Q&A: Myanmar opposition minister calls junta claims not credible

VOA
By Ingyin Naing
April 05, 2024 

Aung Kyaw Moe, the National Unity Government of Myanmar's Deputy Human Rights Minister, responds in an interview at the Voice of America studio in Washington on March 28, 2024.

 

WASHINGTON —

Deputy Minister of Human Rights of Myanmar’s shadow government, the National Unity Government (NUG), Aung Kyaw Moe told VOA that the Myanmar people distrust the ruling military leader's recent claim that he is interested in restoring democracy in the country. In a recent interview with VOA, the minister, also the NUG’s first Rohingya minister, called for caution in assessing China’s efforts to facilitate the repatriation of Rohingya refugees from Bangladesh and delved into the Rohingyas’ aspiration to align themselves with the Rakhine people against the junta, which overthrew a democratically elected government in 2021.

နိုင်ငံရေး လွန်ဆွဲပွဲ တိုင်းရင်းသားတွေ ဘယ်ဘက်ပါမလဲ

VOA
ဦးကျော်ဇံသာ
၀၅ အောက်တိုဘာ၊ ၂၀၂၂

NUG ဖက်ဒရယ်ပြည်ထောင်စုရေးရာ ဝန်ကြီး ဒေါက်တာလျန်မှုန်းဆာခေါင်။ (ဓာတ်ပုံ - nugmyanmar.org)

လက်ရှိဖြစ်ပါွးနေတဲ့ စစ်ကောင်စီနဲ့ NUG တို့ရဲ့အားပြိုင်မှုမှာ တိုင်းရင်းသားတွေရဲ့ ရပ်တည်မှုဟာ လွန်စွာအ ရေးပါ တယ်လို့ သုံးသပ်သူတွေက ဆိုကြပါတယ်။ စစ်ကောင်စီကတော့ တိုင်းရင်းသားပြည်နယ်တွေကို အခွင့် အာ ဏာ ပိုပေးဖို့အတွက် ၂၀၀၈ ဖွဲ့စည်းပုံကို လိုအပ်သလို ပြုပြင်သွားမယ်လို့ ပြောကြားလိုက်ပါတယ်။ တိုင်း ရင်းသားတွေဘက်က အလားအလာ ဘယ်လိုရှိပါသလဲ။ ဖက်ဒရယ်အရေး တက်ကြွသူ တိုင်းရင်းသားခေါင်း ဆောင် တဦးဖြစ်တဲ့ ဒေါက်တာလျံမှုန်းဇာခေါင်းနဲ့ ဦးကျော်ဇံသာ ဆွေးနွေးသုံးသပ်ထားပါတယ်။

The Big Question: Can Myanmar’s Democracy Be Rescued?

Bloomberg

Bloomberg Opinion
Nisid Hajari
18 April 2021, 

A Q&A with Derek Mitchell, former U.S. Ambassador to Myanmar, on how to support the aspirations of Myanmar’s people and build a better future for democracies around the world.

Braving bullets in Yangon.Photographer: STR/AFP

This is one of a series of interviews by Bloomberg Opinion columnists on how to solve today’s most pressing policy challenges. It has been condensed and edited.

Nisid Hajari: Since Myanmar’s military ousted the country’s elected government on Feb. 1, security forces have reportedly killed at least 700 people. Observers are warning that Myanmar risks turning into a Southeast Asian Syria, with a failed economy, open warfare in border areas and refugees pouring into Thailand and India. You served as the U.S.’s ambassador to Myanmar from 2012 to 2016, the first person to hold the position in 22 years. How bad do you think things are going to get there?

Burmese Scholar: Military Junta Using Terror Against “Entire Population” to Keep Power After Coup

DEMOCRACY NOW
MARCH 01, 2021
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Burmese scholar, dissident and human rights activist.

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In Burma, mass protests continue after at least 18 people were killed in anti-coup protests, marking the deadliest day since the February 1 military coup which deposed and detained de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi. Police fired live ammunition into crowds as Burmese forces steadily escalated their crackdown. One local group says 1,000 people were arrested, including journalists and medical professionals. “The coup group and the entire security sector … have essentially terrorized the entire population,” says Maung Zarni, a Burmese scholar, dissident and human rights activist. “I have seen absolutely nothing like what is happening.”

Japan Faces Dilemma On Decision To Get Involved With The Coup In Myanmar

NPR
February 25, 2021

Transcript

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST:

The Biden administration wants to put democracy at the core of its foreign policy. The coup in Myanmar a few weeks ago is an early test, and the administration has slapped sanctions on the coup leaders. Washington also wants other countries to follow its lead. Japan has some real influence in Myanmar, and NPR's Anthony Kuhn reports, this puts Japan in a tough spot.

