Myanmar set to face UN court over accusations of genocide against Rohingya

South China Morning Post

Reuters  

7 Dec, 2019

• The International Court of Justice in The Hague will hear a case against Myanmar over its alleged genocide against Rohingya Muslims

• Myanmar’s civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, will lead her country’s defence personally

In a wood-panelled hall of the ornate Peace Palace at The Hague, lawyers pressing a case against
Myanmar [1] for alleged genocide against its Muslim Rohingya minority [2] will next week ask judges to order immediate action to protect them from further violence.Gambia, a tiny, mainly Muslim West African country, filed a lawsuit [3] in November accusing Myanmar of genocide, the most serious international crime.

Myanmar’s Rohingya crisis is moving backwards. Here’s how to resolve it

South China Morning Post
Opinion  
Jan Egeland
25 Nov, 2019

• Regional powers, including China and Asean, must help ensure Kofi Annan’s Rakhine Advisory Commission recommendations are met
• The author, formerly at the UN and now Secretary General of the Norwegian Refugee Council, visited Myanmar recently

Myanmar [1]’s Rohingya crisis is sliding dangerously backwards. The denial of civil rights, a massive land grab and an upsurge in armed fighting undermine any real hope for change.

Despite reports that some Rohingya refugees [2] have returned to Myanmar, the suggestion that more will follow stands in stark contrast to what I witnessed recently when visiting the areas from which they fled. International solidarity with these stateless people needs a fundamental rethink. If we succeed to only administer the crisis, we will fail to ever resolve it.

China faces backlash as it bids to rekindle stalled US$3.6 billion Myitsone Dam project.

-  Ethnic community leaders in Kachin state speak out against Beijing’s efforts to restart        
   project suspended since 2011
- Beijing emboldened by changing face of Myanmar’s relations with the West over its 
  handling of Rohingya crisis

PUBLISHED : Sunday, 20 January, 2019, 8:31am

Political and religious leaders in Myanmar’s Kachin state have hit back at apparent efforts by Beijing to breathe new life into a controversial China-funded dam project as the Southeast Asian nation comes under fire from the West over its treatment of the Rohingya Muslims.

Rohingya footballers plead for release of fellow refugee Hakeem al-Araibi – and lament the ‘hypocrisy’ of their plight

• Arakan Times Rohingya Football Club official Mohammed Faruk says they know what it is like to flee danger

• He calls on the world to recognise the status of hundreds of thousands of Rohingya stranded in Bangladesh

South China Morning Post

PUBLISHED : Wednesday, 16 January, 2019,

A group of football-loving Rohingya refugees have called on relevant authorities to free Hakeem al-Araibi – a Bahraini refugee who plays football – while at the same time slamming the “hypocrisy” that sees their people displaced and stateless.