OPINION - Arakan resistance assist Rohingya in their common quest for int'l accountability

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Maung Zarni 

09.09.2020 

 

Arakan Army/ULA emerging as an unseemly ally and collaborator of Rohingya victims seeking justice and a peaceful homeland 

It is really welcome news for the Rohingya campaigning for justice and accountability that the International Criminal Court (ICC) has reportedly brought to The Hague two Myanmar army deserters who could provide first-person accounts as perpetrators in the genocidal killings of Rohingya families, including women and babies.

OPINION - What solidarity means for Rohingya survivors of Myanmar Genocide?

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Maung Zarni
27.08.2020

Past 3 years, Rohingya are defined not by victimhood, but by incredible ability to survive, revive, rejuvenate as people

 The writer is a Burmese academic and coordinator of the Free Rohingya Coalition and a fellow at the Genocide Documentation Center in Cambodia.

 

LONDON

The third anniversary of Myanmar’s largest wave of the genocidal purge of the Rohingya community in western Rakhine province on Aug. 25 was marked by the memories of massacres, rapes, and displacement of 750,000 people from nearly 400 villages.

Due to both the COVID-19 lockdown and the nearly one-year-long internet ban imposed by Bangladesh, survivors of Myanmar genocide in the camps could only engage in “silent commemorative events” in their little huts made of plastic sheets.

OPINION - Time to add Myanmar’s most influential genocidal monk Sitagu to ICC List

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Maung Zarni
05.08.2020

LONDON

In November last year, the International Criminal Court (ICC) moved to begin the full investigation into Myanmar’s violent international crimes and other events connected to the exodus of Rohingya from western Myanmar in decades.

In August 2017, Myanmar Tatmadaw, or the military, launched the "Security Clearance Operations," which resulted in the exodus of 750,000 Rohingya from across the borders into the adjacent Bangladesh city of Teknaf.

What Future for Rakhine?: End Games for the Arakanese (Rakhine, Rohingyas and Other Co-habitants)

Co-organised by SOAS, FORSEA & Free Rohingya Coalition
 

Reconciliation between Rakhine and Rohingyas is essential before repatriation: Experts

THE BUSINESS STANDARD

16 July, 2020, 

 

The discussions also addressed the status of the genocide of Rohingyas, the limitations of international law and accountability mechanisms (such as ICJ and ICC) 

 

Rohingya refugee camp in Ukhia, Cox's Bazar. File Photo: Salahuddin Ahmed/TBS 

 

Experts on Thursday said in a special online seminar there are possibilities for reconciliation between the two largest co-habiting ethnic communities of Rakhine – Rakhine and Rohingya.

They also opined that reconciliation is a must before repatriation of Rohingyas in Myanmar.

The seminar titled "What Future for Rakhine?: End Games for the Arakanese (Rakhine, Rohingyas and Other Co-habitants)" was jointly organised by Free Rohingya Coalition, Forces of Renewal Southeast Asia and SOAS School of Interdisciplinary Studies.

EXCLUSIVE: 'Rohingya issue, not Muslims v/s Buddhist paradigm'

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Mehmet Ozturk, Iftikhar Gilani, Sorwar Alam and Ahmet Gurhan Kartal
ANKARA/LONDON 
27.06.2020


In an exclusive interaction, Maung Zarni said Myanmar was taking advantage of strategic rivalry between China and India

Maung Zarni, 56, scholar and activist, known for his opposition to the violence in Myanmar and his support to the Rohingya population said the Burmese military was taking advantage of strategic rivalry between China and India and blamed genocide of Rohingya to an institutional hate campaign.

Born in a Burmese Buddhist family, Zarni said a campaign of ignorance was manufactured in his country through schools, mass media, and Buddhist organizations against Rohingya, which eventually culminated in the genocide.

Argentinian court decision brings hope for Rohingya

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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.

‘World court ruling brings hope to persecuted Rohingya’

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Riyaz ul Khali
01.02.2020
In an exclusive interview with Anadolu Agency, Muang Zarni says, reconciliation impossible till Myanmar is held accountable 

In a landmark judgment, the Hague-based International Court of Justice (ICJ) on Jan. 23 ordered Myanmar to take all necessary measures to protect Rohingya Muslims from genocide.

In an exclusive interview with Anadolu Agency, Myanmarese author and human rights activist Maung Zarni, 57, known for supporting Rohingya, explains the significance of the judgment and the road ahead.

Myanmar on Trial: Will the Government enforce the ICJ's Ruling?

TRT WORLD
Jan 24, 2020

The International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruled that Myanmar’s government must protect the Rohingya Muslim minority from acts of genocide. That was despite a robust defence from de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi. Once a human rights champion, the Nobel Peace Prize winner has seen her international reputation crumble, after she defended the very military that had locked her away for 15 years. Suu Kyi and her government reject the ruling, and condemn human rights groups for painting a distorted picture. 

