Women protest Rohingya genocide and rape outside Unilever HQ, call for disinvestment from Burma

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

Press release: Justice and protection for Rohingya women and girls – in support of call for Unilever to disinvest from Myanmar

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.

ျမန္မာစစ္တပ္သည္ ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာေတြကို ဆန္႔က်င္ရာ၌ မုဒိမ္းက်င့္ျခင္းကို လက္နက္အျဖစ္သံုးေၾကာင္း – အစီရင္ခံစာသစ္။

ေဖေဖၚ၀ါရီလ ၂၁ ၊ ၂၀၁၈ ခုႏွစ္။
ထုတ္ျပန္ခ်က္။
ျမန္မာစစ္တပ္သည္ ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာေတြကို ဆန္႔က်င္ရာ၌ မုဒိမ္းက်င့္ျခင္းကို လက္နက္အျဖစ္သံုးေၾကာင္း – အစီရင္ခံစာသစ္။

၂၀၁၇ ခုႏွစ္တြင္ ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာမ်ားကို ဆန္႔က်င္သည့္ “နယ္ေျမရွင္းလင္းသည့္ စစ္ဆင္ေရး” တြင္ လိင္ပိုင္းဆိုင္ရာ အၾကမ္းဖက္မႈကို ရည္ရြယ္ခ်က္ရွိရွိ စံနစ္တက် က်ယ္က်ယ္ျပန္႔ျပန္႔ အသံုးျပဳခဲ့ေၾကာင္း အေထာက္အထား ေဖၚျပသည့္ ဤအစီရင္ခံစာကို ကုလာတန္သတင္းကြန္ယက္မွ ယေန႔ထုတ္ျပန္လိုက္သည္။

Refugee testimonies contradict Burmese government version of the August 25 “terrorist attacks”

An investigative analysis by Kaladan Press Network
Since the start of the ongoing large-scale “clearance” operation against the Rohingya population by Burmese security forces, the Burmese government’s Information Committee and state media have consistently reported that the operation is a response to over 30 coordinated “extremist terrorist” attacks against police stations and outposts in northern Rakhine State on August 25, 2017.

Rape victims speak out in front of media groups in Maungdaw north

Three raped Rohingya women spoke out in front of foreign and local journalists and demanded they were on March 31 in Maungdaw north and claimed Myanmar army and security forces raped three months ago, according to local villagers.

The Rohingya – children of a ‘lesser’ God!

By Habib Siddiqui

On Saturday, December 10, 2016, the Guardian ran a story on two Rohingya women, Noor Ayesha and Sayeda Khatun.

“Noor Ayesha held her last surviving daughter tight as their boat crossed into Bangladeshi waters. She left behind a firebombed home, a dead husband, seven slain children and the soldiers who raped her,” wrote the Guardian.

Army continuously carrying out mass arrest in northern Arakan

Maungdaw Arakan State:  The Burmese army and border Guard Police (BGP) jointly have been continuously carrying out mass arrests of the Rohingya civilians in Maungdaw and Rathedaung Townships, a trader Mozemmal from Balu Khali said.

Mother, daughters gang raped in Maungdaw

Maungdaw, Arakan State:  Burmese army and Natala villagers gang raped mother and her two minor daughters in Myau Taung (Sali Pyin) village of Maungdaw north on December 4, an elder Zarmuluk said from the village.

The Rohingya genocide – no longer a myth

By Habib Siddiqui

A genocide is taking place against the Rohingyas of Myanmar. It has been an on-going ethnic cleansing national program in this Buddhist-majority country to erase Muslim presence soon after Burma emerged as an independent state.

Rohingya face starvation and diseases

By Fayas Ahmed

Nearly 160,000 Rohingyas could be at risk of starvation and diseases such as— pneumonia, diarrhea, dysentery because of blocking aid by the Burmese government and military.