Myanmar News » Rakhine News Myanmar » Rakhine » Politics: Myanmar's Suu Kyi takes campaign to divided Rakhine
Myanmar's opposition leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, has taken a growing sectarian whisper campaign head-on as she ventured into Rakhine state for the first time in 13 years. The region has been the ...
News Myanmar » Rakhine » Politics: Myanmar’s forgotten war: How the world is failing the test of the UN’s Responsibility to Protect
Myanmar’s civil war is one of the clearest tests of the international community’s promise to protect civilians. Two decades on from the creation of the United Nations’ “Responsibility to Protect,” ...
News Myanmar » Rakhine » Politics: Myanmar’s Rakhine State Sees ‘Dramatic Rise’ in Hunger Due to Conflict, Aid Cuts
Myanmar’s conflict-torn Rakhine State has witnessed a “dramatic rise in hunger” due to the continuing civil war and funding cuts from major foreign donors, including the United States, the U.N. World ...
News Myanmar » Rakhine » Politics: A famine looms large over Myanmar’s Rakhine State
In a report titled Rakhine: A Famine in the Making released last week, the UN Development Programme (UNDP) claims the region in western Myanmar “stands on the precipice of an unprecedented disaster.” ...
News Myanmar » Rakhine » Politics: Deadly spillovers from Myanmar's civil war can no longer be ignored
On May 24, three Bangladeshis were killed in landmine explosions near the Bangladesh-Myanmar border in Bandarban’s Naikhongchhari.
News Myanmar » Rakhine » Politics: Rakhine’s Children Growing Up Under a Rain of Bombs
As airstrikes intensify in Rakhine, children face deep trauma, disrupted education and lasting psychological harm in a war increasingly fought from the sky.
News Myanmar » Rakhine » Politics: Strategic Implications of Myanmar’s Offensive in Chin State
The Tatmadaw’s advances will have implications not only for Myanmar’s internal conflict, but for neighboring India and Bangladesh.
News Myanmar » Rakhine » Politics: Topic: Vijay Nambiar
Vijay Nambiar, the U.N. envoy for Myanmar called for an investigation into violence that occurred in the country's Rakhine state. U.N. officials are urging Myanmar President Thein Sein to use caution ...
News Myanmar » Rakhine » Politics: Myanmar’s opposition rejects a military appeal for talks on a political solution to armed conflict
BANGKOK (AP) — The main group coordinating opposition to military rule in Myanmar rejected on Friday a surprise offer from the ruling generals to hold talks on a political solution to the country’s ...
News Myanmar » Rakhine » Politics: India ‘should have offered Myanmar leader handcuffs, not red carpet’
India should have offered Myanmar’s leader ‘handcuffs, not a red carpet’, critics say - IN FOCUS: Analysts say hosting junta leader for a major state visit will only hurt India in the long run, while ...