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Middle East Online::Ignoring Genocide: Rohingya People Deserve to Live

ASEAN must break away from its silence and tediously guarded policies and western countries must be confronted by their own civil societies: no normalization with Rangoon when innocent men, women and children are being burned alive in their own homes, writes Ramzy Baroud.

 

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One fails to understand the unperturbed attitude with which regional and international leaders and organizations are treating the unrelenting onslaught against Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar, formally known as Burma. Numbers speak of atrocities where every violent act is prelude to greater violence and ethnic cleansing. Yet, western governments’ normalization with the Myanmar regime continues unabated, regional leaders are as gutless as ever and even human rights organizations seem compelled by habitual urges to issue statements lacking meaningful, decisive and coordinated calls for action.

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Saudi Arabia silences voice of dissent: activist | The Shia Post

Saudi Arabia silences voice of dissent: activist | The Shia Post | Human Rights and the Will to be free | Scoop.it
An activist, who has been on trial for several months in Saudi Arabia, says the country is attempting to silence the voice of dissent.

 

“We have a number of cases where people are thrown in prison arbitrarily, torture, forced disappearances. … Whatever rights abuses (you could think of), you could find in Saudi Arabia,” said Mohammad Fahad Muflih al-Qahtani, one of Saudi Arabia’s prominent human rights activists, on Wednesday.

In June 2012, Qahtani was charged in a Saudi court on 11 charges including “breaking allegiance to” Saudi King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al Saud.

“Of course, there will be a price to be paid, and we are more than willing to pay that price,” the 46-year-old added.

Meanwhile, Tamara al-Rifai, spokeswoman for Human Rights Watch’s Middle East and North Africa division, also condemned Riyadh for targeting activists.

“This has been a systematic approach by the authorities in Saudi Arabia — namely, the targeting and harassing of activists across the country,” al-Rifai stated.

She added that many people in the Arab kingdom “are being arbitrarily arrested and detained for exercising rights that are stipulated by all international human rights laws” and “the Arab Charter on Human Rights to which Saudi Arabia has adhered.”....

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Saudi Activist Trial Hearing Concluded · Global Voices

Saudi Activist Trial Hearing Concluded · Global Voices | Human Rights and the Will to be free | Scoop.it
The last hearing session of one of Saudi Arabia's rare public trials of two prominent human rights activists Mohammad Al-Qahtani and Abdullah Al-Hamid was held today [Dec 29, 2012] at the Riyadh Criminal Court.
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