The Rohingya Activists Facing Abduction Threats from Myanmar for Fighting for the

BYLINE TIMES

Tasnim Nazeer

9 December 2019

With Aung San Suu Kyi due to appear at the UN’s highest court tomorrow to face questions over Myanmar’s persecution of its Rohingya Muslims, Tasnim Nazeer explores why the international community must stand up against its intimidation of those fighting for justice. 

 

 

Two leading Buddhist activists of the Rohingya campaign in Europe are fearing for their lives after calls for their abduction were circulated in a video message by Aye Ne Win, the grandson of the former dictator of Myanmar.

Rohingya campaigners say won't be 'silenced' by online threats

Al Jazeera
Usaid Siddiqui
06 December 2019
Ro Nay San Lwin and Maung Zarni tell Al Jazeera they fear for their lives but will not be 'silenced' by online abuse.

 Lwin, left, and Zarni have been in exile outside Myanmar for the past 18 and 30 years respectively [DW News/Anadolu]

Two prominent Rohingya campaigners say they are facing increased online abuse, including death threats, for their work, with the latest warning coming from the grandson of former Myanmar ruler Ne Win who called for their abduction.

Ro Nay San Lwin, a prominent Rohingya activist based in Germany, and Maung Zarni, an academic living in exile in the United Kingdom, have told Al Jazeera that they fear for their lives but will not be "silenced" by the online harassment.

Key Rohingya Campaigners Face Abduction Threats

FARS NEWS AGENCY
Sun Dec 01, 2019

TEHRAN (FNA)- Two leading figures of the Rohingya campaign in Europe are fearing for their lives after calls for their abduction were circulated in a racist video message.

London-based Maung Zarni and Germany-based Nay San Lwin said they were targeted by Aye Ne Win, a businessman who allegedly financed the genocide against the ethnic group in Myanmar, Anadolu news agency reported.

Key Rohingya campaigners face abduction threats

AA
Sorwar Alam |
30.11.2019

Rohingya campaigners Nay San Lwin and Maung Zarni

Two leading figures of the Rohingya campaign in Europe are fearing for their lives after calls for their abduction were circulated in a racist video message.

London-based Maung Zarni and Germany-based Nay San Lwin said they were targeted by Aye Ne Win, a businessman who allegedly financed the genocide against the ethnic group in Myanmar.

In a video circulated on social media, Win urged Myanmar's intelligence service to launch an Israel-style operation to kidnap the two activists.

Key Rohingya campaigners face abduction threats

AA

Sorwar Alam

ANKARA

30.11.2019 

 
2 Myanmar Buddhist and leading Rohingya campaigners in Europe claim they face threats from Myanmar 

Two leading figures of the Rohingya campaign in Europe are fearing for their lives after calls for their abduction were circulated in a racist video message.

London-based Maung Zarni and Germany-based Nay San Lwin said they were targeted by Aye Ne Win, a businessman who allegedly financed the genocide against the ethnic group in Myanmar.

In a video circulated on social media, Win urged Myanmar's intelligence service to launch an Israel-style operation to kidnap the two activists.

Myanmar: New Al Jazeera documentary uncovers Rohingya abuse

Aljazeera
by Osama Bin Javaid

24 November 2019

As Myanmar goes on trial at the International Court of Justice over its crackdown on Muslim Rohingya, Al Jazeera sheds new light on some of its alleged crimes.

 
Myanmar's leader Aung San Suu Kyi is expected to defend her military against allegations of genocide at the International Court of Justice.
The army is accused of targeting the country's Rohingya Muslim minority in 2017.
A documentary being aired on Al Jazeera sheds new light on the abuses.
Al Jazeera's Osama Bin Javaid reports.
Warning, this report contains some disturbing images- -

Link:https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/11/myanmar-al-jazeera-documentary-uncovers-rohingya-abuse-191124100506089.html?fbclid=IwAR3VhiPC6-a04VZI5hG8CD8lrP7G3ekJJZ8WShZQQsBA6at77V4j0LINmYs

ျမန္မာကို သပိတ္ေမွာက္ဖို႔ ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာ လြတ္ေျမာက္ေရး ညြန႔္ေပါင္းအဖြဲ႕ လုပ္မယ္

MCN TV NEWS CHANNEL
20 November 2019

OPINION - Global wheel of justice begins to turn for Rohingya

AA

Maung Zarni 

LONDON

17.11.2019 

 

International courts' decisions must reflect Rohingya genocide survivors’ concerns, priorities and voices 

 Coordinated or coincidental, Rohingya activists and international actors justice-seekers this week made historic moves to activate available global justice mechanisms to hold Myanmar accountable for its international state crimes, specifically against Rohingya people.

