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 of thousands of people gather downtown, in what organisers hope will be ...
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 third day of street protests, calling for the release of elected leader ...
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, chanted support for jailed leader Aung San Suu Kyi and wore red ...
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 military and vigilantes that sent more than 700,000 Rohingya Muslims ...
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 Rohingya Muslims fled Rakhine after government troops led a brutal crackdown in ...
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 country’s military’s campaign against the Rohingya last year. Hussein told the BBC ...
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 a damning report on the crisis. Myanmar has come under immense pressure ...
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 and political ally as she faces rising international opprobrium over the ...
Cii Radio| Ayesha Ismail|08 March 2018| 20 Jumadul Ukhra 1439 The United States Holocaust Museum has rescinded a human rights award from Myanmar’s state counselor and de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi for failing to speak out against her country’s persecution ...
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 Rohingya. Shirin Ebadi of Iran, Mairead Maguire of Northern Ireland and Tawakkol ...
