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# myanmar - Thursday 29 August, 2019
Migrant workers sentenced to death over Thailand murder of British backpackers lose appeal
Zaw Lin and Win Zaw Tun were found guilty of the brutal murder in 2014.
# myanmar - Sunday 12 May, 2019
Pilot lands Myanmar plane safely without front wheels
The 82 passengers and 7 crew members were declared safe.
# myanmar - Tuesday 7 May, 2019
Reuters journalists jailed in Myanmar for 500 days have been released
Last month the pair was handed the prestigious Pulitzer prize for their work.
# myanmar - Friday 11 January, 2019
'Silencing the truth': Journalists to remain in notorious prison after losing appeal
Reporters Wa Lone (32) and Kyaw Soe Oo (28) were arrested in Yangon in December 2017.
# myanmar - Monday 12 November, 2018
Amnesty International strips Aung San Suu Kyi of its highest honour
The group revoked the award in light of Suu Kyi’s “betrayal of the values she once stood for”.
# myanmar - Thursday 25 October, 2018
UN says genocide is 'ongoing' against Rohingya Muslims
Myanmar has rejected accusations that its military committed atrocities in a crackdown last year.
# myanmar - Thursday 13 September, 2018
Aung San Suu Kyi defends court decision to jail two Reuters reporters
The two Reuters journalists were reporting on the Rohingya crisis.
# myanmar - Monday 3 September, 2018
Outrage as two Reuters journalists jailed over breach of state secrets law
The case has been criticised by some as an attempt to muzzle reporting on a crackdown by security forces on the Muslim Rohingya minority.
# myanmar - Wednesday 29 August, 2018
Aung San Suu Kyi won't be stripped of Nobel Peace Prize, committee says
The statement came after a damning UN report termed the treatment of the Rohingya people as “genocide”.
Myanmar rejects UN probe findings of Rohingya 'genocide'
On Monday the UN probe detailed evidence of genocide and crimes against humanity “perpetrated on a massive scale” against the Rohingya.
# myanmar - Monday 27 August, 2018
Facebook bans Myanmar army chief following damning UN report
UN investigators lambasted the platform earlier this year, saying it had morphed into a “beast” in Myanmar.
# myanmar - Saturday 25 August, 2018
Rohingya refugees protest for 'justice' on first anniversary of a Myanmar military crackdown
The Myanmar military crackdown sparked a mass exodus of 700,000 to camps in Bangladesh.
# myanmar - Saturday 2 June, 2018
Myanmar is 'failing to end recruitment of child soldiers'
The military and a number of rebel groups have drafted underage soldiers for years.
# myanmar - Tuesday 8 May, 2018
Despite pleas to cancel, Leeds United arrive in Myanmar for controversial tour
Andrea Radrizzani, fresh from Eleven Sport’s new TV rights deal, hopes to build a fanbase in Southeast Asia.
# myanmar - Wednesday 25 April, 2018
'We knew it would be controversial' - Leeds owner defends much-criticised tour to war-torn Myanmar
The Championship club’s decision to play two friendlies in the troubled Asian country has been condemned by fans, politicians and Amnesty International.
# myanmar - Friday 30 March, 2018
Bob Geldof says Aung Sang Suu Kyi is a 'pig' and he still wants the Freedom of Dublin back
“I understood what a great honour it is but I just don’t want to be associated with those people in any way.”
# myanmar - Wednesday 10 January, 2018
Reuters journalists who covered Rohingya exodus charged with old secrecy law
The colonial-era secrecy law carries up to 14 years in jail.
# myanmar - Tuesday 26 December, 2017
Oxfam calls on UN to resolve Rohingya crisis before situation worsens in 2018
More than 620,000 Rohingya people have poured into Bangladesh since August.
# myanmar - Thursday 21 December, 2017
'People with weapons are coming into camp' - The unseen, stateless Rohingya children
More than 600,000 Rohingya people have fled to Bangladesh from Myanmar.
# myanmar - Sunday 17 December, 2017
'The pain was excruciating': Rohingya women recount rape by Myanmar armed forces
Doctors and aid workers say that they are stunned at the sheer volume of rapes, and suspect only a fraction of women have come forward.
