Myanmar

The union leaders were arrested for protesting the police action against a strike of workers at The Hotel @ Tharabar Gate in Bagan.

Earlier in October, the United Nations Independent Fact-Finding Mission looking into the violence against the Rohingya population found patterns of gross human rights violations and serious violations of international humanitarian law by Myanmarese forces.

They were accused of accessing classified documents that revealed the role of the state in the massacre of the Rohingyas

The fact-finding mission found that the crimes include mass killings and rapes with a genocidal intent

Nearly 80,000 hectares have been taken away from poor and marginalized farmers, who are struggling to make a living