Rohingya to give first testimony in push for Myanmar army probe

THE STRAITS TIMES
17 August 2021

A photo from Sept 10, 2017, showing a Rohingya refugee pulling a child as they walk to the shore in Shah Porir Dwip, Bangladesh.PHOTO: REUTERS

YANGON (AFP) - Rohingya refugees expelled from Myanmar in a bloody crackdown are to testify in court for the first time on Tuesday (Aug 17) to urge a full judicial investigation into allegations of war crimes committed against them.

A military campaign in Myanmar in 2017 is believed to have killed thousands and forced some 750,000 members of the Muslim minority group to flee to refugee camps in Bangladesh, bringing accounts of rape, murder and arson.

The witnesses will testify remotely to a court in Argentina, which is considering invoking the principle of "universal jurisdiction" to bring a case against Myanmar's leaders for genocide and crimes against humanity. The legal premise holds that some acts - including war crimes and crimes against humanity - are so horrific they are not specific to one nation and can be tried anywhere.

Rohingya to give testimony to Argentine court in push for Myanmar Army probe

BuenosAires Times

17 August 2021

Rohingya refugees expelled from Myanmar in a bloody crackdown are to testify before Argentine court. They will use the principle of "universal jurisdiction" to urge a full judicial investigation into allegations of war crimes committed against them. 

TUN KHIN, PRESIDENT OF THE BURMESE ROHINGYA ORGANISATION UK, PREPARES TO GIVE TESTIMONY. | TWITTER.COM/TUNKHIN80

Rohingya refugees expelled from Myanmar in a bloody crackdown are to testify in court for the first time Tuesday to urge a full judicial investigation into allegations of war crimes committed against them.

A military campaign in Myanmar in 2017 is believed to have killed thousands and forced some 750,000 members of the Muslim minority to flee to refugee camps in Bangladesh, bringing accounts of rape, murder and arson.

အာဂျင်တီးနား ဗဟိုတရားရုံးမှာ ရိုဟင်ဂျာတွေရဲ့ဖြစ်ရပ်ဆိုး ကြားနာ

RFA

လွတ်လပ်တဲ့အရှအသံ
ရဲခေါင်မြင့်မောင် (ဝါရှင်တန်ဒီစီ)
2021-08-17

 ရိုဟင်ဂျာ အဖွဲ့အစည်းတွေနဲ့ တောင်အမေရိက နိုင်ငံတွေက လူ့အခွင့်အရေး လှုပ်ရှားသူ အဖွဲ့အစည်းတွေ ဟာ ရိုဟင်ဂျာတွေအပေါ် မြန်မာစစ်တပ်က ကျူးလွန်တဲ့ ရာဇဝတ်မှုတွေအတွက် ဗိုလ်ချုပ်မှူးကြီး မင်းအောင် လှိုင်နဲ့ နိုင်ငံ တော်အတိုင်ပင်ခံ ပုဂ္ဂိုလ် ဒေါ်အောင်ဆန်းစုကြည် အပါအဝင် စစ်ဘက်နဲ့ အရပ်ဘက် ခေါင်းဆာင် အချို့ကို တာဝန်ရှိသူတွေအဖြစ် သတ်မှတ်ပြီး၊ အာဂျင်တီးနားနိုင်ငံ ဘွေနိုအေးရီးမြို့ တရားရုံးမှာ ၂၀၁၉ ခုနှစ် အောက်တို ဘာလက တရားစွဲဆိုခဲ့တာ ဖြစ်ပါတယ်။

Rohingya Boat Capsize: UNHCR ready to support rescue work

The Daily Star

Unb, Dhaka

Mon Aug 16, 2021 

NHCR, the UN refugee agency, has said it is in contact with Rohingya communities both on Bhasan Char and in Cox's Bazar to support further rescue efforts following Saturday's boat capsize in Bay of Bengal.

On the morning of August 14, UNHCR was alerted that a boat carrying dozens of Rohingyas had capsized close to Bhasan Char island overnight.

The Coup And The Crisis In Myanmar

OWP
The Organisation for World Peace
Evelyn Elliott
August 14, 2021

Myanmar, a nation whose young democracy began only a decade ago, is currently facing a threat it may not recover from. On February 1st of 2021, the military of Myanmar staged a coup d’état in the Southeast Asian country, overthrowing the democratic government and issuing a year-long state of emergency. Orchestrated under the idea that the nation’s November election was fraudulent, a claim that lacks any substantial evidence, the armed forces took control and arrested senior members of the elected National League for Democracy (NLD) party. The situation was exacerbated by the detention of Aung San Suu Kyi, a pro-democracy activist and Nobel Prize winner, who led the NLD. The country’s state of emergency has been extended for another two years under the direction of Min Aung Hlaing, a leading army general who declared himself to be the nation’s prime minister at the beginning of August. Now, after months of violence and oppression, Myanmar is confronted with the same military regime that it suffered under previously.

