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Championing Rohingya Rights in Myanmar Cost Me 12 Years in Prison. It’s a Price Worth Paying

By U Kyaw Hla Aung

U.S. Sanctions Myanmar General Accused of Ethnic Cleansing

By Susan Heavey and Arshad Mohammed / Reuters

Myanmar Bars U.N. Official as Genocide Claims Intensify

By Laignee Barron

The Myanmar Military Is Investigating a Mass Grave in Rakhine

By Reuters
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Aung San Suu Kyi 'Could Face Genocide Charges': Rights Chief

Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein says the Myanmar military's attacks on the Rohingya community are "textbook ethnic cleansing"

By Laignee Barron

U.N. Chief Condemns Rights Violations in Myanmar

He spoke about the "erosion of press freedom" in the country

By Tim Kelly / Reuters

Myanmar Arrests Two More Journalists

The reporters had been working on stories about a military crackdown on the Rohingya Muslim minority in Rahkine State

By Reuters

Pope Arrives in Myanmar Amid Simmering Tensions

Myanmar's Rohingya Muslim minority has suffered persecution

By Eli Meixler

'The Turmoil of Burma' in 1949: The Constant Conflict of Myanmar

Since Myanmar gained independence, it has been swept by waves of strife. In 1949, LIFE sent correspondents to document one such crisis

By Lily Rothman and Liz Ronk

Rakhine Video Costs Myanmar Beauty Queen Her Job

A Myanmar beauty queen claims she has was unceremoniously dethroned after her video statement on the ongoing Rohingya crisis

By Laignee Barron

U.S. May Limit Myanmar Ties Over Rohingya Crisis

The Trump Administration is considering limiting U.S. ties with Myanmar’s military in response to its recent violence against the country’s Rohingya Muslims, a White House official tells TIME. In the past three weeks, more than...

By Elizabeth Dias

Top Catholic Official in Myanmar Speaks Out on Treatment of Rohingya Muslims

"Surely she should have spoken out"

By Elizabeth Dias

18,000 Rohingya Fled Myanmar Violence Since Last Week

More are expected to follow as conflict continues

By Joseph Hincks

Arrested Journalists Highlight Lack of Free Press in Myanmar

Many Myanmar reporters have returned from exile in democratic Burma, but colonial-era laws are still being used to send them to jail

By Colin Hinshelwood / Chiang Mai

In Aung San Suu Kyi's Myanmar, Peace Is Becoming an Elusive Dream

While Suu Kyi may have reinvigorated the peace process, she has not convinced those still refusing to sign a peace deal that she is charting a course different to that which failed her predecessors

By Francis Wade

Rohingya Villagers Bear Witness to a Brutal Crackdown in Myanmar

TIME speaks to villagers who witnessed the Myanmar military's “clearance operation” in Rakhine, in which 1,000 Rohingya may have been killed

By Carlos Sardiña Galache / Maungdaw

Aung San Suu Kyi Struggles to Unite a Fractured Myanmar

Aung San Suu Kyi's rise to power last year was the stuff of screenplays and a rare vindication of history. But she inherited a nation in distress. TIME looks at where Myanmar is one year on

By Feliz Solomon / Yangon, Kutkai and Sittwe

U.N. to Investigate Alleged Abuse of Myanmar's Rohingya

The Myanmar armed forces have been accused of rape, torture and extra-judicial killing while carrying out anti-insurgency operations

By Feliz Solomon

U.N. Warned Myanmar Seeks to Expel Rohingya Entirely

The council is expected to rule on a wide-ranging resolution on human rights in Myanmar on Thursday

By Feliz Solomon / Sittwe

Myanmar's Rohingya Camps Feel Ever More Permanent

The U.N. human-rights envoy to Myanmar is set to recommend a commission of inquiry to investigate the "persecution" of Rohingya people. But a draft resolution suggests the U.N. won't pursue the probe

By Feliz Solomon / Sittwe
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