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Mission Report of OHCHR Rapid Response Mission to Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh

October 11, 2017 • Author: The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights

1. Summary of findings Credible information gathered indicates that the destruction of Rohingya villages in northern Rakhine State, and other serious human rights violations committed in the aftermath of the 25 August attacks, were executed in a well-organised, coordinated, ... Read more ►

Burma: The Military Coup Threat Myth

October 11, 2017 • Author: Burma Campaign UK

A persistent myth that the military in Burma are looking for an excuse to retake direct control of the country is now being used to justify inaction over the ethnic cleansing and possible genocide of the Rohingya. For some, it is a genuine fear, for others, it is a convenien... Read more ►

Policy Briefer: Bearing Witness to Crimes Against Humanity

October 5, 2017 • Author: Refugees International

Following the violent expulsion of some 400,000 Rohingya in Myanmar in the course of three weeks (now more than 500,000), Refugees International (RI) President Eric Schwartz and Senior Advocate for Human Rights Daniel Sullivan traveled to Bangladesh to assess the situation a... Read more ►

Land of Sorrow: Human Rights Violations at Myanmar’s Myotha Industrial Park

September 27, 2017 • Author: International Federation of Human Rights

Myanmar may soon face a land conflict epidemic as a result of the growing influx of investments and the consequent demand for land, unless laws and policies that adequately address land rights issues are urgently adopted and implemented. The Myotha Industrial Park typifies M... Read more ►

Crimes against Humanity by Burmese Security Forces Against the Rohingya Muslim Population in Northern Rakhine State since August 25, 2017

September 26, 2017 • Author: Human Rights Watch

Crimes Against Humanity Human Rights Watch has found that serious violations committed by members of Burma’s state security forces against the Rohingya Muslim population in northern Rakhine State since August 25, 2017, amount to crimes against humanity under international ... Read more ►

၂၀၁၇ခုႏွစ္ ဇူလိုင္လ ကုန္မွစ၍ အစိုးရစစ္တပ္မွ ရွမ္းျပည္နယ္ေျမာက္ပိုင္း ဟိုပံုးျမိဳ့နယ္အတြင္း ကင္းလွည့္ စဥ္ ရိုက္ႏွက္ ျခင္း၊ ဖ�...

September 21, 2017 • Author: Shan Human Rights Foundation

၂၀၁၇ခုနွစ္ ဇူလိုင္ႏွင့္ႀသဂုတ္လ အတြင္း အစိုးရစစ္တပ္ခလရ ၂၄၉ ႏွင့္ ခမရ ၄၂၅ တို႔သည္ ဟိုပံုးျမိဳ့နယ္အတ�... Read more ►

Ongoing Torture, Killing, Arbitrary Arrests during Midnight Raids by Burma Army in Ho Pong Township

September 21, 2017 • Author: Shan Human Rights Foundation

Since the end of July 2017, Burma Army troops have continued patrolling around northern Ho Pong township, torturing, killing and arresting local civilians. Between July 31 and August 5, 2017, Burma Army troops from IB 249 and LIB 425 raided three villages in Ho Pong township... Read more ►

Beyond Panglong: Myanmar’s National Peace and Reform Dilemma

September 19, 2017 • Author: Transnational Institute

As ethnic conflict and refugee displacement continue in Myanmar’s borderlands, the country now stands at a crossroads. After decades under military rule, the 21st Century Panglong Conference has been welcomed as the most important initiative to achieve countrywide peace an... Read more ►

မိုင္းရယ္ျမိဳ ရွမ္းျပည္နယ္ေျမာက္ပိုင္း အတြင္းအစိုးရစစ္တပ္၏ေသနတ္၊ လက္နက္ႀကီး ျဖင့္မဆင္မျခင္ပစ္ခတ္ခဲ့ေသာႀကာင့္ အနီးနားရွိေ...

September 14, 2017 • Author: Shan Human Rights Foundation

စက္တင္ဘာ ၁၀ ရက္ မနက္ ၈ နာရီတြင္ မိုင္းရယ္အေျခစိုက္ အစိုးရစစ္တပ္ ခမရ ၃၂၅ မွတပ္သား အေယာက္ ၆၀ ခန့္ႏွင့္ ... Read more ►

Indiscriminate Burma Army Shelling, Shooting Cause 300 Villagers to Flee in Mong Yai, northern Shan State – Three Villagers Arrested, One Beaten

September 14, 2017 • Author: Shan Human Rights Foundation

On September 10 at 8:00 am, a group of about 60 Burma Army troops from LIB 325 based in Mong Yai and the local Nam Pawng pro-government militia, were on patrol north of Wan Loi Yoi, Pa Karng tract, Mong Yai township, when they encountered a land mine blast. They then started... Read more ►

Briefing Paper for the ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights (AICHR): “Update on the mass displacement of people from Rakhine State”

September 11, 2017 • Author: Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development and Asia Pacific Refugee Rights Network

Statement of Purpose FORUM-ASIA welcomes the opportunity to present this joint briefing paper, in partnership with the Asia Pacific Refugee Rights Network (APRRN), to the ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights (AICHR). The purpose of th... Read more ►

Life Disrupted: Burma Army Targets Civilian Family in Danai

September 11, 2017 • Author: Free Burma Rangers

Kachin State, Burma Mr. San Nai Zing’s house with mortar round hole in the top of the roof. This report documents an event in July of 2017 that is one of the worst fears of many people that live in Burma/Myanmar today and yet is an all-too-common story. A family is attacke... Read more ►

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