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This article is more than 1 month old From the coup in Myanmar to the autocratic regimes in China and Russia, western values are under increasing threat Aung San Suu Kyi, left, winner of last November’s election, and Myanmar’s military chief, Min Aung Hlaing, who led last week’s coup in the country. Photograph: Myanmar State Counsellor Office/AFP/Getty Images Aung San Suu Kyi, left, winner of last November’s election, and Myanmar’s military chief, Min Aung Hlaing, who led last week’s coup in the country. Photograph: Myanmar State Counsellor Office/AFP/Getty Imag...

Myanmar’s coup and the waning of an Obama-Biden legacy Ishaan Tharoor , including news from around the globe, interesting ideas and opinions to know, sent to your inbox every weekday. Military vehicles and soldiers block the road leading to the parliament in Naypyidaw, Myanmar, on Feb. 2. (Maung Longlan/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock) “Is it time to invade Burma?” That was the headline of a widely circulated Time magazine column in May 2008 after Cyclone Nargis devastated the country also known as Myanmar, killing more than 130,000 people while leaving countless more destitute an...

LONDON: Four years have passed since Myanmar’s military crackdown drove more than 742,000 mostly women and children of the Rohingya minority over the border into Bangladesh — a mass displacement which UN investigators say amounts to genocide. Now, in the wake of the Feb. 1 coup, the Rohingya are again left wondering what lies in store for them. Myanmar's military, known as Tatmadaw, seized power in a bloodless coup on Monday, detaining Aung San Suu Kyi, the State Secretary; President Win Myint; and several other senior cabinet ministers just hours before parliament was due to reconvene f...

What Myanmar’s coup could mean for the Rohingya and other persecuted minorities Vox.com 2/2/2021 Jen Kirby © Rehman Asad/NurPhoto via Getty Images Rohingya refugees are relocated to the flood-prone island Bhashan Char in Chittagong, Bangladesh, on January 30, 2021. The Myanmar military overthrew its civilian government in a coup on Monday, ending the facade of democratic rule and creating an even more uncertain future for human rights in the country — especially the persecuted Rohingya and other ethnic minorities. The aftermath of the coup is still unfolding, but huma...

Fire highlights need for Bangladesh to integrate Rohingya Dr. Azeem Ibrahim January 22, 2021 00:55 Rohingya sift through the debris after a fire in Nayapara refugee camp, Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, January 14, 2021. (Reuters) Short Url https://arab.news/jjhfb Some 3,500 Rohingya refugees in Nayapara camp in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, lost their shelter in a fire last week. Thankfully, no one died and the fire was put out relatively quickly by firefighters, who were helped by volunteers and the refugees themselves. But this kind of accident is not surprising. The cheap, quick-to-build, poor-qu...