Rohingya Refugees From Myanmar Adrift In Indian Ocean

NPR

Heard on Morning Edition
February 25, 2021

Human rights groups say a boat trafficking over 90 Muslim minority Rohingya from Myanmar has broken down. They have little food & water and nobody wants them

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST:

Human rights groups say more than 90 Muslim-minority Rohingya who fled Myanmar are now adrift in the Indian Ocean. The boat trafficking them has broken down. They've got little food or water on board, and it seems like there's little interest in saving them. Michael Sullivan reports from neighboring Thailand.

The Significance Of Aung San Suu Kyi's Detainment By Myanmar Military

npr

February 1, 2021

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Laurel Miller, director of the Asia Program at the International Crisis Group, about Myanmar State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi, and her detainment by the Myanmar military.

AILSA CHANG, HOST:

Myanmar's military staged a coup today and detained the country's de facto leader, Aung San Suu Kyi. It is the latest turbulent turn in that country and a return to detention for Suu Kyi, who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991. She was put under house arrest after the military refused to accept the results of the previous year's election that saw her party win an outright majority. She later became the country's de facto leader after the military decided to loosen its grip on power in 2011. And while she remains popular within the country, internationally, her reputation has suffered. Joining us now for more is Laurel Miller, director of the Asia Program for the International Crisis Group.

ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာအေရး နိုင္ငံတကာဖိအား ေလၽွာ့ခ်နိုင္မယ့္ နည္းလမ္း

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2021 Jauary 2021

❖   ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာအေရး နိုင္ငံတကာဖိအား ေလၽွာ့ခ်နိုင္ဖို႔ ေဒသခံ နိုင္ငံေရး အင္အားစုအသီးသီးနဲ႔ ညႇိႏွိုင္းေဆာင္ ရြက္ ဖို႔က NLD အစိုးရ ဒုတိယသက္တမ္းမွာ ဘယ္ေလာက္ အေရးအႀကီးဆုံး ျဖစ္ေနပါလဲ။

❖ ရခိုင္ျပည္နယ္အေျခစိုက္ ရခိုင္အမ်ိဳးသားပါတီ ANP ရဲ့  မူဝါဒေရးရာဦးေဆာင္ေကာ္မတီဝင္ျဖစ္သလို ေျမပုံ ၿမိဳ႕ နယ္ ျပည္သူ႔လႊတ္ေတာ္ကိုယ္စားလွယ္ ဦးေဖသန္နဲ႔ ေမးျမန္းတင္ဆက္ေပးထားပါတယ္။

Link : Here

အေမရိကန္အစိုးရသစ္ ႏွင့္ ႐ိုဟင္ဂ်ာအေရး

VOA
ဗြီအိုုေအ (ျမန္မာဌာန)
ဒီမုိကေရစီေရးရာ
ကိုေအာင္လြင္ဦး
18 ဇန္နဝါရီ၊ 2021 

Displaced Rohingya refugees from Rakhine state in Myanmar carry their belongings as they flee violence, near Ukhia, near the border between Bangladesh and Myanmar on September 4, 2017. - A total of 87,000 mostly Rohingya refugees have arrived in Banglades

အေမရိကန္ျပည္ေထာင္စုမွာ ေ႐ြးေကာက္ခံသမၼတ Joe Biden အစိုးရတက္လာတဲ့အခါ ႐ိုဟင္ဂ်ာအေရး ဦး  ေဆာင္ေျဖရွင္းဖို႔ ဒုကၡသည္အေရး လႈပ္ရွားသူေတြ လိုလားေနပါတယ္။ ႐ိုဟင္ဂ်ာေတြအေပၚ လူ႔အခြင့္အေရး ခ်ိဳးေဖာက္မႈေတြကို ဟန႔္တားႏိုင္ေအာင္ အေမရိကန္ အစိုးရသစ္နဲ႔ မူဝါဒသစ္ေတြ က်င့္သုံးဖို႔လည္း ဒီတပတ္ထဲ မွာပဲ ဝါရွင္တန္အေျခစိုက္ Refugees International အဖြဲ႕ကလည္း “႐ိုဟင္ဂ်ာအေရး ႏိုင္ငံတကာအတိုင္းအတာ နဲ႔ ဦးေဆာင္ေျဖရွင္းဖို႔ ေ႐ြးေကာက္ခံသမၼတ Biden အတြက္ အေရးႀကီးတဲ့ မူဝါဒေရးရာ အႀကံျပဳခ်က္အျဖစ္” အစီရင္ခံစာတေစာင္ ထုတ္ျပန္ၿပီး တိုက္တြန္းခဲ့တာပါ။ အစီရင္ခံစာကို ဦးေဆာင္ျပဳစုခဲ့တဲ့ Daniel Sullivan ကို Skype ကေန ဆက္သြယ္ေမးျမန္း တင္ဆက္ထားပါတယ္။

