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Rohingya News @ Int'l Media
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...
- 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...
Myanmar News
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...
- 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 ...
Video News
Experts’ Roundtable on the Myanmar/Bangladesh Crisis held at the University of Ottawa
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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 ...
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...
- 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...
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...
- Select published works on Myanmar GENOCIDE since 2013 by ZARNI, Natalie Brinham and Amartya Sen
Buddhist Nationalism in Burma Institutionalized racism against the Rohingya Muslims led Burma to genocide By Maung Zarni SPRING 2013 Rohingya are categorically darker-skinned people—sometimes called by the slur “Bengali kalar.” Indeed, the lighter-skinned Buddhists of Burma...
- When Facebook becomes 'the beast': Myanmar activists say social media aids genocide
By Euan McKirdy CNN April 7, 2018 As tens of millions of Americans come to grips with revelations that data from Facebook may have been used to sway the 2016 presidential election, on the other side of the world, rights groups say hatemongers have taken advantage of the social network to wid...
- To former British Ambassador Derek Tonkin, anti-apartheid was useless, Khmer Rouge officials were "delightful", anti-genocide scholars are "fakes"
You've gotta love former British Ambassador Derek Tonkin! Genocidal Khmer Rouge chaps were "delightful". Berlin Conference organisers are "Fakes". Apartheid was 'very complex', anti-apartheid activism was useless. Former British Ambassador Derek Tonkin has shown no conscience, c...
- Dr Jacques Leider, strategic adviser to Myanmar Military, and Derek Tonkin (who supported S. Africa's apartheid and Khmer Rouge) are favorite experts for Myanmar Racists
The Rt. Hon. Theresa May, MP Prime Minister Government of the United Kingdom 10 Downing Street, London SW1A 2AA E-mail: mayt@parliament.uk Berlin, 30th January 2018 Your Excellency I am Khin Maung Saw, a retired lecturer in the Department of Burma Studies, Institute of Southea...
- Ex-British Ambassador Derek Tonkin spent his retirement years denying Myanmar genocide while still in government, he was involved in helping the deposed Khmer Rouge
Ambassador U Kyaw Myo Htut talks to Chairman of Network Myanmar and former UK Ambassador to Vietnam, Thailand and Laos Mr Derek Tonkin (Photo: Embassy Magazine) 51 page window into a racist colonial mind of Derek Tonkin - https://www.chu.cam.ac.uk/media/uploads/files/Tonkin.pdf From: Dem...
Analysis @ RB
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...
- Review and Analysis of Suu Kyi’s Speech
Wynston Lawrence RB Analysis October 12, 2017 Suu has spoken on Myanmar National TV channel on 12 October 2017. She would like to tell her fellows Burmese people how her government is going to confront challenges of Rohingya Crisis. This crisis has gained world attentions with terrible comme...
- Outsourcing Myanmar Military’s Lethal Propaganda
Ne Myo Win RB Analysis and Opinion September 29, 2017 Let me not detail much about the harrowing accounts of horrors that the Rohingya people in Myanmar have been going through since August 25, 2017. The world leaders such as Emmanuel Macron, Recep Erdogan and Najib Razak have ca...
- Hitler/Nazi Symbols are popular in Myanmar and now Mein Kampf is made accessible in Burmese
By Dr Maung Zarni RB Analaysis September 25, 2017 Rakhine human rights activists have been found to be reading Mein Kampf when they were exiled along Thai-Burmese border towns such as Mae Sot. Nazi symbols are often used publicly - with such public approval by those who want to extermin...
- Rohingya and the Right to Self-Identify
Rohingya and the Right to Self-Identify by Dr Maung Zarni at Permanent People's Tribunal on Myanmar on March 7, 2017 ...
- Understanding Myanmar Military and Its Strategic Paradigm - Dr. Maung Zarni
Understanding Myanmar Military and Its Strategic Paradigm - Dr. Maung Zarni ...
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 ...
