Articles by Prothom Alo [Bangladesh]
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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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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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