Category Archives: Myanmar

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Up to 90,000 Rohingya Muslims now refugees

Between 50 and 90,000 Muslims Rohingya have been displaced by communal violence in Myanmar, according to human rights organization Amnesty International. The majority have fled to neighboring Bangladesh, although 16…

Bangladesh returns Muslim refugees to Myanmar

Recent violence between Muslims and Buddhists in Myanmar has sent many fleeing to neighboring Bangladesh. The Muslim Rohingya are a minority in the Buddhist-majority nation. A number of violent incidences…

Buddhist-Muslim violence rocks Myanmar

Tensions have been high in Myanmar’s western state of Rakhine over the last week, following utbreaks of inter-communal violence. The rape and murder of a Buddhist woman, allegedly by a…