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‘Purity’ doesn’t bring peace: 2025’s warning for Bangladesh, Myanmar, Assam and Bengal polls next year

Four upcoming elections are set to shape the politics and security of a region that sits at the strategically sensitive junction of India and China and directly affect the lives of a population larger than that of every country in the world barring India and China.

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Dozens killed in hospital strike in Myanmar’s western Rakhine state

Conflict monitors say the junta has increased airstrikes year-on-year since the start of Myanmar’s civil war

The Guardian - AU

Myanmar military accused of possible war crime after 34 killed in hospital strike

Hospital in an area controlled by a leading rebel force ‘completely destroyed’

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Voices: Myanmar’s junta must be held accountable for its horrific massacres – all 413 of them

COMMENT: As Tun Aung Shwe and Christopher Gunness prepare to present shocking new evidence of the military dictatorship's atrocities to the Turkish authorities, they make an impassioned plea: the world must answer the cries for justice by the people of Myanmar

The Independent UK

Rohingya Muslims plead for help at the UN to stop the killings in Myanmar

Rohingya Muslims have pleaded with the international community at the first United Nations high-level meeting on the plight of the ethnic minority to prevent the mass killings taking place in Myanmar and to help those in the persecuted group lead normal lives

The Independent UK

Rohingya Tell UN Of Myanmar Bloodshed, Suffering

A Rohingya refugee who fled ethnic violence in Myanmar along with 750,000 others in 2017, spending seven years in Bangladesh, described Tuesday the endless cycle of violence and exile facing the mostly Muslim minority.

International Business Times

Military airstrike on schools in western Myanmar kills at least 18 people, most of them students

An armed group and local media reports say Myanmar’s military has conducted an airstrike on two private schools in a village, killing at least 18 people, mostly students

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Rohingya refugees face uncertain future 8 years after fleeing Myanmar: ‘Are our lives not as important?’

IN FOCUS: As the international community is urged to find a sustainable solution to the Rohingya refugee crisis, Bangladesh says it has no scope to allocate more resources. Alisha Rahaman Sarkar reports

The Independent UK

China, India watch as Arakan Army advances on key western frontier

Arakan Army fighters seize 14 of 17 townships in Rakhine, pledge to liberate entire frontier state in western Myanmar.

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UN-backed investigators allege torture and sex crimes in Myanmar detention facilities

A U.N.-backed investigator says his team has turned up significant evidence of “systemic torture” in Myanmar’s detention centers, including electric shocks, strangulations, gang rape and burning of sexual body parts

The Independent UK

The Rohingya were driven from Myanmar. Now they’re taking up arms to fight back

SPECIAL REPORT: In the heart of the world’s largest refugee camp, whispers of resistance grow louder as young men feel compelled to take up arms and return to fight in Myanmar. Shweta Sharma speaks to these rebels and meets their secretive leader in a hideout in one of the Cox’s…

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UN Considering Humanitarian Channel From Bangladesh To Myanmar

United Nations chief Antonio Guterres said Saturday the organisation is exploring the possibility of a humanitarian aid channel from Bangladesh to Myanmar.

International Business Times

How Myanmar’s Rohingya refugees feel about Aung San Suu Kyi: ‘She was a rag doll who never had absolute power’

ON THE GROUND: Rohingya Muslims tell of their changing view of Aung San Suu Kyi, seeing her as one of their own – a victim of the military – as she languishes in solitary confinement. Shweta Sharma reports from Cox’s Bazar camps in Bangladesh

The Independent UK

Young Rohingya men are being forced to fight as foot soldiers on both sides of Myanmar’s brutal civil war

SPECIAL DISPATCH: Four years after Myanmar’s military coup sparked gunfighting, torture, rape and arson in Rakhine state, young Rohingya men are now being forcibly conscripted to fight for both the junta and the rebels. Shweta Sharma reports from Cox’s Bazar in Bangladesh

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As the Myanmar junta’s hold on power weakens, could the devastating war be nearing a conclusion?

It has now been four years since the Myanmar military launched its cataclysmic coup against the democratically elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi on February 1 2021, starting a civil war that has devastated the country.

The Independent UK

Myanmar junta air strike kills 28 people, rebel group says

It was not clear if airstrike in western Rakhine state was mistargeted or if junta was unaware of temporary detention area’s location

The Independent UK

Myanmar junta airstrike kills 40 people and burns down 500 houses in Rakhine – reports

Strike on Arakan Army stronghold sparks massive fire

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UN Report Highlights Atrocities In Myanmar

Learn about the escalating violence in Myanmar by the military junta, leading to a devastating humanitarian crisis and urgent calls for international action.

The Independent UK

Myanmar's conflict-torn Rakhine state could face an imminent acute famine, UN report warns

The U.N. Development Programs is warning that Myanmar’s Rakhine state, home to the Rohingya minority and engulfed in conflict between government forces and a powerful ethnic group, could face an imminent acute famine

The Guardian - AU

2 million at risk of starvation in Myanmar state amid ‘total economic collapse’

Exclusive: a UN report will accuse the military of imposing ‘collective punishment’ on Rakhine state, more than three years after seizing power in a coup

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