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Announcement of New Website: Rohingya Today (RohingyaToday.Com)

31 Dec 2018 0 comments

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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  • Rohingya Refugee Killed in Fighting between Bangladesh Army and Chakma Rebels

    Rohingya Today | December 26, 2018 Cox's Bazaar – A Rohingya refugee working as a day labourer in a road construction project was killed in fighting between Bangladesh's army and Chakma separatist rebels in Bangladesh on Sunday (Dec 23), sources report. A clash broke out between the Ba...

  • Bangladesh Police Beat up Refugee Woman and Obstruct Her from Justice

    Rohingya Refugee Camps in Bangladesh Rohingya Today | December 19, 2018 Cox's Bazaar — Bangladesh policemen beat up a teenage woman in Rohingya refugee camps in Cox's Bazaar and subsequently, obstructed justice being served to her. Eighteen-year-old Salima Khatun was severely beaten up...

  • Bangladesh Attempts to Revoke Rohingya 'Refugee' Status

    Rohingya Today November 11, 2018 Cox's Bazaar — Bangladesh attempts to strip UNHCR-registered Rohingya refugees of their 'Refugee' Status, triggering them to go on 'Ration Strike' since November 1 out of fear of forced repatriation to Myanmar, refugees say. Approximately 250,000 Rohi...

  • Rohingya Inmate Dies after Being Denied Treatment in Buthidaung Jail

    RB News September 29, 2018 Buthidaung — An arbitrarily jailed Rohingya inmate has died in Buthidaung jail after being denied of proper medical treatments. The victim, identified as 'U Abu Shama, 50, s/o U Basu Meah' from Thayet Oak village in northern Maungdaw, was sentenced to 12-year imp...

  • Two Girls Die after Myanmar Border Guards Shoot at Rohingya Boat

    RB News September 29, 2018 Maungdaw — Two girls were killed and a few other people arrested when the Myanmar Border Guard Police (BGP) opened fire at a Rohingya boat off the coast of 'Feran Furu (Mingalar Gyi)' village in northern Maungdaw at around 8 pm on Thursday (Sept 27). The two girl...

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Rohingya News @ Int'l Media

Activist for Rohingya Muslims calls on Tokyo to speak out over refugee crisis

25 Oct 2018 0 comments

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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  • Activists: US Stance on Rohingya Not Strong Enough

    Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar wait to carry food items from Bangladesh's border toward a no man's land where they set up refugee camps in Tombru, Bangladesh, Sept. 15, 2017. By William Gallo Voice of America September 25, 2018 Activists are criticizing a long-awaited U.S. State Departme...

  • Rohingyas declare Aug 25 as ‘genocide day’

    By Abdul Aziz Dhaka Tribune August 28, 2018 The UN likened the Aug 25 crackdown in the Rakhine state to genocide The Rohingyas have announced to observe August 25 as the "genocide day," a year after a Myanmar military crackdown forced more than 700,000 members of the ethnic minority...

  • World fails to end Rohingya crisis: US Official

    By Safvan Allahverdi Anadolu Agency July 31, 2018 'We keep saying 'never again', but it keeps happening,' says US representative to UN Economic and Social Council WASHINGTON -- The world has failed to end the Rohingya crisis in Myanmar, where hundreds of thousands of people were dri...

  • Rohingya cannot become ‘forgotten victims,’ says UN chief urging world to step up support

    Secretary-General António Guterres (center) meets with Rohingya refugees in Cox’s Bazaar, Bangladesh. (Photo: UNFPA Bangladesh/Allison Joyce) Published by UN News on July 11, 2018 Painting a grim picture of villages being burned to the ground and other “bone-chilling” accounts he heard fr...

  • Thousands of Rohingya Continue to Flee Violence in Myanmar

    Rohingya girls carry firewood on their heads as they make their way through Kutupalong refugee camp, June 28, 2018, in Bangladesh. By Lisa Schlein | Published by Voice of America on July 4, 2018 GENEVA — U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein reports thousands of Ro...

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Myanmar News

Academic withdraws from China-backed event for Uyghurs

03 Dec 2018 0 comments

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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  • Durbin Blasts Removal of Myanmar Sanctions From Defense Bill

    Aung San Suu Kyi, State Counsellor of Myanmar, has been a guest at the Capitol, including in Sept. 2016. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call file photo) By Niels Lesniewski | Published by Roll Call on July 31, 2018 Signs point to McConnell not allowing language targeting country also known as...

  • Zeid calls for ICC probe into Myanmar Rohingya crisis

    UN Photo/Jean-Marc Ferre High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein. Published by UN News on July 4, 2018 Myanmar should “have some shame” after attempting to convince the world that it is willing to take back hundreds of thousands of refugees who fled an “ethnic cleansing c...

  • UN rights expert ‘strongly recommends’ probe by International Criminal Court into ‘decades of crimes’ in Myanmar

    UN Photo/Jean-Marc Ferre Special Rapporteur on the human rights situation in Myanmar Yanghee Lee. Published by UN News on June 27, 2018 The United Nations rights expert on Myanmar is “strongly” recommending that the International Criminal Court (ICC) investigate and prosecute those allege...

  • Canada sanctions top Myanmar military over Rohingya abuses

    Myanmar's military has forced some 700,000 Rohingya Muslims out of Rakhine state and across the border to Bangladesh since August 2017 By AFP June 25, 2018 Canada on Monday announced sanctions in coordination with the European Union against seven senior Myanmar officials over the Rohingy...

  • EU sanctions Myanmar generals over Rohingya; Myanmar says two are fired

    A Rohingya refugee is seen in Balukhali refugee camp at dawn near Cox's Bazaar, Bangladesh, March 28, 2018. REUTERS/Clodagh Kilcoyne By Robin Emmott, Antoni Slodkowski Reuters June 25, 2018 LUXEMBOURG/YANGON -- The European Union imposed sanctions on seven senior military officials from ...

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Video News

Experts’ Roundtable on the Myanmar/Bangladesh Crisis held at the University of Ottawa

18 Apr 2018 0 comments

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  • Justice for the Rohingyas: The World Must Act (A Panel Discussion)

    For the last 40 years, Rohingyas of Northern Arakan/Rakhine State of Myanmar (formerly Burma), have been subjected to what Amartya Sen called a "slow genocide." Since August 26, over 607,000 Rohingyas have sought refuge in Bangladesh after having fled Myanmar’s campaign of murder, arson and...

  • The Rohingya: Silent Abuse

    By Al Jazeera August 10, 2017 Denied citizenship, forced from their homes, and subjected to cruelty; we investigate the plight of Myanmar's Rohingya. Filmmakers: Salam Hindawi, Ali Kishk, Harri Grace Myanmar, formerly known as Burma, has a population of around 51 million people. T...

  • Is the world ignoring the plight of the Rohingya?

    By Al Jazeera December 4, 2016 Malaysian prime minister urges foreign intervention to stop what he calls the genocide of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar. Pressure on government leaders in Myanmar is being ramped up - as Malaysia accused its neighbour of committing genocide aga...

  • Left For Dead: Myanmar’s Muslim Minority (Full Length)

    By VICE News November 11, 2016 In recent years, democratic reforms have swept through Myanmar, a country that for decades was ruled by a military junta. As the reforms took hold, however, things were growing progressively worse for the Rohingya, a heavily persecuted ethnic Muslim minor...

