Has Myanmar 'Unclenched' It's Fists Yet?
Posted by: fibonnaci
Yangon :: Myanmar | updated 2013-05-22 01:36:50 -0700 | political-news
President Thein Sein of Myanmar slipped almost unnoticed into Washington this week, the first Burmese head of state to visit since the military dictator Gen. Ne Win in 1966. Much has adapted since 1966. Fifty years of immediate military standard...
Burma : Migration flows have created a generational vacuum
Posted by: rsa76
Yangon :: Myanmar | updated 2013-05-17 11:36:43 -0700 | disasters-news
Residents call it "the old man of the earth." The Mon State, in eastern Burma, is populated by old and young children, since its forces are parties to Thailand to escape poverty. Some say that 70% of adults of working...
Burma: Two arrested after violence against Muslims
Posted by: rsa76
Yangon :: Myanmar | updated 2013-05-07 12:27:21 -0700 | disasters-news
Two Buddhists were arrested after new attacks against Muslims spread to an area of northern Burma, said on Saturday police source. "Muslim shops were destroyed" Thursday in the town of Hpakant in Kachin State, said a local police official told...
Burma loves to discriminate against religious minorities
Posted by: Adrian Holman
Yangon :: Myanmar | updated 2013-04-28 15:02:41 -0700 | spirituality-religion-news
International Christian Concern (ICC) has learned that the European Union (EU) has announced it is lifting all remaining economic sanctions against Burma despite regular incidents of violent discrimination against Christians and other religious minorities. The EU and other Western governments...
Human Rights Watch report says ethnic cleansing of Muslims continues in Burma
Posted by: aymaan30
Yangon :: Myanmar | updated 2013-04-25 12:06:09 -0700 | disasters-news
According to a report by the Human Rights Watch released today, "Burmese authorities and members of Arakanese groups have committed crimes against humanity in a campaign of ethnic cleansing against Rohingya Muslims in Arakan State since June 2012." The report...
Burma guilty of "ethnic cleansing" according to HRW
Posted by: rsa76
Yangon :: Myanmar | updated 2013-04-25 12:06:22 -0700 | disasters-news
In a report released Monday, the NGO Human Rights Watch believes that the Burmese authorities involved since 2012 in a campaign of "ethnic cleansing" and denounced "crimes against humanity" against the Muslim Rohingya minority. Authorities Rakhine State since 2012 involved...
Burma: the first verdict after religious violence Meiktila
Posted by: rsa76
Yangon :: Myanmar | updated 2013-04-15 01:49:18 -0700 | odd-news
Three Burmese Muslims, accused of causing a fight behind religious violence that killed 43 victims in March, were sentenced to 14 years in prison, said Friday the official press. Three, the owner of a shop, his wife and an employee,...
Buma : Fire burns 200 Muslim houses in Mondale
Posted by: rsa76
Yangon :: Myanmar | updated 2013-04-11 23:58:22 -0700 | disasters-news
Yangon : Fire broke out in Mondale where is population of Muslims. In result of fire 200 house burnt. According to residents the fire is set by some one but police concealing the reality. The rescue teams also reached the...
In Burma, the police identity crisis
Posted by: rsa76
Yangon :: Myanmar | updated 2013-04-14 00:11:50 -0700 | disasters-news
Parent poor security forces under the junta, the Burmese police is now under pressure to fulfill its role of policing, torn between those who denounce its aggressive interventions and those who accuse him guilty of inaction. The transition is also...
Burma mosque fire kills 13 children
Posted by: imdad ali
Yangon :: Myanmar | updated 2013-04-05 11:18:20 -0700 | odd-news
Thirteen children died in a fire in an orphanage that operates from a mosque in Yangon, Myanmar's main city. Police quickly put the fire to an electrical fault in the midst of tensions by communal violence between Muslims and Buddhists....
Islamic school fire kills 13 children in Myanmar
Posted by: rsa76
Yangon :: Myanmar | updated 2013-04-02 15:21:43 -0700 | disasters-news
The tragedy occurred on Tuesday, April 2, in the religious school of the country's largest city of Yangon. Among the dead there are children. Police believe that the cause of PE could be a short circuit the wiring. The incident...
Myanmar: Muslim-Buddhist violence spreads in more towns across the country
Posted by: madn3wz
Yangon :: Myanmar | updated 2013-03-28 07:15:37 -0700 | disasters-news
YANGON, Myanmar (Mon, Mar 25) – Reported by madn3wz Sectarian violence spread further across the country as anti-Muslim throngs stormed through three more towns over the weekend, demolishing mosques and setting fire to dozens of homes in Myanmar's mainly Buddhist...
Myanmar President declares state of emergency in Meikhtila after three days of riots
Posted by: rsa76
Yangon :: Myanmar | updated 2013-03-25 12:29:22 -0700 | disasters-news
President of Myanmar, U Thein Sein, declared a state of emergency in four locations Meikhtila district, in northern Myanmar, after three days of rioting that began last Wednesday, reported Friday the state radio and television. The four locations are Meikhtila...
Myanmar : Sectarian Riots kills 20 people, 10 Mosques destroyed
Posted by: rsa76
Yangon :: Myanmar | updated 2013-03-25 09:05:52 -0700 | disasters-news
sectarian and Ethnic riots have erupted in Myanmar due to which 20 people have been killed 20 injured. Three Mosques were also martyred. Today is the third day of riots in between Buddhists and Muslims in a central Myanmar. Curfew...
British team arrives in Myanmar to dig up World War II memories
Posted by: prabirghose
Yangon :: Myanmar | updated 2013-01-09 11:10:02 -0800 | travel-news
A team of British aircraft enthusiasts have arrived in Myanmar to dig up lost memories of the World War II that are believed to be lying buried in Myanmar. These are dozens of Spitfire aircraft which had been the mainstay...
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