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Mass evacuations in Bangladesh, Myanmar
SITTWE, Myanmar, May 16, 2013 (AFP) - Hundreds of thousands of people in Bangladesh and Myanmar were evacuated Wednesday as a cyclone bore down on coastal areas home to flood-prone refugee camps for victims of sectarian unrest.
May 16, 2013 -
Cyclone weakens, Bangladesh, Myanmar on alert
SITTWE, Myanmar, May 15, 2013 (AFP) - A cyclone threatening to lash low-lying coastal areas of Bangladesh and Myanmar appears to have weakened, but still poses a risk to more than eight million people, according to the UN.
May 15, 2013 -
Police arrest two in new Myanmar unrest
YANGON, May 4, 2013 (AFP) - Two Buddhists have been arrested after Muslim shops were destroyed in northern Kachin State, police said Saturday, in a new outbreak of religious violence.
May 04, 2013 -
HRW accuses Myanmar of 'ethnic cleansing'
BANGKOK, April 22, 2013 (AFP) - Myanmar has waged "a campaign of ethnic cleansing" against Rohingya Muslims, a leading rights watchdog said Monday, citing evidence of mass graves and forced displacement.
April 22, 2013 -
13 dead in blaze at Myanmar Muslim school
YANGON, April 2, 2013 (AFP) - A fire killed 13 students at a Muslim school in Myanmar's main city on Tuesday, police said, raising tensions in the wake of sectarian clashes despite police assurances that the blaze was accidental.
April 02, 2013 -
Myanmar unrest death toll reaches 43
YANGON, March 30, 2013 (AFP) - The death toll from recent communal violence in central Myanmar has risen to 43 with more than 1,300 homes and other buildings destroyed, state media reported on Saturday.
March 30, 2013 -
Myanmar attacks staged with brutal efficiency
UNITED NATIONS, March 27, 2013 (AFP) - Muslim homes have been targeted with "brutal efficiency" in deadly new unrest in Myanmar, a UN envoy who has just been to the troubled country said Tuesday.
March 27, 2013 -
Death toll from Myanmar unrest hits 40
YANGON, March 26, 2013 (AFP) - The death toll from recent communal violence in central Myanmar has risen to 40 after eight more bodies were pulled from the wreckage of a riot-hit town, state media reported on Tuesday.
March 26, 2013 -
Tinderbox Myanmar risks more religious strife
BANGKOK, March 24, 2013 (AFP) - The recent explosion of religious violence in central Myanmar is part of a wider communal fracture that threatens further destabilising anti-Muslim unrest in the fast-changing nation, experts warn.
March 24, 2013 -
Two dead, mosques destroyed in Myanmar unrest
YANGON, March 21, 2013 (AFP) - Two people died and several mosques were destroyed in central Myanmar, police said Thursday, in the worst riots since Buddhist-Muslim clashes rocked western Rakhine state last year.
March 21, 2013
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