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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
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- 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
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- 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"
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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 ...
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 ...
- 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?
(Photo: Reuters) By Carbonated.TV Editorial July 3, 2017 If Myanmar has nothing to hide, why isn't the country's de facto leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, who is a Nobel Peace Prize winner, allowing U.N. investigators to visit the country? When Myanmar transitioned from military rule to civi...
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Is Myanmar out of the woods? by Speaker Dr.Zarni
Dr Zarni (Speaker) Dr Munir Majid (Chair)7 December 2011, Wednesday, COL 2.01 (aka B212) 11am to 1:30pm US Secretary of State Hilary Clinton visited Myanmar on 1st December. Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy is participating in elections. Leaders of ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) [...] Read more
Demonstration calling for Chinese government to participate in restoring freedom and human rights in Burma and North Korea
To mark International Human Rights Day, people from the Burmese community, North Korean community and many supporters are standing together to call for justice and freedom in both countries. Burma Campaign UK and Christian Solidarity Worldwide have organised a demonstration today in front of the Chinese embassy in [...] Read more
အစိုးရသစ္က လူ႔အခြင့္အေရးခ်ဳိးေဖာက္မႈမ်ားကို အေမြဆက္ခံေနဆဲျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း HRDP ေျပာၾကား
HRDP သမၼတဦးသိန္းစိန္ အစိုးရသစ္ လက္ထက္တြင္ လူ႔အခြင့္အေရးခ်ဳိးေဖာက္မႈမ်ား ယခင္အစိုးရေဟာင္းနည္းတူ ဆက္လက္က်ဴးလြန္ေနလွ်က္ရွိေၾကာင္း လူ႔အခြင့္အေရးကာကြယ္ျမႇင့္တင္သူမ်ားကြန္ယက္ (HRDP) က ေျပာသည္။ ဧရာဝတီတို္င္းေဒသႀကီး၊ ဘိုကေလးၿမိဳ႕ေပၚတြင္ HRDP အဖြဲ႕မွ ယေန႔က်င္းပျပဳလုပ္သည့္ (၆၃) ႀကိမ္ေျမာက္ ႏုိင္ငံတကာ လူ႔အခြင့္အေရးေန႔ အထိမ္းအမွတ္အခမ္းအနား သဘာပတိမိန္႔ခြန္းတြင္ ယခုကဲ့သုိ႔ ေျပာၾကားလိုက္ျခင္းျဖစ္သည္။ “ယခုက ဒီမိုကေရစီစနစ္လို႔ ေျပာေနတဲ့အတြက္ ဘယ္လိုပဲျဖစ္ျဖစ္ ဒီမိုကေရစီစနစ္ဟာ လူ႔အခြင့္အေရးကို လက္ခံရပါမယ္၊ လူ႔အခြင့္အေရးရွိသင့္တယ္၊ လူ႔အခြင့္အေရးနဲ႔ပတ္သက္တာေတြ မရွိဘူးဆိုရင္ ဒီမိုကေရစီအစိုးရ မျဖစ္ႏိုင္ဘူးလို႔ ေျပာခ်င္ပါတယ္” ဟု အခမ္းအနားသဘာပတိအျဖစ္ ေဆာင္ရြက္သူ ဦးေမာင္ေမာင္ေလးက ေျပာသည္။ အစိုးရသစ္တရပ္အေနျဖင့္ ယခင္အစိုးလက္ထပ္ကတည္းက လူ႔အခြင့္အေရးခ်ဳိးေဖာက္မႈမ်ားကို ခ်က္ခ်င္း ရပ္တန္႔ကာ ေနာက္ထပ္ [...] Read more
More difficult for Rohingya Refugee female to travel in Bangladesh
