Amnesty probe reveals global business ties to Myanmar military units accused of human rights abuses

The Telegraph

By Nicola Smith, 
Asia Correspondent and
Julian Ryall Tokyo
10 September 2020

Investigation finds Myanmar military units accused of abuses have links to conglomerate with foreign business partners

Hundreds of thousands of Rohingya were displaced due to an ethnic cleansing campaign Credit: Barcroft Media via Getty Images

A new investigation by Amnesty International has revealed how a secretive Myanmar conglomerate, linked to multiple foreign businesses, has funded the Southeast Asian country’s powerful military, including units accused of human rights abuses and crimes under international law.

Myanmar soldiers confess to mass murder of Rohingya Muslims in new video: rights group

CNN
Rebecca Wright and Ben Westcott, CNN
September 10, 2020

(CNN)Two Myanmar military deserters say they were ordered to take part in the indiscriminate mass killing and rape of Rohingya Muslims in 2017, a human rights group claims, in video confessions which correspond with individual accounts given by survivors of the alleged atrocities.

Rohingya refugee landing in Aceh dies of respiratory illness

THE JAKARTAPOST
News Desk
The Jakarta Post
Jakarta / Thu, September 10, 2020

Ninety-four Rohingya refugees, comprising 15 men, 49 women and 30 children, were found stranded on a boat 4 miles from the coast of Seunuddon in North Aceh regency, Aceh, on June 24. (Antara/Nova Wahyudi)

Midshalimah, 21, a Rohingya refugee who was among hundreds who arrived in Aceh early on Monday, has reportedly died from some form of respiratory illness.

Lhokseumawe city public relations head Marzuki said on Wednesday that Midshalimah had complained of shortness of breath upon landing at Ujong Blang Beach in Lhokseumawe just after midnight.

Spilling the beans

The Statemen
Statesman News Service
New Delhi
September 10, 2020

The extent to which the in house spilling of the beans will tarnish the standing of the omnipotent military and a generally tightlipped Suu Kyi can only be speculated upon.

When Myanmar’s putative icon of democracy, Aung San Suu Kyi, raised the flag of her party, the National League for Democracy, in Yangon on Tuesday, she at least theoretically flagged off the ruling party’s campaign for the election this November.

အာချေးကမ်းခြေရောက်ခဲ့တဲ့ ရိုဟင်ဂျာဒုက္ခသည် ၃၀၀ ခန့် ထဲက တဦးသေ

VOA 

ဗွီအိုအေ (မြန်မာပိုင်း)
10 စက်တင်ဘာ၊ 2020  

Ujong Blang ကမ်းခြေကို ရောက်လာတဲ့ ရိုဟင်ဂျာ ဒုက္ခသည်ထဲက သေဆုံးသူကို မြေမြှပ်သဂြုႋဟ်နေစဉ် 

 အင်ဒိုနီးရှားနိုင်ငံ အာချေးပြည်နယ် Ujong Blang ကမ်းခြေကို စက်လှေတစီးနဲ့ စက်တင်ဘာလ (၇)ရက် တနင်္လာနေ့ အစောပိုင်းမှာ ရောက်လာခဲ့တဲ့ ရိုဟင်ဂျာ ဒုက္ခသည် ၃၀၀ နီးပါးထဲက အမျိုးသမီးတဦးဟာ စက်တင်ဘာ ၈ ရက် အင်္ဂါနေ့က ဆေးရုံကို ရောက်ပြီးနောက် ကွယ်လွန် သွားပါတယ်။

Myanmar soldiers admit role in Rohingya genocide directed by senior officers, rights group claims

South China Morning Post
Associated Press
8 Sep, 2020

• The comments appear to be the first public confession by soldiers of involvement in massacres, rape and other crimes against Rohingya Muslims

• More than 700,000 Rohingya have fled Myanmar to Bangladesh since August 2017 to escape what Myanmar’s military called a clearance campaign

A Rohingya refugee carries her child in a refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. Photo: Reuters

Two soldiers who deserted from Myanmar’s army have testified on video that they were instructed by commanding officers to “shoot all that you see and that you hear” in villages where minority Rohingya lived, a human rights group said on Tuesday.

The comments appear to be the first public confession by soldiers of involvement in army-directed massacres, rape and other crimes against Rohingya Muslims in the Buddhist-majority country.More than 700,000 Rohingya have fled Myanmar to neighbouring Bangladesh since August 2017 to escape what Myanmar’s military called a clearance campaign following an attack by a Rohingya insurgent group in Rakhine state. Myanmar’s government has denied accusations that security forces committed mass rapes and killings and burned thousands of homes.