US, China tread warily as Myanmar burns

THE STRAIT TIMES
Tan Hui Yee
Indochina Bureau Chief 

AUG 16, 2021,

Volunteers in Myanmar helping a Covid-19 patient with his oxygen supply in the town of Kale last month.PHOTO: REUTERS

Power Play is a weekly column that looks at various facets of US-China rivalry and its implications for Asia.

BANGKOK - Last Tuesday, a group of young people cornered by the Myanmar junta chose a likely death over arrest. They jumped out of a high-rise building in Yangon. The youth were quickly lionised on social media, where those resisting the Feb 1 military coup vowed vengeance.

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အာဂျင်တီးနားတရားရုံး ကြားနာပွဲ ရိုဟင်ဂျာ လူမျိုးတုန်း သတ်ဖြတ်မှုမှ လွတ်မြောက်လာသူတွေ ထွက်ဆိုမည်

VOA
ဗွီအိုအေမြန်မာပိုင်း
အင်ကြင်းနိုင်
17 သြဂုတ်၊ 2021

အွန်လိုင်းကနေ ကြားနာမယ့် အမှုမှာ ဘာတွေ စိန်ခေါ်မှု အခက်အခဲတွေရှိနေလဲ၊ ဘယ်လို အကျိုးထိရောက် မှု တွေရှိမလဲ စတာတွေ နဲ့ ပတ်သက်လို့ အမှုဖွင့်ထားတဲ့ ဗြိတိန်အခြေစိုက် မြန်မာ ရိုဟင်ဂျာများအဖွဲ့ ဥက္ကဌ ဦး ထွန်းခင်ကို မအင်ကြင်းနိုင်က စကိုက်ကနေ ဆက်သွယ်မေးမြန်းထားပါတယ်။

 

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ရိုဟင်ဂျာလူမျိုးတုံးသတ်ဖြတ်မှု အာဂျင်တီးနားတရားရုံး ကြားနာမည်

VOA
ဗွီအိုအေ (မြန်မာဌာန)
16 သြဂုတ်၊ 2021

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)

 

လူမျိုးတုံးသတ်ဖြတ်ခံရမယ့်ဘေးကနေ လွတ်မြောက်လာတဲ့ ရိုဟင်ဂျာဒုက္ခသည်တွေဟာ သူတို့ကြုံတွေ့ခံစား ခဲ့ရတဲ့အတွေ့အကြုံတွေကိုပထမဆုံးအကြိမ်အဖြစ် အာဂျင်တီးနားနိုင်ငံက တရားရုံးတခုမှာ ထွက်ဆိုခွင့်ရ ကြ တော့မယ်လို့ ယူကေ အခြေစိုက် မြန်မာ ရိုဟင်ဂျာအဖွဲ့ BROUK က ပြောပါတယ်။

ရိုဟင်ဂျာတွေရဲ့ဖြစ်ရပ်ဆိုးတွေကို အာဂျင်တီးနားတရားရုံး ပထမဆုံးအကြိမ် ကြားနာမည်

RFA
လွတ်လပ်တဲ့အာရှအသံ
2021-08-16

၂ဝ၁၇ ခုနှစ်က ရခိုင်ပြည်နယ်မြောက်ပိုင်းကနေ ဘင်္ဂလားဒေ့ရှ်နိုင်ငံကို ထွက်ပြေးလာကြသော ရိုဟင်ဂျာဒုက္ခသည်များကို တွေ့ရ စဉ်။File Photo: Reuters

ရခိုင်ပြည်နယ်မြောက်ပိုင်းမှာ မြန်မာစစ်တပ်ရဲ့ ရက်ရက်စက်စက် ဖိနှိပ်ခံရချိန်က စစ်သားတွေရဲ့ လိင်ပိုင်းဆိုင် ရာ အဓမ္မပြုကျင့်ခံရမှုကနေ အသက်မသေဘဲ ကျန်ခဲ့သူတွေက သူတို့ရဲ့ အတွေ့အကြုံကို အာဂျင်တီးနား နိုင် ငံက တရားရုံးမှာ ဒီနေ့ သြဂုတ်လ ၁၇ ရက်မှာ ပထမဆုံးအကြိမ် ထွက်ဆိုမယ်လို့ သတင်းရရှိပါတယ်။

Outcry over Myanmar junta denying Covid jabs to Rohingya

UCA NEWS

UCA News reporter
August 13, 2021

Diaspora group says deliberately withholding essential health care to Rohingya confirms genocidal charges.

