Friday, September 11, 2020

Is Islamophobia the 'Last Acceptable Form of Prejudice?'

Newsweek
By
9/11/2020
WorldIslamRacismMuslim

Around the world, From China and India to the U.K. and U.S., reports of hate crimes against Muslims are increasing. In the case of Uighurs and Rohingya Muslims, there is evidence of ethnic cleansing.

Nearly half of adults in the U.K. believe that Islam is incompatible with British values and in the U.S, a survey found that two in five Americans believe the same when it comes to American values.*

Donald Trump signed an executive order dubbed a "Muslim ban" by critics, banning residents of six Muslim-majority countries from entering the U.S.. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson in 2018 compared Muslim women who wear the burka to letterboxes and bank robbers. What's driving the rise in anti-Muslim sentiment? Why is prejudice against Muslims so widespread and so socially acceptable and what role, if any, have social media companies played in the normalization of Islamophobia?

Joint Statement on Myanmar oint Statement on Myanmar

GOV.UK

Joint statement by the UK, Belgium, the Dominican Republic, Estonia, France, Germany, Tunisia, and the United States after Security Council consultations on Myanmar


ျမန္မာစစ္သားေဟာင္း ၂ ဦးရဲ႕ ၀န္ခံခ်က္

VOA
ဗြီအိုေအ (ျမန္မာပုိင္း)
11 စက္တင္ဘာ၊ 2020
ျမန္မာစစ္သားေဟာင္း ၂ ေယာက္ရဲ႕ ေျပာဆုိခ်က္ေတြနဲ႔ပတ္သက္လုိ႔ ႏုိင္ငံတကာ သတင္းဌာနေတြရဲ႕ ေကာက္ႏုတ္ ေရးသားခ်က္ေတြကုိ ဗီြအုိေအက ျပန္လည္ တင္ျပေပးထားတာ ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။

သူတို႔ကိုၾကည္႔ရတာ သိပ္ၿပီးစိတ္လႈပ္ရွားမႈ မရွိသလိုပါပဲ၊ သူတို႔အေျဖေတြက ဇာတ္တိုက္ထားတာ ၿဖစ္ႏိုင္ ေပမယ္႔ အေတာ႔္ကိုျပင္းထန္ပါတယ္။ ျမန္မာ စစ္တပ္က စစ္သားေဟာင္း တပ္ေျပး ၂ ေယာက္က သူတို႔ဟာ အစုၿပံဳလိုက္သတ္ျဖတ္မႈ ရြာေတြကို ရြာလံုးကၽြတ္မီးရႈိ႕မႈ အပါအ၀င္ ရက္စက္ၾကမ္းၾကဳတ္မႈေတြမွာ အထက္ အရာရွိေတြရဲ႕ အမိန္႔အရ ပါ၀င္ခဲ႔ တယ္လို႔ ဗြီဒီယိုမွတ္တမ္း ေျဖာင္႔ခ်က္ထဲမွာေျပာထားပါတယ္။

Myanmar Erases Names of Rohingya Villages, and UN Map Makers Follow Suit

HAARETZ
Reuters
Published on 11.09.2020

Myanmar military faces charges of genocide for chasing 730,000 Rohingya out of the country in 2017 in what the United Nations described as 'a textbook example of ethnic cleansing'


Rohingya refugees walk through a shallow canal after crossing the Naf River in Palongkhali, as they flee violence in Myanmar to reach Bangladesh, October 16, 2017.Credit: Munir Uz Zaman/AFP


 Three years ago, Myanmar's military burned the Rohingya village of Kan Kya to the ground and bulldozed over its remains. Last year, the government erased its name from official maps, according to the United Nations.

Racism Is Fueling Myanmar’s Deadly Second Wave of COVID-19

THE I DIPLOMAT
September 11, 2020


Anti-migrant — and especially anti-Rohingya and anti-Rakhine — sentiments are undermining efforts to control the pandemic. 
A man walks past while local residents gather near a blocked street in a lockdown area to help control the spread of the COVID-19, Friday, Sept. 11, 2020, in Yangon, Myanmar. Credit: AP Photo/Thein Zaw


As COVID-19 cases surge in Myanmar, the country’s famously serene State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi appears to be getting flustered. In a severe speech delivered September 2, she castigated “reckless and unsympathetic” nightclub owners, admonished Yangon residents for flouting COVID-19 restrictions, and threatened legal punishment against uncooperative citizens. On August 24, a week after the second wave began, she also warned against potential racial tension in Rakhine state, the epicenter of Myanmar’s renewed outbreak, reminding Burmese that recent violence there has made Myanmar a global “embarrassment.”

