By AFP | Tuesday, 22 November 2016
More than 1200 houses have been destroyed in northern Rakhine State, according to an analysis of satellite images by Human Rights Watch released yesterday.
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Wednesday, November 30, 2016
( 30.11.2016 ) HRW satellite data shows 1250 Maungdaw structures destroyed ( Myanmar Times )
More than 1200 houses have been destroyed in northern Rakhine State, according to an analysis of satellite images by Human Rights Watch released yesterday.
Tuesday, November 29, 2016
( 29.11.2016 ) Myanmar lodges protest over UNHCR official’s critical Rakhine comments ( Myanmar Times )
Myanmar Times
Monday, 28 November 2016
A UNHCR representative’s comments about violence in Rakhine State have sent the government into public relations overdrive, with a senior cabinet member describing the UN official’s remarks as “just allegations” and calling into question his professionalism.
Monday, November 28, 2016
Bangladesh refuses Rohingya fleeing 'ethnic cleansing'
Al Jazeera
28/11/2016
28/11/2016
Eight boats carrying Rohingya refugees have been turned away by Bangladesh as thousands amass on the border.
Thousands of Rohingya refugees have crossed into Bangladesh by boat in recent weeks [File: Mohammad Ponir Hossain/Reuters]
Multiple boats packed with Rohingya refugees fleeing violence in Myanmar have been turned back by Bangladesh border guards despite appeals by the country's opposition to provide shelter to the persecuted Muslim minority.
Sunday, November 27, 2016
Khaleda asks Myanmar to stop Rohingya genocide
Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) chairperson Khaleda Zia on Sunday called the repression of Rohingya Muslims by Myanmar forces as ‘genocide’, asking the Bangladesh authorities to give them shelter as much as possible.
“I am deeply shocked and concerned over the brutal genocide being carried out by the government forces of neighbouring Myanmar on the Rohingya community,” she said in a statement issued by her press secretary Maruf Kamal Khan.
“I am deeply shocked and concerned over the brutal genocide being carried out by the government forces of neighbouring Myanmar on the Rohingya community,” she said in a statement issued by her press secretary Maruf Kamal Khan.
( 27.11.2016 ) “ဘီဘီစီမှ ၂၂-၁၁-၂၀၁၆ ရက်နေ့တွင်ထုတ် လွှင့်ခဲ့သည့်အစီအစဉ်အပေါ် မြန်မာသံရုံး၊ လန်ဒန်မြို့မှ ကန့်ကွက်စာပေးပို့ထားရှိမှု”
“ဘီဘီစီမှ ၂၂-၁၁-၂၀၁၆ ရက်နေ့တွင် ထုတ်လွှင့်ခဲ့သည့် အစီအစဉ်အပေါ် မြန်မာသံရုံး၊ လန်ဒန်မြို့မှ ကန့်ကွက် စာပေးပို့ထားရှိမှု”
Response by Myanmar Embassy to the BBC World News Program.
Restore citizenship to Rohingya
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The Rohingya is one of the most deprived and exploited minority groups in the world today. While there is much emotional frenzy about their tragic plight, the Malaysian government has not taken any concrete step to address their issue at the international forums. The least that the government can do is to press home the point that the present government in Myanmar should restore their citizenship status that was deprived many years back.
The Rohingya is one of the most deprived and exploited minority groups in the world today. While there is much emotional frenzy about their tragic plight, the Malaysian government has not taken any concrete step to address their issue at the international forums. The least that the government can do is to press home the point that the present government in Myanmar should restore their citizenship status that was deprived many years back.
Friday, November 25, 2016
Malaysia to Summon Burmese Ambassador as Protests Mount Over Treatment of Rohingya
The Irrawaddy
25.11.2016
25.11.2016
Protesters hold signs during a demonstration against what organizers say is the crackdown on ethnic Rohingya Muslims in Burma, outside the Burmese embassy in Jakarta, Indonesia on November 25, 2016. The text on the poster reads, “Rohingya are our brothers.” / Darren Whiteside / Reuters
By Reuters 25 November 2016
KUALA LUMPUR & DHAKA – Malaysia will summon Myanmar’s ambassador over the crackdown on Rohingya Muslims in northwestern Arakan State, it said on Friday, as protesters across Southeast Asia demonstrated against the rising violence.
Malaysia to summon Myanmar envoy on Rohingya as protests mount
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Thursday, November 24, 2016
( 24.11.2016 ) Rohingya face Myanmar 'ethnic cleansing': UN official ( ALjazira )
Al Jazeera
24/11/2016
24/11/2016
UNHCR chief accuses country's troops of killing men and raping women, forcing stateless minority to flee to Bangladesh.
Hundreds of thousands live in camps in Bangladesh [Mohammad Ponir Hossain/Reuters]
Myanmar is carrying out "ethnic cleansing" of Rohingya Muslims, a United Nations official has said, as stories of gang rape, torture and murder emerge from among the thousands who have fled to Bangladesh.
Myanmar is carrying out "ethnic cleansing" of Rohingya Muslims, a United Nations official has said, as stories of gang rape, torture and murder emerge from among the thousands who have fled to Bangladesh.
