Foreign Affairs committee  I understand that funding was delivered through the Forum of Federations for support for decentralized governance in Burma. I understand that these recent proposals are not all for government-to-government aid but work through partners. Of course, there are still a lot

Status of Women   that, 80 years ago, between 20,000 and 80,000 Chinese women and girls were raped, and approximately 300,000 people were killed. Over the course of World War II, an estimated 200,000 women and girls from China, Korea, Burma, Indonesia, the Philippines, and other occupied territories

Situation in Myanmar   military, and 214 Rohingya villages in Burma have been torched to ashes, as documented through satellite by Amnesty International. Human Rights Watch estimates that 50% of all Rohingya villages have been destroyed. Eighty per cent of the 400,000-plus refugees arriving in Bangladesh

Situation in Myanmar   on International Human Rights from Mr. Anwar Arkani, the president of the Rohingya Association of Canada, and Ahmed Ramadan, the coordinator of Burma Task Force Canada. According to their very powerful, graphic, and disturbing testimony, some of which was recited here tonight, there is and has

Situation in Myanmar   and along the border of Myanmar, formerly known as Burma. The Rohingyas are often described as the world's most persecuted minority. Despite having inhabited Myanmar for centuries, they are not recognized as one of the country's 135 official ethnic groups. Following the 1963 military

Situation in Myanmar   the international human rights subcommittee. We conducted hearings on human rights in Burma, Myanmar. We noted at the time that the treatment of the Rohingya had been abysmal for decades. In 1977, the Myanmar government began the process of stripping its Rohingya citizens of their citizenship

Situation in Myanmar   to as “illegal Bengalis”, with many of Burma's Buddhists demanding that they 'go back to where they belong', be it in Bangladesh or elsewhere. Generally they are forbidden from owning land, from inter-marrying with Buddhists and from having more than two children.... the international

Situation in Myanmar   to happen at the Security Council. I think that the United Nations forces are very amenable to this kind of service, to being there as a protective force. The military does not answer to the government of Burma. They really take their own direction. As I mentioned before, racism

Situation in Myanmar  Madam Speaker, the question is something I specifically addressed in my remarks. What should the government have done? It should have prioritized human rights in Burma—I answered direct questions on this—engaged military and civilian leadership earlier, and addressed the issue

Venezuela   cleansing of Muslim Rohingya in Burma. It applauds the legacy of Fidel Castro. It has praised China's political model. In the case of Cuba and China, it has parroted those regimes' myths. The former foreign affairs minister praised Cuba's allegedly low crime rate, and the Prime Minister

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  It's a very good question. I was hoping that we would get to address this. From the beginning until now, Burma Task Force actually did put forward a memo discussing what happened in her first 100 days. She has not been silent from the beginning until now. She has been very

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Thank you for the questions. They are two very important questions. Actually, on the way here I was on the phone with the chair of the Burma Task Force. He's at the Bangladesh border himself right now documenting some of what's going on. He specifically asked me to ask

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Colleagues and witnesses, thank you for joining us for an update on the crisis in Burma with regard to the Rohingya. We'll begin the testimony right now. I'm hoping we can try to get everyone to have a five-minute question period if we can get through our witnesses' testimony

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee   and the monks to attack Muslims in Burma proper as well as in Arakan state. Soon after, President Thein Sein himself proposed shipping out all the Rohingyas and sending them to a refugee camp, making them all refugees and, if there were third countries willing to take them, they could take

Human Rights   and elsewhere about the human rights violations confronting the Muslim Rohingya people in Burma. The United Nations Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights released a report into the situation three months ago. I would like to read an excerpt from the press release. It states: Mass