Tibetans To Rohingya Muslims: All Refugees Are Not Equal In India

Outlook
Snigdhendu Bhattacharya 
Updated: 21 Jul 2023 

From vote banks to pawns in international relations, India uses refugees based on changing interests 

Raising Voice: Muslims protest against CAA and NRC at Shaheen Bagh in Delhi in 2020 Photo: Suresh K. Pandey

 

In the Darjeeling and Kalimpong hills of West Bengal, stickers and posters demanding the release of the 11th Panchen Lama from alleged forced confinement by the Chinese authorities can be spotted in many of the shops owned by the Tibetan refugee population. The Panchen Lama is considered the second-highest spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhists, after the Dalai Lama, and has been one of the contentious issues of China and the Dalai Lama’s battle over Tibet and Tibetan Buddhism.

Israel supported Burma's military against Rohingya Muslims in exchange for international recognition

MEMO MIDDLE EAST MONITOR

October 7, 2022

Rohingya laborers have lunch during their break as they work at a brick production workplace in a village on December 23, 2021, in Sittwe, Rakhine State, Myanmar [Aung Naing Soe/Anadolu Agency]

Recently declassified Israeli Foreign Ministry documents reveal deep Israeli military ties with Burma, now known as Myanmar, and its significant role in the brutal massacre against the Rohingya Muslims.

According to a report published yesterday by Haaretz, the 25,000 pages of documents detail how the Israeli regime armed and trained the Burmese army, from the 1950s until the beginning of the 1980s.

Since the end of British rule in Myanmar in 1948, different parts of the country have been rocked by relentless civil war.

Myanmar soldiers confess to mass murder of Rohingya Muslims in new video: rights group

CNN
Rebecca Wright and Ben Westcott, CNN
September 10, 2020

(CNN)Two Myanmar military deserters say they were ordered to take part in the indiscriminate mass killing and rape of Rohingya Muslims in 2017, a human rights group claims, in video confessions which correspond with individual accounts given by survivors of the alleged atrocities.

In Video Testimony, Ex-Myanmar Soldiers Confess to Atrocities Against Rohingya Muslims

VOA
By VOA News
September 08, 2020

FILE - A Myanmar security officer walks past burned Rohingya houses in Ka Nyin Tan village of suburb Maungdaw, northern Rakhine state of western Myanmar, Sept. 6, 2017.

Two news outlets say two Myanmar soldiers have recounted gruesome details of the 2017 military campaign against Rohingya Muslims in northern Rakhine state that the United Nations has categorized as genocide.

The New York Times and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation report the soldiers, identified as Pvt. Myo Win Tun and Pvt. Zaw Naing Tun, deserted the Myanmar army, known as the Tatmadaw, last month and spoke on camera in separate interviews about the crimes they witnessed and participated in.

Could Facebook Help To Establish The Burmese Government’s Intent To Commit Genocide Against The Rohingya Muslims?

Forbes
Ewelina U. Ochab
Policy
Contributor

On June 8, 2020, The Gambia filed an application for discovery with the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. The application asks the Court to compel Facebook to provide information related to the personal Facebook accounts of Myanmar officials. The information that The Gambia seeks is to be used in an action brought by The Gambia against Myanmar in the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague, The Netherlands. 

Rohingya kids, who fled from oppression within ongoing military operations in Myanmars Rakhine ... [+] Getty Images

Will Facebook Finally Choose to Protect Rohingya Muslims From Further Genocide?

BYLINE TIMES
CJ Werleman
16 June 2020

 Rohingya refugees make the journey across the Naf river from Myanmar to Bangladesh in 2017


CJ Werleman reports on a case being brought against the social media giant by The Gambia to uncover who was involved in Myanmar’s mass murder of its Muslim minority.

There are so many legitimate reasons to hate Facebook. It not only encourages polarisation and radicalisation, the company has also engineered the platform to “exploit the human brain’s attraction to divisiveness”, which helps rake in billions of dollars in profit from nefarious political entrepreneurs, grifters and manipulators who peddle hate and sow division.

Violence between Muslim and Christian Rohingya in Kutupalong

M
Shafiur Rahman
Feb 3 2020

Shukkur, a muslim rohingya, alleges he was taken inside a building and beaten by christian Rohingya in Kutupalong refugee camp, 26th January, 2020.

On the night of 26th January, violence broke out in Bangladesh’s Kutupalong refugee camp between christian and muslim Rohingya. As a result, several christians required immediate hospitalisation, and seventeen christian families within Kutupalong have been removed to the transit camp ( a transit centre where refugees stay prior to allocation to a particular camp). Tensions have long simmered between the small christian community (approximately 1500 strong), and their muslim compatriots. Occasionally these tensions spill over into violence. According to the christians, this episode is the worst in the history of Rohingya christian/muslim relations. 

Myanmar troops kill six in Rakhine for suspected rebel links.

Aljazeera

3rd May 2019

Soldiers opened fire as a clash erupted with the detained villagers, according to member of parliament.

More recently, civilians have been caught up in clashes between the military and the Arakan Army [File:Min Kyi Thein/AP Photo]

Myanmar security forces have shot dead at least six people in the troubled western state of Rakhine after soldiers and police detained hundreds of people at a school, a military spokesperson said.