Myanmar’s shadow civilian govt apologizes to Rohingya on 6th anniversary of genocide

ARAB NEWS
Dr. Azeem Ibrahim
September 02, 2023 

Rohingya refugees walk at Balukhali Refugee Camp in Bangladesh. (AP/File)

This week marks the sixth anniversary of the onslaught of ruthless violence, rape and genocide by the military in Myanmar against the Rohingya of all ages. The genocidal conduct of the regime forces compelled a staggering three-quarters of a million Rohingya, men, women and children, to flee to Bangladesh, clutching their meager possessions.

 

Myanmar’s military can’t call shots on Rohingya repatriation

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Op-Ed
Dr Azeem Ibrahim
Published : Wednesday, 12 April, 2023 

The Rohingya refugee crisis is not over. Rohingyas fled Myanmar in 2017 and afterwards, attempting to escape the genocidal advance of the country's military. It burned their homes. It razed their villages. And it killed whomever it could find.

More than 700,000 people were forced from the country. It was an exodus not seen in more than 50 years of refugee movement by the Rohingya out of Myanmar. They had been persecuted openly since the 1970s, but never so viciously as in the stage of the genocide from 2017 on.

World paying a heavy price for ignoring Rohingyas’ plight

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DR. AZEEM IBRAHIM
February 11, 2021

Myanmar Army armored vehicles drive along a street after the military seized power in a coup, Mandalay, Myanmar, February 3, 2021. (Reuters)

For more than three decades, the hopes for democracy in Myanmar have been inextricably tied to just one person: Aung San Suu Kyi. This was entirely appropriate for most of that time. She was, after all, the chosen democratic icon of the people of Myanmar.

But only half a year after she was finally allowed to lead the civilian government of Myanmar by the military in 2016, she became complicit in the latter’s “clearing operations” against the Rohingya people in the west of the country, which ultimately amounted to genocide. She not only defended their actions as necessary, but she wholly adopted the genocidal rhetoric of even denying the existence of the Rohingya as a separate ethnic group, indigenous to Myanmar.

U.N. Bureaucrats Just Want the Rohingya Off Their Plate

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Argumen 

By Azeem Ibrahim 

| April 18, 2019,

Dumping refugees on a doomed island in Bangladesh is as callous as it is predictable.

 

Rohingya refugees shout slogans at a protest against a disputed repatriation program at the Unchiprang refugee camp near Teknaf on Nov. 15, 2018. (Dibyangshu Sarkar/AFP/Getty Images)

The United Nations recently announced that it would help fund Bangladesh’s initiative to move at least some of its Rohingya refugees, who fled Myanmar, from Cox’s Bazar to the island of Bhashan Char in the Ganges delta. Given the population pressures in the refugee camps in Cox’s Bazar, this seems like a good idea—but it’s anything but. Stranding the Rohingya on the island could have catastrophic consequences.

New York conference critical of UN over Rohingya crisis

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NEWS
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Dildar Baykan - Anadolu Agency
11th February 2019, 10:23 GMT+11 

NEW YORK, New York - An international conference in New York called for the boycott of Myanmar due to ethnic cleansing accusations regarding the country.

The International Conference on Protection and Accountability in Burma held at Barnard College, Columbia University, in New York on Sunday, brought together the leading Rohingya campaigners, activists, renowned genocide scholars and UN officials.