Guests: 

• Maung Zarni Co-ordinator of Free Rohingya Coalition 
• Nyo Ohn Myint Former Member of Myanmar's National League for Democracy 
• Michael Becker Former Lawyer at International Court of Justice

Link :https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQJptpVDZ6o&fbclid=IwAR0XKuQCR4dfQUybLbGOT1KSrM4vrIXgGB0XJNAbACpjwVllaQAsLs2Ak0U

OPINION - ICJ interim genocide ruling on Myanmar vindicates Rohingya

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Maung Zarni 

LONDON | 

24.01.2020 

Historic decision of World Court makes voice of Rohingya Muslims eventually heard after years-long persecution 

Maung Zarni, The writer is a Burmese coordinator of the Free Rohingya Coalition and a fellow of the Genocide Documentation Center in Cambodia.

Rohingya around the world on Thursday shared a pervasive sense of vindication after four-decades of policy-inflicted sufferings at the hands of Myanmar state which has systematically sought to destroy their identity and physical existence in the country.

ျမန္မာမီဒီယာေတြကို ၿခိမ္းေျခာက္ေနတဲ့ "ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာ"ေလာ္ ဘီမ်ား

ဧရာဝတီ
ထြန္းထြန္း 

22 January 2020

“ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာ” အေရး လႈပ္ရွားသူ အမည္ခံကာ ျမန္မာနိုင္ငံအေပၚ ျပင္းျပင္းထန္ထန္ ေဝဖန္ေနသူ / Maung Zarni

ၿပီးခဲ့တဲ့ ၂၀၁၉ ခုႏွစ္ကုန္ပိုင္းမွာ ျမန္မာ့မီဒီယာအေနနဲ႔ ထူးျခားတဲ့ ၿခိမ္းေျခာက္ဖိအားေပးျခင္း ခံခဲ့ရပါတယ္။ လက္နက္ကိုင္တပ္ဖြဲ႕ကလည္း မဟုတ္၊ အာဏာပိုင္ေတြကလည္း မဟုတ္ပါဘူး။

“ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာ” ဆိုတဲ့ အမည္နာမကို ျမန္မာအစိုးရက အသိအမွတ္ျပဳေရး ႀကိဳးပမ္းေနတဲ့ ျပည္ပေရာက္ေတြပါ။

သူတို႔ဟာ ျပည္တြင္း အေျခစိုက္ မီဒီယာေတြအေပၚ ၿခိမ္းေျခာက္တာေတြ၊ လူပုဂၢိဳလ္တဦးခ်င္းအေပၚ ပစ္မွတ္ ထား စြပ္စြဲတိုက္ခိုက္တာေတြ Facebook စာမ်က္ႏွာေတြေပၚမွာ လုပ္ခဲ့ၾကပါတယ္။

OPINION - Myanmar gov't doggedly continues with its genocide denial

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Maung Zarni

LONDON

21.01.2020

'Myanmar's de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi and her partners in crimes should know that denial is a part of genocide'

The writer is a Burmese coordinator of the Free Rohingya Coalition and a fellow of the Genocide Documentation Center in Cambodia.

 

After having co-presided with the visiting Chinese president Xi Jinping over the signing of 33 agreements, including bilateral trade deals, Memorandums of Understanding, strategic partnership agreements, and technical cooperation, Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi was all smile again this Monday.

Why Myanmar’s genocide denial will come back to haunt it

The Washington Post
By Maung Zarni
Jan. 15, 2020

Aung San Suu Kyi speaks at the International Court of Justice in the Hague on Dec. 11, 2019. (Yves Herman/Reuters)

Maung Zarni is the co-founder of FORSEA, a grass-roots organization of Southeast Asian human rights defenders, and the co-author of “Essays on Myanmar’s Genocide of Rohingyas.”

Last month, Myanmar’s de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi took the stand at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in the Hague to rebut allegations that her country’s systematic persecution of its Rohingya population amounts to genocide. Aung San Suu Kyi, once lionized for her stand against an oppressive military dictatorship, strenuously denied the charges — despite reams of evidence and the presence of nearly 1 million Rohingyas in refugee camps in Bangladesh. They ended up there after fleeing a so-called counterterrorism campaign by the Myanmar military in 2017 that left uncounted thousands dead.

Myanmar continues to make mistakes of the past

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By Maung Zarni

2020.01.14

January 4 marked the 72nd anniversary of Myanmar’s independence from Britain. The civil war in which the country – a patchwork of diverse ethnic regions, with mutually incomprehensible languages, unerasable regional identities and distinct political histories – was born has come a full circle.

It is noteworthy that modern Myanmar was not the creation of nationalists. It was born out of the external shock of the Second World War and the dissolution of external colonial powers.

