Burma’s quasi-civilian government has been hit by allegations of “ethnic cleansing” and “crimes against humanity” this week as Human Rights Watch (HRW) released its report into the sectarian violence ...

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Rohingya Muslims pleaded with the international community at the first United Nations high-level meeting on the plight of the ethnic minority to prevent the mass killings taking ...

MEIKHTILA, Myanmar (AP) – A Myanmar court sentenced seven Muslims to prison Tuesday _ one of them to a life term _ in the killing of a Buddhist monk amid deadly sectarian violence that was ...

Armed police secure the compound of Ekayana Buddhist Centre in Jakarta in the early morning of Aug. 5, 2013, hours after a bombing attack hit the temple in the evening of Aug. 4ROMEO GACAD / AFP / ...

Earlier this month, India deported a group of Rohingya Muslims to Myanmar, the first such deportation since the government last year ordered the expulsion of members of the Myanmar minority group and ...

In the game of geopolitics, perhaps the most important rule is 'self-interest first'. In Rakhine, Myanmar's every internal ...

One of Myanmar's five million young adults, May Thandar Maung had been excited to cast her ballot for the very first time in November's election. Myanmar Muslim May Thandar Maung says she hasn't been ...

SIT KWIN, Myanmar (Reuters) - The Muslims of Sit Kwin were always a small group who numbered no more than 100 of the village's 2,000 people. But as sectarian violence led by Buddhist mobs spreads ...

FILE - Rohingya refugees wait for food to be distributed during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan at their camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, March 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Shafiqur Rahman, File) FILE - ...

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