Facilities in Bhashan Char: Rohingya leaders satisfied after trip

The Daily Star
September 09, 2020

Porimol Palma and Mohammad Ali Jinnat

 

 Rohingya leaders, who went on a "go-and-visit" to Bhashan Char housing project, said they were happy with the facilities there and that those were far better than their current living conditions in Teknaf and Ukhiya camps.

Badrul Islam, a community leader of Nayapara refugee camp-26 in Teknaf, said the three days they spent in Bhashan Char were an amazing experience.

In Video Testimony, Ex-Myanmar Soldiers Confess to Atrocities Against Rohingya Muslims

VOA
By VOA News
September 08, 2020

FILE - A Myanmar security officer walks past burned Rohingya houses in Ka Nyin Tan village of suburb Maungdaw, northern Rakhine state of western Myanmar, Sept. 6, 2017.

Two news outlets say two Myanmar soldiers have recounted gruesome details of the 2017 military campaign against Rohingya Muslims in northern Rakhine state that the United Nations has categorized as genocide.

The New York Times and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation report the soldiers, identified as Pvt. Myo Win Tun and Pvt. Zaw Naing Tun, deserted the Myanmar army, known as the Tatmadaw, last month and spoke on camera in separate interviews about the crimes they witnessed and participated in.

Nearly 300 Rohingya refugees land in Indonesia after six months at sea

CNBC NEWS

Sept. 7, 2020,

By Reuters

“The smugglers ... were basically keeping them hostage on the boat,” said the director of a non-profit group focusing on the Rohingya crisis.

LHOKSEUMAWE, Indonesia — Almost 300 Rohingya refugees believed to have been at sea for six months landed in Indonesia’s Aceh province early on Monday, Indonesian authorities said.

Acehnese police said a wooden boat carrying the Rohingya was spotted by local fishermen several miles off the coast of Lhokseumawe, before landing at Ujung Blang Beach just after midnight.

On the Rohingya genocide

THE NATION
Shakoh Zulqurnain
September 09, 2020

The persecution of Rohingyas in Myanmar is an issue which has attracted little attention at the international level. The low visibility of this issue reveals not only the double standards of the international community, but also brings into question the effectiveness of human rights laws. More than a million Rohingya refugees commemorated the third anniversary of the genocide on August 25 in crowded camps in Bangladesh. Rohingya Muslims are one of the most persecuted communities in the world and have been observing this day as the ‘Rohingya Genocide Remembrance Day’ since it was the same day in 2017 that the Myanmar army began a vicious crackdown on Rohingya civilians—forcing thousands to seek refuge in neighbouring countries. However, the story of the Rohingyas’ persecution dates back to many decades.

OPINION - Arakan resistance assist Rohingya in their common quest for int'l accountability

AA

Maung Zarni 

09.09.2020 

 

Arakan Army/ULA emerging as an unseemly ally and collaborator of Rohingya victims seeking justice and a peaceful homeland 

It is really welcome news for the Rohingya campaigning for justice and accountability that the International Criminal Court (ICC) has reportedly brought to The Hague two Myanmar army deserters who could provide first-person accounts as perpetrators in the genocidal killings of Rohingya families, including women and babies.

Two Myanmar Soldiers Taken to the Hague After Confessing to Rohingya Killings: Reports

The Washington Post
By Reuters
Sept. 8, 2020

(Reuters) - Two Myanmar soldiers have been taken to The Hague after confessing to murdering minority Rohingya Muslims during a 2017 crackdown, two news organisations and a rights group reported on Tuesday.

The two men admitted to killing dozens of villagers in northern Rakhine state and burying them in mass graves, according to the New York Times, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and the non-profit Fortify Rights, citing statements the men made on videos filmed in Myanmar this year.

ရုိဟင္ဂ်ာသတ္ျဖတ္မႈ စစ္သားႏွစ္ဦးထြက္ဆုိခ်က္ ယုံၾကည္ ရေလာက္ (Fortify Rights)

VOA

ဗြီအိုုေအ (ျမန္မာဌာန)

09 စက္တင္ဘာ၊ 2020
ေက်ာ္ေက်ာ္သိန္း

ရခိုင္ျပည္နယ္ ေမာင္ေတာၿမိဳ႕မွာ တပ္စဲြထားတဲ့ ျမန္မာ့စစ္တပ္ တပ္ဖဲြ႔၀င္မ်ား။ (ၾသဂုတ္ ၃၁၊ ၂၀၁၇)  

