Myanmar's persecuted Rohingya uneasy with return of military rule

DAILY SABAH

FRENCH PRESS AGENCY - AFP
YANGON ASIA PACIFIC
FEB 13, 2021

Myanmar military Commander-in-Chief Min Aung Hlaing (4L) and senior military commanders arrive on the second day of the 'Sin Phyu Shin' joint military exercises in the Irrawaddy Delta region, Feb. 3, 2018. (AFP Photo)

Myanmar's stateless, conflict-scarred Rohingya community are on edge with the return of military rule, fearing further violence in a restive part of the country where others have shown support for the new regime.

Much of the long-persecuted Muslim minority have spent years in cramped displacement camps, with no freedom of movement or access to health care, living in what rights groups call "apartheid" conditions.

They are still reeling from a 2017 military crackdown that razed entire villages and sent around 750,000 Rohingya fleeing across the border into Bangladesh carrying accounts of rape and extrajudicial killings.

"Under a democratic government, we had a little hope we could go back to our old home," said a 27-year-old, who asked not to be named, from a camp near the city of Sittwe.

Rohingya Activists Are Hoping That the Coup in Myanmar Will Be a Turning Point for Their Struggle

TIME  

Amy Gunia

February 8, 2021

   

A group of people shout slogans and hold placards during a Rohingya solidarity rally in front of the ICJ, The Hague, on December 11th, 2019.Romy Arroyo Fernandez/NurPhoto via Getty Images

In the week since the military overthrew Myanmar’s democratically elected government, exile Nay San Lwin has been inundated with dozens of messages from his compatriots offering support.

It’s a dramatic change from 2017, when the rights activist, now living in Germany, was disseminating information about the atrocities Myanmar’s military had unleashed against his community—the mostly Muslim Rohingya, who live in the west of the country. Back then, the majority of the messages he received from other Burmese consisted of death threats and abuse.

Call on Bangladesh authorities to release Rohingya photographer Abul Kalam

mizzima
03 January 2021

Well known Bangladeshi and international human rights figures, lawyers, academics, filmmakers, photographers, journalists and human rights focussed organisations are calling for the release of Rohingya photographer Abul Kalam.

On the morning of 28th December 2020, Abul Kalam, an award-winning photographer and Rohingya refugee, set out to take photographs of buses departing the Kutupalong camps for Bhasan Char. He was apprehended and then taken to the Camp-in-Charge in Camp 2W Block D5 of Kutupalong and subsequently to the Camp-in-Charge of Kutupalong Registered Camp. He was reportedly beaten when he was apprehended.

More than 100 UK MPs want intervention in The Gambia’s Rohingya genocide case

The Daily Star 

Star Online Report
December 18, 2020

 

Photo: AFP/File 

More than 100 UK MPs have called on the British government to make an intervention supporting The Gambia's Rohingya genocide case at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), as human rights violations against the Rohingyas continue.

"Ending impunity is essential not only to ensure justice and uphold international law, but also to deter further international crimes by the military in Myanmar," according to a letter to the UK Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, Dominic Raab MP, issued on December 17.

Myanmar ignoring Rohingya genocide trial measures, say activists

Eastern Eyes

November 26, 2020

The President of The Burmese Rohingya Organisation UK (BROUK), Tun Khin, poses in front of Argentine federal court in Buenos Aires on November 13, 2019. (Photo by JUAN MABROMATA / AFP)

Human rights lawyers and activists said on Monday (23) 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 na ci gaba da musgunawa musulmin Rohingya- Lauyoyi

rfi 

Wallafawa ranar: 24/11/2020

'Yan Rohingya kusan miliyan guda ne yanzu haka ke gudun hijira a Bangladesh STR/AFP

Lauyoyin da ke kare mutanen da aka ci zarafin su a kasar Myanmar sun ce har yanzu gwamnatin kasar na cigaba da aikata laifuffukan yaki akan 'yan kabilar Rohingya Musulimi sabanin umurnin kotun duniya.

Pegiat HAM Sebut Genosida Rohingya di Myanmar Masih Terjadi

CNN

CNN Indonesia

Selasa,
Jakarta, CNN Indonesia
Bagikan : 24/11/2020

Ilustrasi pengungsi Rohingya. Pegiat HAM meyakini Myanmar masih melakukan genosida terhadap etnis ini. (ANTARA FOTO/Syifa)

 

Sejumlah pegiat hak asasi manusia menyebut pemerintah Myanmar tidak berhenti melakukan genosida atau pembersihan etnis Rohingya meski negara itu sudah digugat di Mahkamah Internasional (ICJ).

"Genosida masih berlangsung. Pemerintah dan militer Myanmar sudah memperhitungkan mereka tetap aman jika mengabaikan tindakan sementara dan tidak akan menghadapi konsekuensi apapun," kata Presiden Organisasi Burma Rohingya, Tun Khin, seperti dilansir AFP, Selasa (24/11).

In Birmania il genocidio contro i Rohingya continua

31 MAG.nl

24 Nov 2020

La Birmania, a maggioranza Buddista, sta continuando a perpetrare il genocidio contro la minoranza Rohingya, di fede musulmana, nonostante gli ordini delle Nazioni Unite. L’allarme è stato lanciato da attivisti e avvocati che si occupano di diritti umani.

A gennaio, il tribunale internazionale di giustizia ICJ ha respinto le argomentazioni della leader Birmana, Aung San Suo Kyi, che si è auto difesa alla corte dell’Aja. Il tribunale ha inoltre imposto misure temporanee ma urgenti sulla nazione.

La ICJ ha ordinato alla Birmania di fermare il genocidio, di non eliminare le prove dei crimini commessi contro i Rohingya e di presentare un resoconto alle UN ogni sei mesi.

Rohingyas : la Birmanie continue ses persécutions malgré une condamnation par la justice internationale

Le Parisien
Par Le Parisien avec AFP
Le 23 novembre 2020

La Cour internationale de justice avait ordonné en janvier à la Birmanie de cesser ses exactions, de préserver les preuves des crimes commis contre les Rohingyas. Rien n’a été fait. 

En 2017, des Rohingyas ont été contraints de quitter la Birmanie. Ici une femme garde son frère enchaîné pour sa propre sécurité et pour l’empêcher de s’égarer et de se perdre dans le vaste camp de réfugiés. AFP/INDRANIL MUKHERJEE

Le gouvernement birman continue de persécuter la minorité musulmane rohingya malgré sa condamnation par la justice internationale, ont affirmé lundi des avocats et des défenseurs des droits humains.

Depuis 2017, quelque 740 000 Rohingyas ont fui les exactions de l'armée birmane et se sont réfugiés au Bangladesh voisin, où ils s'entassent dans d'immenses camps de fortune. Cette crise a conduit la Birmanie à se voir accusée de « génocide » devant la Cour internationale de justice (CIJ), plus haute instance judiciaire de l'ONU.

Myanmar ignoring Rohingya genocide trial measures: activists

Frontier
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