French President Emmanuel Macron said attacks on Myanmar's Rohingya minority amounted to genocide.

[Banglar Bir]

Yunus Urges French President to address Rohingya Crisis
20TH SEPTEMBER, 2017

Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus exchanging greetings with President Emmanuel Macron of France. They had a meeting on the sidelines of the Summit to launch of the Global Pact for the Environment to which Professor Yunus was invited to by Presiden...
Yunus Centre Press Release (20 September, 2017)

Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus yesterday met French president Emmanuel Macron on the sidelines of UN meetings urged him to play an active role as permanent member of the UN Security Council to bring pressure on the Myanmar government to end the Rohingya crisis. They met after the Head of Government Climate Meeting at the United Nation Head Quarter in New York where Professor Yunus was personally invited by President Macron. Professor Yunus thanked President Macron for supporting Bangladesh in the Rohingya crisis and appealed to him to put full pressure on Myanmar to stop the ethnic cleansing and violence, return Rohingyas back to Myanmar and grant them full citizenship. Professor Yunus briefed Mr Macron about the terrible circumstances under which 400,000 Rohingya refugees mostly women and children have fled to Bangladesh in the past few weeks.

Mr Macron assured Professor Yunus that he is doing his best and would contunue to seek a solution. President Macron personally thanked Professor Yunus for successfully supporting the 2024 Paris Olympic Bid. Professor Yunus and President jointly made the presentation before the International Olympic committee in Lausanne for bringing Olympic to Paris. Paris has been chosen already for holding the Olympic 2024. It will be the first Social Business Olympic games in history in colaboration with Professor Yunus. He updated President Macron about the upcoming Global Social Business Summit scheduled to be held on Nov 6-7, 2017 in Paris and invited him again to address the summit. President Macron agreed to speak at the inauguration of the summit.

Earlier Professor Yunus spoke at the Forbes Philanthropy Forum which was also the centenary celebrations of Forbes magazine on the topic of ‘how to remove hurdles from women in participating in economic activities’. This occasion is being celebrated as the occasion to bring together 100 living greatest business minds at a gala. Professor Yunus is chosen as one of those 100 living greatest business minds in the world. He joined other greatest business minds headed by Warren Buffet.

Professor Yunus is currently in New York to attend high level meetings at the United Nations, a celebration of Grameen America's tenth anniversary and to participate at a book tour of his new book "A World of Three Zeros"
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[Banglar Bir]

France calls for UN action on Rohingya 'genocide'
President Emmanuel Macron says UN Security Council must condemn genocide, ethnic cleansing in Myanmar
September 21, 2017 Anadolu Agency

French President Emmanuel Macron
President Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday became the latest voice to brand the killing of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar as “genocide”.

“France will work with its partners at the UN Security Council to take the initiative to get the UN to condemn the continuing genocide and ethnic cleansing,” Macron said in an interview with French broadcaster TMC in New York.

In his first address to the UN General Assembly on Tuesday, Macron used the words “ethnic cleansing” to describe the mass killing of Rohingya in Myanmar’s western state of Rakhine.

“We must condemn the ethnic purification which is under way and act,” he added in his Wednesday interview.

Since Aug. 25, more than 421,000 Rohingya have crossed from Rakhine into Bangladesh, according to the UN.

The refugees are fleeing a fresh security operation in which security forces and Buddhist mobs have killed men, women and children, looted homes and torched Rohingya villages.

According to Bangladeshi Foreign Minister Abul Hasan Mahmood Ali, who has also termed the killings “genocide”, around 3,000 Rohingya have been killed in the crackdown.

Turkey has been at the forefront of providing aid to Rohingya refugees.

The Rohingya, described by the UN as the world's most persecuted people, have faced heightened fears of attack since dozens were killed in communal violence in 2012.

Last October, following attacks on border posts in Rakhine's Maungdaw district, security forces launched a five-month crackdown in which, according to Rohingya groups, around 400 people were killed.

The UN documented mass gang rapes, killings -- including of infants and young children -- brutal beatings, and disappearances committed by security personnel. In a report, UN investigators said such violations may have constituted crimes against humanity.
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[idune]

Yunus Urges French President to address Rohingya Crisis

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So its not indian stooge awami regime BUT Bangladeshi private citizens are doing the diplomacy.