- Did Amnesty fall into Myanmar Genocidal Regime's Trap designed to exonerate itself?
By TRT Newsmaker May 28, 2018 Despite its big name, Amnesty under fire for its latest report on Rohingyas: shoddy research, flimsy evidence on which questionable findings are presented as 'facts". ...
- ICC Jurisdiction and the Rohingya Crisis in Myanmar
(Photo: Kevin Frayer/Getty) By Geoff Curfman Just Security January 9, 2018 Over the past four months, Myanmar’s armed forces, officially known as the Tatmadaw, have driven over 600,000 Rohingya Muslims into Bangladesh, killing thousands of civilians in the process and prompting the ...
- 5 reasons the U.N. Security Council should care about the Burmese military’s sexual assaults on the Rohingya
Rohingya women cry while watching a graphic video of the Tula Toli massacre in their home in Thaingkhali Rohingya refugee camp in Bangladesh in December. (Allison Joyce for The Washington Post) By Jamille Bigio and Rachel Vogelstein The Washington Post January 4, 2018 Burma’s ethnic cle...
- AP Analysis: No sign Rohingya will be allowed to return home
In this Sept. 14, 2017, file photo, Rohingya Muslim man Naseer Ud Din holds his infant son Abdul Masood, who drowned when the boat they were traveling in capsized just before reaching the shore, as his wife Hanida Begum cries upon reaching the Bay of Bengal shore in Shah Porir Dwip, Bangladesh. ...
- Analysis: Face-to-face with Rohingya, pope ditches diplomacy
Pope Francis interacts with a Rohingya Muslim refugee at an interfaith peace meeting in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Friday, Dec. 1, 2017. Pope Francis ordained 16 priests during a Mass in Bangladesh on Friday, the start of a busy day that will bring him face-to-face with Rohingya Muslim refugees from M...
Opinion @ RB
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 ...
- 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...
Opinion @ Int'l Media
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...
- 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...
History @ RB
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...
- 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...
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...
- 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...
Report @ RB
(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...
- 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...
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...
- 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...
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...
- Press Release: Rohingya Denied Access To Education In Myanmar and Bangladesh
PRESS RELEASE: ROHINGYA DENIED ACCESS TO EDUCATION IN MYANMAR AND BANGLADESH 13th December 2018 A whole generation of Rohingya children are being denied the opportunity to shape their own future as they face extremely limited access to education in both Myanmar and in refugee c...
- Press Release: Protect the Rohingya Winter School (November 2018) Cox's Bazaar, Bangladesh
PRESS RELEASE December 5, 2018 PROTECT THE ROHINGYA WINTER SCHOOL (NOVEMBER 2018) COXS BAZAAR, BANGLADESH This past week members of Protect the Rohingya (PTR) collaborated with members of the Rohingya Community Development Campaign (RCDC) to organise a winter school for 100 Rohingya adu...
- Press Release: Myanmar, not Bangladesh, is responsible for failed repatriation
Press Release 20, November 2018 Myanmar, not Bangladesh, is responsible for failed repatriation On behalf of the Rohingya people, we would like to express regret and disgust at Myanmar's policy of continuously blaming Bangladesh for the failure of repatriation of Rohingya refug...
- Press Release: ASEAN leaders must push Myanmar to end Rohingya genocide
Media Release from Burmese Rohingya Organisation UK For Immediate Release 10th November 2018 ASEAN leaders must push Myanmar to end Rohingya genocide Southeast Asian leaders must stop burying their heads in the sand and pressure Myanmar to end the ongoing genocide against Rohingya ...
- Press Release: Creation of UN mechanism a vital step towards justice for the Rohingya genocide
Media Release from Burmese Rohingya Organisation UK For Immediate Release 27th September 2018 Creation of UN mechanism a vital step towards justice for the Rohingya genocide The United Nations Human Rights Council’s (HRC) vote today to create an international and independent mechanis...
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...
