PM assures Liew on Rohingya refugees

Daily Express
Wednesday, July 15, 2020
By: NST

Kuala Lumpur: Malaysia will not send any illegal immigrant who arrived here via boat back out to sea – including the 300 Rohingya refugees who entered the country’s waters last June. Instead, Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin said the government will look for an appropriate solution for their situation. “The government had never planned on sending the Rohingya illegal immigrants back out to the open sea,” he said when giving a parliamentary reply.

Why war never ends in Myanmar?

Jul 15, 2020
By Cardinal Charles Bo

Buddhist, Christian and Muslim people of Myanmar, with ethnic leaders, can live the message that the world longs to hear 

We are weary of war, worn down by enmities. War disgraces everyone. Why is it that Myanmar’s conflicts never end? Where does responsibility lie?

Of course one may accuse the belligerence of the Tatmadaw, even her obstinacy in refusing a full ceasefire to allow the nation to cope with the pandemic. One may deplore the faint authority of the civilian government, or the lack of due process in the judicial system. One may accuse ethnic leaders and truant cronies who benefit too much from trade in jade or drugs to desist. One may deplore that we religious leaders are too timid in protesting injustice.

Refugees: Humanity approach is most appropriate way

NEW

STRAITSTIMES

July 14, 2020

File Photo: In this picture taken on May 2, 2020, Rohingya refugees stranded at sea are seen on a boat near the coast of Cox's Bazar. - Dozens of Rohingya refugees believed to have come from two boats stranded at sea for weeks as they tried to reach Malaysia landed on the Bangladesh coast on May 2, Rohingya community leaders said. (Photo by STR / AFP) 

Letters: Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin's statement that Malaysia will not send refugees who come by boats back to the sea is most welcome.

Applying a humanitarian approach is appropriate while seeking for a better solution depending on the situation.

Malaysia needs to act with caution so as not to be seen as violating international law, what more as an Islamic country that should act in accordance with Islamic principles.

1.1 million Rohingya refugee is now out of thinking amid the pandemic

moderndiplomacy
Mohammad Kepayet
July 15, 2020

Rohingya refugees fleeing conflict and persecution in Myanmar (file photo). IOM/Mohammed

Next August will be the third anniversary of the Rohingya genocide and the forcible exile. Bangladesh has given shelter to Rohingyas who fled Myanmar in 2017. Asia never saw that amount of refuge at the same time after the liberation war of Bangladesh. Rohingya repatriation has been discussed at various times. Some discussions are in process. But suddenly the coronavirus invades the repatriation debate. So the Rohingya repatriation process is coming to a halt. From the world media to the UN and all the powerful countries are now busy dealing with the Covid-19 pandemic.

သတင်းစာ ( မတ်လ ၂၀၁၅ )

ၿအောက်ဖေါ်ပြပါ ကော်လံများရှိ သတင်းစာများကို ကလစ် လုပ်၍ အသေးစိတ် ဖတ်ရှုနိုင်ပါသည်။

