Sunday, May 30, 2021

Bangladesh may be forced to recognize Myanmar’s national unity government

ARAB NEWS
DR. AZEEM IBRAHIM
May 28, 2021
Rohingya refugees receive aid distributed by local organizations at Balukhali makeshift refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, Sept. 14, 2017. (Reuters)

As Bangladesh continues to struggle to provide adequately for the Rohingya refugees in Cox’s Bazar, near the border with Myanmar, the best possible solution for everyone involved — from the Rohingya themselves to their hosts — would be if the refugees could safely return home to their ancestral lands. But, whereas the previous government of Myanmar under Aung San Suu Kyi at least pretended it was interested in allowing the Rohingya to return, the new military junta has already indicated it will stop pretending altogether.

Armed Forces Round Up Civilians in Shan State

Shan Herald Agency for News 
Friday, May 28, 2021

Armed forces arrested many civilians in Shan State as part of the military regime’s campaign against the southeastern nation’s protest movement that has resisted its authority after the Army overthrew the democratically elected government before it could be sworn into power during a bloodless coup about four months ago.

youths collecting donations for displaced civilians in a market in the border town of Muse on Wednesday morning, May 26.


Armed forces, which included soldiers, police and members of a People’s Militia Force, arrested five youths collecting donations for displaced civilians in a market in the border town of Muse on Wednesday morning, May 26.

Ma Pyae Pyae, 32; Ma Nyein Thida, 28; Ma Soe Su Hlaing, 24; Ma Htet Yamin Nwe, 20 and Maung Swam Win, 17, were detained at about 10am, according to a woman.

Saturday, May 29, 2021

လက်နက်ကိုင်တိုက်သူတွေ လူ့အခွင့်အရေးပေါ် ဘယ်လို သဘောထားသင့်လဲ (ဦးအောင်မျိုးမင်းနှင့် ဆက်သွယ် မေး မြန်းချက်)

VOA
ဗွီအိုအေမြန်မာပိုင်း
တိုက်ရိုက်လေလှိုင်း
ကျော်ကျော်သိန်း
25 ေမ၊ 2021 


စစ်အာဏာသိမ်းမှုကို ဆန့်ကျင်နေကြတဲ့ထဲက လက်နက်ကိုင်ပြီး ခုခံတိုက်ခိုက်တဲ့နည်းလမ်းကို ရွေးချယ်ကြ တာမှာ စစ်ကိုမုန်းလို့ စစ်ကိုတိုက်ပါတယ်လို့ ပြောသည့်တိုင်အောင် လုပ်ရပ်တွေ မှားယွင်းသွားရင် လက်နက် ကိုင်တိုက်ပွဲကနေ အကြမ်းဖက်လုပ်ရပ်အဆင့် ရောက်သွားနိုင်တာမို့ သတိပြုထိန်းသိမ်းလုပ်ဆောင်ဖို့ ကြား ကာလ အမျိုးသားညီညွတ်ရေးအစိုးရ (NUG) ရဲ့ လူ့အခွင့်အရေးဆိုင်ရာဝန်ကြီးဌာန၊ ပြည်ထောင်စုဝန်ကြီး ဦးအောင်မျိုးမင်းက တိုက်တွန်းလိုက်ပါတယ်။

 ရိုဟင်ဂျာအရေးနဲ့ ပတ်သက်ပြီး ရိုဟင်ဂျာလို့ခေါ်ဆိုတာကို တရားဝင်လက်ခံတာ အပါအဝင် NUG ရဲ့ ရပ် တည် ချက်၊ မူဝါဒ တိတိကျကျကို မကြာခင်ရက်ပိုင်းအတွင်း ထုတ်ပြန်ဖို့ရှိတယ်လို့လည်း ဦးအောင်မျိုး မင်းက ပြော ပါတယ်။ ကိုကျော်ကျော်သိန်းက ဆက်သွယ်မေးမြန်းထားပါတယ်။

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ရိုဟင်ဂျာအရေး ပြောဖို့အတွက် စက္ကူပေါ်မှာ ချရေးတဲ့ပေါ်လစီကို ကျွန်တော်မလုပ်ချင်ဘူး

