Day: December 15, 2018

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 calling the crimes committed by Myanmar security forces against Rohingya Muslims a genocide. This was the right thing to do. The U.S. lawmakers deserve to be applauded for trying to turn “Never again!” into a concrete U.S. governmental policy, following the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum’s declaration that Myanmar is indeed committing a genocide and crimes against humanity. The House resolution states that

Returning Rohingya refugees is like sending Holocaust survivors to gas chambers, says Myanmar rights activist By Sorwar Alam | Published by Anadolu Agency on December 9, 2018 ANKARA — Bangladesh needs to form a broader international alliance to resolve the issue of roughly 1 million Rohingya refugees in the country, a rights activist and political dissident from Myanmar has said. In an interview with Anadolu Agency on Global Genocide Day, Maung Zarni said four regional powers plus Israel either support or protect Myanmar’s genocide against the Rohingya Muslim minority group in the western Rakhine state.  “No genocide is ever committed by a single nation