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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
September 26th, 2017House debate
Iqra KhalidLiberal
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
September 26th, 2017House debate
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
September 26th, 2017House debate
Marwan TabbaraLiberal
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
September 26th, 2017House debate
Scott ReidConservative
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
September 26th, 2017House debate
Nathaniel Erskine-SmithLiberal
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
September 26th, 2017House debate
David SweetConservative
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
September 26th, 2017House debate
Garnett GenuisConservative
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
September 26th, 2017House debate
Garnett GenuisConservative
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
September 21st, 2017Committee meeting
Ahmed Ramadan
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
September 21st, 2017Committee meeting
Ahmed Ramadan
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
September 21st, 2017Committee meeting
The Vice-Chair Conservative
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
September 21st, 2017Committee meeting
Anwar Arkani
National Defence committee -capabilities and their social impacts. Quite frankly, in the last five or six years, two-thirds of humanity has gone online to the Internet, globally. Of those, almost all of them are also users of social media. In fact, for many countries, such as Burma/Myanmar, Bangladesh, and others
March 29th, 2018Committee meeting
Rafal Rohozinski
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
May 9th, 2017House debate
Garnett GenuisConservative
Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee Thank you to the committee for inviting me here to talk about the devastating humanitarian situation of the Rohingya in Burma. I want to begin my remarks today by giving a factual background and then get to some of the recommendations we have about how to address the situation
May 4th, 2016Committee meeting
John Sifton