January 10, 2016

11 Rohingya women and kids flee shelter again

Eleven Rohingya children and women have again run away from a shelter in Phang Nga province.

Khao Lak Police Station inspector Lt-Colonel Bandhit Hattapithiphan said yesterday that recordings from security cameras showed the group left together at about 2am yesterday. Of the 11, three are women."We will be checking recordings from security cameras in the nearby areas to determine where they have gone to," Bandhit said. (Courtesy of The Nation)

Huge Fire In Myanmar's Yangon Market

NAY PYI TAW:  A huge fire on early today burned down three flats of Mingalazay market, one of the major markets in Myanmar's Yangon region.

The fire broke out around 1.30 am (local time) as explosions were heard during it, Xinhua reported.

Around 600 firefighters with 65 fire-engines rushed to the site.

The fire-torn flats collapsed and some firefighters were injured. (Courtesy of ndtv.com)

Myanmar’s Peace Prize Winner and Crimes Against Humanity

SITTWE, Myanmar — SOON the world will witness a remarkable sight: a beloved Nobel Peace Prize winner presiding over 21st-century concentration camps.

Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, one of the world’s genuine heroes, won democracy for her country, culminating in historic elections in November that her party won in a landslide. As winner, Aung San Suu Kyi is also inheriting the worst ethnic cleansing you’ve never heard of, Myanmar’s destruction of a Muslim minority called the Rohingya.

A recent Yale study suggested that the abuse of the more than one million Rohingya may amount to genocide; at the least, a confidential United Nations report to the Security Council says it may constitute “crimes against humanity under international criminal law.”

Yet Aung San Suu Kyi seems to plan to continue this Myanmar version of apartheid. She is now a politician, and oppressing a minority like the Rohingya is popular with mostly Buddhist voters. (Courtesy of The New York Times)