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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 (...)
Organized by the Communist Party of Bangladesh (CPBML) today on 16 March 2018 in front of National Press Club, Dhaka, a rally, procession and human chain program was held demanding the trial and punishment of the Myanmar military junta.
CPBML General Secretary and Bangladesh Krishok Federation (...)
The Myanmar military junta has been operating ethnic cleansing of the Rohingya people living in its Arakan province for a long time. However, since August 2017 it has waged genocide against the Rohingya which has provoked massive migration to Bangladesh and to other countries as well.
The (...)
Ending Myanmar’s ethnic cleansing of the Rohingya will require confronting both local elites and foreign capital.
In Myanmar’s ongoing massacre of the Rohingya — a two-million person strong Muslim minority — the country’s military has burned hundreds of villages, destroyed thousands of homes, and (...)
We, the undersigned civil society organisations, people’s organisations and individuals, affirm our belief in peoples’ right to self-identification, and the primacy of dialogue and a politically-negotiated settlement in transforming conflicts.
We express our deep anguish and concern with the (...)
It is commonly reported that the ‘international community’ is outraged by the ongoing crisis in Myanmar’s Rakhine state. Indeed, Myanmar’s handling of the situation since its escalation in August 2017 has made headlines in various Western news outlets. But whilst the EU and various Western states (...)
Region’s head of human rights calls on Aung San Suu Kyi to stop violence as report says ‘clearance operations’ include killings, torture and rape.
Myanmar security forces have driven out half a million Muslim Rohingya from northern Rakhine state, torching their homes, crops and villages to (...)
’Enemy of the State’ screamed the banner headline of a Burmese national newspaper in September, featuring full page photograph of Maung Zarni. More hatred follows, a week later.
"These publications are run by a web of cronies, military propaganda division and racist monk or laymen’s networks’, (...)
Soe Lin Aung offers an intervention into analyses of the Rohingya crisis.
By now, the main contours of the recent events in Rakhine State, in western Myanmar, are well-known. On August 25, an insurgent group calling itself the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA) (previously Harakah al-Yaqin) (...)
The Burmese government is pursuing a policy of ethnic cleansing against the Rohingya, who are being driven out of the country. Never has the persecution of this Muslim minority reached such a level of violence. The nature of the Burmese regime, the policy of land grabbing and the geopolitical (...)
Minorities in Myanmar, including the Rohingya, are resilient in the face of persecution. Giuseppe Forino, Author provided
Recent weeks have seen an escalation of violence against the Rohingya in Rakhine , the poorest state of Myanmar. A tide of displaced people are seeking refuge from (...)
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