International

HORRIFYING abuses of human rights have been committed by the Myanmar army, claims a new report from human rights campaign Amnesty International. These include summary killing, torture, arbitrary arrest – and a vendetta against an ethnic Buddhist guerrilla group. The ...

NUSRAT JAHAN RAFI was just 19 when she was lured up to the roof of her Islamic school, doused with kerosene and set on fire. Now 16 people have been charged with criminal offences in connection with this murder. On ...

Emdad’s Lebanon Diary Day 2 We visited Arsal today. It is a Red conflict zone, but we had received special permission to enter the region and camps to meet the residents. After an information briefing from Badih, we travelled along ...

IF YOU THOUGHT the violence in Syria had ended – think again. It’s got so bad in Idlib that last Tuesday many mosques had to cancel Ramadan prayers – because buildings where crowds gather had were becoming targets. Over the ...

SEVEN SOLDIERS in the Myanmar army were sentenced to ten years in prison last year. They had been found guilty of killing ten Rohingya males, some of whom were boys. The soldiers were exposed by two brave Reuters journalists, Wa ...

Emdad’s Lebanon Diary Day 1 A sane human would never wander in desperation into the home of a complete stranger with outstretched arms unless that abode is a sanctuary safer than their own. I arrived at my hotel gone 4am. ...

ONE MAN is dead, others have been injured and buildings, including shops and mosques, have been attacked or even burned to the ground as a wave of anti-Muslim violence has swept across Sri Lanka. The violence has come in response ...

TWO JOURNALISTS – Wa Lone, 33, and Kyaw Soe Oo, 29 – who worked for Reuters in Myanmar have today been unexpectedly freed from prison. It is thought that the international campaign in their defence forced their release. The articles ...

Emdad Rahman RUNNERS AT BARKING PARKRUN joined up to celebrate Global 6K for Water Day to highlight the issues faced by people who do not have easy access fresh and clean water. Six kilometers (or 3.7 miles) is the average ...

OVER 50 JADE MINERS, working in Kachin state, were reported killed today as mud engulfed their living quarters. The mud slide had been triggered by a major landslide. Jade mining is a largely unregulated industry: its activities often trigger landslides, ...