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