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12 Minutes Clip on Myanmar Genocide And The Role Of The Most Famous Monk Sitagu
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Putting Myanmar election results in perspective
By Maung Zarni | Published by Anadolu Agency on November 19, 2020 Election cycles will neither reverse colonial treatment of non-Burmese population, nor end genocide against Rohingya LONDON — Five days after the US completed its presidential elections in which the incumbent President Donald Trump and his fundamentally racist campaign was defeated, Myanmar also held its general elections. As expected, the ruling National League for Democracy led by Aung San Suu Kyi secured a landslide victory, crushing the Union Solidarity and Development party — the military’s political proxy which openly promotes Islamophobia, xenophobia, and racism against Rohingya. A common outcry
Auschwitz: Lessons Never Learned
This March, a group of 19 human rights activists from Japan, Rwanda, USA, Canada, Germany, Ukraine and Myanmar, including 9 Burmese and 2 Rohingya activists visited Auschwitz where they paid respect to 1 million Jewish and other victims of the Holocaust. Looking at the chilling parallel between the Nazi genocide and Myanmar’s genocide of Rohingyas, the visiting activists reflected on how geopolitical and economic interests typically drive policies of international organizations, corporations and national governments. Read FRC Press Release here: https://freerohingyacoalition.org/en/free-rohingya-coalition-to-facebook-live-its-first-ever-documentary-auschwitz-lessons-never-learned/
Free Rohingya Coalition to Facebook LIVE its first-ever documentary – “Auschwitz: Lessons Never Learned”
19 October 2020 At 7 pm (Yangon, Myanmar) today the Free Rohingya Coalition is screening its first-ever documentary “Auschwitz: Lessons Never Learned”, based on its group study tour of the Jewish ghetto in Krakow and the 3 camps at Auschwitz this past March. Two Christmases ago, the two co-founders of the Free Rohingya Coalition, Ro Nay San Lwin and Maung Zarni, a Rohingya Muslim and a Burmese Buddhist respectively, visited Dachau during their short stay in Munich to meet with Uyghur human rights activists who run their anti-genocide campaign from the Bavarian capital. “The world never learns (from the Nazi
Myanmar’s colonial policies and crimes trigger renewed liberation struggles
By Maung Zarni | Published by Anadolu Agency on October 9, 2020 Lack of action from UN and world community encourages Myanmar to commit atrocities against ethnic communities LONDON — Almost three decades ago the UN had established the mandate of Special Rapporteur to monitor the human rights situation in Myanmar, under the Commission on Human Rights Resolution number 58 of 1992. But the UN-mandated human rights missions have not deterred Myanmar’s successive governments from perpetrating human rights crimes against dissidents, government critics, and national minorities. Besides, it is indicative of Myanmar leaders’ typical hostility towards the human rights-focused approach, adopted
Could Chinese investments cost Suu Kyi the Myanmar election?
By Maria Siow | Published by SCMP on September 27, 2020 Controversial China-backed projects like the Myitsone Dam and the Belt and Road Initiative will be key election issues as Myanmar heads to the pollsWhile Chinese plans face resistance, analysts say Beijing can win over the locals if it plays its cards right Come November, anti-China sentiment could well be the issue that sways a pivotal election – and not only in the United States. As Myanmar approaches its second vote since the end of military rule in 2011, all eyes will be on how Naypyidaw walks the tightrope between maintaining healthy ties with
Covid, conflicts, Rohingya: is Suu Kyi really a sure bet in Myanmar election?
