Argentinian court decision brings hope for Rohingya

Brinkwire

DHAKA, Bangladesh
June 3, 2020

A court in South American country of Argentina has decided to pursue a case against Myanmar’s leader Aung Sang Suu Kyi and senior officers in the military over the genocide and persecution against Rohingya community.


In a statement issued on Monday, Burmese Rohingya Organization UK (BROUK) said that Argentina’s Federal Criminal Chamber No. 1 has accepted its petition and asked to collect more information on the Rohingya genocide.

The court, in its decision on May 29, overturned a previous order when it had rejected to admit a similar petition seeking to probe the role of Myanmar leadership in the acts of genocide.

Argentina eyes Suu Kyi probe

The Manila Times
AFP 
By AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE
Argentina eyes
Suu Kyi probe
June 4, 2020

DHAKA: An Argentine court has moved one step closer to opening a historic investigation against Myanmar’s military and civilian leadership over the genocide against the Rohingya people, the Burmese Rohingya Organization UK (BROUK) said.

The court in Buenos Aires on Friday overturned a previous decision not to pursue a case against State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi and senior officers in the Myanmar military.

Rohingya genocide: Argentine court moves closer to opening case against Myanmar

The Daily Star

Star Online Report
June 02, 2020

An Argentine court has moved one step closer to opening a historic investigation against Myanmar's military and civilian leadership over genocide against the Rohingya people, the Burmese Rohingya Organisation UK (BROUK) said today.

The court in Buenos Aires on Friday overturned a previous decision not to pursue a case against State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi and senior officers in the Myanmar military. Instead, it has requested more information from the International Criminal Court (ICC) to ensure that a case in Argentina would not duplicate other justice efforts, BROUK said in a statement.

ျမန္မာေခါင္းေဆာင္ေတြကို တရားစြဲထားတဲ့ကိစၥ အာဂ်င္တီး နား တရား႐ုံး လက္ခံမလား

VOA

ဗြီအိုုေအ (ျမန္မာဌာန)

03 ဇြန္၊ 2020
အင္ၾကင္းႏိုင္

ၿဗိတိန္အေျခစိုက္ ျမန္မာ ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာမ်ားအသင္း ဥကၠဌ ဦးထြန္းခင္ ႏွင့္ အာဂ်င္တီးနားလူ႔အခြင့္အေရးေရွ႕ေန Tomas Ojea Quintana

ျမန္မာစစ္ဘက္နဲ႔ အရပ္ဘက္ ထိပ္တန္းေခါင္းေဆာင္ တဒါဇင္ေက်ာ္ကို ရာဇ၀တ္ က်ဴးလြန္မႈေတြနဲ႔ႏိုင္ငံတ ကာဥပေဒအရ စဲြထားတဲ့အမႈကို အာဂ်င္တီးနား ျပည္ေထာင္စုတရားရံုးက လက္ခံ ဖို႔နီးစပ္ေနၿပီလို႔ ၿဗိတိန္ အေျခစိုက္ ျမန္မာ ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာမ်ားအသင္း ဥကၠဌ ဦးထြန္းခင္က ဗီြအိုေအ ကိုေျပာပါတယ္။

Argentinian court decision brings hope for Rohingya

AA
Md. Kamruzzaman
DHAKA, Bangladesh
02.06.2020


In a significant development, Buenos Aires court admits petition to probe Myanmar leaders’ role in Rohingya genocide 

A court in South American country of Argentina has decided to pursue a case against Myanmar's leader Aung Sang Suu Kyi and senior officers in the military over the genocide and persecution against Rohingya community.

In a statement issued on Monday, Burmese Rohingya Organization UK (BROUK) said that Argentina’s Federal Criminal Chamber No. 1 has accepted its petition and asked to collect more information on the Rohingya genocide.