  • Dr Maung Zarni comments on Kofi Annan Commission and Myanmar Genocide of Rohingya

    Dr Maung Zarni comments on Kofi Annan Commission and Myanmar Genocide of Rohingya, Al Jazeera English News Hour, 7 September 2016 ...

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Article @ RB

Comedy and Tragedy in Burma: Grappling with Aung San Suu Kyi’s broken legacy and the Myanmar genocide

06 Oct 2018 0 comments

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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  • In memory of U Maung Kyaw Nu

    Richard Potter and U Maung Kyaw Nu Richard Potter RB Article July 20, 2018 Early in the morning on May 31st U Maung Kyaw Nu passed away. Maung was known by most as a political activist and president of the Burmese Rohingya Association of Thailand. He was a political prisoner in Burma ...

  • Ba Kyaw: The Leading Military Gunman of Maung Nu Massacre

    A survivor from Monu Fara (Photo: Ro Mayyu Ali) Ro Mayyu Ali RB Article February 2, 2018 Curtly, shabby, and always redly in eyes but very tactful to pick up the collections for extortion purposes. Grabbing any Rohingya's motor-bike, a soul-ruffling terrifying entry into the village ble...

  • U Ko Ni: A man of mountains of knowledge on constitutional reforms

    Haikal Mansor RB Article January 29, 2018 Widely considered as the architect of “State-counsellor” position created for Aung San Suu Kyi after Myanmar’s Constitution barred her the presidency. Born in Katha, Sagaing Division on February 11, 1953, Abdul Gani, better known as U Ko Ni ...

  • National Verification Card (NVC): A Hidden Trap for Myanmar’s Rohingya

    Mohammed Ayub (TU), UAE RB Article October 22, 2017 Myanmar Military was never sincere in handling ethnics’ affairs, especially, in Rohingyas’ whose permanent home is northern Arakan. Throughout the history, military uses the Muslims population of the country for political diversion an...

  • The Laukathara and its influence on Myanmarism

    (Photo: EPA) Habib Siddiqui RB Article September 17, 2017 Myanmar, formerly Burma, is a resource rich country in south-east Asia, bordering Bangladesh, India, China, Laos and Thailand. The old men of the military that ran the country for more than half a century have been displaced by a...

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Article @ Int'l Media

“Genocide cards”: Rohingya refugees on why they risked their lives to refuse ID cards

22 Oct 2018 0 comments

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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Analysis @ RB

Myanmar’s Investigation Commissions: Tactic to Conceal Rohingya Genocide

20 Feb 2018 0 comments

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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Analysis @ Int'l Media

Ensuring the Safety of Rohingyas as a National Minority Inside Myanmar: Who? How?

20 Nov 2018 0 comments

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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Opinion @ RB

Premature Rohingya Repatriation: Harmful for both Bangladesh and Rohingya

12 Nov 2018 0 comments

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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  • Humanitarian Colonialisms in the Rohingya Genocide

    By Dr. Maung Zarni September 20, 2018 NGOs destroy civil society, said a top sociologist at Columbia. He is absolutely correct. If Rohingyas do NOT hang together they will be hang separately. I see the disaster or humanitarian colonialism being repeated in Rohingya situation. T...

  • Putting Lives in Danger

    [This is a longer version of the article with the same title published on Dhaka Tribune on June 19.] Irresponsible reports do nothing to help the cause of human rights © MAHMUD HOSSAIN OPU By MS Anwar | June 22, 2018 An Amnesty report that points fingers at ARSA could do more...

  • Cologne Conference demands accountability of the Myanmar Government

    By Habib Siddiqui RB Opinion May 9, 2018 The Rohingyas are victims of a ‘slow-burning genocide’ that is perpetrated as a national project in Buddhist Myanmar (formerly Burma). Some 700,000 Rohingyas have been forced out of their ancestral homes in western Rakhine (formerly Arakan) stat...

  • What will Protected Homeland for Rohingya look like?

    By Dr Maung Zarni April 29, 2018 Northern Rakhine State, which is ancestral home of Rohingya need to be declared and turned into Homeland for Rohingya protected by international armed forces. Arakan National Party (Rakhine racist party) openly opposes Rohingya presence South of Maung...

  • Myanmar’s Investigation Commissions: Tactic to Conceal Rohingya Genocide

    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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Opinion @ Int'l Media

US genocide resolution welcome, but Rohingya need more

15 Dec 2018 0 comments

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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  • Don’t let Aung San Suu Kyi off the hook for her role in the Myanmar genocide

    Aung San Suu Kyi in 2013. Photo by Shawn Landersz on Flickr. By Khin Mai Aung | Published by Lion's Roar on December 6, 2018 Last week, a prominent Buddhist teacher defended Aung San Suu Kyi, the Buddhist Nobel Peace Prize laureate and Myanmar civilian leader, against criticism that she i...

  • The solutions to the Rohingya crisis: Voices from the Field

    By Nasir Uddin | Published by South Asia Journal on November 17, 2018 The world witnessed a massive refugee situation in the borderland of Bangladesh and Myanmar in 2017, where an extreme form of brutality perpetrated by the Myanmar security forces forced hundreds of thousands Rohingya p...

  • Five concrete measures can end Rohingya genocide

    By Dr. Maung Zarni Anadolu Agency October 5, 2018 - The writer is coordinator for strategic affairs at the Free Rohingya Coalition and adviser to the European Center for the Study of Extremism, Cambridge, UK Five steps can be taken towards achieving justice, repatriation and the re...

  • Canada has recognized the Rohingya genocide. Now what should come next?

    A Myanmar soldier guards an area at the Sittwe airport as British foreign minister Jeremy Hunt arrives in Sittwe, Rakhine state, on September 20, 2018. (Ye Aung Thu / AFP/Getty Images) By Irwin Cotler and Brandon Silver | Published by MACLEANS on September 21, 2018 In the wake of a UN rep...

  • India must stand by the Rohingya in their hour of need

    By Tapan Bose | Published by CounterCurrents.Org on August 1, 2018 Rohingya refugees are back in the news again. On Tuesday (July 30) Mr. Rijiju, the Minister of State for Home said some of the Rohingya living in India do not have the status of “refugee” but are “illegal migrants” who wo...

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History @ RB

The Traditional Demand of the Muslim Rohingya of North Arakan

25 Aug 2016 0 comments

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...

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  • Pamela Gutman 1944–2015 and The History of early Arakan

    Aman Ullah RB History June 13, 2016 [Dr Pamela Gutman was the first Australian to complete a doctorate in Asian Art, specializing in Burma. Her scholarship did much to contribute to Australian-Burmese government relations from the 1970s onwards, painting a picture of the art and cultural lif...

  • The Etymology of Magh

    Aman Ullah RB History April 26, 2016 Mohan Ghosh wrote in his book ‘Magh Raiders of Bengal’ that, “In 8th century under the Hindu revivalist leader, Sankaracharijya, Buddhists in India were persecuted in large-scale. In Magadah, old Bihar of India, Buddhists were so ruthlessly oppressed by c...