- International Conference on ''Militarism and Democracy '' held in Tokyo
RB News May 13, 2017 The International Conference on ''Militarism and Democracy '' was held in Tokyo on May 6th and 7th, 2017. The conference was organized by Asia Pacific Research Network (APRN) with the cooperation of other international organizations based in Asia Pacific countries. ...
- Rohingya in Japan together with HRW & HRN Press the Japanese Government for the Implementation of UNHRC Resolution
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- BROUK urges Malaysia Government to take strong actions to stop Rohingya genocide
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- BROUK Urges support for UN Commission of Inquiry at Socialist International Congress in Columbia
RB News March 6, 2017 London: The Burmese Rohingya Organisation UK President Tun Khin was invited to speak about the plight of the Rohingya people at the Socialist International XXV Congress meeting. At the congress meeting, more than 400 members attended from 86 parties, including th...
- Rohingya call on the Japanese Government to back International Independent Investigation Commission on Atrocities in Myanmar
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Petition
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...
- We petition Prime Minister David Cameron to Support justice for the Rohingya at the ICC
Petition started by Nurul Islam, London, United Kingdom WE PETITION THE DAVID CAMERON ADMINISTRATION TO: Support justice for the Rohingya at the ICC Mr. Prime Minister, Rohingya community members have filed a communication with the International Criminal Court petitioning the Prosec...
- Take Action - Demand ASEAN Countries To Find Short Term And Long Term Solutions To The Rohingya Crisis
Petition By RestlessBeings TAKE ACTION – DEMAND ASEAN COUNTRIES TO FIND SHORT TERM AND LONG TERM SOLUTIONS TO THE ROHINGYA CRISIS The conditions for the Rohingya stranded at sea off the coasts of Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia are worsening by the hour. The majority of the world’s me...
- President Obama, say “Rohingya”
By United to End Genocide October 1, 2014 The Rohingya Muslim ethnic minority in Burma have been called “the most oppressed people on Earth”. They continue to suffer vicious attacks and systematic abuse by Burma’s government. Fleeing violence, over 140,000 Rohingya live in what many desc...
- Mr. President, Don't Backtrack, Step Up and Recognize the Rohingya
we petition the obama administration to: Mr. President, Don't Backtrack, Step Up and Recognize the Rohingya In your 2012 trip to Myanmar, you made an extraordinary powerful statement about a highly persecuted ethnic group in Burma, demonstrating your humanity and the American resolve for hum...
- Upholding of human rights and minority rights must be the first priority: RAC
RB News April 19, 2013 Kitchener: The Rohingya Association Canada based in Kitchener, Ontario sent the below letter to Canadian Foreign Minister Hon. John Baird today. RAC also launched a petition “Hold Burmese government responsible for crimes against humanity”. The signa...