အာေခ်းေရာက္ ရုိဟင္ဂ်ာ ၃၀၀ ခန္႔ထဲက ေနာက္တဦးေသ ဆုံး

VOA
ဗြီအိုေအ (ျမန္မာပုိင္း)
11 စက္တင္ဘာ၊ 2020 
စက္တင္ဘာ ၇ ရက္ေန႔က Ache ျပည္နယ္ေရာက္လာတဲ့ ရုိဟင္ဂ်ာ ဒုကၡသည္မ်ား


အင္ဒိုနီးရွားနိုင္ငံ Ache ျပည္နယ္ Lhokseumawe ကမ္းေျခကို ေရာက္ရွိေနတဲ့ ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာ မူဆလင္ေတြ ထဲ က အမ်ိဳးသား တစ္ဦး ေဆး႐ုံတက္ေရာက္ကုသေနရာက ၾကာသပေတးေန႔က ေသဆုံးသြားတယ္လို႔ အင္ဒို နီးရွားေရာက္ ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာ ဒုကၡသည္အေရး ကိုင္တြယ္ေနသူ ေျပာခြင့္ရ တစ္ဦးက VOA ကို ေျပာပါတယ္။

ေျပာခြင့္ရ Marzuki က ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာ ေနာက္ထပ္ တစ္ဦး ေသဆုံးသြားတယ္ဆိုတာ မွန္ကန္ေၾကာင္းနဲ႔ အူက်ေ ရာဂါနဲ႔ ေသဆုံးသြားတာ ျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း အတည္ျပဳ ေျပာၾကားခဲ့ပါတယ္။

အိုင္စီစီ ရဲ့ ျမန္မာအေပၚ စြပ္စြဲခ်က္မွာ ဗိုလ္မႉးႀကီး အဆင့္အ ထက္ ကြင္းဆက္ေတြ ေပၚလာနိုင္

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၁၀ စက္တင္ဘာ ၂၀၂၀
 
ရခိုင္ေျမာက္ပိုင္းက စစ္ဆင္ေရးေတြမွာ ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာေတြ အေပၚ ရက္ရက္စက္စက္ ႏွိမ္နင္းခဲ့ၿပီး ရြာလုံးကၽြတ္ မီးရွို႔ခဲ့တယ္လို႔ စြပ္စြဲခံရ

ျမန္မာစစ္သားႏွစ္ဦး အိုင္စီစီ ရာဇဝတ္ တရား႐ုံးမွာ သက္ေသထြက္ရင္ ဒီအမႈနဲ႔ဆက္စပ္ၿပီး အမိန္႔ေပးတဲ့ အထက္ အရာရွိေတြနဲ႔ပတ္သက္တဲ့ ကြင္းဆက္ေတြ ဆက္ေတြေပၚလာနိုင္တယ္လို႔ နိုင္ငံတကာ ျပစ္မႈဆိုင္ ရာ တရား႐ုံး ျဖစ္စဥ္ေတြကို အဆက္မျပတ္ေလ့လာေနတဲ့ လူ႔အခြင့္အေရးေရွ႕ေန၊ ဖက္ဒရယ္ ဥပေဒ အ ကယ္ဒမီ ေက်ာင္းအုပ္ႀကီး ဦးေအာင္ထူးက ဘီဘီစီကို ေျပာပါတယ္ ။

Amnesty probe reveals global business ties to Myanmar military units accused of human rights abuses

The Telegraph
By Nicola Smith, 
Asia Correspondent and
Julian Ryall Tokyo
10 September 2020

Investigation finds Myanmar military units accused of abuses have links to conglomerate with foreign business partners
Hundreds of thousands of Rohingya were displaced due to an ethnic cleansing campaign Credit: Barcroft Media via Getty Images


A new investigation by Amnesty International has revealed how a secretive Myanmar conglomerate, linked to multiple foreign businesses, has funded the Southeast Asian country’s powerful military, including units accused of human rights abuses and crimes under international law.

