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...
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 ...
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...
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 ...
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...
(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...
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...
Buddhist Nationalism in Burma Institutionalized racism against the Rohingya Muslims led Burma to genocide By Maung Zarni SPRING 2013 Rohingya are categorically darker-skinned people—sometimes called by the slur “Bengali kalar.” Indeed, the lighter-skinned Buddhists of Burma...
By Euan McKirdy CNN April 7, 2018 As tens of millions of Americans come to grips with revelations that data from Facebook may have been used to sway the 2016 presidential election, on the other side of the world, rights groups say hatemongers have taken advantage of the social network to wid...
You've gotta love former British Ambassador Derek Tonkin! Genocidal Khmer Rouge chaps were "delightful". Berlin Conference organisers are "Fakes". Apartheid was 'very complex', anti-apartheid activism was useless. Former British Ambassador Derek Tonkin has shown no conscience, c...
The Rt. Hon. Theresa May, MP Prime Minister Government of the United Kingdom 10 Downing Street, London SW1A 2AA E-mail: mayt@parliament.uk Berlin, 30th January 2018 Your Excellency I am Khin Maung Saw, a retired lecturer in the Department of Burma Studies, Institute of Southea...
Ambassador U Kyaw Myo Htut talks to Chairman of Network Myanmar and former UK Ambassador to Vietnam, Thailand and Laos Mr Derek Tonkin (Photo: Embassy Magazine) 51 page window into a racist colonial mind of Derek Tonkin - https://www.chu.cam.ac.uk/media/uploads/files/Tonkin.pdf From: Dem...
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...
The region of South East Asia is almost entirely Buddhist. To account for Islam in Burma is to account for Islam in a Buddhist environment. In our contemporary period, surviving as a Muslim in the Burmese Buddhist environment has become very challenging. The biggest challenge before the Muslim [...] Read more
Secretary Clinton On Burma And Aung San Suu KyiInterview With Michele Kelemen of NPRSecretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton Listen Interview with NPR U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton visits Daw Aung San Suu Kyi at her house in Rangoon, Burma, on December 2, 2011 (State Department [...] Read more
