Mizzima News: UN praises Myanmar over child soldier issue
The United Nations on Monday praised the Myanmar government and army for its steps made toward ending the recruitment of child soldiers. “The signature of an action plan in June 2012 was a major...
View ArticleBangkok Post: US again slates Myanmar on religion
The US State Department on Monday again designated Myanmar as a country of special concern for its severe violations of religious freedom, as it has since 1999 in an annual global assessment. Myanmar...
View ArticleDemocratic Voice of Burma: Rohingyas face riot charges for refusing to...
Nine Rohingyas, who were arrested late last month for refusing to register as “Bengalis” at a displacement camp in western Burma, will be prosecuted for instigating riots, according to a state...
View ArticleKIC: People in ‘authority’ approve land theft
Saw Albert, the field director of the Karen Human Rights Group, in an exclusive interview with Karen News, said that since Burma’s 2010 election, changes in the government’s administration has allowed...
View ArticleDemocratic Voice of Burma: Young riot suspect says police tortured him in...
A 15-year-old Buddhist boy told a local court on Wednesday that he was tortured by police after being arrested in central Burma on suspicion of participating in a recent wave of anti-Muslim riots. The...
View ArticleAssociated Press: Myanmar child law sparks opposition
Opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi and Islamic leaders expressed dismay Monday over plans by authorities in western Myanmar to revive a two-child limit on Muslim Rohingya families, a policy that does...
View ArticleAssociated press: US urges Myanmar to eliminate 2-child policy
The U.S. is calling on the government of Myanmar to stop the imposition of a two-child limit on a Muslim minority group that has been targeted in bloody communal unrest. State Department spokesman...
View ArticleBloomberg: Myanmar rejects criticism of two-child rule for minority
Myanmar said the restoration of a policy preventing some Muslim Rohingya from having more than two children is family planning, dismissing criticism that it’s evidence of oppression against the...
View ArticleThe New York Times: Attacks on Muslims in Myanmar – The Editorial Board
Terrifying anti-Muslim violence surged this week in Myanmar, exposing deep ethnic and religious tensions that are undermining efforts to stabilize the country and move forward with political and...
View ArticleEleven Media Group: Rakhine leaders object to voting rights for Bengali...
Ethnic Rakhine leaders demand the election commission to deny voting rights to immigrant Bengalis with temporary identity cards (white cards) in the upcoming 2015 Election. Aye Thar Aung, chairman of...
View ArticleKaladan Press: Rohingya rights groups denounce the two-child-policy to EU...
The Burmese Rohingya Organization UK (BROUK) and People in Need Foundation denounced both the new “two-child-policy” law, which only applies to Rohingya, and recent attacks on Muslims. Both groups were...
View ArticleAgence France-Presse: Government to examine two-child policy targeting Rohingya
Burma will examine a controversial ban that was imposed on Rohingya Muslims having more than two children, a top official said, after criticism from the United Nations and rights groups. Authorities in...
View ArticleThe Irrawaddy: Anti-Letpadaung mine activists condemn detained protesters’...
Activists protesting against the Letpadaung copper mine in Sagaing Division have condemned the sentencing of three detained demonstrators, accusing the judiciary of a lack of transparency and failing...
View ArticleNarinjara News: One lakh Kyat bribe sought for an agricultural loan
The farmers of Arakan are being forced to pay nearly one lakh (100,000) Kyat as a bribe by the local authority for agricultural loan, allege a number of farmers from different parts of the State. They...
View ArticleThe Irrawaddy: Supporters of two-child limit for Rohingya stage demonstration...
Nearly 1,000 Arakanese people gathered in Sittwe, the capital of Arakan State in western Burma, to show their support for local authorities’ ban on Rohingya Muslims having more than two children and...
View ArticleDemocratic Voice of Burma: MP slams military promise to return confiscated land
A member of parliament on Wednesday accused the military of misleading the public by pledging to return thousands of acres of land confiscated under the former regime. Hla Swe, an upper house MP for...
View ArticleDemocratic Voice of Burma: Activists slam Chinese pipeline as project goes...
As natural gas began flowing from Burma’s western coast to energy-hungry China earlier this week, activists from NGOs claim that local populations are still being sidelined by the project’s developers....
View ArticleAssociated Press: 14 Muslim Rohingya from Burma on trial for brawl in Indonesia
A group of 14 Muslim asylum seekers from Burma went on trial Wednesday after a deadly brawl at an Indonesian detention center left eight Buddhist fishermen from their country dead. The violence...
View ArticleThe Irrawaddy: Activists boycott silver jubilee for 88 uprising
A group of Burmese activists is boycotting a Silver Jubilee event next week to commemorate the country’s 1988 pro-democracy uprising because former military generals from the government have been...
View ArticleThe Irrawaddy: Political prisoner pledge, government actions don’t align:...
President Thein Sein reiterated a promise this week that Burma’s jails would be free of political prisoners by the end of the year, a pledge that a prominent activist says is doubtful unless...
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