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#Rohingya crisis: UN sees ‚ethnic cleansing‘ in Myanmar

 In 2016 a total of six Burmese military personnel visited the UK to undertake UK Government funded defence educational training courses. A further 13 Burmese military personnel visited the UK up to 14 July this year. 


We were first taken to a small school in Maungdaw, now crowded with displaced Hindu families. They all had the same story to tell of Muslims attacking, of fleeing in fear. Oddly, Hindus who have fled to Bangladesh all say they were attacked by local Rakhine Buddhists, because they resemble Rohingyas.
In the school we were accompanied by armed police and officials. Could they speak freely?

Rohingya refugees wait inside a truck as they arrive at Bangladesh border at Teknaf, Bangladesh, 9 September 2017

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Myanmar's State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi attends the funeral service for the National League for Democracy (NLD) party's former chairman Aung Shwe in Yangon on 17 August 2017.

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Belarus president Alexander Lukashenko

Debate on Rohingya crisis in British Parliament today:

Words fail me, so I will let the numbers speak: 270,000. men, women, children, and the elderly. Tragic.

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No direct pressure on Senior General Min Aung Hlaing, who commands the soldiers committing these violations.

If Rohingya sources are correct, the number killed are many more than in the Monk led uprising in Burma ten years ago this September. They also equal the lower estimates of the number killed in the 8.8.88 uprising.

In a debate on the crisis in Parliament on Tuesday 5 September the Foreign Office minister responsible for Burma, Rt Hon Mark Field MP, did not appear to know what was taking place or what the Foreign Secretary and Foreign Office have done in response.

The British government has not even issued a statement condemning Min Aung Hlaing and his military for the attacks against Rohingya civilians, including children. It continues to provide his military with free training.

The European Union External Action Service issued a statement on the crisis which did not even refer to Rohingya by name, so afraid are they of upsetting the Burmese government and military.

Britain and other countries proving the Burmese military with training or entering in co-operation programmes must stop doing so. Britain and the EU must stop companies supplying the military with any kind of equipment. Britain should work to build support for a global UN arms embargo.

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PRESS RELEASE: The World Uyghur Congress Remembers the Victims of #EnforcedDisappearance


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WE CONDEMN the expulsion of the UN anti-#corruption commissioner

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In Eastern Europe as well as in other European, Balkan and Middle Eastern Jewish communities, the advent of the month of Elul was greeted with a mixture of anticipation and trepidation. Both feelings were engendered by the fact that Elul immediately precedes Tishrei, the month that combines judgment and joyful holiday celebrations.

Our outcome report on #UPR Nat’l consultation is out!



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VOR ORT: Joc Ysselsteyn | „Get up, stand up – Menschenrechte für alle!

VOR ORT: Joc Ysselsteyn | „Get up, stand up – Menschenrechte für alle!

In der Jugendbegegnungsstätte (JBS) Ysselsteyn/Niederlande beschäftigen sich seit dem 9. August Jugendliche aus Deutschland und Weißrussland intensiv mit dem Thema Menschenrechte. Im Workshop mit Sjoerd Ewals konnten sie die neuen Einzelbiographie-Boxen ausprobieren, die Briefe, Fotos und andere persönliche Gegenstände aus dem Leben von Kriegsopfern enthalten, die auf der Kriegsgräberstätte Ysselsteyn ihre letzte Ruhestätte gefunden haben. Dabei konnten die Jugendlichen nachvollziehen, dass die Einschränkung von elementaren Grundrechten im Zweiten Weltkrieg und das Sterben zahlloser Menschen in unmittelbarem Zusammenhang stehen.

Zum Programm gehörte auch ein Workshop mit Amnesty International, der Besuch des Anne-Frank-Museums (Anne Frank House) in Amsterdam oder des Kriegsmuseums in Overloon (Oorlogsmuseum Overloon). In letzterem erfuhren die Jugendlichen mehr über die Geschichte der nationalsozialistischen Besatzung der Niederlande. Heute besuchen die Teilnehmer/innen den Internationalen Strafgerichtshof (International Criminal Court) in Den Haag und befassen sich im Humanity House mit den Themen Flucht und Fluchtursachen. Morgen findet eine Gedenkfeier auf der Kriegsgräberstätte Ysselsteyn (Ysselsteyn Deutscher Soldatenfriedhof) statt. Kooperationsspiele, Fahrradtouren und gemeinsames Kochen runden das Programm ab.

Mehr: www.jbs-ysselsteyn.de/angebot/neuigkeiten.html 
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“The serious decline in living conditions in Gaza continues” said Mr. Piper. “The humanitarian plight and the human rights of Gaza’s civilian population over half of them children – appear to have disappeared from view” he added. 

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Novel DNA technology applied at the Institute of Legal Medicine, Medical University of Innsbruck, Austria, yielded successful results in severely damaged Mexican remains.

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BENGAL RISING To be streamed LIVE on my #Facebook page TODAY


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I am sharing with all of you a video clipping of Independence Day celebration at Red Road, Kolkata held yesterday.

I am sorry that due to technical reasons it got delayed.

Hope that you would all enjoy watching the video.

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Stop harassment of civil society in #Cambodia now!

In the uncensored version of the documentary, a human trafficker is filmed explaining that passports of potential child brides are forged in Bangladesh and that “the trafficker will [then] pay money to clear [Malaysian] immigration.” In another scene that was subsequently censored, the Rohingya-refugee husband of a trafficked child-bride explains that Malaysian police routinely extort money from him during his daily commute to work, saying, “I pay the police 10 to 20 Ringgit all the time.”

The authorities also cut a scene from “Bou” showing Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak walking with other Government Ministers. The authorities verbally explained to Ms. Ramakrishnan that Prime Minister Najib had nothing to do with the subject of the film. Officials also verbally informed Ms. Ramakrishnan to cut an additional scene showing Ganesha, the Hindu elephant god.


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