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Aug 22, 2022 8 tweets 8 min read
Our live Q&A session between camp based #Rohingya and the accountability mechanisms has begun.

Victims from within the camp begin by expressing their wish to learn more about the investigations and cases being conducted in their names.

#RohingyaWantJustice Arselan Suleman, counsel for The Gambia before the @CIJ_ICJ answers questions on the progress before the case against #Myanmar before the International Court of Justice.

Explains that #Myanmar must provide its written submissions by April 2023.
Sep 25, 2020 17 tweets 14 min read
#India, #HateCrimes & the new #FCRA law.

A Hate Crime Tracker by @IndiaSpend shows that 90% of religious hate crimes in the last decade have occurred since @narendramodi came to power. 1/16

scroll.in/article/901206… Former Civil Servant & now an anti-hate activist @harsh_mander who runs @karwanemohabbat observed
India has seen several instances of lynchings in which frenzied mobs have targeted people mainly because of their religious or caste identity – for being Muslim or Dalit. 2/16
Sep 12, 2020 4 tweets 10 min read
.@ASEAN @mofakr do clarify how giving an award to CEO of #KBZ bank which funded over $25mn USD to #MyanmarMilitary who in turn is responsible for serious international crimes against #Rohingyas ok? @UN FFM report already names them
How is it fine to support #Hate & #violence? 1/n ImageImage While the #Rohingya community was massacred, forced to flew, and are still struggling to survive, #ASEAN gave an award for 'Inclusion' to one of the biggest corporate funders of Tatmadaw. Is this the kind of "support" victims should expect from Int organisations? @ASEAN 2/n
Sep 5, 2020 4 tweets 6 min read
3 years into the #Rohingya refugee crisis, women, men and children – driven from their homes in #Myanmar into camps across the border in Bangladesh – are more vulnerable than ever, UN agencies have reported - @UN_News_Centre & still international community turns a blind eye? 1/n Image Even after this observation - The Election Commission disqualifying #Rohingya candidates, not allowing the forced refugee, the Rohingya community, who are Myanmar citizens to vote. The continued persecution in Rakhine, burning of villages is still on. Images via @drzarni 2/n ImageImage
Aug 21, 2020 5 tweets 6 min read
Under #FreedomOfInformation we asked @dfat @Australia 's Foreign Minister @MarisePayne why was Senior General Min Aung Hlaing of #Myanmar not added to the to the consolidated list of persons & entities subject to financial #sanctions. While EU, US, UK has already done so.
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VAI represents #Rohingya groups in the Cox Bazar refugee camp who have told us they expect other countries to put pressure on #Myanmar to allow them to return, safely and with full citizenship
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Aug 15, 2020 5 tweets 9 min read
.@Facebook's "unconditional love" for India's ruling party @BJP4India, headed by @narendramodi isn't new.
What's horrifying is that it opposed ban on #BJP politicians with proven track record of #hate & asking for open killings of minorities.
@StopFundingHate @carolecadwalla
1/n Image It's not the first time that this link is exposed. Years before the @WSJ piece Indian journalists @paranjoygt wrote for @newsclickin exposing the links between @BJP4India & @Facebook, especially it's top executives Ankhi Das & Shivnath Thukral.
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Jul 17, 2020 5 tweets 6 min read
In #Kashmir, the Government of India detained political leaders and restricted protests, and telephone and internet services. There were 106 internet shutdowns in India
in 2019, according to @NetShutdowns. #HumanRights & #Democracy report of @FCOHumanRights
@Article14live & the rest of the report talks of #Police trainings, working with Indian Government on 'Strength of Diversity & Inclusion', interfaith events, & religious barriers for minorities.
However, the report completely misses out, has excluded the attacks on #minorities #muslims ...