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Aung San Suu Kyi does not deserve the Nobel Peace Prize

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A person so blatantly affiliated with genocide should not carry the title “Nobel Peace Prize laureate”.

Police officers watch as protesters hold signs against Aung San Suu Kyi, during a rally in support of Myanmar's Rohingya Muslim minority, outside of the Myanmar embassy in Jakarta [Reuters]
Police officers watch as protesters hold signs against Aung San Suu Kyi, during a rally in support of Myanmar’s Rohingya Muslim minority, outside of the Myanmar embassy in Jakarta [Reuters]

By  @HamidDabashi

Hamid Dabashi is the Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature at Columbia University.

“There are no more villages left, none at all.” The accounts of the systematic ethnic cleansing of Muslims in Myanmar, now effectively ruled by the world renowned Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, are finally making it to the mainline news these days. “There are no more people left, either. It is all gone.” Tiếp tục đọc “Aung San Suu Kyi does not deserve the Nobel Peace Prize” →

Cambodia tells US to back off after charging opposition leader

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The prosecution of Cambodian opposition leader Kem Sokha is a message from Prime Minister Hun Sen’s government for the United States, one that says “stop interfering with Cambodia’s internal affairs”.

 
File photo of Cambodia’s Kem Sokha when he talked exclusively to Channel NewsAsia about living in self-exile, his protest plans and whether he would be PM. (Photo: Jack Board)
 
By Pichayada Promchertchoo @PichayadaCNA

06 Sep 2017 01:12PM (Updated: 06 Sep 2017 02:36PM)

 PHNOM PENH: The US should stop interfering in Cambodia’s internal affairs, a government spokesperson has told Channel NewsAsia, shortly after opposition leader Kem Sokha was charged with treason.

“We’re not a slave but, like them, an independent country. We want to stand on our own feet. We don’t need someone to tell us to do this or do that,” said Cambodian government spokesperson Phay Siphan. Tiếp tục đọc “Cambodia tells US to back off after charging opposition leader” →

Myanmar: The perilous journey of Rohingya refugees [in pictures]

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Al Jazeera

Recent upsurge in violence has forced about 146,000 Rohingya to cross into Bangladesh, according to UN estimates.

06 Sep 2017 10:23 GMT | Rohingya, Myanmar, Humanitarian crises, Human Rights, Myanmar-Bangladesh

About 146,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled from violence in Myanmar since August 25, according to United Nations estimates.

The latest surge brings the total number to 233,000 Rohingya who have sought refuge in Bangladesh since October last year.

The mass exodus came after suspected Rohingya fighters attacked police posts and an army base in the western Rakhine State.

The Myanmar government has blamed the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA) for the violence, but fleeing Rohingya civilians accused the Myanmar army of carrying out a campaign of arson and killings – aimed at forcing them out of the country.

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Rào cản trong tiếp cận công trình xây dựng của người Điếc và người Khiếm thính

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THỨ TƯ, 06 THÁNG 9 2017 15:34 ASHUI.COM
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Thị trường 2,5 triệu người Điếc và Khiếm thính ở Việt Nam quan tâm tới những khía cạnh nào của xây dựng và thiết kế công trình?

Ashui.com_Trên thế giới có khoảng 1 tỷ người khuyết tật, chiếm 7,3% tổng dân số, trong đó có khoảng 70 triệu người Điếc và Khiếm thính. Ở Việt Nam con số này là 7,3 triệu người khuyết tật, bao gồm 2,5 triệu người Điếc và Khiếm thính. Cộng đồng người Điếc là những người hoàn toàn không “nghe, nói” và chỉ sử dụng ngôn ngữ ký hiệu như phương tiện để giao tiếp chính. Trong khi đó người nghe kém, người suy giảm thính lực, hay theo cách gọi trong Quan điểm Văn Hóa – người Khiếm thính, người Một nửa là những người vẫn có khả năng “nghe, nói” và giao tiếp bằng ngôn ngữ lời nói, đồng thời có thể sử dụng hoặc không sử dụng ký hiệu ở mức phụ trợ.


Công trình kiến trúc thân thiện với người Điếc và người Khiếm thính rất thiếu vắng ở Việt Nam, một phần vì đây là khái niệm còn mới mẻ đối với các kiến trúc sư trong nước. Tiếp tục đọc “Rào cản trong tiếp cận công trình xây dựng của người Điếc và người Khiếm thính” →

Who are the Rohingya Muslims?

