Myanmar
US declaration of ‘ethnic cleansing’ in Myanmar on way
By Yonat Shimron — October 24, 2017
WASHINGTON (AP) — The issue also is sensitive because President Trump will make his first official trip to Asia next month and hasn't spoken about the crisis.
Myanmar Rohingya hatred has roots in Buddhist nationalism
By Yonat Shimron — September 29, 2017
BANGKOK (AP) — The prejudice and hostility that Rohingya Muslims face stretches back to an often virulent form of Buddhist nationalism that has seen a resurgence since the end of military rule in Myanmar.
The history of the persecution of Myanmar’s Rohingya
By Engy Abdelkader — September 21, 2017
(The Conversation) — This pattern of persecution goes back to 1948 – the year when the country achieved independence from their British colonizers.
Myanmar disaster another case of civilizational climate change
By Mark Silk — September 16, 2017
Xenophobic nationalism is the societal equivalent of global warming.
Nearly 3 weeks into Rohingya crisis, refugees still fleeing
By Jerome Socolovsky — September 14, 2017
COX'S BAZAR, Bangladesh (AP) — The crisis has drawn global condemnation, with U.N. officials demanding Myanmar halt what they described as a campaign of ethnic cleansing that has driven some 400,000 Rohingya to flee Rakhine state.
Rohingya Muslims tell of abuses during army crackdown
By guest — July 15, 2017
(Reuters) Myanmar's government, led by Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, has denied most of the claims, and is blocking entry to a U.N. fact-finding mission tasked with looking into the allegations.
Myanmar arrests Buddhist nationalists accused of stoking tensions with Muslims
By Wa Lone — May 15, 2017
YANGON (Reuters) The arrests came after nationalists led by the Patriotic Monks Union raided flats in a Yangon district with a large Muslim population.
Aid flotilla to help Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar
By guest — December 30, 2016
(REUTERS) The flotilla has yet to receive permission to enter Myanmar, sparking fears of a confrontation with security forces that could worsen Myanmar's already-frayed ties with predominantly Muslim Malaysia.
Myanmar says Muslim with links to government was murdered
By Lauren Markoe — December 26, 2016
YANGON (Reuters) The government said it was the second murder in under a week of a Rohingya who cooperated with authorities as they crack down on suspected insurgents.
Bike lanes * Saint Barbie * So long: October’s Religious Freedom Recap
By Brian Pellot — November 2, 2015
Churches attack bike lanes for "burdening" their religious freedom as Saint Barbie leads a plastic revolution in Argentina. Savor every word of this last ever recap as I say “so long” to On Freedom.
Myanmar’s Suu Kyi urges supporters not to let race, religion dominate upcoming election
By Reuters — October 17, 2015
Toungup, MYANMAR (Reuters) Hardline Buddhist monks and nationalists have branded Nobel peace laureate Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy too sympathetic to Muslims and unwilling to protect Buddhism.
US Muslim activists sue Myanmar president over treatment of Rohingyas
By Reuters — October 3, 2015
Weeks before elections in Myanmar, the complaint, filed Oct. 1 in Manhattan federal court, accuses Thein Sein and top officials of "hate crimes and discrimination amounting to genocide."
Kardashian pope * Kim Davis * Beef party : September’s Religious Freedom Recap
By Brian Pellot — October 2, 2015
Celebrity Pope Francis photobombed selfies on his U.S. album launch tour. Conservative “It Girl” Kim Davis sat in jail and won awards for not doing her job. And India threw a “beef party” to celebrate religious tolerance and protest new meat bans.
Fake church * ISIS onesies * Albino hope: August’s Religious Freedom Recap
By Brian Pellot — September 1, 2015
HBO’s John Oliver trolls predatory televangelists by launching his own tax-exempt church. Spain arrests a man for selling ISIS shirts and baby onesies. And a U.S. charity is offering new limbs to albino children dismembered for black magic in Tanzania. Read on.
Anti-Muslim Buddhist group moves toward Myanmar’s mainstream
By Reuters — September 1, 2015
YANGON (Reuters) Myanmar's Committee for the Protection of Race and Religion has pushed through four laws that critics say effectively legalize discrimination against women and the country's minority Muslims ahead of the country's first free vote in 25 years.