Less than one hundred days after Burma’s democratically elected government took office, the US State Department declared that it would put the country on its list of worst human trafficking… Read more…
Meet Ashin Wirathu, your everyday Buddhist monk who just so happens to be propagating anti-Muslim hate speech in Burma. Looks can be deceiving. Just like every run of the mill… Read more…
On July 22nd, I attended an event at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace on “Myanmar’s Ethnic, Communal, and Human Rights Challenges and the 2015 Elections.” The event was moderated… Read more…
Burma Burma has been hit by a monsoon and massive flooding. More than 150,000 people have been affected and 27 people have been confirmed dead, although the actual figure is… Read more…
Burma The National League for Democracy (NLD) has confirmed it will contest the upcoming elections despite their leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, remaining banned from becoming President. Suu Kyi said… Read more…
Burma The election has been set for November 8th. It is Burma’s first open general election in 25 years. The incumbent Union Solidarity and Democracy Party, led by President Thein… Read more…
Burma Responses have begun to the last week’s Parliamentary defeat of legislation that would remove what is effectively a military veto. Ethnic armed groups said the decision further damaged trust… Read more…
Burma Burma deported 37 Rohingya to Bangladesh. The people were found by the Burmese navy on a boat in the Bay of Bengal in May in an attempt to migrate…. Read more…
Burma The flow of Rohingya refugees has slowed since its peak a few weeks ago, but the problems still remain. Large numbers of Rohingya refugees, often transported in boats by… Read more…
Burma Sixteen Burmese soldiers were killed and over 100 wounded during fighting between the Burmese Army and the Kokang rebels of the Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army (MNDAA). The fighting… Read more…
