Why the Rohingya case at the ICJ matters to everyone in Burma
By Tun Khin | Published by Mizzima on Feb 3, 2025 Last month, for the first time, representatives of the Burmese military had to answer for their actions in an international court, after decades of breaking international law with total impunity. For anyone who supports democracy and opposes military rule,…
Eight years after genocide, the Rohingya remain abandoned to starvation and silence
By Tun Khin Once promised protection and justice, the Rohingya now face a collapsing refugee response in Bangladesh, deliberate starvation in Myanmar, and abandonment by the international community. [caption id="attachment_1495" align="aligncenter" width="1024"] More than a million Rohingya refugees remain trapped in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh (AP).[/caption] In August of 2017, the…
The Rohingya Tragedy: Eight Years of Suffering and the Call for Justice
By Maung Emdadul Hasan On the twenty-fifth of August, we pause to remember a sorrowful chapter in human history. Eight years ago, the sun rose over the verdant plains of Rakhine/Arakan State, Myanmar, only to witness the eruption of unspeakable cruelty. The Myanmar military, in a campaign of relentless violence,…
Unity in Diversity in the Context of Rohingya
By Khairul Amin 1. Introduction The Rohingya are not strangers in Arakan but we are its first children, in its living memory. Yet, for decades, we have been hunted in our own homeland, stripped of our citizenship, driven from our villages, slaughtered in the name of an ideology that seeks…