Nearly 1000 Rohingya refugees are in second batch to be sent to Bangladesh's remote island

PRESS TV
29 December 2020

႐ိုဟင္ဂ်ာ မြတ္စလင္ေတြ ဆႏၵမဲေပးခြင့္ရဖို႔ ေတာင္းဆို

လြတ္လပ္တဲ့အာရွအသံ ( RFA )
ျမန္မာဌာန | သတင္းမ်ား

01.07.2020

■ ရခိုင္ျပည္နယ္ေျမာက္ပိုင္းမွာရွိတဲ့ ႐ိုဟင္ဂ်ာ မြတ္စလင္ေတြကို လာမယ့္ ၂၀၂၀ ေ႐ြးေကာက္ပြဲမွာ ဆႏၵမဲ ေပးခြင့္ေပးဖို႔နဲ႔ ဝင္ေရာက္ေ႐ြးခ်ယ္ပိုင္ခြင့္ေပးဖို႔ ျပည္ေထာင္စု ေ႐ြးေကာက္ပြဲေကာ္မရွင္ကို ဒီမိုကေရစီနဲ႔ လူ႔ အခြင့္ေရးပါတီက ေတာင္းဆိုလိုက္ပါတယ္။

ရခိုင္ျပည္နယ္ေျမာက္ပိုင္းက ႐ိုဟင္ဂ်ာမြတ္စလင္ေတြဟာ လြတ္လပ္ေရးမရခင္ ၁၉၄၇ ခုႏွစ္ တိုင္းျပဳျပည္ျပဳ လႊတ္ေတာ္၊ ၂၀၀၈ ဖြဲ႕စည္းပုံအေျခခံ ဥပေဒ ဆႏၵခံယူပြဲနဲ႔ ၂၀၁၀ ေ႐ြးေကာက္ပြဲေတြမွာ ပါဝင္ ဆႏၵမဲေပးခြင့္ ရရွိခဲ့ၿပီး ေ႐ြးေကာက္ပြဲသမိုင္းမွာ အဆင္အလာေကာင္းေတြ ရွိတာေၾကာင့္ ၂၀၂၀ မွာလည္း မဲေပးခြင့္ေပးဖို႔ ေတာင္းဆိုတာလို႔ ဒီမိုကေရစီနဲ႔ လူ႔အခြင့္ေရးပါတီအတြင္းေရးမႉး ဦးေက်ာ္စိုးေအာင္က ေျပာပါတယ္။

The Christian Rohingya

M  
Shafiur Rahman

medium.com

Feb 5 .2020

On 26th January 2020, violence broke out between Christian and Muslim Rohingya in Kutupalong Refugee camp, Bangladesh. We previously discussed the issue in two separate episodes, the links for which are below. In this episode, we talk to Nay San Lwin, a prominent Muslim Rohingya activist. The interview is conducted in Rohingya language. A summary of what Nay San Lwin said is presented below. (These are not verbatim quotes but a summary (seen and approved by Nay San Lwin).

Christian Rohingya experience persecution in the camps

M

Shafiur Rahman
kutupalong, news & views about Rohingya

Feb 4 2020

Podcast with Simon, Christian Rohingya community leader

Church in Kutupalong. Now demolished. Church has existed since 2006. It was originally a tarpaulin/bamboo structure. In 2019, the structure above was created. 

On 26 January 2020, violence broke out between Christian and Muslim Rohingya in Kutupalong camp, Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. Our first podcast (in English) on this issue is available at this link:

Rappler Talk: Paul Reichler on seeking justice for Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar

Rappler.com
Published 2:00 PM, January 27, 2020 

Updated 2:00 PM, January 27, 2020 

On Monday, January 27, Rappler editor-at-large Marites Vitug speaks to internationally-renowned lawyer Paul Reichler to discuss the first international court ruling against Myanmar, how it is going to be enforced, and what led him to take on the case.

Bookmark this page to catch the interview on Monday, January 27, at 2 pm!

MANILA, Philippines – The international community scored a victory against the alleged genocide of Rohingya Muslims after the United Nation's highest court ordered Myanmar to do everything in its power to prevent violence from worsening.

‘World court ruling brings hope to persecuted Rohingya’

AA
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.

