A UN rights probe is calling for Myanmar’s top military commanders to be investigated and prosecuted for genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes for the violent purge of more than 700,000 minority Rohingya last year. It also points a finger at the UN itself.
Last August, Myanmar’s military swept through Rohingya villages in northern Rakhine State, pushing hundreds of thousands from their homes. Nearly one million refugees now live in crowded refugee camps in Bangladesh, where aid groups say they’re hampered by continuing funding shortages.
The fact-finding mission says there’s enough evidence to investigate and prosecute Myanmar’s top military generals for genocide.
India’s Muted Response to Myanmar Military Coup Seen as a Strategic Move
India’s Muted Response to Myanmar Military Coup Seen as a Strategic Move
Senior General Min Aung Hlaing (left) and Indian Prime Minister Modi in India in July, 2019. / seniorgeneralminaunghlaing.com.mm
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By Jayanta Kalita 23 February 2021
It may seem quite odd that India, the world’s largest democracy, has not been very forthcoming about its position vis-à-vis Myanmar ever since the country’s military seized power on Feb. 1. The United States and Europe have expressed strong reactions against the arrest of country’s de facto leader, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, and President U Win Myint
Six Myo people killed in Myanmar s conflict-torn Rakhine: Govt
Six Myo people killed in Myanmar s conflict-torn Rakhine: Govt
Six People Were Killed In Northwestern Myanmar And Two Others Are Missing, The Government And Villagers Said, In The Latest Flare Up Of Violence In The Conflict-scarred Corner Of Rakhine State. PTI | Updated on: 03 Aug 2017, 10:06:59 PM
Yangon:
Six people were killed in northwestern Myanmar and two others are missing, the government and villagers said, in the latest flare up of violence in the conflict-scarred corner of Rakhine state.
All are from the Myo ethnic group, a tiny Buddhist minority in the remote strip of land bordering Bangladesh that is mainly home to stateless Rohingya Muslims.
State Counsellor was recently deposed and arrested along with other leaders of her ruling party –
National League for Democracy (NLD). The Leader of
Tatmadaw, the Military, Min Aung Hlaing, announced that elections in November last year had been fraudulent and in an “effort to save democracy” the military would now rule the nation for at least one year, until new elections could be organised. Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi is accused of “importing ten or more walkie-talkies” and of violating the nation’s “Natural Disaster Law”. Some might agree that Suu Kyi deserves to be locked up. As an admired role model and Nobel Peace Prize winner, she was globally depicted as an almost saintlike being, canonized in movies like Luc Bessons’s
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