Burma: The fight for democracy
Aug 9, 2010
US President Barack Obama urges Myanmar to stop violence against Muslims
Reuters | Tuesday May 21, 2013
President Barack Obama urged the president of Myanmar on Monday to take steps to halt violence against Muslims in his country and move ahead with economic and political reforms.
Myanmar on alert as Bay of Bengal cyclone grows
Agence France-Presse | Saturday May 11, 2013
Myanmar's authorities were on alert on Saturday as a cyclone threatened to hit the west of the country where around 140,000 people displaced by communal violence languish in flood-prone camps.
Myanmar violence: houses torched, 10 injured
Associated Press | Wednesday May 1, 2013
Buddhist mobs hurling bricks overran a pair of mosques and set hundreds of homes ablaze in central Myanmar on Tuesday, injuring at least 10 people in the latest anti-Muslim violence to shake the Southeast Asian nation.
European Union lifts Myanmar sanctions despite human rights concerns
Reuters | Tuesday April 23, 2013
The European Union agreed on Monday to lift all sanctions on Myanmar, except for an arms embargo, despite a Human Rights Watch report which accused authorities of complicity in the mass killing of Muslims in the west of the country last year.
Myanmar court jails Muslim shop owners after anti-Muslim riots
Agence France-Presse | Friday April 12, 2013
A Muslim businessman, his wife and an employee have been sentenced to prison after an altercation at their gold shop led to anti-Muslim riots in which at least 43 people were killed in Myanmar last month.
Myanmar Buddhist, Muslim refugees clash in Indonesia, eight dead
Reuters | Saturday April 6, 2013
Muslim and Buddhist refugees from Myanmar clashed at a refugee camp in Indonesia on Friday in a riot in which eight people were killed and 15 were wounded, media reported.
Muslims vanish as Buddhist attacks approach Myanmar's biggest city
Reuters | Friday March 29, 2013
The Muslims of Sit Kwin were always a small group who numbered no more than 100 of the village's 2,000 people. But as sectarian violence led by Buddhist mobs spreads across central Myanmar, they and many other Muslims are disappearing.
Fresh communal clashes rock central Myanmar
Agence France-Presse | Sunday March 24, 2013
Dozens of houses and a mosque have been torched as communal violence spread in central Myanmar, officials said Sunday, defying authorities' efforts to quell deadly clashes between Buddhists and Muslims.
UN Myanmar envoy visits ruined city after violence
Associated Press | Sunday March 24, 2013
The United Nations' top envoy to Myanmar on Sunday toured a central city that was destroyed in the country's worst explosion of Buddhist-Muslim violence this year, visiting some of the nearly 10,000 people forced from their homes after unrest left do...
Myanmar army patrols central city after violence
Associated Press | Saturday March 23, 2013
Myanmar's army took control of a ruined central city on Saturday that was placed under martial law after several days of clashes between Buddhists and Muslims killed dozens of people and left scores of buildings in flames in the worst sectarian blood...
State of emergency declared in Myanmar town
Associated Press | Friday March 22, 2013
Myanmar President Thein Sein has declared a state of emergency in a central town where at least 20 people have been killed in violence between Buddhists and Muslims.
Death toll rises to 20 in Myanmar religious riots
Associated Press | Friday March 22, 2013
Two days of rioting between Buddhists and Muslims in a central Myanmar town has killed at least 20 and left residents too afraid to walk the streets, a lawmaker said on Friday.
United Nations calls on Myanmar to offer citizenship to Rohingya
Agence France-Presse | Friday November 9, 2012
The UN human rights chief called on Myanmar on Friday to allow Muslim Rohingya to become citizens after deadly sectarian violence in recent months in the western state of Rakhine.
Fear, mistrust grip Myanmar's volatile Rakhine region
Reuters | Tuesday October 30, 2012
As security forces police the edgy aftermath of sectarian bloodshed in western Myanmar, fearful Buddhists and Muslims are arming themselves with homemade weapons, testing the government's resolve to prevent a new wave of violence.
Death toll reaches over 100 in Myanmar ethnic strife
Associated Press | Friday October 26, 2012
The death toll from recent ethnic violence in Myanmar's western state of Rakhine has surpassed 100, an official said Friday, as the government warned that the strife risks harming the country's reputation as it seeks to install democratic rule.