Top UN court ICJ ordered Myanmar to prevent Rohingya genocide An Interview with Nay San Lwin

The Arakan Times Rohingya News

Jan 25, 2020

United Nations rules Myanmar must protect Rohingya Muslims

CNN
25.01.2020

Simon Adams, Executive Director for the Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect, joins CNN International to discuss the UN's historic court ruling that Myanmar must prevent genocideSource: CNN.

Link:https://edition.cnn.com/videos/tv/2020/01/25/exp-simon-adams-clip.cnn

ICJ ဆုံးျဖတ္ခ်က္အေပၚ ဥပေဒပညာရွင္ Michael Becker အျမင္

VOA

ဗြီအိုုေအ (ျမန္မာဌာန)

24 ဇန္နဝါရီ၊ 2020
အင္ၾကင္းႏုုိင္

ICJ ႏိုင္ငံတကာ တရား႐ုံးက ၾကားျဖတ္အေရးယူ စီမံေဆာင္ရြက္ခ်က္ေတြ အမိန္႔ ခ်မွတ္လိုက္တာကို ၾကည့္ ရင္ တရားရံုး စီရင္ပိုင္ခြင့္အေပၚ ျမန္မာရဲ႕ကန္႔ကြက္ခ်က္ ေရွ႕ဆက္ ေအာင္ျမင္မွာ မဟုတ္ဘူးဆိုတာ အခိုင္ အမာျပသလိုက္တာျဖစ္တယ္လို႔ ႏိုင္ငံတကာ ဥပေဒပညာရွင္ Michael Becker ကသံုးသပ္ပါတယ္။ Michael Becker ဟာ ICJ ႏိုင္ငံတကာတရားရံုးမွာ ၂၀၁၀- ၂၀၁၄ခုႏွစ္ထိ လက္ေထာက္ ဥပေဒအရာရွိ အျဖစ္ ေလး
ႏွစ္ ၾကာလုပ္ခဲ့သူျဖစ္ၿပီး၊ ျမန္မာကို အျခားႏိုင္ငံတႏိုင္ငံက လူမ်ဳိးတုံး သတ္ျဖတ္မႈ ဆိုင္ရာသေဘာ တူစာခ်ဳပ္ နဲ႔ပတ္သက္ၿပီး ICJ တရားရံုးမွာ အမႈဖြင့္တရားစဲြႏိုင္တဲ့ အလားအလာဆိုတဲ့ ေခါင္းစဥ္နဲ႔ စာတမ္းကို ၂၀၁၈ ခုႏွစ္က ေရးသားျပဳစုခဲ့သူလည္းျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ အခုလက္ရွိ အိုင္ယာလန္ႏိုင္ငံ Durblin က Trinity ေကာလိပ္ ဥပေဒဘာသာရပ္ဌာန လက္ေထာက္ပါေမာကၡျဖစ္တဲ့ Mr. Becker နဲ႔ မအင္ၾကင္းႏိုင္က Skype ကေန သီး သန္႔ ဆက္သြယ္ေမးျမန္းထားပါတယ္။

လင့္၊https://burmese.voanews.com/a/5258717.html

No Peace Without Justice ( 23.01.2020 )

A Rohingya activist has told Radio Islam the Independent Commission of Enquiry (ICOE) report is to “protect criminals from prosecution”.

Radio Islam International
2020.01.21



A Rohingya activist has told Radio Islam the Independent Commission of Enquiry (ICOE) report is to “protect criminals from prosecution”. A commission set up to investigate the 2017 crackdown in Rakhine led hundreds of thousands of mostly Muslim Rohingya to flee Myanmar.

The report released on Monday to the country’s president Aung San Suu Kyi concludes that while some soldiers probably committed war crimes there was no genocide.

The report comes 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.

Speaking to Radio Islam, Nay San Lwin says the release of the report’s findings is a "blatant PR exercise to deflect attention from the International Court and that the security forces are trying to get away from being prosecuted for genocide.

“As Myanmar is not a signatory of the Rome Statute, the International Criminal Court cannot also sue Myanmar criminals for these cases or these crimes. That is basically the report, to protect the criminals from prosecution.”

The four-member commission included two international representatives and was led by Rosario Manalo, a former deputy foreign minister of the Philippines. Lwin says Manalo has a friendship with Myanmar.

“We can see clearly that the relationship between them is friendly. They have a very good friendship and she was ready to cover-up all the crimes committed by the general that is why she was convinced to write this report.” The International Court of Justice (ICJ) is set to announce on Thursday its ruling on a case filed by Gambia against Myanmar on the persecution of the Rohingya.

Link:http://radioislam.org.za/a/index.php/latest-news/27592-listen-myanmar-war-crimes-genocide-report-on-rohingya-to-protect-criminals-from-prosecution.html