Rohingyas of northern Arakan are facing yet another round of armed atrocities. Not only are they at the receiving end of indiscriminate use of bullets, bayonets and firing from helicopter gunships; their homes, hearths, livestock, crops and businesses are being consumed by bellowing fire deliberately lit by the Burmese security forces and their Rakhine cohorts.

Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi says she would be "above the president" if her National League for Democracy wins Sunday's election.

Mass graves believed to contain bodies of hundreds of migrants from Myanmar and Bangladesh found in Malaysia, media report says.