Security forces killed more than 90 people, including some children, across Myanmar on Saturday in one of the bloodiest days of protests since a military coup last month, news reports and witnesses said.
Several thousand Rohingya Muslims staged protests Monday against living conditions on a cyclone-prone island off Bangladesh where they were moved from vast camps on the mainland, police said.
A roadside bomb attack has targeted a convoy of Myanmar’s ruling military forces near Yangon, with several people being killed in an ensuing gunfight, the military and media said.
Rohingya refugees sued Facebook on Monday for $150 billion over claims the social network is failing to stem hate speech on its platform, exacerbating violence against the vulnerable minority.
Myanmar military junta reportedly killed 60 people including well-known artistes and musicians have been killed in an aerial attack on a concert in Kachin state.
A boat with 180 Rohingya Muslims on board started its journey from Bangladesh at the end of November was missing at sea, with all people on board presumed dead, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said over the weekend.
Myanmar’s Buddhist regime sentenced 112 minority Rohingya Muslims, including a dozen children, to prison terms ranging between two and five years for attempting to travel to Malaysia “without legal documents”, state media reported on Tuesday.
The UN refugee agency said hundreds of members of Myanmar’s persecuted Rohingya Muslim minority have died or gone missing while trying to flee dire humanitarian situations in either the country or neighboring Bangladesh.
Myanmar’s Buddhist junta has blocked humanitarian access to western Rakhine state, where more than a million minority Rohingya Muslims are in urgent need of aid a month after a powerful cyclone devastated the region, the United Nations said.