 

[Banglar Bir]

@idune RAWami's are Indian puppets, and carries out policies as dictated by their masters, what's new in this, since SHW was placed in the throne by her masters, that's exactly how, for the last decade, each and every sphere of our Internal & External policies are being implemented.
Feel free to visit Bangladesh, talk to the common masses and witness with your own eyes to believe the truth.

 

[recon scout]

dhimmi macron should take them all in.

 

[TopCat]

dhimmi macron should take them all in.

That would be very convenient.. but we are going to make sure Burma take them all including 40,000 from India..

 

[recon scout]

That would be very convenient.. but we are going to make sure Burma take them all including 40,000 from India..

That would be an acceptable solution.

What happens in Burma should stay in Burma, neither India nor BD deserve this burden.

though aren't rohingya just bengali migrants anyway ?

maybe BD should just take them back, in a generation or so the young will have picked up the language etc, they'll mix right in with the majority islamic population.

 

[TopCat]

That would be an acceptable solution.

What happens in Burma should stay in Burma, neither India nor BD deserve this burden.

though aren't rohingya just bengali migrants anyway ?

maybe BD should just take them back, in a generation or so the young will have picked up the language etc, they'll mix right in with the majority islamic population.

Read history.. Arakan was always indic till 10th century when rakhine migrated from inner Burma.

 

[idune]

@idune RAWami's are Indian puppets, and carries out policies as dictated by their masters, what's new in this, since SHW was placed in the throne by her masters, that's exactly how, for the last decade, each and every sphere of our Internal & External policies are being implemented.
Feel free to visit Bangladesh, talk to the common masses and witness with your own eyes to believe the truth.

couldn't agree more. Actually I have done that recently.

 

[bluesky]

September 22, 2017 / LAST MODIFIED: 04:47 AM, September 22, 2017
It's genocide: French President Macron says
Calls on int'l community to act; British PM, Iran president for ending violence; Myanmar VP claims crisis easing

IN DESPERATION… A boy climbs onto a truck as aid is being distributed among Rohingya refugees in Cox's Bazar yesterday. Photo: Reuters

Agencies

French President Emmanuel Macron has termed the attacks on Myanmar's Rohingya minority as genocide and called on the international community to act to stop it.

France will work with other members of the UN Security Council for a condemnation of "this genocide which is unfolding, this ethnic cleansing", he said in an interview with the French TV channel TMC on Wednesday.

Macron's use of the word "genocide" marks his strongest verbal attack yet on the military drive against the Rohingya, which the UN sees as a “textbook example of ethnic cleansing,” reports AFP.

"We must condemn the ethnic purification which is under way and act," he said.

Meanwhile, Myanmar second vice president claimed that the crisis in violence-torn Rakhine state was easing.

"I am happy to inform you that the situation has improved," said Henry Van Thio, while addressing the UN General Assembly on Wednesday.

"Accordingly, we are concerned by reports that the numbers of Muslims crossing into Bangladesh remain unabated. We would need to find out the reason for this exodus," he said.

His remarks are even less likely than Suu Kyi's to mollify global concerns as he questioned, like Suu Kyi the day before, the reasons for the flight of some 4,22,000 Rohingyas to Bangladesh since late last month in the face of an army campaign that includes shooting innocent civilians, burning of villages and rape.

Van Thio also said there had been no clashes since September 5, a claim that has already been debunked by Western reporters on the grounds.

Smoke could be seen rising from at least two places in Myanmar as late as on Wednesday, a Reuters reporter in Bangladesh said. It was not known what was burning but rights groups say almost half of Rohingya villages in the region have been torched.

Like Suu Kyi, Van Thio did not use the term Rohingya, referring to them simply as Muslims. The Rohingya are widely reviled in the Buddhist-majority country.

Suu Kyi's stance has disheartened human rights groups who had campaigned for her freedom during the Nobel Peace Prize winner's 15 years under house arrest by a military junta.

The violence and the exodus of refugees has brought International condemnation and raised questions about the commitment of government leader Aung San Suu Kyi to human rights, and prospects for Myanmar's political and economic transition.

Meanwhile, Iran's President Hassan Rouhani told a news conference in New York on Wednesday that "the government [Myanmar] should be pressured to end this ethnic cleansing."

