Posts Tagged ‘Myanmar military crackdown’

Myanmar junta steps up attacks

Monday, November 28th, 2022

Hundreds of homes in the Catholic village of Mon Hla in central Sagaing — the home of Cardinal Charles Bo — have been burned down by junta forces as the regime steps up attacks in Myanmar’s Bamar-majority region. Villagers said the homes were torched on Nov 24 during a raid on Mon Hla village, where Read more

US says Myanmar committed genocide against Rohingya

Thursday, March 24th, 2022

The United States has determined that the violence against the Rohingya minority committed by Myanmar’s military amounted to genocide and crimes against humanity. Hundreds of thousands of the mostly Muslim Rohingya community have fled Buddhist-majority Myanmar since 2017 after a military crackdown. The action by the military is now the subject of a genocide case Read more