Press Release

London, UK 25 September 2017 – The Burma Human Rights Network has been informed of dire need for aid in five Rohingya villages in Rathedaung Township where 11,000 people are currently living. Before the recent violence and military campaign there were 23 Muslim villages, but only five remain as the rest were reportedly burnt down and destroyed. At the same time the remaining residents of these villages have stated they are under threat from mobs in neighboring Rakhine villages that are not allowing them to flee or seek food and safety. As the situation is worsening we call on the Burmese Government to immediately allow aid to flow into these villages and that the villagers be protected from any hostile actors.

The villages in need are Nyaung Bin Gyi, Ah Naut Pyin, Sin Khon Taing, Arkar Taung and Kan Seik villages. Nyaung Bin Gyi and Ah Naut Pyin villages are composed of people displaced in the anti- Muslim riots of 2012. Residents in Nyaung Bin Gyi complained that food rations had been cut in June of last year and only a 1,391 villagers of the total 1,781 received their rations after they were restarted three months later. The remaining 400 have had to share among the total population, depleting the available food for the village.

Similarly, in Ah Naut Pyin villagers say 400 people remain without food rations and locals have said that neighboring Rakhine from Shwe Lin Tin prevent them from leaving their village to seek food or assistance. The locals have said that when they pass Rakhine villages they are threatened and hear gunshots in the distance. When these locals reported the gun shots to police they said authorities claimed the noises were only fireworks. As these villagers supplies are running out they say they’ve requested to be moved but have had their request unanswered. Currently these villagers say they only have enough food for two more weeks before they run out of food completely.

The villages of Sin Khon Tain, Arkar Taung and Kan Seik are all isolated and without roads connecting them to Rathedaung. These villages’ only route of transportation is by boat and they have complained that shortages of rations are threatening the local populations with starvation. A local resident from Sin Khon Taing said, “Poor people are starving. Anyone who can report please do so. We cannot go anywhere. When we contact the government we have not gotten any response.”

These villages combined have a total population of 11,000 including many children and elderly who are more vulnerable to malnutrition and disease. While they were facing shortages prior to the outbreak of violence in Rakhine State on August 25th the military operations have seemed to significantly compound their difficulty to access food and aid.

As tensions remain high and military activity continues in Northern Rakhine State the ability to get aid to those most in need remains unmet in many locations. Those who have not fled Rakhine over the past month have often found themselves more isolated and destitute than they were previously. With this in mind we call on the Burmese Government to immediately allow access to these villages for food distribution and to ensure the safety of all residents living within them. We call on the international community to pressure the Burmese to allow this access and to ensure that Rohingya who have remained in Myanmar are also remembered and their needs immediately be addressed.

Notes for Editors
Background on the current situation:

On August 25th an insurgent group called the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army attacked 30 police posts and killed 12 security officers and one soldier. In response the Burmese Authorities have unleashed a brutal campaign against the civilian population, which has caused half of the Rohingya population in Northern Rakhine State to flee. Security forces have been monitored burning down Rohingya villages systematically and driving the population into neighboring Bangladesh. These actions by the Burmese army have widely been described as ethnic cleansing, with the UN even evoking the term when they said the military’s actions “seemed like a textbook case of ethnic cleansing.” The military operations have caused a humanitarian crisis in neighboring Bangladesh which many nations have stepped up to address. Those remaining inside of Myanmar have not been given the same response as Myanmar has limited how much access NGOs have to the region and currently only the International Committee of the Red Cross has been given limited access.

Background on the Burma Human Rights Network (BHRN)

Burma Human Rights Network (BHRN) works for human rights, minority rights and religious freedom in Burma. BHRN has played a crucial role advocating for human rights and religious freedom with politicians and world leaders.

