Connect to share and comment

Myanmar president calls for end to communal violence

Agence France-PresseMay 20, 2013 17:30
Myanmar President Thein Sein urged Monday for an end to intercommunal violence and discrimination after hearing a call from US President Barack Obama to put a stop to anti-Muslim attacks. In a speech after his landmark White House meeting, the leader of the former pariah nation said he wanted a "more inclusive national identity" but did not directly mention the plight of the beleaguered Rohingya community. "Myanmar people of all ethnic backgrounds and all faiths -- Buddhists, Muslims, Christians and others -- must feel part of this new national identity," he said.

Dozens of Rohingya missing off Myanmar as cyclone looms

Agence France-PresseMay 14, 2013 08:15
Dozens of Rohingya Muslims are missing after their boats capsized off Myanmar as they fled a looming cyclone, police said Tuesday, amid fears tens of thousands of displaced people are in the path of the storm. About seven vessels hit trouble on Monday night after leaving Pauktaw township in Rakhine state in search of safety, according to a Myanmar police official in the capital Naypyidaw.

Top Pakistan diplomat to visit 'critical' prisoner in India

Agence France-PresseMay 6, 2013 01:45
Pakistan's top diplomat in New Delhi is to pay a hospital visit Monday to a Pakistani prisoner who was critically injured in an attack by an inmate in an Indian jail, officials said. Convicted murderer Sanaullah Ranjay suffered multiple head injuries in a prison in India's northern city of Jammu in an apparent tit-for-tat attack after an Indian prisoner, Sarabjit Singh, was fatally assaulted in Pakistan. Last week, Ranjay was airlifted to a government hospital in the city of Chandigarh, 250 kilometers (155 miles) north of New Delhi.

Myanmar's strife-torn region needs aid, troops

Agence France-PresseApril 29, 2013 08:28
Myanmar should urgently help tens of thousands of Muslims displaced by deadly religious unrest in the western state of Rakhine and flood the area with troops to stem further conflict, a report said Monday. A commission set up by the government in response to waves of fighting that left around 200 dead in Rakhine last year said the "temporary separation" of Buddhist and Muslim communities should continue in the state, where 140,000 people remain homeless.

Myanmar's strife-torn region needs aid, troops

Agence France-PresseApril 29, 2013 08:15
Myanmar should urgently help tens of thousands of Muslims displaced by deadly religious unrest in western Rakhine State and flood the area with troops to stem further conflict, an official report said Monday. A commission set up by the government in response to waves of fighting that left around 200 dead in Rakhine last year said the "temporary separation" of Buddhist and Muslim communities should continue in the state, where 140,000 people remain homeless.

Indonesian president urges Myanmar to address Muslim violence

April 23, 2013 02:15
By Jason Szep and John O'Callaghan SINGAPORE (Reuters) - The president of Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim country, said on Tuesday he would urge Myanmar's leaders to address Buddhist-led violence against Muslims that he said could cause problems for Muslims elsewhere in the region.

HRW accuses Myanmar of 'ethnic cleansing'

Agence France-PresseApril 22, 2013 17:47
Myanmar has waged "a campaign of ethnic cleansing" against Rohingya Muslims, a top rights watchdog said Monday, citing evidence of mass graves and forced displacement affecting tens of thousands. The Rohingya, who are denied citizenship by the country also known as Burma, have faced crimes against humanity including murder, persecution, deportation and forced transfer, New York-based Human Rights Watch said.

HRW accuses Myanmar of 'ethnic cleansing'

Agence France-PresseApril 22, 2013 04:15
Myanmar has waged "a campaign of ethnic cleansing" against Rohingya Muslims, a top rights watchdog said Monday, citing evidence of mass graves and forced displacement affecting tens of thousands. The Rohingya, who are denied citizenship by the country also known as Burma, have faced crimes against humanity including murder, persecution, deportation and forced transfer, New York-based Human Rights Watch said.

Myanmar authorities accused of aiding killings of Muslims

April 22, 2013 02:00
By Paul Carsten BANGKOK (Reuters) - Human Rights Watch on Monday accused authorities in Myanmar's western Rakhine State of crimes against humanity in the ethnic cleansing of Rohingya Muslims last year, charges the government dismissed as one-sided and "unacceptable". Security forces were complicit in disarming Rohingya Muslims of makeshift weapons and standing by, or even joining in, as Rakhine Buddhist mobs killed men, women and children in June and October 2012, New York-based HRW said.

Once a landlord’s serf, a woman enters election fray

April 15, 2013 16:04
When Veero Kolhi made the asset declaration required of candidates for Pakistan’s May elections, she listed the following items: two beds, five mattresses, cooking pots and a bank account with life savings of Rs 2,800. While she may lack the fortune that is the customary entry ticket to Pakistani politics, Kolhi can make a claim that may resonate more powerfully with poor voters than the wearily familiar promises of her rivals. For Kolhi embodies a new phenomenon on the campaign trail - she is the first contestant to have escaped the thrall of a feudal-style land owner who forc
Syndicate content