Members of the internally displaced Rohingya community at a camp in Rakhine state. (Photo: AFP) 

 

A diaspora group based in London has decried the Myanmar junta’s plans to withhold Covid-19 vaccinations from hundreds of thousands of Rohingya inside crowded camps in Rakhine state.

“This is a continuation and escalation of the crimes against humanity, including genocide and ethnic cleansing, that have been carried out for decades against Rohingya people,” Tun Khin, president of the Burmese Rohingya Organization UK (BROUK), said in a statement on Aug. 12.

ရခိုင်သို့ ဗမာပြည်မဘက်က ကားဖြင့်ဝင်လာသူ မူဆလင် အမျိုးသမီးတစ်ဦးအပါအဝင် (၈)ဦး အမ်းဂိတ်တွင် ဖမ်းဆီး ခံရ

နိရဉ္စရာ၊  

သျှင်မင်းဇံ
သြဂုတ် ၁၃/၂၀၂၁ 

ရခိုင်သို့ ပြည်မဘက်က ကားဖြင့် ဝင်ရောက်လာသည့် အထောက်အထားမဲ့ ဝင်လာသူ မူဆလင်အမျိုးသမီး တစ်ဦးနှင့် အမျိုးသားခုနှစ် ဦးတို့ကို အမ်းမြို့ ၊ ပဲပဒုံးပူပေါင်းစစ်ဆေးရေးဂိတ်တွင် သြဂုတ်လ ၈ ရက်နေ့နှင့် ၉ ရက်နေ့ များ၌ အသီးသီးဖမ်းဆီးခံခဲ့ရသည်ဟု သတင်းရရှိသည်။

Bhasan Char ကျွန်းကထွက်ပြေးတဲ့ ရိုဟင်ဂျာတချို့လှေ မှောက်ပျောက်ဆုံး

VOA
ဗွီအိုအေ (မြန်မာဌာန)
15 သြဂုတ်၊ 2021

ဘာဆန် ချာကျွန်း

 

ဘင်္ဂလားဒေ့ရှ်နိုင်ငံ၊ Bhasan Char ကျွန်းပေါ်ကနေ ထွက်ပြေးဖို့ကြိုးစားရင်း ဘင်္ဂလားပင်လယ်အော်အတွင်း သူတို့စီးလာတဲ့လှေ မှောက်သွားတာကြောင့် ရိုဟင်ဂျာဒုက္ခသည် ၂ ဒါဇင်ထက်မနည်း ပျောက်ဆုံးနေကြောင်း ဘင်္ဂလားဒေ့ရှ် အာဏာပိုင်တွေက ဒီကနေ့ ပြောတာကို ကိုးကားပြီး ရိုက်တာသတင်းမှာ ဖော်ပြထားပါတယ်။

Myanmar’s Ex-Dictator Than Shwe, Wife Enter Hospital as Precaution Against COVID-19

The Irrawaddy
12 August 2021 

Then Myanmar military dictator Than Shwe (right) and his wife Daw Kyaing Kyaing in 2010. / Khin Maung Win

Myanmar’s former dictator Than Shwe and his wife were admitted to a military hospital in Naypyitaw several days ago as a precaution amid the country’s raging COVID-19 outbreak, according to a senior military official.

The pair—who are reportedly in good health and are believed to have received their inoculations, as the country’s vaccine program prioritizes anyone over 65—entered the hospital “to have close medical attention in case they have been infected with COVID-19,” the military official said.

New ASEAN Envoy to Myanmar Pledges to Meet With Opposition, Detained Activists

THE I DIPLOMAT
Sebastian Strangio
August 10, 2021

The envoy’s mission relies on good faith commitment on the part of the junta, but this remains unlikely.

ASEAN’s newly appointed special envoy to Myanmar says he will insist on meeting with jailed politicians, including Aung San Suu Kyi, in line with the Five-Point Consensus agreed by the Southeast Asian bloc in April.

