Rohingya Muslims stuck between Myanmar’s military junta, rebel Arakan Army

AA
Halil Ibrahim Medet
ISTANBUL
28.11.2022

Effect of military coup in country led to even more pressure on Rohingya after decades of oppression, says Arakanese activist

File Photo - A Rohingya Muslim man, fled from oppression within ongoing military operations in Myanmar’s Rakhine state, recites Adhan (call to prayer) as they take shelter at a makeshift camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh on September 24, 2017

After suffering decades of oppression, Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar are now caught between two fires from the country’s repressive military junta and the rebel Buddhist Arakan Army, according to local Arakanese activists.

The UN and other international human rights organizations have called the violence against the country’s Rohingya “ethnic cleansing” or “genocide,” saying the Muslim group is “the most persecuted minority in the world.”

 

Rohingya rights groups form alliance for self-determination, dignified survival in Myanmar

AA
Md. Kamruzzaman
DHAKA, Bangladesh
24.11.2022

Several leading groups, prominent activists came together to form Arakan Rohingya National Alliance, which its co-founder views as an urgent need

For the first time since the genocide against Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar’s Rakhine State in Aug. 2017, several leading organizations and prominent activists have formed a greater alliance titled “Arakan Rohingya National Alliance (ARNA)” with the aim at ensuring the persecuted community's safe and dignified survival in their homeland.

Nay San Lwin, a founding member of ARNA and co-founder of the Free Rohingya Coalition, told Anadolu Agency on Thursday that a unified representation of the Rohingya was necessary at relevant international forums, Bangladesh, and Myanmar.

Among the diaspora and refugee communities, Rohingya has dozens of organizations, but none of them is the only representative, Lwin said, adding that a stronger collaboration among Rohingya organizations was required to represent the entire community.

Rohingya Unite to Launch Myanmar Rights Alliance

The Irrawaddy 

By Muktadir Rashid
22 November 2022 

Rohingya refugees attend mark the first anniversary of the 2017 military crackdown at the Kutupalong refugee camp in Ukhia on August 25, 2018. / AFP

 

DHAKA — Several Rohingya organizations and activists have united to form a group to demand human rights in Myanmar.

The Arakan Rohingya National Alliance (ARNA) called for Rohingya unity and said the Muslim community was not secessionist.

It said the Rohingya wanted to be part of a future federal democratic Myanmar to uphold peaceful coexistence through unity in diversity.

The groups said it would work with the civilian National Unity Government (NUG) and United League of Arakan in Rakhine State to achieve full and effective equality and the right to self-determination, like other ethnic groups in Myanmar.

An online press conference on Sunday aimed to unite the global Rohingya diaspora and announce the alliance’s intent to achieve self-determination for the Rohingya in Myanmar.

Free Rohingya Coalition ၏ ပူးတွဲတည်ထောင်သူ ရိုနေ ဆန်းလွင် နှင့်တွေ့ဆုံမေးမြန်းခြင်း ( နိဂုံး )

ရန်ကုန်ခေတ်သစ်
၂၀၂၂-၀၈-၂၀၂၂ 

“ရိုဟင်ဂျာတွေ လက်ထပ်ဖို့ဆိုရင် စစ်တပ်ဆီက ခွင့်ပြုချက်ယူရတယ်။ သူတို့ခွင့်ပြုချက်ရဖို့ လေးငါးခြောက်နှစ် စောင့်ရတဲ့အပြင် ပိုက်ဆံသိန်းနဲ့ချီပြီး ပေးရတယ်။ နောက်ပြီးတော့ သတို့သား သတို့သမီးတွေကို စစ်ဆေးစရာ ရှိတယ် ဆိုပြီးခေါ်တယ်။ ပြီးတော့ သတို့သမီးတွေကို စစ်တပ်က မုဒိမ်းကျင့်တယ်”


ပြည်သူတွေကို သတ်ဖြတ်နေတဲ့ စစ်ရာဇဝတ်ကောင် မင်းအောင်လှိုင်နဲ့ စစ်ခေါင်း ဆောင်တွေကို ICC တရားရုံး ဆီကိုပို့ဖို့ အမေရိကန်က ထောက်ခံတယ်လို့ ပြောဆိုလိုက်ပါပြီ ။

ICJ မှာလည်း မြန်မာနိုင်ငံကို တရားစွဲဆိုထားတဲ့ ဂမ်ဘီယာနိုင်ငံဘက်ကနေ အင်အားကြီးတဲ့ ဗြိတိန်၊ နယ်သာလန်၊ ကနေဒါ၊ ဂျာမဏီနဲ့ မော်လဒိုက်နိုင်ငံတွေက တရားလို နိုင်ငံတွေ အဖြစ် ထပ်မံပါဝင်လာပါတယ်။

