Rohingya campaigners launch Myanmar boycott

Aljazeera
09-12-2019

The Free Rohingya Coalition begins 'Boycott Myanmar Campaign' in the face of genocide hearings at the ICJ.

More than 730,000 Rohingya fled to neighbouring Bangladesh following the brutal crackdown by the military in August 2017 [File: Dar Yasin/AP] 

Human rights campaigners supporting Myanmar's Rohingya mainly Muslim minority have called for a global boycott of the country, a day before genocide hearings begin at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague.

The Free Rohingya Coalition (FRC) said in a statement on Monday it was starting the "Boycott Myanmar Campaign" with 30 organisations in 10 countries. It called on "corporations, foreign investors, professional and cultural organizations to sever their institutional ties with Myanmar".

Global movement 'Boycott Myanmar Campaign' launched

Dhaka Tribune 
Tribune Desk
December 9th, 2019

File photo of a Rohingya Camp Syed Zakir Hossain/Dhaka Tribune

The launch of the campaign coincided with Suu Kyi's arrival in the Hague
Around 30 human rights, academic and professional organizations from 10 countries have jointly launched a campaign worldwide to boycott Myanmar over allegations of genocide and crimes against humanity towards ethnic minorities.

Rights groups launch Myanmar boycott ahead of Hague genocide hearings

REUTERS
December 9, 2019

FILE PHOTO: Myanmar's State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi departs from Naypyidaw International Airport ahead of her appearance at the International Court of Justice to defend the country against charges of genocide of its Rohingya Muslim minority, in Naypyidaw, Myanmar, December 8, 2019. Myanmar's State Counsellor Office/Handout via REUTERS 

 

THE HAGUE (Reuters) - Human rights campaigners supporting Myanmar’s Rohingya Muslim minority on Monday called for a global boycott of the country, a day before genocide hearings begin at the International Court of Justice in The Hague.

Myanmar leader and Nobel Peace prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, who arrived in the Netherlands on Sunday, will defend her country’s record during three days of hearings initiated after a lawsuit was filed by Gambia in November.

'Boycott Myanmar Campaign' launched

The Daily Star

December 09, 2019

Star Online Report

   

In a bid to force Myanmar to bear economic, cultural, diplomatic and political pressure globally, 30 human rights, academic and professional organizations of 10 countries today jointly launched a campaign to boycott the south Asian country.

“Join the movement to stop funding and legitimizing Myanmar genocide and to support justice, accountability and equality for Rohingya people.”

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08th December2019

ၿမန္မာနိုင္ငံသို့ ေငြအေၿမာက္အၿမား၊ရင္းႏွီးၿမွဳပ္ႏွံမွဳ အမ်ားအၿပား ဘယ္ကဝင္လာသလဲ။ ၿမန္မာနိုင္ငံ၏ ဘတ္ဂ်က္ေငြသံုးပံုနွစ္ပံုကို စစ္လက္နက္ ပစၥည္းမ်ားဝယ္ယူၿပီး၊တိုင္းရင္းသားမ်ားအပါအဝင္ ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာ မ်ားအား လူမ်ဳိးတံုးသတ္ၿဖတ္မွဳမ်ားကို အၿမန္ဆံုးရပ္တန့္ေအာင္ ကြ်န္ပ္တို့ စြမ္းေဆာင္နိုင္ေသာနည္းလမ္းမွာ " BOYCOTT MYANMAR " ၿပဳလုပ္ရန္ၿဖစ္ပါသည္။

 ေအာက္ကပံုကိုၾကည့္ပါ။ ၿမန္မာတပ္မေတာ္က စစ္လက္နက္ပစၥည္းမ်ားကို မည္သည့္နိုင္ငံမ်ားမွ ေဒၚလာသန္းေပါင္းမ်ားစြာၿဖင့္ ဝယ္ယူေနသည္ကို ေတြ့ၿမင္နိုင္ပါသည္။

‘Boycott Myanmar’

The Daily Star
November 30, 2019
Porimol Palma

Rohingyas plan global campaign as ICJ set to start hearing on genocide case

Rohingyas across Europe have planned mass rallies and a global campaign, “Boycott Myanmar”, to globally drum up their demands for justice as the International Court of Justice (ICJ) begins its first ever hearing on the genocide case against Myanmar on December 10.

The European Rohingya Council (ERC) and Myanmar Muslim Association Netherlands (MMAN) are organising a Rohingya solidarity rally from December 10 to 12 in front of the ICJ at The Hague, Netherlands.