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 Christopher Tuckwood | Nov 4, 2013 | General News, Kenya, Situations of Concern, Team Announcements
Today I have the exciting task of announcing the biggest milestone in the Sentinel Project’s history as an organization so far. Beginning immediately, we are launching a two-year field project in the Tana Delta region of Kenya together with our partners at iHub...
by Drew Boyd | Oct 9, 2013 | General News, Kenya, Situations of Concern
The Sentinel Project has expanded its research focus from solely the Tana River Delta region of Kenya to the entirety of Kenya in order to more accurately depict and assess the complex ethnic, economic and political conditions within the nation. This report identifies...
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 Troy Powell | Sep 16, 2013 | General News, Iran, Team Announcements
By: Troy Powell & Shayan Edalati “New Analyst Shayan Edalati lends his analysis, to the situation facing the Iranian Bahá’ís in January 2012. This report, will be the first in a series of updated revisions, which introduce a new format for our monthly...
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...
by Steven Kiersons, MA | Aug 28, 2013 | Burma, General News
August 27, 2013 – A failed attempt to initiate violence by 969 members, including Buddhist monks, illustrated something of the method of ethnic cleansing in Burma. A masked man in Thandwe attacked a Buddhist woman. While there was no way to determine the...
by Steven Kiersons, MA | Aug 18, 2013 | Burma
A confidential source inside Burma reported to the Sentinel Project on the Eid violence which began August 9. The most concerning information relayed is that despite the official abolition of NaSaKa announced by Thein Sein in mid-July 2013, the force, which has been...
by Troy Powell | Aug 13, 2013 | General News, Iran, Team Announcements
What happens when intervention and humanitarian efforts are blocked at the highest levels of government? Despite the technological progress society has enjoyed, the unprecedented spread of information and the ongoing development of international laws, interventions...
