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Showing posts with label Asia Times. Show all posts
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Tuesday, July 7, 2020

Japan’s Kirin should stop supporting Myanmar military


ASIA TIMES
Opinion
July 6, 2020 
Rohingya refugees flee into Bangladesh after a military crackdown sparked a mass exodus of the Muslim minority. File Photo: AFP / Fred Dufour
 

Take a walk, watch television, or use the subway. Do any of these activities in Japan and you will likely come across a Kirin advertisement. Since its inception in 1885 as Japan Brewery, Kirin has grown into a household name in Japan, and arguably one of the world’s best-known Japanese brands.

The beverage giant offers everything from soft drinks to plum wine to yogurt. But its beer is the company’s trademark product, available in more than 40 countries. Its distinctive label depicts the legendary kirin, a magical creature “believed to be a harbinger of good luck.”

Wednesday, May 20, 2020

No ‘bitter end’ for Rohingya

ASIA TIMES

May 20, 2020
A wooden boat carrying suspected Rohingya migrants detained in Malaysian territorial waters off the island of Langkawi on April 5. Photo: AFP/Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency 

When it comes to writing about the plight of refugees, one can often feel like a broken record. There is a disheartening sense that everything has been said, twice, and yet nothing changes for the better.

Indeed, there’s a kind of perverse Murphy’s Law at work. Every new twist marks an expansion of our understanding of the threshold for human misery, and of our capacity for failing our fellow man. This is particularly true for the Rohingya.

Tuesday, March 3, 2020

Myanmar pays rising price for Rohingya crisis


ASIA TIMES


Aung Suu Kyi, Myanmar's de facto ruler, defends her country against accusations of Rohingya genocide at the top UN court in The Hague, Netherlands, on December 11, 2019. Photo: International Court of Justice / Handout / Anadolu Agency


Last week, the government of Myanmar started paying a real price for its failure to provide meaningful accountability for its security forces’ widespread and systematic violence against the country’s Muslim Rohingya minority in northern Rakhine state in late 2017. 

Friday, December 13, 2019

‘The Lady’ is a liar: Suu Kyi’s genocide whitewash

ASIATIMES 
By Phelim Kine
December 13, 2019

Rohingya civilians.” That’s the phrase conspicuously absent from Myanmar State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi’s 3,500-word statement to the International Court of Justice on Wednesday. The omission is no accident.

Suu Kyi’s highly anticipated ICJ appearance was to answer to The Gambia’s official complaint of Myanmar’s violations of the United Nations’ 1948 Genocide Convention, linked to the extreme military abuses against Muslim Rohingya civilians. Yet her judicial defense strategy studiously avoided any mention of civilian suffering.

Tuesday, April 30, 2019

Arakan Army chief cries out in Myanmar

ASIATIMES  
Interview
By Christian Bouche-Villeneuve, Pangsang

Rebel leader tells Asia Times in an interview that his insurgency has mass support and that the international community has his fight all wrong 
 

Tun Myat Naing, commander-in-chief of the Arakan Army, attends a meeting of leaders of Myanmar's ethnic armed groups at the United Wa State Army headquarters in Pansang in Myanmar's northern Shan State, May 6, 2015. Photo: Twitter

Myanmar’s upstart Arakan Army (AA) has intensified its insurgent operations in recent months, opening a new front of instability in the nation’s long-running ethnic civil wars.

The armed conflict has compounded volatility in Rakhine state, from where over 700,000 Muslim Rohingya have been expelled in government “clearance operations” beginning in 2017 the United Nations and others suggest may have had “genocidal intent.”

Monday, April 22, 2019

Bangladesh paying a price for hosting refugees

ASIATIMES  
ByBertil Lintner, Chiang Mai

Rohingya refugees take shelter at a school in Kutupalong refugee camp near Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, on October 21, 2017. Photo: Reuters
The loss of forests and the ecological damage caused by almost one million refugees has taken a toll

Bangladesh is paying a heavy price for hosting hundreds of thousands of Muslim Rohingya refugees from Myanmar.

According to an article on the Bangladesh Chronicle’s website on April 20, the country has already lost US$211 million worth of forest resources in the Ukhia and Teknaf areas near Cox’s Bazar, where camps have been built and new roads cut through previously uninhabited areas.

Thursday, March 21, 2019

Myanmar military’s massacre denial complex

ASIATIMES
March 21, 2019

“Trust us.” That’s the implicit message in the Myanmar military’s announcement this week of the creation of an “investigation court” to probe the state-backed mass violence targeted at the country’s Muslim Rohingya population in August 2017.

The announcement on the website of the Office of the Commander in Chief of Defense Services describes the court as consisting of three senior military (Tatmadaw) officials tasked to “further scrutinize” the bloodshed of August 2017. It reiterates the military’s long-discredited narrative that all military activity in northern Rakhine state in August 2017 were legitimate operations in response to attacks on police posts allegedly perpetrated by the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army, a non-state insurgent group.

Wednesday, March 20, 2019

Peace march kicks up more war in Myanmar

ASIATIMES
By Bertil Lintner, Mae Sot and Myawaddy

Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA)’s Seventh Brigade parading as part of celebrations marking the 66th Karen Revolution Day at their headquarters in Myanmar’s eastern Kayin state in 2015. Photo: AFP/ KC Ortiz

Myanmar’s moribund peace process, seen among disenfranchised ethnic Karen, is rooted in the military’s stubborn adherence to past failed tactics

As Myanmar’s government invites a group of eight ethnic armed groups to yet another round of talks on March 21 to the capital Naypyitaw, the ethnically divided nation is more clearly headed towards more war than peace.

Wednesday, January 23, 2019

Rohingya in the camps seek education, a say in their future

Refugees in camps in Bangladesh want computer literacy to boost their access to information and ability to air their concerns

By Vidya Krishnan Cox Bazar, Bangladesh, January 23, 2019 
 

On November 26 last year fed up of being ignored, Rohingya refugees in camps in southeastern Bangladesh did something out of ordinary: they went on strike. For three days, leaders of the Rohingya community declared, that no man or woman working in the camp as a shopkeeper, teacher, health worker, or builder – would providing their crucial manpower.

Tuesday, January 22, 2019

China gives Bangladesh $72.6m for bridges, disaster aid.


China sees Bangladesh and Myanmar as key links between Yunnan and the Indian Ocean, but Dhaka has wisely avoided Chinese loans for infrastructure


By BERTIL LINTNER
JANUARY 22, 2019



Dhaka, Bangladesh. Photo by iStock.
China will provide grant assistance of approximately US$72.6 million to Bangladesh under an agreement on economic and technical cooperation between the two countries, The Bangladesh Chronicle has reported.

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