Clash of Titans! Really? Who can hate the ‘Other’ More!
Aisha, a 7 year old girl living in Khajuri Khas Colony of Delhi, is yearning for a day when like her elder sister Asma, she would also be admitted to…
Rohingya Muslims
International Accountability: Myanmar, the ICJ and the Genocide Question
The indomitable spirit of Raphael Lemkin, bibliophile, assiduous documenter of humanity’s dark deeds and inexecrable conduct, is bound to be an unsettled one. This brilliant, committed and peculiarly dedicated creature…
Rohingya Refugee Crisis in Myanmar: Ethnic Conflict and Resolution
Book Review: ROHINGYA REFUGEE CRISIS IN MYANMAR: ETHNIC CONFLICT AND RESOLUTION (Palgrave Macmillan) Edited by: Kudret Bülbül, Md. Nazmul Islam & Md. Sajid Khan Considering the current situation of crisis,…
Has the World Forgotten the Plight of the Rohingyas?
Source: Center for Strategic and International Studies As of July 2021, only $366 million of the total required, around $1 billion, humanitarian assistance fund for the Rohingyas has been disbursed.…
Prominent leader’s assassination highlights the plight of Rohingya Muslims
A prominent Rohingya Muslim leader has been shot dead in a refugee camp in southern Bangladesh. Mohibullah, who was in his late 40s, led one of the largest of several…
Rethinking Sustainable Solution to Rohingya Crisis: Limits of World Bank’s Proposal
Washington-based global lender the World Bank, through concessional lending arms, has gone to bat for Bangladesh to foster its development initiatives since 1972; committing more than $30 billion by backing…
Are We Out of Options on Myanmar?
In late August of 2017, Rohima Kadu's idyllic village of Chin Khali, Rakhine was visited by Myanmar's much dreaded military, the Tatmadaw and its local Buddhist militia associates. A helpless…
Rohingyas: The tale of an ill-decided fate
Written by Nizamuddin Ahmad Siddiqui & Abu Zar Ali The Supreme Court of India, by way of an order dated 8th April 2021, allowed the deportation of Rohingyas from the…
Children of No Land- Rohingya Refugees and Their Persecution in India
Driven out of homeland and in search of a shore to call as one’s own- the story of every refugee fits in this framework. Termed as the most persecuted people…
The Coup in Myanmar and the Transformation of Rohingya Politics
The future of the Rohingya people seems uncertain. A predominantly Muslim minority group indigenous to a region on the western coast of Myanmar – historically referred to as Arakan and…
No end in sight for Rohingya crisis
An estimated 730,000 Rohingyas had crossed into Cox’s Bazar in Bangladesh three years ago in order to flee the persecution in Myanmar’s Rakhine State. Although the Rohingyas, who are currently residing in Bangladeshi camps…
What waits for Rohingyas?
Rohingya people, who have no identity of their own, are now facing another danger. Pandemic COVID-19 took away one of the Rohingya, who took shelter at a camp at Cox’s…
Save Rohingyas from catastrophic COVID- 19
Spring, the best season, is twinkling Bangladesh. Mango pods adore trees here and there across the country. Hopes are pinching dreams for big profit. In this flashy season optimism of…
The International Court Of Justice (ICJ) And The Rohingyas
The International Court of Justice’s (ICJ) Order to the Government of the Republic of Myanmar to adopt various provisional measures to protect the Rohingya community from “physical destruction” and to…
Going to the ICJ: Myanmar, Genocide and Aung San Suu Kyi’s Gamble
Leaders currently in office rarely make an appearance before either the International Court of Justice or the International Criminal Court. International law remains affixed to the notion that heads-of-state are,…
Bangladesh to Relocate Rohingya Refugees on Remote Island
The Bangladesh government is planning to move hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees from Burma (Myanmar) into prison-like dwellings on the remote and geographically unstable silt island of Bhasan Char.…
Deporting Rohingya will violate the principle of non-refoulement
The international legal principle of non-refoulement and India’s obligation under this has come under intense media discussions following India deported on October 4 seven Rohingya immigrants back to their…
Rohingya Massacres: U.S State Department Posts Report As UN Agency Formed To Assist ICC
Very quietly, without fanfare, in a story that went by almost unnoticed, the U.S. State Department website posted a report this week on the Rohingya massacres and atrocities. Based on…
Will There Ever Be Justice For Rohingya Muslims?
