Tag: burma
US urges Russia to reconsider fighter aircraft deal
MOSCOW: The United States on January 25 urged Moscow to reconsider an agreement to supply Russian fighter planes to Burma, the Southeast Asian country...
Angelina Jolie condemns sexual violence against Rohingya women refugees
Hollywood film star Angelina Jolie has condemned sexual violence inflicted on Rohingya women in Myanmar’s Rakhine State, where a military counter-insurgency operation has sent...
City of Oxford strips Aung San Suu Kyi of human rights...
LONDON: Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi has been stripped of a human rights award by the City of Oxford, where she was an...
UNSC calls emergency meeting to discuss Rohingya Muslims
The UN Security Council has called an emergency closed-door meeting tomorrow to discuss the deteriorating situation of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar.
An emergency meeting is...
Rohingya genocide in Rakhine triggering mass exodus: Bangladesh minister
BANGLADESH: Bangladesh’s foreign minister said on Sunday that genocide was being waged in Myanmar’s violence-racked Rakhine state, triggering an exodus of nearly 300,000 Muslim Rohingya...
Myanmar ‘to provide aid’ to displaced Rohingya inside country
YANGON: Camps will be set up to provide aid for displaced Muslims inside Rakhine state, state-backed media said Saturday, the first time in a 16-day...
Bangladesh hospitals overflowing with injured Rohingya
CHITTAGONG, BANGLADESH: Nurses at the Bangladeshi hospital treating 16-year-old Rohingya refugee Mohammad Junaed for a bullet wound have had to tie him to his bed...
US expresses concern over Rohingya crisis in Myanmar
The United States has expressed deep concern about the crisis in Myanmar and urged authorities to allow humanitarian access to Rakhine state.
State Department spokeswoman...
Over 0.3mn people sign petition asking to strip Suu Kyi of...
Over 3,035,000 people have signed a petition on Change.org demanding that the Nobel Peace Prize be taken back from Myanmar leader Aung San Suu...