Teknaf, Bangladesh: The female Rohingya communities from northern Arakan who travel for medical treatment, are facing more difficult in Bangladesh than Burma, said a female patient from Maungdaw. “We are checking whole body including female private area by Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) female staff while entering to Bangladesh [...] Read more
ကခ်င္တြင္ ထိုးစစ္ရပ္ရန္ ကာခ်ဳပ္ကို သမၼတ ညႊန္ၾကားထား
ခ်င္းမုိင္(မဇၥ်ိမ) ။ ။ ကခ်င္ျပည္နယ္အတြင္း အစိုးရတပ္မ်ားမွ ထိုးစစ္ဆင္ျခင္း၊ စစ္တပ္စခန္းမ်ား ေျပာင္းေရႊ႕ ျခင္းမ်ား ရပ္ဆုိင္းရန္အတြက္ သမၼတဦးသိန္းစိန္က ကာကြယ္ေရးဦးစီးခ်ဳပ္ မင္းေအာင္လႈိင္ထံ ဒီဇင္ဘာလ ၁ဝ ရက္ေန႔က ညႊန္ၾကားထားေၾကာင္း ကခ်င္ျပည္နယ္ဝန္ႀကီးခ်ဳပ္က သတင္းစာ ရွင္းလင္းပြဲ၌ ေျပာဆိုခဲ့သည္။ ျပည္ေထာင္စုလႊတ္ေတာ္ ကုိယ္စားလွယ္မ်ားက ကခ်င္ျပည္နယ္တြင္းရွိ စစ္ေျပးဒုကၡသည္မ်ားကုိ က်ပ္ေငြ သိန္း ၇၀၀ ကုိ ကခ်င္ျပည္နယ္ အစုိးရထံ အပ္ႏွင္းသည့္ အခမ္းအနားႏွင့္ သတင္းစာ ရွင္းလင္းပြဲကို တနဂၤလာေန႔ နံနက္က ျပဳလုပ္ခဲ့ရာတြင္ ကခ်င္ျပည္နယ္ ဝန္ႀကီးခ်ဳပ္ ဦးလဂြ်န္ငံဆုိင္းက ေျပာဆိုခဲ့ျခင္း ျဖစ္သည္။ “ကယ္ဆယ္ေရး အလႉေငြ ေပးအပ္ပြဲ လုပ္ရင္းနဲ႔ ဂ်ာနယ္ [...] Read more
Religious Liberty's 'Flicker of Progress'
By Doug Bandow Assessing the situation in Burma after the Clinton mission. Dwight Eisenhower went to Korea and Hillary Clinton went to Burma. True, it's not quite the same. Nevertheless, Clinton recent trip was almost as dramatic, coming after Washington's lengthy campaign to isolate the brutal military regime [...] Read more
ျပည္သူေတြ ပါ၀င္ရမယ့္ ႏိုင္ငံေရးတစ္ေခတ္ဆန္းၿပီ (ေမာင္၀ံသ)
The Messenger မက္ဆင္ဂ်ာ ဂ်ာနယ္ ယခုပတ္ထုတ္မွာ ေဖာ္ျပခဲ့တဲ့ ေဆာင္းပါး။ ၿဗိတိသွ်ကိုလိုနီနယ္ခ်ဲ႕အစိုးရကို ရရာလက္နက္ မီးက်ိဳးေမာင္းပ်က္ေတြနဲ႔ ခုခံေတာ္လွန္ခဲ့တဲ့ လယ္သမားေခါင္းေဆာင္ႀကီး ဆရာစံ ႀကိဳးေပးကြပ္မ်က္ျခင္း ခံခဲ့ရမႈ (၈၀) ႏွစ္ေျမာက္ အခမ္းအနားကို ဆရာစံရဲ႕ ဂဠဳန္ေတာ္လွန္ေရး အေျခစိုက္ခဲ့ရာ သာယာ၀တီၿမိဳ႕မွာ ႏိုင္ငံေရး အင္အားစုေတြနဲ႔ ႏိုင္ငံေရး ပါတီေတြက ႀကီးမွဴးၿပီး ပထမဆံုးအႀကိမ္အျဖစ္ က်င္းပခဲ့တယ္ဆိုတဲ့ သတင္းကို ၾကားသိခဲ့ရတယ္ဗ်။ အဲသလိုပဲ ကိုလိုနီေခတ္မွာ ျမန္မာျပည္သူတြကို ပထမဆံုး ႏိုင္ငံေရးမ်က္စိ ဖြင့္ေပးခဲ့သူ၊ အဲဒီတုန္းက ၿဗိတိသွ်ႏိုင္ငံသား ျမန္မာျပည္ ဘုရင္ခံကို ]ကရက္ေဒါက္ ဂက္ေတာက္}ဆိုတဲ့ ေမာင္းထုတ္တဲ့စကားနဲ႔အတူ ႏိုင္ငံေရးတရားမ်ားကို ရဲရဲေတာက္ ေဟာေျပာခဲ့သူ ဆရာေတာ္ [...] Read more
Demands of the Rohingya refugees
1. Background Recently, bilateral talk has been taken placed in between the government of Burma and Bangladesh regarding refugee repatriation. However, the situation in Arakan, after the election, becomes worst than ever. The persecution and the human rights violation accelerated than before. It is too early to repatriate [...] Read more
ဘဂၤလားက ျမန္မာ မြတ္ဆလင္ ဒုကၡသည္ေတြ မျပန္ခ်င္ by BBC Burmese interview Rohingya Refugee