  • Maurice Collis and Mrauk-U (1430 - 1785 AD)

    Aman Ullah RB History April 19, 2016 [Maurice Stewart Collis (1889 –1973) was an administrator in Burma (Myanmar) when it was part of the British Empire, and afterwards a writer on Southeast Asia, China and other historical subjects. MS Collis was born in 1889, the son of an Irish solicitor,...

  • Arakan in Post 1000 AD

    Aman Ullah RB History April 17, 2016 Before 10th century, Arakan was inhabited by Hindus. At that time Arakan was the gate of Hindu India to contact with the countries of the east. Morris Collis writes in his book "Burma under the iron heels of British" that the Hindu ruled Arakan from firs...

  • Arakan Before 1000 AD

    Aman Ullah RB History April 10, 2016 The earliest name of Arakan was ‘Kala Mukha’ (Land of the) Black Faces writes Noel Francis Singer in his book ‘Vaishali and the Indianization of Arakan’. It was inhabited by these dark brown-colored Indians who had much in common with the people (today’s...

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Rohingya History by Scholars

Professor Michael Charney: The best historical research on Rohingyas and the fiction of Myanmar National History

20 Jan 2018 0 comments

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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  • Timeline: Being Rohingya in Myanmar, from 1784 to Now

    By Alal O Dulal Collective The Wire  September 24, 2017 As Rohingya people continue to flee Rakhine State and allege widespread persecution, a look at their struggle through the years. A Rohingya refugee girl collects rain water at a makeshift camp in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, S...

  • Northern Arakan as Rohingya's Ancestral Land: G.H.Luce citing the Stone Inscription from Ava Period

    By Dr Maung Zarni December 16, 2015 THE ‪#‎ROHINGYA‬ OR ROHINJAS OF PRE-COLONIAL ‪#‎MYANMAR‬ Rohinjas were NOT descendants of colonial era "farm coolies" from East Bengal as Myanmar government blatantly lies to the world. Based on the 14th century stone inscriptions, Luce described them as ...

  • Muslim Identity and Demography in Arakan - Part 5

    By Dr. Habib Siddiqui Asian Tribune October 23, 2011 Part 5: The Demography Controversy According to the Encyclopaedia Britannica, the population in Arakan grew to 173,000 in 1831, 248,000 in 1839, 461,136 in 1871 and 762,102 in 1901. For the total population in Arakan to grow ...

  • Muslim Identity and Demography in Arakan - Part 4

    By Dr. Habib Siddiqui Asian Tribune October 16, 2011 Part 4: Rakhine Attempt to Whitewash Burman King’s Crime Khin Maung Saw provides a highly distorted rendition of the 1784 invasion of Arakan and tries to justify the brutal occupation by the racist and bigot Burman King Bodaw Paya by s...

  • Muslim Identity and Demography in Arakan - Part 3

    By Dr. Habib Siddiqui Asian Tribune October 12, 2011 Part 3. The Muslim Factor in Arakan Just as it happened throughout the coastal territories from the Arabian Peninsula to the Barbary Coast and the shores of Gibraltar and Iberian Peninsula (and beyond) via Alexandria, Tripoli and Tunis to...

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Report @ RB

Houses, Mosques and others destructed in Thandwe by Rakhinese Mob (List)

05 Oct 2013 0 comments

(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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  • Special Report: 26.1 Millions Kyat extorted by U-Daung village administrator Tin Maung in Maungdaw

    RB Special Report July 27, 2013 Maungdaw, Arakan – Tin Maung, a Rakhine from Na-Ta-La village and administrator of U-Daung village tract, Southern Maungdaw Township, Arakan State, was not elected by the people of U-Daung village tract, but rather he was appointed as village administrator b...

  • Pahang Rohingya Language School: The first Rohingyalish School in Malaysia

    RB Report July 21, 2013 Pahang Rohingya Language School: The first Rohingyalish School in Malaysia School Theme: “Bring Rohingya Language from tongues to papers” Project Supervised by: Rohingya Social & Welfare Association Pahang (Newly found organization)  Mohammed Rafique S...

  • A Look into Atrocities against Rohingyas to Date

    M.S. Anwar RB Report October 1, 2012 Since the violence against Rohingyas started, atrocities against Rohingyas have been being carried out in large scale. They have been arrested, tortured and killed. Their women and girls were raped. Their properties were looted, destroyed and torched. In...

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Report by Media/Org

For Rohingya refugees, imminent surge in births is traumatic legacy of sexual violence - special report

11 May 2018 0 comments

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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  • Reuters Special Report: How Myanmar forces burned, looted and killed in a remote village

    Ten Rohingya Muslim men with their hands bound kneel as members of the Myanmar security forces stand guard in Inn Din village September 2, 2017. REUTERS By Wa Lone, Kyaw Soe Oo, Simon Lewis, Antoni Slodkowski  Reuters  February 8, 2018 INN DIN, Myanmar -- Bound together, the 1...

  • Myanmar army massacred dozens of Rohingya, survivors say

    In this Friday Nov. 24, 2017, photo, Mohammadul Hassan, 18, is photographed in his family’s tent in Jamtoli refugee camp in Bangladesh. Hassan still bears the scars on his chest and back from being shot by soldiers who attempted to execute him. More than 650,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled to Ban...

  • Burma: Methodical Massacre at Rohingya Village

    By Human Rights Watch December 19, 2017 Hundreds Killed, Raped in Tula Toli Rangoon – The Burmese army carried out systematic killings and rape of several hundred Rohingya Muslims in Tula Toli village in Rakhine State on August 30, 2017, Human Rights Watch said in a report released...

  • AP Investigation: Rohingya methodically raped by Myanmar’s armed forces

    Nov. 22, 2017, photo, F, 22, who says she was raped by members of Myanmar’s armed forces in June and again in September, cries as she speaks to The Associated Press in her tent in Kutupalong refugee camp in Bangladesh. The Associated Press has found that the rape of Rohingya women by Myanmar’s s...

  • "Caged without a roof": Apartheid in Myanmar's Rakhine State

    By Amnesty International November 21, 2017 The situation for Myanmar’s Rohingya minority has deteriorated dramatically since August 2017, when the military unleashed a brutal campaign of violence against the population living in the northern parts of Rakhine State, where the majority o...

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Press Release

Joint Statement: Rohingya Groups Call on U.S. Government to Ensure International Accountability for Myanmar Military-Planned Genocide

16 Dec 2018 0 comments

(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...

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Rohingya Orgs Activities

Emergency Parliament Event: “The Rohingya Human Rights Crisis and Japanese Diplomacy”

06 Dec 2017 0 comments

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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Petition

More than 2000 signed for removing Buddhist Bin Laden from Facebook

15 Oct 2017 0 comments

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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Campaign

Auschwitz Appeal: EU, Don't repeat Old Europe's Collaboration. End Myanmar Rohingya Genocide

09 Mar 2017 0 comments

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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  • Press Release: New Rohingya Rights Campaign Means Business; Reaches Out To Unilever

    Press Release 20th February 2017 The Rohingya Muslim minority in Myanmar have been subjected to gross human rights abuses that the United Nations say may constitute ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity. A recent UN report detailing incidents of systematic gang-rapes by the My...

