The Feb. 1 coup by Myanmar's military forces, overthrowing the democratically elected government, has made a bad situation only worse for the nation's religious and ethnic minority groups.

In June 2023, the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) reported that the Tatmadaw “has violated the human rights of religious minorities and destroyed minority religious sites and places of ...

ASIA/MYANMAR - Human rights violated, ethnic minorities persecuted: ... “Burmese ethnic minority refugees camped on the border with Thailand are living a serious humanitarian crisis” says London based ...

Almost 400 people have died in violence in western Myanmar that was triggered by attacks on security forces by insurgents from the Rohingya ethnic minority, Myanmar’s military said, as both ...

GENEVA — The U.N. human rights chief said Monday that the violence and injustice faced by the ethnic Rohingya minority in Myanmar, where U.N. rights investigators have been barred from entering ...

A 2020 United Nations report for example, highlighted human rights violations conducted by Myanmar’s military against various ethnic minorities. Following the military coup in 2021, insurgencies in ...

The military regime is intolerant of non-Burman ethnic and non-Buddhist religious minorities, he said. in 2017, the military carried out a brutal counterinsurgency campaign in the western state of ...

The Rohingya are a religious and ethnic minority in Myanmar that faces horrid abuse and discrimination by Burmese authorities. As the politics of Myanmar lurches toward representative democracy, this ...

Two reports to the United Nations have found that Myanmar has carried out extreme human rights violations against the Rohingya people, abuses that are most likely crimes under international law ...

Burma's struggle is a defining moment for democracy, human rights, and religious freedom in Asia. The world cannot afford to look away. Dr. Sasa is the Minister for International Co-operation in ...

Myanmar’s Rohingya ethnic minority, victims of a brutal campaign of mass slaughter and persecution by the nation’s military in 2016, is again being subjected to a wave of deadly ethnic ...