By Maria Siow | Published by SCMP on September 26, 2020 Ongoing ethnic conflicts and the plight of the Rohingya don’t appear to have taken the shine off ‘The Lady’ with votersHer National League for Democracy are favourites to win on November 8 – though Covid-19 could prove a curveball, as could a surge for ethnic parties During the 15 years Aung San Suu Kyi was kept under house arrest by Myanmar’s military leadership, she was seen as an icon of democracy and a glimmer of hope for the people of the Southeast Asian country.Now, five years after her National League for Democracy (NLD) party took power
Rohingya Blogger တည်ထောင်သူ ဦးဘစိန်နှင့် ဆွေးနွေးခန်း
FRC Genocide Podcast Series (မြန်မာပိုင်း) ဒေါက်တာမောင်ဇာနည် စီစဉ်တင်ဆက်သည်။ Rohingya Blogger တည်ထောင်သူ ဦးဘစိန်နဲ့ ဒေါက်တာမောင်ဇာနည်တို့ စကားဝိုင်း FRC Genocide Podcast Series မြန်မာပိုင်းအစီအစဉ်မှာ ဦးဘစိန်က – (၁) ရိုဟင်ဂျာနဲ့ ရခိုင် အသိုင်းအဝိုင်းနှစ်ခုကြား အေးအတူပူအမျှ သင့်မြတ်စွာ နေထိုင်လာခဲ့တဲ့အကြောင်း(၂) နဂါးမင်းစီမံချက် ဖြစ်ပေါ်လာပုံအဆင့်ဆင့်(၃) ၁၉၇၈ ခုနှစ်မှာ နဂါးမင်းစီမံချက်နဲ့ ရိုဟင်ဂျာတွေကို ညှဉ်းပန်းနှိပ်စက်ပြီး အစုလိုက်အပြုံလိုက် တစ်ဖက်နိုင်ငံကို မောင်းထုတ်ခဲ့စဉ်က ကိုယ်တွေ့အတွေ့အကြုံ – စတာတွေကို အသေးစိတ်ဆွေးနွေးထားပါတယ်။ ဦးဘစိန်၏ ကိုယ်ရေးအကျဉ်းချုပ် ဦးဘစိန်သည် ရခိုင်ပြည်နယ်၊ ဘူးသီးတောင်မြို့နယ်တွင် မွေးဖွားခဲ့သည်။ ရခိုင်ပြည်နယ်တွင် အထက်တန်းထိ ပညာသင်ကြားပြီးနောက် ရန်ကုန်တက္ကသိုလ်မှ ဘွဲ့ရရှိခဲ့သည်။ ဘူးသီးတောင်မြို့နယ်တွင် ၁၉၇၄ ခုနှစ်မှ ၁၉၈၃ ခုနှစ်အထိ၊ ရန်ကုန်တိုင်း၊ မရမ်းကုန်းမြို့နယ်တွင် ၁၉၈၃ ခုနှစ်မှ ၁၉၉၁ ခုနှစ်ထိ သမဝါယမဝန်ကြီးဌာနတွင် ရာထူးအဆင့်ဆင့်ဖြင့် အစိုးရတာဝန်ထမ်းဆောင်ခဲ့သည်။ ရိုဟင်ဂျာအရေးနှင့် ပတ်သက်၍ အစိုးရဝန်ထမ်းဘဝကတည်းက တတ်နိုင်သည့်ဘက်မှ လှုပ်ရှားခဲ့သည်။ ၁၉၉၁ ခုနှစ်တွင် ရာထူးမှ နုတ်ထွက်ပြီးနောက် ပြည်ပတွင် အခြေစိုက်နေထိုင်လာခဲ့သည်။ ၂၀၀၅ ခုနှစ်တွင် Rohingya Blogger ကို တည်ထောင်ပြီး၊ ရိုဟင်ဂျာများ ကြုံတွေ့နေရသည့် ညှဉ်းပန်းနှိပ်စက်မှု၊ သတ်ဖြတ်မှုများကို နိုင်ငံတကာက သိမြင်လာအောင် ကြိုးပမ်းလာခဲ့ပြီး၊ ယခုအခါ Rohingya Today နှင့် အခြားသော ရိုဟင်ဂျာအထောက်အထား သုတေသနများကို လန်ဒန်မြို့တွင် အခြေစိုက်၍ လုပ်ကိုင်လျက်ရှိသည်။
A Conversation with Michael Becker, former associate legal officer with ICJ, a PhD candidate at the University of Cambridge
The FRC Genocide podcast with Michael Becker covers: 1) The recent developments around the Myanmar genocide case at ICJ, specifically Canada and the Netherlands’ official joint plan to “intervene” in The Gambia vs Myanmar; 2) The Gambia team’s litigation in USA regarding Facebook’s refusal to cooperate with The Gambia legal team on the release of the potentially valuable evidence of Myanmar’s genocidal intent; and 3) Myanmar’s specific acts of non-compliance with the ICJ provisional measures order to protect Rohingyas Former ICJ Associate Legal Officer and PhD scholar at Cambridge U. Michael A. Becker shared his expert views on the various