Emanuel Stoakes: The Burmese politician's visit to Australia will spark praise from politicians – an unhelpful distraction from the extremely serious abuses taking place against Muslims in her homeland Emanuel Stoakes ...
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s opposition leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, has stopped short of directly condemning anti-Muslim violence in the country and said that it was motivated by fear. Sectarian violence between Buddhists and Muslims began in western Rakhine state last year , with hundreds killed and about 140,000 people, mostly Muslims, driven from their homes. The violence spread to other parts of the country this year. The...
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Tatmadaw' armed forces gives rise to concerns that women recruits will be abused If you're a single female between the ages of 25 and 30, 1.6 metres (5ft 3in) or taller and weighing less than 59kg (130lbs), then the Tatmadaw – Burma's military – may be looking for you. Once limited to working only as nurses in the military, Burmese women are now being actively recruited by the country's ministry of...
s Traders Hotel also suspected of playing role in foiled plot to blow up restaurant A man arrested over a hotel bombing in Burma in which an American woman was injured had been under surveillance for alleged involvement in the planting of a second device found at a restaurant the next afternoon, police said. Authorities moved in on Saw Myint Lwin, 26, after matching his photograph with images captured...
s commercial capital, blew out a window in the guest's ninth floor room, shooting shards of thick glass more than 30 metres into the street. There was no other visible damage to the exterior of the building. The device apparently went off in the guest's bathroom. A 43-year-old American woman was slightly injured and taken to hospital, police and hotel staff said. Her husband and their two children,...