Joshua Carroll

Hu­man rights icon Suu Kyi ac­cused of ‘tend­ing to­wards the an­ni­hi­la­tion of the Ro­hingya’, crim­i­nal com­plaint al­leges.

Myan­mar one of more than 40 coun­tries where laws in­tro­duced by British en­trench dis­crim­i­na­tion against LGBT peo­ple.

Five mem­bers of the Pea­cock Gen­er­a­tion were giv­en one-year prison sen­tences at a Yan­gon court on Wednes­day.

Rights groups say group is be­ing pun­ished for try­ing to es­cape dis­mal camps amid se­vere re­stric­tions on every­day life.

The case has ex­posed deep-seat­ed mis­trust in Myan­mar’s dys­func­tion­al crim­i­nal jus­tice sys­tem.

UN pan­el calls for in­ter­na­tion­al com­mu­ni­ty to sev­er all ties with coun­try’s mil­i­tary over Ro­hingya abus­es.

Re­gion­al bloc ac­cused of white­wash­ing Myan­mar’s crimes against Ro­hingya.

Refugees in Cox’s Bazar ques­tion Myan­mar mo­tives amid Rakhine un­rest, but some see ‘break­through’ in repa­tri­a­tion talks.

In­sid­ers say UN sought to down­play crit­i­cism of Myan­mar and was ham­strung by Chi­na, Rus­sia op­po­si­tion to firm re­sponse.

Re­port says men­tal health cri­sis surges in refugee camps af­ter cuts to aid and end of re­set­tle­ment pro­grammes.