Rakhine

Deadlines unlikely to break the deadlock over Rohingya repatriation

Bangladesh - Muslimchronicle

Even as the world acknowledges the festering Rohingya crisis as one of the world’s top 10 conflicts to monitor in 2018, there is little hope that the two key players – Buddhist Myanmar and Muslim Bangladesh – will quickly solve the problem which United Nations has called a “textbook case of ethnic cleansing” and “genocide” by the Myanmar military. AtRead more

Myanmar bans UN rights envoy

Rakhine - Muslimchronicle

The UN's rights envoy for Myanmar said Wednesday the government had banned her from the country, adding her exclusion suggests something "awful" is happening in Rakhine state. UN Special Rapporteur Yanghee Lee had been due to visit Myanmar in January to assess the state of human rights across the country including in Rakhine, which was plunged into crisis by a military crackdownRead more

Myanmar bars UN rights investigator just before visit

Bangladesh - Muslimchronicle

The UN independent investigator into human rights in Myanmar has been barred from visiting the country for the rest of her tenure, she said on Wednesday. Yanghee Lee, UN special rapporteur, said she had been due to visit in January to assess human rights across Myanmar, including alleged abuses against Rohingya Muslims in Rakhine State, but Myanmar had now toldRead more

Myanmar reporter wins AFP's Kate Webb Prize

Hong Kong - Muslimchronicle

Reporter Mratt Kyaw Thu has won the 2017 Agence France-Presse Kate Webb prize for his compelling and rigorous coverage of ethnic strife in his native Myanmar, AFP announced on Tuesday. The award recognises exceptional journalism in difficult or dangerous conditions, and is named after one of AFP's finest correspondents who died in 2007 at the age of 64. Mratt Kyaw Thu, 27,Read more

EU's top diplomat 'encouraged' by Rohingya talks with Suu Kyi

YANGON - Muslimchronicle

The EU's foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini on Monday hailed "extremely encouraging" talks with Aung San Suu Kyi on the Rohingya crisis, welcoming steps towards the repatriation of Muslims driven from Myanmar into Bangladesh. But her optimistic tone appeared sharply at odds with the realities on the ground in a crisis that has seen 620,000 Rohingya flee rape, murder andRead more

Myanmar's Suu Kyi makes first visit to crisis-hit northern Rakhine

Yangon - Muslimchronicle

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 by an army campaign. "The State Counsellor (Suu Kyi's official title) is now in Sittwe and will go to Muangdaw and Buthiduang too. It will beRead more

US considering sanctions over Myanmar’s treatment of Rohingya

Washington - Muslimchronicle

The United States is taking steps and considering a range of further actions over Myanmar’s treatment of its Rohingya Muslim minority, including targeted sanctions under its Global Magnitsky law, the State Department said on Monday. “We express our gravest concern with recent events in Myanmar’s Rakhine state and the violent, traumatic abuses Rohingya and other communities have endured,” it saidRead more