Advance planning, joint efforts were key: speakers

Limiting Covid-19 Transmission at Rohingya Camps

The Daily Star

July 06, 2020
Unb, Dhaka

Speakers at a virtual discussion lauded the government's advance planning and joint efforts with the UN and humanitarian partners to limit the transmission of coronavirus in the Rohingya camps, saying that this story must be heard globally.

They vowed to continue working together to keep Rohingyas and the host community safe.

CRI hosted the live discussion titled "Let's Talk on Rohingya Response and Covid-19" yesterday.

Foreign Secretary Masud Bin Momen, UNHCR Representative in Bangladesh Steven Corliss, Refugee Relief and Repatriation Commissioner (RRRC) Mahbub Alam Talukder, Medical Officer and IPC focal for Leda ITC Sumaya Tasnim and Rohingya representative Jane Alam took part in the discussion moderated by Showvik Das Tamal.

Could Facebook Help To Establish The Burmese Government’s Intent To Commit Genocide Against The Rohingya Muslims?

Forbes
Ewelina U. Ochab
Policy
Contributor

On June 8, 2020, The Gambia filed an application for discovery with the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. The application asks the Court to compel Facebook to provide information related to the personal Facebook accounts of Myanmar officials. The information that The Gambia seeks is to be used in an action brought by The Gambia against Myanmar in the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague, The Netherlands. 

Rohingya kids, who fled from oppression within ongoing military operations in Myanmars Rakhine ... [+] Getty Images

တပ်မတော်ကကျူးလွန်မှုတွေကိုတာဝန်ခံလာအောင် နိုင်ငံ တကာလက်တွဲဖို့ HRW တိုက်တွန်း

လွတ်လပ်တဲ့အာရှအသံ ( RFA )
မြန်မာဌာန | သတင်းများ
ရဲစည်သူကာ
2020-07-05

ရခိုင်ပြည်နယ်မှာ ၂၀၁၇ ခုနှစ် သြဂုတ်လက ဖြစ်ခဲ့တဲ့ ဂူတာပြင်ကျေးရွာက ရိုဟင်ဂျာတွေကို အစုလိုက် အပြုံ လိုက် သတ်ခဲ့တဲ့ ရာဇဝတ်မှုနဲ့ပတ်သက်လို့ ကျူးလွန်ခဲ့တဲ့ စစ်ဘက်ဆိုင်ရာ အရာရှိ နှစ်ယောက်နဲ့ အခြား အ ဆင့် တစ်ယောက်၊ စုစုပေါင်း သုံးယောက်ကို စစ်ခုံရုံးနဲ့ အရေးယူလိုက်တယ်ဆိုတာဟာ အစိုးရရဲ့ တာဝန်ခံမှုနဲ့ ပတ် သက်လို့ ရှောင်လွှဲတဲ့ လုပ်ရပ်တစ်ခုသာဖြစ်တယ်လို့ HRW လူ့အခွင့်အရေးစောင့်ကြည့်အဖွဲက ဇူ လိုင်လ ၃ ရက်နေ့က ဆောင်းပါးတစ်စောင်ရေးပြီး ထောက်ပြလိုက်ပါတယ်။

The Schoolteacher and the Genocide

The New York Times Magazine

By Sarah A. Topol

Aug. 8, 2019

He dreamed of educating the children in his village. But soon he learned that it was dangerous for the Rohingya to dream.

Futhu in the Kutupalong Rohingya refugee camps near Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. He covered his face for fear of being targeted by the authorities in Myanmar.Credit...Adam Dean for The New York Times

When he was in primary school, Futhu read a story about a girl who named her flowers. She wrote their names in a diary, logged when she planted and watered them and charted how they grew. The story was in a book Futhu’s uncle brought to their village in Myanmar’s western Rakhine State from across the border in Bangladesh — the words in English and in Bengali. Futhu was the first in his extended family to attend school — the first of 22 uncles, countless aunts and cousins — and though he excelled at Burmese and English class, he could not really understand the book on his own. His father was himself illiterate, as were most people in their community. So Futhu asked a village trader who often visited their home to read him the stories in the book, one by one.