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Why are the more than one million Rohingya in Myanmar considered the ‘world’s most persecuted minority’?

Newly arrived Rohingya refugees sit inside a shelter at the Kutupalang refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh [Mohammad Ponir Hossain/Reuters]

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THE ROHINGYA

Who are the Rohingya?

The Rohingya are often described as “the world’s most persecuted minority”.

They are an ethnic Muslim group who have lived for centuries in the majority Buddhist Myanmar. Currently, there are about 1.1 million Rohingya Muslims who live in the Southeast Asian country.

The Rohingya speak Rohingya or Ruaingga, a dialect that is distinct to others spoken in Rakhine State and throughout Myanmar. They are not considered one of the country’s 135 official ethnic groups and have been denied citizenship in Myanmar since 1982, which has effectively rendered them stateless. Tiếp tục đọc “Who are the Rohingya Muslims?” →

Kem Sokha detained during Cambodia police raid

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Al Jazeera

Government cites ‘secret conspiracy’ for nighttime arrest of main opposition leader Kem Sokha.

Cambodia National Rescue Party leader Kem Sokha casts his vote during June elections [Samrang Pring/Reuters]

Cambodian opposition leader Kem Sokha was arrested in Phnom Penh early on Sunday and the government of veteran Prime Minister Hun Sen said he was accused of treason.

The government said in a statement it had a video clip and other evidence that pointed to “secret plans of conspiracy between Kem Sokha, others and foreigners to harm the Kingdom of Cambodia”. Tiếp tục đọc “Kem Sokha detained during Cambodia police raid” →

Thai university removes student leader for defying royalist tradition

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Thailand’s prestigious Chulalongkorn University has removed the head of its student council, a vocal critic of military rule, after he was accused of disrupting a royalist initiation ceremony.

 
FILE PHOTO: Anti-junta activist Netiwit Chotipatpaisal speaks during an interview with Reuters at an office in Bangkok, Thailand, May 17, 2017. REUTERS/Athit Perawongmetha/File Photo
01 Sep 2017 08:15PM (Updated: 01 Sep 2017 09:05PM)

BANGKOK: Thailand’s prestigious Chulalongkorn University has removed the head of its student council, a vocal critic of military rule, after he was accused of disrupting a royalist initiation ceremony.

But Netiwit Chotiphatphaisal, 20, and the student council said they refused to accept the university order against him and four other members, and would appeal against the decision. Tiếp tục đọc “Thai university removes student leader for defying royalist tradition” →

UN Chief asks all nations to sign new pact protecting women

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A member of the all-female Bangladeshi police unit, preparing to leave the UN mission in Haiti as it closes. A new UN compact with countries connected to a peacekeeping mission is being circulated for signature to help prevent sex abuse and exploitation. LOGAN ABASSI/MINUSTAH

Haunted by accumulating reports of sexual exploitation and abuse of women and girls by United Nations peacekeepers and others attached to UN missions around the world, Secretary-General António Guterres is taking the bold, unprecedented step of asking all governments to sign a compact pledging to prevent and stop these violations. Tiếp tục đọc “UN Chief asks all nations to sign new pact protecting women” →

What effect did the Crusades have on the Middle East?

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The Europeans besiege Jerusalem, seeking to "liberate" it from Muslim rule, 1099.
The Crusaders or Franks attack Jerusalem during the First Crusade, 1099. Getty Images

TC – by Kallie Szczepanski – Updated June 13, 2017

Between 1095 and 1291, Christians from western Europe launched a series of eight major invasions against the Middle East. These attacks, called the Crusades, were aimed at “liberating” the Holy Land and Jerusalem from Muslim rule.

The Crusades were sparked by religious fervor in Europe, by exhortations from various Popes, and by the need to rid Europe of excess warriors left over from regional wars.