Second Foreign Minister of Brunei Erywan Yusof was formally appointed by ASEAN last week, after protracted negotiations among the bloc’s 10 member states. Speaking to reporters on Saturday in his first public remarks about the role, he said a plan to visit Myanmar was “in the pipeline,” and would be confirmed once he had consulted with all countries and actors concerned.

Myanmar, Six Months After the Coup

THE I DIPLOMAT

August 10, 2021

 

On February 1, 2021, Myanmar’s military seized control of the country, arresting civilian leaders and ousting the elected parliament. Since then, the country has perched on the edge of civil war, caught between the use of violent force by the Tatmadaw and a growing armed resistance on the part of ethnic militias as well as the proclaimed National Unity Government. On top of that, the Delta variant of COVID-19 is causing a surge in infections that threatens to collapse the health care system.

Supporting stranded Rohingya in Thailand

EUROPEAN COMMISSION

EUROPEAN CIVIL PROTECTION AND HUMANITARIAN AID OPERATIONS
Source : ECHO
10th August 2021

© IOM Thailand

Despite early success in controlling the pandemic in 2020, Thailand has been gripped by rapidly rising COVID-19 cases and deaths in 2021, driven by the more virulent Delta variant. This has significantly impacted on health and the economy – especially among the vulnerable.

The pandemic has extended to Thailand’s refugees, migrants and asylum-seekers, who face compounded burdens. Migrant and mobile populations have been disproportionately affected by COVID-19 as they are unable to implement prevention measures, such as physical distancing, adequate sanitation, accessing medical care and access to personal protective equipment (PPE).

Bangladesh starts COVID-19 vaccine drive for Rohingya refugees

REUTERS
Ruma Paul
August 10, 2021

DHAKA, Aug 10 (Reuters) - Bangladesh began vaccinating thousands of Rohingya Muslims on Tuesday in the world’s largest refugee settlement amid a surge in COVID-19 infections in the country, officials said.

Aid workers have long warned of a potential humanitarian disaster if there is a significant outbreak in the refugee camps in Cox’s Bazar, the border district where over a million Rohingya who fled a brutal military crackdowns in neighbouring Myanmar have found sanctuary.

Asean too late for Myanmar?

Bangkok Post

EDITORIAL
BANGKOK POST EDITORIAL COLUMN

The appointment of Brunei's Second Foreign Minister Erywan Yusof as Asean special envoy to Myanmar last week is better late than never.

The special envoy's appointment is part of a five-point consensus that was agreed upon by Asean leaders during an April 24 meeting searching for a solution to the Myanmar crisis following the Feb 1 coup that ousted the elected civilian government under Aung San Suu Kyi who has been detained together with other civilian officials.

The delay in the envoy's appointment is described by the international media as due to internal wrangling within the group; with Indonesia and Malaysia, Singapore and the Philippines opting for a proactive approach; while the rest, including Thailand, preferring quiet diplomacy which is almost synonymous with sitting on the problem while violence is being committed.

Anti-military protests in Myanmar on anniversary of 1988 uprising

Reuters
August 8, 2021

Myanmar's junta chief Senior General Min Aung Hlaing, who ousted the elected government in a coup on February 1, presides an army parade on Armed Forces Day in Naypyitaw, Myanmar, March 27, 2021. REUTERS/Stringer/File Photo/File Photo

ရိုဟင်ဂျာဒုက္ခသည်စခန်းမှာ ကာကွယ်ဆေး စတင်ထိုးနှံ

မဇ္ဈိမ
11 August 2021

ဘင်္ဂလားဒေ့ရှ်နိုင်ငံမှာ ကိုဗစ်-၁၉ ရောဂါပိုး စံချိန်တင် ကူးစက်ပြန့်နှံ့နေတဲ့အချိန်မှာဘဲ ဒုက္ခသည်စခန်းတွေမှာ ရှိနေတဲ့ ရိုဟင်ဂျာ ဒုက္ခသည်တွေကို ဘင်္ဂလားဒေ့ရှ်အစိုးရက ကိုဗစ်ကာကွယ်ဆေးထိုးတဲ့ အစီအစဉ်တွေ သြ ဂုတ် လ ၁၀ ရက်နေ့မှာ စတင်ပါတယ်။ ဘယ်လိုလူတွေကို ထိုးပေးနေသလဲဆိုတဲ့အကြောင်း AFP သတင်း ကို အခြေ ခံပြီး ကိုဇော်ဝင်းလှိုင်က တင်ဆက်ထားပါတယ်။ 

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