{"id":42221,"date":"2014-05-05T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-05-05T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=42221"},"modified":"2015-05-05T21:35:03","modified_gmt":"2015-05-05T20:35:03","slug":"myanmars-genocide-of-rohingya-must-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2014\/05\/myanmars-genocide-of-rohingya-must-end\/","title":{"rendered":"Myanmar’s Genocide of Rohingya Must End"},"content":{"rendered":"

28 April 2014<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

What is really going on in Myanmar\/Burma beyond tourist brochures, media spin and official reform hype?<\/p>\n

Unspeakable crimes are being carried out against innocent humans: children, women and men by the country\u2019s government and racist extremists.<\/p>\n

Myanmar\u2019s Muslim Rohingya (of whom there are more than 1 million inside the country and another million around the world) have been singled out for systematic destruction.<\/p>\n

Successive governments, for decades, have institutionalized a system of apartheid against these people. Kept in concentration camp-like conditions and ghettoized neighborhoods, Rohingya are not permitted freedom of movement.<\/p>\n

Every aspect of their lives, including marriage, childbirth and ability to work, is severely restricted. \u00a0Their right to identity and citizenship is officially denied; in other words, they are not recognized as humans before the law. \u00a0The Myanmar government even denies humanitarian agencies \u00a0unfettered access to nearly 200,000 Rohingya in the camps.<\/p>\n

Rohingya are profoundly vulnerable to all forms of oppression and atrocities.<\/p>\n

As a nation, Myanmar is committing numerous crimes including systematic persecution and discrimination, crimes against humanity, ethnic cleansing, and genocide.<\/p>\n

Of the country\u2019s ethnic groups, only Rohingya are subjected to a policy of compulsory birth and marriage control because of their ethnicity.<\/p>\n

As a matter of national policy, Myanmar is:<\/strong><\/p>\n

DENYING<\/strong> Rohingya legal existence, and right to nationality; access to medicine, food, and other basic necessities to sustain life; and
\n<\/em><\/p>\n

DESIGNING<\/strong> extensive structures of discrimination, genocidal hatred and popular violence that amount to the extermination of Rohingya as an ethnic group. Thereby, both the government and racist extremists, are
\n<\/em><\/p>\n

DESTROYING<\/strong> an entire people with impunity and popular consent. Myanmar\u2019s official deeds speak volumes about its intent to destroy Rohingya as an ethnic group.<\/em><\/p>\n

We call on everyone: in governments, in the streets and fields around the world to stop the destruction of Myanmar\u2019s Rohingya.<\/em><\/p>\n

This is<\/em> genocide.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The following organizations and concerned citizens have endorsed this global call:<\/strong><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Non-Rohingya Organizations:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

International State Crime Initiative (ISCI), King\u2019s College, University of London<\/p>\n

The Sentinel Project for Genocide Prevention, Canada<\/p>\n

Global Campaign for the Rwandans Human Rights<\/p>\n

London Centre for Social Impact<\/p>\n

Justice for All, USA<\/p>\n

Burma Task Force USA<\/p>\n

Burmese Welfare Association, USA<\/p>\n

Burmese American Muslim Association<\/p>\n

Myanmar Muslim Association in Thailand<\/p>\n

Myanmar Muslim Youth \u2013 Malaysia<\/p>\n

Myanmar Muslim Civil Rights Movement<\/p>\n

Dignity International endorses<\/p>\n

Pax Romana ICMICA<\/p>\n

International Movement for a Just World (JUST)<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Concerned Global Citizens:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Prudentienne Seward, a survivor of Rwandan genocide against Tutsi and founder \u00a0of PAX –\u00a0Peace for the African Great Lakes<\/p>\n

Rene Claudel Mugenzi, Rwanda genocide Survivor, founder of Global Campaign for Rwandas Human Rights<\/p>\n

Sai Latt, Burmese scholar and writer, Simon Frazer University, Canada<\/p>\n

Ko Aung, former Burmese political prisoner and activist, London, UK<\/p>\n

Soe Aung, Burmese human rights activist, Bangkok Thailand<\/p>\n

Dr Kyi May Kaung, Burmese writer, scholar and artist, Washington, DC, USA<\/p>\n

Dr Zarni, Burmese scholar and activist, University of Malaya and London School of Economics<\/p>\n

Youk Chhang, Executive Director, The Documentation Center of Cambodia<\/p>\n

Ambassador Muhamed Sacirbey, Rome Conference\/ICC Signatory, ICTY Witness on Genocide & Former Foreign Minister – Bosnia & herzegovina<\/p>\n

Daniel Feierstein, President of the International Association of Genocide Scholars & Professor in the Faculty of Genocide Studies, the University of Buenos Aires<\/p>\n

Veronica Pedrosa, journalist and TV presenter<\/p>\n

Noam Chomsky, Institute Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology<\/p>\n

