War crimes, not genocide committed against Rohingya: Myanmar probe

Bangkok Post
21 Jan 2020

A Rohingya refugee reacts while holding his dead son after crossing the Naf river from Myanmar into Bangladesh on October 9, 2017, about two months after operations by the Myanmar military began. 

YANGON - A Myanmar-appointed panel concluded Monday that some soldiers likely committed war crimes against its Rohingya Muslim community but the military was not guilty of genocide, findings swiftly condemned by rights groups.

War crimes, not genocide committed against Rohingya: Myanmar probe

AFP
20 January' 2020

A Rohingya refugee reacts while holding his dead son after crossing the Naf river from Myanmar into Bangladesh on October 9, 2017, about two months after operations by the Myanmar military began

Myanmar-appointed panel concluded Monday that some soldiers likely committed war crimes against its Rohingya Muslim community but the military was not guilty of genocide, findings swiftly condemned by rights groups.

Rohingya group blasts panel report on violence against community

theSundaily
21 Jan 2020

Rohingya refugees gather near the fence in the “no man’s land” zone between Myanmar and Bangladesh border as seen from Maungdaw, Rakhine state during a government-organized visit for journalists on Aug 24, 2018 — AFP

 

KUALA LUMPUR: A UK-based Rohingya group Monday dismissed a report published by Myanmar’s Independent Commission of Enquiry (ICOE) the same day which concluded that no evidence of genocide was found despite proof of war crimes committed by some members of Myanmar security forces.

Myanmar finds war crimes but no genocide in Rohingya crackdown

Aljazeera
2020.01.21
ICOE report comes days before UN's top court issues ruling on whether urgent measures are necessary to stop genocide.

Rohingya, who have lived in Myanmar for generations, fled to Bangladesh in 2017 and are fearful of returning without guarantees on their rights and citizenship [File: Mohammad Ponir Hossain/Reuters]

A commission set up to investigate the 2017 crackdown in Rakhine that led hundreds of thousands of mostly Muslim Rohingya to flee Myanmar, has concluded that while some soldiers probably committed war crimes there was no genocide.

The Independent Commission of Enquiry (ICOE) released the findings of its investigation, but not the full report, to the country's president on Monday, 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. 

The Rohingya finally got their day in court. For most of them it was a first.

The Washington Post 

Christian Caryl  

Op-ed Editor/International

Dec. 14, 2019

Rohingya refugees watch a live feed of Aung San Suu Kyi's appearance at the UN's International Court of Justice in The Hague on Dec. 11. (MUNIR UZ ZAMAN/AFP via Getty Images) 

An extraordinary event took place in the Netherlands this week: a hearing at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) that is a first small step toward justice for one of the world’s longest-suffering minority groups.

The fight for justice over Myanmar's Rohingya 'genocide'

Dhaka Tribune 

AFP  

December 8th, 2019

File photo: Rohingya refugees attend a ceremony organised to remember the second anniversary of a military crackdown that prompted a massive exodus of people from Myanmar to Bangladesh, at the Kutupalong refugee camp in Ukhia on August 25, 2019 AFP

The International Criminal Court (ICC) also approved an investigation into the 2017 military crackdown that forced some 740,000 Rohingya to flee into Bangladesh

Myanmar is facing a barrage of legal challenges in an attempt to hold it accountable over the alleged genocide against its Rohingyas population.

International Rohingya Youth Conference in london discussion with Tun Khin

Rvision
04 December 2019

Link:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5bC7bChDKY

Justice, Argentina and ‘universal jurisdiction’

Frontier
MYANMAR

By THOMAS KEAN | FRONTIER 

Wednesday, December 04, 2019 

In the second of our two-part series on justice and accountability in Rakhine State, we examine the use of “universal jurisdiction” in Argentina and the problems with Myanmar’s own investigation into allegations of abuses.

THE WHEELS of justice are moving in regards to Rakhine State across a range of institutions and countries.

In part one of this series we examined the roles of the International Fact-Finding Mission on Myanmar and Independent Investigative Mission for Myanmar, and recent developments in the International Criminal Court and International Court of Justice.

Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi to be investigated for crimes against Rohingya Muslims

Geraldine Doogue   
ABC Radio National
Nov  20, 2019

 Myanmar leader, Aung San Suu Kyi has been named in a case filed in Argentina for crimes against the country's Rohingya Muslims. (AP: Gemunu Amarasinghe)

The International Criminal Court has approved an investigation into alleged crimes against Rohingya Muslims by the government of Myanmar.

The development comes amid a slew of legal efforts to hold the government to account, including a lawsuit filed in Argentina – the first to name former democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi.

More than 730,000 Rohingya have fled Myanmar since a 2017 crackdown by the country's military.

Guest: Tun Khin, Rohingya genocide survivor; President, Burmese Rohingya Organisation (UK)

Producer: Linda Lopresti 

Will cases brought against Myanmar deliver justice to Rohingya?

Aljazeera
Mia Swart

19 November 2019

Genocide case filed at ICJ and Suu Kyi named in lawsuit in Argentina while ICC set to investigate Rohingya crimes.

Thousands of Rohingya have been killed and more than 740,000 have taken shelter in neighbouring Bangladesh since August 2017 [Rafiqur Rahman/Reuters]

Last week, three separate cases were filed against Myanmar for atrocities against Rohingya people in the first international legal attempts to bring justice to the persecuted Muslim minority.

The Gambia brought a genocide case against Myanmar on November 11 in the International Court of Justice (ICJ), urging the United Nations court to order measures to immediately stop atrocities and genocide against its own Rohingya people.

Rohingyas see a ray of hope

The Daily Star
November 16, 2019
Porimol Palma

Lawsuit at UN court, ICC genocide probe seen as major steps towards fight for justice

 The Rohingyas, who have been facing rights abuses in Myanmar for decades, now see a ray of hope of getting justice following a lawsuit with the highest UN court and the ICC’s approval to probe crimes against them.

Leaders of the persecuted community believe the steps will help mount pressure on Myanmar to grant them citizenship and other rights.

Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi faces first legal action over Rohingya crisis

The Guardian
Agence France-Presse
Thu 14 Nov 2019

Case launches in Argentina under ‘universal jurisdiction’ demanding justice over ‘existential threat’ to minority

Aung San Suu Kyi has been named in a court case seeking ‘criminal sanction’ over the treatment of the Rohingya minority in Myanmar. Photograph: Nyein Chan Naing/EPA 

Aung San Suu Kyi is among several top Myanmar officials named in a case filed in Argentina for crimes against Rohingya Muslims, the first time the Nobel Laureate has been legally targeted over the crisis.

Rohingya and Latin American human rights groups submitted the lawsuit in Argentina on Wednesday under the principle of “universal jurisdiction,” a legal concept enshrined in many countries’ laws.

Aung San Suu Kyi named in Argentine lawsuit over crimes against Rohingya

Mail online
By Afp
13 November 2019

Former democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi is among several top Myanmar officials named in a case filed in Argentina alleging genocide against Rohingya

Former democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi is among several top Myanmar officials named Wednesday in a case filed in Argentina for crimes against Rohingya Muslims, the first time the Nobel Laureate has been legally targeted over the crisis.

Rohingya and Latin American human rights groups submitted the lawsuit in Argentina under the principle of "universal jurisdiction," a legal concept enshrined in many countries' laws.

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe Urges Swift Repatriation of Rohingya

Radio Free Asia
2019-10-21

Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe meets with Myanmar's State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi in Tokyo, Oct. 21, 2019.
Myanmar State Counselor's Office 

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe called on Myanmar’s State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi on Monday to quickly facilitate the repatriation of over 700,000 Rohingya refugees from Bangladesh to their former homes in Rakhine state, also urging the de facto national leader to guarantee safe conditions for their return.

World, ASEAN must do more to resolve Rohignya crisis - Activist

Bernama.com  

03/10/2019

By Nabilah Saleh

President of Burmese Rohingya Organisation UK, 
Tun Khin during the interview at Wisma Bernama.

KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 3 -- The international community must put in more effort and cooperation in pressuring the Myanmar government to tackle the Rohingya issue.

