Tag: Rakhine State

Rohingya Muslim Ayamar Bagon has lived on handouts since her husband left her after she told him she was gang-raped ...

Myanmar is still using the same "tactics" to silence its people as the former junta, the UN's rights envoy said ...

Five years have passed since Hla Hla Sein was forced into a displacement camp in western Myanmar for Rohingya Muslims, ...

Hemmed in by Myanmar security forces and menaced by abductions and killings, Rohingya Muslims in a conflict-scarred corner of Rakhine ...

Three people, including two teenage boys, were killed by an explosion in Myanmar's restive Rakhine state on Saturday, a police ...

Bangladesh police have arrested a man suspected of murdering two Rohingya leaders in the country's southeast where tens of thousands ...

US Ambassador Nikki Haley on Monday ramped up pressure on the Myanmar government to accept a UN fact-finding mission tasked ...

Nearly half a million Rohingya refugees from Myanmar living in squalid Bangladeshi camps face staying "for some more time", the ...

A Rohingya Muslim was stoned to death and six others wounded by a mob of Buddhists in the capital of ...

Huddled under umbrellas to escape a thundering monsoon downpour, dozens of Muslims stood in line at a Yangon mosque for ...

Myanmar security forces have killed three people in raids on "terrorist" training camps run by Rohingya Muslim militants in the ...

Myanmar's censors have barred a documentary on festering religious tensions between Buddhists and Rohingya Muslims in Rakhine state, a film ...

The UN rights council on Tuesday named a three-person team to probe alleged atrocities against Myanmar's Rohingya Muslims, a key ...

Myanmar's army on Tuesday cleared itself of allegations that troops may have carried out ethnic cleansing of Rohingya Muslims, but ...

A senior European Union official has urged Myanmar to allow full aid access to the north of Rakhine state, where ...

Four Myanmar nationalists were held on Friday for inciting violence during anti-Rohingya protests in Yangon last year, after a week ...

Myanmar's army chief defended his military's violent crackdown on Rohingya Muslims by comparing it to Britain's campaign to tackle sectarian ...

Yangon police arrested several Buddhist nationalists Thursday for inciting violence after at least one man was left injured in a ...

Police in Myanmar fired warning shots to break up scuffles between Buddhist nationalists and Muslims in Myanmar's biggest city in ...

The Vatican and Myanmar established full diplomatic relations on Thursday in the latest step in the former pariah Asian state's ...