Rohingya Muslims
Rohingya refugees rescued after drifting at sea for 9 days
By Associated Press — April 22, 2018
(AP) — A Rohingya Muslim man among a group of 76 rescued in a wooden boat in Indonesian waters says they were at sea for nine days after leaving Myanmar, where the minority group faces intense persecution, and were hoping to reach Malaysia.
Myanmar bulldozes what is left of Rohingya Muslim villages
By Delta Systems — February 23, 2018
(AP) — Human rights groups say Myanmar's government is destroying crucial evidence of mass atrocities against the nation's ethnic Rohingya Muslim minority.
Pope on 2018: Forget life’s ‘useless baggage’
By Cathy Lynn Grossman — January 1, 2018
(AP) Don't let freedom be corroded by consumerism and 'the overpowering waves of empty chatter,' Pope Francis urged.
Pope in Bangladesh, continues diplomatic tightrope walk
By Christopher Lamb — November 30, 2017
DHAKA, Bangladesh (RNS) — Bangladesh is the second and final leg of one of the most politically fraught trips of Francis' papacy, where his outspoken concern for refugees has been tempered by sensitivities on the ground.
Pope Francis, diplomatic prophet in Myanmar
By Thomas Reese — November 30, 2017
(RNS) — Pope Francis was faced with a terrible dilemma: Be prophetic and put at risk Christians in Myanmar, or be silent and compromise his moral authority. He chose neither.
Pope Francis shouldn’t risk going to Myanmar
By Thomas Reese — November 20, 2017
(RNS) — Next week Pope Francis will visit Myanmar, where he risks either compromising his moral authority or putting in danger the Christians of that country. I have great admiration for the pope and his abilities, but someone should have talked him out of making this visit.
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.
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.
Boats carrying fleeing Rohingya sink in Bangladesh; 26 dead
By Yonat Shimron — August 31, 2017
COX'S BAZAR, Bangladesh (AP) — Ethnic violence in Myanmar's Rakhine state forced at least 18,000 Rohingya Muslims to flee into neighboring Bangladesh.
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.
Using ‘flower speech’ and new Facebook tools, Myanmar fights online hate speech
By Mari Michener Oye — December 24, 2014
YANGON, Myanmar (RNS) “It’s not enough to complain about content. That just removes the bad stuff after you already saw it,” said Matt Schissler, an adviser to the civil society group Paung Ku.
Obama heads to Myanmar as ethnic and religious tensions percolate
By Thomas Maresca — November 12, 2014
SITTWE, Myanmar (RNS) As Myanmar steps into the spotlight this week, the worsening plight of the Rohingya Muslim minority is casting a shadow over the country's hopes for democratic reforms.
FEATURED VIDEO: Atrocities in Myanmar
By Sally Morrow — August 14, 2014
"Myanmar, formerly known as Burma, continues to experience the violent persecution of its minority population of Rohingya Muslims. Muslims are being attacked by mobs of extremist Buddhist factions, despite Buddhist principles of nonviolence."
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