Articles by The Daily Star
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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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‘Boycott Myanmar’ – Rohingyas Plan Global Campaign as ICJ Set to Start Hearing on Genocide Case
Porimol Palma – The Daily Star [Bangladesh],
2 Dec 2019
30 Nov 2019 – Rohingyas across Europe have planned mass rallies and a global campaign, “Boycott Myanmar”, to globally drum up their demands for justice as the International Court of Justice begins its first ever hearing on the genocide case against Myanmar on 10 Dec.
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“Rohingya Refugee Crisis Is a Time Bomb That Must Be Quickly Defused to Avoid any Future Flare-Up”
The Daily Star – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2019
5 Aug 2019 – Dr. Shamsul Bari, a former Director of UNHCR, talks about the Rohingya refugee crisis, its local, regional and global implications and the possible solutions to the crisis.
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Rohingya repatriation: UNHCR, UNDP signs extension of MoU with Myanmar
The Daily Star [Bangladesh] – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jun 2019
28 May 2019 – The UN High Commissioner for Refugees and UN Development Programme today signed extension of a memorandum of understanding with Myanmar for one year aimed at creating conducive conditions for voluntary and sustainable repatriation of the Rohingya from Bangladesh. “UN agencies have not even consulted the Rohingyas, the survivors of genocide,” said Ro Nay San Lwin, coordinator of Free Rohingya Coalition from Germany over phone.
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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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Rohingya: Not Willing to Go Home
Mokammel Shuvo , Muhammad Ali Jinnat and Porimol Palma – The Daily Star [Bangladesh],
19 Nov 2018
16 Nov 2018 – Repatriation Postponed as Rohingyas Feel Return to Myanmar Still Not Safe – Prof CR Abrar, who teachers international relations at Dhaka University, said it was not surprising. “How can the Rohingya go back to Rakhine where people still face rights abuses and confinement? There is a threat for Rohingyas of being interned in the camps for the rest of their life,” he said. New York-based Human Rights Watch yesterday demanded the authorities halt the repatriation.
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UN-Burma/Myanmar MOU: Why the Hush Hush?
The Daily Star [Bangladesh] – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jul 2018
9 Jul 2018 – UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Myanmar Yanghee Lee has expressed concern that a memorandum of understanding signed in June between the UN and Myanmar has been kept secret. “While I am not aware of the exact terms of the MoU, I am extremely concerned that it has been kept secret, including by the UN agencies involved, and urge the parties to make it public,” she said.
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A Rohingya’s Perspective
Tun Khin – The Daily Star [Bangladesh],
11 Jun 2018
7 Jun 2018 – Bangladesh’s ICC Cooperation Is Crucial for Rohingya Justice – Since August last year, the world has witnessed how hundreds of thousands of desperate Rohingyas have fled across the border into Bangladesh, bringing with them tales of unimaginable horror.
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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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Wake Up and Stop Rohingya Abuses
The Daily Star, Bangladesh | IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Mar 2018
27 Feb 2018 – No one would realise better than a woman how it feels when a child is snatched away from the arms of a mother and slaughtered, a man is murdered before the eyes of his wife, or a girl is raped. That is what happened to countless Rohingya women back in Rakhine State of Myanmar.
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Hiding Evidence of Massacre in Rakhine
Editorial – The Daily Star (Bangladesh),
26 Feb 2018
23 Feb 2018 – The report that Myanmar is ‘bulldozing’ Rohingya mass grave to hide evidence of killing comes as no surprise to us. It is only natural the perpetrators of genocide will try to cover up following the exposés that appeared in the media.
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Protected Myanmar’s Genocide and Its Impact on Bangladesh
Mohammad Zaman – The Daily Star [Bangladesh],
8 Jan 2018
“There are no viable and peaceful solutions on the horizon for Rohingyas. The United Nations system has failed the victims; again! Rohingyas are not the first nor will they be the last who will be sacrificed in the geopolitical equations and narrow self-interests of the world’s leading nations on the path of Planetary Destruction.” – Maung Zarni
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Zarni: “Ending the Genocide in Burma Is Not Profitable”
Naznin Tithi – The Daily Star [Bangladesh],
11 Dec 2017
6 Dec 2017 – Dr Maung Zarni, a UK-based Burmese genocide scholar and human rights activist who campaigns for the end of Myanmar genocide against Rohingyas, tells how the international community has failed to take concrete and effective actions to end the state-directed persecution spanning 40 years.
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Gregory Stanton – The Daily Star,
27 Nov 2017
The UN calls the Myanmar army’s aggression against the Rohingya “ethnic cleansing”. “Ethnic cleansing” is a term invented by Slobodan Milosevic. It’s a euphemism for forced displacement and genocide. It’s an insidious term because there is no international treaty law against it, whereas there are international laws against forced displacement and genocide.
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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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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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Inam Ahmed and Shakhawat Liton – The Daily Star [Bangladesh],
27 Mar 2017
The world hardly paid heed to the ruthless killings going on in Bangladesh in those long nine months. The tales of the macabre were told and retold by countless many here. And yet, the world did not have time to listen. Forty-six years after the bloodbath that hardly left any family untouched, Bangladesh has finally taken initiatives to get recognition of the Pakistan army led genocide by the UN.
→ read full article[Nobel Peace Laureate] Aung San Suu Kyi’s ‘Buddy’ Solution
M. Adil Khan – The Daily Star,
19 Dec 2016
13 Dec 2016 – Persecution of Rohingyas in Myanmar is continuing with impunity and without a break. Dieng and Yanghee Lee, UN special rapporteur on human rights in Myanmar, have confirmed these atrocities and “requested independent UN investigations on the alleged ‘ethnic cleansing’ and other mass atrocities in the Rohingya region of Rakhine State”.
→ read full articleThe Tragedy in Yemen
Eresh Omar Jamal – The Daily Star,
5 Sep 2016
29 Aug 2016 – While the slaughter of Yemenis continues, the world remains silent in response to their screams. Why is that? Has the world lost its senses, especially to feel the sufferings of the tormented?
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The Daily Star – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jul 2014
Brazilian Foreign Ministry said in a statement Wednesday [23 Jul 2014], “We strongly condemn the disproportionate use of force by Israel in the Gaza Strip, from which large numbers of civilian casualties, including women and children resulted.”
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AFP – The Daily Star,
26 Apr 2010
Palestinian Premier Salam Fayyad vowed on Wednesday [21 April 2010] to step up “peaceful resistance” against Israeli occupation by boycotting settlement goods throughout the West Bank. “There has been progress in the boycott of settlement products, which comes from the idea of popular peaceful resistance, and I hope we will rid our markets of all settlement goods by the end of the year,” he told an international conference in the West Bank village of Bilin.
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Agence France Presse-AFP, with The Daily Star,
19 Nov 2008
GAZA CITY: The top United Nations human rights official on Tuesday called on Israel to immediately lift its blockade of the Gaza Strip, as invading tanks from the Jewish state sparked retaliatory rocket fire from the coastal territory. "By function of this blockade, 1.5 million Palestinian men, women and children have been forcibly deprived of […]
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