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...
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...
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...
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 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 ...
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 ...
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". ...
(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 ...
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...
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. ...
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...
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 ...
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...
[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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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 ...
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...
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...
(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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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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...
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...
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...
Myanmar's Slow Burning Genocide of Rohingyas 19 Jan 2018 5-7 pm School of Oriental and African Studies at University of London ...
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 ...
