American Political Opportunism and the Long Overdue Rohingya Genocide Determination
Myanmar is a signatory to the interstate treaty Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (CPPCG) or Genocide Convention.
The Hindutva War on Christians in India
These radicals have deliberately engineered a “hate storm,” and it’s without coincidence that a wave of attacks were carried out against Christians days after Hindutva hate preachers at the Dharma Sansad (Hindu convention) in mid-December vowed to “kill and die” for a Hindu nation, and “be ready to kill and go to jail,” while others urged Indian security forces to mimic the Myanmar military’s crackdown against Rohingya Muslims.
The Search for a Third Way: The Non-Aligned Movement, G77, and NIEO
Similarly, the unabashedly autocratic and repressive policies of some member states, including massacres and systematic executions of ethnoreligious minorities and/or opposition groups in Egypt, Iran, Myanmar, Syria, and Venezuela, among others, contradict the principles of justice, fairness, and equality that they espouse at the international level.
It’s Time for the United States to Join the New Silk Road
Many of China’s showcase projects have been stymied or revamped in the face of well-organized protests from myriad local groups—tribes in Pakistan, fishermen in Indonesia, miners in Zambia, farmers in Myanmar, urban youth in Nigeria, shopkeepers in Iran, engineers in Mexico, and many others.
US-Indonesia Maritime Collaboration in the South China Sea: Harbinger of an Expanded Quad-Plus?
-led amphibious assault - the only air and naval bases that China has been able to acquire in the Indian Ocean region are in Djibouti, and in Great Coco Island, Myanmar.
Will the United States Contain Russia or China, or Both?
application of more diplomatic, security, and economic resources to Southeast Asia, in part to undermine China's growing influence, China has stepped up efforts to strengthen ties with ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) countries, especially Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Indonesia, and Malaysia.
The Great Turan: Russia’s Concerns about Turkey’s Growing Reputation in Caucasus and Central Asia
Read: Why Russia and China Protect Myanmar’s Military Regime
Russian elites are concerned that in the case of internal crises, these sentiments (separatism/secessionism) could recur, now under the banner of pan-Turkic ideology.
Radicalization and Religion: How It Happens?
The ongoing radicalization of Buddhism in Myanmar or Hinduism in India are highlighting that shift to radicalism that can affect all traditions, not to mention the rise of global Orthodoxy that pursues international projects in contradiction with the international order.
From Afghanistan to Palestine: ICC Tackles Politically Charged Cases
Myanmar officials, for example, may find themselves indicted for the treatment of members of Myanmar’s Rohingya population.
Genocide as a Label of Choice: Why Some Genocides Are More Equal Than Others
Read: Genocide on Trial: The Rohingya Plight and Gambia’s Moral Foreign PolicyAll of this may also expound the outright neglect of ongoing genocides (currently the Uyghurs in China and Rohingyas in Myanmar) because tackling them more directly wouldn’t benefit the interests of the Great White-Northern Powers.
Can Muslims Reclaim a Unified Political Bloc on the International Stage?
A number of Muslim countries in Southeast Asia have pushed back boats of Rohingya refugees fleeing Myanmar.
Genocide on Trial: The Rohingya Plight and Gambia’s Moral Foreign Policy
On Tuesday, the 10th and Wednesday 11th December, lawyers and legal experts representing Gambia and Myanmar made their presentations before the court with varying degrees of persuasion.
Rohingya Refugees say ‘No’ to Repatriation: Is Turkish Aid the Reason?
But after the 1982 Myanmar Citizenship Law was passed, which denied citizenship to the Rohingya even refusing to use the name “Rohingya”, instead referring to them “Bengali”, an irregular Rohingya diaspora began to grow.
European Neo-Nazis have Missiles. What’s Next?
“The Movement,” Steve Bannon’s Brussels based “political vehicle” is dispersing and sprinkling hatred and violence across continental Europe– and far beyond; including in far places like India and Myanmar.
Changes in Indonesian Foreign Policy After the Elections
As observed in the case of the persecution and ethnic cleansing of Rohingya Muslims, just like other regional countries, Indonesia was not able to take any firm stand against Myanmar.
Pope Francis’s failure to say the word “Rohingya”
he leader of the Roman Catholic church Pope Francis visited Myanmar, the majority-Buddhist country that the US, UN and UK has accused of “ethnic cleansing” against its Muslim Rohingya people.
Love Army calls President Erdogan to help Rohingya Muslims
First lady Emine Erdogan had visited the Rohingya Muslims who fled the Myanmar genocide and took refuge in Bangladesh and distributed the most urgent nutrition, medicine and clothing materials from Turkey.
Suu Kyi runs past Trump to win Islamophobia Award 2017
One such report measuring the anti-Muslim fumes around the world put Myanmar’s first and incumbent State Counsellor, foreign minister and de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi as the 2017 International Islamophobe of the Year.
A rare US talk on Rohingyas
s Rohingyas face purge and mass massacres in their home country Myanmar at the hands of Buddhist mobs and the state military, in neighboring Bangladesh a US delegation is reported to have called the atrocities against Rohingyas as “war crimes.
Security Council fails on Rohingya crisis
s the numbers of Rohingya Muslims fleeing Myanmar reach more than 600,000, the UN Security Council met yet another failure on the issue on Monday.
