Rohingya solidarity rally in Jakarta, Indonesia on September 4th. This photo accompanied one of the countless articles describing the political eclipse of Aung San Suu Kyi’s reputation as a human rights champion. There is a petition with thousands of signers demanding she be stripped of her Nobel Peace Prize. Why dignify a prize won by Henry Kissinger & countless other war criminals? Let her keep the damn thing.

Exposing her human rights crimes as a front for genocide is part of standing in solidarity with the Rohingya people in their struggle for full human, democratic, civil, & refugee rights.

(Photo by Darren Whiteside/Reuters)

For some, anyone opposing war, occupation, genocide while being Muslim or having brown skin = Al Qaeda or ISIS. As in Syria & Kashmir, so in Burma.

“Replace the words “crusades” & “Cold War” with anti-“Terrorism”. You get the manufactured paranoia & ruling class delusions.

–tweeted by Maung Zarni @drzarni, Burmese Buddhist activist & dissident in exile

Like a forensics investigator, I went hunting down those fake photos that Aung San Suu Kyi is denouncing with such hauteur. All I found was documentation of human rights crimes in Burma, Syria, Palestine, Kashmir, Iraq. What’s fake is that I found none from Afghanistan after 16 years of human rights crimes.

Rohingya solidarity protest in Pakistan (top photo) & in Halabja, Southern Kurdistan (bottom photo). There have been protests in Kashmir, Moscow, Chechnya, Los Angeles, Ireland, Indonesia, Germany, London, & elsewhere.
(Photos from Documenting Oppression Against Muslims DOAM)

Rohingya solidarity protest in Pakistan (top photo) & in Halabja, Southern Kurdistan (bottom photo). There have been protests in Kashmir, Moscow, Chechnya, Los Angeles, Ireland, Indonesia, Germany, London, & elsewhere.

(Photos from Documenting Oppression Against Muslims DOAM)

Solidarity rally at Burmese embassy in London

(Photo by Ro Nay San Lwin)

This photo so simply & so powerfully captures the exhaustion of a mother after she & her little girl crossed the border into Bangladesh. Not just physical exhaustion but emotional depletion & trauma from the nightmare they have lived through, fled from, & survived.

Our deepest sympathy & fullest solidarity.

(Photo by Danish Siddiqui/Reuters)

There are many photos of Rohingya men, young & old, carrying their mothers, presumably for days, & certainly endangering themselves by being slowed & weighted down. Such is the glory of the human being even in the worst of circumstances.

Stop the genocide against the Rohingya people. Full solidarity with their struggle for human, democratic, civil, & refugee rights.

(Photo by Danish Siddiqui/Reuters)

Aung San Suu Kyi is trying to get some mileage out of the fake photo claim. But how does she explain why, according to MSF/Doctors Without Borders, 146,000 Rohingya have now streamed into Bangladesh arriving extremely traumatized & with violence-related injuries?

The MSF mission head in Bangladesh said, “We’ve not had something on this scale here in many years.”

Nidal Ezeddin, board member of White Helmets, with members of Irish Syria Solidarity Movement after White Helmets receive Tipperary Peace Prize.

Never been prouder to have ancestors from Tipperary.

Came across this post from September 7th, 2016 when Kashmiris were sustaining a vicious military crackdown. It’s apropos now to the Rohingya. It is observable that Kashmiris have a remarkable sense of solidarity with others; they aren’t alone in that of course, but they stand out. I’ve had to post less about the Kashmiri struggle to post more about the Rohingya genocide & know no one would respect that more than Kashmiris:
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It’s possible that after nearly nine weeks of almost daily posts about the siege in Kashmir some are thinking ‘Enough already, there are other places in the world. After all, there’s bombing in Syria & wars in several other countries & Israel is firing artillery shells into Gaza from tanks along the apartheid barrier.’

You don’t have to be Kashmiri to think the current military siege against Kashmiri self-determination (which has killed 77 people; injured between 8,000 & 10,000 people, including 664 with pellet injuries to the eyes; permanently disfigured & injured the health of hundreds; disabled & partially or totally blinded hundreds) is one of the most important things going on in the world today. Enough attention cannot be given to it, let alone too much.

Standing with Kashmiris through the duration of this monstrous siege; helping Kashmiri activists get the truth out on social media when there are only lies & silence in mainstream media; trying to broaden & strengthen international solidarity & build solidarity rallies are all the elementary commitments of solidarity. That’s just the way it is.