Burma

Two journalists who were jailed after reporting on Myanmar’s treatment of Rohingya Muslims have been released. Kyaw Soe Oo and Wa Lone, who work for the Reuters news agency, spent more than 500 days in prison.

Dr Azeem Ibrahim, senior fellow at the Centre for Global Policy in the United States speaks about what is ‘turning out to be the worst humanitarian crisis of this generation.’

Shocking testimony from Rohinghya women about rape and assault by soldiers in the Myanmar military

Former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, who has been charged with trying to resolve the Rohingya crisis, discusses what needs to be done.  

A new wave of up to 15 thousand Rohingya refugees have crossed the border from their homes in Myanmar to seek refuge in the makeshift camps inside Bangladesh. Some of the new exodus have described scenes of violence that the UN has called ‘textbook ethnic cleansing’. Myanmar’s military government has maintained they are targeting militants,…

Labour MP Rushanara Ali, chair of the all-party group on Burma, discusses the plight of the Rohingya.

Bangladesh’s High Commissioner to the UK, Mohammed Nazmul Quaunine, discusses the plight of the Rohingya.

The crisis for the Rohingya refugees grows. Dozens are feared dead after they fled their homeland in Myanmar and their boat capsized off Bangladesh. Survivors said the boat which had been avoiding coastguard patrols at sea had been anchored off Inani beach, in the Bay of Bengal. It was within sight of land when rough…

Now the head of the UN’s refugee agency says this humanitarian crisis is among the worst he’s ever seen. The plight of the Rohingya muslims fleeing Myanmar has become a blight on the world’s conscience – and it’s getting worse by the day.

Channel 4 News has obtained new footage from the jungle on the border between Myanmar and Bangladesh. It shows hundreds possibly thousands more still making the desperate journey to safety.

Mona Khalil, a public international lawyer with extensive experience in UN peace and security efforts, and the former head of humanitarian affairs and emergency relief at the United Nations, Stephen O’Brien, discuss the plight of the Rohingya people and President Trump’s UN address.

President Trump’s speech did not address the Myanmar crisis that’s led more than 400,000 Rohingya Muslims to flee their homeland. Myanmar’s de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi, who cancelled her visit to the UN General Assembly, has refused to blame the army for the conflict. But in her first countrywide address on the issue,…

Myanmar’s leader Aung San Suu Kyi won’t be at the UN herself – unsurprisingly perhaps after the UN’s human rights chief condemned her country’s treatment of the Rohingya Muslims as a “textbook example of ethnic cleansing”. Instead she will give a televised address tomorrow, with a spokesman claiming she would call for national reconciliation and…

Conditions for the hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims fleeing into Bangladesh are getting worse by the day: and there’s continued criticism of Myanmar’s leader Aung San Suu Kyi from her fellow Nobel Prize winners. Her officials say the violence is all down to “extremist Bengalis” in Rakhine state.

Almost 400,000 Rohingya Muslims have now fled the violence in Myanmar in the last three weeks, including 240,000 children. Refugee camps across the border in Bangladesh are overflowing, and aid agencies fear it could get worse, warning up to a million could flee. The authorities in Myanmar say the army is fighting militants and have denied targeting civilians.Jonathan Miller has…