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...
- 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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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 ...
ေလွေမွာက္၍ ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာ အမ်ားအၿပားေသဆံုး၊
ရခိုင္ၿပည္နယ္ ေမာင္းေတာၿမိဳ႔နယ္ အလယ္သံေက်ာ္ေက်းရြာမွေလွစီး၍ မေလးရွားသြားေရာက္ရန္ ၾကိုးစားေနသူအခ်ဳိ့ ေလွေမွာက္ ၍ေသဆံုးေၾကာင္းေဒသခံမ်ား၏ေၿပာၿပခ်က္အရသိရွိရပါသည္။ နစ္ၿမွဳပ္သြားသူစုစုေပါင္း(၈၀)ခန္႔ရွိၿပီး၊အမ်ားအားၿဖင့္အမ်ိဳးသမီးမ်ားၿဖစ္ေၾကာင္းသိရွိရပါသည္။ ေသဆံုးသူစုစုေပါင္း(၆၀)ခန္႔ၿဖစ္မည္ဟုေဒသခံမ်ား၏ေၿပာၿပခ်က္အရသိရွိရပါသည္။ ယင္းတို႔၏ေၿပာၿပခ်က္အရေနရာအနွံ႔အၿပားတြင္အေလာင္းမ်ားေတြ႔ရွိရေၾကာင္းသိရွိရပါသည္။ အဆိုပါစက္ေလွမွာၿပီးခဲ့ေသာအဂၤါေန႔တြင္နတ္ၿမစ္ဝတြင္နစ္ၿမွဳပ္ျခင္းျဖစ္ၿပီး၊အားလံုးမွာျမန္မာနိုင္ငံသားရိုဟင္ဂ်ာမ်ားၿဖစ္ေၾကာင္းသိရွိရပါသည္။ ၿမန္မာနိူင္ငံ၊ရခိုင္ၿပည္နယ္တြင္ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာတို့၏တခုတည္းေသာထြက္ေပါက္မွာ ေလွစီး၍တိုင္းတပါးသို႔ထြက္ခြါျခင္းမွတပါးအျခားနည္းလမ္းမရွိေၾကာင္းသိရွိရပါသည္။ Source :ေဒသခံတဦး၊ [...] Read more
An Analysis of President Obama’s Speech in the New Cold War
A Burmese Perspective by Prof.Kanbawza Win The rise of China in every respect in today’s geopolitical situation has created a new bipolar world compounded by the fact that in 2000 years China, for the first time has access to the Indian via Burma due to the Burmese Junta’s [...] Read more
Police confirm handover of 95 Rohingya near Phuket to Thai Army
Police in Kuraburi, Phang Nga province, have confirmed that 95 Rohingya landed on the island of Koh Phra Thong on Thursday morning. The island lies in the Andaman sea about 110km north of Phuket. “We received a call from local villagers on the island saying that a boat [...] Read more
Rohingya pregnant woman beaten by NASAKA Official in Arakan, Burma
Maungdaw, Arakan State: Members of Burma’s border security force (Nasaka) forcibly entered a house from in the Litra (Kurkhali) village area of Maungdaw North on November 16, at midnight, said a schoolteacher who preferred not to be named. The house belonged to a Monsur Alam who was away [...] Read more
CSW urges US Secretary of State to highlight human rights violations in ethnic states during visit to Burma
Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW) has today written to US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, welcoming her forthcoming visit to Burma and requesting her to use the opportunity to “urge the regime to stop attacking ethnic people, declare a nationwide ceasefire, release all political prisoners, and engage in a [...] Read more
Rohingya Refugee Memorial Day in Carlow, Ireland
Carlow, Ireland: Rohingya community of Ireland celebrated Rohingya Refugee Memorial Day (18th November-2011) and prayed magfreth for the soil of murders at new oak community centre with the present of some local and NGO bodies in Carlow, Ireland today. Some Rohingya community members delivered theirs speeches. Mr Eliys, [...] Read more
