Gregory Stanton
- Dec 30, 2019
Genocide Watch Annual Report 2018-2019
Genocide Watch was the first international anti-genocide organization. Genocide Watch founded the first international coalition for the prevention of genocide, The Alliance Against Genocide. Genocide Watch is a non-partisan, non-profit, tax-exempt 501(c)(3) volunteer organization that pays no salaries and keeps its overhead very low. Genocide Watch has spent a total of $100,000 in 20 years, $5000 per year. Genocide Watch provides education to the public about how and why ge
Ewelina U. Ochab | Forbes
- Dec 15, 2019
Rohingya: The Word Aung San Suu Kyi Did Not Want To Say
On December 10, 2019, the International Court of Justice (the ICJ), the principal judicial organ of the United Nations, begun a hearing in the case of the alleged genocidal atrocities in Myanmar. The hearing was focused on provisional measures only, as requested by the Gambia, including measures within the Burmese government’s power to “prevent all acts that amount to or contribute to the crime of genocide” and “not destroy or render inaccessible any evidence related to the e
CNN
- Dec 13, 2019
Former UN Human Rights Commissioner: Aung San Suu Kyi complicit in Rohingya genocide
Former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein condemns Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi as complicit in the atrocities committed upon the Rohingya Source: CNN https://edition.cnn.com/videos/world/2019/12/12/intv-amanpour-aung-san-suu-kyi-zeid-raad-al-hussein-rohingya.cnn
AFP
- Dec 12, 2019
95 Rohingya in Myanmar face jail as Hague hears genocide case
Nearly 100 Rohingya appeared in a Myanmar court Wednesday after being arrested for trying to flee persecution, their lawyer said, as leader Aung San Suu Kyi addressed the UN's top court to deny allegations of a genocidal campaign against the ethnic minority. One-by-one, the weary detainees stepped down from a police van at the courthouse in the western Myanmar city of Pathein. Their crime was to leave their home townships without permission from authorities. Rohingya in Rakhi
Associated Press | Japan Times
- Dec 12, 2019
Rohingya refugees reject Aung San Suu Kyi's genocide denial
COX’S BAZAR, BANGLADESH – Rohingya refugees accused former Myanmar pro-democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi of lying to the International Court of Justice in testimony Wednesday in which she denied that her country’s armed forces were guilty of genocide against the Muslim minority group. Suu Kyi, who is now Myanmar’s leader, told the court that the exodus of hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims to neighboring Bangladesh was the unfortunate result of a battle with insurgents.
Joanna Slater and Niha Masih, Washington Post
- Dec 11, 2019
India passes citizenship law excluding Muslim migrants
Demonstrators protest the Citizenship Amendment Bill in New Delhi on Dec. 10. (Adnan Abidi/Reuters) NEW DELHI — Lawmakers in India on Wednesday passed a fundamental change to its citizenship law to include religion as a criterion for nationality for the first time, deepening concerns that a country founded on secular ideals is becoming a Hindu state that treats Muslims as second-class citizens. The new legislation creates a path to citizenship for migrants who belong to sever
Al Jazeera
- Dec 11, 2019
Aung San Suu Kyi defends Myanmar in genocide case
In unprecedented move, former human rights icon defends Myanmar generals at ICJ over killings, rape and displacement. Aung San Suu Kyi has shocked critics by travelling to The Hague to head her country's delegation [Peter Dejong/The Associated Press] Nobel peace prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi has defended Myanmar's military against genocide allegations made at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) amid accusations of mass killings, rape and expulsion of the Rohingya Muslim
Christina Szurlej
- Dec 11, 2019
A 2015 Genocide Warning: Applying Stanton's 10 Stages to the Rohingya of Myanmar
Hundreds of thousands of Rohingya have escaped from Myanmar across the Naf River into Bangladesh and by boat. Thousands have drowned in the Andaman Sea. Originally presented on December 4, 2015 in Krakow, Poland at a conference on Human Rights, Violence and Dictatorship Abstract: Preventing Genocide against the Rohingya Muslim Minority in Myanmar Although Myanmar appeared to make positive steps towards the realization of its human rights obligations since the end of a lengthy
Usaid Siddiqui, Al Jazeera
- Dec 10, 2019
Rohingya campaigners threatened with kidnapping
Ro Nay San Lwin and Maung Zarni tell Al Jazeera they fear for their lives but will not be 'silenced' by online abuse. Lwin, left, and Zarni have been in exile outside Myanmar for the past 18 and 30 years respectively [DW News/Anadolu] Two prominent Rohingya campaigners say they are facing increased online abuse, including death threats, for their work, with the latest warning coming from the grandson of former Myanmar ruler Ne Win who called for their abduction. Ro Nay San Lw
Mario Arulthas | Al Jazeera
- Dec 9, 2019
Trouble brews in post-election Sri Lanka
The hardline approach of the new president and a failed reconciliation process threaten to stir ethnic tensions. Sri Lanka's President Gotabaya Rajapaksa gestures while addressing the nation at the presidential swearing-in ceremony in Anuradhapura on November 18, 2019 [File: Dinuka Liyanawatte/Reuters] Two weeks after the election of hardliner Gotabaya Rajapaksa in Sri Lanka, the prospects for justice and reconciliation between the different communities on the island lie in t
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