Human Rights  Madam Speaker, earlier I had an opportunity to raise the situation facing the Rohingya Muslim community in Burma. I have not received a response at all with respect to the conditions of the Rohingya people in Burma. I hope I will be able to get more information about what

Citizenship and Immigration committee   of people coming and going to Bangladesh on a number of occasions. For example, an 87-year-old woman whom I met—she was there in 1978—had gone back and come back twice. I think the challenge in a situation like the Rohingya is that it's not really up to Bangladesh and Burma to come

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I wish I had an answer for you. Clearly, until you can convince the military that these people are from Burma, from Myanmar, and that they've been there for generations.... The military is trying to sell a fiction that these people are really Bengali and came there from

Citizenship and Immigration committee   want them back. They took away their citizenship to start with, gave them an ID card, and then they took the ID card away and chased them out. It is going to be a long political process to get Burma/Myanmar to accept them back.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  First of all, I would like to thank you for giving me the opportunity to speak out about the current human rights situation of the Rohingya in Myanmar. So far the honourable speakers before me covered what is going on in today's Burma. As a researcher myself, I'd say I'm

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Good afternoon, and thank you for this opportunity. Inter Pares is an Ottawa-based international social justice organization, and we have been working with people from Burma for over 20 years, often with significant support from the Government of Canada. Today I will build

Human Rights   there, and neighbouring states, like Bangladesh, are having to deal with the situation. Last month, I visit the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva, and I had the opportunity to meet with the UNHCR Asia desk, where they briefed me on the situation in Burma. I heard directly from them

Nanjing Massacre Commemorative Day  . Western eye-witnesses in Nanjing described the atrocities as “hell on earth”. After the Nanjing massacre, the military sexual slavery system for the Japanese military expanded rapidly. Some 200,000 women from Korea, the Philippines, China, Burma, Indonesia, and other Japanese

Burma   that Burma is edging toward ethnic cleansing in its treatment of Muslim Rohingya people. The New York Times reports villages being burned to the ground, allegations of the slaughter of children by the military, the denial of access to aid workers, and thousands of people fleeing

Rohingya   do everything we can to ensure that the butchers of Burma suffer a similar fate.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  -violent struggle, and actually, this is why the Burma Task Force takes up their cause, because they are the only non-violent minority that is being persecuted in Burma. This is our stance on the situation. However, there appears now to be an actual group there. We are skeptical about

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Thank you. I apologize for the delay and appreciate your understanding. I would really like to thank the subcommittee for inviting us here to share an update on the Rohingya crisis. My name, as you said, is Ahmed Ramadan. I'm the outreach coordinator for the Burma Task Force

Canadian Heritage committee   of systemic racism than the genocidal elimination of an entire group based on race, religion, or ethnicity. There's no worse example of that than what is happening to Rohingya Muslims in Burma. The committee can play an extremely important role, because the government that is perpetrating

Human Rights  Mr. Speaker, the crisis facing Rohingya people in Burma, which we consider a genocide, continues, but action at the UN Security Council is being blocked by China. This is tragic, but not much of a surprise, given the treatment of minorities in China, be they Christian, Tibetan

Human Rights   to convene an emergency debate to discuss the ethnic cleansing of Muslim Rohingya in Burma. I would like to add my voice to those of other members, calling on the Burmese government and Burmese military to stop this vicious assault on fundamental human rights. I also call