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Announcement of New Website: Rohingya Today (RohingyaToday.Com) Dear Readers, From 1st January 2019 onward, the Rohingya News Portal 'Rohingya Blogger' will be renamed and upgraded as 'Rohingya Today'. Due to this transition to a new name, our website will be available at www.rohing...

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Maung Zarni, leader of the Free Rohingya Coalition, speaks at a news conference at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan in Tokyo on Thursday. | CHISATO TANAKA By Chisato Tanaka, Published by The Japan Times on October 25, 2018 A leader of a global network of activists for Rohingya Mu...

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By Sena Güler | Published by Anadolu Agency on December 1, 2018 Maung Zarni says he will boycott Beijing-sponsored events until the country reverses its 'troubling path' ANKARA -- A human rights activist and intellectual said he withdrew from a Beijing-sponsored forum in London to pro...

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Oskar Butcher RB Article October 6, 2018 Every night in an unassuming shop space located in Mandalay’s 39thStreet, Lu Maw and Lu Zaw – the remaining members of the Burma’s most famous comedy trio, the Moustache Brothers – present their show: a curious combination of comedy, political sa...

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A demonstration over identity cards at a Rohingya refugee camp in Bangladesh in April, 2018. Image: NurPhoto/SIPA USA/PA Images. By Natalie Brinham | Published by Open Democracy on October 21, 2018 Wary of the past, Rohingya have frustrated the UN’s attempts to provide them with documenta...

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By M.S. Anwar | Opinion & Analysis The Burmese (Myanmar) quasi-civilian government unleashed a large-scale violence against the minority Rohingya in the western Myanmar state of Arakan in 2012. The violence, which some wrongly frame as ‘Communal’, was carried out by the Burmese armed forces...

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By Maung Zarni, Natalie Brinham | Published by Middle East Institute on November 20, 2018 “It is an ongoing genocide (in Myanmar),” said Mr. Marzuki Darusman, the head of the UN Human Rights Council-mandated Independent International Fact-Finding Mission at the official briefing at ...

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Rohingya refugees who fled from Myanmar wait to be let through by Bangladeshi border guards after crossing the border in Palang Khali, Bangladesh October 9, 2017. REUTERS/Damir Sagolj MS Anwar RB Opinion November 12, 2018 Some may differ. But I believe the government of Bangladesh is ...

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By Maung Zarni | Published by Anadolu Agency on December 15, 2018 US will not intercede, and Myanmar's neighbors see it through economic lens, so international coalition for Rohingya needed LONDON -- The U.S. House of Representatives Thursday overwhelmingly passed a resolution ca...

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...

Rohingya History by Scholars

Dr. Maung Zarni's Remark: The best research on Rohingya history: British Orientalism which created the pseudo-scientific biological notion of "Taiyinthar" or "real natives" of #Myanmar caused that country's post-colonial cancer of official & popular genocidal Racism.  This co...

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(Photo: Soe Zeya Tun, Reuters) RB News  October 5, 2013  Thandwe, Arakan – Rakhinese mob in Thandwe started attacking Kaman Muslims on September 28, 2013. As a result, 5 Kaman Muslims were mercilessly killed and 1 was died in heart attack while escaping the attack. 781 Kaman Mus...

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Rohingya families arrive at a UNHCR transit centre near the village of Anjuman Para, Cox’s Bazar, south-east Bangladesh after spending four days stranded at the Myanmar border with some 6,800 refugees. (Photo: UNHCR/Roger Arnold) By UN News May 11, 2018 Late last year, as violent repressi...

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(Photo: Reuters) Joint Statement: Rohingya Groups Call on U.S. Government to Ensure International Accountability for Myanmar Military-Planned Genocide December 17, 2018  We, the undersigned Rohingya organizations worldwide, call for accountability for genocide and crimes against...

Rohingya Orgs Activities

RB News December 6, 2017 Tokyo, Japan -- Legislators from all parties, along with Human Rights Now, Human Rights Watch, and Save the Children, came together to host the emergency parliament in-house event “The Rohingya Human Rights Crisis and Japanese Diplomacy” on December 4th. The eve...

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By Wyston Lawrence RB Petition October 15, 2017 There is one petition has been going on Change.org to remove Ven. Wira Thu from Facebook. He has been known as Buddhist Bin Laden. Time magazine published his image on their cover with the title of The Face of Buddhist Terror. The petitio...

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A human rights activist and genocide scholar from Burma Dr. Maung Zarni visits Auschwitz-Birkenau Nazi Extermination Camp and calls on European governments - Britain, France, Sweden, Norway, Italy, Denmark, Hungary and Germany not to collaborate with the Evil - like they did with Hitler 75 ye...

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Editorial by Int'l Media

By Dhaka Tribune Editorial November 5, 2017 How can we answer to our conscience knowing full-well what the Myanmar military is doing to the innocent Rohingya minority -- not even sparing children or pregnant women? Despite the on-going humanitarian crisis involving Rohingya refugees ...

