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...
(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 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 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 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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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. ...
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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...
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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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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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 ...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
(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...
ရခိုင္ၿပည္နယ္ ေမာင္းေတာၿမိဳ႔နယ္ အလယ္သံေက်ာ္ေက်းရြာမွေလွစီး၍ မေလးရွားသြားေရာက္ရန္ ၾကိုးစားေနသူအခ်ဳိ့ ေလွေမွာက္ ၍ေသဆံုးေၾကာင္းေဒသခံမ်ား၏ေၿပာၿပခ်က္အရသိရွိရပါသည္။ နစ္ၿမွဳပ္သြားသူစုစုေပါင္း(၈၀)ခန္႔ရွိၿပီး၊အမ်ားအားၿဖင့္အမ်ိဳးသမီးမ်ားၿဖစ္ေၾကာင္းသိရွိရပါသည္။ ေသဆံုးသူစုစုေပါင္း(၆၀)ခန္႔ၿဖစ္မည္ဟုေဒသခံမ်ား၏ေၿပာၿပခ်က္အရသိရွိရပါသည္။ ယင္းတို႔၏ေၿပာၿပခ်က္အရေနရာအနွံ႔အၿပားတြင္အေလာင္းမ်ားေတြ႔ရွိရေၾကာင္းသိရွိရပါသည္။ အဆိုပါစက္ေလွမွာၿပီးခဲ့ေသာအဂၤါေန႔တြင္နတ္ၿမစ္ဝတြင္နစ္ၿမွဳပ္ျခင္းျဖစ္ၿပီး၊အားလံုးမွာျမန္မာနိုင္ငံသားရိုဟင္ဂ်ာမ်ားၿဖစ္ေၾကာင္းသိရွိရပါသည္။ ၿမန္မာနိူင္ငံ၊ရခိုင္ၿပည္နယ္တြင္ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာတို့၏တခုတည္းေသာထြက္ေပါက္မွာ ေလွစီး၍တိုင္းတပါးသို႔ထြက္ခြါျခင္းမွတပါးအျခားနည္းလမ္းမရွိေၾကာင္းသိရွိရပါသည္။ Source :ေဒသခံတဦး၊ [...] Read more
A Burmese Perspective by Prof.Kanbawza Win The rise of China in every respect in today’s geopolitical situation has created a new bipolar world compounded by the fact that in 2000 years China, for the first time has access to the Indian via Burma due to the Burmese Junta’s [...] Read more
Police in Kuraburi, Phang Nga province, have confirmed that 95 Rohingya landed on the island of Koh Phra Thong on Thursday morning. The island lies in the Andaman sea about 110km north of Phuket. “We received a call from local villagers on the island saying that a boat [...] Read more
Maungdaw, Arakan State: Members of Burma’s border security force (Nasaka) forcibly entered a house from in the Litra (Kurkhali) village area of Maungdaw North on November 16, at midnight, said a schoolteacher who preferred not to be named. The house belonged to a Monsur Alam who was away [...] Read more
Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW) has today written to US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, welcoming her forthcoming visit to Burma and requesting her to use the opportunity to “urge the regime to stop attacking ethnic people, declare a nationwide ceasefire, release all political prisoners, and engage in a [...] Read more