President of Burmese Rohingya Organisation UK, Tun Khin, told Bernama International News Service recently that much more must be done even as the crisis was addressed by Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad during the recently-concluded 74th Session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA).

Rohingya support Bangladeshi leader's proposal to end crisis

DW
Date 28.09.2019
Author Arafatul Islam

A proposal by Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at the United Nations for resolving the Rohingya refugee crisis has been hailed by the Muslim community. Her earlier appeals have seemingly gone unheard, however. 

 In Bangladesh's annual address to the UN General Assembly, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Friday urged the international community to "understand the untenability of the situation" surrounding the Rohingya refugees from Myanmar, who are fleeing persecution by the military there.

ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာဒုကၡသည္ေတြရဲ့ အနာဂတ္

RFA
လြတ္လပ္တဲ့ အာရွအသံ

17 September 2019

■ ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာဒုကၡသည္အမ်ားစုက တတိယႏိုင္ငံကိုသြားၾကဖို႔ထက္ ကိုယ့္ေနရပ္ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံဘက္ကိုပဲ ျပန္ ခ်င္ေနၾကတယ္လို႔ ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာအေရးလႈပ္ရွားသူ ဦးထြန္းခင္ကေျပာပါတယ္။

ဒီလကုန္ပိုင္းက်င္းပမယ့္ ကုလသမဂၢအေထြေထြညီလာခံမွာ ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာအေရးနဲ႔ပက္သတ္ၿပီး ျမန္မာအစိုးရနဲ႔ စစ္တပ္ကိုပိုၿပီး ဖိအားေပးေရးဦးထြန္းခင္က တိုက္တြန္းေနတာပါ။ အေမရိကန္ျပည္ေထာင္စုကိုေရာက္ေနတဲ့ ၿဗိတိန္အေျခစိုက္ျမန္မာ-ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာအသင္းရဲ႕ ဥကၠဌ ဦးထြန္းခင္ကို ဝါရွင္တန္ဒီစီ RFA ရံုးခ်ဳပ္မွာ ေစာဖိုးခြား က ေတြ႔ဆံုေမးျမန္းထားပါတယ္။

လင့္၊https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FqwfPStBOc

Scope with Waqar Rizvi | Brexit | Another Blow to Iran's Nuke Deal | EP 140 | Indus News

indusdotnews
Published on Sep 5, 2019
Topics:

1. Brexit
2. Another Blow to Iran's Nuke Deal
3. Myanmar: Rohingya Verification Scheme

Guests:

* Andre Walker - Political Commentator (Windsor, UK) 

* Sam Armstrong - Political Commentator (London) 

* Steven Woolfe - Fmr. MEP (London) 

* Mark Brolin - Political Analyst (London) 

* Hassan Ahmadian - Political Analyst (Tehran) 

* Kourosh Shamlou – Intl. Law Expert (Paris) 

* Abas Aslani – Journalist (Tehran) 

* Tun Khin - Rohingya Activist (Singapore) 

* Nay San Lwin – Rohingya Activist (Frankfurt)
 Link :https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pt4lNuF6Zc&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR2AWJVgRXEyJg2Z0clVauVZe0vIxjJsUzC4_efIn8YZcLs8WH0-ZZlYy7Y

Tun Khin Al Jazeera interview

Al Jazeera
28 July 2019

Rohingya Crisis: Should Rakhine Be Under Bangladesh’s Sovereignty?

the quint
Shafiur Rahman

Opinion

Five years ago, an op-ed in a Bangladeshi daily, Dhaka Tribune, ruffled the feathers of the powers that be in Myanmar’s capital, Nay Pyi Taw. Such was the offence taken that the Bangladeshi Ambassador was summoned for a dressing down by the Burmese Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

In the opinion piece, now long removed from the web, journalist Zeeshan Khan had argued that the Rohingya “should have the option of forming an independent country between Bangladesh and Myanmar”.

Now, a broadly similar proposition has resurfaced in an intervention by US Congressman Brad James Sherman, in the House of Representatives’ Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific. 

 

Also Read : Meet Tasmida,  the First Rohingya Refugee Girl to Enter College