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Bangladeshi government rejected comments by Daw Aung San Suu Kyi

The Bangladesh government on Sunday rejected comments by Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi suggesting that stateless Muslim Rohingyas may be illegal Bangladeshi migrants. Aung San Suu Kyi, leader of Myanmar's opposition National League for Democracy of Myanmarpictured at Parliament House in New Delhi on November 15, [...] Read more

Aung San Suu Kyi calls on Burma to send more troops to end violence

By David Eimer, Bangkok 08 Nov 2012 Aung San Suu Kyi has called on Burmese government to send more troops to end the sectarian violence in the west of the country Four months after tensions between the Muslim Rohingya minority and Buddhists in western Burma's Rakhine State erupted [...] Read more

Aung San Suu Kyi under fire for failing to back Burma's Rohingyas

Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi is being accused of hypocrisy for refusing to take sides in the ongoing persecution of minority Muslim Rohingyas by majority Buddhist Burmans in the country's northwestern Rakhine state. Chided by a reporter for the British Broadcasting Corporation this past weekend for [...] Read more

The Nobel laureate, Aung San Suu Kyi says cannot back Myanmar's Rohingya: BBC

Aung San Suu Kyi has declined to speak out on behalf of Rohingya Muslims and insisted she will not use "moral leadership" to back either side in deadly communal unrest in west Myanmar, reports said.The Nobel laureate, who has caused disappointment among international supporters for her muted response [...] Read more

Aung San Suu Kyi loses her gloss for failing to denounce killings

BY EDWARD LOXTON Where is Suu Kyi's famous 'moral authority' as Muslim Rohingya homes are razed to the ground? CHIANG MAI - The iconic international image of Burma's charismatic opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi is rapidly losing its lustre as she maintains her silence on the continuing violence [...] Read more

Remove Roots of Hatred' | Interview with Aung San Suu Kyi

RFAAung San Suu Kyi (l) speaks with RFA's Burmese service in Washington, Sept. 18, 2012.  2012-09-18 Burmese democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi says the Rohingya conflict should be resolved through negotiations. Updated at 6:30 p.m. EST on 2012-09-18 Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi called Tuesday [...] Read more

U.S Congressional Gold Medalist Suu Kyi accused of failing Muslim minority

On the eve of a visit to the US to accept Washington's highest honour, Aung San Suu Kyi faces accusations of ignoring the plight of Burma's Rohingya minority. Photo: AFP Lindsay Murdoch, Bangkok Burma's pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi will be awarded Washington's highest honour next week [...] Read more

From Pro-Democracy to Hypocrisy: The Other Side of Suu Kyi

FOR the first time anyone could remember, Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi has become the subject of criticism by the same pro-democracy advocates in the international community who have supported her and helped her rise into prominence on the world stage. The sudden backlash came [...] Read more

Burma's Rohingya Muslims: Aung San Suu Kyi's blind spot | JEROME TAYLOR & OLIVER WRIGHT

Suu Kyi says the Nobel Peace Prize she won while under house arrest 21-years ago helped to shatter her sense of isolation They suffer appalling violence and discrimination, but so far Aung San Suu Kyi has been notably silent on their plight 20 AUGUST 2012 Aung San Suu [...] Read more

Suu Kyi's silence on Rohingya draws rare criticism | JOCELYN GECKER (Huffington Post)

Suu Kyi says the Nobel Peace Prize she won while under house arrest 21-years ago helped to shatter her sense of isolation August 16, 2012 BANGKOK — She is known as the voice of Myanmar's downtrodden but there is one oppressed group that Aung San Suu Kyi does not [...] Read more

Aung San Suu Kyi facing backlash for silence on abuses

Aung San Suu Kyi, the Burmese opposition leader, is facing a backlash from fellow pro-democracy campaigners who are dismayed at her refusal to speak out against abuses being committed by her country's military. Aung San Suu Kyi, third from right, arrives at Myanmar Lower House to attend a [...] Read more



Burmese democracy campaigner Aung San Suu Kyi told an LSE audience that fairness and freedom can only be restored to her country under the rule of law.

Speaking on her first visit to the UK for 24 years, the Nobel Peace Prize winner said that unity in Burma and a new constitution could only be achieved within a legal framework. “This is what we all need - unless we see that justice is to be done, we cannot proceed to genuine democracy”, she told an audience of students, staff and visitors.


She said that she condemned violence wherever it occurred, but that a full understanding of its causes was key: “Resolving conflict is not about condemnation, it’s about finding the roots, the causes of that conflict and how they can be resolved in the best way possible.”

The leader of the National League of Democracy in Burma, who has spent much of her life under house arrest on the orders of the country’s military rulers, was speaking as part of a round-table discussion at LSE featuring academic and legal experts.

LSE Director Judith Rees reminded listeners that the event was taking place on Aung San Suu Kyi’s 67th birthday and that everyone wanted to celebrate that she was able to enjoy the day in freedom.

Professor Rees said: “Your trip to the UK will go down in history and I’m sure that it’s an emotional trip for you.”

She also invited the crowd to sing Happy Birthday, adding: “It’s a tribute not just to you but to all those who have campaigned for freedom in Burma.”

