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and ethnic groups that are not ethnic Burman regard them as part of an effort to Burmanize national culture. Human Rights Watch uses the term “Burma.” The adjective “Burmese” is used to ...
BANGKOK--A powerful ethnic armed group in western Myanmar claimed Friday to have scored a major victory in the war against the ruling military, even as neighboring nations at a meeting in Thailand ...
Ataullah, an ethnic Rohingya and the commander of ... Dozens of Rohingya villages were wiped from the map in what the Myanmar military called “security operations.” The United States has ...
BANGKOK--A powerful ethnic minority armed group battling Myanmar’s army in the country’s west claimed Monday to have taken hundreds of government soldiers prisoner when it captured a major ...
Attempts to map the areas controlled by the ... Given how central ethnic armed groups and political movements are to Myanmar's conflicts, how we define them carries a great deal of political ...
Videos and images from northwestern Myanmar are painting a devastating picture of the relentless crackdown against civilian militia and ethnic armed groups by the military junta that seized power ...