What effect did these attacks, which came from out of the blue from the perspective of Muslims and Jews in the Holy Land, have on the Middle East? Tiếp tục đọc “What effect did the Crusades have on the Middle East?” →

Christianity and Violence: The Crusades

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Knight of the Crusades
Knight of the Crusades. donald_gruener/E+/Getty

TC – by Austin Cline – Updated March 17, 2016

One of the most famous examples of religious violence in the Middle Ages is of course the Crusades – attempts by European Christians to impose their vision of religion upon Jews, Orthodox Christians, heretics, Muslims, and just about anyone else who happened to get in the way. Traditionally the term “Crusades” are limited to describing massive military expeditions by Christians to the Middle East, but it is more accurate to acknowledge that there also existed “crusades” internal to Europe and directed at local minority groups. Tiếp tục đọc “Christianity and Violence: The Crusades” →

Indian city under siege after clashes over ‘rape guru’ kill 36

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Scorch marks from items set on fire are seen on a road in Panchkula, after Singh’s followers went on a rampage following a court’s decision to convict him of rape. (Photo: AFP/Money Sharma)

27 Aug 2017 02:09AM

SIRSA: Hundreds of troops on Saturday (Aug 26) laid siege to the headquarters of a sect led by a controversial Indian guru whose conviction for rape triggered deadly clashes that have killed at least 36 people.

Soldiers and riot police cordoned off the routes leading to the sprawling premises of guru Ram Rahim Singh spread over 1,000 acres (404 hectares) in Sirsa, a town in northern Haryana state. Tiếp tục đọc “Indian city under siege after clashes over ‘rape guru’ kill 36” →

Bangladesh sends back 90 Rohingya despite violence

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A woman holds a child in her arms as she arrives at Yathae Taung township in Rakhine state after fleeing violence in their home village. (Photo: AFP/Wai Moe)

27 Aug 2017 06:53PM

COX’S BAZAR, Bangladesh: Bangladesh has detained and forcibly returned 90 Rohingya migrants to Myanmar, police said Sunday (Aug 27), just hours after Myanmar troops on the other side of the border had opened fire on people fleeing the country.

Police intercepted a group of 70 Rohingya late Saturday after they crossed the “zero line” border zone, where Myanmar soldiers earlier fired mortars and machine guns at villagers making the dangerous dash from the northern state of Rakhine into Bangladesh. Tiếp tục đọc “Bangladesh sends back 90 Rohingya despite violence” →

Myanmar troops open fire on civilians fleeing attacks

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Bangladeshi border guards say troops fired mortars and machine guns at Rohingya civilians trying to escape bloodshed.

Myanmar soldiers opened fire on fleeing Rohingya civilians – mostly women and children – as they attempted to cross the border into Bangladesh and escape surging violence.

On Saturday, an AFP news agency reporter at Bangladesh’s Ghumdhum border post counted more than a dozen mortar shells and countless machine-gun rounds fired by Myanmar security forces in nearby hills onto a large group of Rohingya desperately trying to cross.

It was not immediately clear if any were hit, but the civilians scattered to evade the barrage.

“They have fired on civilians, mostly women and children, hiding in the hills near the zero line,” Border Guard Bangladesh’s (BGB) station chief Manzurul Hassan Khan confirmed. Tiếp tục đọc “Myanmar troops open fire on civilians fleeing attacks” →

Rohingya flee for Bangladesh as fresh violence erupts in Myanmar

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Displaced Rohingya people from Myanmar’s northern Rakhine state are gathered at the border town of Ukhiya after Bangladeshi border guards stopped them from entering Bangladesh on Aug 26. efugees towards Bangladesh. (Photo: AFP/STR)
26 Aug 2017 05:05PM (Updated: 26 Aug 2017 06:39PM)

COX’S BAZAR, Bangladesh/YANGON: About 1,000 Rohingya Muslims fleeing escalating violence in Myanmar had been halted at the border with Bangladesh, Bangladeshi security officials said on Saturday, as fresh fighting erupted in Myanmar’s northwestern Rakhine state. Tiếp tục đọc “Rohingya flee for Bangladesh as fresh violence erupts in Myanmar” →

Myanmar’s Rakhine a human rights crisis: Kofi Annan

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Myanmar’s western Rakhine state represents a human rights crisis, affecting particularly the Muslim community or Rohingyas there.
 
By May Wong @MayWongCNA

24 Aug 2017 03:53PM (Updated: 24 Aug 2017 05:08PM)

NAY PYI TAW: Myanmar’s western Rakhine state represents a human rights crisis, affecting particularly the Muslim community or Rohingyas there.

The Rakhine Advisory Commission, led by its chairman, the former UN Chief Kofi Annan, gave this assessment, without identifying the Rohingyas by name, in its final report released on Thursday (Aug 24). Tiếp tục đọc “Myanmar’s Rakhine a human rights crisis: Kofi Annan” →