In her speech to the UN General Assembly the same day, British Prime Minister Theresa May urged the Myanmar authorities to end the violence and allow full humanitarian aid access.

Britain sent back five Myanmar army officers from a training session this week, "on account of the current situation in Rakhine", Myanmar's army said on Facebook late on Wednesday.

The move comes amid a mounting diplomatic spat between the two countries, with Britain saying on Wednesday it had suspended all educational training courses for the Myanmar military over concerns of rights abuses in Rakhine state.

Meanwhile, UK All Party Parliamentary Groups Chair Anne Main, who is visiting Bangladesh, yesterday said Myanmar was committing “ethnic cleansing” in Rakhine, reports our staff correspondent.

“I have no doubt that this is ethnic cleansing,” she told journalists at state guesthouse Padma in the capital.

The ruling Conservative Party lawmaker led a UK parliamentary delegation in a two-day visit to Rohingya camps in Cox's Bazar in the last two days.

“We have seen and heard horrific things from people in camp,” she said.

Paul Scully, also a ruling Conservative Party lawmaker, said the ongoing crisis in Myanmar needed to be stopped immediately through international efforts.

 

[ManUNITEDglory]

Can it really be called a genocide when a government forcibly removes illegal migrants with terrorist connections?

They are not illegal immigrants. They are ancestral to Arakan long before the Burmese tribes invaded.

 

[monitor]

Are the Rohingya Facing Genocide?
A single word; the most heinous of crimes.

By George Wright
September 19, 2017


Teenagers executed with rifles. Babies drowned in rivers. Hundreds of thousands fleeing to squalid refugee camps in Bangladesh as their villages were set ablaze by soldiers and Buddhist militias.

The horror stories streaming from the mouths of Rohingya Muslims fleeing Myanmar’s Rakhine State, as the country’s armed forces launch a brutal offensive in response to militant attacks on August 25, has resulted in widespread condemnation over the treatment of what many call the most persecuted minority on the planet.

While a top UN official recently called the treatment of the Rohingya a “textbook example” of ethnic cleansing, some, including the Bangladeshi foreign minister, have taken it a step further by accusing the Myanmar government of committing what has been coined the “crime of all crimes.”

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“The international community is saying it is a genocide. We also say it is a genocide,” Abul Hassan Mahmood Ali told reporters in Dhaka on September 10.

Ethnic cleansing has never been recognized as an independent crime under international law, meaning there is no exact definition and has resulted in the term being used liberally by politicians and journalists. In popular discourse, ethnic cleansing is generally defined as using violence or terror to disperse a group in order to make an area ethnically homogeneous.

The UN’s Genocide Convention, however, legally defines genocide as “acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group.”

Those acts listed under the convention include killing members of the group, causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group, and “deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part.”

Alicia de la Cour Venning, a researcher at the International State Crime Initiative (ISCI), who has studied the treatment of the Rohingya extensively, said a genocidal practice was being enacted in Myanmar and that genocide should be seen as a protracted process, rather than the sole focus being on acts of mass murder.

“Our research reveals that the historic and current conditions of persecution against the Rohingya minority have developed into genocidal practice,” de la Cour Venning said.

The Rohingya have been subject to stigmatization, harassment, isolation, and systematic weakening, the lawyer said, which are four of the six stages of genocide, according to a model devised by Daniel Feierstein, president of the International Association of Genocide Scholars.

The remaining two are extermination and symbolic enactment, which is the reconstruction of a new society in which the victims of genocide are physically and symbolically “gone.”

“Understanding genocide as a process, which takes place over years, even decades, allows us to identify genocidal processes in motion, enabling us to step in to prevent escalating violence, including mass killings, which is just one part of the genocidal process, which begins with stigmatization and dehumanization of the target group,” she said.

“Until genocide is understood in this way, rather than solely as mass killings, which is just one component of the genocidal process, we will be unable to prevent this form of violence whilst in motion,” she said.

Although the Rohingya have faced persecution for generations, many trace the source of the escalated oppression in recent decades back to a 1982 law that refused to recognize them as one of the 135 “national races” of Myanmar. This has only intensified in recent years as members of government have denied the existence of any ethnic group named “Rohingya,” referring to them as illegal “Bengali” immigrants.

