Since security forces swept into their villages in northwestern Myanmar late last year, around 75,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled across the nearby border to Bangladesh. Many now fear that the authorities in Myanmar could make their displacement (...)
Hundreds of Rohingya Muslims are fleeing a military crackdown in western Myanmar to Bangladesh, trying to escape an upsurge of violence that has brought the total number of dead confirmed by the army to more than 130.
Some of the Rohingya were (...)
Four years after fleeing religious riots that emptied her Muslim Rohingya neighborhood in Myanmar's Rakhine State, Myee Shay yearns for the trappings of a normal life: a job, a school for her children and the chance to buy her own food.
But the (...)
A team led by former UN chief Kofi Annan began to address the plight of Myanmar's persecuted Rohingya Muslims on Wednesday, meeting people displaced in communal violence that has raised concern about the country's commitment to human rights.
Myanmar (...)
Hundreds of Buddhists jeered former UN chief Kofi Annan as he arrived in Myanmar's troubled Rakhine state Tuesday to examine a bitter religious conflict that has displaced tens of thousands of Muslim Rohingya.
Annan has been tasked by the de facto (...)
Noor Bagum would have liked to have voted for Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy (NLD) but, like the majority of Myanmar's persecuted Rohingya Muslim minority, she took no part in the historic election the Nobel laureate won by a (...)
Several overcrowded boats carrying more than 100 Rohingya Muslims trying to escape an approaching cyclone have capsized off the coast of western Myanmar. The United Nations says only 42 are known to have survived.
The U.N.'s Office for the (...)
AlHijjah 13, 1433, Oct 29, 2012, SPA - The United Nations says the number of people displaced by ethnic and sectarian unrest in Myanmar last week has risen to 28,000.
U.N. Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator in Myanmar Ashok Nigam says the figure (...)
The United Nations says the number of people displaced by ethnic and sectarian unrest in Myanmar last week has risen to 28,000.
U.N. Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator in Myanmar Ashok Nigam says the figure is likely to rise because some people (...)
