Divide and rule:Myanmar junta ‘weaponising’ racial tensions

Divide and rule:Myanmar junta ‘weaponising’ racial tensions

Security forces are distributing inflammatory leaflets,stoking anti-Muslim tension,more atrocities are committed in the strife-torn south-east Asian nation.

  • byChris Barrett

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No refuge from hit list:They warned they were marked,and were killed

No refuge from hit list:They warned they were marked,and were killed

Among the warrens of tents clinging to Bangladesh’s denuded hills,militants search for recruits,drug traffickers roam,kidnappers prey on women and children.

  • byHannah Beech
Rohingya leader who tallied atrocities shot dead in refugee camp

Rohingya leader who tallied atrocities shot dead in refugee camp

Mohib Ullah’s high profile made him a target of hardliners. “If I die,I’m fine. I will give my life,” he said in 2019.

  • byRuma Paul andPoppy McPherson
Trapped at sea for 113 days,Rohingya boat survivors finally ran aground

Trapped at sea for 113 days,Rohingya boat survivors finally ran aground

Refused entry at every port,90 refugees languished at sea for three months. Indonesian villagers discovered the survivors on a deserted island.

  • byRuma Paul
Home Affairs investigating relatives of Myanmar military in Australia
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Home Affairs investigating relatives of Myanmar military in Australia

The Department of Home Affairs has launched investigations into relatives of Myanmar’s military government living in Australia,amid concerns they are either harbouring assets or receiving financial support in the wake of the military coup.

  • byAnthony Galloway andNick McKenzie
At least 15 dead,including children,after Bangladesh Rohingya camp fire

At least 15 dead,including children,after Bangladesh Rohingya camp fire

At least 400 people were still missing and around 560 were injured after a devastating fire that destroyed thousands of shelters at a Rohingya refugee camp in southern Bangladesh.

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Several dead,thousands of homes burnt as fire sweeps Rohingya camp

Several dead,thousands of homes burnt as fire sweeps Rohingya camp

A huge fire has swept through a Rohingya refugee camp in southern Bangladesh,destroying thousands of homes and killing several people,officials and witnesses said.

  • byRuma Paul andPoppy McPherson
The genocidal general convinced he was born to rule over Myanmar

The genocidal general convinced he was born to rule over Myanmar

Those searching for motives behind putsch that imprisoned Aung San Suu Kyi and plunged Myanmar back towards oppressive junta rule need look no further than the service ribbons on the chest of General Min Aung Hlaing.

  • byNicola Smith
Ahmed is on Australia’s COVID-19 frontline,while his fiancee is stuck in Myanmar’s cycle of reprisal

Ahmed is on Australia’s COVID-19 frontline,while his fiancee is stuck in Myanmar’s cycle of reprisal

As a pharmacist,the Rohingya man works to treat COVID patients in hospital. His wife-to-be,however,is trapped in Cox’s Bazar after fleeing Myanmar and faces deportation to a remote tsunami and flood-prone island.

  • byEryk Bagshaw
Fears for Myanmar’s Rohingya after coup,UN Security Council to meet

Fears for Myanmar’s Rohingya after coup,UN Security Council to meet

A 2017 military crackdown in Myanmar’s Rakhine state sent more than 700,000 Rohingya Muslims fleeing into Bangladesh,where they remain in refugee camps.

  • byMichelle Nichols
Hundreds homeless after fire guts Rohingya refugee camp

Hundreds homeless after fire guts Rohingya refugee camp

The fire struck at a time when officials in Bangladesh look for long-term solutions for the hundreds of thousands of people who fled Myanmar.

  • bySameer Yasir