Articles by Prothom Alo
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ASEAN and Its 50 Years of Failure in Ending Wars and Genocides
Maung Zarni | Prothom Alo – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jul 2023
16 Jul 2023 – The gulf between the impact of ASEAN in Myanmar affairs and the spins – “centrality” “cohesion” “inclusive dialogue” blah blah blah – is jaw dropping.
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Rohingyas at Sea for 2 Months, 32 Die
Abdul Kuddus and Gias Uddin | Prothom Alo - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2020
17 Apr 2020 – In 2018 trafficking gradually began again in the region, but presently due to coronavirus, no country is willing to take in the Rohingya refugees, who said they came back to Bangladesh after being turned away first by the Malaysian navy, then by the Thai navy and then also by the Myanmar navy.
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Essays on Myanmar’s Genocide
Ayesha Kabir | Prothom Alo – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2019
5 Apr 2019 – Essays on Myanmar’s Genocide of Rohingyas (2012-2018) by Maung Zarni and Natalie Brinham is an exposure of the brutal killings, rapes, looting, arson and other heinous crimes unleashed by the military junta and their cohorts in Myanmar. The writers are leading human rights activists, speaking out against the atrocities in Myanmar and calling for justice.
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Russia Won’t Support Any UN Move to Pressure Myanmar
Prothom Alo – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Dec 2018
27 Dec 2018 – Russia has reiterated its position to resolve Rohingya crisis through “bilateral negotiations” saying it will not support any resolution in the UNSC to put pressure on Myanmar engaging the UN.
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Remembering Rohingya Survivors of Genocide in August
Maung Zarni – Prothom Alo [Bangladesh],
20 Aug 2018
Forgetting is a crime in the face of mass atrocities. So let’s remember the Rohingya victims this 25 August. However empty the words “Never again!” have become for the UN member states, we, the people of this world, must not let our Frankensteinian and immoral states destroy our human spirit and universal compassion.
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Take Today’s Enveloping Fascism Seriously
Maung Zarni – Prothom Alo [Bangladesh],
6 Aug 2018
1 Aug 2018 – The signs of the contagion of cultivated fascist mindset, its institutionalisation and popular mobilisation by those in power–abstract ideas are nothing without institutional backing or concrete structures–are everywhere, for those with trained eyes to detect fascism. We either wake up and fight back, or find ourselves on the receiving end of the impacts, sooner rather than later. Yes, things are that bad. Look closer. And think harder.
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Time for Int’l Community to Come Forward for Rohingyas
Prothom Alo [Bangladesh] – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jul 2018
13 Jul 2018 – The military junta in Myanmar has not only snatched away the citizenship of the Rohingyas in the country’s Rakhine state, but has been perpetuating killing and torture against them for the past four decades. The United Nations and other international institutions have been totally ineffective in addressing the problem, raising questions of their complicity. Bangladesh, however, has displayed a positive moral stance by providing the Rohingyas with shelter.
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UN and the Four-Word Mantra for Myanmar Genocide Survivors
Maung Zarni – Prothom Alo [Bangladesh],
25 Jun 2018
19 Jun 2018 – “Political language… is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind,” George Orwell observed, in the middle of the 20th century. Let’s take a look at the four adjectives that have come to be the pillars of UN policy mantra.
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Wrongs of Rights Activism around Rohingyas
Maung Zarni – Prothom Alo [Bangladesh],
15 Jan 2018
I do not believe in Knights in shining armour or the White Saviours. The survivors have no rescuers. They need to struggle for their own survival and beyond. I am only a supporter who offers them my uncompromising solidarity as a fellow human. This piece, I wrote based on my 30-years of non-stop activism since I joined proudly the Amnesty International campus chapter at the University of California as a youngish graduate student in early 20’s. Now I am almost 54.
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Aung San Suu Kyi for Democracy or Buddhist Fascism?
Maung Zarni - Prothom Alo [Bangladesh],
25 Dec 2017
22 Dec 2017 – Truths and totalitarianism are irreconcilable. They have never co-existed, they do not coexist, and they never will. In this sordid political climate in Myanmar, the formerly pro-human rights public, peaceful Buddhist Order and pro-human rights dissidents, from Aung San Suu Kyi and former student leaders of the Great Uprising of 8.8.88, have closed ranks with their former military jailors and torturers.
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Rohingyas Are Survivors, Not Security Threat
Maung Zarni | Prothom Alo – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Dec 2017
13 Dec 2017 – Can you imagine BBC, Chatham House, Rand Corporation portraying as potential “Jewish terrorists” the survivors of Auschwitz-Birkenau, Ravensbruick, Dachau and other world infamous death and labour camps? Of course not! But that is precisely what is now happening to the survivors of my Buddhist country’s genocide, whose name even the entire Catholic Church in Myanmar, and by extension, Pope Francis, have dared not pronounce.
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Zarni: ‘The Buddhist Society Has Lost Its Conscience’
Ayesha Kabir - Prothom Alo [Bangladesh],
4 Dec 2017
30 Nov 2017 – During his recent Dhaka trip, Dr. Maung Zarni dropped in at the Prothom Alo office and deliberated on a number of issues pertaining to the Rohingya crisis and the predicament of his homeland. “The Buddhist society has lost its conscience and has turned racist. The army itself has been founded on fascist lines. And a good society has been manipulated to move into this fascist mode.”
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Prothom Alo [Bangladesh] | Editorial – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Oct 2017
24 Sep 2017 – The verdict issued by the International People’s Tribunal in the Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur on Friday [22 Sep], which indicted Myanmar’s military as well as its state counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi for war crimes and ethnic persecution in Myanmar, reflected the expectations of the peace-loving people of the world.
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