Tasneem Roc
Tasneem Roc recently appeared in the Paramount Pictures/21 Laps Entertainment feature Love and Monsters, and in Australian TV series Doctor Doctor and The Commons.
In 2021 she will appear in The Bureau Of Magical Things for Nickelodeon/Johnathan M. Shiff. and Warner Bros Pictures/Legendary Pictures feature Godzilla Vs Kong.
Tasneem can be seen in season 5 of Rake for Netflix/ABC Television/Essential Media and Entertainment and international hit Harrow for Disney Media Distribution/ABC Studios International/Hoodlum Entertainment.
She has also appeared in feature films The Little Death, Kath and Kimderella, Not Suitable For Children, and Burning Man.
Tasneem made her acting debut as Thania Saya on the internationally acclaimed television series Heartbreak High. She has appeared in Australian and British dramas Home & Away, Headstart, Sky TV's Dream Team, Spirited, Crownies, Winter, Reef Doctors, Mako Mermaids, Cleverman, and three seasons of the internationally award-winning miniseries East West 101.
Tasneem has a double major in English and Art History from the University of Sydney, and being of Scottish and Karen descent (Burma) has a keen interest in Burma, refugee issues, and women's rights.[1]
Roc's mother, author Margaret Roc, is from Scotland and her father, John Roc, is a Karen from Burma. Her brother is James Roc.
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Tasneem Roc is Campaign manager, Myanmar Campaign Network. Since the 2021 Myanmar coup, Tasneem Roc has been active in a number of groups that support the pro-democracy movement in Myanmar including CRPH/NUG Support Group Australia and Blood Money Campaign (BMC).
Tasneem is also the secretary of the Australian Karen Organisation (AKO) NSW, and the secretary for Friends of TCI Australia, an Australian charity that supports a Karen higher learning institute in a remote area in Eastern Myanmar.[2]
SEARCH National Members Forum, 2024.
Session III (Panel): Peace, solidarity, international justice & an independent foreign policy.
Speakers: Pat Ranald, Bob Makinson, Tasneem Roc, and Marcus Strom.
Pressuring government over Myanmar
The Australian government is under pressure to impose sanctions on Myanmar's military junta and activists are calling on ANZ Bank to reconsider its dealings in the South-East Asian nation amid new revelations about jet fuel supply chains and transactions.
An Amnesty International report released on November 3, 2022, called on the international community to "urgently prevent shipments of aviation fuel from reaching the Myanmar military".
The report found companies involved in supplying aviation fuel were then linked to alleged war crimes and deadly air strikes.
Tasneem Roc — from the Australia-based Myanmar Campaign Network — called on the Australia's federal government to act.
"Strong statements will not save lives, sanctions will save lives," Ms Roc said.
Her group said the country did not produce its own jets, helicopters, tanks nor aviation fuel, and that targeted sanctions on Myanmar military businesses would "cut the flow of foreign revenue the Myanmar junta relies on to purchase arms".
Naw Wahku Shee — from the Karen Peace Support Network — said the latest war crimes were an escalation of ongoing assaults against ethnic groups over decades.
"The drones come every day and night, then the air strikes come," she said.[3]