There is an image engraved in our minds of a stoic, reserved, elegant Aung San Suu Kyi unbending in her struggle against Burma's generals for democracy, and we assumed for…
Rohingya run and imperialism
The long Rohingya run is passing more than a year in its current phase – a huge number of the Rohingyaas in Bangladesh. Amidst diplomatic dialogues, and imperialist intrigues the…
India must stand by the Rohingya in their hour of need
Rohingya refugees are back in the news again. On Tuesday (July 30) Mr. Rijiju, the Minister of State for Home said some of the Rohingya living in India do not…
The Massacre of Inn Din: How Rohingya Are Lynched and Held Responsible
“In my four years as High Commissioner, I have heard many preposterous claims. That claim is almost in its own category of absurdity. Have you no shame, sir, have you…
The Facade Of Repatriation For The Rohingyas
The 680,000 Rohingyas escaping from the jaws of death in Myanmar, to Bangladesh, were recovering from their traumatic experience, when the news of an agreement finalized by the governments…
Refugees ….. Are They A ‘Problem’ ?
We came here to find refuge They called us refugees So we hid ourselves in their language Until we sounded just like them...... J J BOLA ... "Refuge" India has…
‘Whitewashing’ Genocide In Myanmar
Although the genocide of the Rohingya minority in Myanmar has gathered greater media attention in recent months, there is no indication that the international community is prepared to act…
Rohingyas Trapped In Cob-Web Of Dirty Politics
The Rohingya crisis reflects intention of the Myanmar government to forcibly oust the Muslims from Rakhine State. The brutal attack on unarmed civilians and placing of landmines along its…
‘Say The Word’: What The Rohingya Struggle Is Really About
Pope Francis lost a historical opportunity to truly set his legacy apart from previous Popes. Alas, for him, too, political expediency trumped all else. In his visit to Burma (Myanmar)…
Rohingyas: A Photo Essay From A Refugee Camp In Bangladesh
21-22 September 2017; Tambru, Myanmar-Bangladesh border and Rohingya refugee camp in Ukhia, Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh: 'Refugee camps' of sorts or just make shift shelters of "Rohingya" minorities of Myanmar, who…
Bangladesh, Buddhist Myanmar, and Muslim Rohingyas: Is Prime Minister Hasina Hopelessly Deserted by Her Immediate Neighbors?
Heigh-ho! sing, heigh-ho! unto the green holly: Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly: Then, heigh-ho, the holly! This life is most jolly. (Shakespeare’s As You Like…
Violence & Peace Are Not Defined By Religion
A couple of weeks ago I was in Dhaka, Bangladesh, it was at the time when several news agencies were reporting the Rohingya crisis unfolding in Myanmar. There was social…
The UN Minces Words, An International Tribunal Declares Genocide, And Evil On Film
The UN Security Council held its first meeting on Rohingya in nine years last Thursday (September 28, 2017). The language was harshly critical of Myanmar. Secretary General Antonio Guterres…
It’s Not My Fault: Owning Personal Authority
On April 13, 1919, the 9th Gurkhas, 54th Sikhs & 59th Sind Rifles, on the orders of Col. Dyer, fired on an unarmed, peaceful crowd gathered to celebrate Besakhi at…
Myopia And Mayhem Running Amok In Myanmar
Indications are that leaders in both the adjacent countries have one factor in common: they’ve got caught in a cleft stick. The world has witnessed numerous “cleansing operations” but rarely…
Hitler, Churchill, Trump, Aung San Suu Kyi & Genocidal Intent To Destroy
The UN Genocide Convention defines genocide as “acts committed with intent to destroy in whole or in part”. Hitler sought and effected “removal” and “annihilation” of the Jews, Churchill…
Mr. Xi Jinping, Take A Look At This Photo
I urge you, Mr. Xi Jinping, President of Peoples’ Republic of China to take a good look at this photo. Do you see what I see? I see the agony.…
South Asians Hold Rally For Rohingyas In Surrey
About 50 demonstrators showed up at a rally for Rohingya refugees at Surrey's Holland Park on Saturday evening. The Surrey Center Liberal MP Randeep Singh Sarai was also in attendance.…
Reflection On An Ignoble Nobel And The Rohingya Genocide
When the German transatlantic liner the St. Louis set off with 900 German Jews seeking refuge, it was 1939 and they were trying to escape what became one of the most despicable events in European history.…
A Peep Into Rohingya Refugee Life In Chennai
There is much attention on the plight of the Roghingas in the media these days. Rohingas are an ethnic population of over one million Sunni Muslims living in Myanmar’s Northern…
The Rohingya: Abandoned, Persecuted, Lost – A Documentary
A documentary on the plight of the Rohingyas For them, dignity – safety – well-being are pious words. For them, it’s a constant struggle – of their bare existence or,…
Message To Aung San Suu Kyi
Aung San Suu Kyi, take the flowers out of your hair and place them on a Rohingya mass grave to show you care.
