Morning Star
Tuesday, March 22, 2022
Tuesday, March 22, 2022
Facebook failed to detect calls for violence against Rohingya after it played role in genocide, report finds
မြန်မာစစ်တပ်က ရိုဟင်ဂျာလူမျိုးတုံး သတ်ဖြတ်မှုကျူးလွန် ဟု အမေရိကန်အစိုးရ ဆုံးဖြတ်
22 March 2022
ယင်းသည် အာဏာသိမ်း မြန်မာစစ်ကောင်စီကို အရေးယူရန် အားထုတ်မှုများအား အထောက်အကူ ဖြစ်နိုင် ကြောင်း ရိုဟင်ဂျာအရေး လှုပ်ရှားသူများက ပြောသည်။
အမေရိကန် နိုင်ငံခြားရေးဝန်ကြီး မစ္စတာ အန်ထော်နီ ဘလင်ကန်သည် ထိုဆုံးဖြတ်ချက်ကို ဝါရှင်တန်ရှိ အမေရိ ကန် လူမျိုးတုံးသတ်ဖြတ်မှု အမှတ်တရ ပြတိုက်တွင် တနင်္လာနေ့တွင် ကြေညာသည်။ ထိုပြတိုက်သည် လတ်တ လောတွင် ရိုဟင်ဂျာတို့၏ ဆိုးရွားလှသော ကံကြမ္မာနှင့် ပတ်သက်သည့် ပြပွဲတခု ကျင်းပနေသည်။
Monday, March 21, 2022
Why America Just Said Myanmar Carried Out a Genocide
America finally used the word human rights activists had long argued applied to the campaign against Rohingya Muslims.
Four years ago, the State Department began an investigation into the Myanmar military’s brutal operation against the country’s Rohingya Muslims the prior year, which had resulted in scores of deaths and hundreds of thousands of Rohingya being pushed into Bangladesh. The report, spanning thousands of pages, was finalized when Mike Pompeo was still Secretary of State, and he ultimately opted to call the armed forces’ actions “ethnic cleansing,” a descriptive term not defined by international law.
Tuesday, March 8, 2022
The Rohingya crisis and questions of accountabilit
adam.simpson@unisa.edu.au
Nicholas Farrelly
Pages 486-494 | Published online: 08 Sep 2020
There is no obvious end to the ongoing tragedy that faces the Muslim Rohingya communities of western Myanmar. Yet, with two important international legal cases underway at the International Court of Justice and the International Criminal Court there are now important opportunities to maintain pressure on Myanmar’s government. Myanmar’s current government – a fusion of militarist, democratic, ethno-nationalist and conservative interests – has consistently sought to downplay the seriousness of the situation. This attitude, and the fraught, but politically effective, nexus between Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy (NLD) and the military, has done much to encourage a culture of impunity among military and civilian decision-makers. Nevertheless, with crucial national elections scheduled for November 2020, and an economy battered by the global COVID-19 shutdown, Myanmar faces a confluence of grave challenges. Under these conditions, key decision-makers in Naypyitaw may hope that international scrutiny of violence against the Rohingya will fade. Given these court actions, however, this is unlikely. Whatever sympathy we may have for Aung San Suu Kyi’s predicament, she will not recover her reputation. And she will forever face hard questions about her inability to prevent, and, more importantly, refusal to condemn, ethnic cleansing.
Roving with Rohingyas….
Guila Clara Kessous
Published: 08 Mar 2022
The first time I was approached to work on the Rohingyas’ community was when a non-governmental organization approached me knowing my humanitarian work as an 'artivist ' (artist + activist). Indeed, as a UNESCO Artist for Peace, I am using performing art to help survivors suffering from post-traumatic stress disorderto better express themselves. This NGO saw my work in Congo with women victims of excision and decided to have me work in Bangladesh for the Rohingya women population especially.
Friday, March 4, 2022
How Transnational Corporations are rendering Myanmar’s Sanctions Ineffective
Asia Portal
4. Mar 2022
By Zac Goldfinch, MA Graduate in Global Development from University of Leeds
1
February 2022 marked a full calendar year since Min Aung Hlaing’s
Tatmadaw (the Myanmar military) stormed the Presidential Palace, citing
dubious claims of election fraud and reinstated stratocracy in Myanmar.
Back on 18February 2021, the UK, in tandem with the US, EU, New Zealand,
and Canada, issued a set of sanctions intended to limit the capacity
and strength of the junta following an onslaught of violent suppression
of protests fighting for the reinstatement of National League for
Democracy government. The sanctions included freezing assets of key
military officials and barring key Tatmadaw businesses from trading. In
an interview with me, British Minister Mark Garnier, PM Johnson’s trade
envoy to Brunei, Thailand, and Myanmar, explained the sanctions were
decreed following the coup to restore the process of democratisation
through diplomacy and minimise the economic impact upon citizens. To
make the sanctions more effective, leading individuals were targeted in
order to ensure they did not flee the country or have access to offshore
accounts.
