Yangon
Smoke, rubble and gunshot wounds have conjured images of Yangon neighbourhoods as “battlegrounds” this week, and though the term helps emphasise the severity of the situation, it can also be slightly misleading.
All of Myanmar's major religions came together to dish out free meals and white roses in downtown Yangon.
Supporting them outside a Yangon court were fellow blue t-shirted campaigners, an increasingly familiar sight at trials straining the development of free speech in Myanmar.
Min Htin Ko Ko Gyi, who received treatment for liver cancer five months ago, attended his fourth hearing at Yangon’s Insein township court today.
A nationalist mob descended on a residential area on the outskirts of Yangon to force Muslims to halt their Ramadan prayers, at one point threatening a man with a knife as police stood by, witnesses said.
Respected monk U Seindita handed out flowers to Muslims who were targeted by nationalist thugs the previous night.
Min Htin Ko Ko Gyi who has liver cancer was jailed for criticising the military in a series of Facebook posts.
Police have arrested two men who heckled the nationalist monk U Wirathu.
A Biman Bangladesh Airlines plane skidded off the runway of Yangon International Airport this evening.