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PRESS RELEASE: STOP INTIMIDATION TO BANGLANIZE ETHNIC ROHINGYA
(13 January 2015)
Arakan Rohingya National organization (ARNO) strongly condemns the recent action of the Commanding Officer of Border Guard Police (BGP) Tin Ko Ko for threatening the innocent Rohingya villagers into accepting “Bengali” as their racial name in accordance with the wishes of the government.
On Thursday, 8th January, U Tin Ko Ko summoned Rohingya elders and village administrators to the office of the BGP Area Command No.5 at Ngakura village of Maungdaw township and asked them to register as “Bengali” in the citizenship verification under 1982 Citizenship Law, starting 13th January. He threaded that those who insist for “Rohingya” as their ethnicity would be in trouble and implicated to have link with insurgent group.
ARNO welcomes the UNGA’s resolution to grant full citizenship and ethnic rights to Rohingya
PRESS RELEASE
(30 December 2014)
Arakan Rohingya National Organisation welcomes the resolution of the United Nations General Assembly adopted on Monday, 29th December 20014, urging Myanmar to grant full citizenship to its Rohingya Muslim minority and grant them equal access to services.
The measure was adopted by consensus in the 193–nation assembly, a month after it was approved by the assembly’s rights committee.
The resolution expresses “serious concern” over the plight of the Rohingya in Arakan/Rakhine state, where 140,000 people live in squalid camps after deadly violence erupted between Buddhists and Muslims in 2012.
Press Release: STOP KILLING ROHINGYA AND ROHINGYA ETHNOCIDE
October 25, 2014
Arakan Rohingya National Organisation strongly condemns the unlawful arrest, murder and criminal atrocities committed against the Rohingya people by the border security forces in Maungdaw township of Arakan/Rakhine State, Burma/Myanmar under the pretext of association with Rohingya Solidarity Organisation (RSO).
Since June 2012, President Thein Sein has created so-called communal violence in Arakan where many thousands of innocent, helpless and defenceless Rohingya were killed, thousands of their homes and villages with mosques and madrassas were burned down or destroyed and their properties and valuables worth millions of dollars were looted while forcing them to live in displacement camps in segregation and apartheid-like situation away from their homes and properties thereby creating an impossible situation for their living in their won homeland.
JOINT STATEMENT ON TERRORIZING THE ROHINGYA ONCE AGAIN TO IDENTIFY AS BENGALI
The government of Burma/Myanmar had conducted the scheduled nationwide UN sponsored census on 30 March-10 April. But it has discriminately excluded the entire Rohingya population from the census for self-identifying their Rohingya ethnicity.
The government has now resumed enumeration in northern Arakan/Rakhine State threatening the Rohingya people once again to identify as Bengali, a term that implies they are illegal immigrants from neighbouring Bangladesh.
In This Issue:
- Editorial: Myanmar’s Federal Vision Hinges on Rohingya Inclusion
- Myanmar’s Draft Law and Women Under Arms
- Independence Promises and the Systematic Stripping of Minority Rights in Myanmar
- The Arakan Army’s Divide-and-Rule Tactics Against the Rohingya
- Rohingya Security and Peace in Rakhine
- IIMM Shares Evidence of Crimes Against Rohingya with International Courts
- Dhaka Declaration: Rohingya Speak with One Voice
- A Mosque Reopens in Maungdaw but What Does It Really Mean?
- Rohingya Women are Forced into Arakan Army Ranks
- On the 8th Anniversary of the Rohingya Genocide the Crisis Continues, the World Must Act
- ARNO Expresses Concern Over Crisis Group Report’s Misrepresentation of Rohingya Realities
- Eight Years On, Genocide Against Rohingya Persists
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Myanmar’s Suu Kyi heads to Brussels, Luxembourg, Strasbourg
Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi meets European Union leaders this weekend before heading to Luxembourg for talks with EU foreign ministers and to Strasbourg to pick up a prize she won 23 years ago.
BRUSSELS: Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi meets European Union leaders this weekend before heading to Luxembourg for talks with EU foreign ministers and to Strasbourg to pick up a prize she won 23 years ago.
At a ceremony at the European Parliament in Strasbourg Tuesday, Suu Kyi will finally receive the Sakharov human rights prize she won in 1990 at the height of the Myanmar military crackdown.
The ceremony will be preceded by talks with EU leaders on a joint EU-Myanmar Task Force due to meet in mid-November which will explore ways that Europe can help Myanmar, an EU diplomat said.Myanmar Army Seeks First Female Applicants
An advertisement in the Myanmar Ahlin newspaper says the new cadets must be single, at least 5 feet, 3 inches (160 centimeters) tall, between 25 and 30 years of age, and weigh no more than 130 pounds (59 kilograms).
