KEY STORY: THE ROHINGYA EXODUS: • Women and children form majority of refugees • Humanitarian crisis • Thousands still trapped amid violence • ?Textbook example of ethnic cleansing” • Government?s "terrorist" narrative • Social media disinformation propaganda • Aung San Suu Kyi?s national address... HUMAN RIGHTS • Permanent People?s Tribunal : Genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity • Tatmadaw drops charges against journalists • Burmese journalists arrested in Bangladesh... MILITARY • International engagement with the Tatmadaw... ETHNIC AFFAIRS AND CONFLICT • The armed conflict continues in Shan State • Soldiers confess to killing Kachin IDPs... DISPLACEMENT • India defends deportation plan... HUMANITARIAN • Shan and Kachin IDPs call for continued aid ... ECONOMY • Economic zone in Arakan State • Land conflict epidemic... NATURAL RESOURCES • Thai Human Rights Commission hears complaint against coal mine in Southern Burma... PARLIAMENT WATCH • Anti-Hate Speech Law... INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS • .International condemnation of the violence... REPORTS.