by Steven Kiersons, MA | Aug 31, 2014 | Burma, General News, Situations of Concern
August 2014’s Burma update explores the issue of why countries with a history of Western colonial influence are at a higher risk of genocide. The divide-and-rule tactic of all tyrants of previous epochs had required the creation or exploitation of some...
by Steven Kiersons, MA | Aug 5, 2014 | Burma, General News, Situations of Concern
Reports from Burma’s embattled Rakhine State recall some of history’s most heinous crimes. In 2012, a Burmese government official told Dr. Maung Zarni, a persistent gadfly of the military-ruled state: “The bottom line is, we don’t want any more...
by Steven Kiersons, MA | Jul 10, 2014 | Burma, General News, Situations of Concern
On July 2, 2014 a Burmese blogger alleged that two Muslim brothers who own a cafe in Mandalay raped their Buddhist employee. The blog post went viral on Facebook with infamous ethnic-nationalist monk Ashin Wirathu sharing the story on his page. In retaliation to the...
by Sentinel Project | Feb 1, 2014 | Burma, General News, Situations of Concern
It is often noted by observers of the continued violence in Burma that the crippling poverty in the country’s western-most Rakhine State is part of the root cause of the anti-Rohingya campaign. Lack of hope, historical animosity, and other grim conditions in...
by Steven Kiersons, MA | Jan 1, 2014 | Burma, General News, Situations of Concern, Team Announcements
In the month of December 2013, Reuters revealed shocking details about the system of human trafficking created to handle the expulsion of Rohingya and other Muslims from Burma, also known as Myanmar. The agency discovered that the Thailand government was selling...
by Sentinel Project | Dec 4, 2013 | Burma, General News
Rohingya refugees carry rice distributed by WFP to their house in Nayapara camp. UNHCR – S. Kritsanavarin – Nov 2008 Violence against Rohingya Muslims has remained relatively steady this month. The attacks usually seem to take the form of either direct...
by David Kalmats | Nov 6, 2013 | Burma, General News
by David Kalmats Violence that has been occurring on a routine basis since the June of 2012 spilled into October. Muslims in the coastal town of Thandwe started the month by evading mobs of Buddhist men whom, armed with machetes raided a string of villages with the...
by David Kalmats | Oct 3, 2013 | Burma, General News
September began with the government-appointed body (the Sangha Maha Nayaka committee) that oversees Burma’s Buddhist monkhood “issuing a directive intended to check the influence of a monk-led movement accused of stoking violence against minority Muslims.”[1] The...
by Adrian Gregorich | Sep 27, 2013 | Burma, General News, Team Announcements
An image of a group of men cutting the neck of a woman and pouring her blood into a basin has been posted on Wirathu’s Facebook page in an attempt to incite animosity toward Muslims in Burma. Various elements of the image, including certain parts that are more in...
by Jérôme Gagnon-Voyer | Sep 10, 2013 | Burma, General News, Situations of Concern, Team Announcements
We are pleased to announce the launch of a new live visualization of the situation in Burma, though we are equally dismayed at the escalating persecution of the Rohingya Muslim minority that it displays. Nonetheless, the Sentinel Project team is confident that this...
by Steven Kiersons, MA | Sep 9, 2013 | Burma, General News, Situations of Concern, Team Announcements
The Sentinel Project has released a report assessing the risk of genocide against Muslim minorities in Burma and has found the risk level to be high in light of intensified persecution. The initial enthusiasm surrounding recent political reform in Burma has recently...
by Sacha Stein | Aug 30, 2013 | Burma, General News, Situations of Concern, Team Announcements
This month marked the 25th anniversary of the 8/8/88 Uprising, a nationwide strike that led to protests across Burma by activists calling for a transition from military rule to democracy. Pro-democracy demonstrations had also taken place earlier that year and led to...
