November 22, 2018
New report debunks “terrorist attack” pretext for BurmaArmy operations against Rohingya
A new report by Kaladan Press gives a detailed account of theBurma Army’s August 2017 “clearance operations” in the large fishing village ofAlethankyaw in southern Maungdaw, uncovering new evidence that the operationsagainst the Rohingya were carefully pre-planned, and not a response to“terrorist attacks” on August 25, as claimed by the Burmese government.
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The centuries-old fishing community of Alethankyaw in southern Maungdaw is one of hundreds of Rohingya villages attacked and razed by Burmese government security forces during their brutal “clearance operations” that began in August 2017 and which drove over 720,000 refugees into Bangladesh.
The government maintains that the operations were in response to coordinated “terrorist” attacks on August 25
on thirty police posts, including in Alethankyaw, and that villagers burned their own houses and fled. But this report, based on in-depth interviews with thirty refugees from Alethankyaw, including fishermen, farmers, shopkeepers, housewives and teachers, tells a very different story: the nine-day assault by the Burma Army on their village was carefully pre-planned and implemented, and the 1,000-strong “terrorist” attack on Alethankyaw as described by the government did not and could not have happened.
The report “The Killing Fields of Alethankyaw,” based on eyewitness testimony, exposes systematic preparation and execution of the operations by government forces, using military infrastructure built up along the western edge of the Mayu mountain range since 2012 and Kaladan Press gives a detailed account of the Burma Army’s August 2017 “clearance operations” in the large fishing village of Alethankyaw in southern Maungdaw, uncovering new evidence that the operations against the Rohingya were carefully pre-planned, and not a response to “terrorist attacks” on August 25, as claimed by the Burmese government.
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Testimony of Rohingya villagers from Kha Maung Seik village tract, northern Maungdaw, implicates the Burmese security forces as the instigators of attacks on civilians in their area on August 25, 2017, offering a very different version of events than that given by Amnesty International in their new May 22nd report. Continue reading
About 30 women from various organizations gathered in front of the Unilever Head Office in London calling on the company to disinvest from Burma because of genocide and rape of the Rohingya on March 8, 2018 – International Women’s Day.
Women hold banner in front of Unilever HQ in London
International Women’s Day, 8 March 2018, London
Justice and protection for Rohingya women and girls
– in support of call for Unilever to disinvest from Myanmar
Statement by Black Women’s Rape Action Project & Women Against Rape
We strongly condemn the ethnic cleansing, widespread torture, killings and systematic rape and sexual torture of women and girls by the Myanmar Army, as part of its genocide against the Rohingya people. Continue reading
ေဖေဖၚ၀ါရီလ ၂၁ ၊ ၂၀၁၈ ခုႏွစ္။၂၀၁၇ ခုႏွစ္တြင္ ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာမ်ားကို ဆန္႔က်င္သည့္ “နယ္ေျမရွင္းလင္းသည့္ စစ္ဆင္ေရး” တြင္ လိင္ပိုင္းဆိုင္ရာ အၾကမ္းဖက္မႈကို ရည္ရြယ္ခ်က္ရွိရွိ စံနစ္တက် က်ယ္က်ယ္ျပန္႔ျပန္႔ အသံုးျပဳခဲ့ေၾကာင္း အေထာက္အထား ေဖၚျပသည့္ ဤအစီရင္ခံစာကို ကုလာတန္သတင္းကြန္ယက္မွ ယေန႔ထုတ္ျပန္လိုက္သည္။ Continue reading
February 21, 2018
Press release
New report details Myanmar Army’s use of rape as a weapon against the Rohingya
A new report released today by Kaladan Press Network documents the Myanmar Army’s widespread, systematic use of sexual violence during its “clearance operation” against the Rohingya in 2017. Continue reading
