Les musulmans, une minorité,, qui représente 4 % des 55 millions de Birmans, est de nouveau victime de véritables pogroms perpétrés par la population bouddhiste. "Ces groupes de civils bouddhistes ont été fanatisés par une minorité de moines
Tag : Ethnics
La Birmanie au bord de l’apartheid ?
Wednesday, March 27 2013
L’apprentissage de la démocratie se fait dans la douleur. Largement contenues sous le régime de la junte, les violences interreligieuses se multiplient depuis un an et ont redoublé d’intensité ce week-end. Les premiers troubles ont éclaté le 20 mars
Burmese forces in Kachin : continuing abuses ?
Saturday, March 2 2013
A Kachin rights group says Burmese forces are continuing to block humanitarian aid, use civilians for forced labor and reinforce military positions in the war-torn northern state. The Kachin Peace Network claims that three medical supply trucks of
Kachin children express uncertainty
Monday, February 25 2013
Dozens of children documented the lives of their families and friends, among more than 900 Kachin villagers who fled to the camp in June last year when fighting broke out in their communities. Organized by Insight Out!, an international group of
First publication in the Mon language
Thursday, February 14 2013
The Than Lwin Times will include news in the Mon language starting from February 12. “This is a trial run of our journal as private daily papers and ethnic language publications will be allowed from April,” said the journal's editor Min Min Nwe. “In
Doctors Without Borders warned of a "humanitarian emergency"
Thursday, February 7 2013
Medical aid agency Doctors Without Borders warned of a "humanitarian emergency" in strife-hit western Myanmar with tens of thousands of people unable to access urgently needed medical care. Its teams on the ground in Rakhine State faced
Burma is still failing basic rights tests
Friday, February 1 2013
Over the past year, the Burmese government released nearly 400 political prisoners, relaxed media censorship, and permitted opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi and her National League for Democracy party to assume the 43 parliamentary seats it won in
HR violations conducted under the Unlawful Associations Act
Monday, January 21 2013
The Asian Human Rights Commission released a special dossier of recent cases of arrest, detention, torture and extortion carried out by Burma military and police personnel in Kachin State. The 36 cases from 2012 have all been conducted under the
2013-2015 : la transition birmane se joue vraiment
Sunday, January 20 2013
En termes de libertés publiques, la Birmanie a fait un bon gigantesque. De plus mauvais élève de l’ASEAN (l’Association des Nations de l’Asie du sud-est), la Birmanie est en passe de devenir un modèle pour ses voisins. Malheureusement, le changement
Local burmese NGOs want to go forward.
Sunday, January 20 2013
The challenge of development is complex, but for director of the Karen Women’s Action Group (KWAG), the focus should start at a local level, with efforts to educate and empower women in the southeastern state. “Women play an important role in
Le conflit en région Kachin
Wednesday, January 16 2013
Si l’on en juge par les moyens militaires déployés – avions, hélicoptères munis de mitrailleuses -, l’objectif de l’armée birmane est de capturer le quartier général de la KIA, à Laiza, près de la frontière avec la Chine, et de réduire par la force
Rohingya : a long history of discrimination
Saturday, January 12 2013
It is no coincidence that the current crisis in Rakhine State in Burma has taken place against the back-drop of Burma’s widely hailed, yet still fragile, democratic reform process, the beginnings of which were marked by the elections of 2010. The
La résistance des Mons
Saturday, January 5 2013
Ce groupe armé est celui des Mons, un petit peuple du sud de la Birmanie qui, il y a des lustres, fonda un puissant royaume. Dispersés dans les régions méridionales du Myanmar - nom officiel de la Birmanie -, ils sont encore trois millions. Si guère
Les chefs de guerre kachins ont intérêt à faire perdurer l'état de conflit.
Saturday, January 5 2013
Dans l’extrême nord de la Birmanie, le conflit s’intensifie entre l’armée régulière et les rebelles kachins qui refusent de quitter leur quartier général implanté sur la frontière chinoise à une dizaine de kilomètres de la ville de Laiza. Après 17
10 000 boat people
Saturday, January 5 2013
Près de 500 Rohingyas ont accosté, le 30 décembre, en Malaisie. 10.000 d’entre eux auraient ainsi fui la Birmanie ces trois derniers mois. Les organisations de défense des droits de l’homme l’avaient annoncé : l’éruption de violences
Constructing bunkers for protection from possible air attacks
Sunday, December 30 2012
Kachin people in Laiza township, where the headquarters of KIO/KIA is located, are now constructing air-raid shelters and bunkers for protection from the possible air attacks of government air force. Some civilians are also taking shelters in the
Rakhine conflict : women and children suffer the most
Saturday, December 22 2012
Women and children suffer the most in the wake of Rakhine conflict, said the Rakhine Women’s Network in Sittwe. It said that security and health conditions in the state have not yet returned to normal. In addition, the conflict has made Rakhine women
Sexual violence continues in Shan State
Saturday, December 22 2012
For decades, mothers and daughters in Burma’s border areas have lived on high alert. While ethnic rebels in their homelands fought bloody wars with government troops, women of all ages were vulnerable to human rights abuses, including rape and other
Migrant Burmese in Thailand have to register
Saturday, December 22 2012
December 14 marks the deadline for migrant Burmese in Thailand to register at National Verification centers. Only migrants who have previously registered for the temporary ID card and migrant worker cards are eligible to register. Estimates vary
A toxic mix of guns, drugs, money and politics.
Thursday, December 13 2012
Declining heroin and opium output from Afghanistan could provide strong cash incentives for Burma’s drug warlords to boost production, thereby threatening the further growth of a trade that is already considered a key component in Southeast Asia’s
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