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Myanmar junta steps up attacks

Ronan — Mon, 28 Nov 2022 05:53:31 +0000

Hundreds of homes in the Catholic village of Mon Hla in central Sagaing — the home of Cardinal Charles Bo — have been burned down by junta forces as the regime steps up attacks in Myanmar's Bamar-majority region.

Villagers said the homes were torched on Nov 24 during a raid on Mon Hla village, where Catholics and Buddhists have lived in harmony for decades.

The exact number of houses destroyed remains unclear, and it is not known whether St Michael Church, the convent and the priest's house in the village were set on fire.

"It's my native village, and my heart is also burning when I see the flames come out of the village," a priest from Mandalay archdiocese wrote on Facebook.

Myanmar junta steps up attacks

US says Myanmar committed genocide against Rohingya

Ronan — Thu, 24 Mar 2022 06:55:21 +0000

The United States has determined that the violence against the Rohingya minority committed by Myanmar's military amounted to genocide and crimes against humanity.

Hundreds of thousands of the mostly Muslim Rohingya community have fled Buddhist-majority Myanmar since 2017 after a military crackdown. The action by the military is now the subject of a genocide case at the United Nations' highest court in The Hague.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken is today due to officially announce the decision to designate that crackdown a genocide in remarks at the Holocaust Museum in Washington, where an exhibit on "Burma's Path to Genocide" — using a former name for the country — is on display.

US says Myanmar committed genocide against Rohingya