Myanmar’s flooding death toll has risen to at least 74, state media reported on Sunday, after heavy rains caused by Typhoon Yagi triggered widespread floods across the country. CBC | World News
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Bob Geldof returns Freedom of Dublin honour in protest of Myanmar’s Suu Kyi
Bob Geldof returns his Freedom of Dublin honour because it is also held by Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi, accusing her of complicity for what he and others, including the United Nations, call ‘ethnic cleansing’ of Rohingya Muslims in the Asian nation. CBC | World News
Read More »Myanmar’s Suu Kyi condemns ‘all human rights violations’ in Rohingya crisis
Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi condemned all human rights violations on Tuesday and said anyone responsible for abuses in troubled Rakhine State would face the law. CBC | World News
Read More »Burning huts raise questions about Myanmar’s version of Rohingya fleeing country
Journalists see new fires burning in a Myanmar village abandoned by Rohingya Muslims and pages ripped from Islamic texts left on the ground, intensifying doubts about government claims that members of the persecuted minority have been destroying their own homes. CBC | World News
Read More »More than 2,600 houses in Rohingya-majority areas of Myanmar’s Rakhine state burned, government says
More than 2,600 houses have been burned down in Rohingya-majority areas of Myanmar’s northwest in the last week, the government said on Saturday, in one of the deadliest bouts of violence involving the Muslim minority in decades. CBC | World News
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