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cities, towns and villages of Rakhine, Burma (Myanmar)
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The Straits Times
April 29, 2018
The camp's Rohingya leader, Mr Dil Mohammad, said council envoys spoke with some women victims of the violence in Myanmar's Rakhine state, as well as community elders. "We told ... They are to go on a helicopter flight over Rakhine to see the remains of villages torched during the violence. Kuwait'sÃÂ ...
The Guardian
April 28, 2018
The ambassadors will visit refugee camps in Bangladesh before meeting Aung San Suu Kyi and going by helicopter to Rakhine state, the centre of what ... aid to those affected by the violence in Rakhine, said the Myanmar government was rebuilding villages and taking steps to allow the Rohingya to return.
Frontier Myanmar
April 27, 2018
Led by Kuwait, Britain and Peru, the four-day visit is expected to include a trip by helicopter to Rakhine State to allow ambassadors to tour villages affected by the violence, including Pan Taw Pyin and Shwe Zar. The council will hold talks with Myanmar's de facto leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, who hasÃÂ ...
Myanmar Times
April 19, 2018
The ongoing crisis in Northern Rakhine in Myanmar, with no end in sight, is steadily boiling up to a point that the entire people of Myanmar feel the gravest concern. ... Young Muslims gather after school time at a village near Maungdaw town, Rakhine State of western Myanmar in January 2017. Photo - EPA.
Frontier Myanmar
April 14, 2018
State MPs can still advocate for their constituents, however, and Myebon lawmaker Aung Win assured the 104 representatives – two from each of 52 Tat Lan village development committees – that he understood the challenges they face in Rakhine, which is by some measures Myanmar's least developedÃÂ ...
Radio Free Asia
April 13, 2018
Hindus and other non-Muslims residing in northern Rakhine at the time of the crackdown have accused members of the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA), the militant group that conducted attacks on police outposts northern Rakhine on Aug. 25, of invading their villages and driving out or killingÃÂ ...
Dhaka Tribune
March 18, 2018
Rohingya holed up in a border “no man's land” after fleeing Myanmar will only accept repatriation to their home villages, a local leader said Sunday, ... Bangladesh since last August by a major army crackdown, purportedly intended to “clear” northern Rakhine state of militants from the ethnic minority.
The Nation
March 18, 2018
More than 700,000 refugees have fled Rakhine state since August last year when a militant group attacked Myanmar security outposts, prompting a harsh ... Rohingya refugees trapped in a “no man's land” on the border after fleeing Myanmar will only accept repatriation to their home villages, rejectingÃÂ ...
South China Morning Post
March 17, 2018
Buddhist flags hang limply from bamboo poles at the entrance to Koe Tan Kauk, a “model” village for ethnic Rakhine migrants shuttled north to ... a “Muslim-dry” buffer zone running the nearly 100km from state capital Sittwe to Maungdaw town, according to Oo Hla Saw, a Rakhine MP who advises theÃÂ ...
The Straits Times
March 7, 2018
SITTWE, Myanmar (AFP) - A Rakhine Buddhist leader facing treason charges linked to deadly riots appeared in a Myanmar court on Wednesday (March 7), ... in the crackdown, has also frequently clashed with the central government and tensions have soared since riots rocked a Rakhine town in January.
The Diplomat
March 7, 2018
Things turned ugly in January, when Rakhine nationalist commemorations to mark the 233-year anniversary of the fall of the Arakan kingdom to Burmese invaders in the Rakhine heartland town of Mrauk U ended in violence. After demonstrators tried to seize the local General Administration DepartmentÃÂ ...
BBC News
February 23, 2018
Most of Sittwe's Rohingya population left their homes after religious violence in 2012. More than 100,000 people are still living in internment camps outside the city. Separately, satellite images suggest entire Rohingya villages, many already damaged by fire, have been completely bulldozed, campaign group Human RightsÃÂ ...
