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Myanmar Approves Controversial Bills on ‘Race and Religion’ Persecuted minorities
NEW DELHI: This week, Myanmar’s Union Parliament approved two bills that placed restrictions on religious conversion and polygamy. They were the last of four controversial bills concerning race and religion to have sped through the legislature since late last year.
The bills, concerning religious conversion and monogamy, were the last of four bills that made up a legislative package known as the “Race and Religion Protection bills,” which were first put forth by the powerful Buddhist nationalist group Ma Ba Tha in mid-2013 and reached Parliament late last year. The two pieces of legislation restricting interfaith marriage and allowing local government to impose birth-rate limits had already been signed into law, drawing harsh criticism from the international community. Critics claimed the laws could violate women’s rights and risk being used to target minorities.
Rohingya Muslims: Not A Worthwhile Cause For A Nobel Peace Laureate? Aung San Suu Kyi
NEW DELHI: Think Myanmar, formerly known as Burma, and you will automatically think of Aung San Suu Kyi. Suu Kyi emerged from a decades-long term in prison as a symbol of courage, bravery, honesty and democratic principles Bono even wrote a song about her.
Suu Kyi is an active voice critical of the government in Myanmar, sitting in the opposition where she highlights issues such as the slow pace of reform, the need for constitutional change and the importance of human and democratic rights.
What Next For Myanmar? What next
NEW DELHI: Myanmar dominated world headlines as elections concluded with a victory for Aung Sun Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy (NLD), securing a transition of power from President Thein Sein’s Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) which is effectively a political extension of the country’s military.
As Myanmar makes a bolder push toward a democratic future, questions relating to inclusiveness, peace and nation building stem from the fact that several of Myanmar’s diverse ethnic groups have remained absent from the democratic process. This is for two reasons: one, because many ethnic groups continue to wage a war against the State, because of which inhabitants of these war torn areas were not able to participate in the democratic process; and two, the minority Rohingya community are not allowed by the State to participate, being repeatedly denied basic citizenship rights that form fundamental human rights.