Media Enquiries
Members of The Burma Human Rights Network (BHRN) are available for comment and interview.
Please contact:

Kyaw Win
Executive Director
Burma Human Rights Network (BHRN)
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10 February, 2018

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February 07 2018, 21:44
MONOLOGUE FOR TWO:
HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVIST
KYAW WIN

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Events

  • နွေဦးတော်လှန်ရေးအရွေ့​​နှင့် နိုင်ငံတကာ၏အခန်းကဏ္ဏ

    နွေဦးတော်လှန်ရေးအရွေ့​​နှင့် နိုင်ငံတကာ၏အခန်းကဏ္ဏ

    စစ်အာဏာသိမ်းမှု ၃ နှစ်ပြည့်အထူးစကားဝိုင်း

    စစ်အာဏာသိမ်းမှု ၃နှစ်ပြည့် အထူးစကားဝိုင်းအဖြစ် မြန်မာ့လူအခွင့်ရေးကွန်ရက်(BHRN)က စီစဉ်တဲ့ "နွေဦးတော်လှန်ရေးအရွေ့နှင့် နိုင်ငံတကာ၏အခန်းကဏ္ဍ"ဆွေးနွေးပွဲကို ၂၀၂၄ခုနှစ် ဇန်နဝါရီလ ၂၉ ရက်နေ့ မြန်မာစံတော်ချိန် (7:00 PM)/ ထိုင်းစံတော်ချိန်(7:30 PM)မှာ Zoom ကတဆင့် ပြုလုပ်သွားမှာြဖစ်ပါတယ်

    ဆွေးနွေးပွဲ အစီအစဉ်ထုတ်လွှင့်မှုကို BHRN Facebook Page မှာ Live လွှင့်သွားမှာဖြစ်ပြီး မိတ်ဖက်မီဒီယာတွေဖြစ်တဲ့ Mizzima, Khit Thit Media, Myanmar Press Agency (MPA), Than Lwin Times, Mekhong, Federal FM, Federal Journal, GSCN, People's Radio Myanmar, မြေလတ်အသံနဲ့ သံလွင်ခတ်တို့မှာလည်း တပြိုင်နက် တင်ဆက်သွားမှာဖြစ်ပါတယ်။

    ပါဝင်ဆွေးနွေးမယ့်သူတွေကတော့ -


    DATE & TIME : Monday, 29 January 2024: Yangon 7:30 pm, Bangkok 7:00 pm

    Please register at https://www.facebook.com/bhrnuk



    Kyaw Win - Founder and Executive Director of the Burma Human Rights Network


    Moe Htet Nay - Advisory of Research & Politics (Nyan Lynn Thit Analytica)


    Khin Ohmar- Chairperson of Progressive Voice


    Herry Myo Lin - Moderator


    For more information about the meeting, please contact: Kyaw Win, Executive Director of BHRN, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

  • SEEKING JUSTICE AND ACCOUNTABILITY FOR THE ROHINGYA

    SEEKING JUSTICE AND ACCOUNTABILITY FOR THE ROHINGYA

    SEEKING JUSTICE AND ACCOUNTABILITY FOR THE ROHINGYA

    On 24 August 2023, the Burma Human Rights Network (BHRN) will host a panel discussion with members of the Rohingya community, civil society leaders, legal experts, and the National Unity Government (NUG). The meeting will provide an opportunity for participants to discuss:

    • The human rights situation of the Rohingya in Bangladesh and post-coup Myanmar.
    • Updates on the Gambia v. Myanmar genocide case brought before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) and other ongoing international justice mechanisms.
    • Updates from the NUG on the appointment of a Rohingya representative and their plans to address the human rights of the Rohingya.
    • Effective measures to end all forms of human rights violations and abuses against Rohingya Muslims as well as other minorities in Myanmar.
    Background:

    August 25th 2023 will mark six years since the Myanmar military led a campaign of killings, mass rape and arson against the Rohingya in northern Rakhine State, killing thousands and forcing over 730,000 to flee to Bangladesh. In the six years since the military’s atrocities, the situation for Rohingya in Myanmar and abroad offers a dismal reflection of justice delayed.

    Nearly 600,000 Rohingya remain trapped in Rakhine State under a system of discriminatory laws and policies that amount to crimes against humanity and genocide. Since the attempted military coup on 1 February 2021, Rohingya have been subjected to tightened restrictions on their fundamental freedoms.

    Rohingya who have fled Myanmar and managed to reach Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, or India live under the constant threat of arrest, detention, and forced return to military-controlled Myanmar. In Bangladesh, one million Rohingya refugees who were forcibly displaced by the Myanmar military, remain in sprawling refugee camps in southern Bangladesh Cox's Bazar District where government is restricting their rights including education and freedom of movement.