The Guardian
February 23, 2018
Satellite images of the village of Thit Tone Nar Gwa Son in Rakhine state, Myanmar, shown in December last year and again in February. ... Myanmar's government is using bulldozers to erase dozens of villages in Rakhine state in a vast operation that rights groups say is destroying evidence of massÃÂ ...
Human Rights Watch
February 22, 2018
The images show that two villages in the Myin Hlut village tract that were not burned in the late 2017 attacks were intact prior to being bulldozed. Between ... The satellite images show that the initial demolition of heavily damaged or destroyed buildings in northern Rakhine State began in Maungdaw town inÃÂ ...
Asian Correspondent
December 31, 1999
ROHINGYA Muslims who have remained in northern Rakhine State in Burma (Myanmar) are being subjected to “dire” food shortages, limited medical aid ... week that the Tatmadaw Army are subjecting the handful of remaining Rohingya villages in northern Rakhine to greater restrictions on access to aid,ÃÂ ...
Frontier Myanmar
December 31, 1999
Two Rakhine civil society groups have launched programs aimed at enticing hundreds of thousands of Rakhine to return and resettle in the poor, ... Saw (ANP, Mrauk-U), who said the resettlement program aimed to establish a “Muslim-dry” buffer zone from Sittwe to Maungdaw town in northern Rakhine,ÃÂ ...
Myanmar Times
December 31, 1999
During the two-day visit, the observers will visit Nay Pyi Taw as well as conflict-torn Rakhine to look at the humanitarian situation, which Myanmar's administration has focused on to make progress. “They will visit reception centres and transit camps in Rakhine. They would probably visit three villages thatÃÂ ...
ReliefWeb
December 31, 1999
Through eyewitness testimony and expert analysis of satellite images, Remaking Rakhine State reveals how flattening of Rohingya villages and new ... The largest of the new bases is in the village of Ah Lel Chaung in Buthidaung Township, where eyewitnesses said that the military forcibly evictedÃÂ ...
BBC News
December 31, 1999
Myanmar is conducting a "military land grab" on land in Rakhine state where Rohingya once lived, a new report from Amnesty International alleges. Citing satellite images and witnesses, the rights group says villages have been bulldozed to make way for new infrastructure since January. An AmnestyÃÂ ...
Firstpost
February 24, 2018
Yangon: Satellite imagery shows Myanmar authorities have bulldozed at least 55 Rohingya villages in northern Rakhine in recent months, Human Rights Watch said on Friday, condemning the government for erasing ... Aerial view of a burned Rohingya village near Maungdaw, north of Rakhine State.
BBC News
February 24, 2018
More than half a million mainly Muslim Rohingya from Rakhine fled the destruction of their homes last year in what the UN called ethnic cleansing. Villages where Rohingya had lived were burned and several thousand people were killed in retaliation after Rohingya militants staged a series of attacks on police outposts.
The Irrawaddy News Magazine
February 23, 2018
YANGON – At least 90 percent of the Rohingya population of conflict-torn northern Rakhine State has fled to neighboring Bangladesh in the wake of the ... A border police officer crouches near a burned Muslim village in southern Maungdaw during a government guided-tour for journalists in 2017.
Pulse Nigeria
February 23, 2018
Satellite imagery shows Myanmar authorities have bulldozed at least 55 Rohingya villages in northern Rakhine in recent months, Human Rights Watch said Friday, condemning the government for erasing evidence at sites where troops are accused of atrocities. Northern Rakhine has been nearly emptiedÃÂ ...
Bryan-College Station Eagle
February 23, 2018
This Feb. 13, 2018, satellite image provided by DigitalGlobe, shows the village of Zone Kar Yar, about 24 kilometers (15 miles) southeast of Maungdaw, Rakhine state, Myanmar. Satellite images of Myanmar's troubled Rakhine state, released to The Associated Press by Colorado-based DigitalGlobe onÃÂ ...
Daily Herald
February 23, 2018
New satellite imagery of Myanmar's Rakhine state shows the country's government is using bulldozers to completely flatten dozens of Rohingya Muslim villages that were burned during violence last year. Human rights groups say authorities are destroying “crime scenes” that contain evidence of atrocitiesÃÂ ...
