Roads blocked in Yangon Myanmar
17 February 2021 Dozens of vehicles are blocking key roads across Myanmar’s main city Yangon, in what appears to be a new tactic employed by protesters. It comes as tens…
Water cannon used on Myanmar protestors
08 February 2021 Police in Myanmar’s capital Nay Pyi Taw have used water cannon on workers conducting a nationwide strike against a military coup. Thousands are taking part in a…
Anti-coup protests gain slow momentum in Myanmar
05 February 2021 A civil disobedience movement in Myanmar is gaining momentum with teachers and students protesting against Monday’s military coup. Demonstrators at a university in the biggest city, Yangon,…
Mike Pence tells Suu Kyi Rohingya violence inexcusable
14 November 2018|06 Rabi ul Awwal 1440| Al Jazeera US Vice President Mike Pence told Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi on Wednesday the violence and persecution by her country’s…
Myanmar’s Suu Kyi says in hindsight could have handled Rakhine issue better
13 September 2018|03 Muharram 1440|Arab News Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi on Thursday said in hindsight her government could have handled the situation in Rakhine state better. Some 700,000…
UN Chief:Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi ‘should have resigned’
30 August 2018|18 Dhul Hijjah 1439|Al Jazeera Outgoing UN human rights chief Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein has said that Myanmar’s de-facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi should have resigned over her…
Myanmar rejects UN probe findings of Rohingya ‘genocide’
29 August 2018|17 Dhul Hijjah 1439|Arab news Myanmar rejected Wednesday the findings of a UN probe alleging genocide by its military against the Rohingya, in a strident government response to…
Myanmar president, close Suu Kyi friend, resigns
Cii Radio| Ayesha Ismail|21 March 2018|03 Rajab 1439 Myanmar’s President Htin Kyaw resigned suddenly on Wednesday leaving the country’s de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi without a close confidant…
US museum revokes human rights award from Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi
Cii Radio| Ayesha Ismail|08 March 2018| 20 Jumadul Ukhra 1439 The United States Holocaust Museum has rescinded a human rights award from Myanmar’s state counselor and de facto leader Aung San…
Three Nobel Peace Prize laureates say Suu Kyi responsible for Rohingya ‘genocide’
Cii Radio|Ayesha Ismail|01 March 2018|13 Jumadul Ukhra 1439 Three female Nobel peace laureates have accused Myanmar’s de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi and the military of the “genocide” of…