Arakan Army Shows Off Video of...

Ethnic Rakhines comprise the majority of soldiers who serve in the Myanmar Army in Rakhine state, where the AA has been engaged in heightened armed conflict this year with government forces in a quest for greater autonomy in the region

Myanmar Former Child Soldier Free After...

Aung Ko Htway, 28, was sentenced to two years of hard labor in March 2018 for provoking public incitement under Section 505(b) of the country’s Penal Code after he described his abduction and forced military service as a minor in an interview with RFA

Fresh Clash in Myanmar’s Northern Shan...

More than 200 villagers fled their homes in Tangyan township on Tuesday to escape nearby fighting between the Myanmar military and Shan State Army-North troops in northeastern Shan state, local residents said

Abuses of Religious Freedom in Burma

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Myanmar Soldiers Surround Monastery in Rakhine,...

Myanmar government soldiers on Monday surrounded a Buddhist monastery in Rakhine state, demanding entry to search for members of ethnic armies they say are hiding among the thousands of displaced civilians sheltering there, sources say

Myanmar Protester’s Body is Returned to...

The body of a Myanmar villager who died in prison this week was handed over to family members on Thursday, with prison authorities forcing relatives to sign a pledge beforehand not to raise a fuss over wounds seen on the body suggesting the man was killed in custody

Arakan Army Soldiers Stop Boats, Seize...

Arakan Army soldiers halted river traffic in Myanmar’s Chin state on Monday, seizing over 70 sacks of rice being taken upstream to villagers suffering from food shortages, a state official told RFA’s Myanmar Service on Tuesday. An AA spokesperson meanwhile denied the accusation, saying that the rice taken from the boats was intended for Myanmar …

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Myanmar Nationalist Monk Wirathu Faces Sedition...

The Mahana is a government-appointed council that oversees and regulates the Buddhist clergy in Buddhist-majority Myanmar. In March 2017, its office in Mandalay prohibited Wirathu from giving sermons for a year because of his hate speech and anti-Muslim rhetoric

Women Are Increasingly Drawn to the...

Many ethnic Rakhines believe they have been sold short on benefits they should have received as part of the central government’s natural resources and infrastructure deals with Myanmar’s larger neighbors — chiefly pipelines that export their state’s oil and natural gas to China and a massive transportation corridor to ship cargo from India to Rakhine’s Sittwe seaport and then on to northeast India via river and highway routes

Myanmar Leader Pardons 9,500 Prisoners but...

The Facebook page of the Office of President Win Myint said he has signed a pardon for 9,551 prisoners, including 16 foreigners, to be released nationwide on the occasion of the country’s traditional New Year