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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"
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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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ဗိုလ္ခ်ဳပ္တပ္လွန္႔သံ by ဦးေက်ာ္သူ
ခႏၲီတရား၊ သည္းခံျငား၊ စိတ္ထားဘယ္သို႔ျဖည့္သနည္း။ လူမိုက္အမႈ၊ ငါျပန္ျပဳလွ်င္၊ သူလိုငါလည္း၊ လူမိုက္ပဲဟု၊ စိတ္ထဲေတြးဆ၊ ေအးျမျမႏွင့္၊ ေဒါသမထြက္၊ စိတ္မပ်က္၊ သက္သက္အနာခံသတည္း။ “ငါ့အေပၚ၌ လူမိုက္ျပဳေသာ ေစာ္ကားမႈကို ငါကျပန္ျပဳလွ်င္ ငါလည္းလူမိုက္ျဖစ္မွာပဲ” ဟု စိတ္ထဲမွာ ေတြးဆ၍ ေဒါသမထြက္ဘဲ စိတ္ပ်က္ အားငယ္လို႔လည္းမေနဘဲ၊ စိတ္ေအးေအးႏွင့္ မိမိကသာ အနာခံလိုက္ျခင္းသည္ ခႏၲီပါရမီ၏သေဘာတည္း။ (အရွင္ဇနကာဘိ၀ံသ၊ ႐ုပ္စံု ဗုဒၶ၀င္အေမးအေျဖ စာမ်က္ႏွာ-၂၆) ဟူေသာ စာပိုဒ္ပါ ဆရာေတာ္အရွင္ရာဇိႏၵ (ရေ၀ႏြယ္-အင္းမ) ၏ “ခႏၲီပါရမီ” ဘာသာေရးေဆာင္းပါးအား ဖတ္႐ႈမိစဥ္ မိမိ၏အတိတ္ကာလမ်ားဆီမွ ပံုရိပ္မ်ားကို ၿဖိဳးခနဲ ဖ်တ္ခနဲ ေပၚလာမိသည္။ အခ်ိန္ကား ၂၀၀၇ ခုႏွစ္၊ စက္တင္ဘာလ။ [...] Read more
၂၀၁၂ခုႏွစ္မွာျမန္မာ့ လူ႔အခြင့္အေရး စိန္ေခၚခ်က္မ်ားရိွေန
By ကိုသားညြန္႔ဦး (VOA Burmese) အခု ၂၀၁၁ ခုႏွစ္အတြင္း ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံတြင္းမွာ လူ႔အခြင့္အေရး အေျခအေနေတြဟာ အရင္ကထက္ သိသိသာသာ တိုးတက္လာတယ္ဆိုေပမဲ့ စိန္ေခၚခ်က္ေတြ၊ အကဲစမ္းမႈေတြေတာ့ ရင္ဆိုင္ေနရဆဲ ျဖစ္တယ္လို႔ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံဆိုင္ရာ ကုလသမဂၢ လူ႔အခြင့္အေရး ကိုုယ္စားလွယ္က ေျပာပါတယ္။ အထူးသျဖင့္ေတာ့ ၿပီးခဲ့တဲ့ လူ႔အခြင့္အေရး ခ်ဳိးေဖာက္မႈေတြအေပၚ တာဝန္ယူေျဖရွင္းလိုစိတ္ အာဏာပိုင္ေတြမွာေရာ၊ အျခား လူမႈအဖဲြ႔အစည္းေတြမွာပါ မေတြ႔ရတဲ့အခ်က္ဟာ စိုးရိမ္စရာ ျဖစ္တယ္လို႔ အထူးကိုယ္စားလွယ္က ေျပာသြားတာပါ။ ကိုသားညြန္႔ဦးက တင္ျပထားပါတယ္။ ျမန္မာအစိုးရအေနနဲ႔ အခုႏွစ္အတြင္းမွာ ႏိုင္ငံတကာရဲ႕ ႀကိဳဆိုမႈေတြနဲ႔ လိုလိုလားလား ဆက္ဆံမႈေတြ ရတဲ့ႏွစ္လို႔ ေျပာရမွာျဖစ္သလို ဒါဟာလည္း တဘက္က လူ႔အခြင့္အေရးနဲ႔ပတ္သက္လို႔ [...] Read more
ဒီမုိကေရစီ ျပဳျပင္ေျပာင္းလဲေရး ဆက္လက္လုပ္ေဆာင္ျခင္းသည္ အေရးႀကီးဆံုးဟု နာတာလီဂါ၀ါေျပာ
ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံ၏ ဒီမိုကေရစီ ေျပာင္းလဲမႈျဖစ္စဥ္မ်ားအနက္ အေရးႀကီးဆံုးမွာ ျပဳျပင္ေျပာင္းလဲေရးကို ဆက္လက္လုပ္ေဆာင္သြားရမည့္ အခ်က္သာျဖစ္သည္ဟု အင္ဒိုနီးရွား ႏိုင္ငံျခားေရး ၀န္ႀကီး မာတီနာတာလီဂါ၀ါက သတင္းေထာက္မ်ားႏွင့္ေတြ႕ဆံုစဥ္ေျပာဆိုလိုက္သည္။ ၎က ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံတြင္ ၂၀၁၁ ခုႏွစ္အတြင္း ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ႏွင့္ သမၼတေတြ႕ဆံုျခင္း၊ တိုင္းရင္းသား