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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...

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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Education in Arakan: Current Situation And Alternative Solution

By Qutub Shah
RB Opinion
May 12, 2014

The strongest means that the regime and Buddhists have adopted to eradicate the Muslim existence is deprivation from education during last 70 years. 3rd June was a golden chance for the gov’t and the Buddhists to activate this means openly until the little educational institutions that are available in Arakan such as Mosque, Schools, Madrasas and Universities, are locked for unlimited period of time. No more sources left to seek knowledge for the member of this society.

Before 3rd June as well, these educational institutions failed to play the expected roles in the related fields due to:

- Lack of quality education
- Traditional syllabus
- Lack of contemporary knowledge
- Lack of modern education system
- Unqualified teachers
- Restriction of movement
- Insufficient facilities, etc.

And Tabligue is unmentionable here as it is an educational institution without pen and paper. In addition, because of unavailability of social media and being a restricted area there is no chance for knowledge exchange. The literacy rate of Arakan won’t exceed 0.1 percent. The highest qualifications available are Matric-pass, bachelors and Molvis. No postgraduate qualification at all. Most of those educated persons have fled the country for various reasons. The persons who are playing the leading role of the society educationally are some fresh collegiate only.

Fresh wave of human trafficking

Exploiting this tragic situation and fulfilling their evil purposes, some so-called Rohingya organizations and leaders, most of them are profit-based and professional respectively, are listing the existing students inside Arakan, especially the collegiate and offering scholarships to study abroad, in order to drive them out of the soil of Arakan. I don’t think they are doing well for this people by doing this.

Why are we vacating our land?

Who will lead the society in the future?

Why are we dispersing our own society?

What is the difference between you and those human traffickers of boat people?

Why are we implementing Buddhist plan against us?

Why are we pulling the educated out of Arakan?

Do you expect that if the student is qualified abroad, he will be able to serve his society, land and people?

A result we can expect finally is that the Arakanese Rohingya Society is going to be led by illiteracy totally soon due to this ‘Brain Drain’.

An Alternative Solution

Here I would like to request and suggest the concerned organizations and individuals to facilitate higher education and other possible knowledge sources inside Arakan instead of moving the students out of Arakan. For higher education, there are a number of online universities, open universities, distance universities, educational centers and institutes offering various training courses, academic degrees, diplomas and certificates online or via distance study. We can help our brothers in Arakan in getting admission and scholarship in those institutes instead of study abroad and also we can provide them with other facilities for earning knowledge and exchange of it such as home classrooms, internet, computers, generators for electricity production, 3G mobiles, magazines, newspapers, televisions, radios, books, CDs & DVDs for software, programs, lectures, sermons, debates, etc.

For basic Education, we can recruit those graduate and collegiate for home tuition and private courses. On the other hand, it’s a kind of financial support for those needy students. We have also to finalize for poor students and parents who can’t effort for their children education.

There are some other possible alternative solutions which can’t be expressed here. For further discussion you can contact the writer via qqutubshah@gmail.com or twitter @qutubshah

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