Carlow, Ireland: Rohingya community of Ireland celebrated Rohingya Refugee Memorial Day (18th November-2011) and prayed magfreth for the soil of murders at new oak community centre with the present of some local and NGO bodies in Carlow, Ireland today. Some Rohingya community members delivered theirs speeches. Mr Eliys, [...] Read more
မႏၱေလး၊ ကံတက္ကုန္းမစိုးရိမ္ ဘုန္းႀကီးပညာသင္ေက်ာင္းမွ ၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရးေတာင္းဆိုပြဲ ယေန႔ ေန႔လည္ ၁ နာရီမွ ၃ နာရီထိ မႏၱေလးၿမိဳ႕၊ မဟာေအာင္ေျမၿမိဳ႕နယ္၊ ၅၅ လမ္း၊ ၄၀ ႏွင့္ ၄၁ လမ္းၾကား၊ ရဲမြန္ေတာင္ရပ္ရွိ ကံတက္ကုန္းမစိုးရိမ္ ဘုန္းႀကီးပညာသင္ေက်ာင္းမွာ ၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရးေဟာေျပာပြဲႏွင့္ တိုင္းရင္းသားေပါင္းစံု ကေလးငယ္မ်ား၏ ၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရးေတာင္းဆိုပြဲအခမ္းအနား က်င္းပခဲ့ပါတယ္။ စာေရးဆရာမ်ားျဖစ္ၾကေသာ၁။ ညီပုေလး၂။ ဆူးငွက္၃။ ညီေစမင္းတို႔က တိုင္းရင္းသားေသြးစည္းညီညြတ္ေရး၊ ျပည္တြင္းၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရးႏွင့္ စစ္ရပ္စဲေရးအေၾကာင္းမ်ား ေဟာေျပာခဲ့ပါတယ္။ အခမ္းအနားအၿပီးမွာ ကံတက္ကုန္းမစိုးရိမ္ဘုန္းႀကီးပညာသင္ေက်ာင္းမွ တိုင္းရင္းသားေပါင္းစံု ကေလးငယ္မ်ားက ၁။ ေသြးခ်င္းညီအကိုမ်ားအတြက္ ျပည္တြင္းၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရးကို ေပးပါ၂။ ျပည္တြင္းစစ္ကို ရပ္ေပးပါ၃။ ဗမာ = ကခ်င္ ဟူေသာ [...] Read more
By William Wan, (J. Scott Applewhite/AP) - Sen. Richard G. Lugar (R-Ind.) said the Senate Foreign Relations Committee received information roughly five years ago that the Burmese government intended to develop nuclear weapons with the help of North Korea. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee received information roughly five [...] Read more
ျမန္မာ စစ္အစိုးရ ေခါင္းေဆာင္ ေဟာင္းေတြနဲ႔ ဖြဲ႔ထားတဲ့ အစိုးရသစ္နဲ႔ ပူးေပါင္း ေဆာင္ရြက္မႈ ေတြဟာ အေလာင္းအစား တစ္ခု မဟုတ္ဘူးလို႔ လူထု ေခါင္းေဆာင္ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္က ေျပာၾကားလိုက္ ပါတယ္။ အမ်ဳိးသားဒီမုိကေရစီ အဖြဲ႔ခ်ဳပ္ရုံးတြင္ ၂၀၁၁ ခုႏွစ္ စက္တင္ဘာလ ၁၅ ရက္ေန႔က က်င္းပေသာ အျပည္ျပည္ဆုိင္ရာဒီမုိကေရစီေန႔အခမ္းအနားတြင္အေထြေထြအတြင္းေရးမွဴး ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ကုိ ေတြ႔ရစဥ္။ ဓါတ္ပုံ- NLD မဲ မသမာမႈေတြအမ်ားႀကီးရွိခဲ့တယ္လို႔ စြပ္စြဲမႈေတြ အမ်ားအျပားရွိခဲ့တဲ့ ၂၀၁၀ ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲကေန တက္လာတဲ့ အရပ္သားတစ္ျဖစ္လဲ အၿငိမ္းစား စစ္ေခါင္းေဆာင္ေတြနဲ႔ ဖြဲ႔စည္းထားတဲ့ အစုိးရနဲ႔ ပူးေပါင္းေဆာင္ရြက္မႈေတြဟာ အေလာင္းအစား တစ္ခုလို ျဖစ္ေနပါသလားလို႔ RFA ေသာတရွင္တဦး [...] Read more
