Year: 2019

By Umar Farooq | Published by Anadolu Agency on February 8, 2019 Special rapporteur says Myanmar military’s new bases raise concerns about new violence against Rohingya WASHINGTON — A UN special rapporteur for Myanmar on Friday expressed concerns over the Myanmar military constructing new bases in Rakhine state. Yanghee Lee said she was told the Myanmar military is constructing new bases throughout the entire area and received information that civilians in Myanmar had seen troops moving through villages in Rakhine and heard gunfire nearby. Her comments came via video at a conference hosted by the Free Rohingya Coalition (FRC) in

Free Rohingya Coalition, a leading global activist group led by and for the Rohingya people, is hosting a two-day international conference at Barnard College, New York City on February 8-9, calling for accountability and protection for national minorities in Myanmar. This is a rare convergence of academics and activists hailing from and with expertise on Burma, with humanitarians and international criminal law practitioners, according to the Free Rohingya Coalition (FRC) in a statement released on February 1. It is being held after more than 17 months since some 750,000 Rohingya fled Rakhine state as Myanmar military conducted a brutal campaign. In September

Led by global activist group Free Rohingya Coalition, two-day conference will address national minorities in Myanmar By Fatih Hafiz Mehmet | Published by Anadolu Agency on February 3, 2019 ANKARA  — The Free Rohingya Coalition (FRC) will host an international conference at Barnard College, Columbia University in New York City on Feb. 8 and 9. The two-day conference, with the participation of world renowned scholars, UN envoys, activists and refugees, will call for accountability and protection for national minorities in Burma, also known as Myanmar, the FRC said in a statement on Friday. “This is a rare convergence of academics

The International Conference on Protection and Accountability in Burma  February 8-9, 2019 Program: Against the backdrop of the completely stalled efforts at repatriating Rohingyas from Bangladesh to their country of origin, Myanmar, which the UN Fact Finding Mission officially recognized as a member state with an ‘ongoing issue of genocide’, the conference is designed to call the world’s attention to, and educate the international public at large about, the twofold need of protection and accountability which Rohingya genocide survivors and other ethnic and religious minorities such as Kachin, Shan, Karen, Myanmar Muslims, etc. demand and deserve. To that end, the conference