ဘဂၤလားေဒခ်္႔ နုိင္ငံမွာ ရွိေနတဲ့ ျမန္မာမြတ္ဆလင္ ဒုကၡသည္ စခန္းႏွစ္ခုက ဒုကၡသည္ ၂၉၀၀၀ ေက်ာ္ကုိ ျပန္ပုိ႔ဖုိ႔ သေဘာတူညီမႈ ရခဲ့ေပမဲ့လည္း၊ ဒုကၡသည္ေတြ ကေတာ့ သူတုိ႔လုိလားေနတဲ့ ေတာင္းဆုိခ်က္ေတြကုိ မရဘူးဆုိရင္ မျပန္ႏုိင္ဘူးဆုိျပီး ေျပာဆုိတယ္လုိ႔ သိရပါတယ္။ ဘဂၤလားေဒခ်္႔ ဝန္ၾကီးခ်ဳပ္ ရွိတ္ဟာဆီနာရဲ့ ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံ ခရီးစဥ္အတြင္းမွာ နာရာပါရာနဲ႔ ကုိတုိ႔ပါေလာင္ ဆုိတဲ့ ျမန္မာမြတ္ဆလင္ ဒုကၡသည္ေတြကုိ ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံ ျပန္ပုိ႔ေရး သေဘာတူညီမႈ ရရွိခဲ့တာ ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ ဒါေပမယ့္လည္း စခန္းထဲမွာ ရွိေနတဲ့ ဒုကၡသည္ေတြကေတာ့ သူတုိ႔ေတာင္းဆုိထားတဲ့ ေတာင္းဆုိခ်က္ေတြ မရရင္ ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံကုိ မျပန္ဖုိ႔ ဆုံးျဖတ္ထားေၾကာင္း၊ ဒုကၡသည္ တဦးျဖစ္သူ ဦးေမာင္သိန္းက [...] Read more
The untold love story of Burma's Aung San Suu Kyi
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Burmese Days
by Shashi Tharoor US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s recent visit to Myanmar (Burma), noted largely for a memorable photo opportunity with a wan but smiling Aung San Suu Kyi, signaled a significant change in the geopolitics surrounding a land that has faced decades of isolation, sanctions, and [...] Read more
Statement on International Human Rights Day 2011
Today is the 63rd Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. People in all across the world are celebrating the International Human Rights Day. The declaration was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on December 10, 1948, which prohibited all forms of discrimination, torture and cruel, inhuman [...] Read more
Australian delegation visits Rohingya refugee camp
Teknaf, Bangladesh: A two-member Australian delegation led by Australian High Commissioner of Bangladesh Dr Justin Lee visited the Nayapara official refugee camp on December 8, at about 11:00 am, said a refugee leader on condition of anonymity. “The delegation observed the whole camp including schools and cottage industry [...] Read more
BROUK Condemns Sentencing 63 Rohingyas on Immigration Charge
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Joint statement by Burma and Bangladesh, stated about Rohingya refugees issue
Refugees living in the Nayapara and Kutupalong refugee camps and the huge number of undocumented Burmese nationals living in Bangladesh should be returned quickly, according to a joint statement by Burma and Bangladesh. The statement came following a two-day visit to Burma by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina of [...] Read more
(Hong Kong) Despite signs of political change and the easing of restrictions on freedom of expression in Burma, rights abuses remain "systemic, deeply entrenched and vast in scale", the Asian Human Rights Commission said today in its annual State of Human Rights in Asia report.