Alex Peters-Day, General Secretary of LSE’s Students’ Union, presented the guest with a surprise present - a photograph of her late father taken in London in 1947 - and with an LSE baseball cap, a traditional gift for visiting leaders.
The panel discussion also involved LSE professors Mary Kaldor and Christine Chinkin, Burmese activist and visiting fellow Dr Maung Zarni, Oxford professor Nicola Lacey and barrister Sir Geoffrey Nice QC.

Professor Kaldor ended the event by passing on a question from a student who’d asked Aung San Suu Kyi how she had found her strength to continue her campaigning. She answered: “It’s all of you, and people like you, who give me the strength to continue. And I suppose I have a stubborn streak in me.”

Speaker(s): Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, Professor Christine Chinkin, Professor Nicola Lacey, Sir Geoffrey Nice QC, Dr Maung Zarni

Recorded on 19 June 2012 in Peacock Theatre, Portugal Street.

Daw Aung San Suu Kyi is Chairman of the National League for Democracy (NLD) and Member of Parliament of Kawhmu constituency in Burma. She was awarded the Nobel peace prize in 1991.

Christine Chinkin, FBA, is currently Professor in International Law at the London School of Economics. She has widely published on issues of international human rights law, law, including as co-author of The Boundaries of International Law: A Feminist Analysis.

Nicola Lacey holds a Senior Research Fellowship at All Souls College, and is Professor of Criminal Law and Legal Theory at the University of Oxford, having previously held a chair at the London School of Economics. Nicola’s research is in criminal law and criminal justice, with a particular focus on comparative and historical scholarship. In 2011 she won the Hans Sigrist Prize for scholarship on the rule of law in modern societies.

Sir Geoffrey Nice QC is a barrister; he is a signatory of Harvard’s Crimes in Burma report. Sir Geoffrey is a member of Burma Justice Committee and works with NGO's and other groups seeking international recognition of crimes committed in conflicts; represents government and similar interests at the ICC.

A Burmese native, Dr Zarni is a veteran founder of the Free Burma Coalition, one of the Internet's first and largest human rights campaigns and a Visiting Fellow at the Civil Society and Human Security Research Unit, LSE. His forthcoming book, provisionally titled Life under the Boot: 50-years of Military Dictatorship in Burma, will be published by Yale University Press.

Mary Kaldor is professor of Global Governance in the Department of International Development and Director of the Civil Society and Human Security Research Unit at LSE. She writes on globalisation, international relations and humanitarian intervention, global civil society and global governance, as well as what she calls New Wars.

ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ Ambassador of Conscience Award အား လက္ခံရယူစဥ္ (ရုပ္/သံ)

လူထုေခါင္းေဆာင္ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ Amnesty International ရဲ့ 2009ခုႏွစ္က ခ်ီးျမွင့္တဲ့ Ambassador of Conscience Award အား လက္ခံရယူစဥ္ (ရုပ္/သံ) After more than 20 years of house arrest in Myanmar. Daw Aung San Suu Kyi was final able to travel to Dublin to receive Amnety Internationals highest honour, the Ambassador of Conscience Award. Secretary [...] Read more

ဒပ္ဘလင္ ျမိဳ႕ေတာ္ရဲ႕ လြတ္ေျမာက္ေရး ဆုေပးပဲြ (ရုပ္/သံ)

ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ဟာ Dublin’s Freedom of the City (ဒပ္ဘလင္ ျမိဳ႕ေတာ္ရဲ႕ လြတ္ေျမာက္ေရး) ဆုကို ကိုုယ္တိုုင္လက္ခံရယူတဲ့ အျပင္ ပရိသတ္ေတြရဲ႕ ေမြးေန႔ဆုေတာင္းကိုပါ တပါတည္း ရယူသြားခဲ့ပါတယ္။ ( ရဲ၀င့္သူ ) ဒီဗီြဘီ [...] Read more

အိုုအယ္အိုုညီလာခံအတြင္းမွာ ျပဳလုုပ္တဲ့ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ သီးသန္႔ သတင္းစာ ၇ွင္းလင္းပြဲ (အသံဖိုုင္)

Q&A between journalists and Daw Aung San Suu Kyi regarding the current conflict in Rakhine state. Swedish Daily: My question concerned on the situation in the Rakhine state, the ongoing violence if I may. Now that 28 people dead and the violence seemed to be more intensive. How [...] Read more

Aung San Suu Kyi to leave Burma for first time in 24 years

Burma democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi heads to Thailand on Tuesday for her first trip abroad in more than two decades, ending an era of isolation and cementing her arrival on the global stage. Aung San Suu Kyi's plan to leave Burma for the first time since [...] Read more

Aung Suu Kyi's party postpones Myanmar parliament entry

YANGON, Myanmar - Aung San Suu Kyi's party confirmed Sunday, April 22, that it will postpone its parliamentary debut next week in the first sign of discord between Myanmar's newly-elected opposition and reformist government. The democracy icon and other members of her National League for Democracy (NLD) will [...] Read more

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