Myanmar ignoring Rohingya genocide trial measures: activists

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MYANMAR

By AFP
November 24, 2020

 

Tun Khin, president of the Burmese Rohingya Organization UK, speaks to the press outside the International Court of Justice in The Hague on January 23. Tun Khin on Monday said Myanmar has failed to abide by a previous ICJ ruling in a case brought by The Gambia accusing Myanmar of genocide against the Rohingya. (AFP)

 

Human rights lawyers and activists said on Monday that Myanmar is continuing to commit genocide against Rohingya Muslims in breach of orders by the UN’s top court.

The International Court of Justice in January rejected arguments made personally by Myanmar’s civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi in The Hague and imposed urgent interim measures on the nation.

Myanmar ignoring Rohingya genocide trial measures: activists

MailOnline

By Afp
Published: 23 November 2020

 

The International Court of Justice in The Hague rejected arguments made by Myanmar's civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi and ordered the country to cease genocidal acts against the Rohingya

Human rights lawyers and activists said on Monday that Myanmar is continuing to commit genocide against Rohingya Muslims in breach of orders by the UN's top court.

The International Court of Justice (ICJ) in January rejected arguments made personally by Myanmar's civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi in The Hague and imposed urgent interim measures on the predominantly Buddhist nation.

Myanmar ignoring Rohingya genocide trial measures: activists

AFP
23 November 2020,

 

The International Court of Justice in The Hague rejected arguments made by Myanmar's civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi and ordered the country to cease genocidal acts against the Rohingya

Human rights lawyers and activists said on Monday that Myanmar is continuing to commit genocide against Rohingya Muslims in breach of orders by the UN's top court.

The International Court of Justice (ICJ) in January rejected arguments made personally by Myanmar's civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi in The Hague and imposed urgent interim measures on the predominantly Buddhist nation.

What will Aung San Suu Kyi's ruling party’s win mean for the Rohingya people?

TRT WORLD
Nov 11, 2020

Human Rights activist and president of the Burmese Rohingya Organisation Tun Khin discusses Myanmar’s ruling party, led by Aung San Suu Kyi, claiming victory in Monday’s general election and what it means for the Rohingya people.

Link: Here

Rohingya frustrated over polarized elections in Myanmar

AA

Md. Kamruzzaman

DHAKA, Bangladesh
08.11.2020

More than 1M Rohingya in Bangladesh, over half million in Myanmar have been excluded from voting in Sunday's polls

Living in squalid makeshift tents in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, more than one million Rohingya have been disenfranchised in the Sunday’s general elections in Myanmar, rising frustration among the persecuted people.

“According to international law, voting right is a fundamental right, but we are being denied by the government of Myanmar. We are citizens of Myanmar. So we must deserve the right of voting,” Khin Maung, a Rohingya youth in Bangladesh’s camps, told Anadolu Agency.

Hate speech rife in Myanmar ahead of elections: Study

AA

Md. Kamruzzaman

DHAKA, Bangladesh 

04.11.2020

Ahead of general elections, state-sponsored hate speech, fake news, incitement to violence have mar campaigns, says report 

 A new study on the ongoing general election season in Myanmar documented cases of social media hate speech and disinformation by authorities against the country's minority communities.

The study, released on Wednesday by the UK-based Burma Human Rights Network (BHRN), reported 39 cases of hate speech and disinformation, of which some were shared over online platforms more then 2,000 times.

A Sham Election May Be the ‘Nail in the Coffin’ for Democracy in Myanmar

WPR

Prachi Vidwans  

Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2020

Myanmar’s de facto leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, attends a ceremony at the National League for Democracy’s temporary headquarters in Naypyitaw, Myanmar, Sept. 8, 2020 (AP photo by Aung Shine Oo).

Myanmar is preparing to hold general elections this Sunday, an occasion that might have marked a significant milestone in its ongoing transition from decades of military rule. The previous polls, in 2015, saw Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy finally win the presidency and a majority of seats in parliament, following the dissolution of the military junta in 2011. Hopes were high that Suu Kyi, who is now Myanmar’s de facto leader, would usher in a new era of peace and expanded freedoms. Yet the consensus today is that Myanmar’s democratic transition has stalled—if it can even be said to be transitioning at all.

UK committed to play role in UNSC on Rohingya plight: Lord Ahmad

UNB 

UNB News
Dhaka
Publish- October 21, 2020

The UK government is committed to continuing its role in the UN Security Council (UNSC) to highlight the plight of the Rohingyas, says British Minister of State for South Asia and the Commonwealth at the UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon.

