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BURMA BULLETIN
ISSUE 129 - SEPTEMBER 2017

KEY STORY: THE ROHINGYA EXODUS
• Women and children form majority of refugees
• Humanitarian crisis
• Thousands still trapped amid violence
• “Textbook example of ethnic cleansing”
• Government's "terrorist" narrative
• Social media disinformation propaganda
• Aung San Suu Kyi’s national address

HUMAN RIGHTS
• Permanent People’s Tribunal : Genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity
• Tatmadaw drops charges against journalists
• Burmese journalists arrested in Bangladesh

MILITARY
• International engagement with the Tatmadaw

ETHNIC AFFAIRS AND CONFLICT
• The armed conflict continues in Shan State
• Soldiers confess to killing Kachin IDPs

DISPLACEMENT
• India defends deportation plan

HUMANITARIAN
• Shan and Kachin IDPs call for continued aid

ECONOMY
• Economic zone in Arakan State
• Land conflict epidemic

NATURAL RESOURCES
• Thai Human Rights Commission hears complaint against coal mine in Southern Burma

PARLIAMENT WATCH
• Anti-Hate Speech Law

INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
• .International condemnation of the violence

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