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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...
- 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...
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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...
- 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 ...
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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 ...
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Comedy and Tragedy in Burma: Grappling with Aung San Suu Kyi’s broken legacy and the Myanmar genocide
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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...
- 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...
Myanmar Refugees Tell of Atrocities; ‘A Soldier Cut His Throat’
By Syed Zain Al-Mahmood The Wall Street Journal September 29, 2017 Witnesses describe military’s massacre of Rohingya Muslims, sparking a humanitarian crisis TEKNAF, Bangladesh— Twelve-year-old Sukhutara said she watched her family’s final moments from a hiding place in the bushes. She had just finished taking the cows to [...] Read more
Asia’s Moral Duty to the Rohingya
Rohingya migrants scramble for food supplies dropped by Thai army helicopters in the Andaman Sea near Thailand. PHOTO: AFP/GETTY IMAGES By Surin Pitsuwan The Wall Street Journal December 8, 2016 Being denied their basic human rights has left them stateless and suffering—and prone to radicalization. Four years ago, violence [...] Read more
From Burmese Dissident to Mystifying Politician
Foreign Minister and State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi in Naypyitaw, Burma, June 28. PHOTO: EUROPEAN PRESSPHOTO AGENCY By Shirin Ebadi The Wall Street Journal July 1, 2016 Why won’t my fellow Nobelist Aung San Suu Kyi help a Muslim minority? In advance of a United Nations envoy’s [...] Read more
Suu Kyi’s Ministry Sides With Hard-Line Buddhists
Buddhist monks outside the U.S. Embassy in Yangon, Myanmar, on April 28, protesting its use of “Rohingya” to describe Myanmar's stateless Muslims. Photo: Soe Zeya Tun/Reuters By Shibani Mahtani and Myo Myo The Wall Street Journal May 7, 2016 Myanmar advises embassies not to call country’s stateless Muslim [...] Read more
Muslims Lose Out in Myanmar Elections
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Myanmar’s Buddhist Monks Flex Muscle Ahead of Election
Hard-line nationalist Buddhist monks and supporters celebrated in Yangon on Oct. 4 the passage of laws restricting conversions and interfaith marriages, which rights groups charge discriminate against Myanmar's Muslims and other minority religions. PHOTO: REUTERS By James Hookway & Shibani Mahtani The Wall Street Journal October 14, 2015 [...] Read more
5 Things to Know About Myanmar's Election
(Photo: AFP) By The Wall Street Journal September 13, 2015 Myanmar is holding its first general election under the country’s reformist government on Nov. 8, expected to be the freest and fairest vote the country has seen in decades. The closely watched election–campaigning for which begins Tuesday–will be [...] Read more
Myanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi Skips Conflict-Torn State on Campaign Trail
A Muslim woman and her child in the Aung Mingalar Quarter of Sittwe, Rakhine state, Myanmar. PHOTO: KAUNG HTET FOR THE WALL STREET JOURNAL By Shibani Mahtani The Wall Street Journal July 2, 2015 The Rohingya minority has become a political tinderbox for democracy activist Aung San Suu Kyi [...] Read more
Myanmar’s Rohingya See Little Benefit from New Citizenship Effort
A Rohingya woman outside her family's shelter in the Myebon displaced-persons camp in Myanmar's Rakhine state in November. LAUREN DECICCA FOR THE WALL STREET JOURNAL By Shibani Mahtani The Wall Street Journal December 31, 2014 Pilot Program Grants Identification Cards, But Fears of Violence Keep People Trapped in Camps [...] Read more
In Myanmar Census, Rohingya Seek Mark of Approval
Displaced Muslims wait outside a humanitarian center for aid at a camp on the outskirts of Sittwe, Rakhine state, in western Myanmar on Feb. 26. (Photo: Agence France-Presse/Getty Images) By Shibani Mahtani The Wall Street Journal March 26, 2014 SITTWE, Myanmar – Names in Myanmar have always been [...] Read more
Burma's Ethnic Persecution is State Policy
By Matthew Smith The Wall Street Journal March 14, 2014 Official abuse threatens both the Rohingya Muslims and the country's opening to the West. Burma has enjoyed a remarkable several years of economic and political opening, but it is now also suffering a far darker development—serious ethnic violence. [...] Read more
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By Nay San Lwin RB Article July 29, 2012 UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Mr Tomas Ojea Quintana will be visiting Burma from t... -
Here is one way to analyse the changes in Burma: "I wonder how you assess the current events: Do you support the re-registration of th...
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Turkey has collected roughly 60 million Turkish lira (US $33 million) for Rohingya Muslims in Arakan State, according to the Sunday Zaman, ... -
Rohingya Today | December 26, 2018 Cox's Bazaar – A Rohingya refugee working as a day labourer in a road construction project... -
A poster of Aung San Suu Kyi | Photo by theodore liasi / Alamy By Maung Zarni and Matthew Gindin | Published by Tricycle on Nove... -
"There are several hypocritical attempts ans steps taking by the government in Arakan to deceive the visiting UN Special Rapporteur, M... -
Press Release 20, November 2018 Myanmar, not Bangladesh, is responsible for failed repatriation On behalf of the Rohingya...
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Amartya Sen: Burma's "slow genocide" of Rohingyas
Watch Professor Amartya Sen speak on what he calls Burma's 'slow genocide' of Rohingya, Harvard, 4 Nov 2014
