World View: Rohingya ARSA Attack on Burma (Myanmar) Police Complicates Repatriation Plans
Contents: Rohingya ARSA attack on Burma (Myanmar) police complicates fantasy repatriation plans; Rohingya refugee crisis in Bangladesh continues to grow
Contents: Rohingya ARSA attack on Burma (Myanmar) police complicates fantasy repatriation plans; Rohingya refugee crisis in Bangladesh continues to grow
Contents: Burma (Myanmar) blocks UN investigator from investigating atrocities against Rohingyas; Burma officials, including Aung San Suu Kyi, may face genocide charges
Contents: Burma makes farcical agreement with Bangladesh to take back Rohingya refugees; China proposes farcical three-point solution to Rohingya crisis; India and China support Burma on Rohingya ethnic cleansing for business reasons
Contents: Floods in South Asia kill 1,400 people in four countries; Kenya’s president Kenyatta lashes out as Supreme Court judges as ‘crooks’; Burmese Buddhist attacks on Muslim Rohingyas in Myanmar becoming full-scale genocide
Contents: Violence between Buddhists and Muslims in Myanmar/Burma escalates dramatically; Rise of the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA) militant insurgency
Contents: Sri Lanka targets radical nationalist Buddhists in Bodu Bala Sena (BBS); Brief generational history of Sri Lanka and Bodu Bala Sena (BBS)
Contents: Pope Francis apologizes for Catholic Church’s role in 1994 Rwanda genocide; A century of genocides
Contents: Thousands flee from Myanmar into China to escape army clashes with ethnic militias; Myanmar faces an investigation for ethnic cleansing of Rohingya Muslims
Contents: Evidence of Burma ethnic cleansing of Rohingyas continues to mount; Burma’s Rohingya attacks generate calls for military action in Malaysia; Jihadists become radicalized by the Rohingya slaughter
Contents: UN: Burma (Myanmar) committing ‘ethnic cleansing’ of Rohingyas; Bangladesh is blocking Rohingya refugees fleeing from Burma violence; Tens of thousands flee from northern Burma across border to China
Contents: Communal violence grows in Myanmar (Burma) between Buddhists and Rohingya Muslims; Syria and Russia resume bombings of women and children in Aleppo
Contents: Myanmar (Burma) signs partial, but not nationwide, peace agreement; Myanmar (Burma) peace agreements since 1989; Burma’s brutal problems with the Rohingya and Kokang continue
Buddhist monks in Myanmar have called for a government-enforced ban on headscarves in schools across the country. “When [Muslims] live in Myanmar, they need to obey the laws and regulations of the country. We are not targeting or attacking their religion,” U Pamaukkha, a monk calling for this ban, said.
Contents: Burma (Myanmar) approves birth control law targeting Rohingya Muslims; Burma’s government vacillates between repression (stability) and reforms (human rights); Lessons learned from Ireland’s vote on gay marriage
Contents: Indonesia and Malaysia back down and accept stranded Rohingya migrants; Iran backs down and allows inspection of aid ship to Yemen;
Nearly 800 migrants from Burma and Bangladesh were rescued by local fishermen when their boat sank off the eastern coast of Indonesia. The migrants were brought to shore, given food and water, and placed in a warehouse.
Rohingya ‘death camps’ and ‘slave camps’ found in southern Thailand; Yemen war sharply intensifies, as ‘truce’ is offered.