လက္နက္ကိုင္အဖြဲ႕မ်ားႏွင့္ အစိုးရအၾကား စကားေျပာဆိုမႈမ်ား၊ ႏို္င္ငံေရး အက်ဥ္းသား လႊတ္ေပးျခင္းမ်ား အစရွိသည့္ အေရးပါသည့္ အျဖစ္အပ်က္မ်ား သည္ အေရးႀကီးေသာ္လည္း ဒီမိုကေရစီစနစ္ ေဖၚေဆာင္မည့္ ျပဳျပင္ေျပာင္းလဲေရး လုပ္ငန္းမ်ားကို ဆက္လက္ေဆာင္ရြက္ေရး သည္အေရးႀကီးဆံုး အခ်က္ျဖစ္သည္ဟု ယေန႔ညေန ၄ နာရီခြဲက ရန္ကုန္ၿမိိဳ႕ ဆီဒိုးနားဟိုတယ္၌ ျပဳလုပ္သည့္ သတင္းစာရွင္းလင္းပြဲ၌ သတင္းေထာက္တေယာက္၏ ေမးျမန္းမႈကို ေျဖၾကားရာတြင္ ေျပာဆိုသြားသည္။ [...] Read more
ဘူးသီးေတာင္ ၁၉၉၀ အမတ္ လႊတ္ေပးရန္ NDPHR ေတာင္းဆို
ခ်င္းမုိင္(မဇိၥ်မ) ။ ။ ရခိုင္ျပည္နယ္၊ ဘူးသီးေတာင္ၿမိဳ႕နယ္မွ ၁၉၉ဝ ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲအႏိုင္ရ ဦးေက်ာ္မင္းႏွင့္ မိသားစုကို လႊတ္ေပးရန္ အမ်ဳိးသားလူ႔အခြင့္အေရး ဒီမုိကရက္တစ္ပါတီ NDPHR (ျပည္ပ)မွ တနလၤာေန႔က ေတာင္းဆိုလုိက္သည္။ ၂ဝ၁၂ ခုႏွစ္ ဇန္နဝါရီလအတြင္း ႏုိင္ငံေရးအက်ဥ္းသားမ်ားကုိ လႊတ္ေပးရန္ ရွိသည္ဟု သတင္းမ်ား ထြက္ေပၚလာ ၿပီးေနာက္ ျမင္းျခံေထာင္မွ ဦးေက်ာ္မင္းႏွင့္ အင္းစိန္ေထာင္မွ ဇနီး ေဒၚတီဇာ၊ သမီး မခင္ခင္ႏုႏွင့္ မဝါဝါခင္၊ သား ကုိေအာင္ႏုိင္တုိ႔ကုိလည္း လႊတ္ေပးရန္ အစုိးရထံသို႔ ေၾကညာခ်က္ထုတ္၍ေတာင္းဆိုလိုက္ျခင္း ျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း NDPHR (ျပည္ပ)က မဇၥ်ိမကို ေျပာသည္။ “အခု အစုိးရ ဦးသိန္းစိန္ကေန ပြင့္လင္းမႈေတြ လြတ္လပ္တဲ့ [...] Read more
Release former MP-elect Kyaw Min and his family
Chiang Mai (Mizzima) – The Paris-based National Democratic Party for Human Rights (NDPHR) has urged the Burmese government to release Kyaw Min, an elected-MP in the dishonoured 1990 general elections and his family. Kyaw Min and his wife, two daughters and son are all serving prison sentences under [...] Read more
From Dictatorship to Democracy (Booklet)
Most of you I assume must have heard of Gene Sharp, the octogenarian American academic and messiah of the Arab Spring, who wrote his booklet From Dictatorship to Democracy for the Burmese democracy movement, originally published in Bangkok in 1993 by the Committee for the Restoration of Democracy in Burma [...] Read more
ဗာဂ်ီးနီးယားမႇ ေပးစာ၊ ဟီလာရီ ကလင္တန္ခရီး၏ ဂယက္