  • An Open Letter to Unilever CEO Paul Polman

    UNILEVER, MYANMAR AND THE ROHINGYA GENOCIDE 20th February, 2017 Dear Paul, Your willingness to listen and share your thoughts with us means a lot, not just to me, but to hundreds of concerned activists involved in the #WeAreAllRohingyaNow campaign. We would like to know if you ...

  • Appeal to FREE Rohingya Detainees from the Immigration Detention Center in Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

    Inside the Immigration Detention Center in Jeddah (Photo: Supplied by a Rohingya detainee) Appeal to FREE Rohingya Detainees from the Immigration Detention Center in Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia  Ro Nay San Lwin  RB Campaign  January 26, 2017  In th...

  • Urgent Action: Myanmar - Torture fears for hundreds Rohingya detained

    By Amnesty International January 12, 2017 URGENT ACTION TORTURE FEARS FOR HUNDREDS ROHINGYA DETAINED Hundreds of Rohingya have been detained as part of the ongoing security operation in northern Rakhine State, Myanmar. To date, no official information about where the individuals a...

  • Free Mamedullah

    By Jamila Hanan RB Campaign January 7, 2017 This is Mamedullah, age 27. His full name is Muhammed Ullah but his friends and family call him Mamedullah for short. He is one of the few Rohingya to gain himself an education in his village in Maung Gyi Taung in Buthidaung township, against...

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Event

Myanmar Gov.'s press conference in Yangon on "The Berlin Conference on Myanmar Genocide"

25 Feb 2018 0 comments

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  • Event: Rohingya: The Silent Genocide?

    22 Feb. Pembroke College, Oxford  #OxfordUniversity Islamic Society is hosting an evening devoted to "#Rohingya: The Silent Genocide?".  Senior General Min Aung Hlaing openly calls it "an unfinished business".  Imagine what "a finished business" to them looks like.&n...

  • Event: Genocide Memorial Day Programme

    Programme Sunday 21st January 2018 Failures of International Institutions in preventing genocide: Myanmar’s Rohingya and Bosnian Genocides 12:00 Registration and lunch 13:00 – 13:10 Mr Sayed Jalal Masoomi - Quran...

  • Event: Genocide: Why We Let It Happen

    Genocide Panel Event Start: 29th January 2018, 5:00pm Genocide: Why We Let It Happen Genocide leaves the darkest stain on the conscience of humanity, yet today we are again witnessing international passivity in the face of the genocide in Myanmar. Why have we failed to learn our...

  • Event: Myanmar's Slow Burning Genocide of Rohingyas

    Myanmar's Slow Burning Genocide of Rohingyas  19 Jan 2018  5-7 pm School of Oriental and African Studies at University of London ...

  • Event: Talk & Discussion with Dr Maung Zarni on Myanmar's slow-burning Genocide of the Rohingya

    Talk & Discussion with Dr Maung Zarni. The discussion will be moderated by Sabina Alkire, Director of Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford. 28 January 2018 5:30 pm Richard Benson Hall 276 Cowley Rd East Oxford  ...

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Editorial by Int'l Media

Time to cut trade ties with Myanmar

05 Nov 2017 0 comments

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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  • Aung San Suu Kyi’s Clearest Act of Complicity

    Daw Aung San Suu Kyi during her visit to the Rakhine State in western Myanmar on Thursday. (Photo: Reuters)  By The Editorial Board The New York Times November 3, 2017 “We all have to try our best to live peacefully,” Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, who heads Myanmar’s civilian government, s...

  • Trump needs to say something — and do something — about the assault on the Rohingya

    Kulsuma Begum, 40, a Rohingya refu­gee, cries while recounting her story at Kutupalong refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, on Friday. She said that her daughter was missing and that her husband and son-in-law were killed by Burmese soldiers. (Hannah Mckay/Reuters) By Editorial Board Th...

  • Burma covers up its systematic abuse of a minority group

    A Rohingya refu­gee from Burma. (Allison Joyce/Getty Images) By Editorial Board The Washington Post August 18, 2017 IN FEBRUARY, the United Nations released a report detailing the Burmese government’s human rights abuses against the long-suffering Rohingya Muslim minority in Rakhine sta...

  • Aung San Suu Kyi is failing democracy in Myanmar: The Statesman

    Myanmar's Foreign Minister Aung San Suu Kyi smiles after a meeting with her Norwegian counterpart at Myanmar's Foreign Ministry in Naypyitaw, on July 6, 2017.PHOTO: REUTERS By Statesman July 19, 2017 In its editorial on July 18, the paper criticised Myanmar's State Counsellor, Aung San S...

  • Why Is Myanmar Refusing A UN Probe If There Is No Rohingya Genocide?

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ဧရာ၀တီမဂၢဇင္း အယ္ဒီတာ ကုိေအာင္ေဇာ္ႏႇင့္ ေမးျမန္းျခင္း



The Nation, Bangkok Post & Asian Wall Street Journal တို႔၏ ပင္တုိင္ေဆာင္းပါးရႇင္၊ နယ္သာလန္အေျခစုိက္ Prince Claus Fund ၂၀၁၀ ျပည္႕ႏႇစ္အတြက္ Prince Claus Award ဆု ခ်ီးျမႇင္႕ျခင္းခံထားရသူ ျပည္ပအေျခစိုက္ ဧရာ၀တီမဂၢဇင္း၏ အယ္ဒီတာ ကုိေအာင္ေဇာ္အား ျမစ္ဆံုစီမံကိန္း ရပ္ဆိုင္းထားျခင္းအပါအ၀င္ လက္ရႇိျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံ၏ အေနအထားအေပၚ Online မႇတစ္ဆင့္ ေမးျမန္းထားမႈမ်ားကုိ ျပန္လည္ေဖာ္ျပအပ္ပါသည္။

ေမး - သမၼတႀကီးရဲ႕ ျမစ္ဆံုစီမံကိန္း ရပ္ဆိုင္းလိုက္တဲ့ ဆံုးျဖတ္ခ်က္အေပၚ သေဘာထားအျမင္ကို သိလိုပါတယ္။