ရိုဟင်ဂျာအရေးနဲ့ ပတ်သက်ပြီး ရိုဟင်ဂျာလို့ခေါ်ဆိုတာကို တရားဝင်လက်ခံတာ အပါအဝင် NUG ရဲ့ ရပ်တည်ချက်၊ မူဝါဒ တိတိကျကျကို မကြာခင်ရက်ပိုင်းအတွင်း ထုတ်ပြန်ဖို့ရှိတယ်။

၁၃၅ ဆိုတဲ့နံပတ်ကို အခြေခံပြီး သတ်မှတ်တာမျိုး မှာ ရိုဟင်ဂျာတင်မကဘူး တစ်ခြားလူမျိုးတွေကိုပါ အများ ကြီး ထိခိုက်တယ် ဒါကြောင့် ၈၂ ဥပဒေကို ဖိနှိပ်တဲ့ဥပဒေအဖြစ်သတ်မှတ်တယ်။

ဒီဥပဒေကိုပယ်ဖျက်ပြီး နိုင်ငံသားအဖြစ် ရရှိရထိုက်သောသူများအားလုံး မွေးဖွားမူကို အ‌ခြေခံပြီးတော့ လက် ခံတဲ့ နိုင်ငံသား ဥပဒေတစ်ရပ် ရေးဆွဲသွားဖို့အတွက် ရှေ့လုပ်ငန်းစဉ် ချမှတ်ဆောင်ရွက်သွားမယ်။

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လူ့အခွင့်အရေးဆိုင်ရာဝန်ကြီး 

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 ဗွီအိုအေ ဦးကျော်ကျော်သိန်းနှင့် လူ့အခွင့်အရေးဆိုင်ရာဝန်ကြီး ဦးအောင်မျိုးမင်း တွေ့ဆုံမေးမြန်းခန်း။

NUGအနေဖြင့် ရိုဟင်ဂျာနဲ့ပတ်သက်တဲ့မူဝါဒ တစ်ခု ရပ်တည်ချက်တစ်ခုချမှတ်ပေးရန်ကျနော်တ့ိုကို တိုက် တွန်းတယ်။ လူအခွင့်ရေးကို အခြေခံဖို့လိုအပ်တဲ့ နိုင်ငံတကာကိုပြရန်အတွက် စက္ကူ ပေါ်ချရေးတဲ့ ပေါ်လစီ ကို ကျနော်မလုပ်ချင်ဘူး အမှန်တကယ်လုပ်မယ်ဆိုရင် ကျနော်ဆောင်ရွက်ပါမည်။
 
" ရိုဟင်ဂျာ "ကို "ရိုဟင်ဂျာ "ခေါ်တဲ့အချက် ကျနော်တို့ လက်ခံပါတယ်။
" ရိုဟင်ဂျာ"တွေကို မြန်မာနိုင်ငံအတွင်းတခြားနိုင်ငံသားနှင့်တန်းတူ သူတို့အပေါ်မှာ လူအခွင့်ရေးချိုးဖေါက် တာ ဘယ်လိုမှကျနော်တို့လက်မခံဘူး ဘယ်သူကိုမှ ကွဲခြားခြင်းမရှိစေရဘူး။"
 
"1982 ခု နိုင်ငံသား ဥပဒေတွင် အားနည်းချက်တွေအများကြီးရှိပါတယ်။ ၁၃၅ မျိူးအပေါ်အခြေခံပြီး နိုင် ငံ သားသတ်မှတ်သည့်အတွက် ရိုဟင်ဂျာ မကဘူးတခြားလူမျိူး တွေပါအများကြီး ထိခိုက်တယ် အဲဒီ ၁၉၈၂ ခုနိုင်ငံသား ဥပဒေသည် ဖိနှိပ်တဲ့ဥပဒေဟု သတ်မှတ်တဲ့ ဒီဥပဒေကို ဖယ်ဖျက်ပြီးတော့ နိုင်ငံသား အဖြစ်ကို ရရှိ ရထိုက်သူများအားလုံး မွေးဖွားမှုကိုအခြေခံပြီးတော့ လက်ခံတဲ့ နိုင်ငံသား ဥပဒေ ကို ရှေ့ ဆက် သွားရန် ရေးဆွဲသွားရန် ရှေ့လုပ်ငန်းစဉ်အဖြစ် ချမှတ်ထားပါတယ်။"