Written by ေမာင္ေအာင္မြန္ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံသို႔ လာေရာက္ခဲ့သည့္ အေမရိကန္ႏိုင္ငံျခားေရး၀န္ႀကီး ဟီလာရီကလင္တန္ႏႇင့္ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္တို႔အား ရန္ကုန္ၿမိဳ႕၌ ဒီဇင္ဘာလဆန္းပိုင္းက ေတြ႔ရစဥ္ သူငယ္ခ်င္း ငါ့ဆီကစာရေတာ့ မင္းအံ့ၾသသြားလား။ ငါ့စာဖတ္ရလို႔ ၀မ္းသာေပမယ့္ ခုမႇအိပ္ရာကႏိုးလာရေအာင္ မင္းဘယ္မႇာသြားအိပ္ေပ်ာ္ေနလဲလို႔ ေမးမႇာကိုလည္း ၾကားေယာင္မိပါတယ္။ ခုေတာ့ အခ်ိန္အခါလည္းသင့္ အေျခအေန ကလည္း ေပးလာၿပီကိုး။ ဘန္ေကာက္တုန္းက မင္းဆီကို စာမႇန္မႇန္ ေရးျဖစ္ခဲ့ေပမယ့္ အေမရိကန္ကို ေရာက္လာတဲ့အခါ စာမေရးျဖစ္ေတာ့တဲ့ အဓိကအေၾကာင္းရင္းကေတာ့ ငါလုပ္တဲ့အလုပ္ေအဂ်င္စီ စည္းမ်ဥ္းအရ ျပင္ပမႇာ စာေရးခ်င္ရင္ အဲဒီစာကို အဂၤလိပ္လိုဘာသာျပန္ၿပီး တင္ျပခြင့္ျပဳခ်က္ေတာင္းရတယ္။ မင္းယံုလား။ ငါကိုယ္တုိင္လည္း အဲဒီစည္းမ်ဥ္းမ်ဳိးရႇိတယ္ဆိုတာ ၾကားဖူးဖို႔ေ၀းလို႔ အိပ္မက္ေတာင္ မမက္ဖူးဘူး။ လြတ္လပ္ခြင့္ရႇိလြန္းတဲ့ အေမရိကန္ႏိုင္ငံ။ [...] Read more
USDP Accused of Unlawful Election Campaigning
By THE IRRAWADDY Burma's military-backed Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) which dominates the national Parliament has been accused of unlawful campaigning for the looming parliamentary by-elections in a major Rangoon township. Residents of Mayangone Township told The Irrawaddy that last week USDP campaigners urged them to submit [...] Read more
Emerging Freedoms in Myanmar
By JAMES ESTRIN, THE NEW YORK TIMES Paula Bronstein has been traveling to Myanmar to take photographs for almost 20 years, so she's accustomed to the feeling that she was being followed everywhere. Mind you, it's not paranoia when you're actually being followed . But this trip was [...] Read more
ကရင္ႏွစ္သစ္ကူးေန႔ သ၀ဏ္လႊာ
ကရင္အမ်ိဳးသားအစည္းအရံုး (KNU) ဥကၠဌ ဗိုလ္ခ်ဳပ္ၾကီး ေစာတာမလာေဘာက ေပးပို႔တဲ့ ႏွစ္သစ္ကူး ႏႈတ္ခြန္းဆက္ သ၀ဏ္လႊာ credit here [...] Read more
Camp Security police harass Rohingya refugees intolerable
Teknaf, Bangladesh: Camp security police inspector Nurul Islam unnecessarily has been harassing the refugees of Nayapara official camp since he was transferred to the camp, said a refugee elder from the camp. “The police inspector Nurul Islam poked Ms Hamida Khatun’s private organ with a stick on December [...] Read more
ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ဦးေဆာင္တဲ့ NLD မွာ ပညာတတ္မရွိေၾကာင္း ဇာဂနာ၏ ေျပာဆိုခ်က္ကို ဒီေန႔ထုတ္ ဘန္ေကာက္ပို႕စ္ သတင္းစာမွာ ေဖၚျပထားတာကို ေတြ႕ရွိရပါတယ္ ။ သူ႕ရဲ႕ေျပာဆိုခ်က္ကို Bangkok Post က ေဖၚျပရာမွာ "Our country has no intellectual people in the political area. For example ... [where] are the intellectual people in the NLD?" လို႕ ေဖၚျပထားပါတယ္ ။
