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Myanmar jails 7 Muslims for up to 28 years for riots

Agence France-PresseMay 21, 2013 04:45

Myanmar on Tuesday sentenced seven Muslims to prison terms ranging from two to 28 years in connection with religious violence in March that left dozens of people dead, a justice official said. The defendants, who were spared the death penalty, were accused of the murder of a Buddhist monk in the central town of Meiktila that sparked unrest across the region, mostly targeting Muslims.

Bangladesh cleans up after killer cyclone

Agence France-PresseMay 17, 2013 07:15

Bangladesh and Myanmar cleaned up on Friday after a killer cyclone wrecked thousands of homes, relieved that the damage was not much worse after the storm weakened as it made landfall. At least 46 people were either killed by Cyclone Mahasen or while trying to flee its impact, including 31 Muslim Rohingya whose bodies washed up on the shores of Bangladesh after their boat capsized while sailing from Myanmar.

58 missing after Myanmar boat capsizes: state media

Agence France-PresseMay 14, 2013 12:04

Fifty-eight Rohingya Muslims are missing after their boat capsized off the Myanmar coast as they tried to flee a looming cyclone, state media reported Tuesday. The boat, which got into trouble on Monday night, was one of seven vessels carrying Rohingya to higher ground from a camp in Pauktaw township in Rakhine state, according to state television. "The rescue operation is ongoing because 58 people are still missing," it said, adding that 42 people had been rescued. hla/dla/ami

Boats carrying more than 100 Rohingya Muslims capsize off Myanmar; 42 known survivors

The Canadian PressMay 14, 2013 06:00

SITTWE, Myanmar - Several overcrowded boats carrying more than 100 Rohingya Muslims trying to escape an approaching cyclone have capsized off the coast of western Myanmar. The United Nations says only 42 are known to have survived. The U.N.'s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said Tuesday that eight bodies have been found and more than 50 other people who were aboard are feared dead.

Muslims in Myanmar barricade village as attacks spread

Thomson ReutersMay 7, 2013 10:35

By Jared Ferrie WIN KITE, Myanmar (Reuters) - Three Muslim men peered over a bamboo fence built recently to fortify their village in central Myanmar. They gazed across dry rice paddies towards a nearby Buddhist community, looking for rising dust, a sign of an approaching mob.

Police arrest two in new anti-Muslim unrest in Myanmar

Agence France-PresseMay 4, 2013 06:30

Two Buddhists have been arrested after Muslim shops were destroyed in northern Kachin State, police said Saturday, in a new outbreak of religious violence. Myanmar is in the grip of acute religious tension after a deadly wave of unrest in March that saw monks and Buddhist mobs attack Muslim areas in violence that has edged towards the country's main city Yangon.

Indonesia radicals urge 'Myanmar jihad' as bomb plot foiled

Agence France-PresseMay 3, 2013 07:00

Two Indonesians have been detained over a plot to bomb the Myanmar embassy in Jakarta, officials said Friday, as radicals rallying in the city called for "jihad in Myanmar" to avenge Muslim deaths. The incidents highlight the growing anger in Muslim-majority Indonesia over a string of religious clashes in largely-Buddhist Myanmar that have left many minority Muslims dead and tens of thousands displaced.

Indonesia radicals urge 'Myanmar jihad' as bomb plot foiled

Agence France-PresseMay 3, 2013 05:45

Two Indonesians have been detained over a plot to bomb the Myanmar embassy in Jakarta, officials said Friday, as radicals rallying in the city called for "jihad in Myanmar" to avenge Muslim deaths. The incidents highlight the growing anger in Muslim-majority Indonesia over a string of religious clashes in largely-Buddhist Myanmar, that have left many minority Muslims dead and tens of thousands displaced.

Indonesia holds two suspects over Myanmar embassy plot

Agence France-PresseMay 3, 2013 01:45

Indonesian anti-terrorist police have detained two men suspected of planning a bomb attack on the Myanmar embassy in Jakarta on Friday in the wake of fresh violence against Muslims in Myanmar, officials said. The suspects were arrested late Thursday travelling by motorbike in a busy residential area in the south of the capital with five assembled pipe bombs, national police spokesman Boy Rafli Amar said in a statement.

Muslim faces blasphemy rap after Myanmar unrest

Agence France-PresseMay 2, 2013 07:15

Police in Myanmar, where mobs this week desecrated mosques and burned homes, said Thursday they would charge a Muslim woman for blasphemy after she apparently collided with a young monk on the street, sparking the unrest. Win Win Sein and another Muslim woman were detained by police in Oakkan, around 100 kilometres (60 miles) north of Yangon, following anti-Muslim attacks on Monday that left one dead. "Altogether 21 people will be charged over their involvement in the violence," said a local police official, who said calm had been restored.