ႏွစ္တႏွစ္ရဲ႕ အစဆုိတာ တဖန္ျပန္သစ္ဆန္းဖုိ႔၊ အားေတြျပန္ျဖည့္ဖုိ႔၊ သႏၷိ႒ာန္သစ္ေတြခ်ဖုိ႔၊ အတိတ္ကအျဖစ္ေတြကုိ အ မွတ္ရဖုိ႔ အခ်ိန္ပဲ ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ ၂၀၁၀ ကုိ ျပန္ၾကည့္လုိက္ရင္ အခ်ဳိ႕အပုိင္းေတြဟာ အမွတ္ရစရာနည္းလြန္းလုိ႔ ဆံုးရႈံးသြားၿပီး အခ်ိန္ေတြနဲ႔အတူ ကြယ္ ေပ်ာက္သြားပါၿပီ။ ၂၀၁၀ ရဲ႕ပထမဆံုးေန႔ကုိ က်မ ဘယ္လုိျဖတ္သန္းခဲ့လဲ၊ က်မ သတိမရေတာ့ပါ။ သိပ္ၿပီးသက္ေတာင့္ သက္သာေတာ့ရွိခဲ့မွာ မဟုတ္ဘူးလုိ႔ ေျပာႏိုင္ပါတယ္။ က်မရဲ႕အိမ္ကုိ ၂၀၀၉ဒီဇင္ဘာလထဲက စျပင္ခဲ့ၿပီး ေနာက္ သီတင္း ပတ္ အနည္းငယ္အၾကာမွာပဲ စည္ပင္အုပ္ခ်ဳပ္ေရးက တားမိန္႔ထုတ္လုိ႔ ျပင္ဆင္မႈေတြ ရပ္လုိက္ရပါတယ္။ က်မရဲ႕ ေရွ႕ေနေတြ တားမိန္႔ကုိျပန္႐ုပ္သိမ္းဖုိ႔ လုပ္ေဆာင္ေနၾကတုန္းမွာ ကတ္ထူပံုးေတြ၊ေစာင္ထူႀကီးေတြနဲ႔ ထုပ္ထားတဲ့ ဘာရယ္မွန္းမသိႏိုင္တဲ့ [...] Read more
“ကၽြန္မတို႔ အတူတကြ ေရွ႕ဆက္တိုးတက္ႏိုင္မယ္ဆိုရင္ ဒီမိုကေရစီစနစ္ဆီ သြားမယ့္လမ္းကေန ေနာက္ျပန္ဆုတ္စရာအေၾကာင္းမရွိေတာ့ဘူးလို႔ ယံုၾကည္ပါတယ္။ ဒါေပမဲ့ ခုထက္ထိ အဲဒီလမ္းေပၚ ကၽြန္မတို႔ မေရာက္ေသးပါဘူး”(ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္) ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ႏွင့္ ဒုတိယအႀကိမ္ေျမာက္ ေတြ႕ဆံုမႈအၿပီး အေမရိကန္ႏိုင္ငံျခားေရး၀န္ႀကီး ဟီလာရီကလင္တန္က ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ကို “ ခိုင္မာၿပီး အလြန္ရွင္းလင္းျပတ္သားေသာ ေခါင္းေဆာင္မႈအတြက္ ေက်းဇူးတင္ေၾကာင္း” ေျပာၾကားၿပီး အေမရိကန္ျပည္ေထာင္စုသည္ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံတြင္း အေျခအေနမ်ား တိုးတက္ေကာင္းမြန္ေရးႏွင့္ အစိုးရႏွင့္ေရာ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ကဲ့သို႔ ဒီမိုကေရစီေရး လႈပ္ရွားသူႏွင့္ပါ ပူးတြဲအလုပ္လုပ္လိုေၾကာင္း ေျပာၾကားလိုက္သည္။ ယေန႔နံနက္ပိုင္းက အေမရိကန္ႏိုင္ငံျခားေရး၀န္ႀကီး ဟီလာရီကလင္တန္၊ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ႏွင့္ အမ်ိဳးသားဒီမိုကေရစီအဖြဲ႕ခ်ဳပ္ဗဟိုအလုပ္အမႈေဆာင္အဖြဲ႕၀င္မ်ား ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ေနအိမ္တြင္ ႏွစ္နာရီနီးပါးေတြ႕ဆံုမႈအၿပီး ႏွစ္ဦးစလံုးကခရီးစဥ္ႏွင့္ပတ္သက္ၿပီး မီဒီယာသို႕၇ မိနစ္ၾကာ ထုတ္ျပန္ေျပာဆိုမႈတစ္ရပ္ျပဳလုပ္ရာတြင္ အထက္ပါအတိုင္း ေျပာၾကားခဲ့ျခင္းျဖစ္သည္။ “ကၽြန္မတို႔ [...] Read more
Inside Story with presenter James Bays discusses with guests: Maung Zarni, a visiting fellow at the London School of Economics; Richard Weitz, a Senior Fellow and the director of the Center for Political-Military Analysis at Hudson Institute; and Maitrii Aung-Thwin, an assistant professor of Southeast Asian History at [...] Read more
By Dr.Maung Zarni The military leadership in the country has never been keen on a lasting peace with ethnic resistance movements. London, UK - In his Manifesto of the Communist Party (1848), Karl Marx wrote: "The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles." [...] Read more
