War Crimes and Ethnic Cleansing Were Committed Against the Rohingya of Myanmar. They Deserve Justice. But How? Mark Leon Goldberg August 15, 2019 In August 2017, hundreds of thousands of ethnic Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar fled across the border to Bangladesh. The Rohingya are a minority population that have long faced discrimination by the Buddhist Burmese majority. In the summer of 2017, things got v...
Here’s Why the Security Council Should Not Refer Burmese Authorities to the International Criminal Court Mark Leon Goldberg August 30, 2018 Ed note. This is a special guest post from Mark Kersten, who is the Deputy Director of the Wayamo Foundation as well as a fellow and lecturer at the Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto, and the author of the blog Justice in Conflict. All opini...
Myanmar Armed Forces Blacklisted By UN For Committing Sexual Violence Against Rohingya Joanne Lu April 17, 2018 For the first time ever, the UN secretary-general is including Myanmar Armed Forces on an annual blacklist of groups that are “credibly suspected” of carrying out sexual violence during conflict. The report, presented Monday to the Security Council, says the ...
New Evidence Suggests that What’s Happening in Myanmar is no longer a “potential” genocide. It’s the real thing Kimberly Curtis October 17, 2017 A recent report by the UN Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights (OHCHR) details the brutal treatment of the Rohingya by the Myanmar military and armed gangs. More than half a million Rohingya have fled Myanmar for Bangladesh since clearance operation...
Bangladesh Wants to Deport Rohingya to a Remote and Uninhabitable Island Joanne Lu September 12, 2017 Bangladesh is forging ahead with a controversial plan to settle hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslim refugees from Myanmar on an isolated, undeveloped, flood-prone island in the Bay of Bengal. According to the latest estimates from U.N. officials, 313,000...
Video: This is what the Journey of 123,000 Fleeing Rohingya Refugees Looks Like Mark Leon Goldberg September 5, 2017 The Rohingya are a long discriminated against minority community that live primarily in Myanmar. They are religiously Muslim and an ethnic minority that has faced marginalization by the government and population of Myanmar. Over the years, hundreds of thousan...
PODCAST: New evidence of systematic sexual violence committed against Rohingya people in Myanmar Mark Leon Goldberg February 9, 2017 Crimes against humanity are ongoing in Burma and they are being committed by the state against the Rohingya people. This is a minority community in Burma that has historically faced intense discrimination, but there was some degree of hope that as the c...
Can Kofi Annan Bring Peace to a Troubled Region? Mark Leon Goldberg August 24, 2016 The former Secretary General is taking on a new challenge: bringing peace and reconciliation to a desolate, troubled corner of South East Asia. Rakhine State in Myanmar is a conflict prone region in the western part of the country that has seen widespread a...
Myanmar’s Historic Elections Alanna Shaikh, MPH November 9, 2015 Myanmar held its freest elections ever yesterday. Thirty million people were eligible to vote for a slate that include 91 different parties, but the main contest was between the ruling military party, Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP), and the Nati...
