What are Rohingya and their supporters thinking and feeling? What needs to be done? Free Rohingya Coalition is giving space to diverse views about Rohingya life and struggle. Edith Mirante – Author & Activist Edith Mirante is an author with a passion for human rights and environmental issues. She has travelled widely in Asia, and has investigated atrocities and resistance in remote corners of Burma’s frontier conflicts. Edith founded Project Maje in 1986 to focus on human rights & environmental issues in Burma. Mir Ahmed Siddique – Activist Mir Ahmed Siddique is a Bangladeshi human rights activist based in Saudi
Bangladesh can make Myanmar pay for crimes against Rohingya
By Maung Zarni | Published by Anadolu Agency on July 8, 2019 Dhaka should move International Court of Justice to force Myanmar to pay reparations to for hosting victims of genocide LONDON — Last week, UN International Independent Fact-Finding Mission’s Chris Sidoti, Bangladesh’s high commissioner to the U.K. and prominent experts from Bangladesh, gathered in London to tackle an overlooked, but pressing issue: the challenges of repatriating 1.2 million Rohingya refugees to their homes in Myanmar. This comes in the back drop of Bangladesh’s Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen reportedly accusing Myanmar of “lying” about the status of the repatriation of
Applying law to end Myanmar’s impunity for genocide
By Maung Zarni | Published by Anadolu Agency on July 2, 2019 Prosecutor to probe alleged crimes in which at least one element occurred in Bangladesh, a state party to the Rome Statute LONDON — As Myanmar continues to commit crimes against the Rohingya people, the international legal community appears to be buzzing with measured excitement over the possibility of holding the country’s senior-most perpetrators accountable for genocide and other crimes against humanity, and justifiably so. Last week saw two important developments at the International Criminal Court (ICC): the establishment by the ICC Presidency of a pretrial chamber regarding “the situation
The UN Has Failed the Rohingya in Myanmar. Now it Should Take Responsibility
By Maung Zarni | Published by The Wire on June 30, 2019. The United Nations recently accepted a 36-page report that examined the body’s systemic failures in the country. The United Nations recently accepted a 36-page report that examined the body’s involvement in Myanmar from 2010 to 2018. The report, by former Guatemalan foreign minister and UN executive Gert Rosenthal, acknowledges that there were “systemic failures” in how the UN responded to the crisis in Myanmar. The Rosenthal report (dated May 29, 2019) finds that the UN response was “dysfunctional” in Myanmar, and that its leadership and conduct was “relatively impotent.” These