ျပည္တြင္းစစ္ ရပ္ဖို႔ မႏၲေလးၿမိဳ႕မွ ေတာင္းဆို
မႏၱေလး၊ ကံတက္ကုန္းမစိုးရိမ္ ဘုန္းႀကီးပညာသင္ေက်ာင္းမွ ၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရးေတာင္းဆိုပြဲ ယေန႔ ေန႔လည္ ၁ နာရီမွ ၃ နာရီထိ မႏၱေလးၿမိဳ႕၊ မဟာေအာင္ေျမၿမိဳ႕နယ္၊ ၅၅ လမ္း၊ ၄၀ ႏွင့္ ၄၁ လမ္းၾကား၊ ရဲမြန္ေတာင္ရပ္ရွိ ကံတက္ကုန္းမစိုးရိမ္ ဘုန္းႀကီးပညာသင္ေက်ာင္းမွာ ၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရးေဟာေျပာပြဲႏွင့္ တိုင္းရင္းသားေပါင္းစံု ကေလးငယ္မ်ား၏ ၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရးေတာင္းဆိုပြဲအခမ္းအနား က်င္းပခဲ့ပါတယ္။ စာေရးဆရာမ်ားျဖစ္ၾကေသာ၁။ ညီပုေလး၂။ ဆူးငွက္၃။ ညီေစမင္းတို႔က တိုင္းရင္းသားေသြးစည္းညီညြတ္ေရး၊ ျပည္တြင္းၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရးႏွင့္ စစ္ရပ္စဲေရးအေၾကာင္းမ်ား ေဟာေျပာခဲ့ပါတယ္။ အခမ္းအနားအၿပီးမွာ ကံတက္ကုန္းမစိုးရိမ္ဘုန္းႀကီးပညာသင္ေက်ာင္းမွ တိုင္းရင္းသားေပါင္းစံု ကေလးငယ္မ်ားက ၁။ ေသြးခ်င္းညီအကိုမ်ားအတြက္ ျပည္တြင္းၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရးကို ေပးပါ၂။ ျပည္တြင္းစစ္ကို ရပ္ေပးပါ၃။ ဗမာ = ကခ်င္ ဟူေသာ [...] Read more
Burma pursued nuclear weapons with North Korea, U.S. senator says
By William Wan, (J. Scott Applewhite/AP) - Sen. Richard G. Lugar (R-Ind.) said the Senate Foreign Relations Committee received information roughly five years ago that the Burmese government intended to develop nuclear weapons with the help of North Korea. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee received information roughly five [...] Read more
အစိုးရနဲ႔ ပူးေပါင္းေဆာင္ရြက္မႈ အေလာင္းအစားမဟုတ္-ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္က ေျပာ
ျမန္မာ စစ္အစိုးရ ေခါင္းေဆာင္ ေဟာင္းေတြနဲ႔ ဖြဲ႔ထားတဲ့ အစိုးရသစ္နဲ႔ ပူးေပါင္း ေဆာင္ရြက္မႈ ေတြဟာ အေလာင္းအစား တစ္ခု မဟုတ္ဘူးလို႔ လူထု ေခါင္းေဆာင္ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္က ေျပာၾကားလိုက္ ပါတယ္။ အမ်ဳိးသားဒီမုိကေရစီ အဖြဲ႔ခ်ဳပ္ရုံးတြင္ ၂၀၁၁ ခုႏွစ္ စက္တင္ဘာလ ၁၅ ရက္ေန႔က က်င္းပေသာ အျပည္ျပည္ဆုိင္ရာဒီမုိကေရစီေန႔အခမ္းအနားတြင္အေထြေထြအတြင္းေရးမွဴး ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ကုိ ေတြ႔ရစဥ္။ ဓါတ္ပုံ- NLD မဲ မသမာမႈေတြအမ်ားႀကီးရွိခဲ့တယ္လို႔ စြပ္စြဲမႈေတြ အမ်ားအျပားရွိခဲ့တဲ့ ၂၀၁၀ ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲကေန တက္လာတဲ့ အရပ္သားတစ္ျဖစ္လဲ အၿငိမ္းစား စစ္ေခါင္းေဆာင္ေတြနဲ႔ ဖြဲ႔စည္းထားတဲ့ အစုိးရနဲ႔ ပူးေပါင္းေဆာင္ရြက္မႈေတြဟာ အေလာင္းအစား တစ္ခုလို ျဖစ္ေနပါသလားလို႔ RFA ေသာတရွင္တဦး [...] Read more
ရခိုင္မွ မြတ္(စ္)လင္ေက်ာင္းသား ၃ဦး မတရားဖမ္းဆီး ေထာင္ခ်ခံရ
ရခုိင္ျပည္နယ္မွ အသက္ ၂၀ အရြယ္ မြတ္(စ္)လင္ ေက်ာင္းသား သံုးဦးအား ေျမာက္ဦးျမိဳ႕တြင္ ေဒသ အာဏာပိုင္မ်ားက မတရား ဖမ္းဆီး ေထာင္ခ်လုိက္ေၾကာင္း (MLOB) ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံ မြတ္(စ္)လင္ လြတ္ေျမာက္ေရး အဖြဲ႕က ေျပာသည္။ အဆိုပါ လူငယ္မ်ားမွာ ေျမာက္ဦးျမိဳ႕နယ္ႏွင့္ မင္းျပားျမိဳ႕နယ္မွ ျဖစ္ၾကျပီး အဆုိပါအဖြဲ႕၏ ဥကၠဌျဖစ္သူ ဦးေက်ာ္လွမွ ေက်ာင္းသားသံုးဦး ဖမ္းဆီးခံရပံုႏွင့္ ပတ္သက္ျပီး ယခုကဲ့သို႕ ေျပာသည္။ "အဲဒီ ေက်ာင္းသားေလး ၃ဦးဟာ ၂၀၁၀ခုႏွစ္က ေက်ာက္ေတာ္ျမိဳ႕ကို သြားျပီးေတာ့ ဘာသာေရး ပညာရပ္ သြားသင္ပါတယ္။ ေနာက္ ဒီႏွစ္ ဇြန္လမွာ သူတုိ႕ ေက်ာင္းပိတ္တဲ့အတြက္ ကိုယ့္ေနရပ္ကို ကိုယ္ျပန္လာ [...] Read more
Burma: Ethnic war or political reforms?