    The coup has made clear that the ongoing atrocities in Myanmar are a direct consequence of a military that for decades has faced no consequences for its crimes. Despite the longstanding evidence of widespread and systematic human rights violations, impunity remains nearly absolute. However, efforts are ongoing at the international level to ensure legal accountability are ongoing at the International Court of Justice (brought by the Gambia against Myanmar) and the International Criminal Court. Steps to this end have also been taken at the national level, including in Argentina, Indonesia, Turkey, and a pending case filed in Germany.


    DATE & TIME : Thursday, 24 August 2023: London 1:30 pm, Bangkok 7:30 pm

    Please register at https://www.facebook.com/bhrnuk



    Opening remarks by Kyaw Win, Founder and Executive Director of the Burma Human Rights Network

    Panel Discussion: Updates on Human Rights of Rohingya in Bangladesh and Myanmar

    Tun Kin - President of the Burmese Rohingya Organisation UK (BROUK), to provide an update on the human rights situation in Rakhine State and the case brought by BROUK in Argentina on the genocide against the Rohingya.


    Lucky Karim- a Rohingya human rights defender, to provide an update on the human rights situation of the Rohingya in Bangladesh.


    Christopher Gunness - Director of the Myanmar Accountability Project (MAP), to provide an update on the criminal case filed by MAP in Turkey covering widespread torture since the 2021 Myanmar coup.


    Pavani Nagarajabhat - Investigations Associate at Fortify Rights, to provide an update on the criminal complaint filed in Germany against Myanmar Generals for atrocity crimes.


    Mr Hussein Thomasi - Solicitor General of The Gambia, to provide an update on the genocide case brought against Myanmar at the International Court of Justice (ICJ).


    Veronica Pedrosa - Moderator : Senior Interview Producer at Al Jazeera


    For more information about the meeting, please contact: Kyaw Win, Executive Director of BHRN, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

  • WE ALSO HAVE DREAM

    WE ALSO HAVE DREAM

    "We Also Have Dreams”

    Burma Human Rights Network (BHRN) will launch a report based on over a year of research in the Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh. “We Also Have Dreams” details the human rights problems and quality of life concerns in the Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh. The report uses information and insights gathered from the refugees in the camps about their experiences, both good and bad, the rights challenges they face, and the hopes and dreams they have. This report gives a voice to the refugees, enabling them to speak for themselves and reach a wider audience in the world.

    Report Launch & Press Conference

    When Tuesday 08 February 2022: London 4:00 am, Bangkok 11:00 am

    How

    Please register in advance to participate in the Q&A session at https://bit.ly/3uyc9SL



    A panel of speakers will be present at the press conference, including:

    Kyaw Win - Founder and Executive Director of Burma Human Rights


    Phil Robertson - Deputy Asia Director of Human Rights Watch


    Hajee Ismail. - Managing director, Rohingya Peace Network


    Debbie Stothard - Founder and coordinator, ALTSEAN-Burma.


    BHRN warmly welcomes in person attendance at the launch and panel discussion on February 8 at the Foreign Correspondents’ Club Thailand. The event will also be broadcast on live via the FCCT Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/FCCThailand/). Please join us for this important event!

  • BRAZEN TYRANNY of MYANMAR MILATARY

    BRAZEN TYRANNY of MYANMAR MILATARY

    "BRAZEN TYRANNY of MYANMAR MILITARY

    February 1 marks the first anniversary of the Burmese military’s coup against the country’s democratically elected government. Since then, the military has unleashed horrors on a civilian population unwilling to accept their illegitimate rule. Restrictions and crackdowns spread as the population peacefully resisted the regime, leading the people of Myanmar to form self-defense forces known as PDFs. A full-blown civil war is on the horizon.