ေျဖ - အဲဒီနယ္က ကခ်င္တိုင္းရင္းသားေတြကေတာ့ ဒီသတင္းကို ႀကိဳဆိုတယ္လို႔ သိရပါတယ္။ ဒါဟာ ကခ်င္ျပည္နယ္က ပေရာဂ်က္တစ္ခု ျဖစ္လို႔ပါပဲ။ သမၼတႀကီးရဲ႕ ဆံုးျဖတ္ခ်က္ အေပၚမႇာျပည္တြင္းမႇာေရာ ျပည္ပ မႇာပါ ၀မ္းသာအားရ ႀကိဳဆိုတာေတြ႕ရပါတယ္။ ဒါဟာသတင္းေကာင္း တစ္ပုဒ္ပါ။ ဧရာ၀တီဆိုတာ ျမန္မာျပည္မႇာ မႇီတင္းေနထိုင္ၾကတဲ့သူေတြရဲ႕ အသက္ေသြးေၾကာျဖစ္သလို ျမန္မာျပည္သူျပည္သားေတြရဲ႕ ထိန္းသိမ္းကာကြယ္ရမယ့္ ယဥ္ေက်းမႈ သမိုင္းတစ္ခု ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ ဒီသဘာ၀ပတ္၀န္းက်င္ကို ထိန္းသိမ္းကာကြယ္ေစာင့္ေရႇာက္မႇ ဧရာ၀တီရဲ႕ က်န္းမာေရးေကာင္းမႇာ ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ တိုင္းျပည္ေခါင္းေဆာင္ေတြက ျပည္သူလူထုရဲ႕အသံကို နားေထာင္တယ္ဆိုတာ သတင္းေကာင္းပါ။ ဧရာ၀တီျမစ္ဆံုကို ယခုလက္ရႇိ အစိုးရ သက္တမ္းမႇာ ရပ္ဆိုင္းတယ္ ဆိုေပမယ့္ ေနာင္အနာဂတ္မႇာ ဘာေတြျဖစ္မလဲဆိုတာ အတိအက်ေျပာဖို့ခက္ပါတယ္။ ဒါေပမယ့္ အရင္ န၀တ၊ နအဖ လက္ထက္မႇာတုန္းက လက္မႇတ္ထိုးခဲ့တဲ့ ဒီလိုေရအားလႇ်ပ္စစ္စီမံကိန္းေတြ အမ်ားႀကီးက်န္ပါေသးတယ္။ အဲဒါေတြကေတာ့ ဆက္ၿပီးေဆာက္လုပ္ဆဲျဖစ္ေနတာ ေတြ႔ရပါတယ္။ ဒါ့အျပင္ ရခိုင္ျပည္နယ္ကေန သြယ္တန္းေဖာက္လုပ္ၿပီး တ႐ုတ္ျပည္ကို ေရာင္းခ်မယ့္ ေရနံသဘာ၀ဓာတ္ေငြ႔ ပိုက္လိုင္းကိစၥ၊ မီးရထားလမ္း ေဖာက္လုပ္မယ့္ကိစၥ ဒါေတြဟာ ရႇမ္းျပည္နယ္၊ ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံအလယ္ပိုင္း၊ ရခိုင္ျပည္နယ္ကို သြယ္တန္း ေဖာက္လုပ္ေနတာ ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ ဒီစီမံကိန္းေတြနဲ႔ ပတ္သက္ၿပီး ျပည္သူလူထုမႇာ ဘယ္လို သတင္းအင္ေဖာ္ေမးရႇင္း ဘယ္လိုသေဘာထားေတြ ရႇိေနသလဲ။ ဒါေတြကိုလဲ နားေထာင္ဖို႔ လိုပါတယ္။

ေမး - ျမစ္ဆံုစီမံကိန္း ရပ္ဆိုင္းလိုက္ျခင္း ဆံုးျဖတ္ခ်က္အေပၚ တ႐ုတ္ႏိုင္ငံရဲ႕ တံု႔ျပန္ခ်က္နဲ႔ပတ္သက္တဲ့ အျမင္ကိုလည္း သိလိုပါတယ္။

ေျဖ - ဒီကိစၥအေပၚမႇာ တ႐ုတ္အစိုးရနဲ႔ လက္ရႇိျမန္မာအစိုးရ စကားေျပာရမႇာ ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ တ႐ုတ္ဟာ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံကို ၁၉၈၈ ေနာက္ပိုင္းကစၿပီး စီးပြားေရး ကုန္သြယ္ေရး အႀကီးအက်ယ္လုပ္ခဲ့တဲ့ ႏိုင္ငံျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ ျမန္မာျပည္မႇာ ႏႇစ္ရႇည္ စီမံကိန္းနဲ႔ ရင္းႏႇီးျမႇဳပ္ႏႇံထားတာ ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ ႏိုင္ငံေရးသုေတသီေတြကေတာ့ တ႐ုတ္ႏိုင္ငံဟာ ျမန္မာ ႏိုင္ငံရဲ႕သဘာ၀သံယံဇာတအရင္းအျမစ္ေတြအျပင္ ဘဂၤလားပင္လယ္ေအာ္နဲ႔ အိႏၵိယသမုဒၵရာအထိ မဟာဗ်ဴဟာအရ ထိုးေဖာက္ႏိုင္ဖို႔အတြက္ စီမံကိန္း ဆြဲထားတယ္လို႔ သံုးသပ္ၾကတာ ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ တ႐ုတ္ႏိုင္ငံဟာ အရင္က အစိုးရကို ႏိုင္ငံေရး သံတမန္ေရး စစ္ေရးအရ အမ်ားႀကီး ႏိုင္ငံတကာစာမ်က္ႏႇာမႇာေရာ အမ်ားႀကီး အေထာက္အပံ့ေပးခဲ့တာ ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ ဒါေပမယ့္ ေဆြမ်ဳိးေပါက္ေဖာ္ ခ်စ္ၾကည္ေရးမႇာလည္း အျမဲတမ္း ေျဖာင့္ျဖဴးေနတာမဟုတ္ဘဲ အဖုအထစ္ေတြ ရႇိခဲ့တာျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ တ႐ုတ္-ျမန္မာသမိုင္းကို ၾကည့္မယ္ဆိုရင္ ေတြ႕ရပါလိမ့္မယ္။ ဒါေၾကာင့္ တ႐ုတ္ျမန္မာဆက္ဆံေရးဟာ ကြၽန္ေတာ္ တို႔ထင္တာထားသလို အေပၚယံအျမင္နဲ႔ ၾကည့္လို႔မရဘဲ ဒီထက္ပိုၿပီး complex ျဖစ္တယ္လို႔ ျမင္ပါတယ္။

ေမး - သမၼတႀကီးရဲ့ ျမစ္ဆံုစီမံကိန္း ရပ္ဆိုင္းလိုက္ျခင္း ဆံုးျဖတ္ခ်က္နဲ႔ ပတ္သက္တဲ့ တ႐ုတ္ႏိုင္ငံ၏ သေဘာထားအျမင္ ေပၚေပါက္လာၿပီးေနာက္ တိုင္းျပည္၏ စီးပြားေရး ပိုမိုက်ပ္တည္းလာႏိုင္မႈ အေျခအေနမႇာ အေမရိကန္ရဲ႕ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံအေပၚ ထားရႇိတဲ့ sanction ကုိေရာ ဘယ္လိုျမင္ပါသလဲ သိလိုပါတယ္။