Burma’s Thein Sein government looks to be on the verge of a historic move as democracy icon and key opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi recently decided to take part in the country’s official political arena and President Obama declared plans to send the US Secretary of State [...] Read more
US-Myanmar: A convergence of interests By David I Steinberg
WASHINGTON - The announcement that United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will visit Myanmar in December 2011 is a bold and welcome move by the administration of President Barack Obama . The fruit of growing realizations by both states of the need for improved relations for their [...] Read more
Washington University မွ ေဇကမာၻ ဦးခင္ေရႊ အား မည္သည့္ အခါကမွ မည္သည့္ဘဲြ႔မ်ိဳးကုိမွ် မေပးအပ္ခဲ့ေႀကာင္း တရား၀င္ ထုတ္ျပန္ေႀကျငာျခင္း
Please check the message from university here ထုိ႔အျပင္ ၄င္း၏ ေက်ာင္းနာမည္ကုိ အလဲြသုံးစားျပဳလုပ္ၿပီး ေဒၚလာ ၈၀၀၀ ျဖင့္ဦးခင္ေရႊ အား PhD အတု ေရာင္းခ်ခဲ့ေသာ အြန္လုိင္းေပၚမွ ေက်ာင္းအတု အား တရားစဲြဆုိခဲ့ျခင္း၊ မေကာင္းမႈဟူသည္ စိတ္ကြယ္ရာမရွိေႀကာင္း လူငယ္မ်ား နားလည္ေစရန္ျဖန္႔ေ၀ႏုိင္သည္။ မေကာင္းမႈဟူသည္ စိတ္ကြယ္ရာမရွိေႀကာင္း လူငယ္မ်ား နားလည္ေစရန္ ျဖန္႔ေ၀ႏုိင္သည္။ Check here ေဇကမာၻ ဦးခင္ေရႊ နွင့္ပတ္သတ္သည့္သတင္းမ်ားကိုေအာက္ပါလင့့္မ်ားတြင္ဖတ္ရူနိုင္ပါသည္. Link1- here Link2 - here Credit : Dawnmanhon [...] Read more
More Rohingya Boatpeople Sailing Past Phuket, say Reports
By Chutima Sidasathian and Alan Morison PHUKET: Reports have reached Phuketwan that as many as eight boats laden with would-be refugees have set sail from Bangladesh and northern Burma in the past few days. A more certain report says that a boatload of boys and men who sailed [...] Read more
Sign the Petition to Clinton: Stop Human Rights Abuses and Free All Political Prisoners
Secretary Clinton will go to Burma on Thursday, December 1, 2011. We need to ensure that she pressures the Burmese military regime to end the systematic and widespread human rights and mass atrocities they continue to commit against civilians. Sign this petition to Secretary Clinton to urge her [...] Read more
