Articles by Free Rohingya Coalition
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Myanmar Continues to Make Mistakes of the Past
Maung Zarni | Free Rohingya Coalition – Asia Times,
20 Jan 2020
14 Jan 2020 – January 4 marked the 72nd anniversary of Myanmar’s independence from Britain. The story of Myanmar today is a textbook example of a multi-ethnic country where the spectacular failures on the part of the successive breeds of the ruling nationalists have created the very real conditions for ethnic balkanization, something the Burmese nationalists say they are most concerned about.
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Why Myanmar’s Genocide Denial Will Come Back to Haunt It
Maung Zarni | Free Rohingya Coalition/The Washington Post - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2020
17 Jan 2020 – As the International Criminal Court proceeds with its own separate investigation into Myanmar’s crimes against the Rohingya, it is imperative that the prosecutor name Aung San Suu Kyi, along with the generals, as partners in crime. The international community must stand firm in holding her to account.
→ read full articleFree Rohingya Coalition Calls for the Resignation of UN Secretary General and Senior Deputies over Systemic UN Failures in Myanmar Genocide
Free Rohingya Coalition – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jun 2019
19 June 2019 – The 36-page UN diplomat Gert Rosenthal Report entitled “A brief and independent inquiry into the involvement of the United nations in Myanmar from 2010 to 2018”, finally admits to what the several generations of Rohingya survivors of Myanmar’s genocide have always known: the UN has failed them – not simply since 2011, the report’s cut-off year, but since the first wave of Myanmar’s genocidal destruction in 1978.
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The Secret Tripartite Memorandum of Understanding between UNHCR, UNDP & Myanmar
Free Rohingya Coalition – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jun 2019
28 May 2019 – The MoU was first signed in Naypyiday on June 6 last year, which has been extended for one more year.
→ read full articleRohingya refugees and supporters endorse UN’s call for withdrawal of financial support to Myanmar
Free Rohingya Coalition – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 May 2019
15 May 2019 – Rohingya refugees and international supporters welcome and endorse UN Fact-Finding Mission’s timely call for withdrawal of financial and other support to Myanmar.
→ read full articleInternational Conference on Protection and Accountability in Burma
Columbia University & Free Rohingya Coalition – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jan 2019
This conference is designed to call world’s attention to and educate the international public at large about the twofold need for protection and accountability which Rohingya genocide survivors and other ethnic and religious minorities such as Kachin, Shan, Karen, Myanmar Muslims, etc. demand and deserve. 8-9 Feb 2019, Columbia University, Barnard Hall
→ read full articleFree Rohingya Coalition Statement on Canada’s Unprecedented Official Declaration of Myanmar’s Crimes against Rohingyas as Genocide
Free Rohingya Coalition – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Sep 2018
20 Sep 2018 – The Free Rohingya Coalition wholeheartedly welcome the motion in the Canadian House of Commons that with a rare unanimity declared Myanmar’s crimes against Rohingya people a genocide.
→ read full articleRemembering Rohingya Genocide on 25 August 2018
Free Rohingya Coalition – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Aug 2018
Free Rohingya Coalition, a global network of Rohingya and non-Rohingya activists and advocates, are planning to commemorate 25 August 2018 as the “Rohingya Genocide Remembrance Day”. On this day, Myanmar Tatmadaw or the Armed Forces launched the largest scale mass killing, rape and arson to date.
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Factsheet on the Rohingya
Free Rohingya Coalition – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2018
Group Identity, Citizenship, and Persecution – Rohingyas are a native, pre-colonial ethnic minority group of Rakhine State of Western Myanmar (formerly Burma), which shares 170-miles long modern-day borders with Bangladesh (formerly East Pakistan).
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Free Rohingya Coalition – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jun 2018
7 June 2018 – The Free Rohingya Coalition is gravely concerned about the non-inclusive, non-transparent nature of UN agencies signing a repatriation deal with Myanmar.
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