It's that time of the year again when we start preparing for #Black4Rohingya we hope you will spread the word and join us on 13 June by wearing black and sharing your photos and messages of support on social media using the hashtag #Black4Rohingya
NEW: @hrw documents the Arakan Army massacre of Rohingya Muslims in Hoyyar Siri, Myanmar.
"Skeletons and Skulls Scattered Everywhere."
Satellite evidence. Survivor testimony. Skeletal remains in open water.
Zero accountability.
Full report → https://t.co/bsqnemdGRF
What does accountability look like when the perpetrators control the territory? →
#RohingyaGenocide #Myanmar
The Human Rights Commission of Malaysia condemns escalating hate speech and online attacks targeting Rohingya refugees in Malaysia.
The commission “urges Malaysians to reject hatred and dehumanisation in all forms and to reaffirm our shared commitment to compassion, justice, and the protection of human dignity.”
https://t.co/9MvaFPacsr
Junta is once again trying to launder its image—using the same playbook as previous military rulers.
China, Russia, India, & Belarus must stop legitimizing it through pol support, weapons, & financial assistance.
Profits over MMR ppl's lives must end.✅
https://t.co/4jUDTL2SK5
Ko Tinmaung Detained in Canada
Why is a Canada-based Rohingya humanitarian activist, freshly released from Israeli detention and alleging torture and racist abuse, reportedly being held again on arrival in Canada? Was he formally detained? If so, on what grounds? Was he questioned? For how long? Was he denied access to family and friends? Was he offered medical care?
These are not procedural questions. They go to the heart of how Canada treats those who stand in solidarity with Palestinians.
Ko Tinmaung returned with allegations of beatings, tasering, sexualised humiliation, racist abuse and denial of medical care. A state that takes such testimony seriously would receive him as someone who requires protection, documentation, medical attention, and support. It would not compound the trauma by arresting him upon landing.
Canada cannot present itself as a defender of human rights abroad while treating a returning humanitarian activist as a problem to be managed at the airport.
Ko Tinmaung did not go to Gaza as an armed actor. He joined a civilian mission to challenge a blockade and deliver aid. He came back with wounds and testimony. The least Canada owes him is care, transparency and accountability.
Turkish Foreign Minister @HakanFidan said Türkiye is working in coordination with neighboring countries and international organizations to achieve a permanent and just solution to the Rohingya crisis.
We, the Rohingya deeply appreciate Türkiye's relentless efforts and unwavering support for our community over many decades..
Speaking at a joint press conference with Ban.gladeshi Foreign Minister Khalilur Rahman in Dhaka, Fidan also said Türkiye is striving to keep the issue on the international agenda https://t.co/BA0zyeA8Xq
The NUG & its allies do not ask #India to break relations w/ Naypyidaw.
But the reality is that the actors able to deliver practical results on border security, counter-narcotics, & infrastructure protection increasingly sit within #Myanmar's resistance.
https://t.co/IvlmYszdEK
So far 195,000 people in #Malaysia have signed a petition to “remove” Rohingya.
https://t.co/ZADcWlqIsQ
Razia Sultana’s response is devastating. For Rohingya, “removal” is not policy language. It means burned villages, pushbacks, trafficking camps & Wang Kelian graves. Stop dressing racism up as governance.
Humanitarian funding cuts are threatening basic food rations for more than 1.2 million #Rohingya genocide survivors in refugee camps in Bangladesh.
These are genocide survivors who fled #Myanmar for their lives. Nearly a decade later they remain in refugee camps because the brutal persecution and denial of rights that drove them from their land have not ended.
For families who survived genocide and lost everything these cuts threaten the most basic conditions for survival.
The international community has a responsibility not only to recognise genocide but to protect those who survived it. If donors are tired of a crisis that remains unresolved they should consider what Rohingya have endured through decades of persecution genocide and displacement.
Governments must urgently restore funding protect Rohingya civilians and pursue accountability for the #MyanmarMilitary, the #ArakanArmy and all those responsible for atrocity crimes.
https://t.co/fS6UgAoT5q,
#WhatsHappeningInMyanmar #RohingyaGenocide
Junta continues to starve #Myanmar ppl by airstrikes, burning villages, & attacking the livelihoods.🚨
Yet @SecLazaro & @ASEAN failed to confront junta’s weaponization of aid & continue to engage with illegal junta.
Stop lending legitimacy to criminals.
https://t.co/4jUDTL2SK5
Malaysia to grant status to Rohingya asylum seekers, address labour shortages. But citizenship is not offered and the measures has been sparking controversy. https://t.co/IsgkTE3Rvl
The United Nations resident and humanitarian coordinator ad interim in Myanmar reflects on her first months in the country and what is needed to support the people amid conflict and a multifaceted crisis. https://t.co/ddPM0mR4Zj
https://t.co/ZqNhxgSgAi
A recent piece in The Diplomat by Rajeev Bhattacharyya attempts to rewrite the history of the horrific Htan Shauk Khan massacre in Myanmar. Where HRW uncovered a systematic slaughter of 170+ Rohingya civilians, this piece offers a shocking masterclass in laundering Arakan Army propaganda.
Bhattacharyya bases his entire piece on a pittance of a sample size - just three residents - interviewed smack in the middle of territory tightly controlled by the alleged perpetrators, the Arakan Army (AA). Expecting monitored civilians to speak freely under an armed group is laughably naive.
Worst of all, he poses for a photo with them. This is an absolute schoolboy error that breaches basic safety. It transforms the journo from an investigator into a prop for the AA’s choreography. My full critique:
"ASEAN is being systematically deceived & manipulated by the junta & choosing, repeatedly, not to notice.
If #ASEAN cannot stop the junta’s violence & save our people’s lives, the least it can do now is stop lending it legitimacy & get out of the way."
https://t.co/08uVz6ZOxA