‘Kyaukphyu BRI Projects a Bigger Threat Than Myitsone’

The Irrawaddy
By The Irrawaddy 8 April 2019 
Interview

 Journalist and author Bertil Lintner in interviewed with The Irrawaddy. / The Irrawaddy

Amid growing public concern about Chinese-backed development projects in Myanmar, State Counselor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi will leave for Beijing late this month to attend the second Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) summit. During her meeting with the Chinese President Xi Jinping there, she is quite likely to discuss the Myitsone Dam, the most controversial Chinese project in the country so far. As well the Myitsone dam, another important China-backed development project is now underway on the shore of Bay of Bengal in Myanmar’s western state of Rakhine. Prior to Daw Aung San Suu Kyi’s visit to China, The Irrawaddy talks to Bertil Linter, a Swedish journalist and author who has been covering Myanmar and Southeast Asia for nearly four decades, on China’s major involvement—from development projects to the peace process—in the country.

အင်းစိန်ရောက် ဒေါက်တာအေးမောင်၊ ဝေဟင်အောင် တို့ မိသားစုနှင့်တွေ့

Myanmar Now 

By ကျော်လင်း

8/04/2019

၂၀၁၅ ခုနှစ် ရခိုင်အမျိုးသားပါတီ စည်းရုံးရေးခရီးစဉ်တစ်ခုအတွင်း ဒေါက်တာအေးမောင် ဟောပြောနေစဉ် (ဓာတ်ပုံ - ရခိုင်အမျိုးသားပါတီ) 

ရခိုင်ပြည်နယ် စစ်တွေထောင်မှ ရန်ကုန်အင်းစိန်ထောင်သို့ ပြောင်းရွှေ့ ချုပ်နှောင်ခံနေရသည့် ဒေါက်တာ အေးမောင်၊ စာရေးဆရာ ဝေဟင်အောင်တို့သည် မိသားစုဝင်များနှင့် နေရာသစ်တွင် တွေ့ဆုံခွင့်ရခဲ့သည်။

နယ်စပ်ခြံစည်းရိုး ဖျက်ဝင်လာတဲ့ အာဆာအဖွဲ့ဝင် တယောက် ဖမ်းမိတယ်လို့ အစိုးရထုတ်ပြန်

B B C 

ဘီဘီစီ မြန်မာပိုင်း
8 ဧပြီ 2019

 

ရခိုင်ပြည်နယ် မောင်တောမြို့နယ် မြောက်ပိုင်းမှာ အာဆာအဖွဲ့ဝင် တစ်ဦးနဲ့ မြန်မာနိုင်ငံဘက် ကနေနွား တွ ခိုးယူဖို့ ဝင်လာတဲ့သူတစ်ဦး စုစုပေါင်းနှစ်ဦးကို မြန်မာနယ်စပ် လုံခြုံရေး တပ်ဖွဲ့ဝင်တွေက ဖမ်းဆီးမိ ခဲ့ပါ တယ်။

ဘူးသီးတောင် ပြင်ရှည်ကျေးရွာမှ အိမ်ထောင်ရှိအမျိုး သမီးတစ်ဦးကို စစ်သားတစ်ဦးမှ အတင်း အဓမ္မပြုကျင့် ရန် ကြိုးပမ်းမှု ဖြစ်ပွား

နိရဉ္စရာ
နိရဉ္စရာ၊ဧပြီ ၈/ ၂၀၁၉
သိန်းဇော်(မောင်တော)

                                    ( ဓာတ်ပု- ပြစ်မှုကျူးလွန်သူအား တပ်ရင်းသို့ အပ်ရန် ရွာသားများ ယူဆောင်လာစဉ်)

 

 ရခိုင်ပြည်နယ်၊ ဘူးသီးတောင်မြို့နယ်၊ ပြင်ရှည်ကျေးရွာမှ အိမ်ထောင်ရှိ အမျိုးသမီးတစ်ဦးအား စစ်သား တစ်ဦးမှ အတင်းအဓမ္မပြုကျင့်ရန် ကြိုးပမ်းမှုဖြစ်ပွားခဲ့ကြောင်း သတင်းရရှိသည်။

ဘူးသီးတောင် ပြင်ရှည်ကျေးရွာ၌ အမျိုးသမီး ၁ဦးအား စစ်သည် ၁ ဦးက ကာယိန္ဒြေ ပျက်ပြားအောင် ကျူး လွန်မှု နှင့်ပတ်သက်၍ စုံစမ်းစစ်ဆေးလျက်ရှိဟုသ တင်းထုတ်ပြန်