ရိုဟင်ဂျာအသုံးအနှုန်း လက်မခံ - ဗိုလ်ချုပ်မှုးကြီးမင်းအောင်လှိုင်

 VOA
24 မေ၊ 2021
ဗွီအိုအေ (မြန်မာဌာန)
Rohingya refugees walk in market area inside a refugee camp in Ukhia on April 6, 2021 during the second day of weeklong government-imposed lockdown amid an increase of COVID-19 coronavirus cases. (Photo by Miraj KATEB / AFP)

ဘင်္ဂလားဒေ့ရှ်နိုင်ငံမှာ ခိုလှုံနေကြတဲ့ ရိုဟင်ဂျာဒုက္ခသည်တွေကို မြန်မာနိုင်ငံရဲ့ဥပဒေနဲ့ အညီဖြစ်မှသာ ပြန်လက် ခံမယ်လို့ စစ်အာဏာသိမ်းခေါင်းဆောင် ဗိုလ်ချုပ်မှူးကြီးမင်းအောင်လှိုင်က ပြောပါတယ်။

ဂျာမနီကကိုလိုနီခေတ်တွင်နမီးဘီးယားတွင်လူမျိုးတုံးသတ်ဖြတ်မှုကျူးလွန်ခဲ့သည်ဟုပြောကြား

VOA
AFP
‌မေလ 28 ရက်, 2021
နမီးဘီးယာ:
ဘာလင် -ဂျာမနီသည်ကိုလိုနီကိုလိုနီခေတ်တွင်နမီးဘီးယား၌လူမျိုးတုံးသတ်ဖြတ်မှုကျူးလွန်ခဲ့ ကြောင်းပထမ ဆုံးအကြိမ်သောကြာနေ့ကအသိအမှတ်ပြုခဲ့သည်။ ဘာလင်က အာဖရိကနိုင်ငံများမှ စီမံကိန်းများကို ကူညီရန် ယူရိုတစ်ဘီလီယံကျော်တန်ဖိုးရှိဘဏ္ဍာရေးအထောက်အပံ့ပေး မည်ဟု ကတိပေးခဲ့သည်။

Rohingya women produce reusable sanitary pads in Cox’s Bazar

UNFPA
27 May 2021


“Amidst the unstable conditions that we are living in, coming to the Women-Led Community Center gives us the opportunity to invest our time, energy and skills into a productive activity that can benefit us and the women in our community,” says Junaida, a young Rohingya woman living in the sprawling Rohingya camps in Cox’s Bazar.

Since January 2021, Junaida has been coming to the UNFPA-supported Women-Led Community Center in her camp to receive training on producing reusable sanitary pads for women in the Rohingya community. The aim of the initiative is to support Rohingya women to take care of their menstrual hygiene in a sustainable manner, as well as to give them the opportunity to cope with the stress caused by the ongoing crisis by engaging in activities beneficial for their community.

For Rohingya, trust begins with who is asking the questions, May 2021

Analysis
Source : Ground Truth Solutions
27 May 2021

Beyond the Coup: Can the United Nations Escape Its History in Myanmar?

JUST SECURITY
Ambassador Kelley Currie
May 27, 2021

(Editor’s Note: This article is part of a Just Security series on the Feb. 1, 2021 coup in Myanmar. The series brings together expert local and international voices on the coup and its broader context. The series is a collaboration between Just Security and the International Human Rights Clinic at Harvard Law School).

