Articles by Poppy McPherson

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Rohingya Coerced into Going to Remote Island, Refugees and Aid Workers Say
Poppy McPherson and Ruma Paul | Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 Dec 2020

3 Dec 2020 – Refugees and humanitarian workers said today that some of the thousands of Rohingya being shipped to a remote island had been coerced, despite government assertions that none would be forced to go.

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U.N. Urges Sanctions on Myanmar Army Businesses, Says Foreign Partners Could Be Complicit
Angie Teo and Poppy McPherson | Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Aug 2019

5 Aug 2019 – United Nations investigators urged world leaders today to impose targeted financial sanctions on companies linked to the military in Myanmar, and said foreign firms doing business with them could be complicit in international crimes.

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In Myanmar’s Conflict-Torn Rakhine, Fresh Allegations of ‘War Crimes’
Poppy McPherson and Thu Thu Aung | Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service, 15 Jul 2019

12 Jul 2019 – When 35-year-old Ah Hla showed up to a police station in western Myanmar in late April hoping to see her husband among the prisoners, she didn’t know whether he was alive or dead. “I went there with the hope that I am going to see my husband, but he was not there,” said Ah Hla, who had walked to the police station with a group of relatives of the detained men. When she arrived, police told her that her husband of 15 years had hanged himself in his cell, and that his body had already been disposed of.

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Point of No Return: Erasing the Rohingya
Poppy McPherson, Simon Lewis, Thu Thu Aung, Shoon Naing and Zeba Siddiqui | Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service, 24 Dec 2018

18 Dec 2018 – Having fled waves of violence, more than 900,000 members of Myanmar’s Rohingya Muslim minority now languish in refugee camps in neighboring Bangladesh. A Reuters investigation has found the Myanmar government is taking steps that threaten to make the purge of the Rohingya permanent.

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Dozens of Rohingya Flee Camps by Boat, Reviving Memories of 2015 Tragedy
Ruma Paul and Poppy McPherson | Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Nov 2018

8 Nov 2018 – Dozens of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar and Bangladesh have boarded boats to try to reach Malaysia, officials and aid workers said today, raising fears of a fresh wave of such dangerous voyages after a 2015 crackdown on people smugglers.

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Aung San Suu Kyi: Myanmar’s Great Hope Fails to Live Up to Expectations
Poppy McPherson – The Guardian, 3 Apr 2017

31 Mar 2017 – It was never meant to be this way. A year after her party swept to power, the Nobel laureate faces questions over her leadership and silence on persecution of Rohingya Muslims.

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The Public Loves Myanmar’s New War on Muslims
Poppy McPherson | Foreign Policy – TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Nov 2016

One year after a historic election put a civilian government in charge, the country’s army is using brutal methods to regain its popularity.

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