He praised Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina for hosting over a million Rohingyas in Cox's Bazar and reassured that the UK would continue to stand alongside both the Rohingya community and the government of Bangladesh.

Don’t be fooled. Myanmar’s ‘democratic election’ is a sham.

The Washington Post 

Opinion by Tun Khin 

Oct. 14, 2020

Tun Khin is president of the Burma Rohingya Organization UK.

 

What a difference five years can make. In 2015, many of my fellow Rohingya people cheered as the party of the famed opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi won a landslide victory in Myanmar’s first democratic elections of the 21st century, bringing an end to decades of outright military rule. Euphoria reigned. We hoped not only for a new beginning for the country, but also for an end to the oppression against us.

Today, as Myanmar gears up for another general election on Nov. 8, the situation is starkly different. Three years ago, Aung San Suu Kyi, now the country’s de facto head of state, stood by as military leaders launched a brutal ethnic cleansing campaign that killed thousands of Rohingya and drove more than 700,000 across the border into Bangladesh, where they now languish in immense refugee camps. The roughly 500,000 who remain in the country have been effectively disenfranchised. They are denied access to Myanmar’s democracy simply because of who they are.

ျမန္မာျပည္အေရး လူ႔အခြင့္အေရးေကာင္စီမွာ ေဆြးေႏြး

လြတ္လပ္တဲ့အာရွအသံ ( RFA )

ျမန္မာဌာန | သတင္းမ်ား

ခင္ေမာင္စိုး
2020-09-14

ျမန္မာနိုင္ငံကေန ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာေတြ ထြက္ေျပးခဲ့ရတာ ၃ ႏွစ္ရွိၿပီ ျဖစ္ေပမယ့္ ျပႆနာေတြကို ေျဖရွင္းနိုင္ျခင္း မရွိေသးဘူးလို႔ ၄၅ ႀကိမ္ေျမာက္ ကုလသမဂၢ လူ႔အခြင့္အေရးေကာင္စီ ညီလာခံမွာ လူ႔အခြင့္အေရးဆိုင္ရာ မဟာမင္းႀကီး မစ္ရွဲလ္ ဘက္ခ်လက္ က ေျပာၾကားခဲ့ပါတယ္။

ကုလသမဂၢ လူ႔အခြင့္ေရးဆိုင္ရာ မဟာမင္းႀကီး မစ္ရွဲလ္ ဘက္ခ်လက္က လာမယ့္ နိုဝင္ဘာေရြးေကာက္ ပြဲအၿပီး တက္လာမယ့္ ျမန္မာအစိုးရအေနနဲ႔ လူ႔အခြင့္အေရးတိုးတက္ေရးအတြက္ ဘယ္အခ်က္ေတြ အဓိ ကေဆာင္ရြက္သင့္သလဲဆိုတာကို ဆန္းစစ္ရမယ့္ အခ်ိန္ျဖစ္တယ္လို႔ အစခ်ီၿပီးေျပာၾကားခဲ့ပါတယ္။

Three Years of Campaign Against Ethnic Muslim Rohingyas ...

VOA
August 29, 2020

This month marks three years since Myanmar’s military launched an escalated campaign against the mostly ethnic Muslim Rohingyas in Rakhine state, with systematic rape, beatings, killings and burning of villages. 

Link :https://www.voazimbabwe.com/a/us-mynmar-rohinya-three-years-campaign/5562463.html 

Three years later, US pressed to declare Rohingya crisis 'genocide,' hold Myanmar accountable

MYCENTRALOREGON.com
By CONOR FINNEGAN, ABC News

(NEW YORK) — Three years ago, Myanmar’s military escalated its persecution of the Rohingya — a mostly-Muslim ethnic minority — with a sustained, violent campaign of murder, rape and beatings that cleared hundreds of thousands from their land and burned their villages to the ground.

But even amid continued sporadic violence against Rohingya in Myanmar, the United States has declined to declare the campaign a genocide.

Rohingya politicians excluded from Myanmar election

REUTERS
Shoon Naing
AUGUST 25, 2020

YANGON (Reuters) - Aspiring politician Abdul Rasheed was born in Myanmar and is one of the very few members of the Rohingya Muslim minority to have Myanmar citizenship.



His father was a civil servant. But when the country goes to the polls in November, the businessman will not be able to stand as a candidate because officials accuse him of having foreign roots.