# myanmar - Thursday 14 December, 2017
Rohingya crisis: 6,700 people, including 730 children under 5, killed in space of one month
More than 59% of the children who were killed under the age of five were reportedly shot.
# myanmar - Wednesday 13 December, 2017
Councillors vote to strip Aung San Suu Kyi of the Freedom of Dublin
Councillors voted in favour of the motion at a council meeting tonight.
# myanmar - Sunday 3 December, 2017
'I wept... they wept too': Pope Francis asks Rohingya for forgiveness at emotional meeting
“In the name of all those who have persecuted you, who have harmed you, in the face of the world’s indifference, I ask for your forgiveness.”
# myanmar - Friday 1 December, 2017
'We want him to help us': Pope to meet with group of Rohingya refugees
The 16 refugees, including two children and one woman, are among more than 600,000 who have fled an army-led crackdown in their home state
# myanmar - Tuesday 28 November, 2017
Pope Francis arrives in Myanmar amid tense Rohingya crisis
Ethnic hatred has driven huge numbers of Muslim Rohingya from the country.
# myanmar - Monday 27 November, 2017
Pope Francis arrives in Myanmar on high-stakes visit
He is expected to address claims of ethnic cleansing in the region.
# myanmar - Thursday 23 November, 2017
Myanmar and Bangladesh to sign deal to return thousands of Rohingya refugees
More than 620,000 people have poured into Bangladesh since August.
# myanmar - Tuesday 21 November, 2017
Rohingya crisis: 'We would be better in prison because at least we would have food'
A new Amnesty International report has said Rohingya treatment amounts to apartheid.
# myanmar - Monday 13 November, 2017
Bob Geldof defends decision to return the Freedom of the City of Dublin
Geldof says he doesn’t want to be associated with “handmaiden to genocide” Aung San Suu Kyi.
Do you think Bob Geldof is right to return his Freedom of Dublin award?
Geldof said he’s returning the honour in protest against the Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
# myanmar - Tuesday 10 October, 2017
More than half the victims are children as 23 Rohingya die after boat capsizes
The boat was carrying up to 100 people, many of whom are still missing.
# myanmar - Monday 9 October, 2017
Rohingya crisis: 'I will never forget her words or the look in her eyes'
I have travelled extensively and have spoken to many people who have suffered huge amounts, but hearing that woman’s words hit me harder than anything else I had ever heard, writes Rosamond Bennett.
# myanmar - Thursday 5 October, 2017
Bob Geldof says Aung San Suu Kyi has become 'one of the great ethnic cleansers'
Geldof said that the “old traditions have failed us” in a speech in Colombia yesterday.
# myanmar - Tuesday 3 October, 2017
10,000 Rohingya on Bangladesh border as exodus reaches half a million
Over 500,000 Rohingya have streamed into Bangladesh in just the past five weeks.
# myanmar - Saturday 30 September, 2017
'Not a good idea': Johnson recites a colonial-era poem in sacred Myanmar temple
The United Kingdom occupied Myanmar, formerly known as Burma, for the best part of a century.
# myanmar - Wednesday 27 September, 2017
'Animals': Buddhist monks who attacked Rohingya refugees slammed
The 31 Rohingya refugees were rescued by the Sri Lankan navy five months ago after they were found drifting in a boat off the island’s northern coast.
# myanmar - Tuesday 19 September, 2017
Rohingya crisis: Suu Kyi defends Myanmar against international criticism
An estimated 412,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled to Bangladesh following violent attacks.
# myanmar - Monday 18 September, 2017
Four in 10 people think Suu Kyi's Freedom of Dublin award should be taken back
She was awarded the Freedom of Dublin in 2000, but only received it in 2012 as she was under house arrest at the time.
# myanmar - Friday 15 September, 2017
'This is ethnic cleansing': Heat-maps show huge fires spread across Rohingya region
“The evidence is irrefutable,” Amnesty said.
# myanmar - Thursday 14 September, 2017
Nobel prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi to finally address Rohingya crisis next week
The UN has described the as having all the hallmarks of “ethnic cleansing”.
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PEOPLE AROUND IRELAND are staying at home as much as possible, bar essential workers, or cocooning if necessary due to official guidelines aimed at preventing the spread of Covid-19.
Many people who planned to attend religious services to mark Easter over the coming days will be unable to do so as a result of the restrictions.
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