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Joint Statement on the Official Report of the Rakhine (Arakan) Investigation Commission
Date: May 4, 2013
We the undersigned organizations reject the 186-page official report dated 22 April 2013 of the Arakan Investigation Commission as follows:
- The Rakhine Investigation Commission formed on 17 August 2012 by President Thein Sein included representatives from various religious and political parties and democracy groups except Rohingya representatives, who have been actual and potential victims of deadly violence and genocidal attacks. Haji U Nyunt Maung Shein and U Tin Maung Than, the two prominent Muslim leaders were purged from the Commission seeing that they were most insistent on the truth.
Press Release: Rebuttal to Eleven Media false report
Date: May 6, 2013
Our attention has been drawn to the news item appeared in Eleven Media, Yangon, dated 05/05/2013 under caption, “ Three Rohingya organizations are reportedly masterminding a religious war against Myanmar” accusing that “Rohingya Solidarity Organization (RSO), Arakan Rohingya National Organization (ARNO), and Rohingya National Security Council (RNSC) are reportedly supporting and manipulating the plot. Their members have already collected weapons for the war. The Muslim living in Myanmar, especially hardcore members are campaigning for enlisting for their conspiracy……”
Press Release: STOP ROHINGYA ETHNOCIDE
(28 April 2013)
We condemn the police shooting, on 26 April 2013, of a group of Rohingya children for their peaceful protest chanting “Rohingya, Rohingya” when hostile operational team consisting of immigration, military, NaSaKa, police and village administrators came to Thet Kay Byin village near Ba Du Pha Rohingya displacement camp in Arakan’s capital Sittwe (Akyab), to perform the current operation forcing the Rohingya to register as “Bengali” for the census. A 15 year old boy namely Mohammad Ali S/o Kabir Ahmed of Thet Kay Bin was injured in the shooting and is now taking treatment in a private clinic.
Press Release: UN Intervention and Commission of Inquiry Most Urgent
Arakan Rohingya National Organisation (ARNO) welcomes the 153-page report of the Human Rights Watch (HRW) dated 22 April 2013 which titled “ ‘All You Can Do is Pray’: Crimes Against Humanity and Ethnic Cleansing of Rohingya Muslims in Burma’s Arakan State” .
In its report, HRW has said that crimes against humanity have been committed by the Burmese authorities and Rakhine Buddhist groups in a campaign of ethnic cleansing against Rohingya Muslims in Burma’s Arakan State.
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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Malala Wins EU’s Sakharov Human Rights Prize
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Past winners of the prestigious award won by the 16-year-old include Nelson Mandela, and Burmese activist Aung San Suu Kyi.
Pakistani schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai, who was shot last year by the Taliban for defying a ban on female education, has won the European Parliament’s Sakharov human rights prize.
The 16-year-old, who has become a symbol of the fight against the militants, has also been nominated for the Nobel peace prize.
Fugitive US intelligence analyst Edward Snowden, who leaked details of secret surveillance programmes, and a group of jailed Belarus dissidents, had been in the running for the prestigious £42,000 Sakharov award.
Previous winners include Nelson Mandela and Burmese activist Aung San Suu Kyi.Govt, NLD battle for high ground on constitutional reform
By SHWE AUNG
Burma’s Joint-house Committee for Reviewing the Constitution has announced through state media that it is seeking advice from political, legal, administrative and public stakeholders on how to proceed with moves to either amend or rewrite the 2008 constitution.
According to a statement on Friday in the government-run The New Light of Myanmar, the committee said it “would seek assessment and advice from the Legislative Pillar, Administrative Pillar and Judicial Pillar through Pyidaungsu Hluttaw [the Union Assembly], and would seek assessment and advice of political parties, organisations and individuals.”
The 109-member Committee set a deadline of 15 November for the submission of such advice and assessment.Myanmar legal system yet to reach global standards: expert
By Shivali Nayak
Myanmar’s legal system is rapidly changing, but it still has a long way to go to reach international standards.
That’s according to Dr Melissa Crouch, a researcher from the National University of Singapore’s Centre for Asian Legal Studies.
A recent report by the International Bar Association identified a number of areas Myanmar didn’t reach international legal standards.
Dr Crouch is one of the co-editors of a handbook which aims to address the legal challenges the country is facing as it transitions towards democracy.
The 20-chapter publication, which will be out next year, is drawing on expertise from around the region to provide guidance.
