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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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- 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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ရုိဟင္ဂ်ာ ျပသနာလား။ ဘာသာေရး မုန္းတီးမႈလား။
ရုိဟင္ဂ်ာအေရးႏွင့္ ဘာသာေရး မုန္းတီးမႈ အစြန္းေရာက္ အယူအဆကုိ အကြက္က်က် ေပါင္းစပ္ကာ ျမန္မာမြတ္စလင္ေတြကုိ ကုလားေတြအျဖစ္ သိမ္းၿကုံးေရာေမႊျပီး ရွစ္ေလးလုံးအုပ္စုထဲက ငါခ်င္းထပ္ မေအႏွမ ကုိင္တုတ္ေနတဲ့ ယဥ္ေက်းမႈ ျမင့္မားသူမ်ားရဲ့ အယုတၱ အနတၱ စာေတြၾကားမွာ ကုိခုိင္လင္းရဲ့ စာက သဘာဝက်က်ျဖစ္ေအာင္ ေဆြးေႏြးထားတဲ့ အခ်က္အခ်ိဳ႕ ပါတဲ့အတြက္ ၿကုိဆုိပါတယ္။ အခိ်ဳ႕သူမ်ားဟာ အေၾကာင္းအရာကုိ အမ်ားလက္ခံႏုိင္ေအာင္ ဓမၼဒိဌာန္က်က် က်ိဳးေၾကာင္းျပ ေဆြးေႏြးႏုိင္စြမ္း အားနည္းလာတဲ့အခါမွာ လူကုိ (သုိ႔) လူ႔အစုအေဝးကုိ အလြယ္လမ္းလုိက္ ပုတ္ခတ္တုိက္ခုိက္ျခင္းကုိ ေဇာင္းေပးလာတတ္ပါတယ္။ ကုိခုိင္လင္းက ေရးပါတယ္ (ပူးတဲြ)။ ဆိုေတာ့ ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာ အမည္ခံ အုပ္စုေတြ အေနနဲ ့ [...] Read more
Massive Military Built-up at Ann, Arakan State, Burma
Introduction An outcome on the dispute over maritime border between Burma and Bangladesh will come out in a couple of months. The dispute originated from the locations of natural gas reserves offshore at kyaukphu, Arakan State, acclaimed by Burma, actually by Burmese military regime. Arakanese and elsewhere inside [...] Read more
Free the Rohingya Asylum Seekers ASIO ADDS TO TORMENT WHILE ATROCITIES CONTINUE
by refugeeactioncoalitionsydney REFUGEE FAMILY MEMBERS KILLED IN ATTACK Recent reports of an attack by the Burmese army on the small village of Serakparang in Ratheduang township, Western Myanmar has highlighted the plight of Rohingyan asylum seekers in limbo in Australian detention centres. Serakparang is the home village of [...] Read more
CSW Press Release on Violations and humanitarian crisis continues in Eastern Burma
Violations and humanitarian crisis continues in Eastern Burma according to new report 09/11/2011 Serious violations of human rights continue to be committed by the Burma Army in eastern Burma, while humanitarian conditions deteriorate due to a lack of international funding, according to a new report released today by [...] Read more
BBC report stirs anti-Rohingya sentiment (DVB News)
By FRANCIS WADE Amended map first published on BBC on 6 November 2010 (BBC) A BBC report from last November that carried a map depicting Arakan state as populated by the ethnic Rohingya minority has caused anger in Burma, and once again brought to the fore accusations of [...] Read more
Why do the Burmese Regime Craves for Lifting of Sanctions?
by Professor Kanbawza Win ... The Burmese supremo Than Shwe and his bunch of generals have amassed immense wealth since 1988 but most of them being septuagenarian and octogenarian knew that their days on this earth are numbered. At the same time they realise that the rising tide [...] Read more
အပစ္အခတ္ ရပ္စဲေရးႏွင့္ ျပည္တြင္းၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရးလုပ္ငန္းစဥ္အေပၚ မကဒတ ၏ သေဘာထား
ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံလံုးဆိုင္ရာ ေက်ာင္းသားမ်ား ဒီမိုကရက္တစ္ တပ္ဦး (ေက်ာင္းသားတပ္မေတာ္) ယေန႔ကာလ အပစ္အခတ္ ရပ္စဲေရးႏွင့္ ျပည္တြင္းၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရးလုပ္ငန္းစဥ္အေပၚ မကဒတ ၏ သေဘာထား ယေန႔ကာလ စစ္အုပ္စု၏ လက္နက္ကိုင္ ေတာ္လွန္ေရးအင္အားစုမ်ားႏွင့္ အပစ္အခတ္ရပ္စဲေရးအတြက္ ေဆာင္ရြက္ေနမႈမ်ားသည္ ႏိုင္ငံေရးျပႆနာမ်ားကို ေတြ႔ဆံုေဆြးေႏြး အေျဖရွာေရးကို ဦးတည္ေသာ ႀကိဳးပမ္းမႈမဟုတ္ဟု ႐ႈျမင္သည္။ တိုင္းရင္းသား လက္နက္ကိုင္ ေတာ္လွန္ေရးအင္အားစုမ်ားအတြင္း ဖဲ့ထုတ္ စည္းရံုးႏုိင္ေရးအတြက္ ႀကိဳးပမ္းေနမႈမ်ားသာ ျဖစ္သည္။ ထို႔ေၾကာင့္ စစ္မွန္ေသာ ျပည္တြင္းၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရးကို ေဖာ္ေဆာင္ႏုိင္ေရးအတြက္ - - တျပည္လံုးအတုိင္းအတာေဆာင္ေသာ အပစ္အခတ္ရပ္စဲေရးကို ထုတ္ျပန္ရမည္။ - ႏုိင္ငံေရးအရ ေတြ႔ဆံုေဆြးေႏြးသြားရန္ တိက်ေသာအခ်ိန္ကာလသတ္မွတ္ခ်က္ ႏွင့္ လုပ္ငန္းစဥ္မ်ား ပါရွိရမည္။ အထူးသျဖင့္ [...] Read more
