Statelessness : Ethnic Cleansing and the Rohingya

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Dailleurs Aung San Suu Kyi appelle à « ne pas exagérer » le drame.

IS GENOCIDE OCCURRING IN MYANMAR’S RAKHINE STATE ?
A LEGAL ANALYSIS
▻http://www.fortifyrights.org/downloads/Yale_Persecution_of_the_Rohingya_October_2015.pdf

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Letter from a Rohingya : We are facing #extinction

A resident of Myanmar’s Rakhine State discusses daily life and the abuses and attacks Rohingya endure.

▻http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2017/09/letter-rohingya-facing-extinction-170909113701895.html

U.N. sees “textbook example of ethnic cleansing” in Myanmar

GENEVA (Reuters) – The top U.N. human rights official on Monday denounced Myanmar’s “brutal security operation” against Muslim Rohingyas in Rakhine state which he said was “clearly disproportionate” to insurgent attacks carried out last month. Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein, addressing the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva, said that more than 270,000 people had fled to Bangladesh, with more trapped on the border, amid reports of the burning of villages and extrajudicial killings. “I call on the government to end its current cruel military operation, with accountability for all violations that have occurred, and to reverse the pattern of severe and widespread discrimination against the Rohingya population,” Zeid said. “The situation seems a textbook example of ethnic cleansing.”

▻http://www.euronews.com/2017/09/11/un-sees-textbook-example-of-ethnic-cleansing-in-myanmar

Statelessness: Ethnic Cleansing and the Rohingya

NHCR estimates that at least 10 million people around the world are stateless. People who are denied a nationality are automatically disentitled from everyday activities most of us take for granted. The inability to access banking, education, employment and healthcare is bound to produce debilitating effects on anyone’s life and make them profoundly vulnerable. Equally, not having a passport or not being able to participate in the political process by voting or not being able to say and do what you want is bound to result in a life of servitude. In Al-Jedda [2013] UKSC 62, recounting the horrors unleashed by the Reich Citizenship Law of 1935, Lord Wilson characterised statelessness as “evil” and highlighted that article 15 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights 1948 provides that “everyone has the right to a nationality” and “no one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his nationality nor denied the right to change his nationality”. Despite my Arabic name and Pakistani origin, I do not write here as a “Muslim”. But nonetheless I write to mourn for the minority Muslim population of Myanmar, i.e. the Rohingya who were made stateless by the Burma Citizenship Law 1982. They can trace their history to the eighth century but are not recognised as one of the national races of Myanmar unless they can show “conclusive evidence” of their lineage or history of residence. Consequently, they are ineligible for any class of citizenship and shunned by mainstream society.

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