    Report Launch & Press Conference

    When Tuesday 01 February 2022: London 4:00 am, Bangkok 10:00 am

    How

    Please register in advance to participate in the Q&A session at https://bit.ly/3GerxGb



    Speakers

    Kyaw Win - Founder and Executive Director of Burma Human Rights


    Phil Robertson - Deputy Asia Director of Human Rights Watch


    Pan Hsu Pyae Eain - Research Coordinator of Athan Freedom Of Expression Activist ORganization


    This event is free and open to all and will be livestreamed on the FCCT's Facebook page

  • “BEFORE OUR VERY EYES”

    “BEFORE OUR VERY EYES”

    "Before Our Very Eyes

    Myanmarʼs Military Junta commits Crimes Against Humanity while the International Community Fails to Act

    Report Launch & Press Conference

    This report was prepared by Erin Farrell Rosenberg .1 It was reviewed by Ambassador Stephen J. Rapp and one expert in international criminal law who wishes to remain anonmous. The author and BHRN would like to acknowledge and express their appreciation to Ms. Nadira Kourt for her incredibly helpful feedback on drafts of this report. This report would not have been possible without the extraordinary efforts to collect and document information by BHRN’s UK and Burma-based staff and intermediaries, many of whom carried out this vital work in dangerous circumstances to themselves and their loved ones.

    When Thursday 29 December 2021: London 4:00 am, Bangkok 10:00 am

    How

    Please register in advance to participate in the Q&A session at https://www.facebook.com/266552830096341/



    Presenter

    Veronica Pedrosa

    Speakers

    Kyaw Win - Founder and Executive Director of Burma Human Rights


    Amb. Stephen Rapp - USenior Fellow at US Holocaust Museum and Oxford University, former US Ambassador-at-Large for Global Criminal Justice


    Dr Sa Sa - Union Minister of the Ministry of International Cooperation and Spokesperson of the National Unity Government of Myanmar, and Former Myanmar Special Envoy to the United Nations


    Erin Rosenberg - Independent Legal Consultant


    Maung Moe - A journalist that cover extensively the brutality of the fascist military during the crackdown


  • The Coming Extinction: The Moken People Of Burma

    The Coming Extinction: The Moken People Of Burma

    လူမျိုးသုဉ်းခံရတော့မဲ့ မြန်မာ့မြေပေါ်မှစလုံလူမျိုးများ

    စလုံလူမျိုးများသည်မြန်မာနိုင်ငံတွင် ရှေးယခင်ကတည်းက နေထိုင်လာသော ပင်လယ်ပျော် လူမျိုးစု ဖြစ်သည်။ ဤ ဆွေးနွေးပွဲသည် စလုံလူမျိုးတွေ ရင်ဆိုင်နေရသည့်လူ့အခွင့်အရေးချိုးဖောက်ခံနေရမှူကို အချိန်မှီ မတားစီးနိုင်ပါက လူမျိုးတုန်းပျောက်ကွယ်နိုင်သည့်အန္တ္တရာယ်နှင့် ရင်ဆိုင်ရနိုင်ကြောင်း သုတေသန စာတမ်းဖြင့် တင်ပြမှာဖြစ်ပါတယ်။

    The Coming Extinction: The Moken people of Burma

    The Moken people are an ancient tribe of sea nomads who reside in the waters around Burma. Their population is now left around 1700. During this report launch we will discuss the human rights violations that will erase the Moken out of existence if not stopped.

    What
    Online press conference and BHRN report launch via Zoom, including a Q&A session

    When Wednesday 16 December 2020: London 3:00 am, Yangon 9:30 am, Bangkok 10:00 am

    How

    Please register in advance to participate in the Q&A session at https://events.bhrn.org.uk/TheMoken



    Presenter

    Lilianne Fan

    Speakers

    Kyaw Win - Founder and Executive Director of Burma Human Rights


    Mr Fracisco Cali Tzay - UN Special Rappor On the Rights of Indigenous People


    Regina Paulose - International Criminal Law Attorney


    Ko Zayar Hlaing - Editor and Co-Founder Mawkun (The Chronicle) Magazine


  • NOWHERETORUN REPORT LAUNCH & PRESS CONFERENCE

    NOWHERETORUN REPORT LAUNCH & PRESS CONFERENCE

    "NOWHERE TO RUN"

    Report Launch & Press Conference


    Wed, 26 August 2020
    15:00 – 16:00 UK-Time

    SPEAKERs


    {{ Kyaw Win }} is the founder and Executive Director of the Burma Human Rights Network (BHRN) in London. He leads several different teams inside of Myanmar who are documenting human rights violations, violation of freedom of religion, the spread of hate speech and anti-Muslim pogroms.

