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• No surprises, but Aung San Suu Kyi shocks with comments on Rohingya – Sydney Morning Herald. September 15, 2018
• Aung San Suu Kyi 'complicit' in Rohingya slaughter: UN investigator – Sydney Morning Herald. February 17, 2018
• Myanmar bars UN from investigating Rohingya atrocities in Rakhine – Sydney Morning Herald. September 20, 2017
• Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi defends the indefensible – Sydney Morning Herald. September 19, 2017
• 'Ethnic cleansing': Warning Rohingya persecution in Myanmar threatens regional security – Sydney Morning Herald. September 11, 2017
• Australia told to halt support for Myanmar military as Rohingya atrocities continue – Sydney Morning Herald. September 9, 2017
• Myanmar crisis a 'human catastrophe' that betrays Suu Kyi's Nobel prize – Sydney Morning Herald. September 2, 2017
• Survivors tell of mass killings, beheadings as Myanmar 'cleansing operation' underway – Sydney Morning Herald. September 2, 2017
• 'Terrorism' has arrived in Myanmar's Rakhine State, says Aung San Suu Kyi – Sydney Morning Herald. August 27, 2017
• Myanmar preparing to crush 'militants' in Rakhine – Sydney Morning Herald. August 11, 2017

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• Burma: End ‘Ethnic Cleansing’ of Rohingya Muslims – Human Rights Watch Press Release. April 22, 2013
• Burma: Government forces targeting Rohingya Muslims – Human Rights Watch Press Release. April 1, 2013
• Burma: Cynical manipulation of legal system prefigures continued authoritarianism – Asian Human Rights Commission Statement. March 26, 2012
• Burma: Reforms yet to reach Kachin state – Human Rights Watch Press Release. March 20, 2012
• Burma: New law on demonstrations falls short – Human Rights Watch Statement. March 15, 2012
• Burma: Women's Day – No protection for women –  – Asian Human Rights Commission Statement. March 8, 2012
• Burma: Prisoners released and others still detained – Asian Human Rights Commission Urgent Appeal. February 3, 2012

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• World Report 2017: Burma – Human Rights Watch. January 12, 2017
• World Report 2016: Burma – Human Rights Watch. January 27, 2016
• 'Going back to the old ways': A new generation of prisoners of conscience in Myanmar – Amnesty International. October 8, 2015 (PDF format)
• Myanmar – Amnesty International Report 2014/15
• World Report 2015: Burma - Human Rights Watch. January 30, 2015
• World Report 2014: Burma – Human Rights Watch. January 21, 2014
• Annual Report 2013: Myanmar - Amnesty International. May 23, 2013
• ‘All You Can Do is Pray’: Crimes Against Humanity and Ethnic Cleansing of Rohingya Muslims in Burma’s Arakan State - Human Rights Watch. April 22, 2013
• 2012 Human Rights Report: Burma - Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor. April 19, 2013
• World Report 2013: Burma - Human Rights Watch. February 2013
• 'The Government Could Have Stopped This': Sectarian Violence and Ensuing Abuses in Burma’s Arakan State - Human Rights Watch. August 1, 2012
• The State of Human Rights in Burma, 2012 - Asian Human Rights Commission report. December 10, 2012 (PDF format)
• “The Government Could Have Stopped This” - Sectarian Violence and Ensuing Abuses in Burma’s Arakan State - Human Rights Watch. August 1, 2012
• 2011 Human Rights Reports: Burma - Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor - May 24, 2012
• Annual Report Myanmar - Amnesty International. May 24, 2012
• 'Untold Miseries' – Wartime Abuses and Forced Displacement in Burma’s Kachin State. Human Rights Watch March 20, 2012
• World Report 2012: Burma - Human Rights Watch. January 23, 2012
• Burma: From blinkered to market-oriented despotism? – Asian Human Rights Commission report. December 9, 2011 (PDF format)
• Burma's Covered Up War: Atrocities Against the Kachin People - Kachin Women's Association of Thailand (KWAT). October 2011
• Human Rights in Myanmar - Amnesty International Report. May 2011
• Human rights situation in Burma - Network for Human Rights Documentation-Burma - May 18, 2011
• 2010 Human Rights Report: Burma - Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor. April 8, 2011
• World Report Burma 2011 - Human Rights Watch. February 2011
• Torture, Political Prisoners and the UN-Rule of Law: Challenges to Peace, Security and Human Rights in Burma - Association of Southeast Asian Nations Human Right Conference Report. October 19, 2010 (PDF format)
• World Report Burma 2010 - Human Rights Watch. January 2010
• Human Rights in Union of Myanmar - Amnesty International Report 2010
• Burma's Forgotten Prisoners - Human Rights Watch. September, 2009 (PDF format)
• The Resistance of the Monks: Buddhism and Activism in Burma - Human Rights Watch. September, 2009 (PDF format)
• Perilous Plight: Burma’s Rohingya Take to the Seas - Human Rights Watch. May, 2009 (PDF format)
• “I Want to Help My Own People” - State Control and Civil Society in Burma after Cyclone Nargis - Human Rights Watch. April 28, 2010
• World Report Burma 2009 - Human Rights Watch. January 14, 2009
• Human Rights in Union of Myanmar - Amnesty International Report 2009
• “We Are Like Forgotten People” - The Chin People of Burma: Unsafe in Burma, Unprotected in India - Human Rights Watch. January, 2009 (PDF format)
• Vote to Nowhere - The May 2008 Constitutional Referendum in Burma - Human Rights Watch. May, 2008 (PDF format)
• World Report Burma 2008 - Human Rights Watch. January 31, 2008
• Human Rights in Union of Myanmar - Amnesty International Report 2008
• Crackdown - Repression of the 2007 Popular Protests in Burma - Human Rights Watch. December, 2007 (PDF format)
• Sold to be Soldiers - The Recruitment and Use of Child Soldiers in Burma - Human Rights Watch. October, 2007 (PDF format)
• World Report Burma 2007 - Human Rights Watch. January 11, 2007
• Human Rights in Union of Myanmar - Amnesty International Report 2007
• World Report Burma 2006 - Human Rights Watch. January 18, 2006
• Out of Sight, Out of Mind: Thai Policy toward Burmese Refugees - Human Rights Watch. February, 2004 (PDF format)

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