ေျဖ - ဆင္းရဲတဲ့ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံဟာ sanction နဲ႔ အျမဲတမ္းေနသြားဖို႔ မျဖစ္ႏိုင္ဘူး။ ကြၽန္ေတာ္တို႔ဟာ အိမ္နီးခ်င္းႏိုင္ငံနဲ႔ ႏႈိင္းယႇဥ္ၾကည့္မယ္ဆိုရင္ အမီလိုက္ႏိုင္ဖို႔ အမ်ားႀကီး လိုပါေသးတယ္။ တကယ္ေတာ့ sanction ဆိုတာ ႏိုင္ငံေရးအရ Symbolic ျဖစ္တယ္။ ႏိုင္ငံတစ္ႏိုင္ငံေပၚမႇာ အေရးယူ ပိတ္ဆို႔တယ္ဆိုတာ အဲဒီႏိုင္ငံက အုပ္ခ်ဳပ္သူအာဏာပိုင္ေတြ အေကာင္းဘက္ကို ျပဳျပင္ေျပာင္းလဲမႈေတြ ျဖစ္လာေအာင္ လုပ္ဖို႕ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ တခ်ဳိ႕ကေတာ့ sanction ဆိုတာ moderate the regime’s behavior လို႔ ေျပာၾကပါတယ္။ ဒါေၾကာင့္ sanction policy ေၾကာင့္ ေအာင္ျမင္တာေတြရႇိသလို မေအာင္ျမင္တာလဲရႇိတာ ႏိုင္ငံတကာမႇာ ေတြ႕ရပါတယ္။ မၾကာေသးခင္က ျမန္မာျပည္ကို လာေရာက္လည္ပတ္ခဲ့တဲ့ အေမရိကန္အစိုးရခန္႔ထားတဲ့ ျမန္မာ ျပည္အထူးကိုယ္စားလႇယ္ Derek Mitchell က sanction နဲ႔ပတ္သက္ၿပီး ေျပာခဲ့တာရႇိပါတယ္။ အဲဒီအထဲမႇာ ႏိုင္ငံေရးအက်ဥ္းသားေတြ လႊတ္ေပးဖို႔၊ အမ်ဳိးသားျပန္လည္သင့္ျမတ္ေရးကို လုပ္ေဆာင္ဖို႔၊ အတိုက္အခံ တိုင္းရင္း သားေတြနဲ႔ အစိုးရၾကားမႇာ ေလးနက္ၿပီး အဓိပၸာယ္ရႇိတဲ့ ေတြ႕ဆံုေဆြးေႏြးမႈေတြ ျပဳလုပ္ဖို႔ စတဲ့အခ်က္ေတြ ပါပါတယ္။ Sanction ကို႐ုပ္ပါလို႔ အတိုက္အခံေတြေရာ ျမန္မာျပည္သူေတြကပါ ေျပာလို႔ရပါတယ္။ ဒါေပမယ့္ သူတို႔မႇာ ႐ုပ္ပိုင္ခြင့္ အာဏာမရႇိပါဘူး။ ဒီဟာကို ႐ုပ္ပိုင္ခြင့္ရႇိတာက US အပါအ၀င္ အေနာက္ႏိုင္ငံေတြကပဲ ႐ုပ္ပိုင္ခြင့္ ရႇိတာျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံဟာ အေရႇ႕ေတာင္အာရႇမႇာ သံယံဇာတႂကြယ္၀ၿပီး အရမ္းလႇပတဲ့ ႏိုင္ငံတစ္ခုျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ အေနာက္အပါအ၀င္ ႏိုင္ငံ တကာက ရင္းႏႇီးျမႇဳပ္ႏႇံမႈေတြ လုပ္ခ်င္ေနတာ ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ အဲဒီႏိုင္ငံေတြကေန ရင္းႏႇီးျမႇဳပ္ႏႇံမႈေတြေၾကာင့္ ဆင္းရဲမြဲေတေနတဲ့ ျပည္သူျပည္သားေတြ အက်ဳိးခံစားခြင့္ရႇိႏိုင္သလို လူသားအရင္းအျမစ္ေတြကို ကြၽန္ေတာ္တို႔ ပိုၿပီးတည္ေဆာက္ တိုးခ်ဲ႕ႏိုင္မႇာ ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ တရုတ္နိုင္ငံတစ္ခုတည္းကို အားကိုးစရာ မလိုပါဘူး။ Technology know-how ေတြကို ကြၽန္ေတာ္တို႔ ရႏိုင္ပါတယ္။ လြန္ခဲ့တဲ့ ႏႇစ္ေပါင္း ၂၀ အတြင္းမႇာေတာ့ ကြၽန္ေတာ္တို႔ဟာ ခုနကေျပာခဲ့တဲ့ မိမိရဲ႕သဘာ၀ အရင္းအျမစ္ေတြကို အတင္းေရာင္းခ်ေနခဲ့ရတာ ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ ဒါေၾကာင့္ ျမန္မာျပည္ တကယ္တံခါး ဖြင့္ခဲ့ၿပီဆိုရင္ sanction လည္း မရႇိေတာ့ဘူးဆိုရင္ ျမန္မာျပည္ဟာလည္း တကယ္ေအးခ်မ္းခဲ့ၿပီဆိုရင္ ကြၽန္ေတာ္တို႔ဟာ အိမ္နီးခ်င္း ႏိုင္ငံေတြနဲ႔တင္မဟုတ္ဘဲ ႏိုင္ငံတကာ၊ အေနာက္ႏိုင္ငံေတြနဲ႔ပါ ဟိုးအရင္ကလိုမ်ဳိး ကူးလူး ဆက္ဆံမႈေတြ ျပဳလုပ္ရမႇာ ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ အဲဒီအခ်ိန္ကို အျမန္ဆံုးေရာက္ဖို႔လိုၿပီလို႔ ကြၽန္ေတာ္ထင္ပါတယ္။ ဒါ့အျပင္ အဲဒီအခ်ိန္ေရာက္ခါမႇ တိုင္းျပည္ထဲမႇာ အခြံပဲက်န္ခဲ့မယ္ဆိုရင္လည္း ဘယ္သူကမႇ ရင္းႏႇီးျမႇဳပ္ႏႇံၾကမႇာ မဟုတ္ပါဘူး။ ဒါေၾကာင့္ တိုင္းျပည္ရဲ႕ သဘာ၀ေတာေတာင္ေတြအျပင္ သံယံဇာတေတြကို အက်ဳိးရႇိရႇိ ထိန္းသိမ္းကာကြယ္ ေစာင့္ေရႇာက္တတ္ဖို႔လည္း လိုပါတယ္။ က်ေနာ္တို႔ႏိုင္ငံဟာ အေျပာင္းအလဲေတြျဖစ္ခဲ့ၿပီဆိုရင္ အေရႇ႕ေတာင္အာရႇမႇာ the most promising country ထဲမႇာ ပါပါတယ္။