An Open Letter To Mr. Kiren Riiju On Rohingyas
Dear Mr. Riiju, This is a letter from an ordinary citizen of India who has been working with the refugees for over two decades. I am deeply disturbed and in…
Open Doors For Rohingya Refugees
Indians Abroad for Plural India (IAPI) and South Asian Network for Secularism and Democracy (SANSAD) condemn the Government of India’s endorsement of the Myanmar government’s treatment of the Rohingya minority…
Asian Human Rights Defenders Call For An End To Genocide In Myanmar
WORLD: (BURMA/MYANMAR) A statement calling to end the violence committed against the Rohingya community in Myanmar, and urging the Government of Myanmar to recognise the human rights of the Rohingya…
Rohingya Injured By Landmines As They Flee Violence
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1V5E53TZzuU&feature=youtu.be This week Just Asia begins with Burma, where many Rohingya are suffering horrific injuries and loss of limbs by landmines along the Burma-Bangladesh border in their attempt to flee…
The Idea of Ethnical Cleansing
This land is a mark on the forehead A bullet yet to be drenched in red Where death comes in split peels of seconds Licking its bleached teeth tasting Yet…
How Much India Care For Its Refugees?
India is a home of millions of refugees and asylum seekers such as Tibetans, Afghani, Burmese, Pakistani, Bangladeshi, Sri Lankans and Africans. In past, Antonio Guterres, United Nations High Commissioner…
Rohingya Muslims And Our Immediate Responsibilities
The decades old brutal crackdown by Myanmar army, police, nationalist monks and Buddhist fundamentalists on Rohingya Muslims in Rakhine State in the country's northwestern region has intensified in recent months, is no doubt one…
The Genocide Of The Rohingya: Big Oil, Failed Democracy And False Prophets
To a certain extent, Aung San Suu Kyi is a false prophet. Glorified by the west for many years, she was made a 'democracy icon' because she opposed the…
RSS Complicity In Rohingya Muslim Genocide
A silent genocide of Myanmar (also known as Burma) Muslims is in progress. Such is the urgency shown by Burmese Govt. to annihilate its Rohingya Muslims that it has…
Open letter from Archibishop Desmond Tutu to Aung San Suu Kyi
My dear Aung San Suu Kyi I am now elderly, decrepit and formally retired, but breaking my vow to remain silent on public affairs out of profound sadness about the…
Rohingya Exodus Continues As Satellite Images Reveal Burning Villages
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ags1XVdVkB0&feature=youtu.be This week Just Asia begins with Burma, where Rohingya refugees continue streaming to Bangladesh after violence erupted in Rakhine state just over a week ago. Although the Bangladesh government…
Aung San Suu Kyi, Nobel Prizes And The Rohingyas
Scratch the skin of a saint, claimed George Orwell, and you are bound to find a sinner with an extensive resume. Such resumes are evaluated in these modern times by…
Remedying Rohynga Genocide
George Orwell, the author of the ‘Burmese Days’ once said that, “Every saint is a sinner until proven innocent”. Aung San Su Kyi, a Nobel Peace Laureate who is currently…
The Rohingya Genocide And Inadequate Response From Bangladesh
I believe “genocide” is the right word to describe the ongoing mass killing, rape, and expropriation of Rohingyas in Mayanmar. Polish Jewish lawyer Raphael Lemkin (1900-1959) first used the…
Rohingyas: Jihadists?
The Rohingyas --- or at least some Rohingyas --- are now being projected as terrorists, as “Jihadists” out to kill Myanmar soldiers and civilians. Myanmar leaders including Aung San…
Rohyinga Villages Burning Again
Authorities in Myanmar say close to 100 people have been killed since Friday when armed men, reportedly from the ArakanRohynga Salvation Army (ARSA), launched a pre-dawn raid on police outposts…
40 Thousand
40 thousand people 40 thousand phantoms are marching towards you right now you have taken their lands you have taken to hatred you have been taken by greed they knew…
Aren’t Rohingyas Bengalis, And Arakan Integral To Bangladesh?
Every society has certain taboos – cultural/religious, social, and political – set apart and designated as restricted or forbidden to associate with, or even to bring in ordinary discussion.…
Collective Effort Alone Can Solve Rohingya Crisis
Ever since tensions again escalated between the government of Myanmar and the Rohingya people on October 2016 and the reinvigorated persecution of the minority group that followed, thousands of Rohingyas…
The Rohingya Open Letter And Search For A Permanent Solution
2016 did not end completely hopelessly. In late December,15 Nobel Laureates including Professor Mohammed Yunus and 12 global leaders wrote an Open Letter to the President of the United Nations…
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