Thursday, March 3, 2022
Putin has a history of atrocities. Just how far will Russian forces go in Ukraine?
THE GUARDIAN
Kenneth Roth
Thu 3 Mar 2022
Kenneth Roth is executive director of Human Rights Watch
We have already seen indiscriminate use of cluster munitions, and the firing of ballistic missiles and rocket artillery
What can be done to stop a worsening spiral of indiscriminate warfare that would endanger countless Ukrainian civilians?’ People shelter from
Russian attacks in a Kyiv underground station on Wednesday. Photograph:
Roman Pilipey/EPA
As Russian forces invading Ukraine
confront stronger and more effective resistance than the Kremlin
probably anticipated, the big question is: what comes next.
The Russian military has a history of meeting such resistance with
serious violations of the laws of war, including deliberately targeting
civilians and subjecting them to indiscriminate and disproportionate
attacks.
ပူတင်ဟာ ရက်စက်ကြမ်းကြုတ်တဲ့ သမိုင်းကြောင်းရှိတယ်။ ယူကရိန်းမှာ ရုရှားတပ်တွေ ဘယ်လောက်အထိ ရောက် သွားမလဲ။
Kenneth Roth
Thu 3 Mar 2022
Kenneth Roth သည် Human Rights Watch ၏ အမှုဆောင်ဒါရိုက်တာဖြစ်သည်။
အစုလိုက်အပြုံလိုက် ခဲယမ်းများကို
ခွဲခြားမှုမရှိစွာ အသုံးပြုခြင်းနှင့် ပဲ့ထိန်းဒုံးကျည်များနှင့်
ရော့ကက်အမြောက်များဖြင့် ပစ်ခတ်ခြင်းတို့ကို ကျွန်ုပ်တို့
တွေ့မြင်ပြီးဖြစ်သည်။
မျှော်လင့်ထားတာထက် ပိုအားကောင်းပြီး ထိရောက်တဲ့ ခုခံမှုကို ထိပ်တိုက်ရင်ဆိုင်ဖို့၊ ကြီးမားတဲ့ မေးခွန်းကတော့ နောက်ဘာဖြစ်လာမလဲ ။ ရုရှားစစ်တပ်သည် အရပ်သားများကို တမင်တကာ ပစ်မှတ်ထားပြီး အချိုးမညီဘဲ အချိုး အ စားမမျှသော တိုက်ခိုက်မှုများ အပါအဝင် စစ်ဥပဒေများကို ပြင်းထန်စွာ ချိုးဖောက်မှုများဖြင့် ခုခံတိုက်ခိုက်သည့် သမိုင်းကြောင်းရှိသည်။
2015 ခုနှစ်မှ 2016 ခုနှစ်အတွင်း ရုရှားနှင့် ဆီးရီးယားတို့၏ ဗုံးကြဲတိုက်ခိုက်မှုများ သည် နိုင်ငံ၏လူဦးရေအများ ဆုံးမြို့ဖြစ်သည့် Aleppo အရှေ့ပိုင်းရှိ အတိုက်အခံများ ထိန်းချုပ်ထားသော အစိတ်အပိုင်းများကို အကြီးအကျယ် ပျက်စီးစေခဲ့သည်။ အောက်တွင် နေထိုင်သူများ ပိတ်ဆို့ဒဏ်ခတ်မှု အပြင် အစုလိုက်အပြုံလိုက် စည်ဗုံးများ ၊ လောင်မီးလက်နက်များနှင့် ပြင်းထန်သော ပေါက်ကွဲစေတတ်သော ဗုံးများဖြင့် အတိုက်အခံအင်အားစုများက နောက် ဆုံးတွင် လက်နက်ချအညံ့ခံခဲ့သည်။
Addressing healthcare needs of Rohingya in Bangladesh
Financial Express
Hasnat M Alamgir
Published: March 02, 2022
Refugee populations represent one of the most marginalised groups in whichever host country they come to settle and this is clearly the case with Rohingya population, a majority of whom are now living in Bangladesh. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) defined a refugee as someone who "owing to a well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group or political opinion, is outside the country of his nationality, and is unable to, or owing to such fear, is unwilling to avail himself of the protection of that country".At the end of 2020, there were more than 82 million forcibly displaced people worldwide as a consequence of violence, oppression, war/conflict, human rights abuses and serious public order-disturbing events.
The Rise of Muslim Millenarianism in Malaysia
Economic uncertainty and a fractured political landscape may be triggering a new wave of Islamic resurgence in Muslim-majority Malaysia. In the 1970s and 1980s, various strains of Islamist discourse penetrated civil society and the already identity-based political scene. During that period, the Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party (PAS) declared the ruling United Malays National Organisation (UMNO) kafir, while the latter co-opted the Islamist youth activist Anwar Ibrahim into its ranks and expanded the country’s religious bureaucracy.
