A state official in Burma’s troubled Arakan state has threatened to demolish Muslim schools, homes and mosques — claiming that the structures were built illegally — in a move that could further ...
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 ...
European Commission officials visit camps for internally displaced Rohingyas in Burma. (Credit: Evangelos Petratos EU/ECHO, Pauktaw via Flickr.) Listen WASHINGTON D.C. – Rohingya Muslims in Burma, as ...
On 29 March 2017, the Facebook group "Video Live" published a video purportedly showing dozens of Muslim men being tortured in a near-underwater cage in Burma: These Muslims of Burma tortured just ...
A Comedy Festival in Saudi Arabia Is Fundamentally Unfunny — and Unfree Japan’s New Female Leader Faces Tired Feminist Critiques The Saintly Mother Teresa Audio By Carbonatix President Obama stood ...
MinnPost’s reporting is always free, but it isn’t free to produce. We rely on donations from our readers to fund our independent journalism. Buddhist families from Bangladesh are quietly crossing the ...
In the warren of streets surrounding Yangon’s Sule Pagoda, one of Myanmar’s oldest and holiest Buddhist sites, lie a church, a Hindu temple, and a handful of mosques, one of which dates back more than ...
When a ship crammed with 2,200 tons of rice, emergency supplies and aid-workers tried to dock at Yangon port on 10 February, it arrived to protests by hard-line Buddhists. The aid was from Malaysia, ...
The United States on Wednesday labeled as “ethnic cleansing" the Burma military operation against Rohingya Muslims that has sent over 600,000 refugees flooding into Bangladesh, and said it would ...
It has been more than been two years since this town in Myanmar burned with the fires of deadly violence. Look closely, and there are haunting scars left behind. The shells of mosques still stand – ...
As United Nations special envoy Razali Ismail prepares to visit Burma in early August, pressure is growing from the international community and Burmese ethnic minority leaders to broaden the ongoing ...
Reporting from Mandalay, Myanmar — Myawady Sayadaw, a crimson-robed monk whose eyes dance behind round spectacles, casts himself as a genial warrior in Myanmar’s long struggle against military rule.
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