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In This Issue:
- Editorial: Rohingyas are in a geopolitical crossroad: Global Powers and Competing Interests
- Rohingya Resilience in Exile: Rebuilding Lives in Refugee Camps
- Containing Arakan Army: A Security Imperative for Myanmar and Bangladesh
- Ending Digital Violence against Women and Girls
- Myanmar’s Election: Conflict, Exclusion, and a Crisis of Legitimacy
- Rohingya Families in Maungdaw Prepare to Flee Amid Forced Conscription Fears
- Arakan Army Orders Rohingya to Surrender Household Registration Lists
- Fire Tears Through Rohingya Camp in Cox’s Bazar, Injuring Three Children and Destroying Dozens of Shelters
- Rohingya Men and Women Forced to Join Armed Group in Maungdaw
- ARNO Welcomes UN Third Committee Resolution on Rohingya Rights, Demands Accountability for Armed-Group Abuses
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Non-Violent Extremism: The Case Of Wirathu In Myanmar – Analysis
By RSIS
The controversial Buddhist monk Wirathu, putative leader of the Buddhist fundamentalist 969 movement in Myanmar, has fuelled Buddhist-Muslim violence in the past year. Liberal responses to let the marketplace of ideas drown his extremist rhetoric are unlikely to suffice.Myanmar’s punks take on its ‘fascist’ Buddhist monks
Associated Press
YANGON // Punk rockers draw double-takes as they dart through traffic, but it is not just the pink hair, leather jackets or skull tattoos that make these 20-somethings rebels. It is their willingness to speak out against Buddhist monks instigating violence against Muslims while others in Myanmar are silent.
“If they were real monks, I’d be quiet, but they aren’t,” said Kyaw Kyaw, lead singer of Rebel Riot, as his drummer knocks out the beat for a new song slamming religious hypocrisy and an anti-Muslim movement known as 969. “They are nationalists, fascists. No one wants to hear it, but it’s true.”Myanmar: Will The Peace Process Materialise? – Analysis
By C. S. Kuppuswamy
Introduction
In his address at the Chatham House, UK on 15 July 2013, President Thein Sein categorically asserted that the armed fighting in Myanmar since 1948 will end soon.
“There are issues of autonomy and self determination of power sharing and resource sharing, of cultural rights and language policy, of protection against discrimination and security sector-reform” said President Thein while enumerating the complexities of the peace process.
With President Thein Sein’s assertions at the Chatham House and the government’s announcement to hold an all-inclusive ethnic conference shortly hopefully culminating in a nation wide ceasefire, there is fervour and enthusiasm and expectation of that long elusive sustainable peace in Myanmar.Myanmar Has a Clandestine Nuclear Weapons Program. And Nobody Cares.
Author: Dan Joyner
This just came to my attention today. Read this story at Pro Publica, about some very important and alarming work that friend of ACL, and real life former weapons inspector Robert Kelley, has done on what he has concluded is a clandestine nuclear weapons program in Myanmar. Now, I am not in any way a technical guy. But I’ve gotten to know Bob, and he’s both the most qualified person to evaluate a nuclear weapons program, and the most independent, objective, and reserved technical person, that I know. So hearing Bob say this about Myanmar:
“I state this very clearly and strongly, this is a clandestine nuclear program”
makes me say, it’s time to listen up, people.Whose side is the government on? Targeting of the Rohingya in Myanmar/Burma Leaves Civil Society Demanding Action
ICRtoP
On 3 June 2012, the killing and reported rape of a Buddhist woman followed by the massacre of ten Muslims traveling in Rakhine state marked the beginning of a series of violent attacks against the Rohingya communities, their townships and residents in Myanmar/Burma causing widespread destruction of Muslim neighborhoods, mosques and villages and massive displacement. Human Rights Watch‘s (HRW) report “All You Can Do is Pray“, documents a number of violent incidences against the Rohingya, a minority Muslim population that has long been discriminated against in Myanmar/Burma and the region, since the attacks; including government backed “crimes against humanity” committed against them during a campaign of “ethnic cleansing”. Despite the government appointed Rakhine Commission’s attempt to provide recommendations for improving the ethnic tensions between the Rohingya and the Buddhist populations in Myanmar/Burma, the report failed to effectively tackle the discrimination against the Rohingya. Instead, authorities continue to reinforce the segregation of this population through discriminatory laws and practices that underpin their lack of citizenship and their mistreatment, while also ignoring the violent attacks on Muslim neighborhoods that have continued.Myanmar student rebels in ceasefire
Bangkok Post
Yangon – Myanmar student rebels on Monday signed a ceasefire with the government, days before the 25th anniversary of the 1988 student-led uprising in the country.
