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Aung San Suu Kyi's Lofty Goal In Myanmar: To Be 'Above' The President

11:35am November 07, 2015

by Anthony Kuhn

The country votes Sunday in its most important election in a quarter-century. The best-known politician is barred from the presidency, but Suu Kyi says she'll be calling the shots if her party wins.

A boy paddles a makeshift raft in flooded Kalay township, in the Sagaing region of Myanmar. Heavy monsoon rains have affected more than 210,000 people in 12 out of Myanmar's 14 states and regions since June.

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Monsoon Flooding Kills Dozens In Myanmar, Prompting Calls For Help

6:24pm August 04, 2015

by Bill Chappell

More than 200,000 people have been displaced by floods and landslides, with at least 46 deaths reported.

Residents stand at the entrance of Aung Mingalar, a Rohingya quarter of Sittwe, the capital of Rakhine State in western Myanmar. All but 4,000 of the neighborhood's 15,000 mostly Rohingya residents either fled or were forced to move to internment camps af

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Barricaded In, Myanmar's Rohingya Struggle To Survive In Ghettos And Camps

8:25pm July 29, 2015

by Anthony Kuhn

Habibullah considers himself lucky. His movements are restricted but he and his family live in their longtime house in a police-guarded ghetto. Many of his neighbors were forced into internment camps.

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Thai Prosecutors Seek Indictments Against Scores Of Alleged Human Traffickers

1:22pm July 24, 2015

by Scott Neuman

Charges have been recommended for more than 100 people after the discovery of mass graves containing the remains of migrants from Bangladesh and Myanmar.

A fishing boat carrying Rohingya and Bangladeshi migrants is pulled to shore by Achenese fishermen off the coast of Julok, in Indonesia's Aceh province, on Wednesday.

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Desperate Rohingya Granted Temporary Shelter. But What Next?

1:20am July 11, 2015

by Michael Sullivan

Malaysia and Indonesia will allow migrants stranded at sea to come ashore. But it's a one-year, one-off deal, with no signs the flow of the Muslim minority fleeing persecution in Myanmar will stop.

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Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi speaks at rally in Yangon, Myanmar, last year. Suu Kyi won the Nobel Peace Prize for her struggle for democracy in her homeland, but has faced criticism lately for not speaking out about the plight of the Rohingy

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The Human Rights Issue A Nobel Laureate Doesn't Want To Touch

11:00am June 02, 2015

by Michael Sullivan

Aung San Suu Kyi has been universally praised in her battle for democracy in Myanmar. But she has been conspicuously silent about the worsening plight of the Rohingya minority in her homeland.

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Malaysia Finds Gravesites In Camps Used By People Smugglers

1:43pm May 24, 2015

by Scott Neuman

The gruesome discovery of the sites thought to contain dozens or possibly hundreds of remains of migrants from Myanmar and Bangladesh, follows a similar find this month across the border in Thailand.

A sick migrant is helped by friends to board a truck that is taking them to a local hospital upon arrival in Simpang Tiga, Indonesia on Wednesday.

Indonesia, Malaysia Agree To Take In Stranded Rohingyas

7:53am May 20, 2015

by Eyder Peralta

The "boat people," as they've been called, have been stranded at sea for weeks with little food or water. Indonesia and Malaysia say they will take them in temporarily.

Newly arrived Rohingya migrants gather at Kuala Langsa Port in Langsa, Aceh province, Indonesia, on Friday after coming ashore. Most such migrants have been prevented from making port in Southeast Asia.

Why No One Wants The Rohingyas

4:47pm May 15, 2015

by Scott Neuman

As thousands of members of the persecuted minority flee Myanmar and Bangladesh on rickety boats, the rest of Southeast Asia is showing a distinct reluctance to take them in.

Rohingya refugees sit on a plastic sheet at Matang Raya village, Baktya district in Aceh Utara, Aceh province, Indonesia, on Sunday. Nearly 600 migrants thought to be Rohingya refugees from Myanmar were rescued from two wooden boats stranded off the coast

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Hundreds Of Rohingya Refugees Rescued At Sea After Fleeing Myanmar

3:15pm May 10, 2015

by Scott Neuman

The Muslim minority has long been persecuted in the country also known as Burma. Many Bangladeshis were also rescued.