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One year ago, the United States made a historic determination: the atrocities committed against the Rohingya by the Burmese military constitute genocide and crimes against humanity. Secretary of State Antony Blinken made this announcement in front of Rohingya and Holocaust survivors at the (...)
The Rohingya community is facing a deteriorating situation in Myanmar and across South and Southeast Asia, according to a new report by Women’s Peace Network (WPN): “We are targeted for being Rohingya in Myanmar and everywhere.”
The report’s launch marked the one-year anniversary of the United (...)
U Nay San Lwin is the co-founder of the Germany-based Free Rohingya Coalition, but better known on social media as Ro Nay San Lwin. Known for his Rohingya activism, he has described the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA) as criminals who kill their own kind. U Nay San Lwin talked recently to (...)
Today, we, Women’s Peace Network, welcome the International Court of Justice’s ruling on the preliminary objections from The Gambia v. Myanmar. The Court’s decision to reject these objections marks a momentous step towards the justice that Rohingya, as well as other ethnic and religious minority (...)
‘There is no way the personal data of nearly a million European people would ever be treated like this.’
I saw this coming, and I wish I had been wrong.
Back in 2017, I wrote here of the risks of the UN’s refugee agency, UNHCR, collecting biometric registration data from Rohingya refugees, (...)
Int’l community must share responsibility, it says
The United Nations has urged the international community to step up and share responsibility, noting that recent developments in Myanmar make the prospects of voluntary repatriation of the Rohingyas to Myanmar in the short term more (...)
In honour of human rights and human dignity and also to eradicate the conflicts and root causes in the Union, the National Unity Government aims to build a prosperous and federal democratic union where all ethnic groups belonging to the Union can live together peacefully. This objective is (...)
Myo Min outlines the potential and limitations of anti-coup protesters’ solidarity with the cause of the Rohingya.
In the aftermath of Myanmar’s military coup on 1 February 2021, hundreds of thousands of people from almost every ethnic group, including people from the Rohingya community, have (...)
Protests against the 1 February military coup, which ousted Aun San Suu Kyi, continue in Myanmar despite an increasingly brutal crackdown. At the same time there are signs that widespread public resentment against the country’s Muslim Rohingya minority may be softening. Dominik Muller reports. (...)
Abstract
Myanmar emerged as the promising state in the twentieth-century as it not only released Aung San Suu Kyi from house arrest but ushered into political and economic reforms. The adoption of the 2008 Constitution and political and economic reforms brought an end to the military junta (...)
On the anniversary of genocidal campaign against the Rohingya community in Myanmar, Carlos Sardiña Galache sets out the origins of the crisis.
In the early hours of 25 August 2017, an armed group called Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA) launched a series of coordinated attacks against (...)
Background
More than 700,000 Rohingya refugee characterized as Forcibly Displaced Myanmar Nationals (FDMNs) are dwelling in different camps located in Cox’s Bazar since fall 2017 with inadequate provision of basic necessities together with poor basic education and health support (UNHCR). The (...)
The Second World War and wartime policies adopted by the British administration ruptured the Arakan region’s social fabric.
On March 18, 1944, with ‘Delhi Chalo!’ as their battle cry, the Azad Hind Fauj along their Japanese allies crossed the Indo-Burma border and advanced towards Kohima and (...)
The awakening has also been accompanied by a surge in violence, with militants and religious conservatives also vying for power.
Kutupalong refugee camp, Bangladesh: It was after Mohib Ullah scored his first political victories that the death threats began in earnest. On a recent morning, the (...)
Newly-built accommodations are an essential element – along with general safety and security – to convince Rohingya refugees to voluntarily return to their villages that they left a year ago after their homes were destroyed during security ‘clearance operations’ by Myanmar security forces.
Dhaka: (...)
Members of parliament have called for Myanmar military to be brought to justice for its ‘murderous operation’. The statement [see below] was released ahead of the first anniversary of the start of the violence against the Rohingya in Rakhine state.
More than 130 members of parliament, across (...)
A group of Rohingya refugees in a refugee camp in Bangladesh have compiled their own records of Rohingya Muslims killed in a brutal crackdown by the Myanmar military.
Kutupalong Refugee Camp: Mohib Bullah is not your typical human rights investigator. He chews betel and he lives in a rickety (...)
Four months after Zuckerberg’s pledge to act against hate speech posted in Myanmar, a sampling of posts shows the company is far from reaching it goal.
A cellphone user looks at a Facebook page at a shop in Latha street, Yangon, Myanmar, August 8, 2018. Credit: Reuters/Ann Wang
Yangon, (...)
Japan urged to examine payment made by Kirin subsidiary at height of ethnic cleansing campaign in Rakhine state, which firm claims was for victims
The Japanese government has been urged to investigate “immoral” payments, made by a subsidiary of one of the country’s most popular breweries, that (...)
The protracted Rohingya refugee crisis should not be viewed as an isolated event. It should be examined in the context of the rivalry between China and the US, the West and India for control over Myanmar’s economic and mineral resources.
In September 2017, Nikki Haley, the US Ambassador to the UN, did not mince her words in condemning the (...)
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