News Myanmar Chin: A Rohingya refugee documents decades of horrors as a member of Myanmar’s persecuted ethnic minority
First, They Erased Our Name author Habiburahman was a carefree child when his grandmother told him of the campaigns of violence and terror against his people. Two generations later, little has changed for the stateless Rohingya.
News Myanmar Chin: In Myanmar, 5G tests in Yangon, but a seven-week web blackout in restive Rakhine
Residents of nine townships across western Rakhine and Chin states have been without web access since June 21. Authorities said the move was to prevent separatist group Arakan Army (AA) from ...
News Myanmar Chin: United States sanctions on Myanmar military leaders inadequate: United Nation investigator
Sanctions imposed this week by the United States on Myanmar's military leaders over human rights abuses against Rohingya Muslims do not go far enough, UN special rapporteur Yanghee Lee said on Thursday.
News Myanmar Chin: U.N. Investigator Reports Possible Fresh War Crimes in Myanmar
Myanmar security forces and insurgents are committing human rights violations against civilians in restive western states that may amount to fresh war crimes, a United Nations investigator said on Tuesday.
News Myanmar Chin: UN investigator reports possible new war crimes in Myanmar
The Myanmar government has denied the allegations and says its military campaign across northern Rakhine was a response to attacks by Rohingya rebels. Government troops are currently fighting the ...
News Myanmar Chin: Community Messaging on Change In Processing For Chins
In response to the worsening security situation in southern Chin State in Myanmar, UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, has affirmed that Chin refugees may still have ongoing international protection needs. ...
News Myanmar Chin: Rohingya women, girls being trafficked to Malaysia for marriage
"One recent route documented by Fortify Rights is a complicated land route from Myanmar to Bangladesh, India, and then into Chin State in Myanmar and through the cities of Mandalay and Yangon, ...
News Myanmar Chin: Coffee entrepreneurs seek success in Myanmar's poorest state
YANGON -- Young people from Myanmar are starting businesses to escape poverty in Chin, the country's poorest state in Southeast Asia's least developed country. Chin is a mountainous state in ...
