"These 5,000 houses were targeted as they belonged to Buddhists and Hindus ... It may be recalled that communal tensions had flared up in Rakhine state more than a decade back, which led to ...

I’m deep inside a magnificent Buddhist temple in the ruined city of Mrauk U in western Myanmar (formerly Burma), in embattled Rakhine State. Beginning around 1535, a thousand workers labored for ...

NEW DELHI: In what could turn out to be a repeat of the 2017 massacre of Hindus by Rohingya terror groups in Rakhine state of Myanmar, a group of Hindus and Buddhists ...

They live mostly in Rakhine state, where they have co-existed uneasily alongside Buddhists for decades. Rohingya people say they are descendants of Muslims, perhaps Persian and Arab traders ...

“But I have never seen such an atmosphere. Buddhists from all over the country are gathering here,” he said. For once, they are not in Bodh Gaya only for a pilgrimage. They are part of a ...

"Either they die, or we die" - the harsh reality of life for the Rohingya in Myanmar Buddhists in Rakhine state began blocking food aid when they noticed that the Muslims were getting more than ...

The Arakan Army, which is the military wing of the Buddhist Rakhine ethnic group in Rakhine state, where they are the majority and seek autonomy from Myanmar’s central government, denies the ...

Dozens have so far died and hundreds of homes have been burnt down in a week-long wave of deadly clashes between Muslim Rohingya and Buddhist Rakhine communities along the western, Andaman Sea ...

On Aug. 25, Rohingya insurgents attacked 30 police posts and an army base in Rakhine. Several hundred of Inn Din’s Buddhist villagers took refuge in the monastery. About 80 soldiers arrived in ...

who claimed 200 Rakhine who fled the violence are sheltering in a Buddhist temple. An ethnic Rakhine resident from Maungdaw According to the ICG's Kean, "one of the military's strategies was to ...