Tag: Myanmar
A decade of digital repression and resistance in Southeast Asia
As internet use became more widespread, it was also turned into an essential weapon of citizen movements speaking truth to power
Cardinal Bo: Lent is ‘365 days of real suffering’
Cardinal Charles Maung Bo said Lent teaches the human family great lessons about “liberation from oppression, self-purification, and hope”.
Thailand’s proposed fishing law leaves Burmese workers vulnerable
Pheu Thai administration’s initiative to soften stringent measures has sparked fears of undoing the strides protecting workers’ rights
Aid group warns of violence against Christians, sees glimmer of hope...
“Over the past year, China and the United States have been working together to pressure Myanmar’s military dictatorship"
Rohingya refugees face worsening conditions in Cox’s Bazar amidst global silence”
Rohingyas, an ethnic minority group predominantly Muslim, faced a genocide in 2017 that forced over 740,000 to flee to Bangladesh
Myanmar resistance fighters burned alive stokes outrage
Sympathizers have circulated artwork on social media to pay tribute to the men who died, Phoe Tay, 23, and Thar Htaung, 22
Pope Francis urges ‘global attention’ and prayers for Rohingya
Pope Francis invited all parties involved "to take steps of dialogue and to clothe themselves with understanding"
Activist group urges global solidarity for Myanmar on 3rd year of...
The military crackdown has extended to cultural and religious institutions, with arrests and destruction of establishments like churches
Myanmar junta sentences nearly 400 women in 3 years since coup
According to the records compiled by the BWU, of those arrested women, 39 were sentenced to life in prison, and 16 faced the death penalty
Elderly monk dies two months after he was tortured by Myanmar’s...
Torturing an elderly monk was a brutal act by the military, the Venerable Min Thonnya, a monk who is opposed to the junta, told RFA
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