The three specific mechanisms of criminal accountability are the International Court of Justice, the International Criminal Court and the principle of Universal Jurisdictions in Argentina, where the national judiciary recognizes and honors the principle.

Why Aung San Suu Kyi’s ‘Mandela moment’ is a victory for Myanmar’s generals

The Guardian

Opinion

Myanmar 

Maung Zarni

Mon 9 Nov 2015  

Last modified on Wed 29 Nov 2017

With a constitution that safeguards its immense power and wealth, the military knows that, unlike in 1990, it doesn’t need a crackdown to keep its regime intact 

NLD supporters in Myanmar ‘experience another ephemeral wave of euphoria’. Photograph: Zuma Wire/REX Shutterstock

  

Though in exile 6,000 miles away from Myanmar, I can almost taste the euphoria. Aung San Suu Kyi’s wildly popular opposition – the National League for Democracy – has won a landslide in the multiparty elections, and 31 million voters, most apparently backing the NLD, are savouring a long-awaited moment of jubilation. The NLD leader, whom they call Amay or mother, appeared on TV, her eyes shining with tears of joy. 

Rohingya refugees caught between a rock and a hard place

TRT WORLD
13 September 2019

An increasingly frustrated Dhaka government and a hostile Myanmar government have pushed Rohingya refugees into a corner with nowhere to go.

It has been two years since a brutal military campaign waged by Myanmar authorities triggered an exodus of at least 700,000 Rohingya Muslims to Bangladesh — an operation that rights groups have branded “ethnic cleansing” or “genocide.”

A UN fact-finding mission has documented major abuses in Rakhine since 2016, including widespread killings and torching of villages, and said its findings warrant prosecution for war crimes and crimes against humanity in a forum such as the International Criminal Court.

Applying law to end Myanmar’s impunity for genocide

AA

Maung Zarni 

Article

02.07.2019

Prosecutor to probe alleged crimes in which at least one element occurred in Bangladesh, a state party to the Rome Statute

*The author is a Burmese coordinator of the Free Rohingya Coalition, an umbrella network of Rohingya refugees and human rights activists, and co-author, with Natalie Brinham, of "Essays on Myanmar Genocide" (2019).


LONDON
As Myanmar continues to commit crimes against the Rohingya people, the international legal community appears to be buzzing with measured excitement over the possibility of holding the country’s senior-most perpetrators accountable for genocide and other crimes against humanity, and justifiably so.

The UN Has Failed the Rohingya in Myanmar. Now it Should Take Responsibility

THE WIRE
Maung Zarni
Article

30th June 2019

 Rohingya refugees who fled from Myanmar wait to be let through by Bangladeshi border guards after crossing the border in Palang Khali, Bangladesh October 16, 2017. Photo: Reuters/Zohra Bensemra

 The United Nations recently accepted a 36-page report that examined the body’s systemic failures in the country.

The United Nations recently accepted a 36-page report that examined the body’s involvement in Myanmar from 2010 to 2018.

The report, by former Guatemalan foreign minister and UN executive Gert Rosenthal, acknowledges that there were “systemic failures” in how the UN responded to the crisis in Myanmar.

Rohingya group backs ICC probe into Myanmar’s atrocity

AA

Zuhal Demirci | 

27.06.2019

ANKARA 

 

International court forms bench to look into request for probing Myanmar's deportation of Rohingya Muslims

A Rohingya group Thursday called for an International Criminal Court (ICC) investigation into Myanmar’s crimes against humanity after an ICC prosecutor announced her intent to submit a request to probe deportation of Rohingya Muslims.

The ICC said that it assigned a three-judge panel to hear prosecutor Fatou Bensouda’s request to open an investigation into the Rohingyas' deportation from Myanmar.

Activists welcome UN's financial boycott of Myanmar

AA

Md. Kamruzzaman | 

15.05.2019

UN panel recommend bringing Myanmar’s military commanders before credible court for trial

DHAKA

Rohingya activists and their international supporters have welcomed and endorsed the UN panel's call for the withdrawal of financial and other supports to Myanmar and fair trial of its military commanders on charges of war crime and genocide.

