Day: December 19, 2018

International community should act for resolution of Rohingya crisis, says head of Rome-based rights group By Sorwar Alam | Published by Anadolu Agency on December 19, 2018 ANKARA — The international community should put forward concrete plans to resolve the Rohingya crisis, head of a Rome-based human rights group said. “All evidence on what to be done are available. All obligations in front of the needs are clear,” said Gianni Tognoni, the secretary general of the Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal (PPT). He welcomed the U.S. House of Representatives’ recent vote on Rohingya genocide. The U.S. House of Representatives approved a resolution by a

Rohingya need ‘protected homeland in Myanmar’ for being repatriated, says pro-democracy Euro-Burma Office head By Sorwar Alam | Published by Anadolu Agency on December 17, 2018 ANKARA — The U.S. House of Representative vote declaring persecution of the Rohingya minority in Myanmar a “genocide” should encourage other nations to follow suit, a senior rights activist said. In an interview with Anadolu Agency on last week’s vote, Harn Yawnghwe, son of Myanmar’s first president Sao Shwe Thaike, said the move “affirms the action taken by the International Criminal Court to further investigate, and the UN’s Independent International Fact-Finding Mission (IIFFM) report that there