Articles by C R Abrar

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Yanghee Lee: Champion of Justice for Rohingyas
C R Abrar | The Daily Star [Bangladesh] - TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 May 2020

19 May 2020 – At a time when the world, including neighbouring Malaysia and Thailand, have shunned the Rohingya (acknowledged as the most persecuted minority in the world), at a time when the Burmese state audaciously tramples the whole corpus of international human rights instruments being aided and abetted by major powers; at a time when those who stand for reason, rule of law and justice feel betrayed by the high and mighty of the world, Yanghee Lee stood firm as a beacon of hope.

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Do the Bells Toll for Rohingyas?
C R Abrar – The Daily Star [Bangladesh], 19 Nov 2018

14 Nov 2018 – No meaningful change has occurred in the Burmese state’s policy towards the Rohingya people. The demand for restoration of citizenship rights has gone unheeded; Rohingyas are still not recognised as a national ethnic group; the discriminatory legal and administrative apparatuses that were set up over the decades creating an apartheid-like situation remain intact; their land and properties remain confiscated by the state or have been given away to Buddhist Rakhines; …

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Oxford’s Neo-Orientalism: Burma aka Myanmar
C R Abrar – TRANSCEND Media Service, 9 Jul 2018

28 Mar 2018 – The People’s Tribunal on State Crimes of Myanmar unequivocally termed the atrocities committed by the Burmese government as “genocide”. The UN special rapporteur on human rights situation of the country has clearly stated that such actions bear the “hallmarks of genocide”. Without mincing his words, the French President Macron has expressed his disgust of Myanmar’s genocide. Even the unpredictable British Foreign Secretary termed it as “industrial scale ethnic cleansing”. The Holocaust Museum acknowledged it as a genocide and expressed solidarity with the victims. Nobel laureates Bishop Tutu and Amartya Sen have labelled it as “slow burning genocide.”

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UN Security Council and the Rohingya: Yet another Charade?
C R Abrar – The Daily Star (Bangladesh), 7 May 2018

5 May 2018 – The charade is exposed when the UK UNSC representative told BBC in Burma on May 1 that there is no difference between Burma’s domestic investigation and international investigation as long as Aung San Suu Kyi accepts and launches the investigation with the help of the Security Council. What could be crueller for the victims of genocide than the SC openly lending its collective assistance to the genocidal government to conduct such investigation into its own crimes?

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Right to Return, Repression and Resistance: 70 Years after Naqba (the Catastrophe)
C R Abrar – The Daily Star (Bangladesh), 23 Apr 2018

18 Apr 2018 – March 30 marked the beginning of a six-week passive resistance of the Palestinians to highlight their expulsion from their ancestral land by the Zionist forces 70 years ago. Over this period Palestinians of Gaza and the West Bank have been joined by thousands of Palestinian diaspora refugees in holding a Great March of Return along the Israeli border.

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Protected Return to Protected Homeland: Only Durable Solution to Burma’s Rohingya Genocide
C R Abrar – The Daily Star (Bangladesh), 16 Apr 2018

10 Apr 2018 – Of the three “durable solutions” recognised in conventional refugee discourse, if “voluntary repatriation” is ruled out, then “third-country resettlement” and “local integration” remain the other options. Are those options feasible in the Rohingya refugee context?

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Oxford’s Neo-Orientalism: Burma aka Myanmar
C R Abrar | The Daily Star [Bangladesh] - TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Apr 2018

28 Mar 2018 – The People’s Tribunal on State Crimes of Myanmar unequivocally termed the atrocities committed by the Burmese government as “genocide”. The UN special rapporteur on human rights situation of the country has clearly stated that such actions bear the “hallmarks of genocide”. Without mincing his words, the French President Macron has expressed his disgust of Myanmar’s genocide. Even the unpredictable British Foreign Secretary termed it as “industrial scale ethnic cleansing”. The Holocaust Museum acknowledged it as a genocide and expressed solidarity with the victims. Nobel laureates Bishop Tutu and Amartya Sen have labelled it as “slow burning genocide.”

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Rohingya Genocide and the Liberal States: Dancing with the Demon of Destruction
C R Abrar – The Daily Star [Bangladesh], 25 Sep 2017

19 Sep 2017 – Arakan is burning. The Burmese rulers appear to be on the brink of achieving their much-longed-for a “final solution” of the Rohingya question. A reign of terror has been let loose in northern Arakan. Rohingyas are being shot, butchered, disemboweled, torched and drowned. Women are being raped and gang-raped, and children are being mutilated often in front of their helpless parents and siblings.

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Bangladesh and the Rohingya Influx: Misframed Facts, Prejudiced Responses
C R Abrar – The Daily Star, Bangladesh, 4 Sep 2017

1 Sep 2017 – Rohingyas of northern Arakan are facing yet another round of armed atrocities. Not only are they at the receiving end of indiscriminate use of bullets, bayonets and firing from helicopter gunships; their homes, hearths, livestock, crops and businesses are being consumed by bellowing fire deliberately lit by the Burmese security forces and their Rakhine cohorts.

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