Amnesty International said it was revoking Ambassador of Conscience Award it gave Suu Kyi in 2009 while she was still under house arrest.
13 Nov 2018 11:04 AM
Colonial rulers in India enacted the OSA in 1889 and later in 1923. But while Britain reformed its law in 1989, India did not.
14 Oct 2018 2:12 AM
Like a true Burmese, Suu Kyi probably doesn’t disagree with her countrymen’s condemnation of the Rohingya.
09 Oct 2018 12:24 AM
There has been too much of an unseemly hurry about this deportation.
05 Oct 2018 1:11 AM
The Senate voted unanimously to strip Suu Kyi, Myanmar's civilian leader, of the symbolic honour bestowed on her in 2007.
03 Oct 2018 9:47 AM
Suu Kyi's reputation has been tarnished by her refusal to call out atrocities against Rohingyas, which Ottawa recently termed a genocide.
28 Sep 2018 1:43 PM
The army is accused of committing mass rape, killings and setting fire to thousands of homes.
13 Sep 2018 1:14 PM
Launched in August 2017, that campaign drove around 700,000 Rohingya refugees into Bangladesh, fleeing burnt villages and army atrocities.
01 May 2018 1:14 PM
Myanmar and Bangladesh signed a repatriation deal in November but not one refugee has returned.
08 Apr 2018 5:46 PM
Many Rohingyas ended up in Muslim-majority Malaysia and Indonesia because Thailand stuck to a policy of not accepting the vessels.
03 Apr 2018 6:36 PM
Myanmar’s military ruled for 50 yrs during which it was blamed of widespread abuses before partly handing power to a civilian govt in 2016.
28 Mar 2018 12:57 PM
Rakhine state has been largely sealed off from rights groups, the media and UN investigators.
12 Mar 2018 2:36 PM
Suu Kyi, the country's symbol of democracy for decades, has come under heavy criticism for her refusal to stand up for the Rohingya.
08 Mar 2018 10:58 AM
Any new travel bans and asset freezes would be the EU's toughest measures yet to try to hold the military accountable for the abuses.
23 Feb 2018 7:01 PM
Bloody military operations that followed Rohingya militant attacks in August have driven nearly 700,000 Rohingya into refugee camps.
12 Feb 2018 6:38 PM
Authored by Senators John McCain and Ben Cardin, the Burma Human Rights and Freedom Act now moves to the Senate floor for vote.
08 Feb 2018 4:44 PM
Aid workers say women and girls are most at threat from predators and human traffickers lurking in the poorly supervised camps.
06 Feb 2018 11:15 AM
Myanmar's army had said that the security forces had discovered a mass grave on the edge of a village in Rakhine State.
02 Feb 2018 4:07 PM
The Myanmar government regularly claims such massacres of the Rohingya never happened.
02 Feb 2018 3:35 PM
Lee said that Myanmar’s actions were ‘amounting to crimes against humanity.’
01 Feb 2018 6:24 PM