by MRN | Oct 25, 2013 | World
I never thought I would write this, but Aung San Suu Kyi sent a shiver down my spine when she appeared on the Today programme this morning. Her equivocal attitude towards the violence suffered by Burma’s Muslim minority was deeply disturbing. I’m sorry to say that she...
by MRN | Oct 11, 2013 | World
Religious leaders in a western Myanmar town reeling from deadly anti-Muslim clashes urged calm on Monday after fresh violence broke out in the country’s central Irrawaddy Delta region. On Sunday night a mob of Buddhist residents destroyed five Muslim houses in the...
by MRN | Aug 5, 2013 | World
Fears of a new religious strife Fuelled by a dangerous brew of faith, ethnicity and politics, a tit-for-tat conflict is escalating between two of Asia’s biggest religions THE total segregation of Buddhist Arakanese from Muslim Rohingyas is now a fact of life in the...