Activists championed by rights groups have history of anti-Rohingya messaging

Frontier

MYANMAR

ANDREW NACHEMSON and LUN MIN MANG
Sunday, May 24, 2020

Ko Zayar Lwin (centre left, with white rose) attends a court in Yangon with other Peacock Generation members on October 30, 2019. (Nyein Su Wai Kyaw Soe | Frontier)

 

Some prominent activists who say they stand for human rights and democracy have propagated hatred for the Rohingya, a double-standard that international watchdog groups weren’t fully aware of. 

 

Ko Zayar Lwin, 29, has become an icon in Myanmar’s activist community since his arrest in April 2019 for a Thangyat performance mocking the military. Zayar Lwin and four of his colleagues in the Peacock Generation troupe, who performed the traditional form of satirical theatre during the annual Thingyan festival, were charged with defamation and undermining the military, and face increasingly lengthy jail sentences. The plight of the young satirists has attracted international attention, even as the civilian government led by their idol State Counsellor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi has remained silent.

ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာေတြရဲ့ အေျခအေန မေျပာင္းလဲေသးဘူးလို႔ ျမန္မာ ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာမ်ားအသင္း-ယူေက ေျပာ

လြတ္လပ္တဲ့အာရွအသံ ( RFA )
ျမန္မာဌာန | သတင္းမ်ား
2020.05.26

■ျမန္မာအစိုးရဟာ ICJ နိုင္ငံတကာတရား႐ုံးရဲ့ ၾကားျဖတ္ စီရင္ခ်က္အမိန႔္အရ ပထမဆုံးအႀကိမ္ အစီရင္ခံ စာကို ၿပီးခဲ့တဲ့ အပတ္က တင္သြင္းခဲ့ပါတယ္။ ျမန္မာနိုင္ငံဘက္က တင္သြင္းတဲ့ အစီရင္ခံစာမွာ ဘယ္လို အေၾကာင္းအရာေတြ ပါဝင္တယ္ဆိုတာ မသိရေသးေပမယ့္ လူမ်ိဳးတုံးသတ္ျဖတ္မႈနဲ႔ ရင္ဆိုင္ေနရတဲ့ ရိုဟင္ ဂ်ာေတြရဲ့ အေျခအေနေတြ ေျပာင္းလဲမႈမရွိေသးဘူးလို႔ အဂၤလန္နိုင္ငံအေျခစိုက္ ျမန္မာရိုဟင္ဂ်ာမ်ား အသင္း -ယူေက က ေျပာလိုက္ပါတယ္။

ကုလသမဂၢလုံျခဳံေရးေကာင္စီနဲ႔ နိုင္ငံတကာအသိုင္းအဝိုင္းအေနနဲ႔ ျမန္မာနိုင္ငံကို ဖိအားေပးတာေတြ ႏွစ္ဆ တိုးၿပီး ဆက္လက္လုပ္ေဆာင္ၾကဖို႔ လိုတယ္လို႔လည္း ျမန္မာရိုဟင္ဂ်ာမ်ားအသင္း-ယူေက က ေၾကညာ ခ်က္ ထုတ္ျပန္တိုက္တြန္းလိုက္ပါတယ္။ အျပည့္အစုံကို ဆက္သြယ္ေမးျမန္းထားတဲ့ RFA ဝိုင္းေတာ္သား ကိုရဲေခါင္ျမင့္ေမာင္က တင္ျပထားပါတယ္။

လင့္၊https://www.facebook.com/rfaburmese/videos/3215753788649173

Myanmar submits first Rohingya case report to top UN court

DAILY SABAH
FRENCH PRESS AGENCY -
AFP
THE HAGUE ASIA PACIFIC
MAY 25, 2020

 Myanmar has submitted its first report to the International Court of Justice on steps it has taken to prevent the genocide of Rohingya Muslims, the U.N.'s top court said Monday.

The ICJ made a provisional order in January that majority-Buddhist Myanmar must take "all measures within its power" to stop the alleged genocide of the minority group, and that it must report to the court at regular intervals.

First coronavirus case found in Bangladesh Rohingya refugee camps

Aljazeera
15 May 2020

Aid groups alarmed as Rohingya tests positive for COVID-19 in the densely populated camps, home to a million refugees.

