Rakhine
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CA seeks ‘safe zone guaranteed by UN’ for displaced people in Rakhine
Oct 14, 2024Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus today called for creating a “safe zone guaranteed by the UN” for the displaced people in Rakhine and finding ways to support them. He made the call when Thomas Andrews, the... -
Seven years after forced mass displacement of Rohingya from Myanmar, deadly attacks on children continue in Rakhine State
Aug 25, 2024Seven years after hundreds of thousands of Rohingya people fled violence and persecution in Myanmar, conflict continues to intensify in Rakhine State, on the western coast of Myanmar, with a surge in casualties and displacement in... -
Arakan Army takes control of Rathedaung in Rakhine state
Mar 19, 2024After forcing the Junta forces out of Rathedaung Township in Rakhine State, the rebel group Arakan Army has taken control of the area. Approximately 200 Junta soldiers were able to escape on Sunday night following two... -
Civilian deaths mount as Myanmar junta escalates airstrikes in Rakhine, Chin
Feb 14, 2024At least nine people died on Sunday as a result of airstrikes carried out by the Myanmar junta in Kyauktaw, Rakhine State, and Paletwa, a bordering area in southern Chin State, according to the Irrawaddy, which... -
Myanmar military pounds Rakhine town during clashes
Nov 30, 2023Fighters and locals said on Wednesday that Myanmar’s military is retaking an important town from an armed ethnic minority group in a prolonged offensive using fighter jets. On November 15, the Arakan Army advanced into Pauktaw,... -
Myanmar’s Suu Kyi makes first visit to crisis-hit northern Rakhine
Nov 3, 2017News Hour Myanmar’s leader Aung San Suu Kyi arrived on her first visit to conflict-battered northern Rakhine State on Thursday, an official said, an area that has seen most of its Rohingya Muslim population forced out... -
Segregation fans fears of fresh ‘cleansing’ in Myanmar’s Rakhine
Oct 9, 2017News Hour: Buddhist villagers in relatively peaceful parts of Myanmar’s Rakhine state are enforcing a system of local apartheid that punishes people trading with minority Muslims, fuelling fears that violence in the far northwest could spread... -
Malala criticises fellow nobel laureate Myanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi for targeted violence on rohingyas
Sep 5, 2017News Hour: Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai, in a statement issued ysterday, September 4, has called on Myanmar’s de facto leader to “stop the violence.” Malala Yousafzai is among the latest in a long line of... -
Muslim with links to government murdered in troubled Rakhine, Myanmar says
Dec 26, 2016News Hour: A man has been found dead with stab wounds in Myanmar’s Rakhine State, in what the government said on Monday was the second murder in under a week of a Rohingya who cooperated with... -
UN urged Myanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi to visit northern Rakhine state
Dec 9, 2016News Hour: The UN has urged Myanmar’s de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi to visit northern Rakhine state, where the army is accused of carrying out a brutal crackdown on the Muslim Rohingya minority. The...
