Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Sure. As I was saying, Burma's government has proposed to relocate 100,000 Rohingya refugees to Bhashan Char, which is a remote island in the Bay of Bengal. What we are suggesting, and what the refugee community itself as well as the international community time and again have

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Dr. Anderson, you have two Ph.D.s and you have quite a bit of expertise around Asian studies. I'm wondering if you have observed that there's a link between the very terrorizing treatment by the CCP against the Uighur Muslims and the manipulation of Burma and the Rohingya

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Ms. Lehr, you've been on the ground in Burma in the past in your career. Our former ambassador, Mr. Saint-Jacques, just mentioned the silence of Arab countries. I want to link that back to some previous testimony of one of our witnesses who said that silence is because

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  . As hard as the situation in Burma has been, the situation in Xinjiang is going to require all different sorts of actors working together to address the private sector, governments like Canada to multilateral institutions.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  I just want to confirm what Ms. Kanji said, because I suspected there was a distinct link between the persecution of the Muslim Uighurs in East Turkestan and that of the Rohingya Muslims in Burma. Do you see a clear link, in both cases, to CCP manipulation?

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Thanks, Chair. Dr. Olsi Jazexhi made a great point. I hope we take that into consideration. I am certain that if you trace the issue with the Rohingya in Burma, you'll find Chinese Community Party money manipulating the Burmese government as well, persecuting the Rohingya

Committees of the House   in its own hemisphere and manipulated others like the DRC and Burma. It is no wonder that more and more I am hearing from Canadians who are fed up with how Canada is being treated by the CCP. They have every right to be outraged. All that I have talked about for the last number

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee   people for playing a proactive role in ending the Rohingya crisis. As my fellow journalist mentioned, after Burma gained independence from Britain in 1948, there were only a few years of civilian rule. When dictator General Ne Win took over in 1962, the country was very isolated

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Thank you and good afternoon. Inter Pares is a Canadian social justice organization. We began working with people from Burma in 1991. We have significant support from Global Affairs Canada for our Burma program. My colleagues Nikki Richard and Samantha McGavin are here with me

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  I agree with what the journalists were mentioning. Burma had been isolated for more than a decade. It's just recently getting some democracy. The newspapers currently in Burma are the Global New Light of Myanmar and Eleven Media. They all are sponsored by the Burmese government

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Thank you very much, Madam, for giving me a chance to speak here today. Hi and thank you to everyone in the room. I would like to first introduce myself. I'm an executive director and the founder of the Burma Human Rights Network. We're based in London and we operate across

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  In Burma, social media obviously contributed to the repression of freedom of information. I think they also contributed to inciting the genocide. One could almost compare the role played by Facebook in Burma to the role played by the Radio Milles Collines in Rwanda. In 1994

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Thank you. It is an honour for me to be here today. My name is Slone Phan. I was born in Karen State, Burma. When I was 12, my village was attacked by the Burmese military, which is the same military that attacked other ethnic minorities in Burma, including the Rohingya. I

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  , there was one boat arrested by the Burmese navy in southern Burma. They were fleeing to Malaysia by boat, and there were 93 people, 60 adults and 33 children. They are now going to be sent back to Sittwe again and they are going to have an NVC, a nationality verification card. The card

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Thank you, members of the Subcommittee on International Human Rights, for inviting me to testify here today. I was born in a town called Buthidaung, in Arakan State, Burma, but raised in various other cities as my parents were transferred from town to town as government service