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The U.S. aid helped fund services provided by the International Rescue Committee (IRC) to tens of thousands of refugees like Adabi living in camps on the border between Thailand and Myanmar.
(Reuters) -Just days after the United Nations accused his military of brutally driving what eventually became 1 million Rohingya out of the country, Myanmar's then-army chief Min Aung Hlaing ...
Myanmar security forces killed at least 25 people in another raid in Tabayin. [111] These attacks occurred in Central Myanmar, also known as Anya, an area that had rarely seen armed violence in recent times. [112] On 2 July, troops assaulted several villages in Sagaing Region and reportedly killed 41 civilians.
Maung Maung writes from inside Myanmar about how he left his profession, his life, everything to escape the claws of the junta after they ousted Aung San Suu Kyi
Myanmar has been embroiled in armed conflict since 1948, when the country, then known as Burma, gained independence from the United Kingdom. [5] [6] The conflict has largely been ethnic-based, with ethnic armed organisations fighting Myanmar's armed forces, the Tatmadaw, for self-determination.
According to the Special Advisory Council for Myanmar (SAC-M) and the ASEAN Parliamentarians for Human Rights, Heyzer was then disinvited to the Consultative Meeting on ASEAN Humanitarian Assistance to Myanmar (6 May) after her attendance was blocked by the junta, represented by the SAC Minister for International Cooperation Ko Ko Hlaing. [18]
"Successive crises in Myanmar have left one third of the population in need of humanitarian aid," Griffiths said in a U.N. humanitarian chief appeals to Myanmar generals for greater aid access ...
The United Nations Security Council has convened several times to discuss the Rohingya crisis Rakhine State in Myanmar. The Rohingya genocide is a term applied to the persecution—including mass killings, mass rapes, village-burnings, deprivations, ethnic cleansing, and internments—of the Rohingya people of western Myanmar (particularly northern Rakhine state).