News Myanmar Security: US slaps sanctions on Myanmar army chief over Rohingya abuses
The US last year imposed sanctions on more junior Myanmar security officials although the impact was more sweeping, with economic restrictions. A State Department study released last year described ...
News Myanmar Security: UPDATE 3-U.S. imposes sanctions on Myanmar military leaders over Rohingya abuses
The United States announced sanctions on Tuesday against the Myanmar military's Commander-in-Chief Min Aung Hlaing and other leaders it said were responsible for extrajudicial killings of Rohingya Muslims, barring them from entry to the United States. The steps, which also covered Min Aung Hlaing
News Myanmar Security: Report: Conditions Unsafe for Return of Rohingya Refugees to Myanmar
Conditions in Myanmar are far too dangerous for the safe, dignified return of hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees who have fled to Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, to escape violence and persecution in their home country, according to a report by the U.N. Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights. More than 730,000 Rohingya refugees are living in squalid, overcrowded camps in Cox's Bazar. While conditions in Bangladesh remain dire, U.N. officials say the situation in Myanmar's northern Rakhine state is worse and far more threatening. U.N.
News Myanmar Security: North Korea, Syria, Myanmar defend China's actions in Xinjiang
"The past three consecutive years has seen not a single terrorist attack in Xinjiang and people there enjoy a stronger sense of happiness, fulfillment and security," the envoys said. "The pro-China ...
News Myanmar Security: In Myanmar’s conflict-torn Rakhine, fresh allegations of ‘war crimes’
In Rakhine state, where security forces expelled more than 700,000 ethnic Rohingya Muslims in a 2017 campaign the United Nations says was carried out with “genocidal intent”, Myanmar’s military is ...
News Myanmar Security: North Korea restaurant ordered closed, Myanmar says
RELATED Pope Francis welcomes Trump, Kim encounter at the DMZ Myanmar has said the restaurant is closing in compliance with United Nations Security Council sanctions Resolution 2397. The country also ...
News Myanmar Security: Amnesty Int'l charges Myanmar military with new abuses
The army and other security forces were accused of major abuses, including organized rape, murder and the burning of villages. Critics including U.N. experts have accused the Myanmar forces of ...
News Myanmar Security: Myanmar's Military Is Still Committing War Crimes Against the Rohingya
Amnesty is calling on the U.N. Security Council to refer the crimes to the International Criminal Court. The Myanmar military units that committed war crimes against Rohingya Muslims in 2017 are ...
News Myanmar Security: From beans to gooseberry, rice-mad Myanmar eyes healthier diet
All of this "poses severe risks to diabetes, hypertension and overall health", said Anna-Lisa Noack, FAO's food security and nutrition policy specialist in Myanmar. A lack of diversified diets is ...
News Myanmar Security: Myanmar reporters remain among ‘10 most urgent’ cases of press freedom violations
The Myanmar Supreme Court recently upheld their convictions ... Colombian courts convicted three high-ranking officers of the Colombian security services for torturing Claudia and her daughter in 2003 ...
News Myanmar Security: UPDATE 1-Myanmar troops kill 6, detain scores in Rakhine over suspected rebel links-military spokesman
YANGON, May 2 (Reuters) - Myanmar security forces shot dead at least six people in the troubled western state of Rakhine on Thursday, after soldiers and police detained hundreds of people at a school, ...
News Myanmar Security: What’s in the EU Myanmar Arms Embargo Extension?
be it the adjustments Myanmar’s military has had to make on the security side in the wake of Western censure including relying more on Russia and China, or the upcoming Myanmar elections in 2020 ...
News Myanmar Security: Security-tech companies once flocked to Myanmar. One firm’s tools were used against two journalists.
YANGON, Myanmar — Myanmar police had two Reuters journalists behind bars, but they wanted more. The reporters, Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo, were lured into a meeting with police in December 2017 and ...
