Rohingya being forcibly conscripted in battle between Myanmar and rebels

May 14, 2024

For more than four hours Abdullah* waited in the darkness as soldiers marched 30 of his neighbours from their homes in the Myanmar border state of Rakhine and forced them by gunpoint to join him on the truck that would take them all to a military base. By the morning they were standing in front […]Continue Reading

UN General Assembly set to back Palestinian bid for membership

May 10, 2024

The United Nations General Assembly on Friday is set to back a Palestinian bid to become a full UN member by recognizing it as qualified to join and sending the application back to the UN Security Council to “reconsider the matter favourably,” Reuters reports. The Palestinians are reviving their bid to become a full UN […]Continue Reading

Five more BGP members take refuge in Bangladesh

May 10, 2024

COX’S BAZAR CORRESPONDENT Five more members of Myanmar’s Border Guard Police (BGP) have sought refuge in Bangladesh, escaping through Sabrang Point on the Naf River in Teknaf sub-district of Cox’s Bazar, amid ongoing internal conflicts in Myanmar, officials said on Thursday. The members entered Bangladesh around 11 a.m. local time on Thursday via a motorboat Continue Reading

In Myanmar war, crucial window looms for junta and rebels

May 8, 2024

In the jungles of southeastern Myanmar’s Dawna Hills, rebels from an armed ethnic group are fighting to hold back columns of reinforcements sent by the country’s ruling junta to try to reclaim Myawaddy, a critical trading outpost on the Thai border, Reuters reports. What happens in the next few weeks in the scramble for Myawaddy […]Continue Reading

Hundreds of Myanmar junta troops surrender near Bangladesh border

May 8, 2024

At least 200 Myanmar junta troops have surrendered after an ethnic minority army captured their headquarters in Rakhine State, near the Bangladesh border, the anti-junta organization said on Monday, Radio Free Asia reports. The Arakan Army, which has been fighting the military regime for territory since a year-long ceasefire ended in November 2023, captured a […]Continue Reading

Arakan Army seizes major Myanmar junta base on Bangladesh border

May 5, 2024

The Arakan Army (AA) seized a border guard headquarters in northern Maungdaw Township, Rakhine State, on Friday, and its troops have entered the town, according to residents, The Irrawaddy reports. The AA attacked the Kyee Kan Pyin Border Guard Police headquarters on Thursday, which was defended by junta police and troops. Kyee Kan Pyin village […]Continue Reading

War For Rakhine: Arakan Army closing in on Myanmar junta western headquarters

May 4, 2024

The Arakan Army (AA) is getting closer to a full attack on its biggest target so far – the Western Command headquarters of Myanmar’s military – in Rakhine State’s Ann Township, a spokesman for the ethnic army said. The ethnic army’s effort to isolate the major target is nearing completion, following the capture of sections […]Continue Reading

Delhi Police busts Rohingya trafficking racket

May 4, 2024

Delhi Police has busted a racket engaged in trafficking Rohingyas from Myanmar through Bangladesh to parts of India and other foreign countries. Two men, including an agent from Myanmar’s Rakhine, were arrested from Hyderabad after a Myanmar couple who had flown to Russia on fake Indian passports were sent back to New Delhi. The racket, […]Continue Reading

Myanmar stops men from working abroad as war heats up

May 3, 2024

Myanmar’s military government will no longer allow conscription-age men to travel out of the country for work, weeks after an enlistment order prompted many to try and flee, BBC reports. On Thursday, authorities said they would suspend accepting applications for overseas work permits. There is a large diaspora of Myanmar citizens working in other countries […]Continue Reading

US presidential candidate Jill Stein arrested at pro-Palestinian protest

April 28, 2024

Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein was arrested Saturday at a pro-Palestinian protest at Washington University in St. Louis, but “we are not aware of any charges at this time,” her campaign spokesperson said, CNN reports. Stein was at the protest to support students who had set up an encampment and declared they would not […]Continue Reading