Myanmar

A Rohingya woman walks past a flooded farm near the Kutupalong Refugee Camp in Bangladesh, where the monsoon season started in June and has caused casualties and landslides.

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Boy Dies, Thousands At Risk As Monsoon Rains Lash Rohingya Refugee Camps

7:15pm June 12, 2018

by Sasha Ingber

Members of the Muslim minority group who fled rape, murder and brutality in Myanmar now face different threats in southeastern Bangladesh: flooding, landslides and disease.

A market on the Strand, a main thoroughfare in Sittwe.

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'Deeply Disturbing' Conditions For Rohingya In Myanmar, And Those Yet To Return

10:58pm May 29, 2018

by Anthony Kuhn

"So much of what I've seen is, quite frankly, just deeply disturbing," U.S. aid chief Mark Green said after visiting a camp for Rohingya in Myanmar. For some, "this is the only reality they know."

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Hindu women cry at the site of a mass grave that Myanmar troops said they found last September in Maungdaw township. Amnesty International says local village leaders identified dozens of corpses unearthed from the graves the week before.

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'They Were All Slaughtered': Amnesty Says Rohingya Militants Massacred Hindus

5:03pm May 23, 2018

by Colin Dwyer

Amnesty International alleges a Rohingya insurgent group killed dozens of villagers last August. Afterward, Myanmar launched a campaign that one U.N. official says bears the "hallmarks of genocide."

A 360-degree camera is used to document the Khe Min Ga Zedi temple in Bagan, Myanmar.

3D Scans Help Preserve History, But Who Should Own Them?

8:02pm May 21, 2018

by Laura Sydell

Historic sites around the world face mounting threats: war, climate change, natural disaster. There's a rush to use 3D scans for preservation. But experts have questions about how the scans are used.

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Nandar was one of the organizers â and participants â in the staging of 'The Vagina Monologues."

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With Cupcakes And Courage, Myanmar Stages 'Vagina Monologues'

12:08pm March 29, 2018

by Libby Hogan

Right up to the opening curtain, organizers of the performance weren't sure that the play would be welcome in their very conservative country.

U.N. Special Rapporteur to Myanmar Yanghee Lee speaks at a press conference after reporting to the Human Rights Council in Geneva on Monday.

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Myanmar Rejects Reports That It Committed Extreme Human Rights Violations

4:08pm March 13, 2018

by Laurel Wamsley

A government spokesman said the claims are unsupported. The reports' authors also said that Facebook had played a role in inflaming violence and hatred against the Rohingya.

Myanmar State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi, in a national address in September, said she felt deeply for the suffering of all people caught up in conflict scorching through Rakhine state — in her first comments that also mentioned Muslims displaced by vio

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U.S. Holocaust Museum Rescinds Human Rights Award From Aung San Suu Kyi

3:55pm March 07, 2018

by Ashley Westerman

The Nobel laureate's handling of the Rohingya Muslim crisis in Myanmar led to the museum's decision.

On the left, a satellite image of the village of Thit Tone Nar Gwa Son on Dec. 2; on the right, the same village seen from space earlier this week. Human rights advocates say the government is destroying what amounts to scores of crime scenes before any c

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PHOTOS: Myanmar Apparently Razing Remains Of Rohingya Villages

10:42am February 23, 2018

by Colin Dwyer

Satellite images reveal barren landscapes where villages stood just months ago, before Myanmar began its brutal crackdown. Activists fear officials are destroying the crime scenes of mass atrocities.

A Rohingya refugee carries a bag of food in the Hakimpara camp in Bangladesh.

Kites, Prayers, A Snake Show: Reporting From The Rohingya Camps

7:00am February 18, 2018

by Marc Silver

NPR correspondent Jason Beaubien talks about his trip to the teeming refugee settlements in Bangladesh.

Ten Rohingya Muslim men kneel with their hands bound as members of the Myanmar security forces stand guard in Inn Din village on Sept. 2, 2017. The photo has been published as part of an extensive Reuters investigation into the massacre of the 10 men, who

Reuters Publishes Story Of Myanmar Massacre After 2 Journalists Arrested

6:39pm February 09, 2018

by Camila Domonoske

Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo have been detained by Myanmar since December. Now you can read the story they were working on, describing in detail the killing of 10 Rohingya men by villagers and troops.