As the global community continues to put pressure on Myanmar to stop the violence in Rakhine State, Channel NewsAsia speaks to ordinary Myanmar citizens about their take on the situation.
A file photo of Aung Sann Suu Kyi as she arrived at the National League for Democracy Party’s headquarters after the 2015 general election in Myanmar. (Photo: Pichayada Promchertchoo)
About 270,000 Rohingyas fleeing violence in Myanmar have sought refuge in Bangladesh in the past two weeks, a spokeswoman for the UN High Commissioner for Refugees says. Photo: Anisur Rahman
Reuters, Cox’s Bazar
Amid a dramatic increase in the number of refugees fleeing violence in Myanmar’s Northern Rakhine state, UNHCR today called for urgent action to address the root causes of the recent surge in violence, so that people are no longer compelled to flee and can eventually return home in safety and dignity.
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]
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”→
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.
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 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.
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”→
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”→
Thứ Hai, 10/4/2017, 09:25 (GMT+7) Người dân sống ở hai bên sông Irrawaddy sẽ bị ảnh hưởng nặng nề bởi dự án thủy điện. Ảnh: AFP
(TBKTSG) – Myitsone – dự án đập thủy điện lớn nhất của Trung Quốc tại Myanmar – đang có nguy cơ bị khai tử do vấp phải sự phản đối dữ dội từ người dân. Nhưng, đối với các nhà lãnh đạo Myanamar, nói “không” với Trung Quốc chẳng phải dễ dàng.
Tiến thoái lưỡng nan
Bà Daw Kaw Bu đã chờ đợi suốt sáu năm qua ngày trở về ngôi làng mà bà buộc phải chuyển đi để nhường chỗ cho đập thủy điện Myitsone. Con đập này đến nay đang được xây dựng dở dang và bị đình chỉ vì gây tranh cãi. Tiếp tục đọc “Myanmar đau đầu với đập thủy điện Trung Quốc”→
Nguyên tác: Buddhist Nationalism in Burma by Maung Zarni (*)
Hệ thống hóa sự kỳ thị chủng tộc chống người Hồi giáo Rohingya đã dẫn Miến Điện tới con đườngdiệt chủng. (Institutionalized racism against the Rohingya Muslims led Burma to genocide) (Hình bên; tác giả)
Ở bên ngoài Miến Điện, hình ảnh những nhà sư Theravada Miến qua cuộc “Cách Mạng Áo Vàng” (Saffron Revolution) năm 2007, vẫn còn tươi màu. Với sự hỗ trợ của nhân dânPhật tửsùng tín, từng đoàn sư áo vàng miệng râm rang tụng niệm những lời từ bixen lẫn thính âm của tình yêu thương trên khắp đường phố Rangoon, Mandalay, và Pakhokeku, kêu gọi sự cải thiệnđời sống cho công chúng trước tình cảnh kinh tế khốn đốn gây khổ cho người dân Phật tử. Những vị sư chân trần can trường chống đối sự cai trị quân phiệt, là hình ảnhtuyệt vời của Phật Giáo dấn thân, âm vang một phó bản Tinh thần phương Đông cổ đại của Phật Giáohành động, làm biến dạnghình ảnh của những người Phật tửthường có là sự khả ái, nụ cười, lòng mến khách đang dẫn đạo một cuộc sống đầy ý nghĩa, cho một phần thế giới không-Phật-Giáo thấy con đường mà Phật Giáo ấp ủ cho hòa bình. Tiếp tục đọc “Chủ nghĩa dân tộc Phật giáo ở Miến Điện”→
This file photo taken on Aug 5, 2015 shows a Myanmar Air Force Shaanxi Y-8 transport aircraft being unloaded at Sittwe airport in Rakhine state, similar to the aircraft carrying over 100 people that went missing between the southern city of Myeik and Yangon on Jun 7, 2017. (Photo: AFP/Ye Aung Thu)
07 Jun 2017 07:10PM (Updated: 07 Jun 2017 11:31PM)
YANGON: Pieces of a Myanmar military plane which went missing with more than 100 soldiers and family members aboard were found in the Andaman Sea late on Wednesday (Jun 7), a local official said.
Navy ships and aircraft had been searching since the afternoon when the plane lost contact with air traffic controllers.
The UN is sending a fact-finding team to investigate alleged human rights abuses against Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar.
Around 75,000 have fled Rakhine state since the military began a security operation last October [Turjoy Chowdhury/NurPhoto via Getty Images]
The UN on Tuesday appointed a three-member team to investigate alleged abuses by security forces against Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar.
The fact-finding mission will be led by prominent Indian lawyer Indira Jaising, Sri Lankan lawyer Radhika Coomaraswamy, and Australian human rights consultant Christopher Dominic Sidoti, according to a statement from the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) on Tuesday. Tiếp tục đọc “UN appoints team to probe crackdown against Rohingyas”→
Myanmar’s civilian-led government of Aung San Suu Kyi has made striking a peace deal a key pillar of her administration, but fighting has instead intensified in recent months, with tens of thousands displaced by conflict. (Photo: Ye Naung Kham)
28 May 2017 07:05PM (Updated: 29 May 2017 03:07AM)NAYPYIDAW: Talks to end decades of bitter civil war in Myanmar have faltered, a government spokesman warned Sunday (May 28), blaming ethnic rebel demands for greater autonomy, which the military fears could break the country up.
The civilian-led government of Aung San Suu Kyi has made striking a peace deal a key pillar of her administration, but fighting has instead intensified in recent months, with tens of thousands displaced by conflict.
Myanmar’s State Counsellor and leader of the National League for Democracy, Aung San Suu Kyi (centre left), arrives for the Panglong peace talks. (Photo: Ye Naung Kham)
With only a day to go before the end of the second round of peace talks under her watch, officials said little headway had been made on the federalism or increased autonomy that are key demands for ethnic minority groups.
“There will be a less good result than people are hoping for,” Zaw Htay, spokesman for the president’s office, told reporters on Sunday, adding “we did not get agreement on the matter of seceding”.
Cast aside “like rubbish” and turned away even by nursing homes, these elderly outcasts are given dignity at the end of life by volunteer groups outraged by their plight.
YANGON, MYANMAR: There she lay, on the ground in the darkness of night, moaning in pain as rats – drawn to the smell of blood from the lacerations on her body – nibbled at her wounds.
The elderly woman had just been involved in a road accident. But instead of getting help, the driver had abandoned the woman next to a rubbish dump by the road to fend for herself.
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Người dân sống ở hai bên sông Irrawaddy sẽ bị ảnh hưởng nặng nề bởi dự án thủy điện. Ảnh: AFP
![Around 75,000 have fled Rakhine state since the military began a security operation last October [Turjoy Chowdhury/NurPhoto via Getty Images]](https://i0.wp.com/www.aljazeera.com/mritems/imagecache/mbdxxlarge/mritems/Images/2017/5/30/1de226184e9f4044b33cb3165c91d215_18.jpg "UN appoints team to probe crackdown against Rohingyas")
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