Posts Tagged ‘Rakhine’

Are Aung San Suu Kyi and Myanmar elites complicit in the Rohingya Ethnocide?

May 19, 2013

Are Aung San Suu Kyi and Myanmar elites complicit in the Rohingya Ethnocide?

Wednesday, May 15, 2013 



Deputy border affairs minister Maj. Gen. Zaw Win with Aung San Suu Kyi at the military parade in Naypyidaw, Myanmar, 27 March 2013. (AP)

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It’s official now! The new Myanmar has a Nazi party and its reps are sitting in the Parliament.

May 18, 2013

It’s official now! The new Myanmar has a Nazi party and its reps are sitting in the Parliament.

Saturday, May 18, 2013 Dr. Zarni’s blog

It’s official now.

A group of local Rakhines in Nazi village, driving around in a 2-ton truck painted, approvingly,  with Nazi symbols, including the word “Hitler” during the Rakhine/Burmese Hindu-originated New Year water festival, April 2012
The new Myanmar has an official Nazi party.  It’s called the Rakhine National Development Party.
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As storm moves in, NGOs urge Myanmar to move Muslim IDPs out

May 14, 2013

As storm moves in, NGOs urge Myanmar to move Muslim IDPs out Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation – Tue, 14 May 2013 07:25 AM Author: Thomson Reuters Foundation Correspondent

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A boy dismantles his tent before moving to safer ground in light of an approaching cyclone, in an internally displaced persons camp for Muslims outside Sittwe, on May 13, 2013. REUTERS/Soe Zeya Tun
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Burma (Human Rights) by UK MP Mr David Burrowes (Enfield, Southgate) (Con):

May 13, 2013

Burma (Human Rights)8th May 2013

David Burrowes leads a Parliamentary debate calling on the Government to press the Burmese Government to improve their human rights record and give full rights and citizenship to religious and ethnic minorities, most notably to the Rohingya Muslims in Arakan state.

| Parliament TV

Mr David Burrowes (Enfield, Southgate) (Con): It is a privilege to have secured the first end-of-day debate of the new Session of Parliament.

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Myanmar whitewashes ethnic cleansing

May 2, 2013

Asia Time Online - Daily News

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Myanmar whitewashes ethnic cleansing By Maung Zarni

An official report into last year’s violence in Rakhine State, launched on April 29 at the government’s foreign donor financed Myanmar Peace Center, is intellectually, ideologically, empirically and analytically flawed, underscoring President Thein Sein‘s bid to whitewash the recent ethnic cleansing of Muslim Rohingya in the western state, which borders Bangladesh.
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Myanmar must look beyond ‘flawed’ report to stop cycle of Buddhist-Muslim violence

May 1, 2013

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL 30 April 2013

Myanmar must look beyond ‘flawed’ report to stop cycle of Buddhist-Muslim violence

Thousands of Rohingya Muslims have been displaced by the violence in Rakhine stateThousands of Rohingya Muslims have been displaced by the violence in Rakhine state

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Recommendations in a government-backed report investigating last year’s devastating violence in Myanmar fail to effectively tackle discrimination against Rohingya Muslims and could trigger more human rights abuses, Amnesty International said.

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United States Commission on International Religious Freedom: BURMA

May 1, 2013
BURMA Page 21| USCIRF 2013 Annual Report
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
FINDINGS:
Ongoing and important political reforms in Burma have yet to significantly improve the situation for freedom of religion
and belief. During the reporting period, most religious freedom violations occurred against et
hnic minority Christian and Muslim communities, with serious abuses against mainly Christian civilians during military interventions in Kachin State and sectarian violence by societal actors targeting Muslims in Rakhine (Arakan) State. In
addition, Buddhist monks suspected of anti-government activities were detained or removed from their pagodas, and at least eight monks remain imprisoned for participating in peaceful demonstrations. In addition to sometimes severe
restrictions on worship, education, and other religious activities and ceremonies, religious groups continue to face a range of problems, including: pervasive surveillance, imprisonment, discrimination, societal violence, destruction or
desecration of property, and censors hip of religious materials.
In light of these systematic, ongoing, egregious violations of freedom of religion and belief,
USCIRF recommends that Burma again be designated as a “country of particular concern” in
2013. The State Department has designated Burma as a CPC since 1999.