Burmese change aplenty but it's only skin deep by Bertil Lintner
IF most Western pundits are to be believed, fundamental change is taking place in Burma. After holding a seriously flawed referendum in May 2008 on a new constitution that gives the country's military controlling powers, and holding an election last November condemned by the West as rigged, Burma's [...] Read more
Top official: Than Shwe still holds the reins
One year has gone and things are looking bright but no one should forget that the moon has its dark side too, according to sources to a number of top Naypyitaw officials, who claim Senior General Than Shwe who was supposed to have put himself out to pasture [...] Read more
၂၀၀၈ နဲ ့ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ by မိုးသီးဇြန္
၂၀၀၈ အေျခခံဥပေဒ ရဲ ့အႏွစ္သာရတခုလံုးက ကန့္သတ္မႈနဲ ့ ပိတ္ပင္မႈ ျဖစ္တယ္။ ကန္ ့သတ္မႈက ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ ကို ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲမ၀င္နိင္ေအာင္၊ ျမန္မာ နိင္ငံကိုဦးေဆာင္ခြင့္မရ ေအာင္၊ ျပဳျပင္ေျပာင္းလဲမႈေတြမလုပ္နိင္ေအာင္ပါ။ ပိတ္ပင္မႈက လူထု အတြက္ ဒီမိုကေရစီနဲ ့လူ ့အခြင့္အေရး ေတြ မရေအာင္ ပိတ္ပင္ထားတာ။ ပုဒ္မ ၅၉(ခ) မွာ ဆိုရင္ သမတ၊ ဒုသမတ ရဲ ့ သူေရာ၊ သူခင္ပြန္း၊သားသမီး၊ ေခြ်းမ၊သားမက္ ပါ နိင္ငံျခားသားမျဖစ္ရလို ့ပါတယ္။ သူကိုယ္တိုင္က နိ္င္ငံျခားသားမျဖစ္ရ ဆိုတာေတာ့ၾကား ေကာင္းပါတယ္။ ဘာေၾကာင့္ ခင္ပြန္း၊ သားသမီးနဲ ့ [...] Read more
Burma: Real Change or a Time Buying Game
By Htun Aung Gyaw The Burmese Generals shed their uniforms and changed themselves into a Civilian government under the 2008 Constitution, which favored the military having a dominant role in the political system. The controversial election in 2010 is now recognized as being rigged. Even though the regime made [...] Read more
Message from Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on the occasion of the centenary of the birth of U Thant
THE SECRETARY-GENERAL MESSAGE TO EVENT MARKING THE CENTENARY OF THE BIRTH OF U THANT Yangon, 22 January 2009 It is my great honour today to join the U Thant Institute and all who have gathered to commemorate the one-hundredth anniversary of the birth of U Thant, the third Secretary-General of the [...] Read more
ခြဲျခားဆက္ဆံတဲ့လူမ်ိုးအျဖစ္ မျမင္ခ်င္ပါ
by ဂ်ိဳ ကုပ္ ဒီေန့ ေဟာေျပာပြဲတခု သြားခဲ့တယ္။ ေဟာေျပာသူက ထိုင္းသမိုင္းပညာရွင္ေတြထဲမွာ ေလာေလာဆယ္နာမည္အျကီးဆံုးလို့ ေျပာလို့ရမယ့္ ပါေမာကၡ Thongchai Winichakul။ သူေျပာတဲ့ေခါင္းစဉ္က Thailand: The State in Denial တဲ့။ အဓိကေျပာသြားတဲ့ အေျကာင္းက ဘုရင္၊ ဖိဖုရားနဲ့ ဘုရင္ေလာင္းလ်ာကို အသေရဖ်က္တာ၊ ပုတ္ခတ္တာ၊ ျခိမ္းေျခာက္တာနဲ့ ပတ္သက္ျပီး အေရးယူလို့ရတဲ့Article 112 လို့ေခၚတဲ့ ဥပေဒအေျကာင္း။သူအဓိကထားေျပာသြားတာက ထိုင္းနိုင္ငံမွာ အဲဒီပုဒ္မတည္ေနတာဟာ ဘုရင္ကိုသစၥာရွိတဲ့ လူတန္းစားတစုေျကာင့္မဟုတ္ဘဲ civil society တခုလံုးကပူးေပါင္းျပီး အသံတိတ္ေနလို့တဲ့။ norm လို့ေခၚတဲ့ လူအမ်ားစုလက္ခံတာကိုပဲ ေျပာရမယ္ဆိုတဲ့အသိျကီးနဲ့ လူတိုင္းက အသံတိတ္ပူးေပါင္းျပီး ဒီဥပေဒကို [...] Read more
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Christian-Muslim Dialogue By Back to Religion Editor Letter sent to Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and Statement on violence, hatred, mistreatm... -
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ပါလီမန္အမတ္ဦးေရႊေမာင္ၿပည္သူ႔လြတ္ေတာ္တြင္ရခိုင္ၿပည္နယ္၌ၿဖစ္ပြါးခဲ့ေသာအေရးအခင္းနဲ့ ပတ္သက္၍ေဆြးေနြးတင္ၿပၿခင္း။ (14th day of regular ses... -
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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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