နိရဉ္စရာ
နိရဉ္စရာ၊ ဧပြီ - ၉ / ၂၀၁၉

ရခိုင်ပြည်နယ်၊ ဘူးသီးတောင်မြို့နယ်၊ ပြင်ရှည်ကျေးရွာ၌ ဧပြီ ၇ ရက် မွန်းလွဲပိုင်း တွင် တပ်မတော်သား စစ် သည် ၁ ဦးက အမျိုးသမီး ၁ ဦးအား ကာယိန္ဒြေပျက်ပြားအောင် ကျူးလွန်ခဲ့သည့်ဖြစ်စဉ်နှင့်ပတ်သက်၍ စုံ စမ်း စစ် ဆေးလျက်ရှိကြောင်း တပ်မတော်ကာကွယ်ရေး ဦးစီးချုပ်ရုံးမှ သတင်းထုတ်ပြန်သည်။

Books in English, Burmese prepared for Rohingya children

NEWAGE

Ershad Kamol from Cox’s Bazar | 

Published: 00:29, Apr 09,2019

Cox’s Bazar-based writer and poet Manik Bairagi speaks at a programme launching and storybook sharing event organised by Room to Read at a hotel in Cox’s Bazar on Monday. — New Age photo  

Displaced Rohingya children, living at Cox’s Bazar refugee camps, are going to have an opportunity to develop their learning skills by reading juvenile stories in English and Burmese languages, disclosed officers of Room to Read Bangladesh during a discussion in the district on Monday. 

'Rohingya influx creating hardships in Cox's Bazar'

AA

SM Najmus Sakib

09.04.2019

DHAKA, Bangladesh
 
Refugee settlements depriving local community of cropland and forest resources

 Local residents of Bangladesh’s Cox's Bazar district are facing increased insecurity in food and other resources due to the influx of Rohingya refugees, according to a report.

The refugee influx has aggravated the already fragile situation in one of the poorest and most vulnerable districts in Bangladesh, where most local households derive their livelihoods from farming plots of around a hectare or less and/or fishing, said the Global Network Against Food Crises, which was launched in 2016 by the European Union, UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and UN World Food Programme (WFP).

US assures assistance in resolving Rohingya crisis

Newsnext
April 9th, 2019

Dhaka – The US Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, has said more than 1 million Rohingya Muslims sheltered in Bangladesh must be returned to Myanmar without any form of fear and prosecution.

UN: Recent Myanmar army attack may have killed dozens of Rohingya

Aljazeera
April 9'2019

UN says it has unconfirmed reports suggesting that as many as 30 people may have been killed in Rakhine state attack.

 The western state was at the epicentre of a brutal crackdown by Myanmar's security forces in 2017 [File: Min Kyi Thein/AP]

The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) has said it fears that dozens of Rohingya civilians may have been killed in a military attack in Myanmar's Rakhine state last week, despite official government tolls putting the number of dead at six.

U.N. fears as many as 30 Rohingya killed in Myanmar assault

UPI

By Clyde Hughes

April 9, 2019  

Hundreds of Rohingya enter Bangladesh from Budichong, Myanmar, in 2017. File Photo by Abir Abdullah/EPA-EFE

April 9 (UPI) -- A deadly aerial assault against Rohingya Muslims last week appears to have killed many more than the Myanmar government reported, the United Nations human rights office said Tuesday.

The helicopter attack by the Myanmar military killed many Rohingya in Rakhine State. The government said six people died, but the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights said as many as 30 were killed.

Malaysia Says 200 Rohingya Migrants Still at Sea After Latest Arrival

NEWS18
Reuters
Updated:April 8, 2019,

Scores of Rohingya Muslims have boarded boats in recent months to try to reach Malaysia, part of what authorities fear could be a new wave of people smuggling by sea after a 2015 crackdown on trafficking.

Kuala Lampur: Malaysian authorities on Monday were on the lookout for boats believed to be carrying up to 200 Rohingya after dozens of migrants were found near a beach in the country's north.

Scores of Rohingya Muslims have boarded boats in recent months to try to reach Malaysia, part of what authorities fear could be a new wave of people smuggling by sea after a 2015 crackdown on trafficking.

Rohingya, trade to dominate Momen-Pompeo talks

Dhaka Tribune
Brajesh Upadhyay, Washington
Published at  April 8th, 2019

                           Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen and US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo
Foreign Minister Momen arrived in Washington DC on Sunday

The Rohingya crisis and US investments in Bangladesh will top the agenda when Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen meets US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, at the State Department, on Monday.

Race, Ethnicity, and Culture: How do Rohingya Explain Concepts that Undermine their Existence?

