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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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Rohingyas on a list unworthy of human rights: Short



By Press TV
December 7, 2013

Press TV has conducted an interview with Dr. Randy Short, human rights activist, Washington about the United Nations probe into reports of human trafficking of Rohingya Muslims by Thailand officials.

The following is an approximate transcript of the interview. 

Press TV: Regarding the UN probe of human trafficking of Rohingya Muslims... Why should such a thing happen first of all?

Short: Let’s be honest, it’s a marginalized Muslim population. We understand now that Western countries can go into Burma and cut deals - This happens in other countries that open themselves up to economic exploitation by the West, people willing to look the other way as people are exterminated or pushed off the land. 

After all, this is what made America, America; and Australia, Australia; New Zealand, New Zealand; and Canada, Canada; and Argentina... we can go on and on. 

It is disgusting, but it’s showing that these people who are being made stateless don’t have anyone to fight for them. And this is what you can see. 
It’s even more tragic that the UN, that‘s speaking about this, is turning its head the other way when in Bangladesh they’re using deadly Depo Provera to eliminate the Rohingyas in a more quiet and silent way.
So it’s as if they are a population that they want to get rid of. And there are eugenicists and other people who feel that they are expendable - black, brown, yellow, Muslim, African people; and the Rohingyas seem to be on a list that’s unworthy of mercy or human rights in spite of the existing Declaration of Human Rights. 

Thus far, you have rich societies like Saudi Arabia and Qatar that have money for Takfiris to murder people in Syria, or to look the other way when people are murdered in Bahrain and yet there are no resources for these Muslims in Burma. 
And eugenics and exploitation just as what happens with my African-American people here or the Palestinians in Gaza, this is another population that seems to be used or thrown away by a world that’s forgotten God, love, justice and mercy - and it’s a human right and a birth right for all people.
And particularly people like the Rohingya or else religion, morality and international human rights law has no value if it doesn’t apply to people like the Rohingyas. 

Press TV: Speaking of human rights, will there be accountability for such human rights violations? 

Short: We have to make people accountable. We need to have sanctions and boycotts against companies that deal with Burma. We need to go after Thailand. These countries it’s amazing... 

Sanctions seem to only be applied to countries that want to only do the right thing, like yours [Iran]. And the other rogue countries, as long as they’re willing to be slaves that kiss ... of the West, they’re allowed to do things like what’s being done to our brothers and sisters that are known as Rohingyas in South East Asia.


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