Nearly 100 religious buildings have been destroyed in two regions and two states in Myanmar more than a year after the military seized control from the elected government and plunged the Southeast Asian country into chaos and violence, according to data compiled by RFA. The 97 religious buildings that have been demolished since the Feb.
At least seven young Myanmar men and women from Tanintharyi region and Rakhine state have received long prison terms for donating money — U.S. $8 or less in a few cases — to opponents of the military junta that has ruled the country for 13 months, their lawyers and anti-junta activists told RFA. Military authorities
Homes, other residential or commercial property seized Junta authorities have on the other hand stepped up their confiscation of property owned by opposition figures, with almost 100 houses coming from National League for Democracy (NLD) members took within the last 13 months, 60 of them taken since the beginning of 2022, NLD sources say. Authorities
The International Court of Justice (ICJ) is holding hearings this week to figure out whether it has jurisdiction to evaluate if atrocities committed by the Myanmar armed force against Rohingya Muslims made up a genocide. The West African nation of Gambia filed a case at the ICJ in November 2019 implicating Myanmar of breaching the
” Therefore, we have actually asked Myanmar to send out a non-political agent rather. We motivate Myanmar to be represented at the retreat by a non-political figure, rather than leaving the seat empty. It is up to Myanmar to choose,” he included. The retreat is set for Feb. 16. Reported by RFAs Khmer Service and
” I do not believe that minilateralism will be as destructive to ASEAN as some may believe. Foster brotherhood. Distinctions with ASEAN have actually been on display screen in current weeks over Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen radical effort to solve the crisis in Myanmar. Recently he lashed out against his Malaysian equivalent for slamming
Bangladeshi government authorities this week had their very first meeting with Burmese junta agents on the problem of repatriating Rohingya refugees who are sheltering in Bangladesh. The repatriation talks, the very first in more than a year, have been moving at a snails rate because more than 700,000 of Myanmars stateless Rohingya ethnic minority left
Construction workers in Myanmars mall Yangon are moving in large numbers to the countrys western Rakhine state as jobs dry up in the house due to political instability following in 2015s military coup, sources say. Formerly torn by violent ethnic clashes that saw thousands of the states Rohingya ethnic minority expelled to Bangladesh, Rakhine is
Protesters burn a photo of Myanmars military chief Min Aung Hlaing during a demonstration against the military coup in Yangon, Nov. 10, 2021. Credit: AFP. A year earlier, the commander-in-chief of Myanmars military staged a coup detat, damaging hopes for democratic reform and pitching the country into turmoil. Today, the military is sticking to power
The choice by Myanmars ruling junta to charge more than 2,000 former government authorities and election workers with citizen scams is just another form of political revenge against the National League for Democracy-led government the military overthrew early in 2015, observers and experts say. The plan revealed on Jan. 14 by Khin Maung Oo, a
