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Myanmar's neighbors urge accountability for Rakhine violence

John Geddie, Reuters
Posted at Oct 03 12:50 AM

SINGAPORE - Southeast Asian foreign ministers have urged Myanmar to give a full mandate to an inquiry commission to hold accountable those responsible for the violence in Rakhine state, Singapore said on Tuesday. Read more »

Reuters journalists get 7 years in prison

Stringer, Reuters
Posted at Sep 03 09:03 PM

Detained Reuters journalists Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo leave Insein court after listening to the verdict in Yangon, Myanmar on Monday. Read more »

OPINION: Counting our blessings this Eid

Karim Raslan -- Ceritalah ASEAN
Posted at Jun 14 02:36 AM

As we celebrate another Hari Raya Aidilfitri, we must certainly not take our circumstances – especially the freedom of religion – for granted.  Read more »

IN PHOTOS: Rohingya refugees fish in troubled waters

Reuters
Posted at Jun 13 09:38 AM

SHAMLAPUR, Bangladesh - Some Rohingya refugees who fled from Myanmar are finding work in the fishing industry in neighboring Bangladesh, earning a tiny daily income and occasional share of the catch, all under the official radar. Read more »

3 bombs hit capital of Myanmar's Rakhine state

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Feb 24 03:55 PM

Three bombs exploded early Saturday in the capital of Myanmar's Rakhine state, a cauldron of ethnic tensions roiled by insurgencies and a military crackdown on the Muslim Rohingya, injuring 1 policeman, officials said.   Read more »

How Myanmar forces burned, looted and killed in a remote village

Wa Lone, Kyaw Soe Oo, Simon Lewis and Antoni Slodkowski, Reuters
Updated as of Sep 02 08:23 PM

The killings in the coastal village of Inn Din marked another bloody episode in the ethnic violence sweeping northern Rakhine state, on Myanmar's western fringe. Nearly 690,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled their villages and crossed the border into Bangladesh since August. Read more »

Myanmar denies report of mass graves in Rakhine

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Feb 03 08:03 PM

The denial was a response to a report that alleges a massacre by soldiers and the existence of at least five previously unreported mass graves. Read more »

Myanmar blames Bangladesh for delayed Rohingya return

Agence France Presse
Updated as of Jan 23 11:30 PM

Nearly 690,000 Rohingya escaped to Bangladesh after a brutal Myanmar army crackdown began last August Read more »

Rohingya rebel ambush in Rakhine wounds 3: Myanmar army

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jan 06 07:28 PM

The UN has accused Myanmar troops of waging an ethnic-cleansing campaign against the persecuted minority. Read more »

US concerned over Myanmar's silence over where journalists are being held

Reuters
Posted at Dec 16 04:52 AM

Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo faced charges under the British colonial-era Official Secrets Act, though officials have since disclosed that they have not been charged.  Read more »

Pope starts Myanmar trip in shadow of Rohingya crisis

Philip Pullella and Thu Thu Aung, Reuters
Posted at Nov 27 04:50 PM

YANGON - Pope Francis landed in Yangon on Monday, the start of a delicate visit for the leader of the Roman Catholic church to majority-Buddhist Myanmar, which the United States has accused of conducting "ethnic cleansing" against its Muslim Rohingya people. Read more »

China tells Myanmar military it wants closer ties

Reuters
Posted at Nov 23 09:37 AM

BEIJING - China wants closer ties with Myanmar's military to help protect regional peace and security, a senior Chinese general told the visiting head of the southeast Asian country's army. Read more »

1 injured as Myanmar military trucks hit landmines in troubled Rakhine

Reuters
Posted at Nov 17 01:59 PM

One person was injured when military trucks hit landmines in Myanmar's troubled Rakhine State this week, state media said Friday, amid ethnic tension following an army crackdown that has forced hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims to flee. Read more »

Tillerson to press Myanmar army chief to halt violence so Rohingya can return

Simon Cameron-Moore and Yimou Lee, Reuters
Posted at Nov 15 04:25 AM

More than 600,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled to Bangladesh since late August, driven out by a counter-insurgency clearance operation of Myanmar forces. Read more »

Myanmar army replaces general in charge of Rakhine operation

Reuters
Posted at Nov 13 10:08 PM

YANGON - Myanmar's army has replaced the general in charge of Rakhine state, an army media officer said on Monday, where an army operation drove more than 600,000 Rohingya Muslims to flee to Bangladesh. Read more »

Southeast Asia summit draft statement skips over Rohingya crisis

Reuters
Posted at Nov 13 12:34 PM

MANILA - A draft of the statement to be issued after a Southeast Asian summit makes no mention of the exodus of Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar's Rakhine state following a military crackdown that has been described by the United Nations as ethnic cleansing. Read more »

Rakhine: A moment for ASEAN and Filipino leadership to act

Ambassador Daniel Pruce
Posted at Nov 11 03:23 PM

The ASEAN Summit is a critical opportunity to once again show leadership.   Read more »

US lawmakers seek to slap new sanctions on Myanmar military

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Nov 04 03:33 PM

WASHINGTON - US lawmakers proposed sanctions Friday against Myanmar's military, in some of the strongest efforts yet by Washington to pressure the Southeast Asian nation to end abusive treatment of its Rohingya Muslim minority. Read more »

Myanmar's Suu Kyi makes first visit to crisis-hit northern Rakhine

Agence France Presse
Posted at Nov 02 05:23 PM

Myanmar's leader Aung San Suu Kyi arrived on her first visit to conflict-battered northern Rakhine State on Thursday, an official said, an unannounced trip to an area that has seen most of its Rohingya Muslim population forced out by an army campaign. Read more »

Myanmar harvests abandoned Rohingya fields, raising fears for return

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Oct 28 03:38 PM

YANGON - Myanmar's government began harvesting rice from farmland abandoned by Rohingya in northern Rakhine on Saturday, officials said, a move likely to raise concerns about the prospect of return for more than half a million refugees who have fled communal violence in the area. Read more »