Preventing genocide in Burma

By ALEX ZUCKER Published: 19 July 2010                          SOURCE : DEMOCRATIVE VOICE OF BURMA (DVB) Readers of this website should need no convincing of the seriousness of ongoing human rights violations against minority ...

Desperate plight of Burma’s Rohingya people

SOURCE  BBC Nasima, 22, is from the Rohingya ethnic group, a Muslim minority that lives in western Burma. Rights groups say it is one of the most persecuted communities in the ...

‘In an age of intolerance, solidarity inspires’

By BENEDICT ROGERS                  SOURCE    DVB Published: 28 May 2010 When I visited the makeshift camps for Rohingya refugees on the Bangladesh-Burma border, I made up my mind there and then that I ...

Rohingyas: persecuted at home, unwanted abroad

A special correspondent             SOURCE  : BDNEWS24.COM Cox’s Bazar (bdnews24.com) — Sanowara and her husband waited three hours with their five kids for a chance to dodge border guards, and as night ...

BANGLADESH: Self-reliant refugees win resettlement

SOURCE  :  IRIN ASIA- BANGLADESH COX’S BAZAR, 24 March 2010 (IRIN) – Khaleda Begum, born and raised in a Rohingya refugee camp in southern Bangladesh, is over the moon. The 19-year-old and ...

It began with Project ABC

By peggy loh                                     ORIGINAL ARTICLE  from  JOHOR  STREET Rohingya children from 46 families in Kota Tinggi wanted to learn but the legalities stood in their way. Then some Malaysians got involved ...

Malaysia arrests minorities fleeing Myanmar

By Dan Rivers,    SOURCE  CNN  ASIA (CNN) — Malaysian authorities have arrested a boatload of ethnic minorities fleeing Myanmar off the holiday island of Langkawi. The Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency says ...

Between a Crocodile and a Snake

SOURCE   ”THE HUFFINGTON POST” For Riya, life in the refugee camps in Bangladesh isn’t much better than Burma. Her shelter rests on the side of a hill pieced together with scraps ...

The “Settlers” and “Aborigines” of the Chittagong Hill Tract

By Dr. Habib Siddiqi   SOURCE ”THE ASIAN TRIBUNE” The subject of minorities is a very touchy one in any country, especially in nation-states where a national heritage or culture or identity ...

Malaysia: Widespread abuse under current immigration regime

Equal Rights Trust Press release       4 January 2010 ORIGINAL SOURCE The Equal Rights Trust (ERT) has called on the government of Malaysia to grant legal residency to the estimated 30,000 stateless Rohingya ...

Ne Win’s Speech, on 8 October 1982 (Regarding 1982 Citizenship Law)

Meeting held in the Central Meeting Hall, President House, Ahlone Road, 8 October 1982. Translation of the speech by General Ne Win Provided in The Working People’s Daily, 9 October 1982 ORIGINAL SOURCE: BURMA ...

Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh refuse repatriation

SOURCE :AFP DHAKA — Bangladesh’s plans to repatriate 9,000 Myanmar Muslim refugees to their homeland hit trouble on Wednesday when a leader of the minority said they would refuse to leave. Bangladesh’s ...

A better future for children of Rohingya

By Andera onori- Dec 22 , 2009    SOURCE FROM      ITALIAN MAGAZINE The children of Rohingya refugees are struggling with their worrying future. The Malaysian government refuses to recognize them as refugees. They ...

Education for Rohingya refugee children: Save our generation from losing their future

 19-12-2009   By Muhammad Saifullah  SOURCE FROM   the  MUSLIM NEWS Today, the children of Rohingya refugees are struggling with their future to be saved as they are not recognized as refugees by ...

Opinion: Burma’s minorities must not be overlooked

Before there’s more dialogue with General Than Shwe, human rights abuses against ethnic minorities must cease. SOURCE FROM GLOBAL POST By Richard Sollom — Special to GlobalPost,Published: November 28, 2009 ...
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Citizenship is the Right to have RIGHTS

Published on December 19th, 2009no comments

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THE MEANING OF CITIZENSHIP.

In a democracy, the source of all authority — the legitimate basis of all power — is the collective body of the people, the citizens of the polity. There is popular sovereignty of the citizens and thereby government by consent of the governed. A citizen is a full and equal member of a polity, such as a democratic nation-state (Mouffe 1995, 217). 

In some states or countries, citizenship, the condition of being a citizen, is based on the place of a person’s birth, which is known as “jus soli” citizenship. In other places, the status of citizen is based on the citizenship of one’s parents, which is known as “jus sanguinis” citizenship. Some countries use both bases for ascribing citizenship. Further, most democratic states have established legal procedures by which people without a birthright to citizenship can become naturalized citizens.  (more…)

Refugees flee torture and oppression top find peace here

Published on November 16th, 2009no comments

THEY are the individuals, couples and families who have come from all corners of the world to start a new life.