More than 40 members of the outlawed All Burma Students’ Democratic Front (ABSDF) attended the peace talks with the government in Yangon.
“We believe this is not the time to be fighting each other,” said Myo Win, vice chairman of ABSDF.
“Without a ceasefire, the political problems cannot be solved and we want to focus on the current political problems.”
He said the ABSDF will join Thursday’s commemoration in Yangon of the so-called 8888 Uprising, a series of marches and protests that began Aug 8, 1988, when students took to the streets in the former capital against the iron-fisted military rule of General Ne Win.Muslims must unite, says Najib
Bernama
He cited the 12 Islamic countries around the world grappling with various conflicts and leaving a dim future for their citizens.
PEKAN: Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak called on Muslims to strengthen unity through a common ground despite the differences in their political ideologies.
He said Muslims needed to stay united in the face of internal and external challenges and remain strong to deal with any form of threats.
“If possible we want Malaysia’s Muslims to be a role model for other Islamic countries.
“As a result of the true Islamic principles we practice, we do not have conflicts like other Islamic countries.Well known US lawmaker urges Myanmar to amend constitution
US Senator Mitch McConnell told Congress on August 1 that he has urged Myanmar to amend some clauses in its 2008 Constitution to promote national reconciliation and to guarantee civilian supremacy over the military.
Senator McConnell also praised Myanmar for the release of Aung San Suu Kyi and political prisoners, and for making peace with ethnic armed groups and holding the general election. He said many things still left to be done for the country’s reforms. The amendment of the constitution played an important role in the democratic reforms, he said.
McConnell said the current constitution goes against democratic systems. If Myanmar wants development for a next step and has close relations with the US, it needs to amend its constitution, he said.Arakanese community leaders face charges of disobeying the authority
Narinjara News
Protesting against the Burmese government’s policy for providing housing facilities to suspected citizens has put many Arakanese community leaders under trial. Various courts in Arakan State of western Burma are listening the cases against the community leaders who allegedly organized protest demonstrations against the government’s housing plan for the internally displaced people.
On 31 July, four community leaders namely Daw Ma Hla May, U Maung Win, Daw Tin Tin Aye and U Maung Thein Hlaing hailing from in Kyauk Taw, a town located at upper Kaladan river were presented before the court.
The police in charge of Kyauk Taw township registered a case against them as they reportedly led a protest programme on 7 March 2013 in the town without the authority’s permission.Reports
ERT Issues Emergency Report and Writes to Myanmar President on Violence in Rakhine State
London, 2 November 2012
The Rohingya of Myanmar have been subject to systematic, state sponsored attacks in Rakhine State, Myanmar, since June this year. The Equal Rights Trust (ERT) has been monitoring the situation and making recommendations since the outset of the violence. However, past recommendations made by ERT and other human rights organisations to the governments of Myanmar and Bangladesh and to the international community have not been adequately acted on. In October 2012, a new outbreak of more intense and widespread violence has begun. The nature and extent of this new violence together with mass evictions and forced relocation of Muslims by security forces has resulted in claims of ethnic cleansing being made by many advocacy groups. ERT is of the position that unless decisive action is taken, the violence is likely to continue and increase, and will have a devastating impact on the Rohingya and other Muslim communities of the country, destabilising Myanmar and having security and human rights repercussions throughout the region.
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