The 17-page Burma report, entitled "From blinkered to market-oriented despotism" synthesizes and analyses a number of key human rights issues from throughout the year, including civil war, land confiscations, the passing of anti-poor and anti-democratic laws in the new semi-civilian parliament, the absence of a judiciary capable of protecting human rights, and ongoing detention of political prisoners.
"It is obvious that none of the instruments and institutions available for the making of complaint of rights abuses in Burma come remotely close to what under international standards would satisfy the requirements for remedies for human rights violations," the AHRC said.
"Despite the political changes of the year and associated fanfare, the judiciary in Burmaremains inert, tied to the executive, and incapable of performing even basic functions for the defence of human rights," it added.
Wong Kai Shing, director of the Hong Kong-based regional rights group, said that it was good that rule-of-law issues in Burma are starting to get attention, but that it would be a long time before judicial institutions could work to protect human rights, even if the political will exists.
"The beginning of a discussion on rule of law in Burma is enormously important, but the amount of work that will have to be put into giving meaning to rule of law there is enormous," Wong said.
"In the meantime, economic and social conditions are changing quickly, and will change even more quickly in the next few years, and our concern is that this change will fast outpace any equivalent change for the better in institutions for the rule of law," he added.
The AHRC in its report highlighted the increasing incidence of land grabbing in Burmaby companies linked to the army.
"This is an emerging phenomenon in Burma and one that we have to document and research carefully to understand its characteristics and implications," Wong said.
In the past, land grabbing in Burma was conducted mainly by the armed forces and other state agencies directly, but increasingly in the last few years it has been linked to private economic interests.
"Our concern is that within a few years Burma could go the way of Cambodia, where land grabbing is massive and practically no legal or institutional arrangements exist to do anything about it," he added.
The report also includes details of a number of cases of illegally or unjustly imprisoned people on whose cases the AHRC is working, including those of Htun Oo and 13 other persons charged over a bombing in Pegu during 2010; 22-year-old Kaung Myat Hlaing, sentenced to 10 years in jail for allegedly sending some politically oriented photographs through the Internet; six men in 2010 were accused of having contact with an insurgent group in the east of Burma, one of whom was tortured to death during interrogation; and, the case of U Gambhira, a monk who was at the forefront of the 2007 protest movement.
The report is available online at here
Some extracts from the report follow.
BURMA: From blinkered to market-oriented despotism?
Since a new quasi-parliamentary government led by former army officers began work inBurma (Myanmar) earlier this year, some observers have argued that the government is showing a commitment to bring about, albeit cautiously, reforms that will result in an overall improvement in human rights conditions.
The question remains, though, as to whether the new government constitutes the beginning of a real shift from the blinkered despotism of its predecessors to a new form of government, or simply to a type of semi-enlightened and market-oriented despotism, the sort of which has been more common in Asia than the type of outright military domination experienced by Burma for most of the last half-century.
From farmlands to factories
While much of the current discussion about economic reform has concerned changes to the banking system, foreign exchange, and investment laws, none of these issues go to the problems of massive poverty afflicting millions of people all across the country, or the ever-growing gap between the wealthy few and the many poor.
One cause for particular concern, and one that the AHRC has followed closely, is the convergence of military, business and administrative interests in new economic projects aimed at displacing ordinary people from land.
Concerns over the future of farmers and rural dwellers in Burma were heightened, rather than diminished, when during the second sitting of the new semi-elected parliament in Burma this year, the government submitted a draft land law. Rather than protecting cultivators’ rights, the bill undercuts them at practically every point, through a variety of provisions aimed at enabling rather than inhibiting land grabbing. It invites takeover of land with government authorization for the purpose of practically any activity, not merely for other forms of cultivation.
