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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...

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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...

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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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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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U Kyaw Min
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Apirl 16, 2013 

Most of Myanmar intellectuals, politicians, democracy activists, writers, military men and other officials have a mindset that Myanmar is exclusively a country of Buddhist people. Non Buddhists are not equal to Buddhists. They cannot expect to enjoy equal rights. Muslim whose root can be traced from the time of Myanmar kings or whose ethnicity can be assumed to have mixed up with indigenous blood are regarded as aliens or as a group of settlers affiliated to foreigners. This phenomenon was obviously seen in the media footages during the recent violence against the Muslims. 

According to their perception; persecution, suppression, and discrimination against them are not so deplorable. Democracy concept, here, cannot penetrate in to the mindset of Buddhist people, in context of Muslim status in Myanmar. Very recently one senior and most respected monk, Thidagu Sayadaw said Buddhist is native religion where as Christianity and Islam are alien religions came along with British occupation of Myanmar. Thus adherents of these religions are guests in the country where as Buddhist are host. So the guests should respect the host. This is a discriminatory, harmful perception which will hinder peaceful co-existence of various Myanmar nationalities. 

Due to this sort of vision and political mindset especially among the higher strata of Myanmar people, we saw little sympathetic response to suffering of more than a hundred thousand IDPs in Myanmar. In case of Rohingya IDPs they are accuse of not being genuine citizen. But it is difficult to prove them as non citizen. They have enjoyed citizenship rights from ever before Burmese independence. They have enjoyed the right to elect and to be elected in all Myanmar national elections. This is a clear prove of their being Myanmar citizen. Even in 2010 SPDC sponsored national election these people got the right to vote and they have three MPs from their own community. Yet there are accusations from some quarter that “these people are not Burmese citizen; they should not be resettled in their original place; they should not be provided with newly constructed houses”. But thanks to the president of Myanmar who ordered recently to bring all the IDPs under shelters within three months. This is an encouraging step from government side otherwise many will perish due to hygiene, dehydration, malnutrition, and frustration in IDP camps. 

A campaign in Rakhine State to get thumb print on computer on forms titled, “List of illegal immigrants; shifted population and so on” has terribly terrorized and embarrassed the grass root public who are not familiar with computerized documentation. Peoples are forcibly subjected to sign and give thumb print under the designation of Bengali which is not their option. So they are not willing to cooperate with the campaign. On the other hand they fear they would be punished for their non compliance with the authority. So any plan, project or state mechanism should be transparent and viable. This should not be a burdens or obstacle for the public to support and to cooperate. 

Security issue is more important nowadays because sporadic shooting, killing, and arbitrary arrests are rampant in Rakhine State. Where these guns come from to shoot the innocent people? Why not any action against these? One Thidar Htwe’s rape/murder case had triggered state wise violence and hundreds of thousands were made IDPs. Why not the similar cases occurring almost daily in Rakhine state are noticed? Why not any legal action is going against this? 

My appeal to all concerned is to take this security issue seriously. We have an obligation to restore normal life in Rakhine. Stability and enforcement of Law and order is an urgent need of time. Action should go against every culprit disregards of race and religion. No one should be immune to the action of Law. No one should be allowed to take law in their own hands as it is happing in northern Rakhine State. The conscience of super race and the conception of privileged class as it prevails in Rakhine State is a permanent hazard for peaceful coexistence and tranquil society. So I hope we all will imagine and find the correct solution of conflict in Rakhine State.

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