The 1100 refugees who arrive through UN-sponsored programs in Queensland each year all share a common bond, having each escaped from a tyrannical and oppressive homeland before finding peace and a new life in a foreign country. Some of these refugees have arrived in the past few months, with memories of torture, hunger, rape and disease fresh in their minds.Others have spent decades in Brisbane, establishing careers and families as they forge strong bonds with their communities. One of the new arrivals is a family of Rohingya people – a Burmese ethnic minority. (more…)

Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Published on September 22nd, 2009no comments
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  On December 10, 1948, the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted and proclaimed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the full text of which appears in the following pages. Following this historic act, the Assembly called upon all Member countries to publicize the text of the Declaration and “to cause it to be disseminated, displayed, read and expounded principally in schools and other educational institutions, without distinction based on the political status of countries or territories.” PreambleWhereas recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family is the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world, Whereas disregard and contempt for human rights have resulted in barbarous acts which have outraged the conscience of mankind, and the advent of a world in which human beings shall enjoy freedom of speech and belief and freedom from fear and want has been proclaimed as the highest aspiration of the common people, Whereas it is essential, if man is not to be compelled to have recourse, as a last resort, to rebellion against tyranny and oppression, that human rights should be protected by the rule of law, Whereas it is essential to promote the development of friendly relations between nations,

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Whereas the peoples of the United Nations have in the Charter reaffirmed their faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the human person and in the equal rights of men and women and have determined to promote social progress and better standards of life in larger freedom, (more…)

Press Burma to End Abuses against Muslim Minority

Published on October 29th, 2009no comments

Human Rights WatchOctober 29, 2009

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Joint letter to Japanese Justice Minister and Foreign Minister on Rohingya

Tokyo’s silence sends a message to Burma’s generals that their horrendous persecution of the Rohingya can continue. Japan’s new government should urgently review its policies to protect the Rohingya both in Japan and in Burma.

Kanae Doi, Tokyo director

(Tokyo) – Japan’s new administration should protect Burmese Rohingya asylum seekers in Japan and press Burma to end abuses against the minority group, eight Japanese and international organizations said today. The groups sent a joint letter to the newly inaugurated justice minister, Keiko Chiba, and foreign minister, Katsuya Okada. (more…)

Rohingya Delegate at United Nation (UN) Human Rights Council

Published on December 27th, 2009no comments
Rohingya Delegate at United Nation (UN)Human Rights Council
ANWAR S. ARKANI

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The terrifying voyage of Burma’s boat people

Published on November 24th, 2009no comments
Next month thousands of young Burmese Muslims, persecuted in their own land,
will attempt to voyage across the sea to a better life – but a sinister fate
awaits them.

John Carlin investigates

Tuesday, 24 November 2009     SOURCE : THE INDEPENDENT - LONDON

 Here’s a formula for making a killing in times of crisis. Go to the south-eastern tip of Bangladesh, on the border with Burma, and buy an old fishing boat. It’ll cost 100,000 taka, or about £900. Then budget 450 pounds, for rice and drinking water, and maybe another £450 for bribes. Then head off and trawl for clients among the most destitute communities in Bangladesh – a country so densely populated country and so poor that for Britain to be on similar economic terms it would have to have a population of 200 million with an average income around four per cent of what a Briton’s is today, (more…)

People who wander through life and death; Plight of Rohingya in Burma

Published on November 22nd, 20092 comment
Introduction                    SOURCE : HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH
Status of Rohingya in Burma
Denial of the rights of citizenship for the Rohingya in Burma
The Thai government's responsibility to prevent the wrong policy
Neighboring countries should take measures
Advocacy

Introduction

2008 Year 12 End, we just ship a few small vessels carrying hundreds of people flooded, alongside the Andaman Islands of India. Most of the people who were on board the Rohingya people from western Burma , Muslims, many of which had been weakened. According to Indian officials told the crew, but the shipwrecked people, including to Thailand, by Thai authorities on a deserted island TwoDays after the arrest had been turned away in the ocean is only incur a few bags of rice and little water. According to the testimony against the Rohingya people told that India, doctors and government officials in the ocean is forced to stop the ship, it was also tortured in Burma from the sailors of the Navy [1] . (more…)

Muslim social service group offers a warm mosaic

Published on November 16th, 2009no comments

By Liz Monteiro, Record staff

WATERLOO REGION — Samjida Begum looks around the table at the women sitting beside her and she knows she’s in good company. That’s because the women are just like her.

They are refugee women who were forced to leave their homeland and live elsewhere, some in dingy refugee camps before coming to Canada.

Together, they have been sad when talking about their homelands and the families and friends they left behind, while others have shared their experiences of frustration when sending their young children to school, but unable to communicate with the teachers. (more…)

Myanmar Rohingyas swap squalor for suppression

Published on November 16th, 2009no comments

AFP/Kutupalong, Bangladesh

As one of Myanmar’s ethnic Muslim Rohingya, 45-year-old Manjurul Islam endured a lifetime of oppression before he finally fled the country for a squalid refugee camp in Bangladesh.

Described by UN officials as one of the most persecuted minorities on earth, the Rohingya are not even recognised as citizens by the Myanmar junta. They have no legal right to own land and are forbidden from marrying or travelling without permission.

For Islam, decades of systematic discrimination came to a head six months ago, when he says his 18-year-old niece and another woman in his village were raped by soldiers. (more…)

Xenophobia is not Nationalism: Suu Kyi

Published on November 13th, 2009no comments

by Phanida   

Chiang Mai (Mizzima) – Xenophobia is not nationalism and patriotism, opposition leader Daw Aung Suu Kyi has said.

“She said nationalism is good with good intentions for the welfare of one’s own nationality and with Metta (love) and Cetana (benevolence). But it should not hate and hurt other nationalities,” the National League for Democracy (NLD) party spokesman Nyan Win quoted her as saying.Daw Suu

The detained leader spoke to her advocate and party spokesman this morning at her home on University Avenue, Rangoon.

Today is the 89th anniversary the ‘National Day’, which falls today on the Burmese lunar calendar Tazaungmung 10th Waning Day.

This again marks the first boycott of university students of the University Act enacted and promulgated in 1920.

The National Day address delivered by junta supremo Senior Gen. Than Shwe was published in today’s state-run media the ‘New Light of Myanmar’. (more…)