Myanmar News » Rakhine News Myanmar » Rakhine » History: Moving Towards Understanding and Reconciliation in Myanmar’s Rakhine State
In discussions of Myanmar’s intricate ethnic tapestry, the discourse around identity, particularly the term “Rohingya,” remains highly charged and complex. The controversy was reawakened last month, ...
News Myanmar » Rakhine » History: BGB on alert as airstrikes in Rakhine raise fears of new Rohingya influx
Recent airstrikes by Myanmar’s military in Maungdaw and Buthidaung townships of Rakhine State have heightened fears that more Rohingya may attempt to flee into Bangladesh. Speaking with Rohingya ...
News Myanmar » Rakhine » History: Myanmar’s Military Is Playing a Dangerous Game in Rakhine State
More than three years after the Myanmar military seized power in a coup, it has become commonplace to argue that the battlefield is turning against the military and its State Administration Council ...
News Myanmar » Rakhine » History: Myanmar: Armies Target Ethnic Rohingya, Rakhine
(Bangkok) – Myanmar junta forces and the opposition Arakan Army have committed extrajudicial killings and widespread arson against Rohingya, Rakhine, and other civilians in Myanmar’s western Rakhine ...
News Myanmar » Rakhine » History: More than 500 missing after two refugee boats vanish off Myanmar coast, UN agencies say
More than 500 people fleeing violence in Myanmar are feared dead after two boats disappeared in rough conditions off the country’s coast, according to two UN migration bodies.
News Myanmar » Rakhine » History: Myanmar: Rakhine state in dire straits as conflict rages on
Rakhine state in western Myanmar plays a key role in determining the outcome of the civil war that has been raging in the Southeast Asian nation since its military seized power in a coup in February ...
News Myanmar » Rakhine » History: More than 500 feared dead after boats carrying refugees sink off Myanmar coast, UN says
The two vessels left Myanmar at the end of June, carrying passengers primarily from the Rohingya Muslim minority, in an effort to reach Malaysia, Indonesia, or Thailand.
News Myanmar » Rakhine » History: Army Airstrike Kills at Least 40 in Rebel-Held Village
See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. A Myanmar military airstrike on a village in the western Rakhine state ...
News Myanmar » Rakhine » History: Factbox-Myanmar's food crisis and growing hunger in Rakhine state
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A girls sells food at the internally displaced persons camp for Rohingya people outside Sittwe in the state of Rakhine, Myanmar, ...
News Myanmar » Rakhine » History: Myanmar junta suspends aid access to a million people in state devastated by Cyclone Mocha
Myanmar’s ruling junta has suspended humanitarian access to western Rakhine state, where more than a million vulnerable people are in urgent need of aid a month after a powerful cyclone devastated the ...
News Myanmar » Rakhine » History: As Myanmar's Rakhine Buddhists gain strength, so does anti-Muslim apartheid
KYAUKPYU Myanmar (Reuters) - A campaign to isolate Muslims living under apartheid-like conditions is gathering steam in western Myanmar, driven by Buddhist activists emboldened by the country's ...
News Myanmar » Rakhine » History: Myanmar: More than 500 feared dead in capsized refugee boats, UN says
The UN has reported that two vessels carrying Rohingya refugees set off in hazardous conditions and are believed to have capsized. In recent years, thousands of Rohingya have attempted dangerous sea ...