Rohingya refugees stand in line to collect food aid at the Kutupalong refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh [Shafiqur Rahman/AP]

The novel coronavirus has been detected in one of the camps in southern Bangladesh that are home to more than a million Rohingya refugees, according to officials.

An ethnic Rohingya refugee and a local person tested positive for COVID-19, a senior Bangladeshi official and a United Nations spokeswoman said on Thursday. It was the first confirmed case in the densely populated camps as humanitarian groups warned the infection could devastate the crowded settlement.

Solidarity with Rohingya — Burmese Rohingya Organisation UK

malaymail
Tuesday, 28 Apr 2020

APRIL 28 — The Burmese Rohingya Organisation UK (Brouk) is deeply concerned about growing online hate speech directed towards Rohingya refugees living in Malaysia. We appeal to the Malaysian government to condemn hateful comments against the Rohingya, to hold those responsible to account and to stand in solidarity and compassion with refugees.

Brouk furthermore wishes to express its deep gratitude towards the Malaysian authorities and Malaysian people for hosting tens of thousands of Rohingya refugees for decades, and for their strong political support for the Rohingya in the face of the ongoing genocide in Myanmar.

ICJ တရား႐ုံးဆုံးျဖတ္ခ်က္အေပၚ အျမင္တခ်ိဳ႕

လြတ္လပ္တဲ့အာရွအသံ ( RFA )
2020.01.23


ဂမ္ဘီယာနိုင္ငံက ျမန္မာနိုင္ငံကို ICJ အျပည္ျပည္ဆိုင္ရာတရား႐ုံးမွာ တရားစြဲထားတဲ့အေပၚ တရားသူႀကီး ေတြက ဒီေန႔ ဇန္နဝါရီလ ၂၃ ရက္ေန႔ နယ္သာလန္နိုင္ငံ ေဒသစံေတာ္ခ်ိန္ မနက္ ၁ဝ နာရီမွာ ၾကားျဖတ္ ဆုံးျဖတ္ခ်က္ (၄) ခ်က္ ခ်မွတ္လိုက္ပါတယ္။

ဒီဆုံးျဖတ္ခ်က္နဲ႔ပတ္သက္လို႔ နယ္သာလန္နိုင္ငံ သည္ဟိဂ္ၿမိဳ႕က ICJ တရား႐ုံးကို တက္ေရာက္နားေထာင္ ခဲ့တဲ့ လန္ဒန္ၿမိဳ႕အေျခစိုက္BROUK အဖြဲ႕ဥကၠ႒ ကိုထြန္းခင္၊ တရား႐ုံးေရွ႕ကို သြားေရာက္ဝန္းရံခဲ့တဲ့ နယ္ သာ လန္နိုင္ငံက ျမန္မာ့တပ္မေတာ္ (ေလ) တပ္ဖြဲ႕ဝင္ေဟာင္း ဦးခင္ေမာင္ေအးရဲ့ သေဘာထားေတြကို RFA ဝိုင္းေတာ္သား ကိုေနရိန္ေက်ာ္ SKYPE ကေန ဆက္သြယ္ေမးျမန္း တင္ျပထားပါတယ္။

လင့္၊https://www.rfa.org/burmese/program_2/icj-comments-hague-01232020095948.html

Is Myanmar guilty of genocide?

THE ASEAN POST
Sheith Khidhir
22 January 2020

 Rohingya refugees watch on a mobile phone a live feed of Myanmar's State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi's appearance at the UN's International Court of Justice, in a refugee camp in Cox's Bazar on 11 December, 2019.

It was recently reported that Myanmar had conceded that it had committed “war crimes” against its Rohingya Muslim community. This is as far as Myanmar has ever gone in admitting responsibility for the atrocities committed against its Rohingya minority. Still, to some observers, this is not good enough.