ရခုိင္ျပည္နယ္ စစ္ဆင္ေရးေတြအတြင္း ႐ိုဟင္ဂ်ာေတြကို အစုအေဝးလိုက္ သတ္ျဖတ္မႈနဲ႔ တျခားရာဇဝတ္ မႈေတြမွာ ပါဝင္ခဲ့တယ္ဆိုတဲ့ စစ္သားႏွစ္ဦးရဲ႕ ထြက္ဆိုခ်က္ေတြဟာ ယံုၾကည္ႏုိင္ေလာက္တဲ့ ထြက္ဆိုခ်က္ ေတြျဖစ္တယ္လို႔ Fortify Rights လူ႔အခြင့္အေရးအဖြဲ႔ရဲ႕ အမႈေဆာင္အရာရွိခ်ဳပ္ Matthew Smith က ဗီြ အုိေအကိုေျပာပါတယ္။

ICC လက္ထဲ တပ္သားႏွစ္ေယာက္ေရာက္သြားလို႔ မတရား မႈေတြ ေဖာ္နိုင္မယ္လို႔ သုံးသပ္

လြတ္လပ္တဲ့အာရွအသံ ( RFA )

ျမန္မာဌာန | သတင္းမ်ား ခင္ေမာင္စိုး
2020-09-08

ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာေတြကို ႏွိမ္နင္းတဲ့ကာလမွာ ကိုယ္တိုင္ပါဝင္ခဲ့ရတယ္လို႔ ဝန္ခံထားတဲ့ တပ္မေတာ္သားႏွစ္ 

ေယာက္ ကုလသမဂၢရဲ့ အျပည္ျပည္ဆိုင္ရာရာဇဝတ္ခုံ႐ုံး International Criminal Court ကို ေရာက္သြား တဲ့အတြက္ လူ႔အခြင့္အေရးခ်ိဳးေဖာက္မႈေတြကို အေရးယူနိုင္မယ့္ လမ္းစေပၚလာတယ္လို႔ ေရွ႕ေနေတြနဲ႔ ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာအေရးလႈပ္ရွားသူေတြက သုံးသပ္ၾကပါတယ္။

႐ိုဟင္ဂ်ာမႈမွာ ပတ္သက္သူ ျမန္မာစစ္သား ၂ ဦး ICC စစ္ ေဆးဖို႔ Fortify Rights တိုက္တြန္း

VOA
ဗြီအိုုေအ (ျမန္မာဌာန)
ေက်ာ္ေက်ာ္သိန္း
08 စက္တင္ဘာ၊ 2020

ရခိုင္ျပည္နယ္ ေမာင္ေတာၿမိဳ႕မွာ တပ္စဲြထားတဲ့ ျမန္မာ့စစ္တပ္ တပ္ဖဲြ႔၀င္မ်ား။ (ၾသဂုတ္ ၃၁၊ ၂၀၁၇)

ရခုိင္ျပည္နယ္ စစ္ဆင္ေရးေတြအတြင္း ႐ိုဟင္ဂ်ာေတြကို အစုအေဝးလိုက္ သတ္ျဖတ္မႈနဲ႔ တျခားရာဇဝတ္ မႈေတြမွာ ပါဝင္ခဲ့တယ္ဆိုတဲ့ စစ္သားႏွစ္ဦးရဲ႕ ထြက္ဆိုခ်က္ေတြဟာ ယံုၾကည္ႏုိင္ေလာက္တဲ့ ထြက္ဆို ခ်က္ ေတြျဖစ္တယ္လို႔ Fortify Rights လူ႔အခြင့္အေရးအဖြဲ႔ရဲ႕ အမႈေဆာင္အရာရွိခ်ဳပ္ Matthew Smith က ဗီြ အုိေအကိုေျပာပါတယ္။

လူအစုလိုက်သတ်ဖြတ်ခဲ့ကြောင်း ဝန်ခံထားတဲ့ တပ်မတော် သားနှစ်ဦးကို ICC ထိန်းသိမ်းထား

လွတ်လပ်တဲ့အာရှအသံ ( RFA )

မြန်မာဌာန | သတင်းများ 

2020-09-08

၂ဝ၁၇ ခုနှစ်က ရခိုင်ပြည်နယ်မြောက်ပိုင်းမှာ တပ်မတော်က နယ်မြေရှင်းလင်းရေး လုပ်ဆောင်စဉ်အတွင်း ရိုဟင်ဂျာမွတ်ဆလင် အရပ်သား အမြောက်အမြားကို သတ်ဖြတ်ခဲ့ရာမှာ ကိုယ်တိုင် ပါဝင်ခဲ့တယ်လို့ ဝန်ခံ ထားတဲ့ တပ် သားမျိုးဝင်းထွန်းနဲ့ တပ်သား ဇော်နိုင်ထွန်းတို့ကို နိုင်ငံတကာ ရာဇဝတ်မှုဆိုင်ရာ တရားရုံး (ICC) က နယ်သာလန် နိုင်ငံ သည်ဟိတ်မြို့မှာ ထိန်းသိမ်းထားတယ်လို့ နယူးယောက်တိုင်း သတင်းစာက ဒီနေ့ အတည်ပြု ရေးသားလိုက်ပါတယ်။

'Kill All You See': In a First, Myanmar Soldiers Tell of Rohingya Slaughter

The New York Times
By Hannah Beech, Saw Nang and Marlise Simons

Sept. 8, 2020

Video testimony from two soldiers supports widespread accusations that Myanmar's milatray tried to eradicate the ethnic minority in genocidal campaign.