“[It is] trying to capture some of the… legislative reforms that are currently taking place as well as putting those in their historical and social context,” Dr Crouch told Radio Australia’s Asia Pacific progam.Myanmar and Kachin Rebels Sign Preliminary Peace Deal
By William Tucker Chief Correspondent for In Homeland Security 2011 marked the end of a 17 year cease-fire agreement between the Myanmar junta and the Kachin rebels of north Burma. In the two years since the cease fire broke down hundreds have been killed and tens of...
Undocumented Myanmar workers in Malaysia allowed to return home without being charged
Myanmar Refugees
Myanmar Labour Minister said he has reached an agreement with Malaysian authorities for the undocumented Myanmar workers in Malaysia to be allowed to return home without being charged.
Mr. Aye Myint, Minister for Labour, Employment and Social Security, and other senior officials went to Malaysia between September 9 and 12 to discuss the issue of illegal Myanmar migrant workers in Malaysia. They held a press conference on their arrival in Yangon on September 12.
“Our main concern is the undocumented Myanmar workers. For those who want to work there legally, we will issue official documents to them. Next, we have negotiated for the runaway workers who are no longer needed by their employers, and the kids at the [detention] centres not to be charged under the Malaysian laws,” said Aye Myint at the press conference.Myanmar, Kachin in key peace talks
Bangkok Post
Myanmar on Thursday looked to build on a tentative peace deal with Kachin rebels, with talks aimed at ending the country’s last major active civil war.
General Gwan Maw of the Kachin Independence Army speaks during a meeting with Myanmar government officials and a delegation of the rebel Kachin Independence Organization in Myitkyina, in the country’s northern Kachin state on October 8, 2013
Fighting in northern Kachin state has displaced tens of thousands since a 17-year ceasefire crumbled two years ago, with bouts of heavy combat that have undermined the reformist government’s aim of securing countrywide peace.Political prisoners in Myanmar must be released without conditions, UN expert stresses
UN News Centre
9 October 2013 – An independent United Nations human rights expert today welcomed the latest release of political prisoners in Myanmar, while also voicing concern over ongoing arrests of activists and conditions attached to arrests.
A presidential amnesty decree on 8 October resulted in the release of 56 prisoners of conscience in the South-east Asian nation, which has been undergoing a reform process aimed at a more open and broad-based democracy. President Thein Sein has committed to release all political prisoners by the end of this year.Waiting for the dividend
Despite hopes of a nationwide ceasefire agreement, the trust needed for lasting peace remains a long way off.
BY THE Salween river in the city of Hpa-an, on a patch of ground the size of a football pitch, the foundations are being dug out for a posh new hotel. This would not get much attention anywhere else in Myanmar. Scores of new hotels are going up in Yangon and Mandalay, the two biggest cities, to cater for an influx of tourists drawn by the country’s recent opening-up. In Hpa-an, however, it is big news.Are invisible forces orchestrating Myanmar’s anti-Muslim violence?
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The military has much to lose from democratic reforms and may be using the bloodshed as a way to reassert control.
Myanmar’s president made his first trip to the violence-hit town of Thandwe last week, days after a 94-year-old Muslim woman was slain by Buddhists in a nearby village. Spurred on by an unrelated argument between a Muslim political leader and a Buddhist taxi driver two days prior, a mob approached her home in a nearby village on October 1. Her daughter managed to escape, but returned to find a charred house and a mother with cuts to her neck, head and stomach.Reports
Rohingyas face long-term misery in IDP camps
Report from European Commission Humanitarian Aid department
Sittwe, January 2013: Standing amongst heaps of woven bamboo panels and corrugated iron sheets, Abdul oversees more than 20 fellow Rohingya workers building over a dozen barrack-type shelters, each to house ten families displaced by the recent inter-communal fighting. “I used to work for a European NGO”, Abdul explains. ”So I am using my skills to work with contractors who have been tasked to build these shelters. This way my people have at least a roof over their heads”.
1,600 families have found shelter in this camp called “Say Tha Mar Gyi”, located about 8 km north-west of Sittwe, the Rakhine State capital. Here the construction of the barrack-type temporary shelters is just one of the activities underway. Latrines have been constructed, water bore-holes installed. Others, such as Abdul and his four children have found shelter with host families in Rohingya villages nearby, which survived the devastating communal violence between Rakhine and Rohingya communities.Rohingya Library
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