“Once we take into consideration the Myanmar government’s systematically oppressive policies and practices in regards to the Rohingya from the 1980s onwards, a very clear picture emerges of intent to eradicate this group,” she added.

Thomas MacManus, a researcher at Queen Mary University of London who authored an ISCI report “Countdown to Annihilation: Genocide in Myanmar” with de la Cour Venning and scholar Penny Green in 2015, said that the recent atrocities illustrated “the latest phase in the genocide of the Rohingya.”

“The stages don’t always happen in such a clear cut, step by step, way and often repeat and overlap and what I was saying is that we have entered a ‘new’ phase since August,” MacManus said.

“I would say that ‘systematic weakening’ is well under way and that we now need to start investigating whether ‘annihilation’ has begun in earnest.”

Myanmar’s de-facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi — who was a darling of the West during her years under house arrest at the hands of the military junta — has come under hitherto unheard of international scrutiny for her silence over the atrocities being committed in Rakhine. Many have called for her Nobel Peace Prize to be revoked, claiming her refusal to speak out is giving the green light to the most heinous of crimes.

“Aung San Suu Kyi will play a major role in blocking recognition of the Rohingya genocide. Diplomats worked for years to get her freed. They idealized her until she got a Nobel Peace Prize,” said Gregory Stanton, president of Genocide Watch.

“Now they are portraying her as having no power to stop the genocide. In fact her only power is moral, yet she won’t use it.”

Despite increased calls from academics to label the atrocities in Rakhine as genocide, Phil Robertson, deputy Asia director of Human Rights Watch (HRW), said he did not believe there was enough evidence available to prove genocidalintent on the part of the military — a requirement under international law.

“Not yet, but that doesn’t preclude that there might be at some point in the future, if more evidence can be collected about the intent of the Burmese government and Tatmadaw,” Robertson said, using the official name of the armed forces of Myanmar.

“There is a clear legal standard that needs to be met under the Genocide Convention and in our view, we would need to be able to get on the ground in Rakhine state to investigate in order to make that kind of determination, and ideally be able to uncover some government documents that lays out their plans.”

In comparison, Robertson cited the mobilization of militias, the use of government radio and speeches of Rwandan leaders in 1994 as an example of an “abundantly clear” genocidal intent against the Tutsi minority.

Robertson said he actually felt that efforts to tout the term genocide by some of the exiled Rohingya community and human rights activists could have had a detrimental effect on advocacy efforts.

“It’s not that simple by a long shot, and there are some strong arguments that by over-claiming without adequate evidence, the exiled Rohingya community has hurt its credibility with precisely those governments that they need to get on board if international justice for the Rohingya is going to be obtained,” he said.

However, HRW has accused the Myanmar authorities and Buddhist militias of committing crimes against humanity in a campaign of ethnic cleansing against the Rohingya in 2012, and Robertson accused the international community of having “no strong interest” in addressing accountability for those atrocities.

While agreeing that the requirement to prove genocidal intent makes it far more complex in comparison to crimes against humanity, which simply requires that the acts be committed in a widespread or systematic way, mass atrocity scholar Kate Cronin-Furman said there were grounds to “accuse Burma of genocide.”

The reluctance on the part of the international community to call it such was due to a belief that it would then require action, she argued, when in fact the Genocide Convention imposes no obligation for intervention to stop a genocide.

Member states of the United Nations do, however, have an obligation through its endorsement of the “responsibility to protect,” a global political commitment which was agreed on at the 2005 World Summit to prevent genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity, Cronin-Furman pointed out.

“Someday, it may be an international prosecutor’s job to decide whether to charge members of the Burmese military or civilian leadership with genocide. For now though, it doesn’t really matter whether they’re acting with genocidal intent,” she said.

“What matters is that the Rohingya are being slaughtered, raped, and burned out of their homes in huge numbers, all while the world watches.”

George Wright is a freelance journalist based in Phnom Penh.

 

[war&peace]

Every Western country seems to be condemning Myanmar. However it's highly doubtful anything of significance will be achieved. Does anyone know what Russia's response to the matter is?

Good riddance from the false flagger brown chapati.

 

[Super Falcon]

Only bla bla but do nothing