#rohingya genocide

[queer-scots-geordie-dyke]

Newcastle unveils Rohingya memorial as 'powerful' reminder of Myanmar atrocities

A new stone has been erected in Newcastle Civic Centre's Peace Garden to remember the victims of the atrocities committed against Myanmar’s

Always proud of my city ❤️

[stele3]

I’ve seen some people say that the charges of genocide being leveled against Israel are antisemitic because other states have done worse and not been accused of genocide…and you know, they’re not wrong.

Remember that rumor that Israeli forces were kidnapping Palestinian children to raise as Israeli? It wasn’t true, but Russia has been doing that to Ukrainian children for 3 years.

Overview of Yale HRL investigations into Russia’s deportation, re-education, and placement of Ukraine’s children.

The response here should not be to double down on calling Israel unique in committing genocide — it should be to acknowledge that Russia and other entities are committing genocide and pursue them with the same intensity. Hell, China has been carrying out genocide against Uyghur Muslim minorities for over a decade now, and it barely gets mentioned. Or we could talk about how the United Arab Emirates, another U.S. ally, is fueling genocide of the Masalit tribe in Sudan, led by Arab-majority forces. Or we could talk about how both sides of the civil war in Myanmar are targeting Rohingya Muslims.

Israel is committing genocide. And so is Russia, and China, and the UAE, and Myanmar. If one is evil in your eyes, they all should be.

[esmemarion]

I've been really angry and drained from the state of the world at the moment, so I felt the need to draw something that spelt out my desire for peace. Spread awareness for all of this.

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Trump Is Sending Myanmar Nationals to ‘Prisons, Torture, and Death’ by Ending Their Protected Status

Human rights groups slammed DHS’s decision to end TPS for nearly 4,000 Myanmar nationals, as the country continues to face a brutal military

Minnah Arshad at Zeteo:

The Trump administration this week revealed its latest target in its crackdown on temporary asylum: Myanmar nationals fleeing a bloody civil war, a brutal military dictatorship, and a worsening humanitarian crisis. The Department of Homeland Security announced on Monday that it was ending Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for nearly 4,000 citizens of Myanmar who are currently in the US – a move human rights groups slammed as dangerous and inconsistent with the reality on the ground. “Homeland Secretary Kirsti Noem is treating those people just like her family’s dog that she famously shot down in cold blood because it misbehaved,” said Phil Robertson, the director of Asian Human Rights and Labour Advocates. “If her order is carried out, she will literally be sending them back to prisons, brutal torture, and death in Myanmar.”

The TPS designation allows people from listed countries to stay and work in the US if it’s unsafe for them to return to their home country due to a war, natural disaster, or other conflict.

In its notice, DHS acknowledged that Myanmar continues to face “humanitarian challenges,” but attempted to justify its decision to end the TPS designation, which will take effect on Jan. 26, by claiming there have “been improvements in [Myanmar’s] governance and stability at the national and local levels.” It cited the junta’s revocation of the state of emergency this year and the country’s upcoming elections.

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Myanmar is ranked second for conflict intensity after Palestine by the global conflict monitor ACLED. Nearly 20 million people need humanitarian assistance in Myanmar, according to the UN. Myanmar’s ongoing civil war that erupted in 2021 has killed thousands of people and displaced 3 million others. The death toll varies greatly, but the ACLED estimates up to 90,000 fatalities.

The Arakan Army, which is warring against the Myanmar military and represents the Rakhine ethnic majority, is accused by international human rights groups of serious abuses against Rohingya, the predominantly Muslim ethnic minority, including executions, torture, forced labor, and large-scale arson. The Myanmar military has also been accused of airstrikes on homes, schools, and hospitals, as well as executions and systematic torture in detention facilities.

Ending TPS for Myanmar (Burma) nationals is reckless by the Trump Regime.

[sunflowerslut]

I feel like collectively the world has decided to forget the Rohingya genocide of 2016. Tens of thousands of Muslims killed and hundreds of thousands were displaced and still are. Mass rapes of women, young and old, often occurred and purposefully in front of their families and communities, with many dying from injuries or being abducted by the military junta as sex slaves. Families were burned alive in their homes. But because the Junta and majority population in Myanmar are Bhuddist, western folks have this insane perspective that bhuddists are incapable of violence on that scale. Not to mention Facebook's indisputable involvement in providing a perfect online space to spread misinformation and racial intolerance more or less completely unmoderated within the country.

Any religious group, no matter how "peaceful" their doctrine and practices, requires the presence of an outside enemy, a group who can be imagined as fundamentally evil and/or incapable of inclusion in the in group; including Bhuddism! which westerners tend to hold on a pedestal of antiviolence. Acknowledging that any majority religious group, regardless of their doctrines, relies on various forms of violence to stay a dominant power in society, for the benefit of the most powerful and wealthy, is imperative in moving forward to understand that religion is more about power than whatever its specific belief system.

9 years after the start of the Rohingya genocide, Muslims are still not protected under the same laws as Bhuddists in the country, and Rohingya people are still not considered citizens under the military junta and remain mostly in refugee camps close to the border of Nepal.

[dougielombax]

Myanmar: Top UN court begins hearings in Rohingya genocide case

The Gambia accuses Myanmar's leadership of carrying out "brutal and vicious violations" against the Muslim minority group.

Just leaving this here.

[8murasakibara]

[boredoutofmymind1]

Why do people care more about Palestinians than the Rohingya people?

They don't. Every single person suffering under a genocide deserves support and help. I believe the genocide currently being commited by Israel has such a large presence in the news and internet right now that people's attention is more focused on it as of now. This does not in any way, shape or form mean that the Rohingya deserve less support or care from those capable of helping. All I can say is that we need to educate ourselves to the best of out abilities and do anything within our capabilities to help, even if that may not be much, due to the fact that we are only singular people and not the government.