Though they won’t be called on to fight, the ad said successful candidates would be offered commissioned posts, starting as second lieutenants.
Myanmar’s army once enjoyed widespread popularity for fighting for independence from British colonial rule, but support plummeted following military coups in 1962 and 1988.Corruption in Myanmar: take down the real villains
Naing Ko Ko
Special to The Nation
Instead of focusing on low-salaried bureaucrats as the main cause of graft, advocates need to go after those at the very top of the centres of power
When I started to write about anti-corruption issues in Myanmar on the East Asia Forum, a number of scholars suggested that corruption in Myanmar is principally linked with low wages at governmental institutions. But the logic that the low salaries of public officials increases the amount of corruption does not work accurately in Myanmar. What about corruption among the state’s leadership? There are many factors which underpin corruption in Myanmar, such as the lack of a robust political system, weak governmental institutions, opportunity for corruption, monopolistic leadership mechanisms and a moral and value system based on corruption.For Myanmar’s Kachin Rebels, Life Teeters Between War, Peace
Filed by KOSU News in World News.
Despite progress in its transition to democracy, Myanmar has struggled to end all the ethnic insurgencies that have long divided the country.
Now the Kachin — the last of the insurgent groups that have been fighting the government — have signed a preliminary agreement that could end the conflict.
The agreement falls short of an actual ceasefire, but calls for both sides to work “to end all armed fighting.”
Two years ago, Myanmar’s army broke a cease-fire and launched an offensive against the Kachin Independence Army, or KIA. The fighting displaced more than 100,000 Kachin people, a hill tribe who live on both sides of the Myanmar-China border.Unexploded Bombs Discovered in Burma
Authorities say one unexploded bomb was found Monday in Mandalay, while another was discovered in Rangoon.
Two people were killed on Friday when an explosion ripped through a guesthouse in the town of Taungoo, about 200 kilometers north of Rangoon. Two blasts in Rangoon on Sunday injured several people.
A police spokesman in Rangoon said the device found Monday was successfully defused before it could go off.
Burma concerns raised in House of Commons
By JACK GOODMAN
British MP Valerie Vaz addressed the House of Commons last week to discuss the findings of an eight-day cross-party delegation to Burma in August. She met afterwards with DVB’s Jack Goodman to discuss the delegation, British foreign policy towards Burma, and Aung San Suu Kyi.
INTERVIEW
Question: Am I right in saying that your relationship with Burma began before you were elected as an MP?
Answer: As a lawyer I was interested in human rights before I became an MP. I thought Aung San Suu Kyi’s story was very similar to Nelson Mandela’s. It was one of the campaigns I thought was important to be involved in.
On a political level I felt I had to raise my voice as well, which is why when I was elected to parliament in September 2010 and had my first opportunity to ask the Prime Minister [David Cameron] a question, I asked what he was going to do about Burma.What’s the best passport in the world for travellers?
By Robert Upe
Travel and Tourism Writer
The Aussie passport has been ranked as one of the best in the world for travellers, based on the number of countries Australians can visit without a visa.
The best passports are from the UK, Finland and Sweden, according to an index by Henley & Partners, a consultancy in residence and citizenship planning.
Each of the top three passports scored 173 in the rankings, meaning they can be used to enter 173 countries and territories without a visa.
The joint second-ranked countries are Denmark, Germany, Luxembourg and the US with a score of 172.
Belgium, Italy and the Netherlands hold a joint third rank of 171, followed by Canada in fourth with 170, then Switzerland, Austria and New Zealand fifth with 168.Burma’s long road to democracy
Rangoon a Refuge for Some Thandwe Muslims
RANGOON — Muslims hiding out in Rangoon say they are among more than 100 followers of Islam who fled religious violence in Arakan State’s Thandwe Township last week to seek refuge in Burma’s biggest city.
An argument between an Arakanese Buddhist and a Muslim in Thandwe spiraled out of control on Sept. 29 and eventually led to the spread of violence in surrounding villages over the next three days. Five Muslims were killed and more than 100 houses were burned to the ground.Reports
Myanmar ‘Violates International Laws’ over Rohingya Treatment
Burma Campaign UK criticises President Thein Sein for oppressive policies against minority Muslims
By Gianluca Mezzofiore
Myanmar’s government has violated at least eight international laws with its treatment of the Rohingya Muslims, one of the world’s most persecuted minorities, according to a British-based advocacy group.
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