Free Rohingya Coalition ၏ ပူးတွဲတည်ထောင်သူ ရိုနေဆန်းလွင် နှင့်တွေ့ဆုံမေးမြန်းခြင်း အပိုင်း (၁)

ရန်ကုန်ခေတ်သစ်
၂၀၂၂ သြဂုတ်လ ၃၁ ရက်။

Free Rohingya Coalition ၏ ပူးတွဲတည်ထောင်သူ ရိုနေဆန်းလွင် နှင့်တွေ့ဆုံမေးမြန်းခြင်း အပိုင်း (၁)

“ဖမ်းဝရမ်း ထွက်လာရင် ဘယ်နိုင်ငံက မဆို ဖမ်းပေးခွင့်ရှိတယ်။ စစ်ရာဇဝတ်ကောင် မင်းအောင်လှိုင်နဲ့ စစ်ခေါင်း ဆောင် တွေဟာ ကိုယ့်နိုင်ငံမှာပဲ အကျဉ်းကျနေတဲ့ ပုံစံဖြစ်သွားမယ်။ ထိုင်းတို့၊ တရုတ်တို့ သွားရင်တောင်မှ မဖမ်းဘူးလို့ အာမခံပေးပါလို့ တောင်းဆိုရတဲ့ အခြေ အနေဖြစ်လာမယ်။”

ပြည်သူတွေကို သတ်ဖြတ်ထားတဲ့ စစ်ရာဇဝတ်ကောင် မင်းအောင်လှိုင်နဲ့ စစ်ခေါင်း ဆောင်တွေကို ICC ကိုပို့ဖို့ အမေရိကန်က ထောက်ခံတယ်လို့ ပြောဆိုလိုက်ပါပြီ ။

Rohingya Genocide Remembrance Day ( Nay San Lwin+ WaiWai Nu, Ambassador Rob Rae + Yasmin Ullah )

 5th Anniversary commemoration of Rohingya Genocide Remembrance Day.

Around 1M Rohingya are living in Bangladesh camps, five years after crisis

TRT World Now
Aug 25, 2022

Nay San Lwin, co-founder of the Free Rohingya Coalition talks to TRT World about the condition of nearly one million Rohingya refugees living in Bangladesh camps five years after fleeing Myanmar’s brutal oppression.

Link : Here

ICJ တရားရုံးဆုံးဖြတ်ချက်နဲ့ စစ်တပ်က သုံးနေတဲ့ ဆိုဒ် ဝါး အကြောင်း ရိုဟင်ဂျာ တက်ကြွလှုပ်ရှားသူ ကိုနေဆန်း လွင်နဲ့ အင်တာဗျူး

Burma Human Rights Network
ဇူလိုင် ၂၆-၂၀၂၂
ICJ တရားရုံးဆုံးဖြတ်ချက် နဲဲ့ စစ်တပ်က သုံးနေတဲ့ ဆိုဒ်ဝါး အကြောင်း ရိုဟင်ဂျာ တက်ကြွလှုပ်ရှားသူ ကိုနေဆန်း လွင်နဲ့ အင်တာဗျူး။

  Link : Here

U.N. court rejects Myanmar’s opposition to Rohingya genocide case

The Washington Post

By Rebecca Tan
Updated July 22, 2022

The decision paves the way for hearings that will examine evidence of alleged atrocities

Demonstrators outside The Hague on July 22 step on an image of Min Aung Hlaing, Myanmar's military ruler. (Peter Dejong/AP)

The United Nations’ top court ruled Friday that a case accusing Myanmar of committing genocide against Rohingya Muslims can proceed, paving the way for hearings that will examine the state’s culpability in violence that drove nearly 1 million Rohingya from their homes.

Facebook's 'Double Standard' On Hate Speech Against Russians

Market Screener
03/21/2022

Meta's decision to allow hate speech against Russians is troubling and can impact other conflict areas, say experts

Facebook's decision to allow hate speech against Russians due to the war in Ukraine breaks its own rules on incitement, and shows a "double standard" that could hurt users caught in other conflicts, digital rights experts and activists said.

Facebook owner Meta Platforms will temporarily allow Facebook and Instagram users in some countries to call for violence against Russians and Russian soldiers in the context of the Ukraine invasion, Reuters reported last week.

It will also allow praise for a right-wing battalion "strictly in the context of defending Ukraine", in a decision that experts say demonstrates the platform's bias.

The move represents a "glaring" double standard when set against Meta's failure to curb hate speech in other war zones, said Marwa Fatafta at digital rights group Access Now.