War crimes, not genocide committed against Rohingya: Myanmar probe

Bangkok Post
21 Jan 2020

A Rohingya refugee reacts while holding his dead son after crossing the Naf river from Myanmar into Bangladesh on October 9, 2017, about two months after operations by the Myanmar military began. 

YANGON - A Myanmar-appointed panel concluded Monday that some soldiers likely committed war crimes against its Rohingya Muslim community but the military was not guilty of genocide, findings swiftly condemned by rights groups.

War crimes, not genocide committed against Rohingya: Myanmar probe

AFP
20 January' 2020

A Rohingya refugee reacts while holding his dead son after crossing the Naf river from Myanmar into Bangladesh on October 9, 2017, about two months after operations by the Myanmar military began

Myanmar-appointed panel concluded Monday that some soldiers likely committed war crimes against its Rohingya Muslim community but the military was not guilty of genocide, findings swiftly condemned by rights groups.

Rohingya group blasts panel report on violence against community

theSundaily
21 Jan 2020

Rohingya refugees gather near the fence in the “no man’s land” zone between Myanmar and Bangladesh border as seen from Maungdaw, Rakhine state during a government-organized visit for journalists on Aug 24, 2018 — AFP

 

KUALA LUMPUR: A UK-based Rohingya group Monday dismissed a report published by Myanmar’s Independent Commission of Enquiry (ICOE) the same day which concluded that no evidence of genocide was found despite proof of war crimes committed by some members of Myanmar security forces.

Myanmar finds war crimes but no genocide in Rohingya crackdown

Aljazeera
2020.01.21
ICOE report comes days before UN's top court issues ruling on whether urgent measures are necessary to stop genocide.

Rohingya, who have lived in Myanmar for generations, fled to Bangladesh in 2017 and are fearful of returning without guarantees on their rights and citizenship [File: Mohammad Ponir Hossain/Reuters]

A commission set up to investigate the 2017 crackdown in Rakhine that led hundreds of thousands of mostly Muslim Rohingya to flee Myanmar, has concluded that while some soldiers probably committed war crimes there was no genocide.

The Independent Commission of Enquiry (ICOE) released the findings of its investigation, but not the full report, to the country's president on Monday, a few days before the United Nations' top court is set to rule on whether to impose urgent measures to stop the alleged continuing genocide in Myanmar. 

ICJ, ICC ဖိအားများနှင့် မြန်မာ ဘယ်လိုအခြေအနေမျိုးဖြင့် ရင်ဆိုင်ရမည်နည်း

ELEVEN
Opinion
မင်းနိုင်စိုး
17 November 2019

စက်တင်ဘာ ၂၈ ရက်က နယူးယောက်မြို့ ကုလသမဂ္ဂဌာနချုပ်၌ ကျင်းပသည့် (၇၄) ကြိမ်မြောက် ကုလသမဂ္ဂအထွေထွေညီလာခံ အထွေထွေမူဝါဒရေးရာဆွေးနွေးပွဲ၏ ပဉ္စမနေ့ အစည်းအဝေးတွင် ပြည်ထောင်စုဝန်ကြီး ဦးကျော်တင့်ဆွေ မိန့်ခွန်းပြောကြားစဉ်

( ၁ )
ရခိုင်ပြည်နယ်မြောက်ပိုင်းတွင် အမြစ်တွယ်နေသည့် ဘင်္ဂါလီအရေးပြဿနာသည် နိုင်ငံတကာမျက်နှာစာတွင် မြန်မာနိုင်ငံ၏ ပုံရိပ်ကိုကျဆင်းစေပြီး အထူးသဖြင့် မောင်တော၊ ဘူးသီးတောင်နှင့် ရသေ့တောင်မြို့နယ်များတွင် ARSA အကြမ်းဖက်အဖွဲ့အစည်း၏ အကြမ်းဖက်လုပ်ရပ်များကြောင့် ဖြစ်ပေါ်ခဲ့ရသည့် ပဋိပ က္ခများသည် ဒီမိုက ရေ စီသို့ ဦးတည်လျှောက်လှမ်းနေသည့် မြန်မာနိုင်ငံအတွက် ဖြေရှင်းရန် အခက်ခဲဆုံးနှင့် အရှုပ်ထွေးဆုံးစိန်ခေါ်မှု တစ်ခုဖြစ်လာခဲ့သည်။

ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ အမႈဖြင့္ခံရမႈ ဘယ္ေလာက္ သက္ ေရာက္နိုင္လဲ

B B C

ဘီဘီစီ ၿမန္မာပိုင္း
14 နိုဝဘၤာ 2019

ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာေတြ အေပၚ က်ဴးလြန္တဲ့ ရာဇဝတ္မႈေတြ အတြက္ ဆိုၿပီး နိုင္ငံေတာ္ အတိုင္ပင္ခံ ပုဂၢိဳလ္ ေဒၚေအာင္ ဆန္းစုၾကည္ကိုပါ နာမည္တပ္ တရားစြဲတဲ့ လုပ္ရပ္ ထပ္ၿပီး ေပၚေပါက္ လာပါတယ္။

Universal Jurisdiction လို႔ ေခၚတဲ့ ကမၻာ့ေနရာတိုင္းမွာ စုံစမ္း စီရင္ပိုင္ခြင့္ကို သုံးၿပီး ျမန္မာ အရပ္ဘက္၊ စစ္ ဘက္ ေခါင္းေဆာင္ေတြ အေပၚ စုံစမ္း စစ္ေဆးေပးဖို႔ ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာ အေရး လႈပ္ရွားသူေတြ အာဂ်င္တီးနားမွာ တိုင္ခ်က္ဖြင့္ ေလၽွာက္ထားလိုက္တာ ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။

ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာအဖြဲ႕က ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ႏွင့္ ကာခ်ဳပ္ကို အာဂ်င္တီးနားတရား႐ုံးတြင္ အမႈဖြင့္

DVB

By DVB
14 November 2019

နိုင္ငံေတာ္အတိုင္ပင္ခံပုဂၢိဳလ္ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္၊ တပ္မေတာ္ကာကြယ္ေရး ဦးစီးခ်ဳပ္ ဗိုလ္ခ်ဳပ္မႉးႀကီး မင္းေအာင္လွိုင္၊ သမၼတေဟာင္း ဦးသိန္းစိန္နဲ႔ ဦးထင္ေက်ာ္တို႔ကို ယူေကအေျခစိုက္ ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာအသင္းက အာဂ်င္တီးနားနိုင္ငံမွာ အမႈဖြင့္လိုက္ပါတယ္။

ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာေတြအေပၚ က်ဴးလြန္တဲ့ရာဇဝတ္မႈေတြနဲ႔ စြပ္စြဲၿပီး ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာအဖြဲ႕နဲ႔ လက္တင္ အေမရိကန္ လူ႔အခြင့္ အေရးအဖြဲ႕ေတြက အာဂ်င္တီးနားနိုင္ငံရဲ့ နိုင္ငံတကာ တရားစီရင္ပိုင္ခြင့္အရ နိုဝင္ဘာ ၁၃ ရက္ေန႔မွာ တိုင္ ၾကားအမႈဖြင့္လိုက္တာပါ။

Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi faces first legal action over Rohingya crisis

The Guardian
Agence France-Presse
Thu 14 Nov 2019

Case launches in Argentina under ‘universal jurisdiction’ demanding justice over ‘existential threat’ to minority

Aung San Suu Kyi has been named in a court case seeking ‘criminal sanction’ over the treatment of the Rohingya minority in Myanmar. Photograph: Nyein Chan Naing/EPA 

Aung San Suu Kyi is among several top Myanmar officials named in a case filed in Argentina for crimes against Rohingya Muslims, the first time the Nobel Laureate has been legally targeted over the crisis.

Rohingya and Latin American human rights groups submitted the lawsuit in Argentina on Wednesday under the principle of “universal jurisdiction,” a legal concept enshrined in many countries’ laws.