The remains of a Rohingya school in Rakhine State in western Myanmar last year.Credit...Adam Dean for The New York Times

The two soldiers confess their crimes in a monotone, a few blinks of the eye their only betrayal of emotion: executions, mass burials, village obliterations and rape.

The August 2017 order from his commanding officer was clear, Pvt. Myo Win Tun said in video testimony. “Shoot all you see and all you hear.”

Bhashan Char ကျွန်းရောက် ရိုဟင်ဂျာများနေထိုင်ရေး ခက်ခဲ

VOA 

ဗွီအိုအေ (မြန်မာဌာန)
07 စက်တင်ဘာ၊ 2020
မဆုမွန်

 Bhashan Char ကျွန်းကို လာရောက်လေ့လာတဲ့ ရိုဟင်ဂျာခေါင်းဆောင်တွေကို ကျွန်းနေ ဒုက္ခသည်တွေ လာတွေ့တဲ့ မြင်ကွင်း။ (စက်တင်ဘာ ၆၊ ၂၀၂၀။ ဓာတ်ပုံ - Refugees from Rohingya Camps)

 

ဘင်္ဂလားဒေ့ရှ်နိုင်ငံ Bhashan Char ကျွန်းပေါ် ရောက်နှင့်ပြီးသား ရိုဟင်ဂျာ ဒုက္ခသည်တွေဟာ နေထိုင်ရေးအခက် အခဲရှိပြီး ကျွန်းပေါ်မှာ မနေလိုကြဘူးလို့ အဲဒီကျွန်းကို ကိုယ်တိုင်သွားရောက်လေ့လာခွင့်ရခဲ့တဲ့ ရိုဟင်ဂျာခေါင်း ဆောင်တွေက ဗွီအိုအေကို ပြောပါတယ်။ ဗွီအိုအေမြန်မာပိုင်းသတင်းထောက် မဆုမွန်က စုံစမ်းမေးမြန်းထားတာ တင်ဆက်ပေးပါမယ်။

လှေစီးပြေးရိုဟင်ဂျာ ၃၀၀ နီးပါး အင်ဒိုနီးရှားကမ်းခြေ ရောက်ရှိ

VOA
ဗွီအိုအေ (မြန်မာပိုင်း)
07 စက်တင်ဘာ၊ 2020 

 အင်ဒိုနီးရှားနိုင်ငံ Aceh ပြည်နယ်ထဲက ပင်လယ်ကမ်းခြေတခုကို ရောကလာကြတဲ့ လှေစီးပြေး ရိုဟင်ဂျာများ။ (စက်တင်ဘာ ၀၇၊ ၂၀၂၀)  

အင်ဒိုနီးရှားနိုင်ငံ Aceh ပြည်နယ်ထဲက ပင်လယ်ကမ်းခြေတခုကို လှေစီးပြေး ရိုဟင်ဂျာ ၃၀၀ နီးပါးရောက် လာတဲ့အတွက် ကယ်တင်ထားတယ်လို့ အင်ဒိုနီးရှားအာဏာပိုင်တွေက ပြောပါတယ်။ စက်လှေတစီးနဲ့ Ujong Blang ကမ်းခြေကို ရောက်လာတဲ့ ရိုဟင်ဂျာတွေကို ဒေသခံတွေ တွေ့ရှိတဲ့အတွက် တာဝန်ရှိသူတွေ ကို အကြောင်းကြားခဲ့တာဖြစ်တယ်လို့ Banda Sakti ရဲချုပ်က ပြောပါတယ်။

Nearly 300 Rohingya come ashore in Aceh after months at sea

Aljazeera
7th September 2020

The group included women and children and are thought to have spent months at sea as traffickers demanded payment.

Nearly 300 Rohingya have come ashore in Aceh, on the northern tip of Indonesia's Sumatra island, authorities said, in one of the biggest such landings by the persecuted Myanmar minority in years.

The group, including more than a dozen children, were spotted at sea by locals who helped them land near Lhokseumawe early on Monday, according to Munir Cut Ali, head of Ujong Blang village.