Tag: Rohingya
Myanmar’s Youth & Rohingyas Die in the Country’s Multifront Conflicts and Ongoing Genocide
In the post-colonial period (since the country’s independence in 1948), Myanmar has been trapped in a vicious cycle of internal conflicts, with political, commercial, ethnic and religious dimensions.
Digitising Statelessness and Genocide in Palestine and Myanmar
The genocides in Palestine and Myanmar have been facilitated by decades of systematic bureaucratic violence and the misuse of state identification systems, linked to mass atrocities.
Rohingya and Palestine Genocides: Zarni’s Comparative Analysis
These days whenever I am asked to speak on my own old country’s genocide, which is still ongoing against the Rohingya people, I insist on offering a comparative perspective.
Webinar: The ongoing genocide against the Rohingya people
This webinar, hosted by the Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention and Human Security in partnership with FORSEA (Forces of Renewal Southeast Asia), will bring attention to the ongoing genocide faced by the Rohingya people, the hard work being done by Rohingya youth to keep their community and their identity alive in ever-worsening circumstances, and the prospects for their safe return to a future Myanmar that is free from the Tatmadaw.
Citizenship and Genocide Cards: IDs, Statelessness and Rohingya Resistance in Myanmar
Natalie Brinham's book draws on Rohingya oral histories and narratives about Myanmar’s genocide and ID schemes to critique prevailing international approaches to legal identities and statelessness.
Myanmar’s Rohingya People: A Documented History, Identity and Presence
While there are multiple inter-communal tensions and attacks among Myanmar’s ethnic communities, there is no other case where a group’s ancestral history and identity have been singled out for sustained and vicious assault in the same way Rohingya people have been.
Rohingya face prospects for genocidal violence again: Buthitaung Township, Rakhine, Western Myanmar
It is evident that the Arakan Army is attempting to forcibly displace Rohingya residents from downtown Buthidaung. This forced relocation must be halted.
While inviting foreign investment in Rakhine, Arakan Army Leadership displays deep-seated genocidal racism towards Rohingya in Western Myanmar
The extreme racism that Rakhine nationalists have, over the generations, displayed – their sense of racial and religious superiority vis-à-vis Rakhine state’s largest minority population of Rohingya, largely Muslims, their dogged attempts to deny and destroy Rohingya identity – appears to be their Achilles' heel.
Gaza’s Children & Our Rohingya Children: A Tale of Israeli and Myanmar Genocides
We, the Rohingya have been chased from our homelands through a series of massacres and Burmese military campaigns since 1978. Our villages have been exterminated and wiped out of all maps. The Palestinian situation is just the same, if not, even worse.
(YouTube) Keynote Address by FORSEA Co-founder on Refugee Insecurities, Monash Business School
"In the jargon of the United Nations circles, INGOs, and conventional academics, the term 'statelessness' obfuscates what is, in effect, state-organized, legally justified and popularly 'morally' sanctioned acts and processes of persecution of one or more marked and typically vulnerable human groups within the artificial 'national' borders."