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.

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

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

By KMM , 4th November 2009

The Rohingyas are a Muslim minority group who live in the North Arakan State of Burma, adjacent to Bangladesh. They are an ethnic minority of Burma; Due to their racial differences with the Burmans, they were being officially declared by the Illegal Military Regime as non-citizens of Burma, making them stateless people. Burmese military’s officials claim that Rohingyas are “foreigners” in Burma and they have been/are being treated not only as alien but also modern salves.

The 1982 citizenship law of Burma does not give any protection and effective nationality to Rohingya Community. Therefore, it’s assumed that the Rohingyas are Stateless Community in their Ancestral homeland.  Universal Declaration of Human Rights States that: (more…)

The plight of the Burmese Rohingya made headlines in early 2009 when Thai security forces were accused of pushing migrant boats out to sea. With ASEAN establishing a new human rights body and a US delegation visiting Burma, what chance is there for improvement for a stateless people? Simon Roughneen writes for ISN Security Watch.

By Simon Roughneen for ISN Security Watch

At its 15th summit held in Thailand two weeks ago, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations inaugurated the ASEAN Intergovernmental Human Rights Commission. It is the first time that the 10-state bloc has given institutional recognition to human rights. (more…)

By Shafiq Alam (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.

Islam said he “foolishly” took the case to the chief of the local army camp.

“He listened and I thought we had made progress, but then they tied me and my friends up, beat us with leather belts and bamboo sticks and kicked our chests with their boots.” (more…)

The construction of a barbed wire fence along Myanmar’s border with Bangladesh has only increased the suffering of the Muslim Rohingya minority.

Hundreds of thousands have fled to Bangladesh, with most of them living in makeshift camps, unrecognised, and unwanted.

In this second part of his two-part series on the plight of the Rohingya, Nicolas Haque reports from Teknaf, on Bangladesh’s border with Myanmar.

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Khamin takes an in-depth look at the state of Rohingya refugees, whose influx into Bangladesh over the last 30 years, from neighbouring Myanmar, is severely stretching the country’s resources.Mohammad Haseem is a Rohingya, living with his wife and his six-year-old daughter at the Kutupalang refugee camp in Ukhia, Cox’s Bazaar.
On September 2, he arrives at the office of AFM Fazle Rabbi, a designated magistrate who is in charge of the camp, to reissue his ID card. (more…)

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(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…)

By Nicolas Haque on the Bangladesh-Myanmar border

On Myanmar’s side of the Naf River that marks border with Bangladesh, labourers are hard at work building a fence that will prevent them fleeing persecution.

They will not be paid for their work. Instead the men, who come from the persecuted Rohingya ethnic group, have been coerced into erecting the 230km long fence by the threat of violence against their families. (more…)

New York: Describing the human rights situation in Myanmar as “alarming”, a top UN official has asked the ruling military junta to release all political prisoners and ensure that the elections in 2010 are fair and transparent.

The UN Special Rapporteur on human rights in Myanmar, Tomas Ojea Quintana, also asked the junta to create an independent judiciary and reform the country’s military to respect humanitarian law in conflict areas.
“There is a pattern of widespread and systematic violations…the prevailing impunity allows for the continuation of these violations,” Quintana said. (more…)

MAUNGDAW, like other Rohingyas, Futiya, 26, has many questions over the plight of his people and their future. The Muslim residents from the northern Rakhine state are an ethnic, linguistic and religious minority and de jure stateless, according to the laws of Myanmar.

“I can’t help but ask myself: Why are we stateless and considered less than human by the authorities? How it that we could live on this  land for so long alongside the ethnic Rakhine people and still not be included? How many years must we wait to be citizens of this country?

“Like other Rohingya, I often feel like escaping to another country for a better life; a life without discrimination and without restrictions on movement.

“Life is difficult for us and there have been many occasions when I and others like me have been mistreated by the authorities. (more…)

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MAUNGDAW, 21 October 2009 (IRIN) – Hla Moe, 25, has a university degree but it is worthless in the eyes of Myanmar’s military government. Thus, he and other Rohingya youth have no choice but to till the land just as their ancestors have done for generations in Northern Rakhine State. (more…)

BANGKOK — The United Nations urged Asian nations to make their new regional human rights body “credible” Thursday, as the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) prepared for its official launch.

The ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights (AICHR) will be the first regional human rights body in Asia-Pacific and will be launched as leaders meet Friday in the Thai resort town of Hua Hin for their annual summit. (more…)

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Bangladesh and Myanmar are tossing hundreds of Muslim tribal Rohingyafamilies across their border, where they are reinforcing troops for the past one week, a media report said.

Alleging that Myanmar border force Nasaka is pushing out the Rohingyas, Bangladesh says it has adopted the policy of pushing them back. But it finds that the same people are being sent back again.

Dhaka says Yangon is preparing for “an all-out armed conflict” and has moved three more battalions on Thursday.

A convoy carrying cannons, artillery guns and other armaments from Comilla and Chittagong were moved to the border.

The trouble began with Myanmar erecting barbed wire fence despite Bangladesh’s objections and reinforcing troops to support that operation. (more…)

By Siddique Islam

Saturday, 17 October 2009 22:05

Dhaka – Germany has pledged US$ 431,655 to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) mainly for Rohingya refugee relief work in Bangladesh.

 The aid is meant to improve the situation of Rohingya refugees of Burma, officially known as Myanmar, in the Cox’s Bazaar camps as well as improving the infrastructure of schools outside the camps to benefit Bangladeshi children in the coastal district, according to an announcement in the capital, Dhaka.

 At the same time, Gunter Nooke, Commissioner for Human Rights Policy and Humanitarian Aid at the Federal Foreign Office of Germany, visited Bangladesh along with human rights ambassadors from Denmark and the Netherlands. (more…)

Muslim activists from Malaysia are spearheading a call for Asean to work for justice and peace in Burma, southern Thailand and the Philippines.

A statement was issued on Friday by 45 organisations led by two Malaysian NGOs – Nusantara Initiatives for Justice and Peace and Citizens International – urging the regional body to pursue that goal.

It called on the Asean governments to immediately resolve the tragic plight of the Rohingya Muslims in Burma, conflicts affecting Muslims in Thailand’s restive South, and the struggle of the Bangsamoro in Mindanao, through mutual consultation and collective effort between the Asean governments based on justice and the legitimate rights of the people. (more…)

A key Asian conference in Bali, Indonesia, on people smuggling and human trafficking has failed to discuss in detail or resolve the issue of the Rohingya ethnic minority, tens of thousands of whom are holed up in various Asian countries, having fled Burma.

The Rohingyas, a mainly Muslim minority with a distinct culture and language, have been fleeing persecution at the hands of Burma’s military-led government for the past three decades – mostly to Bangladesh, where there are an estimated 200,000, but also to many other Asian countries. A few are classed as refugees, but the majority are stateless migrants without rights.  (more…)

Deriving from recent debates about ethnicity and other axes of identity in contemporary cultural geography, anthropology and history, my aim here is to respond to ‘scholars’, ‘academics’ and ‘intellectuals’ whose discontent with ‘Rohingyas’ seems to be more politically motivated than objective examination of the politics of ethnicity (My apology if this observation dose not reflect the complex Rakhaing-Rohingya struggle).

Before I start off, I should admit that my research area is not western Burma or Arakan/Rohingya/Rakhaing. Therefore, my discussion is less about the specificity of Rohingyas/Rakhaing/Arakan affairs than the very nature of identity at a conceptual level. My purpose here is not to take side with Rohingyas or to blame Rakhaings for being anti-Rohingyas (as I will discuss at the end). Instead, my aim is to point out that it is inappropriate and misleading the public to promote conceptually wrong arguments as if they are academically sound research and scholarly opinion. Most importantly, I’d like to discuss how these arguments theoretically and empirically contradict the understandings of ethnicity that have been articulated in broader academia. (more…)

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By Kyaw Soe Aung (alias) MSK Jilani*

Nowadays, the Rohingya refugees are not free from exploitation in every moment of their step in countries of their first or second asylum before reaching to a meaningful solution.

It is easy to catch the circumstances in most countries of OIC (Organization of Islamic Conference) as they do not have any mechanism to deal with refugee phenomena, while these are like denying their Islamic obligation. In one word, everyone can realize a thing that was eradicated by the Great Human; the Prophet Mohammad (Peace Be upon Him) is reappearing in modern form of salvation.

Indeed, Prophet Mohammad (PBUH) was the greatest peace maker throughout various agreement including the world first written and 7 Point Agreement known as “Hudaibiah Agreement” signed by both parties of Prophet Mohammad (PBUH) and Non believers of Mecca . (more…)

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