The Rohingya genocide, the military junta and human-rights violations in Myanmar, with international coverage and analysis.
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Nearly a decade after the ethnic cleansing of Rohingya people by Myanmar forces, satellite images show the insurgent Arakan Army is now emulating the killings and land grabs There are at least 10 camps like the one on…
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A man carries his family’s food ration from a WFP distribution point to his shelter in Camp 11, Balukhali, Bangladesh, on September 24, 2026. Credit: Mohammed Zonaid/IPS By Mohammed Zonaid COX'S BAZAR, Bangladesh, Sep 28…
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A Rohingya refugee carries Myanmar's national flag during a Genocide Remembrance Day rally marking the anniversary of their mass exodus at a refugee camp in Bangladesh on 25 August 2026. Credit: Abdul Goni/AFP By Andrew…
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The 11th of September, 2026, marks a quarter-century since the “9/11” attacks that killed three thousand Americans and set into motion a generation of the “Global War on Terror”. The anniversary will no doubt bring with…
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A Rohingya refugee points to the landslide that killed two of Abdu Rozork’s daughters and two of their children in their bamboo shelter in a refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, last month. Credit: Mohammed…
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Rohingya refugees cross the Naf River on a makeshift raft while fleeing violence in Myanmar, on their way to Bangladesh. Credit: UNICEF/Mackenzie Knowles-Coursin By Mohammad Zaman VANCOUVER B.C., Canada, Aug 3 2026 (IPS)…
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The Burmese people continue to suffer as the brutal civil war in Myanmar heads toward its sixth year. The conflict was recently brought home to America with China’s arrest of Min Zin, an American citizen who heads the…
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Dear Struggling and Distressed Muslim, This letter was meant for you. Yes, you specifically. The one who has been struggling and not understanding why it’s not working out . The one who has seen countless members of your…
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Chairman of the American Conservative Union and former White House Director Matthew Schlapp recently offered a bit of illustrative wit. When asked about the 160 Iranian schoolgirls killed in an airstrike that a Pentagon…
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Credit: Phil Nijhuis/ANP via AFP By Andrew Firmin LONDON, Apr 27 2026 (IPS) Yasmin Ullah, from Myanmar’s persecuted Rohingya minority, is determined to see justice. On 13 April, she filed a complaint alleging genocide…
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Can the Indonesian government truly tame digital platforms? Originally published on Global Voices Advox Four tween boys crowd around a mobile phone in Jakarta, Indonesia. Image from Flickr . License CC BY-NC-ND 2.0…
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The Rohingya did not choose dependency on aid. It was created by the restrictions surrounding them. Credit: UNHCR/Amanda Jufrian By Mohammed Zonaid COX’S BAZAR, Bangladesh, Apr 14 2026 (IPS) While global attention right…
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Aid cuts mean the ethnically-cleansed refugees from Myanmar face a return to cooking over toxic flames, or keeping children out of school to spend all day scouring for firewood Four years ago the US recognised the…
Myanmar
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Min Aung Hlaing seized control five years ago and plunged Myanmar into conflict and economic chaos Min Aung Hlaing, the military general who plunged Myanmar into conflict and economic chaos when he took power in the 2021…
Democracy & Governance
As Myanmar’s civil war enters its fifth year and repression deepens in Bangladesh’s southeastern hills, instability is steadily concentrating along India’s northeastern frontier. Airstrikes, village burnings, and mass…
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Dawn is breaking and the world’s biggest refugee camp stirs to life. Smoke rises from small cooking fires among rows of bamboo and tarpaulin shelters as children line up for food. For 38-year-old Mon Bahar, one of over…
Democracy & Governance
By some measures, the Palestinian bid for statehood has never been stronger. By the end of last year, at least 157 countries had recognized the state of Palestine, which represents slightly more than 80 percent of the…
Active Citizens
By CIVICUS Feb 9 2026 (IPS) CIVICUS discusses the genocide case against Myanmar at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) with Mohammed Nowkhim of the Arakan Rohingya Society for Peace & Human Rights (ARSPHR), a civil…
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Survivors of violence hope proceedings will bring justice a step closer and set a precedent for future genocide allegations “Finally, I feel like our voices are being heard, and like something is going to happen that is…
Myanmar
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Conflict monitors say the junta has increased airstrikes year-on-year since the start of Myanmar’s civil war Dozens have been killed in a military strike on a hospital in Myanmar’s western Rakhine state, according to an…
Asia & Americas
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‘I think we’ve been very clear over many months and now many years about the Uyghurs, about Rohingya, and others, we see genocide being perpetrated. It is simply not the case when it comes to Gaza.’ US Secretary of State…
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Call upon Allah to help the Muslims of China, who are being terribly persecuted by the Communist government. Call upon Allah on behalf of your brothers and sisters in Syria and Palestine, who are struggling in the cause…
Burma Affairs
• Myanmar’s claims about caseload are “dangerous and deeply irresponsible” • Bangladesh should lift restrictions in Rohingya refugee camps The government of Myanmar is putting lives at risk, including tens of thousands…
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Kirin has stakes in two breweries and donated directly to the military, which the UN says is ‘indefensible’ Japanese beverages giant Kirin – parent brewer of a suite of Australian beer brands such as XXXX, Tooheys, and…
Rohingya
