Burma

Myanmar’s military has long dominated the country’s political life, but now faces its most sustained threat ever.

The ousted leader of Myanmar, Aung San Suu Kyi, has been found guilty of incitement and breaching Covid rules in the first of a series of court cases against her. 

Our Foreign Affairs Correspondent Jonathan Miller has been looking into the industry that’s been called “the biggest natural resource heist in modern history.”

The military takeover in Myanmar has given the Generals behind the coup full control over the country’s highly lucrative jade industry, blunting the threat of international sanctions.

Since the military junta seized power in Myanmar in February’s coup, violent resistance against the regime has been intensifying. Young people across the country have begun taking up arms to join the fight against their own army.

Two journalists who were jailed after reporting on Myanmar’s treatment of Rohingya Muslims have been released. Kyaw Soe Oo and Wa Lone, who work for the Reuters news agency, spent more than 500 days in prison.

Dr Azeem Ibrahim, senior fellow at the Centre for Global Policy in the United States speaks about what is ‘turning out to be the worst humanitarian crisis of this generation.’

Shocking testimony from Rohinghya women about rape and assault by soldiers in the Myanmar military

Former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, who has been charged with trying to resolve the Rohingya crisis, discusses what needs to be done.  

A new wave of up to 15 thousand Rohingya refugees have crossed the border from their homes in Myanmar to seek refuge in the makeshift camps inside Bangladesh. Some of the new exodus have described scenes of violence that the UN has called ‘textbook ethnic cleansing’. Myanmar’s military government has maintained they are targeting militants,…

Labour MP Rushanara Ali, chair of the all-party group on Burma, discusses the plight of the Rohingya.

Bangladesh’s High Commissioner to the UK, Mohammed Nazmul Quaunine, discusses the plight of the Rohingya.

The crisis for the Rohingya refugees grows. Dozens are feared dead after they fled their homeland in Myanmar and their boat capsized off Bangladesh. Survivors said the boat which had been avoiding coastguard patrols at sea had been anchored off Inani beach, in the Bay of Bengal. It was within sight of land when rough…

Now the head of the UN’s refugee agency says this humanitarian crisis is among the worst he’s ever seen. The plight of the Rohingya muslims fleeing Myanmar has become a blight on the world’s conscience – and it’s getting worse by the day.

Channel 4 News has obtained new footage from the jungle on the border between Myanmar and Bangladesh. It shows hundreds possibly thousands more still making the desperate journey to safety.