Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD)

Further Reading

• Rohingya End Hard Year Still in Limbo VOA 26 Dec 2018 -- More than 750,000 Rohingya Muslim refugees who fled military attacks in Myanmar remain in Bangladesh camps as future repatriation and resettlement plans remain unclear.
• India, Myanmar Conduct First Ever Military Exchange Programme Sputnik 25 Dec 2018 -- The effort aimed at promoting mutual trust between the defence forces of Myanmar and India is part of the latter's strategy to counter increasing Chinese influence in the Indian Ocean region.
• Myanmar Army Announces Unilateral Ceasefire Against Ethnic Rebels Sputnik 21 Dec 2018 -- The Myanmar Army (Tatmadaw) announced a unilateral ceasefire on Friday in five regional commands (North, Northeast, East, Middle East and Triangle) to facilitate negotiations with rebel groups fighting in different parts of the country.
• Bamboo-boring beetles wreak havoc in Rohingya refugee camps, UN agency races to respond UN News 21 Dec 2018 -- Beset by millions of bamboo-chomping beetles, almost every shelter in the vast Rohingya refugee camps of Cox's Bazar, in Bangladesh, needs replacing. With just over four months to go until the beginning of the monsoon season, the race is on for IOM, the United Nations migration agency which is managing the camp, to provide families living in the worst-affected temporary dwellings, with new and more durable bamboo.
• Myanmar launches new 'clearance operations' against Rohingya Press TV 20 Dec 2018 -- Myanmar forces are conducting new "clearance operations" in northern Rakhine state where thousands of Rohingya Muslims have been languishing in internal displacement camps.
• UN agencies welcome green light for Rohingya projects in northern Myanmar; urge 'more effective access' UN News 17 Dec 2018 -- The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the UN Refugee Agency, UNHCR, on Monday announced that they had received the Government go-ahead to develop community projects in Myanmar's Rakhine province, and called on authorities to provide "more effective access" to the area.
• US House Designates Myanmar Campaign against Rohingya Minority 'Genocide' VOA 13 Dec 2018 -- The U.S. House of Representatives approved a resolution by a vote of 394-1 Thursday, declaring Myanmar's military campaign against the country's Rohingya Muslim minority a genocide.
• Bangladesh summons Myanmar's envoy over minister's remarks about Rohingya Press TV 06 Dec 2018 -- Bangladesh has summoned Myanmar's ambassador over controversial comments made by the Myanmarese religion minister about Dhaka and Rohingya Muslim refugees, and called for legal action against him.
• 'Genocide' Evidence in Case of Myanmar's Rohingya Growing VOA 03 Dec 2018 -- The U.S. Holocaust Museum says it has found "compelling evidence of genocide" in Myanmar against the Muslim Rohingya minority, calling on the U.S. government and international governments to hold the Burmese military accountable.