ေမး ျပည္တြင္း မီဒီယာမ်ား လြတ္လပ္မႈ တျဖည္းျဖည္းခ်င္း ရလာတဲ့ အေနအထားမႇာ ျပည္တြင္းကုိျပန္လာၿပီး မီဒီယာလုပ္ငန္း လုပ္ကိုင္ဖို႔ အစီအစဥ္ ရႇိ မရႇိ သိလိုပါတယ္။
ေျဖ - ျပည္ပမီဒီယာေတြက ေနာက္ဆံုးေတာ့ ျပည္တြင္းကို ျပန္ရမႇာပဲ။ ျပည္ပမႇာရႇိေနရတယ္ဆိုတာက ျပည္တြင္းမႇာ ေနလို႔မရလို႔ ရႇိေနရတာ ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ ကြၽန္ေတာ္တို႔ ျပည္ပမႇာမေနေတာ့ဘဲ ျပည္တြင္းကို ျပန္ၿပီဆိုရင္ ျမန္မာျပည္မႇာ သတင္းစာလြတ္လပ္ခြင့္ အတိုင္းအတာတစ္ခုအထိ ေတာ္ေတာ္ေလးရႇိေနၿပီလို႔ ေျပာလို႔ရပါတယ္။ ဒါေပမယ့္ ျပည္တြင္းမႇာပဲေနေန၊ ျပည္ပမႇာပဲေနေန၊ ဘယ္မႇာပဲေနေန အဓိကက အလုပ္လုပ္ဖို႔၊ အလုပ္လုပ္ေနတဲ့သူက အေရးႀကီးတယ္လို႔ ထင္တယ္။ ကြၽန္ေတာ္တို႔ website ေတြ အပါအ၀င္ ျပည္ပက အျခား website ေတြ အေတာ္မ်ားမ်ားကို ပိတ္ဆို႔ထားတာ ဖြင့္ေပးလိုက္ၿပီလို႔ သိရပါတယ္။ အဲဒီသတင္းကို ႀကိဳဆိုပါတယ္။ ကြၽန္ေတာ္ေျပာခ်င္တာကေတာ့ ျပည္တြင္း မီဒီယာေတြ လြတ္လြတ္လပ္လပ္ ေျပာဆိုေရးသားခြင့္ လိုပါတယ္။ အရင္ကထက္ဆိုရင္ လြတ္လြတ္လပ္လပ္ ပိုေရးခြင့္ရလာတာကို ေတြ႕ရပါတယ္။ ဒါေပမယ့္ official censorship အျပင္ self censorship ကလည္း အေရးႀကီးတာကို ေတြ႕ရပါတယ္။ ျပည္သူေတြ သတင္းမႇန္ေတြ သိဖို႔ လိုပါတယ္။ သတင္းစာေတြဆိုတာ တိုင္းျပည္ရဲ႕ နား မ်က္စိ ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ တိုင္းျပည္ တစ္ျပည္ကထုတ္တဲ့ ေန႔စဥ္ထုတ္တဲ့ သတင္းစာကိုဖတ္ၿပီး အဲဒီတိုင္းျပည္ရဲ႕ စီးပြားေရး၊ ႏိုင္ငံေရး၊ လူမႈေရး၊ ယဥ္ေက်းမႈ၊ အုပ္ခ်ဳပ္ေနတဲ့ အစိုးရကို တစ္ခ်က္တည္း အကဲျဖတ္လို႔ရတာ ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံဟာ ၁၉ ရာစုမႇာ မင္းတုန္းမင္းဟာ reform minded မင္းတစ္ပါးလို႔ ေျပာလို႔ရပါတယ္။ သူ႕ရဲ႕ေခတ္မႇာ အေနာက္ႏိုင္ငံကို ပညာေတာ္သင္ေတြ ေစလႊတ္ခဲ့သလို မ်က္စိပြင့္ နားပြင့္ဖို႔အတြက္ ျမန္မာျပည္ရဲ႕ ပထမဆံုး indigenous သတင္းစာ ဥပေဒကို ထုတ္ေပးခဲ့တာ ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ အဲဒီမႇာ မင္းတုန္းမင္း ကိုယ္တိုင္က သတင္းစာ အေျခခံဥပေဒကို ထုတ္ေပးခဲ့တာျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ ဒါေၾကာင့္ ရတနာပံုေနျပည္ေတာ္ သတင္းစာကို ထူေထာင္ခြင့္ ေပးခဲ့သလို ျမန္မာ့သမိုင္းမႇာ ဂုဏ္ယူ၀င့္ႂကြားစြာ အခုထိ ေျပာေနရတဲ့ (ငါ မေကာင္းရင္ ငါ့ကိုေရး၊ ငါ့ မိဖုရား မေကာင္းရင္ မိဖုရားကိုေရး၊ ငါ့ သားသမီးမေကာင္းရင္ သားသမီးကို ေရး၊ လႊတ္တရားသူႀကီး မေကာင္းရင္ တရားသူႀကီးကိုေရး၊ ၿမိဳ႕၀န္မေကာင္းရင္ ၿမိဳ႕၀န္သတင္းကိုေရး၊ မင္းတို႔ သတင္းစာ၌ အျပစ္မရႇိေစရ၊ နန္းေတာ္တြင္းသို႔ သတင္းစာတိုက္က မည္သူမဆို အဆီးအတားမရႇိ ၀င္ေစထြက္ေစ) လို႔ လြတ္လပ္ခြင့္ ေပးခဲ့တာျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံဟာ ၁၉၅၀-၆၀ ကာလေတြအထိ အေရႇ႕ေတာင္အာရႇမႇာ အဆင့္အတန္းရႇိတဲ့ သတင္းစာေတြ ထုတ္ေ၀ခဲ့သလို အဆင့္အတန္းရႇိတဲ့ စာနယ္ဇင္းသမားေတြလည္း ရႇိခဲ့ပါ တယ္။ ဒီလို စာနယ္ဇင္းေတြရႇိခဲ့ဖူးတဲ့ ဂုဏ္သိကၡာေတြကို ျပန္လည္ေဖာ္ေဆာင္ တည္ေဆာက္ဖို႔ အခ်ိန္တန္ၿပီလို႔ ကြၽန္ေတာ္ထင္ပါတယ္။ ဒါကို လက္ရႇိအစိုးရက အားေပးသင့္ပါတယ္။ က်ေနာ္တို႔ဘက္ကလည္း ကူညီဖို႔ အသင့္ပါ။ ဘာေၾကာင့္လဲဆိုေတာ့ ျမန္မာျပည္မႇာ စတုတၴမ႑ိဳင္ရဲ႕ အခန္းက႑ကို သမၼတ ကိုယ္တိုင္က သူ႕ရဲ႕မိန္႔ခြန္းမႇာ ထည့္သြင္းေျပာၾကားခဲ့တာ ေတြ႕ရပါတယ္။ စတုတၴမ႑ိဳင္ က်န္းမာေရးေကာင္းမႇ တိုင္းျပည္ က်န္းမာေရးေကာင္းမႇာ ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။

မီဒီယာသမားဆိုတာ အမႇန္တရားကို ရႇာေဖြေဖာ္ထုတ္ ေရးသားရတာ ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ ကြၽန္ေတာ္တို႔ အလုပ္ကို ကြၽန္ေတာ္တို႔ မီဒီယာက်င့္၀တ္ေတြနဲ႔အညီ ျပည္တြင္းမႇာ လြတ္လြတ္လပ္လပ္ လုပ္ခ်င္ပါတယ္ . . .

ေမး ျပည္တြင္းျပန္လာၿပီး မီဒီယာ လုပ္ကိုင္မည္ဟု သတင္းမ်ား ၾကားသိေနရၿပီး ဘယ္လိုအေျခအေန ဘယ္လို အေနအထားတစ္ရပ္ေရာက္မႇ ျပန္လာၿပီး ဘယ္လိုမီဒီယာလုပ္ငန္းမ်ဳိး လုပ္ကိုင္မယ္လို႔ စိတ္ကူးထားလဲ သိလိုပါတယ္။

