Conditions in Myanmar’s jails are dire for all inmates, but human rights organisations say political prisoners suffer more abuses – including medical neglect that often has deadly consequences.
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Conditions in Myanmar’s jails are dire for all inmates, but human rights organisations say political prisoners suffer more abuses – including medical neglect that often has deadly consequences.
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Young people and their families are seeking any way they can to evade the Myanmar military’s conscription drive – sometimes with the help of sympathetic local administrators.
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The United States claimed it foiled a plot by an alleged Yakuza boss to sell weapons-grade plutonium sourced by an ethnic armed group in Myanmar, but experts say the story doesn’t add up.
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At best, the government's narrative of the shocking violence in Rakhine has been put in serious jeopardy. At worst...
Frontier joined the government’s latest media trip to Maungdaw, and developments there placed further scrutiny on the government’s official version of events.
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ရင်းနှီးမြှုပ်နှံထားသော ငွေများအတွက် အကျိုးအမြတ် အများအပြားရမည်ဟူကာ မြန်မာနိုင်ငံ ကျေးလက်ဒေသတွင် ဖြစ်ပွားခဲ့သည့် လိမ်လည်မှုအစီအစဉ်(Ponzi Scheme)တစ်ခုတွင် လူထောင်ပေါင်းများစွာမှာ ၎င်းတို့ပိုင် ငွေသန်းပေါင်းများစွာ ဆုံးရှုံးခဲ့ရသည်။
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The UN human rights chief statement comes as the latest estimates put at 313,000 the number of people who have fled to Bangladesh in the last two weeks.
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