" ကၽၽြန္ေတာ္တို႔ ႏိုင္ငံရဲ႕ ႏိုင္ငံေရးေလာကမွာ ပညာတတ္မရွိပါဘူး ဥပမာအေနနဲ႕NLD ပါတီေပါ့ဗ်ာ ဘယ္မလဲပညာတတ္ ? " ဆိုျပီးေျပာဆိုလိုက္တာဟာ NLD ပါတီကိုသာမက ျမန္မာ့ႏိုင္ငံေရး ေလာကသားေတြအကုန္လံုး ကို ေစာ္ကား ေျပာဆို လိုက္တာ ျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း ေ၀ဖန္သံေတြ စတင္ထြက္ေပၚလာေနျပီျဖစ္ပါတယ္ ။ဇာဂနာ၏ ပထမဆံုးျပည္ပခရီးစဥ္မွာပဲ စီးပြားေရးပိတ္ဆို႔မႈနဲ႔ပတ္သက္ျပီး အျငင္းပြားဘြယ္ရာ ေျပာဆို မႈေတြ ေပၚေပါက္ခဲ့ျပီး ယခုကဲ့သို႔ ေျပာဆိုမႈေတြ ထပ္မံထြက္ေပၚလာတာျဖစ္ပါတယ္ ။
ဘန္ေကာက္ပို႕စ္ရဲ႕ မူရင္းသတင္းကို ေအာက္မွာေဖၚျပေပးလိုက္ပါတယ္ -
Freed Burmese comic set to stand up and deliver
Burma's most famous dissident comedian, who survived "electronic shock" torture during eight years in prison, has been allowed out of the country for the first time and is travelling to the Clinton Foundation in the US while requesting that US economic sanctions be lifted.
The satirical Maung Thura is popularly known by his stage name Zarganar - "Tweezers" in Burmese - and met US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton during her visit to Burma earlier this month.
"This is the dawning era of our country, this is the start of change," Zarganar said, describing Burma's new tentative shift from harsh military rule towards some civilian administration and fragile political freedom. "You should support us. Now improvement starts," the bald Zarganar, 50, said at a Foreign Correspondents Club of Thailand news conference last Monday shortly after arriving from Burma.
"This afternoon, I already met with the World Bank. They want to give some aid, or some help, some humanitarian aid. So if they lift up the sanctions, we can get aid for our people not for our military."
Washington has lead efforts to clamp international sanctions on Burma, insisting that financial hardship will force the impoverished country to embrace democracy.
After decades of dodging the sanctions by establishing economic ties with China, India, Thailand, Singapore and other nations friendly to the junta, Burma has started to allow some media freedom and political activity, while requesting that the US lift its boycotts.
"Now I can say, 'I am here.' This is [an] improvement. Many times [in the past], I didn't get a passport. I [haven't] gone to any country. This is my first trip."
Zarganar said powerful minority ethnic groups waging insurgencies for independence or autonomy are Burma's biggest problem.