Myanmar: Court Martial Latest Accountability Sham

HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH

  July 3, 2020

Convictions Obscure Widespread Military Impunity

Rohingya refugees who fled the Myanmar village of Gu Dar Pyin stand on a hill in Kutupalong refugee camp, Bangladesh, January 14, 2018. © 2018 Manish Swarup/AP Photo 

(Bangkok) – Myanmar’s court-martial conviction of three military personnel for crimes against ethnic Rohingya reflects ongoing government efforts to evade meaningful accountability, Human Rights Watch said today. Myanmar authorities have repeatedly failed to adequately investigate and prosecute grave abuses against Rohingya in Rakhine State, including crimes against humanity.

မောင်တောကို တရားမဝင် ဝင်လာသူတွေကို ထောင်ဒဏ်ချ

B B C 

ဘီဘီစီ မြန်မာပိုင်း

2020.07.04

နယ်စပ်စည်းရိုးက လုံခြုံရေးအားနည်းတဲ့နေရာတွေကတဆင့် ခိုးဝင်တာတွေရှိနေ

 

ရခိုင်ပြည်နယ် မောင်တောခရိုင်အတွင်းကို ဘင်္ဂလားဒေ့ရှ် ရိုဟင်ဂျာ ဒုက္ခသည် စခန်းကနေ ပြန်ဝင်လာတဲ့ သူတွေကို စတင် တရားစွဲ အပြစ်ပေးနေရာမှာ စုစုပေါင်း ၁၁ ဦးကို အလုပ်နဲ့ ထောင်ဒဏ် ၆ လစီချမှတ်ခဲ့ပါ တယ်။

Myanmar’s “clearance operations” dimmers hope

dailyobserver
Saturday, 4 July, 2020
Mohammad Zaman

In recent weeks, Myanmar military launched massive offensive against the Arakan Army (AA), a rebel group seeking greater autonomy for ethnic Rohingyas in Rakhine state. The month-long crackdown, according to available reports, involved indiscriminate fire and burning of villages forcing more than 10,000 people fleeing their homes. The offensive was in retaliation of the ambush carried out earlier by the AA that killed three border police and a civilian driver. According to many observers, the ultimate intent of   Myanmar is to expel the entire Rohingya population.                                                                                                 
                                                                                                                          Dr Mohammad Zaman

#rohingyalivesmatter

The New Nation
Shah Muhammad Shirajis Shadik
04th-Jul-2020

Raise Voice Against Verified Persecution

 

A public uprising is shaking the world right now, being originated in the USA, spread through the borders, amid a highly communicable COVID-19 pandemic, from the same old ghost of xenophobia that was declined in the long past. Hashtag #blacklivesmatter is now rampant on every particular media, social media along with the customary print and electronic media. The unrest is attaining its triumphs in its melee as well. Following the story, other communities of beforehand marginalized people around the world, having a longstanding history of deprivation, persecution, and oppression, are trying to focus their issues with similar hashtags as well. For example, the Indian minority Muslims are hovering their issues with hashtag #muslimlivesmatter, Kashmiri peoples' issues did come up with hashtag #kashmirilivesmatter. The overturning issues of occupied Palestinian people had its induction with hashtag #paletinianslivesmatter to protest against their occupiers.

တပ်သားသုံးဦးက အဓမ္မပြုကျင့်ခဲ့ကြောင်း ရသေ့တောင် အမျိုးသမီး ပြောကြား၊ တပ်မတော် ငြင်းဆို

လွတ်လပ်တဲ့အာရှအသံ ( RFA )
မြန်မာဌာန | သတင်းများ
2020-07-03
 

ရခိုင်ပြည်နယ် ရသေ့တောင်မြို့နယ်တောင်ပိုင်း မူစဲကမ်းပေါ်မှာရှိတဲ့ ဦးဂါကျေးရွာက အမျိုးသမီးတစ်ဦးကို ပြီးခဲ့တဲ့ဇွန်လ ၃၀ ရက်နေ့ညက တပ်မတော်သား ၃ ဦးက အဓမ္မပြုကျင့်ခဲ့တယ်လို့ ကာယကံရှင်ကပြောဆို ပေမယ့် တပ်မ တော်ကတော့ ဒါဟာ တပ်မတော်အပေါ် ပြည်သူလူထုအထင်အမြင်လွဲမှားစေဖို့ လုပ်ကြံဖန် တီးမှု တရပ်သာဖြစ်တယ်လို့ တုံ့ပြန်ပါတယ်။

Rescued Rohingya grateful for local support after 120 days stranded at sea

European Commission
ECHO
 3 Jul 2020

 EU partner IOM Indonesia continues to provide round-the-clock care to the 99 Rohingya rescued and allowed to disembark in North Aceh last week after more than 120 days stranded at sea. Concerns are raising about another boat with 500 Rohingya on board, according to authorities in Jakarta.