႐ိုဟင္ဂ်ာအေရး အေျဖရွာဖို႔ မေလးရွားမွာ ေဆြးေႏြး

VOA

ဗြီအိုုေအ (ျမန္မာဌာန)

28 မတ္၊ 2019 

မအင္ၾကင္းႏိုင္

ရခုိင္ျပည္နယ္ ေျမာက္ပိုင္းမွာ ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာေတြ အေပၚ လူမ်ိဳးတံုး သတ္ျဖတ္မႈ၊ လူမ်ိဳးစု အလုုိက္ ရွင္းလင္း  ဖယ္ ရွားမႈ အထိ က်ဴးလြန္ခဲ႔တဲ႔ ႏုုိင္ငံတကာ ရာဇ၀တ္မႈေတြ အဆံုးသတ္ေစေရး က်ဴးလြန္ခဲ႔သူေတြကိုု ICC ၊ ICJ ႏိုင္ငံတကာ တရားရံုးေတြကေန ကိုင္တြယ္ အေျဖရွာသင့္ေၾကာင္း မေလးရွား ႏုုိင္ငံမွာ ျပဳလုပ္ခဲ႔တဲ႔ ရိုုဟင္ဂ်ာ အေရး ႏိုင္ငံတကာ ေဆြးေႏြးပြဲက တိုုက္တြန္းခဲ႔ပါတယ္။ မတ္လ ၂၅ - ၂၆ ရက္ထိ မေလးရွားမွာ က်င္းပတဲ႔ ေဆြးေႏြးပြဲကိုေတာ့ မေလးရွား ႏုုိင္ငံျခားေရး ၀န္ႀကီး Saifuddin Abdullah နဲ႔ မေလးရွား ႏိုင္ငံျခားေရး ၀န္ ႀကီးေဟာင္း Syed Hamid Syed Jaafar Albar တိုု႔ တက္ေရာက္ခဲ႔ၾကပါတယ္။ မအင္ၾကင္းႏိုင္က အျပည့္ အစံု တင္ျပမွာပါ။

INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON THE PATH TO JUSTICE FOR THE ROHINGYAS : THE INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT (ICC) & OTHER INTERNATIONAL ACCOUNTABILITY MECHANISMS.

GLOBAL PEACE
MALAYSIA
26.03.2019


Live Session 4: The OIC & ASEAN Efforts on Rohingya: Now and
Beyond & Symposium Declaration

Moderator: Muhammad Faisal Abdul Aziz, Secretary General ABIM

Expert speakers: Tan Sri Syed Hamid Albar,Former OIC Special Envoy to Myanmar (OIC Convoy)
Ahmad Azam Abdul Rahman,Deputy Secretary General Union of NGOs of Islamic World (UNIW)

Eric Paulsen
Malaysia’s Representative to ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights (AICHR)[2019-2021]

INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON THE PATH TO JUSTICE FOR THE ROHINGYAS : THE INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT (ICC) & OTHER INTERNATIONAL ACCOUNTABILITY MECHANISMS.

Commentary: Why Myanmar Must Develop an Identity of Inclusion

LION'S ROAR
BUDDHIST WISDOM FOR OUR TIME
lby Khin Mai Aung| February 28, 2019

Khin Mai Aung reports from the International Conference on Protection and Accountability in Burma, which called attention to the ongoing human rights violations against Rohingya muslims and other religious minorities in the Buddhist-majority country of Myanmar.

Khin Mai Aung (center) at the International Conference on Protection and Accountability in Burma.

On February 8 and 9, the Free Rohingya Coalition – a global advocacy group led by prominent Rohingya activists and allies – hosted the International Conference on Protection and Accountability in Burma (now called Myanmar) at Barnard College in New York City. The conference — at which I was an organizer and a speaker — sought to raise awareness about “the twofold need [for] protection and accountability” for the human rights of Rohingya and other minorities in Myanmar. Scholars, lawyers, activists, and United Nations officials gathered at the convening to identify strategies to curb serious human rights violations in Myanmar, which include discrimination against ethnic and religious minorities, jailing and intimidation of journalists, and other abuses.

Let's Talk: Is Democracy Just Another Word for Majoritarianism?

astro
AWANI

Diterbitkan pada: February 14, 2019 15:21 (MYT) | Durasi: 8 mins, 48 sec

Has democracy often been interpreted as majoritarian rule and can democratization unleash populist forces that could undermine human rights and liberty? We ask Tan Wah Piow, 70s Singapore student leader, Maung Zarni a UK-based Burmese scholar and Pavin Chachavalpongpun, at the Center for Southeast Asian Studies at Kyoto University. 

 

Link :http://english.astroawani.com/malaysia-videos/lets-talk-democracy-just-another-word-majoritarianism-368952#

ANALYSIS - Conference calls for action to end Rohingya genocide

AA

16-02-2019

Victims demand that ‘Never again!’ must be more than an empty slogan

LONDON

On Feb. 8 and 9 at Barnard College in New York City, the Free Rohingya Coalition held an extremely productive conference, drawing an audience of 200 researchers, activists and renowned academics from around 12 countries.

Internet Freedom Sources 2018

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