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Announcement of New Website: Rohingya Today (RohingyaToday.Com) Dear Readers, From 1st January 2019 onward, the Rohingya News Portal 'Rohingya Blogger' will be renamed and upgraded as 'Rohingya Today'. Due to this transition to a new name, our website will be available at www.rohing...

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Maung Zarni, leader of the Free Rohingya Coalition, speaks at a news conference at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan in Tokyo on Thursday. | CHISATO TANAKA By Chisato Tanaka, Published by The Japan Times on October 25, 2018 A leader of a global network of activists for Rohingya Mu...

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By Sena Güler | Published by Anadolu Agency on December 1, 2018 Maung Zarni says he will boycott Beijing-sponsored events until the country reverses its 'troubling path' ANKARA -- A human rights activist and intellectual said he withdrew from a Beijing-sponsored forum in London to pro...

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Oskar Butcher RB Article October 6, 2018 Every night in an unassuming shop space located in Mandalay’s 39thStreet, Lu Maw and Lu Zaw – the remaining members of the Burma’s most famous comedy trio, the Moustache Brothers – present their show: a curious combination of comedy, political sa...

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A demonstration over identity cards at a Rohingya refugee camp in Bangladesh in April, 2018. Image: NurPhoto/SIPA USA/PA Images. By Natalie Brinham | Published by Open Democracy on October 21, 2018 Wary of the past, Rohingya have frustrated the UN’s attempts to provide them with documenta...

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By M.S. Anwar | Opinion & Analysis The Burmese (Myanmar) quasi-civilian government unleashed a large-scale violence against the minority Rohingya in the western Myanmar state of Arakan in 2012. The violence, which some wrongly frame as ‘Communal’, was carried out by the Burmese armed forces...

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By Maung Zarni, Natalie Brinham | Published by Middle East Institute on November 20, 2018 “It is an ongoing genocide (in Myanmar),” said Mr. Marzuki Darusman, the head of the UN Human Rights Council-mandated Independent International Fact-Finding Mission at the official briefing at ...

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Rohingya refugees who fled from Myanmar wait to be let through by Bangladeshi border guards after crossing the border in Palang Khali, Bangladesh October 9, 2017. REUTERS/Damir Sagolj MS Anwar RB Opinion November 12, 2018 Some may differ. But I believe the government of Bangladesh is ...

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By Maung Zarni | Published by Anadolu Agency on December 15, 2018 US will not intercede, and Myanmar's neighbors see it through economic lens, so international coalition for Rohingya needed LONDON -- The U.S. House of Representatives Thursday overwhelmingly passed a resolution ca...

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Aman Ullah  RB History August 25, 2016 The ethnic Rohingya is one of the many nationalities of the union of Burma. And they are one of the two major communities of Arakan; the other is Rakhine and Buddhist. The Muslims (Rohingyas) and Buddhists (Rakhines) peacefully co-existed in the A...

Rohingya History by Scholars

Dr. Maung Zarni's Remark: The best research on Rohingya history: British Orientalism which created the pseudo-scientific biological notion of "Taiyinthar" or "real natives" of #Myanmar caused that country's post-colonial cancer of official & popular genocidal Racism.  This co...

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(Photo: Soe Zeya Tun, Reuters) RB News  October 5, 2013  Thandwe, Arakan – Rakhinese mob in Thandwe started attacking Kaman Muslims on September 28, 2013. As a result, 5 Kaman Muslims were mercilessly killed and 1 was died in heart attack while escaping the attack. 781 Kaman Mus...

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Rohingya families arrive at a UNHCR transit centre near the village of Anjuman Para, Cox’s Bazar, south-east Bangladesh after spending four days stranded at the Myanmar border with some 6,800 refugees. (Photo: UNHCR/Roger Arnold) By UN News May 11, 2018 Late last year, as violent repressi...

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(Photo: Reuters) Joint Statement: Rohingya Groups Call on U.S. Government to Ensure International Accountability for Myanmar Military-Planned Genocide December 17, 2018  We, the undersigned Rohingya organizations worldwide, call for accountability for genocide and crimes against...