Human Rights Watch
February 23, 2018
The images show that two villages in the Myin Hlut village tract that were not burned in the late 2017 attacks were intact prior to being bulldozed. Between ... The satellite images show that the initial demolition of heavily damaged or destroyed buildings in northern Rakhine State began in Maungdaw town inÃÂ ...
Daily Sabah
February 23, 2018
Satellite images of Myanmar's troubled Rakhine state, released to The Associated Press by Colorado-based DigitalGlobe on Friday, show that dozens of empty villages and hamlets have been completely leveled by authorities in recent weeks — far more than previously reported. The villages were all setÃÂ ...
Myanmar Times
February 16, 2018
The in-depth investigation instantly became the most thorough and detailed account so far of the violence in Rakhine. The Tatmadaw True News Information Team first announced the discovery of bodies in Inn Din village on December 18, 2017. The unidentified bodies were found in the village cemeteryÃÂ ...
Frontier Myanmar
February 15, 2018
Two Public Hearing Forums in Sittwe organised by Tat Lan marked the first opportunity for Rakhine State government leaders, civil society groups and villagers to ... Ma Shwe Nwe, from Ohn Taw village tract in Kyaukphyu Township, said she represented farmers who had been “waiting for years” for landÃÂ ...
CTV News
February 15, 2018
In an effort to show the world Myanmar is ready to take back hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees, its government is finally granting foreign officials access to Northern Rakhine State, the site where atrocities against the Muslim minority were committed. Canada's special envoy to Myanmar, Bob RaeÃÂ ...
Xinhua
February 14, 2018
13 (Xinhua) -- Problems remain in Myanmar's Rakhine State despite progress in certain areas, a UN official told the Security Council on Tuesday. The priorities laid out by UN ... 7, 2017 shows a house burning in Gawdu Tharya village near Maungdaw in Rakhine state in northern Myanmar. (Xinhua/AFP).
TIME
February 13, 2018
He was born and raised in Yangon, Myanmar's biggest city and far from the western state of Rakhine, where bloody military operations that followed ... and isolated villages of Rakhine — let alone the tarp-walled huts of the teeming refugee camps — the government is increasingly linking Rohingya acrossÃÂ ...
Radio Free Asia
February 9, 2018
Myanmar's government on Friday shrugged off a report detailing the killing of Rohingya Muslims in Rakhine state that prompted calls from the U.S. State ... special report on the events that led to the killing of 10 Rohingya men, including two teenagers, from Rakhine's Inn Din village who it said were buried inÃÂ ...
South China Morning Post
February 3, 2018
Myanmar officials have denied a report of five mass graves of Rohingya in a village in crisis-hit Rakhine, a border region gutted by a military crackdown on ... a flood of testimony from refugees describing security forces murdering civilians, committing mass rape and torching Rohingya villages to the ground.
The Irrawaddy News Magazine
February 3, 2018
YANGON – No mass graves were found in Gutar Pyin village of Buthidaung Township in northern Rakhine State during an inspection of the area on Friday ... However, the Muslim part of the village had since been reduced to ashes while the two Arakanese villages remain intact following the security forces'ÃÂ ...
The Straits Times
February 3, 2018
COX'S BAZAR • Rakhine authorities have refuted a report of five mass graves of Rohingya in a village in the crisis-hit Myanmar state and said that "terrorists" had ... It's not only about taking them back to their respective villages, for example... these people have to be reintegrated into their society," he said.
Myanmar Times
February 2, 2018
Most villagers went to Thailand, China and Malaysia to work and some migrate to Hpakant township in Kachin State to look for jade at the jade mines, said U Ohm Shwe Maung, village head of Myint Gar Thit Village. U Sein Hla Maw, head of other eight villages on the Phayone Kar Island, said the paddyÃÂ ...
