Landmines
Myanmar led world in landmine victims in 2023: monitor
Decades of sporadic conflict between the military and ethnic rebel groups have left the Southeast Asian country littered with deadly landmines and munitions.
20 November 2024, 05:35 AM
Stop using landmines
Nine out of the 14 states and regions in Myanmar are contaminated with landmines, making it the world's third most
31 October 2017, 18:00 PM
6,300 in no-man's land for 45 days
Some 6,300 Rohingya people, mostly women and children, have been stuck in no-man's land along the Naikhyangchhari border since August 27.
10 October 2017, 18:00 PM
Rohingya villages still burning, mines laid
Rights bodies have come up with new evidence that fires are still torching Rohingya villages in Rakhine while Myanmar military have laid landmines during attacks on villages and along the Bangladesh border.
Amnesty International has assessed three new videos taken inside Rakhine as recently as Friday afternoon showing large plumes of smoke rising from Rohingya villages as well as satellite imagery with smoke visible over burnt-out structures.
23 September 2017, 18:00 PM