ျမန္မာ့လူ႔အခြင့္အေရး ဆံုးျဖတ္ခ်က္ ကုလအတည္ျပဳ
By ေဒၚခင္မ်ိဳးသက္ (VOA-Burmese) ႏိုင္ငံေပါင္း ၄၈ ႏိုင္ငံက ဦးေဆာင္တင္သြင္းခဲ့တဲ့ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံ လူ႔အခြင့္အေရး အေျခအေနဆိုင္ရာ အဆိုျပဳခ်က္ မူၾကမ္းကို (၆၆) ႀကိမ္ေျမာက္ ကုလသမဂၢ အေထြေထြညီလာခံမွာ တနလၤာေန႔က ေဆြးေႏြးခဲ့ၾကၿပီးေတာ့ မဲခြဲဆံုးျဖတ္ရာမွာ ေထာက္ခံမဲ ၉၈ မဲနဲ႔ အတည္ျပဳခဲ့ပါတယ္။ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံမွာ လူ႔အခြင့္အေရး ဆက္ၿပီးေတာ့ ခ်ိဳးေဖာက္မႈေတြ လုပ္ေနတာကို အထူး စိတ္ပူသလို ႏိုင္ငံေရးအက်ဥ္းသား အားလံုးကို ခၽြင္းခ်က္မရွိ လုပ္ေပးဖို႔၊ တိုင္းရင္းသားေဒသေတြမွာ တိုက္ပြဲေတြ ခ်က္ခ်င္းရပ္ဖုိ႔နဲ႔ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ကို ႏိုင္ငံေရးလြတ္လပ္စြာ လုပ္ပိုင္ခြင့္ေတြ ေပးဖို႔ ေတာင္းဆိုလိုက္ပါတယ္။ ဒီအေၾကာင္း အျပည့္စံုကို ေဒၚခင္မ်ိဳးသက္က အစီရင္ခံထားပါတယ္။ ကုလသမဂၢ အေထြေထြညီလာခံရဲ႕ [...] Read more
CSW urges international community to highlight plight of ethnic nationalities in engagement with Burmese regime
Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW) today expressed concern that the plight of Burma’s ethnic nationalities is being neglected in the process of engagement with Burma’s regime. CSW particularly highlights continuing severe violations of human rights, including the use of rape, forced labour, religious persecution, torture and killings in Kachin [...] Read more
၈၈မ်ိဳးဆက္၊ဗမာႏိုင္ငံလံုးဆိုင္ရာေက်ာင္းသားမ်ားသမဂၢ၊မ်ိဳးဆက္သစ္လူငယ္မ်ား၏ပူးတြဲေၾကျငာခ်က္
အမ်ိဳးသားေအာင္ပြဲေန႕၈၈မ်ိဳးဆက္၊ဗမာႏိုင္ငံလံုးဆိုင္ရာေက်ာင္းသားမ်ားသမဂၢ၊မ်ိဳးဆက္သစ္လူငယ္မ်ား၏ပူးတြဲေၾကျငာခ်က္ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံတိုးတက္ေစရန္အတြက္ ပညာေရးကို ျမင့္တင္ရမည္ျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္က ၂၀၁၁ခုႏွစ္ ႏို၀င္ဘာလ ၂၀ ရက္ေန႔တြင္ အမ်ိဳးသားဒီမိုကေရစီအဖြဲ႕ခ်ဳပ္ရုံး၌က်င္းပေသာ ၉၁ ႏွစ္ေျမာက္ အမ်ိဳးသားေအာင္ပြဲေန႔ အခမ္းအနားတြင္ ေျပာၾကားသြားသည္။ `လူတိုင္းမွာ ကိုယ္ပိုၿပီးေတာ့ စိတ္၀င္စားတဲ့က႑ေတြကို