"We strongly urge the [Burmese] military regime to cease violence, including harming civilians and civilian infrastructure, ...

Burma is a long-forgotten battleground for religious freedom and human rights in Asia, and its turmoil is part of a broader struggle in the region.

U.N. member states should take decisive action to end the Myanmar military junta’s ongoing atrocities and ensure accountability for its grave crimes, said Fortify Rights, Amnesty International, and 44 ...

The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights described the atrocities committed against the Rohingya Muslims in Burma as “a textbook example of ethnic cleansing”, and the UN Special Envoy for ...

In a separate post on X on Sunday, Blinken said, "Today marks the seventh anniversary of the Burma military's genocide and ...

In 1991-92 alone, discrimination, violence and the imposition of forced ... and other widespread violations of the rights of Rohingya in Burma have led to new refugee outflows into Bangladesh.

This outburst of violence by the military came after a similar attack on a security post along the Bangladeshi border in October 2016 killed nine police officers. The army responded to that attack ...

Each country is then assigned a 0-100 score on our Atrocities Scope and Scale Heuristic – providing a single metric for the breadth and severity of atrocities committed within a certain year.

There was mounting tension between the Buddhist and Muslim communities in Taungoo for weeks before it erupted into violence in the middle of May 2001. The destruction of the Buddhist images in ...