CBC.ca
February 1, 2018
An investigation by The Associated Press has confirmed the existence of more than five mass graves in Myanmar's western Rakhine state — the newest piece of evidence for ... By the time the soldiers stopped shooting at the Myanmar village of Gu Dar Pyin, only Kadir and two teammates were still alive.
Radio Free Asia
February 1, 2018
Clockwise from top left: Kyaw Myint, former administrator of Mrauk U's Tein Nyo village, his wife Kyi Kyi Win, son Ko Min Than Htay, and ... Myanmar authorities are interrogating four suspects in the murder of a former official in the town of Mrauk U in western Myanmar's volatile Rakhine state, the country'sÃÂ ...
The Sydney Morning Herald
February 1, 2018
Interviews with survivors who have reached Bangladesh confirm at least five previously unreported mass graves and details of a massacre in Gu Dar Pyin village in Buthidaung township. Villagers said they saw soldiers buying 12 containers of acid two days before the massacre, indicating that an attempt toÃÂ ...
Anadolu Agency
January 31, 2018
Voicing its serious concern over the security situation in Rohingya villages, they said "attacks and looting by Myanmar armed forces and Buddhist Rakhine militia have spiraled over the past several days". Myanmar government has failed to show it "genuinely works with the Rakhine Commission forÃÂ ...
ReliefWeb
January 31, 2018
In central Rakhine, w ith logistics support from the local authorities, WFP reached 100 percent of the targeted 114,000 beneficiaries during the December distribution cycle. • For the first time since 25 August 2017, WFP international staff w ere granted access for food distribution monitoring in Rakhine State.
Xinhua
January 31, 2018
Recently the Myanmar government invited the Advisory Board for the Committee for Implementation of the Recommendations on Rakhine State and media ... The previous terrorist attacks left many villages destroyed and villagers homeless with some of them fleeing to neighboring Bangladesh. During theÃÂ ...
The Straits Times
January 31, 2018
YANGON (REUTERS) - A Myanmar official who was the administrator of a town in troubled Rakhine state when seven people died there in rioting earlier this month has been stabbed and killed, the government said on Wednesday (Jan 31). Police were treating the death of Bo Bo Min Theik as a case ofÃÂ ...
Radio Free Asia
January 27, 2018
Myanmar's Rakhine state government will convene an emergency meeting to form an inquiry committee consisting of nine members, including six state lawmakers, to investigate the killings that occurred during a police crackdown in the ancient town of Mrauk U, a local legislator said Friday. On Jan.
Radio Free Asia
January 26, 2018
At the time, Myanmar officials reported that a Hindu man from Yebaw Kya village in Maungdaw pointed out the sites, after fleeing to Bangladesh following deadly attacks by Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army rebels on police and border guards in northern Rakhine, on Aug. 25. “Here, there is no violence.
ABC News
January 24, 2018
According to the deal, those who return will first live in transit camps before eventually going back to their villages. But the plan has been ... Rights groups have described how hundreds of villages across Rakhine state were set on fire after troops and mobs descended to chase out the residents. Homes andÃÂ ...
Mizzima News
January 24, 2018
Around 150 protesters gathered in Munaung township, in western Myanmar's Rakhine state, Monday to demand the release of two ethnic Rakhine ... of the Rakhine minority group marking a Buddhist anniversary converged on the government office in the town of Mrauk U when authorities attempted to stopÃÂ ...
Tampabay.com
January 24, 2018
24, 2018, in Maung Daw township, border town of northern Rakhine State, Myanmar. ... two countries have signed an agreement to begin sending people home in "safety, security and dignity," but rights groups have expressed worry about Rohingya returning to villages they left only months ago in terror.
The Japan Times
January 24, 2018
COX'S BAZAR, BANGLADESH – Bangladesh officials said Tuesday a huge fire burned and gunshots were heard in a village across the border in Myanmar's conflict-scarred Rakhine state, where authorities want to return Rohingya refugees. A “big fire” was seen raging late Monday in an abandoned villageÃÂ ...
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