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The attack at around 10 p.m. on May 17 was the latest of many bouts of violence against the Rohingya, Myanmar’s largely Muslim ethnic minority group, which suffered what the U.N. called ...
"Myanmar:The Politics of Rakhine State" (PDF). International Crisis Group. 22 October 2014. Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 November 2014; Islamic Unity Brotherhood ; Karen Human Rights Group report, "Easy Target: The Persecution of Muslims in Burma" Myanmar Muslim Information Centre (MMIC)
During this time, peace initiative proposals by Wa State were rejected by the Myanmar government. [26] The government warned on 27 April 2010 that the WHP program could push Myanmar and Wa State into further conflict. [27] [clarification needed] In 2012, Wa State began a major road construction program to link all townships with asphalt roads.
Maung Maung writes from inside Myanmar about how he left his profession, his life, everything to escape the claws of the junta after they ousted Aung San Suu Kyi
On 31 May 2022, a bombing killed one person and injured nine others near the Sule Pagoda in Yangon, the largest city in Myanmar. State media accused the People's Defence Force of being responsible for the attack, which the PDF denied. [163] A July clash in Pekon Township, Shan State also killed around 40 SAC soldiers and 11 PDF fighters. [164]
A powerful ethnic minority armed group battling Myanmar's army in the country's west claimed Monday to have taken hundreds of government soldiers prisoner when it captured a major command post.
The Rohingya conflict is an ongoing conflict in the northern part of Rakhine State, Myanmar (formerly known as Arakan, Burma), [37] characterised by sectarian violence between the Rohingya Muslim and Rakhine Buddhist communities, a military crackdown on Rohingya civilians by Myanmar's security forces, [38] [39] [40] and militant attacks by Rohingya insurgents in Buthidaung, Maungdaw, and ...
Six years later, as the Myanmar military bore down on the Rohingya, Min Aung Hlaing held a widely publicised security meeting with Buddhist community leaders in Rakhine state, the site of the 2017 ...