Myanmar military court plan to probe army's alleged Rohingya atrocities hit as 'delusional'
Myanmar's army said on Monday it had set up a military court to investigate its conduct during a crackdown on the Rohingya Muslim minority in 2017 that forced more than 730,000 to flee to neighboring Bangladesh. The court comprising a major-general and two colonels will ...
U.S. report blames Myanmar military for Rohingya mass atrocities but doesn't mention genocide
A U.S. government investigation has found that Myanmar's military waged a planned, coordinated campaign of mass killings, gang rapes and other atrocities against the Southeast Asian nation's Rohingya Muslim minority. The State Department report, reviewed by Reuters ahead of its expected public release on Monday, ...
In apparent test of Myanmar democracy, jailed Reuters journalists to testify in court
Two jailed Reuters reporters on trial in Myanmar accused of obtaining secret state documents will testify in court from Monday, in a case that is seen as a test of press freedom in the fledgling democracy. Journalists Wa Lone, 32, and Kyaw Soe Oo, 28, ...
Myanmar court set to rule on whether detained Reuters pair should be tried under secrets act
A Myanmar court will rule on Monday on whether to charge two Reuters reporters accused of obtaining secret documents, a decision that could either see them freed after nearly seven months in jail or move the landmark press freedom case to trial. The court in ...
Mass rape, cannibalism, dismemberment: U.N. team finds atrocities in Congo war
Rebels and government troops in Congo have committed atrocities including mass rape, cannibalism and the dismemberment of civilians, according to testimony published on Tuesday by a team of U.N. human rights experts who said the world must pay heed. The team investigating a conflict in ...
Myanmar not ready to take back over 700,000 Rohingya, Red Cross chief says
Conditions in Myanmar's northern Rakhine state are not ready yet for the repatriation of hundreds of thousands of Rohingya who have fled a military crackdown, the head of the International Committee of Red Cross said on Sunday after visit to the region. Myanmar has said ...
Ernest Medina, key figure in 1968 My Lai Massacre, dies at 81 in Wisconsin
Former Army Capt. Ernest L. Medina, a key figure in the My Lai Massacre during the Vietnam War, has died in Wisconsin. He was 81. Medina was an Army captain on March 16, 1968, when American troops under his command killed hundreds of unarmed Vietnamese ...
Gravediggers say Myanmar forces and Buddhist villagers executed Rohingya after torching their homes
Bound together, the 10 Rohingya captives watched their Buddhist neighbors dig a grave. Soon afterward, on the morning of Sept. 2, all 10 lay dead. At least two were hacked to death by Buddhist villagers. The rest were shot by soldiers, two of the ...
No institutionalized participation by Poland in the Holocaust: president
Poland's president said Monday that there was no institutionalized participation by Poland or its people in the Holocaust, but acknowledges that individual Poles took "wicked" actions against Jewish neighbors. President Andrzej Duda said that he would never allow Poland and Poles in general to be ...
Syria-backed airstrikes on hospitals in rebel areas affecting hundreds of thousands: U.N.
The United Nations on Tuesday condemned a recent wave of airstrikes on medical centers in rebel-held parts of Syria, including one that put a hospital serving 50,000 people out of action. The Syrian government, which is backed by Russian air power in its almost seven-year-long ...
Myanmar's military said its soldiers had murdered 10 captured Muslim "terrorists" during insurgent attacks at the beginning of September, after Buddhist villagers had forced the captured men into a grave they had dug. "Villagers and members of the security forces have confessed that they committed ...
The House has called on President Donald Trump to impose sanctions on members of Myanmar's military and security forces following a deadly crackdown that forced more than 600,000 Rohingya (ROH'-hihn-jah) Muslims to flee to Bangladesh. The resolution passed Wednesday condemns "murderous ethnic cleansing and atrocities ...
