Ed note. This is a special guest post from Mark Kersten, who is the Deputy Director of the Wayamo Foundation as well as a fellow and lecturer at the Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto, and the author of the...
A recent report by the UN Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights (OHCHR) details the brutal treatment of the Rohingya by the Myanmar military and armed gangs. More than half a million Rohingya have fled Myanmar for Bangladesh...
Bangladesh is forging ahead with a controversial plan to settle hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslim refugees from Myanmar on an isolated, undeveloped, flood-prone island in the Bay of Bengal. According to the latest estimates from U.N. officials, 313,000 Rohingya have poured across the...
Crimes against humanity are ongoing in Burma and they are being committed by the state against the Rohingya people. This is a minority community in Burma that has historically faced intense discrimination, but there was some degree of hope that...
The former Secretary General is taking on a new challenge: bringing peace and reconciliation to a desolate, troubled corner of South East Asia. Rakhine State in Myanmar is a conflict prone region in the western part of the country that...
Myanmar held its freest elections ever yesterday. Thirty million people were eligible to vote for a slate that include 91 different parties, but the main contest was between the ruling military party, Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP), and the...
A dangerous game of human pingpong is underway in the Adaman Sea between Myanmar, Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia. Thousands of Rohingya, a Muslim minority primarily from Myanmar, are adrift at sea. Until yesterday, no country was taking them in, and...