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The ICJ ruling on Myanmar is a rare bright point in a woeful international response. Unfortunately its powers are limited On Thursday the internet in Kutupalong, a city-sized refugee camp in south-eastern Bangladesh, was…
Rohingya in Arakan
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BBC The International Court of Justice has ordered measures to prevent the genocide of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar (formerly Burma). The decision comes despite de facto leader Aun San Suu Kyi defending her country…
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Momentous pronouncement at Hague rejects Aung San Suu Kyi’s defence of her country’s military Myanmar has been ordered by the United Nations’ highest court to prevent genocidal violence against its Rohingya Muslim…
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Government-appointed investigators failed to meet alleged rape victims living in Bangladesh A Myanmar government-backed inquiry that dismissed allegations of genocide against the Rohingya has been condemned as a deeply…
Rohingya in Arakan
Media Release from Burmese Rohingya Organisation UK For Immediate Release 20th January 2020 Myanmar’s deeply flawed investigation into human rights abuses in Rakhine State is another attempt to whitewash the Tatmadaw’s…
Rohingya in Arakan
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THE HAGUE — In a press release issued on January 15, ICJ announced that the principal judicial organ of the United Nations, will deliver, on Thursday 23 January 2020, its Order on the request for the indication of…
Rohingya in Arakan
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The International Court of Justice, the United Nations’ highest court, will issue a decision on a request for emergency measures in a genocide case against Myanmar on January 23, the Gambian Ministry of Justice said on…
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Brewer’s parent company, Kirin, provides foreign currency to military accused of genocide Australian craft beer brewer Lion Little World has faced international criticism over a business partnership with the Myanmar…
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General assembly’s vote in favour of resolution also calls on Myanmar to urgently combat incitement of hatred The United Nations general assembly has approved a resolution condemning human rights abuses against Myanmar’s…
Rohingya in Arakan
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MAUNGDAW — A Rohingya youth is believed to be shot dead by the military in Kyun Pauk Pyu Su village of Northern Maungdaw, Arakan State on December 21, 2019. Following multiple gunshots in the evening, the military…
Rohingya in Bangladesh
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Representatives from Rohingya genocide survivors described Myanmar’s preparation for the repatriation of its deported citizens as “meaningless” as it is the same as the previous plan presented in the last meeting…
Rohingya in Arakan
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A boat carrying nearly 200 Arakanese Rohingya trying to flee the genocide arrested by Myanmar navy at around 155 miles off the coast of Kawthaung, the southernmost township of Myanmar on Dec. 15, at 8 pm, according to…
Opinions
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By Christian Caryl An extraordinary event took place in the Netherlands this week: a hearing at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) that is a first small step toward justice for one of the world’s longest-suffering…
Rohingya
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Muslim victims of Myanmar ‘clearances’ voice outrage as peace prize winner dismisses atrocity charges When Aung San Suu Kyi rose to denounce genocide charges against her country at the “world court” last week, three…
Rohingya in Arakan
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Contrary to NLD’s stand over the naming of Rohingya, household lists and birth certificates are being issued to Rohingya in Sittwe labeling them racially as Bengali, in the wake of the continued attempt to Bengalize…
International
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Bethlehem/PNN/ The Haaretz newspaper has shed light on Israel’s “shameful role” in Myanmar’s state-sponsored genocidal campaign against Rohingya Muslims, citing Tel Aviv’s arms sales to the Southeast Asian as well as the…
Myanmar
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Criticism of Aung San Suu Kyi’s defence of her country must not overshadow the issue at the heart of the case at the international court of justice: the ongoing suffering of Rohingya Muslims Aung San Suu Kyi’s decision…
Rohingya
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Leaders in refugee camps says justice will be delivered based on the evidence they have provided of Myanmar atrocities Rohingya refugees have hit back at Aung San Suu Kyi’s claims at the international court of justice in…
Aung San Suu Kyi
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Myanmar leader tells court in The Hague that civilian deaths were not genocide but part of a civil war She might have been saving her best defence for the highest stage of all. But the arguments advanced by Aung San Suu…
Myanmar
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De facto PM defends actions of government, saying attacks were initiated by insurgents The Nobel peace prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi has defended Myanmar’s government against accusations of genocide at the…
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Aung San Suu Kyi has dismissed allegations of state violence against Rohingya Muslims at The Hague. Speaking on the second day of hearings at the International Court of Justice in the genocide case against Myanmar, the…
Burma Affairs
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Seventeen Shan organizations jointly released a statement supporting the ongoing legal case rehearsal in ICJ against Burma. The statement was released a day before the hearings begin in the Hague signed by seventeen…
Aung San Suu Kyi
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World’s failure to act over Myanmar is ‘stain on collective conscience’, UN court told Aung San Suu Kyi has sat impassively through graphic accounts of mass murder and rape perpetrated by Myanmar’s military at the start…
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From democracy champion to defending Myanmar against genocide charges, the shock decision by civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi to face the UN's top court risks further damaging her image overseas and deepening the siege…