သတင်းစာ	မြန်မာ့အလင်း		သတင်းစာ	ကြေးမုံ
ထုတ်ဝေသည့်နေ့			ထုတ်ဝေသည့်နေ့

ရိုဟင်ဂျာတွေကို မဲပေးခွင့်ပြုဖို့ မြန်မာဆိုင်ရာ ကုလအထူး ကိုယ်စားလှယ် တိုက်တွန်း

လွတ်လပ်တဲ့အာရှအသံ( RFA )
မြန်မာဌာန | သတင်းများ
ရဲခေါင်မြင့်မောင်
2020-07-14

လာမယ့် နိုဝင်ဘာလမှာ မြန်မာနိုင်ငံမှာ ကျင်းပမယ့် ရွေးကောက်ပွဲဟာ လွတ်လပ်ပြီး တရားမျှတတဲ့ ရွေး ကောက်ပွဲဖြစ်ဖို့အတွက် ရိုဟင်ဂျာတွေကို မဲပေးခွင့်ပြုဖို့လိုတယ်လို့ မြန်မာနိုင်ငံ လူ့အခွင့်အရေးဆိုင်ရာအထူး ကိုယ်စားလှယ် မစ္စတာ သောမတ် အင်ဒရူးက ပြောလိုက်ပါတယ်။ ဇူလိုင်လ ၁၃ရက်နေ့က ကုလသမဂ္ဂ လူ့အခွင့်အရေးကောင်စီရဲ့ ပုံမှန်အစည်းအဝေးမှာ မြန်မာနိုင်ငံရဲ့ လူ့အခွင့်အရေးအခြေအနေတိုးတက်မှုနဲ့ ပတ် သက်ပြီး မစ္စတာ သောမတ် အင်ဒရူးက နှုတ်နဲ့ အစီရင်ခံစာတင်သွင်းမှု ပြုလုပ်ခဲ့ပြီးတဲ့နောက်၊ မနေ့က ပြု လုပ် တဲ့ ကုလအဖွဲ့ဝင်နိုင်ငံတွေနဲ့ နိုင်ငံတကာ အဖွဲ့အစည်းတွေနဲ့ စကားဝိုင်းမှာ အခုလို ပြောဆိုခဲ့ တာဖြစ်ပါ တယ်။

မြန်မာကို ကမ္ဘာကပိုနားလည်လာအောင် တံခါးဖွင့်ထားဖို့လို (မြန်မာဆိုင်ရာ ကုလလူ့အခွင့်အရေးအထူးကိုယ်စားလှယ် သစ်)

VOA
ဗွီအိုအေ (မြန်မာဌာန)
15 ဇူလိုင်၊ 2020
အင်ကြင်းနိုင်

ဇူလိုင်လ ၁၃ ရက်နေ့က ကုလသမဂ္ဂလူ့အခွင့်အရေး အထူးကိုယ်စားလှယ် အသစ် Thomas Andrews ဗွီဒီယိုက တဆင့် အစီရင်ခံပြောကြား

နိုင်ငံတော် အတိုင်ပင်ခံ ပုဂ္ဂိုလ် ဒေါ်အောင်ဆန်းစုကြည် ဦးဆောင်တဲ့ အရပ်သားအစိုးရအနေနဲ့ သူတို့လက်ရှိ ရပ်တည်နေရတဲ့ အနေအထားကို ကမ္ဘာက ပိုမိုနားလည်လာစေဖို့ဆိုရင် တံခါးတွေဖွင့်ထားဖို့ အကောင်းဆုံး နည်းလမ်းဖြစ်တယ်လို့မြန်မာနိုင်ငံဆိုင်ရာ ကုလသမဂ္ဂလူ့အခွင့်အရေး အထူးကိုယ်စားလှယ် အသစ် Thomas Andrews က ပြောကြားလိုက်ပါတယ်။

Done Paik and Kyein Karli residents flee as fighting erupts between Inn Dinn and Koe Tan Kauk

Narinjara
Kaing Lu Hla (Yoe Ma Myay)
Narinjara News,
13 July 2020

Clashes between the Tatmadaw and the AA took place today on the border between Maungdaw and Rathedaung townships, according to reports from locals. Fighting occurred between Maungdaw’s Inn Din village and Ko Tan Kauk which lies in Rathedaung.

One resident from Koe Tan Kauk says he heard the sound of shooting from around 10am to around midday. After a heavy downpour the shooting had stopped, he said.

Covid-19 And The Rohingya: Hunger, exploitation, hate crimes and xenophobia

The Daily Star
C R Abrar
 July 14, 2020

“What these youth want is to thrive as human beings, to realise their innate potentials, not merely to survive.” Photo: Anisur Rahman 

"We are the same human being like you and need the same basic rights which you enjoy. Please don't hate us. We don't want to be a burden. Allow us to study and work, and stand by us. We will surely return home."