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.

Rohingya refugee landing in Aceh dies of respiratory illness

THE JAKARTAPOST
News Desk
The Jakarta Post
Jakarta / Thu, September 10, 2020
Ninety-four Rohingya refugees, comprising 15 men, 49 women and 30 children, were found stranded on a boat 4 miles from the coast of Seunuddon in North Aceh regency, Aceh, on June 24. (Antara/Nova Wahyudi)
Midshalimah, 21, a Rohingya refugee who was among hundreds who arrived in Aceh early on Monday, has reportedly died from some form of respiratory illness.

Lhokseumawe city public relations head Marzuki said on Wednesday that Midshalimah had complained of shortness of breath upon landing at Ujong Blang Beach in Lhokseumawe just after midnight.

Spilling the beans

The Statemen
Statesman News Service
New Delhi
September 10, 2020

The extent to which the in house spilling of the beans will tarnish the standing of the omnipotent military and a generally tightlipped Suu Kyi can only be speculated upon.

When Myanmar’s putative icon of democracy, Aung San Suu Kyi, raised the flag of her party, the National League for Democracy, in Yangon on Tuesday, she at least theoretically flagged off the ruling party’s campaign for the election this November.

Thursday, September 10, 2020

အာေခ်းကမ္းေျခေရာက္ခဲ့တဲ့ ရုိဟင္ဂ်ာဒုကၡသည္ ၃၀၀ ခန္႔ ထဲက တဦးေသ

VOA
ဗြီအိုေအ (ျမန္မာပုိင္း)
10 စက္တင္ဘာ၊ 2020 
Ujong Blang ကမ္းေျခကို ေရာက္လာတဲ့ ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာ ဒုကၡသည္ထဲက ေသဆံုးသူကို ေျမျမွပ္သၿဂဳႋဟ္ေနစဥ္


အင္ဒိုနီးရွားႏိုင္ငံ အာေခ်းျပည္နယ္ Ujong Blang ကမ္းေျခကို စက္ေလွတစီးနဲ႔ စက္တင္ဘာလ (၇)ရက္ တနလၤာေန႔ အေစာပိုင္းမွာ ေရာက္လာခဲ့တဲ့ ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာ ဒုကၡသည္ ၃၀၀ နီးပါးထဲက အမ်ဳိးသမီးတဦးဟာ စက္တင္ဘာ ၈ ရက္ အဂၤါေန႔က ေဆး႐ုံကို ေရာက္ၿပီးေနာက္ ကြယ္လြန္ သြားပါတယ္။

Myanmar soldiers admit role in Rohingya genocide directed by senior officers, rights group claims

South China Morning Post
Associated Press
8 Sep, 2020

  • The comments appear to be the first public confession by soldiers of involvement in massacres, rape and other crimes against Rohingya Muslims
  • More than 700,000 Rohingya have fled Myanmar to Bangladesh since August 2017 to escape what Myanmar’s military called a clearance campaign
A Rohingya refugee carries her child in a refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. Photo: Reuters


Two soldiers who deserted from Myanmar’s army have testified on video that they were instructed by commanding officers to “shoot all that you see and that you hear” in villages where minority Rohingya lived, a human rights group said on Tuesday.

The comments appear to be the first public confession by soldiers of involvement in army-directed massacres, rape and other crimes against Rohingya Muslims in the Buddhist-majority country.More than 700,000 Rohingya have fled Myanmar to neighbouring Bangladesh since August 2017 to escape what Myanmar’s military called a clearance campaign following an attack by a Rohingya insurgent group in Rakhine state. Myanmar’s government has denied accusations that security forces committed mass rapes and killings and burned thousands of homes.

Facilities in Bhashan Char: Rohingya leaders satisfied after trip

The Daily Star
September 09, 2020
 Rohingya leaders, who went on a "go-and-visit" to Bhashan Char housing project, said they were happy with the facilities there and that those were far better than their current living conditions in Teknaf and Ukhiya camps.