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, University Professor in Humanities, Columbia University & founding member of Post-Colonial Studies, USA<\/p>\n

Barbara Harrell-Bond, OBE, Dir,\u00a0Fahamu Refugee Center; founding director, Refugees Studies Center;\u00a0Emeritus Professor,\u00a0Oxford University, UK<\/p>\n

Mary Kaldor, CBE, Professor of Global Governance and Director, Civil Society and Human Security Research Unit, London School of Economics, UK<\/p>\n

Dr Helen Jarvis, Genocide Studies Researcher and co-author of \u201cGetting Away with Genocide: Elusive justice and the Khmer Rouge tribunal”<\/p>\n

Imam Abdul Malik Mujahid, Parliament of World’s Religions (for identifications only), USA<\/p>\n

Penny Green, Professor of Law and Criminology & Director of the International State Crime Initiative (ISCI), King\u2019s College, University of London<\/p>\n

Dr Hassan Saeed Elmogummer Taha, human rights activist, Qatar<\/p>\n

Alex Caring-Lobel, Associate Editor,\u00a0Tricycle: The Buddhist Review<\/em>, USA<\/p>\n

Antara Dev Sen, Editor, The Little Magazine, India<\/p>\n

Mohanad Hage Ali, Journalist, Lebanon<\/p>\n

Dr Sabina Alkire, Dir. Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford, UK<\/p>\n

Bridget Anderson, Professor and Deputy Director Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS), University of Oxford, UK<\/p>\n

Prof. Johan Galtung, dr hc mult, founder, TRANSCEND International<\/p>\n

Barbara Harriss-White, Emeritus Professor of Development Studies and Founder-Director of Contemporary South Asian Studies, University of Oxford, UK<\/p>\n

Geoff Whitty, Former Director, Institute of Education, University of London, UK<\/p>\n

Michael W. Apple, John Bascom Professor of Curriculum and Instruction and Professor of Educational Policy Studies, University of Wisconsin at Madison, USA<\/p>\n

James C. Scott, Sterling Professor of Political Science and Professor of Anthropology, Yale University, USA<\/p>\n

Jack Healey, Executive Director, Human Rights Action Center, Washington (and former Executive Dir. Amnesty International\/USA)<\/p>\n

Antonio Carlos da Silva Rosa, M.A., Editor, TRANSCEND Media Service-TMS, Brazil<\/p>\n

William Nicholas Gomes, Human Rights Ambassador for Salem-News.com, UK<\/p>\n

Roland Watson, Dictator Watch, Thailand<\/p>\n

Francis Wade, Journalist, Thailand<\/p>\n

Dr Nancy Hudson-Rodd, School of Land and Food, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia<\/p>\n

Michael Ratna, Sri Lanka<\/p>\n

Chandra Muzaffar, President, JUST, Kualar Lumpur, Malaysia<\/p>\n

Darwis Khudori, Indonesian academic, France<\/p>\n

Arash Sedighi, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London<\/p>\n

Dr Laleh Khalili, SOAS, London<\/p>\n

Dr Rahul Rao, SOAS, London<\/p>\n

Dr Samantha Langsdale, SOAS, London<\/p>\n

Dr Ashraf Hoque, University College\u00a0London (UCL)<\/p>\n

Dr (Medical doctor) Mohsin Badat, UK<\/p>\n

Dr. James Abdulaziz Brown, UK<\/p>\n

Dr. Jonathan Saha, University of Bristol<\/p>\n

Sophie Ansel, Journalist & Writer, France<\/p>\n

Lynn Lee, Film Maker, Singapore<\/p>\n

James Leong, Film Maker, Singapore<\/p>\n

Dr Syed Farid Alatas, National University of Singapore<\/p>\n

Dr Matt Phillips, University of Aberystwyth, Wales, UK<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Rohingya Organizations Worldwide:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Arakan Historical Society<\/p>\n

Arakan Rohingya National Organization<\/p>\n

Burmese Rohingya Organisation UK<\/p>\n

Burmese Rohingya Community in Australia (BRCA)<\/p>\n

Burmese Rohingya Association (BRA), UAE<\/p>\n

Burmese Rohingya Community Netherlands<\/p>\n

Burmese Rohingya Community in Denmark (BRCD)<\/p>\n

Burmese Rohingya Association Deutschland<\/p>\n

Canadian Burmese Rohingya Organization (CBRO)<\/p>\n

European Rohingya Council<\/p>\n

Rohingya Arakanese Refugee Committee, Malaysia<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Unspeakable crimes are being carried out against innocent humans: children, women and men by the country\u2019s government and racist extremists. Myanmar\u2019s Muslim Rohingya (of whom there are more than 1 million inside the country and another million around the world) have been singled out for systematic destruction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-analysis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42221\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}