"အာဏာသိမ်းစစ်တပ်က ရိုဟင်ဂျာတွေအတွက်ပဲ ဆိုးသွမ်း နေတာမဟုတ်ဘူး" - DVB Interview

DVB TV News

03-03-2022

"အာဏာသိမ်းစစ်တပ်က ကျွန်တော်တို့ ရိုဟင်ဂျာတွေအတွက်ပဲ ဆိုးသွမ်းနေတာမဟုတ်ဘူး။ တစ်နိုင်ငံလုံးအတိုင်း အတာနဲ့ဘယ်လောက် ရက်ရက်စက်စက်လုပ်နေသလဲဆိုတာအားလုံးအသိပဲ။ တရားရုံးမှာ လူမျိုးတုံးသတ်ဖြတ် မှု ကျူးလွန်တယ်ဆိုတာကို ဂမ်ဘီယာနိုင်ငံ ဘက်ကလျှောက်လဲချက်တွေကအားရ ဖို့ ကောင်းတယ်။နောက်တစ်လ ခွဲ့ နှစ်လဝန်းကျင်မှာတော့ အိုင်စီဂျေတရားရုံးက ဒီအမှုကို ဆက်လက်စီစစ်ဖို့ အ မိန့် ချလာလိမ့်မယ်လို့မျှော်လင့် ပါ တယ်"
- ကိုနေဆန်းလွင်
ရိုဟင်ဂျာလွတ်မြောက်ရေးညွန့်ပေါင်းအဖွဲ့

Sanctions Won't Hurt Myanmar's Brutal Leaders, Activists Say. Here's What Could

TIME
CHAD DE GUZMAN
FEBRUARY 1, 2022 

Protesters hold banners and shout slogans while marching past Myanmar military soldiers who arrived to guard the Central Bank overnight on Feb. 15, 2021 in Yangon, Myanmar. The U.S. Embassy in Myanmar told Americans in Myanmar to "shelter in place" in an announcement after military movements and reports of possible interruptions to telecoms. Armored vehicles were seen on the streets of Myanmar's capital, but protesters turned out in force despite the military presence. Hkun Lat—Getty Images

The U.S. imposed new sanctions on senior leaders of Myanmar’s military junta on Monday—the eve of the one-year anniversary of their overthrow of the country’s democratically elected government and imprisonment of its leader, Aung San Suu Kyi.

The U.S., joined by the U.K., and Canada, announced sanctions on officials who helped prosecute Aung San Suu Kyi, the head of the National League for Democracy. The Nobel Peace Prize laureate was arrested in the Feb. 1, 2021 coup. Myanmar courts have sentenced her to a total of six years in prison as of Jan. 10—but she faces additional charges.

UN Calls for Investigation After Dozens Massacred in Myanmar

TRT World
27 Dec 2021

The United Nations is calling for a thorough and transparent investigation into the massacre of at least 35 people, including women and children, in Myanmar's eastern Kayah state. The incident, that's reported to have taken place on December 24, came to the world's attention after photos taken by the Karen Human Rights Group showed bodies on the backs of trucks, burnt beyond recognition. While Myanmar's military stands accused of another mass killing, the country's state media is reporting that the army had shot and killed terrorists. International condemnations are in order, but are these enough to change the reality on the ground? 

 

Guests: 

 

Maung Zarni

 Adviser to Genocide Watch 

 

Nay San Lwin 

Co-founder of the Free Rohingya Coalition 

 

Htwe Htwe Thein 

Associate Professor at Curtin University 

 

 

Link: Here

Rohingya lawsuit against Facebook a 'wake-up call' for social media

Eco-Bussiness
Thomson Reuters Foundation
Dec. 14, 2021

Will the landmark suit, which argues that the spread of hate speech on the platform facilitated the genocide of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar, be a turning point for Big Tech?

Rohingya refugees sit on a makeshift boat as they are interrogated by the Border Guard Bangladesh after crossing the Bangladesh-Myanmar border, at Shah Porir Dwip near Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh November 9, 2017. Image: REUTERS/Navesh Chitrakar/File Photo

A landmark lawsuit by Rohingya refugees against Meta Platforms Inc, formerly known as Facebook, is a “wake-up call” for social media firms and a test case for courts to limit their immunity, human rights and legal experts said.

The $150 billion class-action complaint, filed in California on Monday by law firms Edelson PC and Fields PLLC, argues that Facebook’s failure to police content and its platform’s design contributed to violence against the Rohingya community.

British lawyers also submitted a letter of notice to Facebook’s London office.