This was the ardent appeal of Sharifah Shakirah, who fled to Malaysia from Buthidaung township in Myanmar at the age of six. Sharifah was joined by four other Rohingya youth at an eSymposium on June 9 to share their experiences of the Covid-19 situation in their respective countries of asylum.

မြန်မာနိုင်ငံ စစ်ဘက်ဆိုင်ရာ တရားမျှတမှု ရှာဖွေရေးစနစ် နှင့် အပြည်ဆိုင်ရာ တရားရုံး၏ ကြားဖြတ်စီမံဆောင်ရွက် အမိန့်အား လိုက်နာဖေါ်ဆောင်မှု အလားအလာတို့အပေါ် လေ့လာသုံးသပ်ခြင်း

Emergency: Rohingya crisis - WHO Bangladesh situation report #13, 08 July 2020 (Period covered: Week 27, 29 June to 05 July 2020)

WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION
WHO
9 Jul 2020

25 Rohingya children arrived in Aceh without parents: Retno Marsudi

ANTARA NEWS
9th July 2020

Volunteers of the Indonesian Red Cross (PMI) in Lhokseumawe, Aceh, distribute basic necessities, such as food and clothes for prayers, to Rohingya refugees. ANTARA/HO-The Indonesian Red Cross (PMI) Public Relations 

" There are 25 children, aged 5-17 years, (who have) arrived without accompanying families in this group"

Jakarta (ANTARA) - Twenty-five Rohingya children, aged between 5 and 17 years, who are currently being sheltered in Aceh arrived without their parents, according to Indonesian Foreign Affairs Minister Retno Marsudi.

"There are 25 children, aged 5-17 years, (who have) arrived without accompanying families in this group," she told the press at the Presidential Palace here on Thursday.

Rohingya-based Party Urges Myanmar to Allow The Muslim Minority to Vote And Run For Office

Radio Free Asia
2020-07-09

A Rohingya Muslim woman displays her "white card" in western Myanmar's Rakhine state in an undated photo. RFA

A political party representing Myanmar’s persecuted ethnic Rohingya is pressing election authorities to allow members of the Muslim minority who hold temporary “white card” IDs to vote and to run in November nationwide elections.

Myanmar’s treatment of the Rohingya — more than 740,000 of whom were driven out of their communities in northern Rakhine state in a military-led crackdown and to refuge in Bangladesh in 2017 — has brought Western sanctions and war crimes charges against the country’s military in international courts.

Why Pakistan must build the Shri Krishna Mandir in Islamabad

THE EXPRESS TRIBUNE
Umair Zafar Malik
July 10, 2020

A view of a Hidnu temple pictured in Mithi. PHOTO: AFP 

It is a cruel irony that minorities in Pakistan face the kind of discrimination that Pakistan was created to abolish 

  

The recent fiasco surrounding the construction of Shri Krishna Mandir in Islamabad has once again highlighted the fault lines that have hamstrung Pakistan for decades. What was expected to be a symbol of religious tolerance and pluralism, has quickly turned into an ugly display of bigotry and narrow-mindedness. The current government, in its first two years in the office, had demonstrated an inclination to right the historical wrongs committed against Pakistan’s religious minorities.

တရားမဝင်ရောက်လာတဲ့ မွတ်စလင်တွေကို ထောင်ဒဏ်ချ မှတ်

လွတ်လပ်တဲ့အာရှအသံ ( RFA )
မြန်မာဌာန | သတင်းများဖြူဖြူခိုင်
2020-07-10
 ဘင်္ဂလားဒေ့ရှ်နိုင်ငံကနေ တရားမဝင်ခိုးဝင်လာတဲ့ ရိုဟင်ဂျာဒုက္ခသည် ၂၁ ဦးကို ပြီးခဲ့တဲ့ ဇူလိုင်လ ၆ ရက်နေ့က လူဝင်မှုကြီးကြပ်ရေးဥပေဒပုဒ်မတွေနဲ့ မောင်တောမြို့နယ်တရားရုံးက ထောင်ဒဏ် ၆ လစီ အသီးသီး ချမှတ်လိုက်တယ်လို့ မောင်တောမြို့နယ် ဥပဒေအထာက်အကူပြု ဥက္ကဋ္ဌ ဦးခင်ဝင်းက ပြောပါတယ်။