ဒီဇင္ဘာလ ၂ ရက္ေန ့မနက္ပုိင္းက ရန္ကုန္ၿမိဳ ့တကၠသုိလ္ရိပ္သာလမ္းရွိ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ ေနအိမ္တြင္ ၿပဳလုပ္ေသာ ေတြ ့ဆုံေဆြးေႏြးမႈ အၿပီး အေမရိကန္ႏုိင္ငံၿခားေရး၀န္ၾကီး ဟီလာရီကလင္တန္ႏွင့္ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္တုိ ့မွ ႏွစ္ဦးႏွစ္ဖက္ သေဘာထား အၿမင္မ်ားကုိ တက္ေရာက္လာေသာ မီဒီယာမ်ားသုိ ့ပြင့္ပြင့္လင္းလင္းေၿပာၾကားခဲ့ပါတယ္။ ဟီလာရီကလင္တန္ မွ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ႏွင့္ ေတြ႔ဆံုမႈအျပီး မီဒီယာမ်ားသို႔ေျပာစကား''ကြၽန္မအေနနဲ႔ ေျပာခ်င္တာကေတာ့ ဒီမိုကေရစီဆိုတာ ပန္းတိုင္တစ္ခုပါ။ အေမရိကန္ဟာ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံနဲ႔ အမႇန္တစ္ကယ္ပဲ မိတ္ဖြဲ႕ႏိုင္ငံျဖစ္ခ်င္ပါတယ္။ ကြၽန္မတို႔ အလုပ္ေတြလည္း အမ်ားႀကီးလုပ္ခ်င္ပါတယ္။ အကယ္၍ ဒီထက္ပိုၿပီး ဒီမိုကေရစီနည္း က်င့္သံုးမယ္၊ ႏုိင္ငံေရး အက်ဥ္းသားအားလံုး လႊတ္ေပးမယ္၊ ကာလၾကာရႇည္စြာရႇိခဲ့တဲ့ တုိင္းရင္းသားေရးရာ ပဋိပကၡေတြ အဆံုးသတ္မယ္၊ [...] Read more
By Akbar Ahmed and Harrison Akins of guardian.co.uk The Rohingya want only citizenship in their own land, and the dignity, human rights and opportunities that come with it.Every breath the young orphan girl took brought pain to her body and tears to her eyes. She had been abused by the family [...] Read more
Full text: Obama letter to Aung San Suu Kyi Yangon, Myanmar (CNN) -- Secretary of State Hillary Clinton personally delivered a letter from President Barack Obama to Myanmar's leading democracy campaigner Aung San Suu Kyi Thursday. Here is the letter in full as released by the State Department: [...] Read more
SECRETARY CLINTON: Good afternoon, and – mingalaba, is that how you say it? Yeah? How? QUESTION: Mingalaba. SECRETARY CLINTON: Mingalaba. Thank you. Let me start by saying that I want to emphasize that while I may be the first United States Secretary of State to visit in over [...] Read more
အင္းစိန္ေထာင္မွာ ေထာင္ဒဏ္ ၁၅ ႏွစ္ က်ခံေနရတဲ့ ႏိုင္ငံေရး အက်ဥ္းသား ကိုေအာင္ခ်ိဳဦး (ေခၚ) ကိုယူႏြတ္ကို အင္းစိန္ေထာင္ ဆရာဝန္ႀကီးက ေမ့ေဆး ထံုေဆး မေပးဘဲ ဆီးက်ိတ္ခဲြခဲ့ၿပီး ေသြးလြန္လာမွ အင္းစိန္ေဆး႐ုံကို ပို႔လိုက္ေၾကာင္းနဲ႔ ခြဲစိတ္ဒဏ္ရာကို ခ်ဳပ္မေပးတဲ့ အတြက္ ေဝဒနာ အျပင္းအထန္ ခံစားေနရေၾကာင္း သိရပါတယ္၊ နာမည္ေက်ာ္ အင္းစိန္ေထာင္ႀကီး၏ ဘူးဝတြင္ လံုျခံဳေရးတပ္ဖြဲ႕ဝင္မ်ား ေစာင့္ၾကပ္ေနပံု ျဖစ္ပါသည္။ (Photo: AFP) အင္းစိန္ေထာင္ ဆရာဝန္ႀကီးက သာမန္ လူနာေတြ စစ္ေဆးတဲ့ ေနရာမွာ ေမ့ေဆး၊ ထံုေဆးမေပးဘဲ ကိုေအာင္ခ်ိဳဦးကို ခြဲစိတ္ခဲ့ေၾကာင္း သူ႔ကို ေတြ႔ဆံုခဲ့တဲ့ အဂၤါဝတ္ျပဳ ဆုေတာင္းအဖြဲ႔ဝင္ [...] Read more
