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Urgent Action Victory! Three Journalists Released After Charges Dropped (Myanmar: UA 159.17)
Former prisoners of conscience Lawi Weng, Aye Nai and Pyae Phone Aung have had the charge against them dropped following an announcement by the Myanmar Army. The three journalists were…
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Myanmar: Aung San Suu Kyi burying her head in the sand about Rakhine horrors
Reacting to today’s speech by Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar’s State Counsellor and de facto leader, on the crisis in Rakhine State, James Gomez, Amnesty International’s Regional Director for Southeast…
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UN: Myanmar Rohingya exodus exposes abject failure of world leaders to deliver solution to refugee crisis
As almost 400,000 refugees flee ethnic cleansing in Myanmar, world leaders meeting at the UN General Assembly should hang their heads in shame that they have not only failed to…
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Myanmar: Scorched-earth campaign fuels ethnic cleansing of Rohingya from Rakhine State
Amnesty International can reveal new evidence pointing to a mass-scale scorched-earth campaign across northern Rakhine State, where Myanmar security forces and vigilante mobs are burning down entire Rohingya villages and…
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New landmine blasts in Myanmar point to deliberate targeting of Rohingya
Two new landmine incidents today, including a blast blowing off a young man’s leg, bring to three the number of known sites where Myanmar authorities have mined border crossings used…
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Myanmar: Army landmines along border with Bangladesh pose deadly threat to fleeing Rohingya
Myanmar’s security forces planted internationally banned antipersonnel landmines along its border with Bangladesh which have seriously injured at least three civilians, including two children, and reportedly killed one man in…
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Official response to Rakhine and Rohingya crisis in Myanmar ‘unconscionable’
The statement by Myanmar’s leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s office, which claims that the government is defending all the people in Rakhine state “in the best possible way,” is unconscionable,…
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Restrictions on international aid to Rohingya and Rakhine state putting thousands at risk
The Myanmar authorities’ restrictions on international aid in Rakhine state is putting tens of thousands of lives at risk in a region where mainly Rohingya people are already suffering horrific…
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Urgent Action Update: Detained Rohingya Child Dies In Custody (Myanmar: UA 10.17)
The confirmed death in custody of a child detained in November 2016 in northern Rakhine State as part of “clearance operations” increases fears for the safety of hundreds of detained…
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All the Civilians Suffer: Conflict, Displacement and Abuse in Northern Myanmar
Civilians from minority ethnic groups suffer appalling violations and abuses, including war crimes, at the hands of Myanmar’s military and ethnic armed groups in the country’s Kachin and northern Shan…
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Urgent Action: Turkish Man Detained And At Risk Of Extradition (Thailand: UA 122.17)
Myanmar-based Turkish education professional, M. Furkan Sökmen was detained in Yangon International Airport on 24 May and last known to be in the transit area of a Bangkok airport. Amnesty…
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Urgent Action: Rakhine Journalist Receiving Death Threats (Myanmar: UA 95.17)
Journalist Nay Min Aung (known as Min Min) has been receiving death threats after publishing an article about an armed ethnic group operating in Rakhine State, Myanmar. The authorities must…