Saturday, February 26, 2022
Serbia Sold Arms to Myanmar Junta After Coup
Tom Andrews, the United Nations (UN) Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar, identified Serbia, along with China and Russia, as UN member states that are continuing to sell arms to the junta in a report issued on Tuesday.
On the same day, the independent rights group Myanmar Witness also issued its own report revealing that air-launched rockets were exported by Serbia to Myanmar after the February 1, 2021 coup.
Wednesday, February 23, 2022
ICJ’s fresh hearings into Rohingya case bring fresh hope
Wednesday, February 23, 2022
The world must come together for the Rohingya cause
ICJ begins oral arguments in Myanmar genocide case
Pooja Mehta | Gujarat National Law U., IN
February 22, 2022 09:52:30 am
The Gambia filed an application instituting proceedings against Myanmar concerning alleged violations of the Genocide Convention on November 11, 2019. The Gambia also filed an application for the indication of provisional measures. In the proceedings that ensued, the court granted certain provisional measures. Myanmar then made preliminary objections to the court’s jurisdiction and the admissibility of the Application.
Rohingyas at ICJ
Statesman News Service | Kolkata | February 23, 2022 1:32 am
Is ICJ genocide case legitimising junta?
Following the military-led "clearance operation" that forced 750,000 Rohingya to flee neighbouring Bangladesh, the West African nation of Gambia brought a case to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in November 2019 accusing Myanmar of violating the 1948 Genocide Convention.
Friday, February 18, 2022
Myanmar junta’s role in Rohingya case at ICJ is troubling
Parvej Siddique Bhuiyan
February 17, 2022
By allowing the coup regime to present a defense at upcoming genocide hearings, the court risks legitimizing the junta
After the military-led “clearance operation” that forced 750,000 Rohingya to flee to neighboring Bangladesh, the West African nation The Gambia in November 2019 brought a case to the ICJ accusing Myanmar of violating the 1948 Genocide Convention.
Why Sri Lanka And Cambodia Shouldn’t Support Myanmar Junta’s Defense In Rohingya Genocide Case At ICJ? – OpEd
Parvej Siddique Bhuiyan*
February 17, 2022
In response to the court’s unanimously indicated legally binding provisional measures to protect the Rohingya from further atrocities, on January 2021, the then NLD government filed a preliminary objections to the jurisdiction of the Court and the admissibility of the Application. In this context, the ICJ recently announced that it will hold a fresh round of hearings from Feb. 21–28 in the Great Hall of Justice in which the regime’s leaders will be potential defendants, sparking speculation that the Court is implicitly taking a position in the ongoing civil war and legitimizing the unrecognized military regime. It is worth noting that the Junta-formed State Administrative Council (SAC) and the National Unity Government (NUG) have been struggling for recognition from the international community since the coup d’état in February 2021.
Thursday, February 17, 2022
ဂမ်ဘီယာက မြန်မာအပေါ်တရားစွဲထားသည့်အမှုကိစ္စ ICJ တရားရုံးက NUG အစိုးရထံ အကြောင်းမပြန်သေး
ဒီမိုကရက်တစ်မြန်မာ့အသံ
Published By DVB | 17 February, 2022အပြည်ပြည်ဆိုင်ရာတရားရုံး (ICJ) မှာ မြန်မာနိုင်ငံရင်ဆိုင်နေရတဲ့အမှုနဲ့ ပတ်သက်ပြီး မြန်မာနိုင်ငံ အစိုးရ ကိုယ် စားပြုအနေနဲ့ ကုလသမဂ္ဂ အမြဲတမ်းကိုယ်စားလှယ် သံအမတ်ကြီး ဦးကျော်မိုးထွန်း ဦးဆောင်ကာ ရင်ဆိုင်ဖြေ ရှင်းဖို့ တရားရုံးကို စာပေးပို့ထားပေမယ့် ဒီကနေ့အချိန် ထိ အကြောင်းပြန်စာမရသေးဘူးလို့ NUG နိုင်ငံခြားရေး ဝန်ကြီး ဒေါ်ဇင်မာအောင်က ဒီဗွီဘီကို ပြောပါတယ်။
ရိုဟင်ဂျာတွေကို လူမျိုးတုံးသတ်ဖြတ်မှု စွပ်စွဲချက်နဲ့ ဂမ်ဘီယာနိုင်ငံက မြန်မာနိုင်ငံကို နယ် သာလန်နိုင်ငံ သည် ဟိတ်မြို့က ICJ တရားရုံးမှာ တရားစွဲဆိုထားတဲ့အမှုနဲ့ပတ်သတ်ပြီး ဖေဖေါ်ဝါရီ ၂၁ ရက်မှ ၂၈ ရက် အထိ ဒုတိ ယအကြိမ်ကြားနာစစ်ဆေးဖို့ ရုံးချိန်းရှိနေတာပါ။
Rohingya Militancy: Myth or Reality?
February 15, 2022
Rohingya refugees have so far proven surprisingly resistant to the siren call of global jihadi ideology.