Rohingya lawsuit ‘wake-up call’ for social media

GULF TIMES

Rina Chandran and Avi Asher
Schapiro/Bangkok/Los Angeles
December 14 2021

FINDINGS: United Nations human rights investigators said in 2018 that the use of Facebook had played a key role in spreading hate speech that fuelled the violence against the Rohingya 

 

A landmark lawsuit by Rohingya refugees against Meta Platforms Inc, formerly known as Facebook, is a “wake-up call” for social media firms and a test case for courts to limit their immunity, human rights and legal experts said.

The $150bn class-action complaint, filed in California last Monday by law firms Edelson PC and Fields PLLC, argues that Facebook’s failure to police content and its platform’s design contributed to violence against the Rohingya community.

ကုလသမဂၢတရား႐ုံး ICJ ၾကားျဖတ္အမိန႔္ကို ေဖာက္ဖ်က္၍ စစ္ေကာင္စီက ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာမ်ား ခရီးသြားလာခြင့္ပိတ္ပင္ေသာ အမိန႔္ခ်မွတ္

ရန္ကုန္ေခတ္သစ္မီဒီယာ
ရန္ကုန္၊ နိုဝင္ဘာ ၂၆ 

အျပည္ျပည္ဆိုင္ရာတရား႐ုံး (ICJ)က ျမန္မာနိုင္ငံကို ၾကားျဖတ္စီမံဆုံး ျဖတ္ခ်က္ မ်ား ခ်မွတ္ထားေသာ္လည္း အၾကမ္းဖက္ စစ္ေကာင္စီက လိုက္နာျခင္းမရွိဘဲ ေဖာက္ဖ်က္က်ဴးလြန္ကာ ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာမ်ားကို ခရီးသြားလာခြင့္ ပိတ္ပင္ေသာ အမိန႔္ကို နိုဝင္ဘာလ ၂၅ ရက္ေန႔ ရက္စြဲျဖင့္ အေထြေထြ အုပ္ခ်ဳပ္ေရးဦးစီးဌာနမ်ားက ထုတ္ျပန္ ေၾကာင္း ေၾကညာသည္။ 

ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာ လူမ်ိဳးတခ်ိဳ႕သည္ ခြင့္ျပဳခ်က္ တစ္စုံတစ္ရာမရွိဘဲ ၿမိဳ႕နယ္၊ ခရိုင္၊ ျပည္နယ္၊ တိုင္း ေက်ာ္လြန္၍ ခရီး သြားလာေနျခင္း ခရီးသြားလာရာတြင္ ခရီး သြားလာခြင့္ ပုံစံ ၄ ယူေဆာင္ရန္ ပ်က္ကြက္ေနျခင္းမ်ားေၾကာင့္ ၿမိဳ႕ နယ္ လုံျခဳံေရးႏွင့္ တရားဥပေဒ စိုးမိုးေရးကို ထိခိုက္ေစနိုင္ေၾကာင္း၊ ဥပေဒႏွင့္အညီ ခြင့္ျပဳခ်က္ ရယူရန္ လို အပ္သည့္ ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာ လူမ်ိဳးမ်ား အေနျဖင့္ တရားဝင္ ခြင့္ျပဳခ်က္ ပုံစံ ၄ ရယူၿပီးမွသာ ခရီးသြားလာၾကရန္ ထုတ္ ၿပန္ထားသည္။

Why Is the World Ignoring Repatriation of Rohingya Refugees?

THE I DIPLOMAT

By Asif Muztaba Hassan
October 25, 2021

Refugee camps in Bangladesh have become a source of business for vested interests.

The Rohingya refugee crisis, which entered its fifth year in August, is showing no signs of winding down. Repatriation of refugees is nowhere in sight, even as management of the large number of refugees that Bangladesh is hosting is getting increasingly complex for its government.

On September 29, Mohibullah, an influential Rohingya community leader, was assassinated by unidentified men near his office in Lambasia in the Kutupalong camp, just a few hundred feet away from two police stations.

Rohingya in Bangladesh frustrated with lack of formal education

YeniSafak

June 21, 2021

File Photo

Amid mounting frustration, Rohingya rights groups and experts have called on the Bangladesh government to provide refugees with formal education, which is essential for their reintegration and repatriation to Myanmar.

A Discussion With Ro Nay San Lwin on current situation of Myanmar

The Arakan Times Rohingya News
18 June 2021
ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာ ဘာသာျဖင့္၊

Myanmar’s anti-junta protesters go online to support Rohingya

DAWN
AFP

June 14, 2021

YANGON: Anti-junta protesters flooded Myanmar’s social media with pictures of themselves wearing black on Sunday in a show of solidarity with the Rohingya, a minority group that is among the most persecuted in the country.

Since the military ousted civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi from power in a February 1 coup, an anti-junta movement demanding a return to democracy has grown to include fighting for ethnic minority rights.