The regime should arrange peace talks with Shan, Karen, Karenni, Wa and other groups who have been fighting guerrilla wars on and off since the country gained independence from Britain in 1948, he said. Zarganar had positive words for Burma's opposition leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, but said her National League for Democracy (NLD) party lacked intellectuals.
"Our country has no intellectual people in the political area. For example ... [where] are the intellectual people in the NLD?"
Mrs Suu Kyi's NLD recently re-registered as a political party to run in a promised, but unscheduled, 2012 by-election for parliament which is dominated by the military and pliant civilian politicians.
The NLD won a nationwide election in 1990 but Mrs Suu Kyi was not allowed to become Burma's leader because the military, which has ruled since a 1962 coup, ignored the polls.
Zarganar, a dissident poet, performer and film-maker, was jailed four times, and most recently released on Oct 12 among a group of prisoner amnesties.
In 1988, during his first six months in jail for participating in a failed 1988 pro-democracy insurrection, an army major "tortured me" in Insein Prison, Zarganar said.
"He beat me. He kicked me many times. He gave [me] electronic shocks.
"The second time I was arrested, in 1990, that experience was very terrible ... I was in solitary confinement for five years. I had no friends. No cell mates. No paper to use as toilet paper. So I used the leaves to clean my faeces.
"There was no window in my cell," he said, describing his punishment for making political jokes. After a three-week jail sentence in 2007 for helping Buddhist monks stage anti-government protests, his fourth term of imprisonment began in 2008 when he was sentenced to 35 years for "public order offences" because he criticised the regime for restricting emergency rescue efforts during Cyclone Nargis in May that year, during which 140,000 people died.
Prison conditions improved slightly during his recent stint.
"I had a chance to read a lot of books. For example, On China by [former US secretary of state Henry] Kissinger," he said.
Zarganar plans to arrive in America on Jan 30 and remain for three months, during which he says he will study at the Clinton Foundation.
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Japan foreign minister heads to Myanmar
Koichiro Gemba (AFP PHOTO / KAZUHIRO NOGI) TOKYO: Japanese Foreign Minister Koichiro Gemba on Sunday left for Myanmar, in the latest high-profile diplomatic trip looking to encourage reforms in the isolated nation, Tokyo's public broadcaster reported. Gemba's visit, the first by a Japanese foreign minister since 2002, comes [...] Read more
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Letter from Burma: An old soldier By Aung San Suu Kyi
Women walk near the Shwedagon Pagoda in Yangon. (Mainichi) It is always sad when a good life comes to an end. At the same time the knowledge that a human being has completed his sojourn on this earth with due honor is a matter for gratitude and a [...] 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... -
--> ရုိဟင္ဂ်ာမ်ားသည္ တုိင္းရင္းသားေလာ။ ႏုိင္ငံသားေလာ။ လူေလာ။ ေခြးေလာ။ ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံရဲ့ နယ္စပ္ေဒသတေလ်ာက္မွာ ေနထုိင္ၾကတဲ့ တု...
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RB News May 27, 2013 Washington DC : The protests against Myanmar President U Thein Sein were organized by US Campaign for Burma,... -
By Bill O’Toole Myanmar Times November 3, 2014 In the lead-up to the 2010 general election, the Union Solidarity and Development P... -
(Photo: Facebook) By Wa Lone Reuters August 13, 2017 YANGON -- Hundreds of Buddhists took to the streets in western Myanma... -
Protesters display banners ahead of the arrival of UN Special Rapporteur on Myanmar Yanghee Lee in western Rakhine state, Jan. 8, 2015. (P... -
သည္ဗြုိက္ ဂ်ာနယ္ပါ ၀န္ႀကီးဌာနတခ်ုိ့ က်ပ္ သိန္းေထာင္ခ်ီ အလြဲသံုးမႈ သတင္းနဲ ့ပတ္သက္ၿပီး သတၲုတြင္း ၀န္ႀကီးဌာနက ဥပေဒေၾကာင္းအရ ေဆာင္ရြက္မယ္ လို ... -
Thousands of displaced Rohingya Muslims live in refugee camps in Myanmar's Rakhine state. AFP: Ye Aung Thu By Clara Tran ABC ... -
Oskar Butcher RB Article October 6, 2018 Every night in an unassuming shop space located in Mandalay’s 39thStreet, Lu Maw and...
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