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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

International community should act for resolution of Rohingya crisis, says head of Rome-based rights group By Sorwar Alam | Published by Anadolu Agency on December 19, 2018 ANKARA — The international community should put forward concrete plans to resolve the Rohingya crisis, head of a Rome-based human rights group said. “All evidence on what to be done are available. All obligations in front of the needs are clear,” said Gianni Tognoni, the secretary general of the Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal (PPT). He welcomed the U.S. House of Representatives’ recent vote on Rohingya genocide. The U.S. House of Representatives approved a resolution by a

Rohingya need ‘protected homeland in Myanmar’ for being repatriated, says pro-democracy Euro-Burma Office head By Sorwar Alam | Published by Anadolu Agency on December 17, 2018 ANKARA — The U.S. House of Representative vote declaring persecution of the Rohingya minority in Myanmar a “genocide” should encourage other nations to follow suit, a senior rights activist said. In an interview with Anadolu Agency on last week’s vote, Harn Yawnghwe, son of Myanmar’s first president Sao Shwe Thaike, said the move “affirms the action taken by the International Criminal Court to further investigate, and the UN’s Independent International Fact-Finding Mission (IIFFM) report that there

By Maung Zarni | Published by Anadolu Agency on December 15, 2018 US will not intercede, and Myanmar’s neighbors see it through economic lens, so international coalition for Rohingya needed LONDON — The U.S. House of Representatives Thursday overwhelmingly passed a resolution calling the crimes committed by Myanmar security forces against Rohingya Muslims a genocide. This was the right thing to do. The U.S. lawmakers deserve to be applauded for trying to turn “Never again!” into a concrete U.S. governmental policy, following the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum’s declaration that Myanmar is indeed committing a genocide and crimes against humanity. The House resolution states that

Returning Rohingya refugees is like sending Holocaust survivors to gas chambers, says Myanmar rights activist By Sorwar Alam | Published by Anadolu Agency on December 9, 2018 ANKARA — Bangladesh needs to form a broader international alliance to resolve the issue of roughly 1 million Rohingya refugees in the country, a rights activist and political dissident from Myanmar has said. In an interview with Anadolu Agency on Global Genocide Day, Maung Zarni said four regional powers plus Israel either support or protect Myanmar’s genocide against the Rohingya Muslim minority group in the western Rakhine state.  “No genocide is ever committed by a single nation