Myanmar Army Says it Has Convicted 3 Troops For 2017 Massacre of Rohingya

BenarNews
Special to BenarNews
2020-06-30

Rohingya Muslim refugee Mohammad Younus, from the Myanmar village of Gu Dar Pyin in Rakhine state, stands on a hill at the Kutupalong refugee camp in southeastern Bangladesh, Jan. 14, 2018.AP

Myanmar’s military said Tuesday that it tried and convicted three soldiers in a secret court-martial for the massacre of hundreds of Rohingya villagers during an army-led crackdown in Rakhine state in 2017, only the second case in which troops have been held accountable for atrocities against the Muslim minority.

Myanmar Army Says it Has Convicted Three Troops For 2017 Massacre of Rohingya

RADIO FREE ASIA
2020-06-30

Rohingya Muslim refugee Mohammad Younus from the Myanmar village of Gu Dar Pyin in Rakhine state, stands on a hill at the Kutupalong refugee camp in southeastern Bangladesh, Jan. 14, 2018.
Associated Press

Myanmar’s military said Tuesday that it tried and convicted three soldiers in a secret court-martial for the massacre of hundreds of Rohingya villagers during an army-led crackdown in Rakhine state in 2017, only the second case in which troops have been held accountable for atrocities against the Muslim minority.

The verdict on the massacre near Gu Dar Pyin village came as the Myanmar military faces genocide-related charges at three international courts over its expulsion of more than 740,000 Rohingya to Bangladesh in late 2017, in which thousands died in indiscriminate killings, mass rape, torture, and village burnings.

Myanmar Avoids Helping Rohingya Minority Despite International Court Order, Observers say

VOA NEWS
By Ralph Jennings
June 06, 2020

A Rohingya refugee sits with a child at the Kutupalong Rohingya refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, June 2, 2020.

TAIPEI, TAIWAN - Myanmar has sidelined an international court order to improve conditions for its long-embattled Rohingya minority, despite fears that the Southeast Asian government is trying to commit genocide against the group, observers say.

The U.N.’s International Court of Justice in January ordered Myanmar to "take all measures within its power" to prevent any acts of genocide against ethnic Rohingya Muslims, who fled the country amid a bloody military crackdown in 2017. The ICJ ordered Myanmar to submit a report within four months on what actions it is taking to comply with the court's decision, and to submit follow-up reports every six months after that.

Argentinian court decision brings hope for Rohingya

Brinkwire

DHAKA, Bangladesh
June 3, 2020

A court in South American country of Argentina has decided to pursue a case against Myanmar’s leader Aung Sang Suu Kyi and senior officers in the military over the genocide and persecution against Rohingya community.


In a statement issued on Monday, Burmese Rohingya Organization UK (BROUK) said that Argentina’s Federal Criminal Chamber No. 1 has accepted its petition and asked to collect more information on the Rohingya genocide.

The court, in its decision on May 29, overturned a previous order when it had rejected to admit a similar petition seeking to probe the role of Myanmar leadership in the acts of genocide.

Argentina eyes Suu Kyi probe

The Manila Times
AFP 
By AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE
Argentina eyes
Suu Kyi probe
June 4, 2020

DHAKA: An Argentine court has moved one step closer to opening a historic investigation against Myanmar’s military and civilian leadership over the genocide against the Rohingya people, the Burmese Rohingya Organization UK (BROUK) said.

The court in Buenos Aires on Friday overturned a previous decision not to pursue a case against State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi and senior officers in the Myanmar military.

Rohingya genocide: Argentine court moves closer to opening case against Myanmar

The Daily Star

Star Online Report
June 02, 2020

An Argentine court has moved one step closer to opening a historic investigation against Myanmar's military and civilian leadership over genocide against the Rohingya people, the Burmese Rohingya Organisation UK (BROUK) said today.

The court in Buenos Aires on Friday overturned a previous decision not to pursue a case against State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi and senior officers in the Myanmar military. Instead, it has requested more information from the International Criminal Court (ICC) to ensure that a case in Argentina would not duplicate other justice efforts, BROUK said in a statement.

Argentinian court decision brings hope for Rohingya

AA
Md. Kamruzzaman
DHAKA, Bangladesh
02.06.2020


In a significant development, Buenos Aires court admits petition to probe Myanmar leaders’ role in Rohingya genocide 

A court in South American country of Argentina has decided to pursue a case against Myanmar's leader Aung Sang Suu Kyi and senior officers in the military over the genocide and persecution against Rohingya community.

In a statement issued on Monday, Burmese Rohingya Organization UK (BROUK) said that Argentina’s Federal Criminal Chamber No. 1 has accepted its petition and asked to collect more information on the Rohingya genocide.