Malaysian officials have also reported that at least 300 are on a vessel off the Coast of Koh Adang Island in Thailand. No further details are available but roughly, 1,400 Rohingya have been stranded at sea during the 2020 sailing season, which typically ends with the arrival of the monsoon in late May. At least 130 have died according to various estimates.

Brands Declare Black Lives Matter, but Activists See a 'Double Standard' in Asia

VICE
Andrew Nachemson
July 2, 2020


Despite public shows of support for the movement for racial justice taking place around the world, some corporations have been complicit in racial violence in the world's most populous continent.

Arsenal's German defender Shkodran Mustafi (C) takes a knee to show support for the Black Lives Matter movement and as a protest against racism before kick off of an English Premier League football match on June 20, 2020. (Photo by Gareth Fuller / POOL / AFP) 

As countries around the world reckon with widespread protests against centuries of systemic racism, high-profile companies have found themselves scrambling to adjust to the new paradigm.

Some have scrubbed long-overlooked offensive mascots, while many others have used the platform afforded by major brand recognition to voice their support for the movement.

ရခိုင်ကမ်းလွန်မှာ အိန္ဒိယ ရေနံကုမ္ပဏီ ရင်းနှီးမြှုပ်နှံမှု ဒေါ်လာ သန်း၁၂၀ကျော်ထပ်တိုး

KUMUDRA
သတင်း
ကိုဖိုးပိန် 
3 JUL 2020

ရန်ကုန်၊ဇွန်-၂၈။ မြန်မာနိုင်ငံ ရခိုင်ကမ်းလွန်ရေနံနှင့်သဘာဝဓါတ်ငွေ့လုပ်ကွက်တွေဖြစ်တဲ့ဘလော့ခ် အေ-ဝမ်း နဲ့အေ-သရီး(Block A-1, A-3) တို့မှာ နောက်ထပ်ရင်းနှီးမြုပ်နှံမှ ုအမေရိကန်ဒေါ် လာ သန်း ၁၂၁.၂၇ ကို အိန္ဒိယ အစိုးရက ခွင့်ပြုလိုက်ပါတယ်။

ရိုဟင်ဂျာတွေ လူကုန်ကူးတဲ့ဂိုဏ်း မလေးရှားမှာ ရုံးတင်စစ် ဆေး

VOA 

ဗွီအိုအေ (မြန်မာဌာန)
03 ဇူလိုင်၊ 2020
မအေးအေးမာ

"Husen maungdaw gang" လူကုန်ကူးဂိုဏ်း ကို စစ်ဆင်းရေးလုပ်ပြီး ဖမ်းဆီးလာတဲ့ မြင်ကွင်း။ (ဇူလိုင် ၀၃၊ ၂၀၂၀) 

 

ရိုဟင်ဂျာတွေကို လူကုန်ကူးနေတဲ့ Husen maungdaw gang လူကုန်ကူးဂိုဏ်းဝင်တွေကို မလေးရှားနိုင်ငံမှာ တရားရုံးတင်စစ်ဆေးတဲ့သတင်းကို ဗွီအိုအေမြန်မာပိုင်းသတင်းထောက် မအေးအေးမာက တင်ပြပါမယ်။ 

OP-ED: What is the future of the Rohingya?

Dhaka Tribune

Julian Francis
July 2nd, 2020

Many refugees absolutely refuse to go back to Myanmar REUTERS

Putting the worst refugee crisis of our times in historical context

On June 29, I was very glad to attend an important online discussion in recognition of World Refugee Day, which was organized by the Centre for the Study of Genocide and Justice and the Liberation War Museum.

The guest of honour was the Honourable Foreign Secretary Masud Bin Momen, who gave the keynote address, and the function was also addressed by Steven Corliss, UNHCR’s Bangladesh country representative and the country representative of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature, Raquibul Amin.