Burmese Buddhist scholar and activist offers Rohingya genocide survivors his heart-felt apology

Rohingya Today
The Hague, 12 Dec 2019

Free Rohingya Coalition

Burmese Buddhist scholar and activist Dr. Maung Zarni offers Rohingya genocide survivors his heart-felt apology on behalf of the "good Burmese", Forum for Rohingyas' Right to Reply (Myanmar's Official Denial of Genocide at the World Court, The Hague, 12 Dec 2019).

Link:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCXHAoGDJm0

Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi: 'Defending the indefensible'

Aljazeera 
UPFRONT
13 Dec 2019

We discuss Aung San Suu Kyi's appearance at the International Court of Justice with rights activist Maung Zarni.

This week Myanmar's de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi appeared at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague to defend her country against accusations of genocide, in a lawsuit brought by The Gambia.

The battle of The Hague

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LINES OF THOUGHT ACROSS SOUTHEAST ASIA
Andrew Haffner
December 12, 2019

As Myanmar's de-facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi takes the unprecedented step of defending her nation on charges of genocide in front of the International Court of Justice, Rohingya Muslims watch on with fear and trepidation using mobiles phones from refugee camps in Bangladesh 

WHY WE WROTE THIS: Because questions remain over how and when the perpetrators of mass violence in Myanmar will ever be held to justice

Myanmar's State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi attending the start of a three-day hearing on the Rohingya genocide case before the ICJ at the Peace Palace in The Hague. Photo: Frank Van Beek/UN Photo/ICJ/AFP

As the sun sets over Jamtoli refugee camp in southern Bangladesh’s Cox’s Bazar, several men are still out on a hilltop in search of phone signal. Some were squatting, others standing, but all were looking down at screens in their hands watching a court case unfolding 7,500km away. They might not be legal experts, but each already had an intimate knowledge of the case.

OPINION - Aung San Suu Kyi drives final nail in Myanmar’s moral coffin

Maung Zarni

LONDON

10.12.2019 

Once seen as saintly human rights advocate as daughter of Burma's revered founder, Aung San Suu Kyi now defends genocide

 Wearing a shawl that resembles the flag of the Netherlands, Aung San Suu Kyi arrived at Schiphol International Airport in Amsterdam, flanked with her senior deputies including the Minister for the State Counsellor Office, Kyaw Tint Swe, and the Minister for International Cooperation, Kyaw Tint. I can not help thinking what might be going through the Myanmar leader’s mind. But I can speculate that she may be deluding herself as the daughter journeying in her father's footsteps. Her father, Gen. Aung San was considered by the majority of Burmese to be the founder of modern Myanmar.

Stopping Genocide – OpEd

eurasiareview

December 9, 2019  
Dr. Habib Siddiqui

Displaced Rohingya people in Rakhine State, Burma. Photo Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Wikipedia Commons.

I have repeatedly said that genocide never happens suddenly. It’s planned over a long period of time by perpetrators that require support top-down so that it becomes a national project to eliminate the targeted group. Such sinister initiative requires the support from evil intellectuals (the likes of Julius Streicher of the Nazi campaign in Germany) and financiers who must propagate with their intellects and finances to create enthusiasm within the larger executing community.

ဂျီနိုဆိုက်စွပ်စွဲမှုနောက်ကွယ်က ဒေါက်တာဇာနည်

Frontier 
MYANMAR
Monday, December 09, 2019
စည်သူအောင်မြင့် ရေးသားသည်။

၂၀၁၇ နိုဝင်ဘာ ၂ ရက်က မြန်မာနိုင်ငံမှ ဘင်္ဂလားဒေ့ရှ်ဘက် ထွက်ခွာသွားသူများကို တွေ့ရစဉ်။ ဓာတ်ပုံ - အေအက်ဖ္ပီ

အပြည်ပြည်ဆိုင်ရာတရားရုံး၌စွဲဆိုမှုကို မြန်မာနိုင်ငံက သွားရောက်ဖြေရှင်းရသည်ထိ မြန်မာနိုင်ငံမှနိုင်ငံခြား ရောက်သွားသူ ပညာတတ်တစ်ဦးက စွမ်းဆောင်ခဲ့သည်။

ရခိုင်ပြည်နယ်မြောက်ပိုင်းက ရိုဟင်ဂျာ/မူဆလင်တွေ (မြန်မာအစိုးရက ရိုဟင်ဂျာ ဆိုတဲ့ အခေါ်အဝေါ်ကို အသိ အမှတ်မပြု) အရေးနဲ့ပတ်သက်ပြီး လူ့အခွင့်အရေးချိုးဖောက်မှုတွေရှိနေတယ်၊ ခွဲခြား ဆက်ဆံခံရပြီး သူတို့အပေါ် ရာဇဝတ်မှု ကျူးလွန်မှုတွေ ရှိနေတယ်လို့ စွပ်စွဲနေကြတာ အတော်ကြာပါပြီ။