THE GLOBAL POST
By Cresa Pugh
April 9, 2019

Myanmar Rohingya refugees in a refugee camp in Teknaf, in Bangladesh's Cox's Bazar. Photo: Munir Uz Zaman, AFP

Following a series of state-sponsored military campaigns involving torture, rape, and mass killings, nearly 800,000 Rohingya, Myanmar’s largest Muslim ethnic minority group, have fled the country since August 2017.

In addition to these attacks, Rohingya and other Muslims throughout the Asian country have, over the last seven years, been the target of intercommunal violence at the hands of Buddhist nationalists.

Leaked documents show Malaysia might have changed its mind on ratifying Rome Statute after fears it could leave the King open to court prosecution

Business insider 

Singapore

Rachel Genevieve Chia

April 8, 2019

Malaysia has decided not to ratify the Rome Statute, a treaty established in 2002 that governs an international court used to try war crimes committed by country leaders or governments.Reuters

Malaysia’s sudden U-turn over ratifying the Rome Statute may have to do with a briefing that spooked leaders into believing the move would leave the King open to prosecution in the International Criminal Court (ICC), according to leaked documents.

37 Rohingya Muslims found on Malaysian beach

ALARABIA

Reuters, 

Kuala Lumpur Monday, 

8 April 2019

 

 

Thirty-seven people believed to be Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar were found on a beach in northern Malaysia on Monday, police said, the latest arrivals in what authorities fear could be a new wave of people smuggling by sea.

Dozens of Rohingya in Myanmar and Bangladesh have boarded boats in recent months to try to reach Malaysia, which had seen a decline in arrivals after a 2015 crackdown on trafficking.

37 Rohingya found in Perlis, says report

THE MALAYSIAN INSIGHT
Published on 8 Apr 2019

A boat laden with Rohingya migrants intercepted by Thai authorities last month. – EPA pic, April 8, 2019.

AUTHORITIES found 37 people, believed to be Rohingya from Myanmar, on a beach in Perlis today, Reuters reports.

This is the second landing on the same beach since last month, sparking fears of a new wave of people smuggling by sea, the new agency reports.

Link : https://www.themalaysianinsight.com/s/146294

‘Sold Like Fish’ Report Claims Crimes Against Humanity Committed

The Organization for World Peace 

7 Apr, 2019
Current Events / Myanmar
by Laura O'Dwyer

A report based on a multi-year independent investigation had been released by the Human Rights Commission of Malaysia (SUHAKAM), and human rights advocacy group Fortify Rights on Wednesday, March 20. The 121-page report, titled ‘Sold Like Fish’ focuses on the human trafficking of Rohingya refugees from Myanmar and Bangladesh to Malaysia from 2012 to 2015. It releases unpublished evidence of the human rights violations that occurred, including 270 interviews conducted with survivors and witnesses of the human trafficking, as well as governmental officials.

Malaysia says 200 Rohingya migrants still at sea after latest arrival

REUTERS
April 8, 2019 /

Rozanna Latiff

 

KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysian authorities on Monday were on the lookout for boats believed to be carrying up to 200 Rohingya after dozens of migrants were found near a beach in the country’s north.

A group believed to be Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar are seen in a border security office, before being handed over to the immigration authorities, in Kuala Perlis, Malaysia April 8, 2019 in this picture obtained from social media. MOHD HARITH ROSLI/via REUTERS

Scores of Rohingya Muslims have boarded boats in recent months to try to reach Malaysia, part of what authorities fear could be a new wave of people smuggling by sea after a 2015 crackdown on trafficking.

Bangladesh police stop 115 Rohingya refugees seeking to reach Malaysia

Prothum Alo------ 
AFP |
Publication date 08 April 2019 |

Bangladesh police have prevented 115 Rohingya refugees from being smuggled to Malaysia in rickety fishing boats, officials said on Saturday, but no suspected traffickers were detained.

The group from the Kutupalong camp near Bangladesh’s border with Myanmar – the biggest refugee settlement in the world – were stopped as they headed to boats in the Bay of Bengal.

Myanmar says six Rohingya killed in attack were 'with insurgents'

Frontier
MYANMAR
Monday, April 08, 2019
By AFP

A Myanmar border guard policeman stands near a group of Rohingya Muslims in front of their homes during a government-organised visit for journalists to Buthidaung Township in January. (AFP)

  
YANGON — The Myanmar army said Friday that six Rohingya killed by helicopter gunfire in restive Rakhine state were working with a rebel group, the latest escalation in violence that the UN says "may constitute war crimes".

Ethnic and religious tensions divide western Rakhine State, where the army forced out some 740,000 Rohingya Muslims in 2017 in a brutal crackdown.