Israeli-Palestinian Negotiations – to what ends?

By Dr. Habib Siddiqui

August 10, 2014 

On January 31, 1970, the great philosopher Bertrand Russell wrote a message on the conflict in the Middle East, which was read on February 3, the day after his death, to an International Conference of Parliamentarians meeting in Cairo.He wrote, “The development of the crisis in the Middle East is both dangerous and instructive. For over 20 years Israel has expanded by force of arms. After every stage in this expansion Israel has appealed to “reason” and has suggested “negotiations”. This is the traditional role of the imperial power, because it wishes to consolidate with the least difficulty what it has already taken by violence. Every new conquest becomes the new basis of the proposed negotiation from strength, which ignores the injustice of the previous aggression. The aggression committed by Israel must be condemned, not only because no state has the right to annex foreign territory, but because every expansion is an experiment to discover how much more aggression the world will tolerate.”

Composition of the Muslim Society in Arakan

By Aman Ullah

The building up of the Muslim society in Arakan is a long process of gradual growth. The composition of a society quite naturally changed also deferent from century to century. Two factors were mainly responsible for swelling the ranks of the Muslims in Arakan: (I) the immigration of the Muslims from various countries, and (II) merging of the local populace in the Muslim society after their conversion.

Hasan Ali Vs Union of Burma Criminal Miscellaneous Applications No. 155 and 156 of 1959 of the Supreme Court

Mr. Aman (Education)

In Criminal Miscellaneous Applications No. 155 and 156 of 1959 of the Supreme Court, Hasan Ali and Meher Ali applied for directions in the nature of a writ of Habeas Corpus. According to the affidavits filed, some two hundred persons of Pakistani origin were rounded up in raids in the Akyab district and detained.

UN Envoy Slams 'Deplorable' Conditions in Myanmar Camps

By Richard Finney

2014-07-28

U.N. Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar Yanghee Lee (C) speaks at a press conference prior to her departure from Yangon, July 26, 2014 (AFP)

A senior United Nations envoy on human rights has criticized what she called “deplorable” conditions in displaced-persons camps in Myanmar’s communal-violence-wracked Rakhine state following a 10-day visit in which she also noted “backsliding” on democratic reforms in the formerly military-ruled country.

TOP TEN RAKHINE WAR CRIMINALS BEHIND THE RECENT ROHINGYA MASSACRE: IDENTIFYING INDIVIDUALS AND ORGANIZATIONS FOR WAR CRIMES TRIAL

By Dr. Abid Bahar, 

Crimes against humanity and war crimes were committed in Arakan of Burma. Many international observers of Arakan are asking: What made Arakanese Rakhine population to unitedly fight against their Rohingya neighbors to its ongoing ethnic cleansing? Research shows it is their dream of establishing a Rakhine kingdom that was destroyed by Burmese king in 1784. It is the Rakhine war criminal’s sense of their ethnic identity over humanity that turns them into acting like monsters. It seems like the story of the former Yugoslavia revisits in Arakan again. After all we are all human beings with the darker side of our brain capable of causing death and destruction to our fellow beings. The Reakhine leadership sees Rohingyas in their dehumanized existence sees the Rohingyas as the intruders into Arakan and as the most dreadful enemy in their dream for an eventual independent Rakhine state.