Badrul Islam, a community leader of Nayapara refugee camp-26 in Teknaf, said the three days they spent in Bhashan Char were an amazing experience.

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.

Nearly 300 Rohingya refugees land in Indonesia after six months at sea

CNBC NEWS

By Reuters

“The smugglers ... were basically keeping them hostage on the boat,” said the director of a non-profit group focusing on the Rohingya crisis.


LHOKSEUMAWE, Indonesia — Almost 300 Rohingya refugees believed to have been at sea for six months landed in Indonesia’s Aceh province early on Monday, Indonesian authorities said.

Acehnese police said a wooden boat carrying the Rohingya was spotted by local fishermen several miles off the coast of Lhokseumawe, before landing at Ujung Blang Beach just after midnight.

On the Rohingya genocide

THE NATION
Shakoh Zulqurnain
September 09, 2020


The persecution of Rohingyas in Myanmar is an issue which has attracted little attention at the international level. The low visibility of this issue reveals not only the double standards of the international community, but also brings into question the effectiveness of human rights laws. More than a million Rohingya refugees commemorated the third anniversary of the genocide on August 25 in crowded camps in Bangladesh. Rohingya Muslims are one of the most persecuted communities in the world and have been observing this day as the ‘Rohingya Genocide Remembrance Day’ since it was the same day in 2017 that the Myanmar army began a vicious crackdown on Rohingya civilians—forcing thousands to seek refuge in neighbouring countries. However, the story of the Rohingyas’ persecution dates back to many decades.

OPINION - Arakan resistance assist Rohingya in their common quest for int'l accountability

AA
Maung Zarni 
09.09.2020 
 

Arakan Army/ULA emerging as an unseemly ally and collaborator of Rohingya victims seeking justice and a peaceful homeland 
It is really welcome news for the Rohingya campaigning for justice and accountability that the International Criminal Court (ICC) has reportedly brought to The Hague two Myanmar army deserters who could provide first-person accounts as perpetrators in the genocidal killings of Rohingya families, including women and babies.

Two Myanmar Soldiers Taken to the Hague After Confessing to Rohingya Killings: Reports

The Washington Post
By Reuters
Sept. 8, 2020


(Reuters) - Two Myanmar soldiers have been taken to The Hague after confessing to murdering minority Rohingya Muslims during a 2017 crackdown, two news organisations and a rights group reported on Tuesday.

The two men admitted to killing dozens of villagers in northern Rakhine state and burying them in mass graves, according to the New York Times, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and the non-profit Fortify Rights, citing statements the men made on videos filmed in Myanmar this year.

Wednesday, September 9, 2020

ရုိဟင္ဂ်ာသတ္ျဖတ္မႈ စစ္သားႏွစ္ဦးထြက္ဆုိခ်က္ ယုံၾကည္ ရေလာက္ (Fortify Rights)

VOA
ဗြီအိုုေအ (ျမန္မာဌာန)
09 စက္တင္ဘာ၊ 2020
ေက်ာ္ေက်ာ္သိန္း
ရခိုင္ျပည္နယ္ ေမာင္ေတာၿမိဳ႕မွာ တပ္စဲြထားတဲ့ ျမန္မာ့စစ္တပ္ တပ္ဖဲြ႔၀င္မ်ား။ (ၾသဂုတ္ ၃၁၊ ၂၀၁၇)  

ရခုိင္ျပည္နယ္ စစ္ဆင္ေရးေတြအတြင္း ႐ိုဟင္ဂ်ာေတြကို အစုအေဝးလိုက္ သတ္ျဖတ္မႈနဲ႔ တျခားရာဇဝတ္ မႈေတြမွာ ပါဝင္ခဲ့တယ္ဆိုတဲ့ စစ္သားႏွစ္ဦးရဲ႕ ထြက္ဆိုခ်က္ေတြဟာ ယံုၾကည္ႏုိင္ေလာက္တဲ့ ထြက္ဆိုခ်က္ ေတြျဖစ္တယ္လို႔ Fortify Rights လူ႔အခြင့္အေရးအဖြဲ႔ရဲ႕ အမႈေဆာင္အရာရွိခ်ဳပ္ Matthew Smith က ဗီြ အုိေအကိုေျပာပါတယ္။

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