No competent judiciary, no remedies for violations
It is obvious that none of the instruments and institutions available for the making of complaint of rights abuses in Burma come remotely close to what under international standards would satisfy the requirements for remedies for human rights violations. In the absence of an independent judiciary or minimally functioning institutions of the sort that are presumed to exist when these types of questions are discussed at the international level, nothing in the existing arrangements can be described as satisfying the requirements of international standards.
Despite the political changes of the year and associated fanfare, the judiciary in Burmaremains inert, tied to the executive, and incapable of performing even basic functions for the defence of human rights. Since the start of the year, structural changes to the judiciary under the 2008 Constitution have not materialized in any meaningful way. On the contrary, the courts continue to be as closed and obscured from public view as before, perhaps even more so.
Consequently, police, soldiers and other state officers or paramilitary groups attached to the state continue to be able to use and abuse their powers with impunity. Very often, they do so in the context of personal disputes, with the knowledge that the victims ofabuses have no recourse. Sometimes, they act specifically in response to attempts of people to attract the attention of officials to their problems.
Legal professionals say that the amount of corruption in the system is growing exponentially, as the costs of living rise and more and more judges and lawyers look to whatever opportunities they can to make as much money as they can. In some courts, lawyers estimate that up to 70 per cent of cases are decided in part or whole through the payment of money.
Political reconciliation by hostage taking
Over the last few years, prisoner releases in which political detainees have also featured have been a regular event in Burma. Each release is an opportunity for the political leadership to temporarily pay the role of benefactor, and enjoy some praise for whatever largesse it has managed to generate through the freeing from detention of persons who should have never been detained in the first place, persons whose "crimes" constituted acts that in most other countries are taken for granted. It is for this reason that such releases of detainees are indicative not of a system operating according to rational law, but one operating according to feudal principles, in which a regal figure earns the gratitude of his subjects for the merciful exercise of arbitrary power.
Reports of ill treatment of detainees continued throughout the year, and the AHRC made a number of interventions on these, although appeals issued constituted only a fraction of the reported incidents.
Of special concern was the case of U Gambhira, a monk who was at the forefront of the 2007 protest movement, and who is reportedly suffering from serious illness. In October, the AHRC director, Wong Kai Shing, wrote personally to the president ofBurma, U Thein Sein, a former general and prime minister of the previous government, calling for urgent humanitarian intervention on behalf of the monk.
Widespread accusations also persist of maltreatment during police interrogation. A senior legal expert alleged in a signed open letter that police drugged his client during interrogation.
Allegations that relate to abuses of human rights committed while under custody again present an opportunity for all concerned agencies and individuals to press for the International Committee of the Red Cross to be allowed to resume its visits to places of detention in Burma. The denial of access to the ICRC is related to the alleged drugging of accused persons, since both relate to an official mentality that nobody has a right to know what really goes on behind the closed doors of police stations and prisons. Where even the principle of an outside agency confidentially monitoring detainees’ conditions in accordance with a globally established mandate is unacceptable, there is no chance of anyone keeping tabs on what officials do to people in their custody. Acceptance of external monitoring of basic conditions is a prerequisite for allegations like these to be addressed in any meaningful way.
Conclusion
Ultimately, the expression, enjoyment and defence of human rights are about participation: not the type of fraudulent, managed participation imagined by military types and technocratic administrators, but the opportunity for genuine participation of the sort that the people of Burma have attempted repeatedly to obtain for themselves, most recently in the nationwide protests of 2007. No such opportunity exists at the present time, and so nor has there been any sign of public participation in the political rejigging of the army-run system during 2011.
The reason for this lack of participation is that people are, after all, not stupid, as the military and commercial elite in Burma has repeatedly made the mistake of thinking. A few soldiers pulling off their trousers and putting on sarongs fools nobody. Indeed, it did not fool anybody last time it was done, in 1974, when a new "civilian" government rather than being greeted with applause or praise was greeted with widespread strikes and public protests. This time around, the presence of Aung San Suu Kyi and some other trusted national figures has allowed the new government to negotiate the political waters a little better, but it has not yet brought public participation, and people's tolerance will only last so long.
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