Harn Yawnghwe: A Personal Letter to Indian PM Modi on “India’s Complicity in Genocide”

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Shri Narendra Modi Prime Minister New Delhi, India   HE Rajnath Singh  Home Minister New Delhi, India    HE Vikras Swarup, High Commissioner of India to Canada Ottawa, Canada   Mr Prime Minister and Your Excellencies,   Namaskaram. Sarvesham shantir bhavatu.   I heard with alarm yesterday 3 October 2018, that India has started deporting to Myanmar, the first seven of 40,000 Rohingyas refugees seeking asylum in India in the face of the ongoing genocide of the Rohingya people in Myanmar.   https://www.reuters.com/article/us-myanmar-rohingya-india/india-in-a-first-sends-seven-rohingya-for-deportation-to-myanmar-idUSKCN1MD0ZJ   May I bring to your attention that you personally and the Government of India may be

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A Call for Justice and Action for Myanmar (September 2017 – September 2018)

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A Call for Justice and Action for Myanmar One year after the PPT Judgment on the genocide September 2017 – September 2018 The judgment of the Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal on Myanmar: genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity One year ago, on 22 September 2017, the Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal on Myanmar, after hearing persuasive witness and expert testimony at its session held in Kuala Lumpur, found that war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide are being committed in Myanmar. In recognition that its findings have continuing and ever heightened applicability, the University of Malaya Faculty of Law is now publishing

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Canada has recognized the Rohingya genocide. Now what should come next?

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By Irwin Cotler and Brandon Silver | Published by MACLEANS on September 21, 2018 In the wake of a UN report detailing atrocities against the Rohingya by Myanmar’s authorities, here are the ways Canada can step up in their defence Irwin Cotler is a former minister of justice and attorney general of Canada, professor emeritus of international law at McGill University, and the founding chair of the Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights. Brandon Silver is the centre’s director of policy and projects. What we solemnly swore would occur “never again,” has happened yet again. And on Wednesday, Canada formally recognized the nature

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Free Rohingya Coalition statement on Canada’s unprecedented official declaration of Myanmar’s crimes against Rohingyas as genocide

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IMMEDIATE RELEASE 20 September 2018 Free Rohingya Coalition statement on Canada’s unprecedented official declaration of Myanmar’s crimes against Rohingyas as genocide Frankfurt, Germany: The Free Rohingya Coalition wholeheartedly welcome the adoption, the motion in the Canadian House of Commons which, with a rare unanimity, declared Myanmar’s crimes against Rohingya people a genocide. The FRC’s coordinator for women and children’s affairs Razia Sultana said, “today Canada has done a major service to our Rohingya communities, in diaspora, in refugee camps and inside our ancestral homeland of Western Myanmar by recognizing the heinous crimes Myanmar military has inflicted upon us for more

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The ICC Has Launched a Preliminary Examination Into Myanmar’s Expulsion of Rohingya Muslims

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By Eli Meixler | Published by TIME on September 19, 2018 The International Criminal Court’s chief prosecutor announced on Tuesday the start of a preliminary examination into the recent expulsion of hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar to Bangladesh. The announcement comes a day after U.N. investigators accused the Myanmar military of committing atrocities against the Rohingya and other ethnic minorities and calling for Myanmar’s top generals to be charged with genocide. “I have decided to proceed to the next phase of the process and to carry out a full-fledged preliminary examination of the situation at hand,” ICC prosecutor Fatou

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Human Rights Council holds interactive dialogue with the Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Myanmar

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Published by OHCHR on 18 September 2018 The Human Rights Council this morning held an interactive dialogue with the Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Myanmar after hearing an oral update by the Mission’s Chair Marzuki Darusman. Mr. Darusman reminded that the attacks launched on August 2017 against the Rohingya people in Rakhine state had led to a mass exodus of three-quarters of a million people to Bangladesh and deaths of at least 10,000 people.  At the core of every incident was the extreme brutality of the Myanmar military, known as the Tatmadaw, which enforced a vision of a Bamar-Buddhist nation

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Free Rohingya Coalition Welcome and Endorse UN Genocide Report and Thank Fact-Finding Mission on Myanmar

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Immediate Release September 18, 2018 FRC call for “a comprehensive approach” to end Myanmar genocide including international protection for voluntary and safe return. GENEVA:  The Free Rohingya Coalition, a network of leading Rohingya activists in diaspora and refugee activists in Bangladesh, as well as international friends of Rohingyas working to end Myanmar’s ongoing genocide of Rohingya, welcomes the official release of Report of the detailed findings of the Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Myanmar at the 39th session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva. After nearly 2 years of rigorous research and hundreds of in-depth interviews with Rohingya survivors

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