Buddhist Monks and Rakhine protest shelter built for displaced Rohingya

April 26, 2013
April 25, 2013
Nora Rowley shared Kyaw Ariyan’s photo.
So-called Buddhist monks and Rakhine civilians protest shelter built for displaced Rohingya who they label as illegal inhabitants…interesting just when ~670 6,000,000 Myanmar Kyat/house homes just built for Sittwe Rakhine IDP’s versus 10,000′s of Rohingya still living in straw huts and tents with dirty pond for water sources and after Bangladesh born Rakhine ethnic given confiscated Rohingya land, new built homes and legal status oin Northern Rakhine Maungdaw Township.
My friend wrote>ဒီေကာင္ေတြနီယတ္(Aim and objective) ကဘာလဲဗ်ာ ဘာဘဲလုပ္လုပ္ကန္ ့ကြက္ေနျကေတာ့တာဘဲ သူတို ့ကန္ ့ကြက္တိုင္းလည္း ဒီစစ္ေခြးေတြကလက္ခံေပးေနတယ္ဗ်ာ
ယခုအခါ မိုးရာသီလည္း နီးလာျပီ ျဖစ္ျပီး ႏိုင္ငံတကာမွလည္း ျမန္မာ အစုိးရ အေပၚ ဖိအားမ်ား တိုးပြား လာေနျပီး တခ်ိန္တည္းတြင္ ရခိုင္လူထုဘက္မွလည္း လံုခ်င္း အိမ္ယာေဆာက္လုပ္ေပးမူ အေပၚ ဆန္႕က်င္ကန္႕ကြက္မူမ်ား ရွိေနသျဖင့္ ျမန္မာ အစိုးရ အေနျဖင့္ မည္သို႕ ေဆာက္ရြက္ရမည္ကို မဆံုးျဖတ္ႏိုင္ဘဲ အက်ပ္ရိုက္လွ်က္ ရွိေနေၾကာင္ သတင္း ရရွိသည္။
အျငင္းပြားရာမွ ရခုိင္၀န္ၾကီးခ်ဳပ္၏ ဒုကၡသည္မ်ားအတြက္ အိမ္ယာေဆာက္လုပ္ေရး ညိွႏိုင္း အစည္းအေ၀းပ်က္
ဧျပီလ ၂၄ ရက္ေန႕ ေန႕လည္ (၁) နာရီက ရခိုင္ျပည္နယ္ အစိုးရ ရံုးခန္းတြင္ ျပဳလုပ္ခဲ့ေသာ မြတ္ဆလင္ ဒုကၡသည္မ်ာအား အိမ္ယာေဆာက္လုပ္ေရး ညွိႏိုင္း အစည္းအေ၀းမွာ အျငင္းပြားမူမ်ားေၾကာင့္ အစည္းအေ၀း ပ်က္ကာ ရပ္နားလိုက္ရသည္ဟု ဆိုသည္။
ႏိုင္ငံသား မစိစစ္ဘဲ အိမ္ယာေဆာက္လုပ္ေပးေရး ကန္႕ကြက္ေနေသာ စစ္ေတြမွ ရခိုင္လူထု (ဓါတ္ပံု- Coral Arakan)
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All the Rakhine government Ministers are like cat-faeces, soft and smelly

April 22, 2013

All the Rakhine government Ministers are like cat-faeces, soft spoken and polite but cunning, cruel, racist, bullies and corrupted.

One thousand of the Malaysian government affiliated MRA donated relief kit-boxes are still piled up in the ware-house. Some of the boxes were broken and the contents were stolen. Rakhine Government leaders asked Muslim Organizations to pay an inflated and unreasonable price of Kyat 10 million for the distribution of the boxes to the Rohingya Muslim Refugees. Muslim Organizations offered the Rakhine leaders Kyat1.9 Million as the donation (Actually Free of Charge Toll-Fees or Protection money or bribery or Set-Kyae in Myanmar) to just allow the Muslim Organizations to distribute the donated boxes to the refugees bearing the costs themselves. Rakhine leaders are greedy and heartless to cruelly reject that “donation” and blocked the distribution of donated boxes.

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Haul Ven. Wirathu, the regime’s fall ‘monk’ to The Hague and try him for openly inciting crimes against humanity

March 25, 2013

Source: FB of Dr. Maung Zarni

Haul Ven. Wirathu, the regime’s fall ‘monk’ to The Hague and try him for openly inciting crimes against humanity.

Moulmein will fall in to the hands of the Enemy (that is, Muslim), unless we can mobilize the (Buddhist) public’s force/strength.”

- Rev. Wirathu

Here is a must-watched Nazi speech (13 minutes) by Rev. Wirathu from Mandalay’s new Ma-soe-yein Teaching Monastery, with my rough but accurate Burmese-to-English translation of the gist of his speech:

1) the Buddhist public needs to adopt a nationalist mindfulness – in virtually everything we do (that is, we must eat, sleep, see, hear, speak and breath ‘(Buddhist) nationalism’.

2) but, to my dismay, i am finding out that our Buddhist public still lacks this nationalist mindfulness.

3) ‘they’ (the Muslims) do everything with this (muslim) nationalist mindfulness. On example, in the previous military era, they flocked to the generals and through their connections, they have captured the Construction boom/market in Yangon. They didn’t love the military or the generals. They collaborated with the military for their national (Muslim) interests.

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