The Landmine and Cluster Munition Monitor website issued an updated report on its website this week saying some 47 townships suffer from some degree of mine contamination, primarily from antipersonnel mines. Myanmar is also affected by explosive
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1,000 people sheltered in the church.
Tuesday, September 25 2012
Pastor Naw Ja said about 150 refugees arrived at shelters after they were forced to flee their homes when fighting broke out between the KIA’s 6th Battalion and government troops on 22 and 23 September. Currently, there are about 1,000 people being
Burmese refugees in Thailand : HRW report
Saturday, September 15 2012
The 143-page report, “Ad Hoc and Inadequate: Thailand’s Treatment of Refugees and Asylum Seekers,” finds that Thai refugee policies are not grounded in law and cause refugees of all nationalities to be exploited and unnecessarily detained and
Forced labour continues in Arakan state
Saturday, September 15 2012
The Burmese army and border guard forces have forcibly recruited Rohingyas, including children, to reconstruct villages burnt down in June’s violence, after a brief hiatus in the use of forced labour, according to the rights group the Arakan Project.
The Rakhine Investigation Commission
Monday, September 10 2012
The Rakhine Investigation Commission will make their first official visit to Rakhine State later this week for nine days, an official said this week. Following the trip, the commission will recruit and train people to collect data that will aid its
The recruitment and use of children by armed forces continues
Monday, September 3 2012
The recruitment and use of children by the military and other armed actors in Myanmar continues to occur despite the dramatic and welcome pace of other changes in the country over the past year. The Myanmar military and other armed groups have
Kachin State : at least 90,000 civilians displaced
Thursday, August 30 2012
Hostilities have been escalating in Burma’s northern Kachin State since early this week with community-based organizations saying that at least 90,000 civilians have been displaced so far. More locals have been fleeing their homes this week and the
Human Rights violations continue in Karen State
Tuesday, August 28 2012
PHR’s report – Bitter Wounds and Lost Dreams: Human Rights Under Assault in Karen State, Burma – provides a snapshot of ongoing abuses against Karen people and communities in the country’s mountainous eastern region bordering Thailand, where the army
Malaysian NGO aid to displaced Rohingyas
Tuesday, August 28 2012
The Kelab Putera 1Malaysia (KP1M) is preparing to send food supplies and aid to displaced Rohingyas from Myanmar, who are currently forced to stay in refugee camps south of Bangladesh, sometime next week. The club planned to deliver a load of 480
China forced Kachin refugees to return
Saturday, August 25 2012
China is flouting its international legal obligations by forcibly returning Kachin refugees to an active conflict zone rife with Burmese army abuses, During the week of August 19, 2012, Chinese authorities forcibly returned at least 1,000 Kachin
Bangladesh should open its borders to Burmese Rohingya
Thursday, August 23 2012
Bangladesh should immediately cease its punitive restrictions on international organizations providing lifesaving humanitarian aid to the more than 200,000 Rohingya Muslims in Bangladesh. The government should also open its borders to Rohingya
Rohingya : the Government could have stopped this
Wednesday, August 1 2012
Burmese security forces committed killings, rape, and mass arrests against Rohingya Muslims after failing to protect both them and Arakan Buddhists during deadly sectarian violence in western Burma in June 2012. Government restrictions on
Karen network in Europe calling for new efforts
Saturday, July 21 2012
More than 100 Karen from various communities across Europe have met to discuss the political situation in Burma and called for renewed efforts to achieve peace and increased aid to Karen refugees, The network welcomed the recent cease-fire agreement
Rohingya : repeal the 1982 Citizenship Law
Friday, July 20 2012
Abuses against Rohingya erode human rights progress, Amnesty International said. “It is the duty of security forces to defend the rights of everyone – without exception or discrimination – from abuses by others, while abiding by human rights
UN Denied entry to 30 Kachin camps
Wednesday, July 4 2012
Local Kachin groups told that the Burmese army is preventing UN aid agencies from transporting humanitarian supplies to 30 refugee camps sheltering thousands of Kachins who are now facing severe food shortages. “The UN convoys were only permitted to
In China, Kachin Refugees Lack Aid, Face Abuses
Wednesday, June 27 2012
Several thousand ethnic Kachin refugees from Burma are isolated in Yunnan, China, where they are at risk of return to a conflict zone and lack needed humanitarian aid. “China has no legitimate reason to push them back to Burma or to leave them
Rohingyas are the Roma of Asia
Saturday, June 23 2012
The 800,000-strong Rohingya are pariahs: they are stateless, and pejoratively called “Bengalis” by the Burmese, who consider them to be refugees from neighbouring Bangladesh. But those who have tried to flee by boat to Bangladesh, where they are
Clashes between Buddhists and a Muslim minority
Saturday, June 16 2012
France 24 exclusive report : Our Burmese Observers describe clashes between Buddhists and a Muslim minority This past week, the Rohingya have increasingly been denounced as “illegal immigrants”, “invaders” and “terrorists”, both online and across
Rohingyas : largely unwanted
Friday, June 15 2012
Asia’s more than one million ethnic Rohingya Muslims are considered by rights groups to be among the most persecuted people on Earth. Most live in an anachronistic purgatory without passports, unable to travel freely or call any place home. The
100 battalions deployed in Kachin State
Friday, June 8 2012
While ceasefire negotiations are taking place in some ethnic areas, attacks continue in Kachin State, Northern Burma. The Burma Army is pressing its attacks in Kachin State with over 100 battalions deployed. There are over 50,000 Kachin people
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