ရခုိင္ျပည္နယ္မွ အသက္ ၂၀ အရြယ္ မြတ္(စ္)လင္ ေက်ာင္းသား သံုးဦးအား ေျမာက္ဦးျမိဳ႕တြင္ ေဒသ အာဏာပိုင္မ်ားက မတရား ဖမ္းဆီး ေထာင္ခ်လုိက္ေၾကာင္း (MLOB) ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံ မြတ္(စ္)လင္ လြတ္ေျမာက္ေရး အဖြဲ႕က ေျပာသည္။ အဆိုပါ လူငယ္မ်ားမွာ ေျမာက္ဦးျမိဳ႕နယ္ႏွင့္ မင္းျပားျမိဳ႕နယ္မွ ျဖစ္ၾကျပီး အဆုိပါအဖြဲ႕၏ ဥကၠဌျဖစ္သူ ဦးေက်ာ္လွမွ ေက်ာင္းသားသံုးဦး ဖမ္းဆီးခံရပံုႏွင့္ ပတ္သက္ျပီး ယခုကဲ့သို႕ ေျပာသည္။ "အဲဒီ ေက်ာင္းသားေလး ၃ဦးဟာ ၂၀၁၀ခုႏွစ္က ေက်ာက္ေတာ္ျမိဳ႕ကို သြားျပီးေတာ့ ဘာသာေရး ပညာရပ္ သြားသင္ပါတယ္။ ေနာက္ ဒီႏွစ္ ဇြန္လမွာ သူတုိ႕ ေက်ာင္းပိတ္တဲ့အတြက္ ကိုယ့္ေနရပ္ကို ကိုယ္ျပန္လာ [...] Read more
Burma’s Thein Sein government looks to be on the verge of a historic move as democracy icon and key opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi recently decided to take part in the country’s official political arena and President Obama declared plans to send the US Secretary of State [...] Read more
WASHINGTON - The announcement that United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will visit Myanmar in December 2011 is a bold and welcome move by the administration of President Barack Obama . The fruit of growing realizations by both states of the need for improved relations for their [...] Read more
Please check the message from university here ထုိ႔အျပင္ ၄င္း၏ ေက်ာင္းနာမည္ကုိ အလဲြသုံးစားျပဳလုပ္ၿပီး ေဒၚလာ ၈၀၀၀ ျဖင့္ဦးခင္ေရႊ အား PhD အတု ေရာင္းခ်ခဲ့ေသာ အြန္လုိင္းေပၚမွ ေက်ာင္းအတု အား တရားစဲြဆုိခဲ့ျခင္း၊ မေကာင္းမႈဟူသည္ စိတ္ကြယ္ရာမရွိေႀကာင္း လူငယ္မ်ား နားလည္ေစရန္ျဖန္႔ေ၀ႏုိင္သည္။ မေကာင္းမႈဟူသည္ စိတ္ကြယ္ရာမရွိေႀကာင္း လူငယ္မ်ား နားလည္ေစရန္ ျဖန္႔ေ၀ႏုိင္သည္။ Check here ေဇကမာၻ ဦးခင္ေရႊ နွင့္ပတ္သတ္သည့္သတင္းမ်ားကိုေအာက္ပါလင့့္မ်ားတြင္ဖတ္ရူနိုင္ပါသည္. Link1- here Link2 - here Credit : Dawnmanhon [...] Read more
By Chutima Sidasathian and Alan Morison PHUKET: Reports have reached Phuketwan that as many as eight boats laden with would-be refugees have set sail from Bangladesh and northern Burma in the past few days. A more certain report says that a boatload of boys and men who sailed [...] Read more
Secretary Clinton will go to Burma on Thursday, December 1, 2011. We need to ensure that she pressures the Burmese military regime to end the systematic and widespread human rights and mass atrocities they continue to commit against civilians. Sign this petition to Secretary Clinton to urge her [...] Read more
By ေဒၚခင္မ်ိဳးသက္ (VOA-Burmese) ႏိုင္ငံေပါင္း ၄၈ ႏိုင္ငံက ဦးေဆာင္တင္သြင္းခဲ့တဲ့ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံ လူ႔အခြင့္အေရး အေျခအေနဆိုင္ရာ အဆိုျပဳခ်က္ မူၾကမ္းကို (၆၆) ႀကိမ္ေျမာက္ ကုလသမဂၢ အေထြေထြညီလာခံမွာ တနလၤာေန႔က ေဆြးေႏြးခဲ့ၾကၿပီးေတာ့ မဲခြဲဆံုးျဖတ္ရာမွာ ေထာက္ခံမဲ ၉၈ မဲနဲ႔ အတည္ျပဳခဲ့ပါတယ္။ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံမွာ လူ႔အခြင့္အေရး ဆက္ၿပီးေတာ့ ခ်ိဳးေဖာက္မႈေတြ လုပ္ေနတာကို အထူး စိတ္ပူသလို ႏိုင္ငံေရးအက်ဥ္းသား အားလံုးကို ခၽြင္းခ်က္မရွိ လုပ္ေပးဖို႔၊ တိုင္းရင္းသားေဒသေတြမွာ တိုက္ပြဲေတြ ခ်က္ခ်င္းရပ္ဖုိ႔နဲ႔ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ကို ႏိုင္ငံေရးလြတ္လပ္စြာ လုပ္ပိုင္ခြင့္ေတြ ေပးဖို႔ ေတာင္းဆိုလိုက္ပါတယ္။ ဒီအေၾကာင္း အျပည့္စံုကို ေဒၚခင္မ်ိဳးသက္က အစီရင္ခံထားပါတယ္။ ကုလသမဂၢ အေထြေထြညီလာခံရဲ႕ [...] Read more
Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW) today expressed concern that the plight of Burma’s ethnic nationalities is being neglected in the process of engagement with Burma’s regime. CSW particularly highlights continuing severe violations of human rights, including the use of rape, forced labour, religious persecution, torture and killings in Kachin [...] Read more
အမ်ိဳးသားေအာင္ပြဲေန႕၈၈မ်ိဳးဆက္၊ဗမာႏိုင္ငံလံုးဆိုင္ရာေက်ာင္းသားမ်ားသမဂၢ၊မ်ိဳးဆက္သစ္လူငယ္မ်ား၏ပူးတြဲေၾကျငာခ်က္ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံတိုးတက္ေစရန္အတြက္ ပညာေရးကို ျမင့္တင္ရမည္ျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္က ၂၀၁၁ခုႏွစ္ ႏို၀င္ဘာလ ၂၀ ရက္ေန႔တြင္ အမ်ိဳးသားဒီမိုကေရစီအဖြဲ႕ခ်ဳပ္ရုံး၌က်င္းပေသာ ၉၁ ႏွစ္ေျမာက္ အမ်ိဳးသားေအာင္ပြဲေန႔ အခမ္းအနားတြင္ ေျပာၾကားသြားသည္။ `လူတိုင္းမွာ ကိုယ္ပိုၿပီးေတာ့ စိတ္၀င္စားတဲ့က႑ေတြကို မီးေမာင္းထိုးတာေတြရွိက်ပါတယ္။ အဲေတာ့ က်မက ပညာေရးနဲ႔ ႏိုင္ငံေရးဆက္စပ္မႈကိုပဲ မီးေမာင္းထိုးၿပီးေတာ့ ေျပာခ်င္ပါတယ္။ အခု ၂၀၁၁ ခုႏွစ္မွာလဲ က်မတို႔ႏိုင္ငံတိုးတက္ဖို႔ဆိုလို႔ရွိရင္ က်မတို႔ႏိုင္ငံရဲ႕ ပညာေရးကိုျမင့္တင္ရမယ္။ ပညာေရးကို ျမွင့္တင္ရမယ္ဆိုတာ ဘြဲ႕ရေတြအမ်ားႀကီးေမြးထုတ္ေပးရံုနဲ႔ မၿပီးပါဘူး။ ရတဲ့ဘြဲ႕ေတြဟာ အႏွစ္သာရရွိရပါမယ္။ ဘြဲ႕ရလာတဲ့ လူငယ္ေလးေတြဟာလည္း တကယ့္ပညာတတ္လူငယ္ေလးေတြ ျဖစ္ရပါမယ္ ´ဟု ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္က အဆိုပါအခမ္းအနားတြင္ ေျပာၾကားခဲ့သည္။ တိုင္းျပည္ဖြံ႕ၿဖိဳးတုိးတက္ေစရန္ ပညာအဆင့္အတန္းျမင့္ေအာင္ ျပဳလုပ္ရမည္ျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း [...] Read more
Twenty-five year-old Abdul (not his real name) and other refugees who have been living in small sheds in Bangladesh for over 20 years had high hopes and dreams that the situation in Burma’s northern Arakan State, their homeland, would be changed after the 2010 elections. However, what they [...] Read more
အခုတေလာ စာေရးပ်က္တာေတြ မ်ားေနတယ္။ ႏို၀င္ဘာလလယ္ ေရာက္ေနတာေတာင္ ရန္ကုန္မႇာ ေဆာင္းမ၀င္ေသးဘဲ ပူျမဲပူေနေသးတာေၾကာင့္ ေနလို႔ထိုင္လို႔ သိပ္မေကာင္းဘူး။ ၿပီးေတာ့ ဒီရက္ပိုင္းအတြင္း ေခါင္းပူစရာေတြကလည္း မ်ားတယ္။ လြတ္ၿပီဆိုနဲ႔ ၀င္မယ္ဆို တိုင္းေရးျပည္ေရး လႈပ္လႈပ္ရႇား ရႇားျဖစ္လာတဲ့အခါမ်ဳိးေတြဆိုရင္ ဧည့္မ်ားသလို ဖုန္းေခၚသံေတြလည္း မ်ားတယ္။ မ်က္စိႀကီး နားႀကီး ရပ္ကြက္ထဲက လူတစ္ေယာက္လို႔ အမ်ားက ထင္မႇတ္မႇားေနၾကေလေတာ့ တစ္ခုခု အသံၾကားတုိင္း လႇမ္းေမးတတ္ၾကတယ္။ ဒီရက္ပိုင္းမႇာေတာ့ 'လြတ္ၿပီဆို' နဲ႔ '၀င္မယ္ဆို' ေမးခြန္း ႏႇစ္ခုကို ေမာေလာက္ေအာင္ကို ေျဖေနရတယ္။ မသိပါဘူး၊ မၾကားပါဘူး၊ မသိပါဘူး။ မၾကားပါဘူးေပါ့။ ဟုတ္တယ္ေလ ႏိုင္ငံ့အေရး ေပါက္နဲ႔ေက်းဆိုတာ အင္မတန္ခန္႔မႇန္းရ ခက္တာကလား။ [...] Read more
