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Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee I would divide it into three parts: one media in Burma, the media in the international community, and then the media in China, you may say. The first media, in Burma, is one of the key tools that is propagating anti-Muslim hate speech. These media are owned by the cronies
November 29th, 2018Committee meeting
Kyaw Win
Citizenship and Immigration committee million people, are in situations of forced migration. Most of those people come from five countries: Syria, Afghanistan, South Sudan, Burma and Somalia. Development and Peace-Caritas Canada supports local partners in those countries. Migrants and refugees are more than figures
November 22nd, 2018Committee meeting
Stéphane Vinhas
Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee tomorrow. At best, they will be able to eat rice once a day, rice that was perhaps brought from Burma, which is ironic in a way. I hear heartbreaking stories from people reporting about it, that when young children fled from the massacre last year in Myanmar, the only thing they took
November 22nd, 2018Committee meeting
Yasmin Ullah
Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee Yes, the military has the policy of Burmanization. It is not only in one ethnic area, but it's across Burma. In the Kachin, Karen, Shan and Arakan states, human rights violations have been going on. It's getting worse and worse. Burma is going backwards now, in 2018.
November 22nd, 2018Committee meeting
Slone Phan
Human Rights these atrocities now and act to end those that are currently under way. It is estimated that as many as 300,000 people were killed in the Nanjing massacre. Another 200,000 women and girls from Korea, China, Japan, Burma, Indonesia, the Philippines and other occupied territories in Asia were
April 10th, 2019House debate
Jenny KwanNDP
Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee developed that must be taken into account—it should not be neglected. I am thinking particularly of the Eleven Media group; three of its journalists were jailed last October. They are true heroes. They represent the face of what could be freedom of the press in Burma.
February 19th, 2019Committee meeting
Daniel Bastard
Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee the reporting and exposing of violence that's taking place on the ground? That could be in Burma, if you wish to use it as an example. It's a general question, so you can give us a general answer.
February 19th, 2019Committee meeting
Peter FragiskatosLiberal
Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee I should say that in Myanmar, the Internet equals Facebook, since that platform is the main door to the Internet for all of the users in Burma. There has been a large increase in the number of users in a few short years. I believe the number of users increased by a factor of 15
February 19th, 2019Committee meeting
Daniel Bastard
Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee Yes. There are some citizens trying to speak out. However, if it becomes public, they are subject to arrest. They cannot really speak publicly. Those who are in exile—there are some from the Buddhist majority—speak out, but they cannot speak out publicly in Burma.
February 19th, 2019Committee meeting
Ko Ko Naing
Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee are exposed to about the same risks as their Myanmar colleagues. I’m thinking of the case of three journalists, one from Burma, another from Singapore and one from Malaysia, who were arrested and held in jail for a month in November 2017, simply because they tried to film the plans
February 19th, 2019Committee meeting
Daniel Bastard
Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee Thank you very much, Chair. There's a lot that concerns me in both of our witnesses' testimonies. I'd particularly like to focus on Mr. Naing's testimony. Mr. Naing, you mentioned that there's purposeful use of Facebook by the government of Burma to spread hate. I'm wondering
February 19th, 2019Committee meeting
David SweetConservative
Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee Honourable Chair, honourable special envoy, and all members of Parliament, thank you for giving me an opportunity to speak today. I'm Rohingya. I was born and brought up in Arakan state in the western part of Burma. I left when I was about 17. Actually, my grandfather
April 24th, 2018Committee meeting
Tun Khin
Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee chilling effect on journalists working in the country. I will give you a few examples of the use of criminal laws against journalists in Myanmar. Lawi Weng of The Irrawaddy and two reporters from the Democratic Voice of Burma were arrested after they went to an area controlled
February 5th, 2019Committee meeting
Linda Lakhdhir
Situation in Myanmar there, in particular, the testimony from last week. We have here a clear textbook case of ethnic cleansing, of genocide against the Rohingya people in Burma. We are in the midst of a present escalation. The Conservatives have been raising this issue repeatedly in the House for the last year
September 26th, 2017House debate
Garnett GenuisConservative
Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee I was able to leave the country. I am lucky to be here today. Like me, more than one million Rohingya students cannot study, and their lives are being destroyed. That is what happened from 1962 to 2010. After 2010, when so-called democracy came to Burma, hate speech spread
April 24th, 2018Committee meeting
Tun Knin