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Persecuting Burma’s minority
There are rapes – there are killings – there are human rights abuses on a daily basis: but says the UN, the persecution of Burma’s minority Rohingya people is being ignored. And it’s accused Aung San Suu Kyi’s government of a “counterproductive, even callous” approach. The scale of the crisis is sharply revealed by satellite…
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A 'revolutionary wedding' amidst Burma's student crackdown
Ko Htet and his wife Su Yee Win are lovers in a dangerous time, which happens to be an entirely unexpected feature of their new life as a married couple.
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Why is Burma declaring state of emergency in troubled Kokang region?
Burma’s president declares a state of emergency in the Kokang region and imposes a three-month period of martial law, hours after a Red Cross convoy comes under attack.
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Burma's Rohingya suffering 'architecture of abuse' – report
No one gets to decide where they are born, but if people had the power to choose, no one would want to be a Rohingya from north-west Burma.
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Burma hosts SEA Games – with a little help from its friends
For the first time since 1969, Burma is hosting the South East Asia Games and hopes it can show off its reforms, but the nation still remains reliant on China, writes Aung Zaw Min.
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Nightmare island where traffickers imprison Burma’s Rohingya
Beaten, imprisoned and sold into slavery – Channel 4 News reveals the fate of Burma’s Muslim Rohingya refugees, who flee conflict only to end up in the clutches of brutal human traffickers.
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Burma's Rohingyas: how journalism really can make a difference
Journalists are not universally admired, but as I found after making a film about the plight of Burma’s Rohingya Muslims, what we do often pricks the consciences of the poweful.
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The plight of Burma's Rohingya Muslims in a Thai camp
As Thailand struggles with an influx of Rohingya Muslims from Burma, John Sparks visits a camp where conditions are desperately over-crowded, with barely room to sit.
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Rohingya refugees from Burma kept in appalling conditions
Thousands of Muslim refugees who have fled religious persection in Burma have been locked up in overcrowded caged cells in detention centres in Thailand.
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Burma: Rohingya Muslims restricted to two children
Aung San Suu Kyi has remained silent on the plight of Burma’s Rohingya Muslims. With her criticism of “discrimination”, is she now changing her tune?
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Burma authorities accused of ‘ethnic cleansing’
As a human rights group accuses the Burmese authorities of a campaign of ethnic cleansing against Rohingya Muslims, the EU lifts its sanctions against Burma.
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Burma and its failing leadership
When Burma elected its first democratic president, it was the dawn of a new era. But the country is in a downward spiral of ethnic violence, reports Asia Correspondent John Sparks.
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Team flies to Burma to uncover mystery of buried Spitfires
A British team is flying to Burma to try to unearth a mystery that has been buried – literally – for more than 60 years.
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As Obama visits Burma, stories emerge of a massacre
On the day Barack Obama makes a historic visit to Burma, John Sparks explores stories of a massacre against Rohingya Muslims in the north-west of the country.
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Obama comes up against 'world leader weariness' in Burma
World leaders have been beating a path to Burma for months now to meet Aung San Suu Kyi and President Thein Sein. So why is Barack Obama so late to the party?
