday to denounce this week's coup and demand the release of elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi despite a blockade on the internet by the junta.
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Biden imposes sanctions on Myanmar military leaders who directed coup
President Joe Biden said he will sanction leaders of the military coup in Myanmar that has imprisoned leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
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