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Two days later, on 23 October, over 80 people were killed by an airstrike in Hpakant Township, Northern Myanmar, during an anniversary celebration for the Kachin Independence Organisation (KIO). At least 80 civilians were killed, making it the single deadliest attack on civilians since the start of the renewed civil war. [ 209 ]
The Rohingya genocide is a series of ongoing persecutions and killings of the Muslim Rohingya people by the military of Myanmar.The genocide has consisted of two phases [3] [4] to date: the first was a military crackdown that occurred from October 2016 to January 2017, and the second has been occurring since August 2017. [5]
Aung San Suu Kyi has commented on the possibility of her party's forced dissolution saying, "Our party grew out of the people so it will exist as long as people support it." [ 35 ] In January 2022, the junta reversed its plan to dissolve the NLD, with spokesman Zaw Min Tun saying that the NLD will decide whether to stand in the 2023 election ...
[7] [22] The Rohingyas have lived in Myanmar for generations and the Bangladesh government has called on Myanmar to take them back. [23] They are denied citizenship in Myanmar and have been described as the world's most persecuted minority. [24] [25] Myanmar has denied persecuting the Rohingyas. [26] Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh in October 2017
Myanmar, [d] officially the Republic of the Union of Myanmar [e] and also rendered as Burma (the official English form until 1989), is a country in northwest Southeast Asia.It is the largest country by area in Mainland Southeast Asia and has a population of about 55 million. [18]
The Myanmar Police Force, formally known as The People's Police Force (Burmese: ပြည်သူ့ရဲတပ်ဖွဲ့; MLCTS: Pyi Thu Yae Tup Pwe), was established in 1964 as independent department under the Ministry of Home Affairs. It was reorganised on 1 October 1995 and informally become part of the Tatmadaw.
In 2017, the military carried out a crackdown on Rohingya people in Rakhine State; in 2022, the US Secretary of State determined that members of the Burmese military had committed genocide and crimes against humanity against the Rohingya people. [4] An estimated 1.6 million Rohingya have fled to Bangladesh, Thailand and India; by the end of ...
The British seized the southern third of today's Karen State (below the Salween River), after the First Anglo-Burmese War (1824-1826), and the rest after the Second Anglo-Burmese War of 1852. Towards the end of the British colonial era (1945-1948), the Karen leadership insisted on a separate state covering today's Karen State, much of Mon State ...