When Myanmar’s ambassador to the United Nations Kyaw Moe Tun took the floor of the General Assembly on Feb. 26 to condemn the weeks-old military coup and announce his loyalty to the elected government, he not only shocked all those tuning in who expected a pro forma defense of the Tatmadaw’s power grab and denunciation of U.N. interference. He also provided Myanmar’s democratic movement a potentially powerful new tool, both to help secure their legitimacy, and to shift the historic dynamics of U.N. failure in Myanmar. To make the most of this tool, the nascent National Unity Government (NUG) must quickly learn how to work with the U.N. system and leverage it for its intrinsic utility as well as to build out their footprint internationally. To date, the results have been mixed, but there are signs that the NUG is learning. Whether these efforts ultimately will be effective also depends on whether the U.N. system can learn from its own failures in Myanmar and make the necessary course corrections at this pivotal moment.

Bangladesh Trashes Report Alleging Rohingya Were Promised Citizenship to Move to Island

Benar News
Kamran Reza Chowdhury
Dhaka
2021-05-27
A Rohingya refugee draws water from a pump on Bhashan Char Island in Bangladesh, Dec. 30, 2020.
[Special to BenarNews]

A new report by an international NGO alleges that Dhaka has falsely promised Bangladeshi citizenship to Rohingya refugees who move to Bhashan Char, a remote and flood-prone island in the Bay of Bengal, a claim that the government on Thursday rejected as untrue.

Bangladesh is focused on repatriating Rohingya to neighboring Myanmar, said Delwar Hossain, director general of the Myanmar wing at the foreign ministry, while he dismissed the report by Refugees International as containing false allegations.

Thursday, May 27, 2021

Internet ‘Whitelist’ Highlights Myanmar Military’s Wishful Economic Thinking

THE I DIPLOMAT
Sebastian Strangio
May 26, 2021

Facebook and Twitter are out. A suite of business applications and messaging services are in.

Myanmar’s military junta has drawn up a list of more than 1,200 online services and domain names to which it plans to grant the public access under its embryonic system of internet controls. A copy of this “whitelist,” which was given recently to local internet service providers and telecoms companies, was obtained by Nikkei Asia and published yesterday.

Since seizing power on February 1, Myanmar’s military has drastically tightened its controls over the internet in a bid to quash the rising protests against its coup. It has ordered the blocking of websites and the virtual private networks that are used to circumvent such blocks. It has also instituted nightly internet blackouts and cut off mobile data.

French energy giant Total stops payments on Myanmar pipeline

INDEPENDENT
Via AP news wire

The French energy company Total SA says its shareholders have voted to suspend distributions of cash to stakeholders in the joint venture company running a gas pipeline in Myanmar
Myanmar Total Pipeline
(Copyright 2018 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.)


Shareholders of the French energy company Total SA have voted to suspend payments of dividends to stakeholders in the joint venture company running a gas pipeline in Myanmar the company said Wednesday.

Pressure has been growing on companies with investments or operations linked to the Myanmar military to suspend any financial support following a Feb. 1 coup. The Yadana pipeline is partly owned by Myanmar Oil & Gas Enterprises, a government-controlled entity.

Concern as 24% of Rohingya Inmates in Jammu Detention Centre Test COVID Positive

THE WIRE
Umer Maqbool
26/MAY/2021

A Rohingya Muslim man prepares to walk through a full-body sanitization tunnel installed at COVID-19 dedicated Government Medical College hospital, in Jammu, Sunday, April 19, 2020. Photo: PTI


Srinagar: Nearly 24% of the inmates of Jammu and Kashmir’s detention centre for Rohingya people have tested positive for COVID-19 in the past three days, triggering concerns about a serious outbreak at the centre.

Over 200 Rohingya are being detained at the holding centre at Hira Nagar of Jammu’s Kathua district since March 6 this year. “Fifty three Rohingya refugees have tested positive for COVID-19 here out of 218 samples collected,” Kathua’s chief medical officer, Dr Ashok Choudhary told The Wire.

53 Rohingya test positive at Kathua jail facility

THE INDIAN EXPRESS
Arun Sharma
Jammu
May 27, 2021

Pointing out that they were found Covid-positive during a three-day special test drive at the centre, Kathua Chief Medical Officer Dr Ashok Choudhary said all of them are asymptomatic.