ေျဖ - ျပည္တြင္းမႇာ လုပ္ပိုင္ခြင့္ ရမယ္ဆိုရင္ သတင္းစာ ဂ်ာနယ္ ထုတ္ခ်င္တယ္၊ အဂၤလိပ္ဘာသာနဲ႔ေရာ ျမန္မာဘာသာနဲ႔ေရာ ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ အခ်ိန္တန္ရင္ေတာ့ အိမ္ျပန္ၾကရမႇာျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ ဂုဏ္သိကၡာရႇိရႇိနဲ႔ ျပန္ရဖို႔ အေရးႀကီးပါတယ္။ အခုထိ standard procedure မရႇိေသးပါဘူး။ ျပည္ပမႇာ ျမန္မာျပည္ ေကာင္းက်ဳိးအတြက္ အလုပ္လုပ္ေနတဲ့ လူငယ္ေတြ လူလတ္ပိုင္းေတြ အမ်ားႀကီးရႇိပါတယ္။ အဲဒီထိပ္ပိုင္းက အလုပ္လုပ္ေနသူေတြက ေစာင့္ၾကည့္ၿပီး မျပန္ေသးတာ ေတြ႔ရပါတယ္။ ကြၽန္ေတာ္တို႔ရဲ႕ society ကိုျပန္ၿပီးေတာ့ ကူညီခ်င္တာေတြ ရႇိပါတယ္။ ကြၽန္ေတာ္တို႔ရဲ႕ မီဒီယာအခန္းက႑ကို public servant လို႔ ျမင္ပါတယ္။ မီဒီယာသမားဆိုတာ အမႇန္တရားကို ရႇာေဖြေဖာ္ထုတ္ ေရးသားရတာ ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ ကြၽန္ေတာ္တို႔ အလုပ္ကို ကြၽန္ေတာ္တို႔မီဒီယာ က်င့္၀တ္ေတြနဲ႔အညီ ျပည္တြင္းမႇာ လြတ္လြတ္လပ္လပ္ လုပ္ခ်င္ပါတယ္။ လြတ္လြတ္လပ္လပ္ ေ၀ဖန္ေျပာဆို ေရးသားႏိုင္တဲ့တစ္ေန႔မႇာ ကြၽန္ေတာ္တို႔ ျပန္လာမႇာျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ ေလာေလာဆယ္ ယံုၾကည္ခ်က္ေၾကာင့္ အက်ဥ္းက်ေနတဲ့ သတင္းစာဆရာေတြ၊ ဓာတ္ပံုဆရာေတြ၊ သတင္းေထာက္ေတြ၊ ဘေလာ့ဂ္ဂါေတြ သူတို႔ေတြရဲ႕ လြတ္ေျမာက္ေရးကလည္း အေရးႀကီးတယ္လို႔ ကြၽန္ေတာ္ထင္ပါတယ္။
ေမး အခုလက္ရႇိ ျဖစ္ေပၚေနတဲ့ ႏိုင္ငံေရးအေျခအေနကို ဘယ္လိုျမင္ပါသလဲ၊ အေကာင္းျမင္ပါသလား။ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္နဲ႔ သမၼတႀကီး ဦးသိန္းစိန္ ေတြ႕ဆံုခဲ့ၿပီး ၿဖစ္ပါတယ္။ ၿပီးခဲ့တဲ့ ေသာၾကာေန႔က အစိုးရ ဆက္ဆံေရး၀န္ႀကီး ဦးေအာင္ၾကည္နဲ႔ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ ထပ္မံေတြ႕ဆံုခဲ့ပါတယ္။ ဒါေတြ အားလံုးကို ဘယ္လိုျမင္ပါသလဲ။


ေျဖ - ျမန္မာျပည္ဟာ political transition ကို သြားေနၿပီလို႔ ထင္ပါတယ္။ အဲဒီ transition ဟာ peaceful transition ျဖစ္ဖို႔ လိုပါတယ္။ ဒီဘက္ကေန ျမန္မာျပည္ကိုၾကည့္ရင္ ဒီမိုကေရစီေရးအျပင္ က်ေနာ္ျမင္တာကေတာ့ တိုင္းရင္းသားအေရးနဲ႔ ျပည္တြင္းစစ္ဟာ အရမ္းအေရးႀကီးတယ္လို႔ ျမင္ပါတယ္။ သူတို႔ေတြ transition ထဲ မပါရင္ တိုင္းျပည္တည္ၿငိမ္မႈ ေအးခ်မ္းမႈရမယ္လို႔ က်ေနာ္ မထင္ပါဘူး။ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္နဲ႔ အစိုးရ စကားေျပာေနတာဟာ ေကာင္းတဲ့အလားအလာ ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ တိုင္းသူျပည္သားေတြအတြက္ အဓိပၸာယ္ရႇိမယ့္ အက်ဳိးရလဒ္ရႇိမယ္လို႔ ေမွ်ာ္လင့္ပါတယ္။ အမ်ားစုက အဲလိုပဲ ေမွ်ာ္လင့္တာ ေတြ႕ရပါတယ္။ တခ်ဳိ႕ကေတာ့ ဒီအခ်ိန္ဟာ ညီအစ္ကို မသိတသိအခ်ိန္လို႔ သံုးသပ္ၾကတာ ေတြ႕ရပါတယ္။ ဒါေၾကာင့္ အဲဒီအခ်ိန္ကို ေက်ာ္သြားရင္ေတာ့ တစ္ဘက္နဲ႔တစ္ဘက္ ပိုၿပီး ရႇင္းရႇင္းလင္းလင္းျမင္ရမယ္လို႔ ထင္ပါတယ္။ ၂၀၀၈ အေျခခံဥပေဒထဲက အခ်က္အလက္တခ်ဳိ႕ကို ျပင္ႏိုင္ မျပင္ႏိုင္၊ NLD ပါတီရဲ႕တရား၀င္ ရပ္တည္ေရး၊ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္း စုၾကည္ရဲ႕ အခန္းက႑၊ လႊတ္ေတာ္နဲ႔အစိုးရၾကား ဆက္ဆံေရး၊ ၿပီးေတာ့ တပ္မေတာ္ရဲ႕ အခန္းက႑၊ ဒါေတြ အားလံုးဟာ transition တခုကို ျဖတ္သန္းေနရတယ္လို႔ သံုးသပ္မိပါတယ္။ အရင္က ႏိုင္ငံေရးဟာ idealism ဘက္ကို ပို ေရာက္တယ္လို႔ ထင္ပါတယ္။ ဒီေန႔မႇာေတာ့ pragmatism ဘက္ကို ပိုေရာက္လာသလားလို႔ ထင္မိပါတယ္။ ၂၀၁၀ ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲ ကို credible မျဖစ္ဘူးလို႔ ေ၀ဖန္သံေတြ ညံခဲ့ပါတယ္။ ဒါေပမယ့္ လက္ရႇိသမၼတႀကီး ဦးသိန္းစိန္အစိုးရက တကယ္ျပည္သူေတြရဲ႕ လိုခ်င္ေနတဲ့ reform ကို အခ်ိန္တိုတိုနဲ႔ ေဖာ္ေဆာင္ေပးမယ္ဆိုရင္ ျပည္သူေတြ အသိအမႇတ္ျပဳတဲ့ အစိုးရတစ္ခု ျဖစ္လာႏိုင္ပါတယ္။ ဒါေၾကာင့္ က်ေနာ္ျမင္တာက credible ျဖစ္တဲ့ အစိုးရ လိုသလို credible ျဖစ္တဲ့ အတိုက္အခံလည္း ျမန္မာျပည္မႇာ လိုပါတယ္။ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံနဲ႔ ျမန္မာျပည္သူေတြရဲ႕ ကံၾကမၼာကို ျမန္မာျပည္သူျပည္သားေတြကပဲ ဆံုးျဖတ္ရမႇာ ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။

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