    {{ Veronica Pedrosa }} is more than 20 years experience as a journalist and communicator, and she has played a key role at CNN, BBC World News, BBC World Service and Al Jazeera English, responding to breaking news, shaping coverage, managing and providing leadership to multicultural teams of journalists. Ms. Pedrosa is a communicator who is in demand to speak, host and moderate at international conferences, focusing on development, humanitarian issues, the environment and journalism. In the past, Ms. Pedrosa has worked with heads of state, high government officials, experts and philanthropists to produce informative debates on complex and controversial issues.cite>

    {{ Htike Htike }} is a Rohingya researcher, human rights defender and refugee advocate from Rakhine State, Myanmar. Htike holds a Master’s degree (MSc) in “The Politics of Conflict, Rights and Justice” from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), the University of London. Htike will be pursuing her PhD studies in Queen Mary, University of London, in September 2020.

    Since 2004, Htike has been involved in community development, humanitarian and protection work with Myanmar civil society, international organisations and the United Nations (UN) in Rakhine State, Irrawaddy Delta region and Yangon, Myanmar. From 2012 to 2018, She was involved with ASEAN grassroots movements for peace and democratisation in the region and she worked with the detainees, and refugees in Thailand and Indonesia. Htike established field-based networks to collect evidence and document human rights violations in Myanmar and Thailand including during the violence and mass displacement of Rohingya communities in 2016 and 2017.

    {{ Dr. Habib Ullah }} was born in an ethnic well-known Rohingya family in 1980. His father Saleh Ahmed was one of the pioneers of Rohingya movement in Arakan Burma (currently known as Rakhine, Myanmar). He has earned PhD in Electrical, Electronics and System Engineering from Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM) in 2014 and served as Post- Doctoral Research Fellow in University Malaya under the department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering three years. He has also been awarded his B.Sc Honors in Computer and Communication Engineering from International Islamic University Chittagong (IIUC), Bangladesh and M.Sc degree in Communication Engineering from International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM) in 2003 and 2011.

    He worked as research assistant in several research project funded by government and non-government organization. He has authored and co-authored more than 50 International peer-reviewed journal articles and presented research work in 9 international conferences and published 8 book chapters. I was awarded as young scientist by International Union of Radio Science (URSI) in 2012, Zamalah research fellowship and best PhD research presenter in Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia SPSA 2012. I was involved in Rohingya activity since childhood and actively serving as a member of Arakan Rohingya National Organization (ARNO) since 1999. He started working with ARNO as student member, in-charge education and youth development projects, representative in Malaysia till 2015. Currently, He is serving as ARNO central committee member, chair of Information and media department and representative for the United States of America.

    {{ Khin Ohmar }} is an experienced human rights, peace, justice and gender equality advocate from Burma and founder and chairperson of the Advisory Board of Progressive Voice, a local human rights research and advocacy organization.

    {{ Rachel Fleming }} is an independent consultant and human rights researcher who has spent 12 years working on human rights issues in Burma/Myanmar. Rachel primarily works to support local human rights organisations in their vital efforts to bring to light human rights violations, especially those impacting marginalised groups. She holds an MA in Human Rights Law with Distinction from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.

    Location
    ZOOM
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  • ‘The Challenges of Human Rights in Burma’

    ‘The Challenges of Human Rights in Burma’

    ‘The Challenges of Human Rights in Burma’

    Tue, 19 November 2019
    13:00 – 14:30 GMT


    Kyaw Win is the founder and Executive Director of the Burma Human Rights Network (BHRN) in London. He leads several different teams inside of Myanmar who are documenting human rights violations, violation of freedom of religion, the spread of hate speech and anti-Muslim pogroms.

    Location
    University of Essex Colchester Campus
    Human Rights Seminar room, 5S.6.25
    Colchester
    CO4 3SQ

  • MYANMAR'S KILLING FIELDS + Q&A (12A)

    MYANMAR'S KILLING FIELDS + Q&A (12A)

    Sunday 28 Apr 2019, 13:00
    Membership discount will be applied after selecting your tickets

  • The ROHINGYA crisis : 6 Months on

    The ROHINGYA crisis : 6 Months on

  • Religious Intolerance in Burma

    Religious Intolerance in Burma

  • Human Rights and Violence In Regional ASEAN

    Human Rights and Violence In Regional ASEAN

  • PERSECUTION OF MUSLIMS IN BURMA

    PERSECUTION OF MUSLIMS IN BURMA

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