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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The government is coming under pressure from human rights groups to open northern Rakhine State to independent observers so they can investigate claims of abuses by the security forces.
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Kite Tales Myanmar aims to document many of the country’s personal accounts that might otherwise have been lost to history.
The 47-year-old British victim, named as Peter Gary Ferguson, was found dead on Sunday with wounds to his head and chest.
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Mr Stephen O’Brien, the United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, speaks to Frontier following his tour of Kachin and Rakhine states.
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