ရိုဟင်ဂျာဒုက္ခသည်ကယ်ဆယ်တဲ့ အင်ဒိုနီးရှားကို ကန် ချီးကျူး

VOA

 ဗွီအိုအေ (မြန်မာပိုင်း)
10 ဇူလိုင်၊ 2020 

ရိုဟင်ဂျာဒုက္ခသည်များကို အင်ဒိုနီးရှားရဲက မှတ်ပုံတင် စိစစ်နေစဉ်

 

အင်ဒိုနီးရှားရေပြင်ကို ဇွန်လ ၂၄ ရက်နေ့က ရောက်လာတဲ့ ရိုဟင်ဂျာဒုက္ခသည် ၉၉ ယောက်နဲ့ ပတ်သက်ပြီး အင်ဒိုနီးရှားအစိုးရနဲ့ Aceh ဒေသအာဏာပိုင်တွေရဲ့ တုံ့ပြန်ဆောင်ရွက်မှုအတွက် အမေရိကန်ပြည်ထောင်စုက ချီးကြူး ဂုဏ်ပြုကြောင်း ဇူလိုင်လ ၉ ရက်နေ့မှာ အမေရိကန် နိုင်ငံခြားရေးဝန်ကြီးဌာန ပြောခွင့်ရ Morgan Ortagus က ကြေညာချက် ထုတ်ပြန်ပြောဆိုပါတယ်။

Myanmar Army Actions in Rakhine State Should be Tried as ‘War Crimes,’ Says Amnesty

Radio Free Asia
2020-07-08 

Houses burn in abandoned Letka village in Mrauk-U township amid armed conflict in western Myanmar's Rakhine state, May 16, 2020. Residents fled the community in April 2019 following clashes between Myanmar and ethnic rebel forces, and sought shelter in displacement camps.
Associated Press

Myanmar’s army has shelled villages and burned homes in Rakhine state in recent months, killing and displacing civilians in “attacks that amount to war crimes” that should be tried by the International Criminal Court, Amnesty International said Wednesday.

Rohingya refugee crisis: “I want to be educated and become a doctor”

DOCTORS OF THE WORLD

News Article
3rd July 2020

Doctors of the World/Médecins du Monde is responding to COVID-19 in the sprawling refugee camps of Cox’s Bazar, southeastern Bangladesh, which are home to about one million Rohingya refugees.

Our teams work with Rohingya volunteers and our local partner PULSE Bangladesh to improve healthcare in the camps and raise awareness about COVID-19 so that residents can protect themselves.

Tasmin (not her real name) is a young Rohingya woman who has volunteered as a youth educator. She shared her story with us, just prior to COVID-19’s arrival in Cox’s Bazar.

COVID-19: Preparedness and response for the Rohingya refugee camps and host communities in Cox’s Bazar District

Weekly Update #17
26 June to 2 July 2020

Move Rohingya from flood-prone island: HRW urges Bangladesh

Aljazeera 
9th July2020

Rights group accuses authorities of using pandemic to detain refugees after 300 of them kept on Bhashan Char island.

View of the island of Bhasan Char in the Bay of Bengal, Bangladesh February 14, 2018 [File: Reuters]

Human Rights Watch has called on Bangladesh to move more than 300 Rohingya refugees, including children, to the camps in Cox's Bazaar district, more than two months after they were quarantined on a small flood-prone island in the Bay of Bengal.