There are nearly 220 Rohingya, detained from Jammu following a verification drive, at the holding centre -- the J&K administration had set up the centres under the Foreigners Act in March.

Fifty-three Rohingya detained at a “holding centre” in a sub-jail in Kathua’s Hiranagar town have tested positive for Covid, officials said. They have been isolated from other inmates and health officials are keeping a watch on their condition.

Pointing out that they were found Covid-positive during a three-day special test drive at the centre, Kathua Chief Medical Officer Dr Ashok Choudhary said all of them are asymptomatic. “We have isolated them and provided them with corona kits…our doctors are visiting the holding centre daily and keeping a watch on their condition.”

53 Rohingyas test positive for Covid-19 at holding centre in J&K's Kathua

INDIA TODAY
Jammu
May 28, 2021



The 53, out of over 200 Rohingyas at the Hiranagar Sub-Jail in Kathua district, have been quarantined. All of them are reportedly asymptomatic and are under the supervision of prison doctors.
All the remaining inmates would be tested on Thursday and Friday to stop the virus from spreading further. (PTI file image of Rohingya refugees in Jammu)


As many as 53 Rohingya were found Covid-19 positive at the Hiranagar Sub-Jail in Jammu's Kathua district during a three-day testing drive, officials informed on Wednesday.

All those who have tested positive are asymptomatic and have been isolated by the authorities. "A total of 53 Rohingyas were found positive during screening since Monday and all of them are asymptomatic. We are keeping a watch on their condition," PTI quoted Chief Medical Officer, Kathua, Ashok Chaudhary as saying.

McConnell offers praise for Biden administration's response to Myanmar coup

THE HILL 
TAL AXELROD
05/26/21

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) offered praise Wednesday for the Biden administration over its response to the military coup in Myanmar.

McConnell, who has spoken extensively with deposed leader Aung San Suu Kyi over the past several years, touted moves the White House and State Department have taken to address the coup, including slapping sanctions on companies that support the ruling military junta and calling out human rights abuses.

Rohingya Repatriation: It looks uncertain

The Daily Star
Unb, Dhaka
May 26, 2021

Hasina tells UNGA president

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday expressed concern about the repatriation of Rohingyas following the recent development in Myanmar as it has made the process uncertain.

"The situation has become uncertain due to the recent developments in Myanmar," Hasina said when visiting United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) President Volkan Bozkir met her at the Gono Bhaban.

UN General Assembly Action Needed on Myanmar

HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH
Demonstrators pose with a banner showing the symbolic three-finger salute and names of those killed during protests since the military coup, Yangon, Myanmar on April 11, 2021. © 2021 AP Photo

The United Nations Security Council, entrusted by the UN Charter to be the world’s guardian of international peace and security, has done little to help the people of Myanmar besides issuing statements asking the junta to end the violence and release prisoners. But the UN General Assembly can help motivate the council take action to stem the rampant abuses.

In the absence of robust Security Council action, the 193-nation General Assembly should adopt a resolution condemning the junta’s rights violations and calling on all UN members to halt arms transfers to Myanmar. While not legally binding on states, such a resolution would carry significant political weight. As the UN’s most representative body, it would send a powerful signal to the junta and press members of the Security Council to adopt a legally binding resolution – as recently urged by a group of 205 nongovernmental organizations, including Human Rights Watch.

Japan should not follow the Western policy on Myanmar: Diplomat op-ed

Reuters
May 26, 2021,
Military troops and police go on patrol at Kayah state, eastern Myanmar, Sunday, May 23, 2021

Japan should play a bridging role to Myanmar's junta rather than following the Western policy of regime change, said a senior official at the Japan-Myanmar Association, which has strong ties with Myanmar's military.

"I argue that Japan must position itself as a bridge between the Tatmadaw and the United States and other democratic countries rather than blindly aligning itself with the Western policy of regime change," Yusuke Watanabe, the association's secretary general, said in an opinion piece for the Diplomat magazine.
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