Genocide of Rohingya in Myanmar may be entering new and deadly phase
Arakan News Agency The International State Crime Initiative (ISCI) at Queen Mary University of London has warned that reports of attacks against Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar may signal a new phase in what ISCI researchers say is genocide. The alleged reprisals against the Rohingya minority come after attacks on three Myanmar police posts in Northern […]
The Rohingya Are At The Brink Of Mass Genocide
Arakan News Agency I have written numerous newspaper pieces on the fate of the Rohingya in recent years, and even published a book on this, “the most oppressed people in the world”, this summer. Yet for all they have endured for the last decades, and especially in the last few years, the scariest part of […]
International Political Forum: Muslims in Myanmar are bump in the human throat
Arakan News Agency The international political forum denounced the world’s silence on the tragedy of the Muslims in Myanmar, even though they are exposed to all types of wars, genocide, ethnic cleansing and removal of religious rights on daily basis, according to a statement issued by the Forum on Sunday. The Chairman of the Forum, […]
2016 Myanmar Genocide Awareness convention was held in Los Angeles
Arakan News Agency Approximately 400 people attended the annual convention since it was created in 2013 as result of ongoing genocide in Myanmar particularly for Rohingya who are facing daily persecutions based on their religion and background. Well know Burmese scholar Dr. Maung Zarni and former Burma’s Member of Parliament U Shwe Maung of Rohingya […]
Preventing genocide in Myanmar requires keeping the pressure on: editorial
Arakan News Agency Tough sanctions, relentless pressure on its military dictators and worldwide support for charismatic political dissident Aung San Suu Kyi finally prodded Myanmar, the Southeast Asian country also known as Burma, to embrace democracy in 2012. As President Barack Obama put it during a 2012 visit to Myanmar, “To those who cling to […]
Report: Condition ripe for Myanmar genocide
Arakan News Agency US Holocaust Memorial Museum warns of apartheid and mass-murder facing the Rohingya minority The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum staff believes that conditions are ripe for genocide in Myanmar, also known as Burma, following a trip there in March. Staff from the museum’s Simon-Skjodt Center for the Prevention of Genocide investigated threats […]
Scholar Maung Zarni Defines Genocide in HHRP Lecture
Arakan News Agency The word genocide calls to mind events like the Jewish and Armenian holocausts, but according to Maung Zarni, a Burmese scholar affiliated with Harvard and the London School of Economics, smaller-scale killing can also fit the definition “if done in an attempt to destroy a people.” Such is the case with the […]