genocide

Articles

• Myanmar- Bangladesh: Cries From the Prison-City of Rohingya Refugees
  3 December 2017, by siawi3

  Fleeing rape, torture and mass killing, Burmese Rohingya arrive in this camp of half a million souls, traumatized by the military operation to ‘cleanse’ Myanmar of Muslims.

• Birmanie. Les Rohingyas sont victimes d’un génocide selon l’ONU
  3 septembre 2018, par siawi3

  Les Nations unies parlent rarement de génocide. Mais après un an de recherches, l’ONU a publié lundi 27 août un rapport ne laissant aucun doute sur le sort des Rohingyas en Birmanie. 700 000 Rohingyas, membres de la minorité musulmane du pays, ont été soumis à un exil forcé depuis un an. Au moins 10 000 d’entre eux ont été massacrés. L’armée birmane a justifié ses actes par un risque sécuritaire. “La nécessité militaire ne saurait à aucun moment excuser les tueries aveugles, le viol collectif des femmes, l’agression d’enfants et l’incendie de villages entiers”

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  14 septembre 2018, par siawi3
• Myanmar and Bangladesh strike a shameful deal on Rohingya refugees
  29 November 2017, by siawi3

  Returning Rohingya people to the hands of their persecutors not only violates international law, but raises fundamental questions about how the world protects those fleeing the most heinous crimes and abuses. The international community has long tolerated the cover-ups and excuses from the government of Myanmar. This time it needs to be different. Bangladesh should step up and provide refuge to those who have been seeking it for 25 years. Myanmar’s neighbouring states and allies should help properly resettle the hundreds of thousands of undocumented Rohingya who have fled Myanmar, and Myanmar itself should be held to account for the atrocities it commits. There’s no point saying “never again” unless action is taken.

• Murderous Majorities
  13 January 2018, by siawi3

  Majoritarianism—the claim that a nation’s political destiny should be determined by its religious or ethnic majority—is as old as the nation-state in South Asia; it was decolonization’s original sin. Majoritarian violence had become a shortcut to power throughout South Asia. / The one South Asian state that had formally resisted the temptation of majoritarianism until the 1980s was India. Founded as a constitutional republic in 1950, it treated its substantial Muslim minority (it has the third-largest Muslim population in the world) as full and equal citizens. Despite its being 80 percent Hindu, there was no formal sense in which India’s religious minorities were expected to assimilate into Hindu culture. But in the late 1970s and early 1980s, the political balance shifted following the Emergency: pogroms against Muslims in Assam in 1983 and against Sikhs in 1984 in Delhi and elsewhere; pogroms against Muslims in Mumbai in 1992-93 and in Gujarat in 2002./ Pakistan, whose population is almost entirely Muslim (97 percent), has targeted minority Muslim sects. Starting in 1974 it began a fifteen-year process of Islamicization, declaring members of the Ahmadi sect non-Muslims, passing blasphemy laws that were routinely used to persecute minorities, and patronizing fundamentalist Sunni organizations that were willing to commit acts of horrific violence against Shias. / Bangladesh, another Muslim-majority nation, has seen a decline in its Hindu population. While the Bangladeshi state under Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has become more secular, it remains a dangerous country for Hindus, tribal minorities, and atheists. / Myanmar remains at the vanguard of majoritarianism in South Asia, in its capacity to violently expel an ethnic minority, disenfranchise those who remain, and make the prejudices of Buddhist chauvinists into law. The ethnic cleansing of the Rohingya is a particularly vicious chapter in a long history of majoritarian nationalism in South Asia. Unless that history is acknowledged and its legacy contested, more tragedies lie in store.

• Concerned Citizens Call For Bangladesh To Respond in Support of ICC Prosecutor’s Submission on Rohingya Deportations
  1 June 2018, by siawi3

  Statement endorsed by 41 Bangladeshis concerned about the request from the Pre Trial Chamber 1 of the International Criminal Court requesting observations from the Government of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh.

• Canada : Enquête sur les femmes autochtones : le rapport dénonce un « génocide canadien »
  11 juin 2019, par siawi3

  Le génocide, selon les Nations unies, se manifeste notamment par le meurtre de membres du groupe visé ou l’atteinte grave à l’intégrité physique ou mentale des membres du groupe. « Comme de nombreux témoins l’ont exprimé, ce pays est en guerre et les femmes, les filles et les personnes 2ELGBTQQIA autochtones sont en état de siège »

• Myanmar: Authorities take responsibility for Rohingya massacre
  11 January 2018, by siawi3

  After numerous accounts of massacres emerged from survivors, human rights groups resorted to using commercial satellite imagery to look for evidence of violence.

• Armenia recognises genocide of Yazidis in Iraq
  16 January 2018, by siawi3

  Armenia’s parliament on Tuesday passed a resolution recognising the 2014 genocide of Yazidis by the Islamic State group in Iraq and called for an international probe into the crimes. Jihadists murdered thousands in massacres four years ago. Thousands of other women and girls were abducted and used as sex slaves. “With this resolution we not only recognise and condemn the genocide, we also call on the international community to lead an international investigation,” said Rustam Makhmudyan, the Yazidi deputy of a parliamentary human rights commission.

• Massacre in Myanmar
  10 February 2018, by siawi3

  During the reporting of this article, two Reuters journalists were arrested by Myanmar police. “Until now, accounts of the violence against the Rohingya in Rakhine state have been provided only by its victims. The Reuters reconstruction draws for the first time on interviews with Buddhist villagers who confessed to torching Rohingya homes, burying bodies and killing Muslims.”

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