မီးေမာင္းထိုးတာေတြရွိက်ပါတယ္။ အဲေတာ့ က်မက ပညာေရးနဲ႔ ႏိုင္ငံေရးဆက္စပ္မႈကိုပဲ မီးေမာင္းထိုးၿပီးေတာ့ ေျပာခ်င္ပါတယ္။ အခု ၂၀၁၁ ခုႏွစ္မွာလဲ က်မတို႔ႏိုင္ငံတိုးတက္ဖို႔ဆိုလို႔ရွိရင္ က်မတို႔ႏိုင္ငံရဲ႕ ပညာေရးကိုျမင့္တင္ရမယ္။ ပညာေရးကို ျမွင့္တင္ရမယ္ဆိုတာ ဘြဲ႕ရေတြအမ်ားႀကီးေမြးထုတ္ေပးရံုနဲ႔ မၿပီးပါဘူး။ ရတဲ့ဘြဲ႕ေတြဟာ အႏွစ္သာရရွိရပါမယ္။ ဘြဲ႕ရလာတဲ့ လူငယ္ေလးေတြဟာလည္း တကယ့္ပညာတတ္လူငယ္ေလးေတြ ျဖစ္ရပါမယ္ ´ဟု ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္က အဆိုပါအခမ္းအနားတြင္ ေျပာၾကားခဲ့သည္။ တိုင္းျပည္ဖြံ႕ၿဖိဳးတုိးတက္ေစရန္ ပညာအဆင့္အတန္းျမင့္ေအာင္ ျပဳလုပ္ရမည္ျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း [...] Read more
Rohingya refugees see only broken dreams and dashed hopes following 2010 elections
Twenty-five year-old Abdul (not his real name) and other refugees who have been living in small sheds in Bangladesh for over 20 years had high hopes and dreams that the situation in Burma’s northern Arakan State, their homeland, would be changed after the 2010 elections. However, what they [...] Read more
ထိပ္တန္းက်ေသာ အစိုးရ by လူထုစိန္၀င္း
အခုတေလာ စာေရးပ်က္တာေတြ မ်ားေနတယ္။ ႏို၀င္ဘာလလယ္ ေရာက္ေနတာေတာင္ ရန္ကုန္မႇာ ေဆာင္းမ၀င္ေသးဘဲ ပူျမဲပူေနေသးတာေၾကာင့္ ေနလို႔ထိုင္လို႔ သိပ္မေကာင္းဘူး။ ၿပီးေတာ့ ဒီရက္ပိုင္းအတြင္း ေခါင္းပူစရာေတြကလည္း မ်ားတယ္။ လြတ္ၿပီဆိုနဲ႔ ၀င္မယ္ဆို တိုင္းေရးျပည္ေရး လႈပ္လႈပ္ရႇား ရႇားျဖစ္လာတဲ့အခါမ်ဳိးေတြဆိုရင္ ဧည့္မ်ားသလို ဖုန္းေခၚသံေတြလည္း မ်ားတယ္။ မ်က္စိႀကီး နားႀကီး ရပ္ကြက္ထဲက လူတစ္ေယာက္လို႔ အမ်ားက ထင္မႇတ္မႇားေနၾကေလေတာ့ တစ္ခုခု အသံၾကားတုိင္း လႇမ္းေမးတတ္ၾကတယ္။ ဒီရက္ပိုင္းမႇာေတာ့ 'လြတ္ၿပီဆို' နဲ႔ '၀င္မယ္ဆို' ေမးခြန္း ႏႇစ္ခုကို ေမာေလာက္ေအာင္ကို ေျဖေနရတယ္။ မသိပါဘူး၊ မၾကားပါဘူး၊ မသိပါဘူး။ မၾကားပါဘူးေပါ့။ ဟုတ္တယ္ေလ ႏိုင္ငံ့အေရး ေပါက္နဲ႔ေက်းဆိုတာ အင္မတန္ခန္႔မႇန္းရ ခက္တာကလား။ [...] Read more
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UA: 213/13 Index: ASA 16/003/2013 Myanmar Amnesty International Date: 6 August 2013 URGENT ACTION MYANMAR ACTIVIST ARBITRARILY DE... -
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