44st Session of the Human Rights Council Oral update on the human rights situation of Rohingya people (S-27/1)

UNITED NATIONS

HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL

Statement by Michelle Bachelet, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights

Geneva, 30 June 2020

Madam President,

Excellencies,

I now present the oral report on the Rohingya people of Myanmar requested by the Council in resolution A/HRC/S-27/1 of December 2017.

Regrettably, I must once again report that the human rights situation for Rohingyas in Rakhine State has not improved, and that conditions for their safe, dignified and sustainable return from Bangladesh are still not in place.

China supplying funds, missiles and other sophisticated weaponry to terrorist group Arakan Army to weaken India and Myanmar: Report

OpIdia
2 July, 2020
OpIndia Staff

China had earlier this year, managed to bring in a huge consignment of weapons and ammunition through Bangladesh’s Chittagong Hill Tracts to Myanmar. 

Arakan Army

 

News reports published in Myanmar recently have accused China of supplying sophisticated arms to Arakan Army armed group, a declared terrorist organisation in Myanmar, and other armed groups in Myanmar to have an upper hand over India and Myanmar.

According to military sources in Myanmar, approximately 95 per cent of Arakan Army funding comes from China. It further confirmed that the Arakan Army has approximately 50 MANPADS (Man-Portable Air Defense Systems) surface-to-air missiles. 

EU commits € 32mn for host communities, Rohingyas in Cox’s Bazar

UNB
UNB News
Dhaka
July 02, 2020

The European Union (EU) has announced €32 million or Tk 304 crore in funding to contribute to the needs of Bangladeshi host communities of Cox’s Bazar and Rohingya in the camps.

The allocation came in support to the generous efforts deployed by Bangladesh by hosting around one million Rohingya.

Some € 12 million or Tk 114 crore will be dedicated to COVID-19 responses and € 20 million or Tk 190 crore will address the need of both host communities and Rohingya through an integrated approach on improved access to basic services in education, food security and nutrition, water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) and enhance their resilience and protection.

Rohingya refugee claims child barred from attending PAS kindergarten due to Covid-19

malaymail

Wednesday, 01 Jul 2020 

BY YISWAREE PALANSAMY

General view of a Rohingya settlement in Bandar Baru Sentul, Kuala Lumpur April 24, 2020. — Picture Hari Anggara

KUALA LUMPUR, July 1 — A Rohingya father has claimed today that his six-year-old child has been barred from attending a kindergarten which reopened today, allegedly due to an internal policy against foreigners who are deemed at high risk of contracting Covid-19.

The father said he was informed of the ban by one of the teachers in the PASTI Islamic kindergarten that is managed by the Youth wing of Islamist party PAS, after he enquired about its reopening.

UN, ASEAN should work together

NEWAGE
Diplomatic Correspondent
 Jul 01,2020

The UN and ASEAN should work together on establishing a civilian oversight mechanism in Rakhine of Myanmar to address the root causes of the Rohingya crisis as well as building confidence among the members of the community to go back home, local and foreign experts said in Dhaka on Monday.

They were speaking in an online discussion on Rohingya people and the role of the UN and ASEAN entitled Rohingya Today organised by Centre for Peace Studies of South Asian Institute of Policy and Governance at North South University

ရိုဟင်ဂျာ မွတ်စလင်တွေ ဆန္ဒမဲပေးခွင့်ရဖို့ တောင်းဆို

လွတ်လပ်တဲ့အာရှအသံ ( RFA )
မြန်မာဌာန | သတင်းများ

01.07.2020

■ ရခိုင်ပြည်နယ်မြောက်ပိုင်းမှာရှိတဲ့ ရိုဟင်ဂျာ မွတ်စလင်တွေကို လာမယ့် ၂၀၂၀ ရွေးကောက်ပွဲမှာ ဆန္ဒမဲ ပေးခွင့်ပေးဖို့နဲ့ ဝင်ရောက်ရွေးချယ်ပိုင်ခွင့်ပေးဖို့ ပြည်ထောင်စု ရွေးကောက်ပွဲကော်မရှင်ကို ဒီမိုကရေစီနဲ့ လူ့ အခွင့်ရေးပါတီက တောင်းဆိုလိုက်ပါတယ်။