Dalai Lama urges Myanmar’s Suu Kyi to ease Rohingya tensions

14th June 2016

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi has a moral responsibility to try to ease tension between majority Buddhists and minority Rohingya Muslims, her fellow Nobel laureate, the Dalai Lama, said on Monday. 

             The Dalai Lama speaks at the U.S. Institute of Peace in Washington, D.C., U.S. June 13, 2016.REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque

New secretive deal between UN, Myanmar smells foul

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11.06.2018
By Maung Zarni & Natalie Brinham

Maung Zarni is Coordinator for Strategic Affairs with the Free Rohingya Coalition (www.freerohingyacoalition.org). 

Newly-organized UN in Myanmar has shelved organization’s own governing principles of transparency and inclusivity, as evidenced by freshly-inked MOU with Myanmar
Natalie Brinham is an Economic and Social Research Council PhD scholar at the Queen Mary University of London and co-author of “The Slow Burning Genocide of Myanmar’s Rohingya” (Pacific Rim Law and Policy Journal, Spring 2014).