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By U SHWE MAUNG - The New York Times NOV. 2, 2015 The world is watching Myanmar as election day nears. The governments of the United States and other countries, which view this contest as a potential watershed for democracy, hope that Sunday’s ...

International Day for Disaster Reduction (IDDR) and Rohingya Children Crisis

By Aman Ullah - KPN November 2, 2015 “The Rohingya Children Crisis as Grave Humanitarian Disaster of the Era and it is a highly vulnerable hour for humanity,” DESPO-Asia The United Nations’ (UN) International Day for Natural Disaster Reduction (IDDR) is annually observed ...

Genocide 'not the issue' in Myanmar

Nirmal Ghosh Indochina Bureau Chief 2 Nov 2015 A reputed international human rights group at Yale Law school in Connecticut in the United States has concluded there was "strong evidence'' that the Myanmar government was "responsible for genocide against Rohingya Muslims'' and called ...

Rape used as a weapon in Myanmar to ignite fear

By Amina Waheed | Al Jazeera 27 Oct 2015 It started with the allegation of a rape. A Buddhist woman, Phyu Phyu Min, filed a police report in Myanmar’s second largest city, Mandalay, charging that two Muslim co-workers raped her. Before long, a ...

How ethnic tension is deepening a health crisis on Myanmar's border with Bangladesh

Mike Ives, mosaic.com 25 Oct 2015 Two speakers send the Islamic call to prayer sailing across Thet Kal Pyin, a refugee camp less than 100 km from Myanmar’s border with Bangladesh. The call wafts over several neat rows of large, low-slung buildings ...

It’s not just Rohingya

KIRSTEN MCCONNACHIE - Arab News Tuesday 20 October 2015 This summer’s boat abandonments made the world aware of the plight faced by the Rohingya. This was important and overdue recognition of a desperate situation. However, the Rohingya are not Myanmar’s only refugees. Other ethnic ...

Will there be any Muslim MPs in Myanmar’s Parliament?

By Swe Win - Myanmar Now On Friday, 16 October 2015 A Mosque in Yangon near Sule. Photo: Hong Sar/Mizzima On Nov. 8, Myanmar will go to the polls in what has been billed as the first free and fair parliamentary election in 25 years, ...

Myanmar’s Refugee Problem: It’s Not Just the Rohingya

By Kirsten McConnachie - The Diplomat October 14, 2015 This article is part of “Southeast Asia: Refugees in Crisis,” an ongoing series by The Diplomat for summer and fall 2015 featuring exclusive articles from scholars and practitioners tackling Southeast Asia’s ongoing refugee crisis. ...

Rohingya Refugee Likely Back In Burma

BY ZSOMBOR PETER AND MECH DARA | cambodiadaily OCTOBER 14, 2015 A Rohingya refugee who landed in Phnom Penh in June as part of a controversial resettlement deal with Australia is likely back in Burma after requesting to return home, according to the ...

Myanmar Needs Peace Before Elections

By Editorial Board - BloombergView OCT 7, 2015 In Myanmar next month, elections are expected to produce the country's first democratically elected parliament since 1960. Ideally, that government would inherit a country unified and at peace after decades of battling ethnic insurgencies. For ...

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