Myanmar

YemenExtra The United Nations Special Rapporteur, Yangyi Lee, who is said to be resigning her position soon, confirmed, Wednesday, that the Burmese army is committing new war crimes against Muslims in Rakhine and Chen in Myanmar. …

YemenExtra M.A. Myanmar authorities have lured dozens of mainly Buddhist Bangladeshi tribal families to resettle on land abandoned by persecuted Rohingya Muslims. Local officials said on Monday that the families were being "lured…

YemenExtra M.A. Britain's Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson has strongly urged Myanmar's State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi to allow an independent investigation into the violence in troubled Rakhine state, as the Southeast Asian…

YemenExtra M.A. The government in Myanmar is using food as a quiet weapon against minority Rohingya Muslims in the country’s troubled west, new reports reveal. In an exclusive report released on Wednesday, the Associated Press…

YemenExtra M.A. The Associated Press has confirmed the discovery of more than five new mass graves in Rohingya Muslim villages in Myanmar where the military and Buddhist mobs have been running amok in a campaign of death and…

YemenExtra M.A. A veteran US diplomat has resigned from an international advisory panel on the Rohingya Muslim crisis set up by Myanmar, denouncing it as a “whitewash and a cheerleading operation” for the government of the country’s…

YemenExtra M.A. Hundreds of Rohingya Muslim refugees in Bangladesh have protested a joint plan to repatriate them to Myanmar, where they have faced a bloody crackdown by military forces and extremist Buddhists. The refugees, living…

YemenExtra The international medical charity Doctors Without Borders says at least 6,700 members of the persecuted Rohingya Muslim minority group were killed in state-sponsored violence in Myanmar only in a period of one month…

YemenExtra M.A. A new investigation reveals that Rohingya Muslim women have been subjected to “methodical” and “sweeping” rape by Myanmar’s military forces in Rakhine State, where a government-backed ethnic cleansing campaign has been…

YemenExtra M.A. The Israeli regime has continued to sell advanced weaponry worth tens of millions of dollars to Myanmar even after a deadly government-sanctioned military campaign against Rohingya civilians in the Southeast Asian…