Rohingya Orgs Activities

RB News December 6, 2017 Tokyo, Japan -- Legislators from all parties, along with Human Rights Now, Human Rights Watch, and Save the Children, came together to host the emergency parliament in-house event “The Rohingya Human Rights Crisis and Japanese Diplomacy” on December 4th. The eve...

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By Wyston Lawrence RB Petition October 15, 2017 There is one petition has been going on Change.org to remove Ven. Wira Thu from Facebook. He has been known as Buddhist Bin Laden. Time magazine published his image on their cover with the title of The Face of Buddhist Terror. The petitio...

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A human rights activist and genocide scholar from Burma Dr. Maung Zarni visits Auschwitz-Birkenau Nazi Extermination Camp and calls on European governments - Britain, France, Sweden, Norway, Italy, Denmark, Hungary and Germany not to collaborate with the Evil - like they did with Hitler 75 ye...

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Editorial by Int'l Media

By Dhaka Tribune Editorial November 5, 2017 How can we answer to our conscience knowing full-well what the Myanmar military is doing to the innocent Rohingya minority -- not even sparing children or pregnant women? Despite the on-going humanitarian crisis involving Rohingya refugees ...

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Myanmar will never allow Suu Kyi to come to power

by S RAMAKRISHNAN    
 
EU official permitted to meet Suu Kyi
 
European Union’s top aid official has completed his visit to Myanmar and was allowed to meet the peace icon Aung San Suu Kyi. The official stated that the Myanmar authorities encouraged more humanitarian access to more areas of Myanmar. This was stated by the Humanitarian Aid Commissioner Kristalina Georgieva in Brussels. European Union donated more than 22 million Euros this year for humanitarian aid to Burma and also to refugees in Thailand.
 
Change of mind seen in military junta
 
This is really a good change from the Burmese government. Earlier, the Burmese government controlled by the military junta jailed Suu Kyi for many years. Recently it conducted elections and installed a puppet civil government in Yangon. After this, Suu Kyi herself was released from prison and allowed to freely move anywhere in Burma. She even met the President Thein Sein. The State-run television reported that both parties set aside their differences and discussed common interests and areas of potential cooperation for the benefit of the country and the people. Suu Kyi stated that she was happy and satisfied about the meeting. A day after this meeting, Suu Kyi was allowed to travel to Naypitaw, the new capital in the middle of the jungle, to attend a government sponsored workshop on economic development. There, she mingled freely with Ministers and other ruling party leaders.
 
Suu Kyi is now tired because of age
 
There is a change visible on both sides. Suu Kyi, because of her age (she is 66) and also because of her spending two decades of her life in prison, has become tired. Age and time mellow feelings and emotions. She has become more matured now. She has realised that she could achieve nothing by opposing the military junta and the government. Now she wants to spend time for her family and friends. She does not want to land in prison again and spend years in isolation. So she is opting for reconciliation.
 
Suu Kyi is given a little liberty outside the domain of politics
 
The military junta, on the other hand, thinks that by giving Suu Kyi a little bit of liberty outside the domain of politics, the stigma around it in the international community could be removed and more aid will be forthcoming. More aid means more cash and more cash means more bank balance for the military leaders. Thus the military wants to make money through Suu Kyi. As long as Suu Kyi does not talk about politics, it is prepared to give her freedom.
 
Not actually a civilian government
 
Members of the Myanmar’s army-dominated Parliament have called for a sweeping jail amnesty scheme through which about 2000 prisoners of conscience could be released. These 2000 members belong to Suu Kyi’s NLD party (National League for Democracy). The old era of military regime seems to have ended and the new era of civilian rule, with all its imperfections, has begun. But we should not forget the fact that this civilian government is not actually a civilian government, but a government imposed by the military junta. In fact the ‘civilian’ government contains only retired military officers.
 
Suu Kyi may again be imprisoned if she exceeds her freedom
 
Suu Kyi will roam about in Burma with freedom. She can spend time with her family and people. But if she again begins to talk politics or make inflammatory speech, the military junta will put her behind bars. This is the stark reality in Burma.

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