( 24.11.2016 ) Bangladesh briefs foreign diplomats on Rohingya influx concerns ( bdnews24.com )
Senior Correspondent, bdnews24.com
Published: 2016-11-24
Foreign Minister AH Mahmood Ali has told Dhaka-based diplomats about the government’s concerns over the influx of Rakhine Muslims into Bangladesh despite the border guards’ efforts to stop the flow.
He briefed them on the evolving situation in Myanmar and Bangladesh-Myanmar relations at State Guest House Padma on Thursday.
Ambassadors, high commissioners, heads of diplomatic missions, including the USA, EU, UK, Canada, Norway, Denmark, India and China and from the UNRC, IOM and UNHCR attended the briefing.
The foreign minister apprised the diplomatic community of the steps that the government had taken to establish and maintain friendly relations with Myanmar, particularly with the newly elected NLD government through engagements at different levels.
He informed them about the cooperation that Bangladesh had provided to Myanmar since the terrorist attacks took place at the border guard posts of Myanmar on Oct 9.
“As a responsible neighbour, Bangladesh not only condemned the attack, but also provided critical assistance to the government of Myanmar by apprehending suspects and sharing intelligence,” the diplomats were told.
The foreign minister added that Bangladesh had already requested the government of Myanmar to take appropriate measures so that the Muslim minorities are not forced to take shelter across the border.
The Myanmar ambassador in Dhaka was called to the foreign ministry on Wednesday and was conveyed Bangladesh’s concerns over the issue.
During the discussion, the representatives of the diplomatic community acknowledged that there was a need for increased assistance to the affected people, the foreign ministry said in a media statement.
Published: 2016-11-24
Foreign Minister AH Mahmood Ali has told Dhaka-based diplomats about the government’s concerns over the influx of Rakhine Muslims into Bangladesh despite the border guards’ efforts to stop the flow.
He briefed them on the evolving situation in Myanmar and Bangladesh-Myanmar relations at State Guest House Padma on Thursday.
Ambassadors, high commissioners, heads of diplomatic missions, including the USA, EU, UK, Canada, Norway, Denmark, India and China and from the UNRC, IOM and UNHCR attended the briefing.
The foreign minister apprised the diplomatic community of the steps that the government had taken to establish and maintain friendly relations with Myanmar, particularly with the newly elected NLD government through engagements at different levels.
He informed them about the cooperation that Bangladesh had provided to Myanmar since the terrorist attacks took place at the border guard posts of Myanmar on Oct 9.
“As a responsible neighbour, Bangladesh not only condemned the attack, but also provided critical assistance to the government of Myanmar by apprehending suspects and sharing intelligence,” the diplomats were told.
The foreign minister added that Bangladesh had already requested the government of Myanmar to take appropriate measures so that the Muslim minorities are not forced to take shelter across the border.
The Myanmar ambassador in Dhaka was called to the foreign ministry on Wednesday and was conveyed Bangladesh’s concerns over the issue.
During the discussion, the representatives of the diplomatic community acknowledged that there was a need for increased assistance to the affected people, the foreign ministry said in a media statement.
They expressed their willingness to contribute, if requested.
The UN resident coordinator expressed ‘serious concern’ at the continuously deteriorating situation in the Rakhine state due to disproportionate reprisal actions by the Myanmar military.
( 23.11.2016 ) Foreign ministry summons Myanmar envoy over Rohingya crisis ( bdnews24 )
Senior Correspondent, bdnews24.com
Published: 2016-11-23
Rohingya Muslims cry as Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) catch them in a check post in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, November 21, 2016. Reuters.
Published: 2016-11-23
Rohingya Muslims cry as Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) catch them in a check post in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, November 21, 2016. Reuters.
The foreign ministry has summoned the Myanmar envoy and expressed concerns over a renewed crisis as more Rohingyas, fleeing persecution, cross the border to Bangladesh.
A member of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) stands guard on a watchtower near the Bangladesh-Myanmar border to prevent Rohingya refugees from illegal border crossing, in Teknaf near Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, November 22, 2016. Reuters
Ambassador U Myo Myint Than was at the ministry for a meeting with Additional Secretary Kamrul Ahsan on Wednesday.
He has been informed about Dhaka’s concerns over the situation, Kamrul told reporters after the meeting.
Dhaka hoped Naypyidaw would improve security for Rohingyas so the refugees in Bangladesh can return home, he said.
The foreign ministry said in a statement that the government aired concerns over Myanmar army's ongoing actions in Rakhine State 'causing dire consequences to the people and implications to Bangladesh.'
The envoy has been told that despite efforts of the Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) to prevent the influx, thousands of Myanmar citizens are continuing to cross the border into Bangladesh.
The statement said Dhaka also protested against Myanmar media's 'tendency to implicate Bangladesh into the incidents.'
Ambassador Than has also been urged to give 'due consideration' to the international community's call for an impartial investigation into the alleged indiscriminate and disproportionate use of force and human rights violation during the military operation in Rakhine.
Dhaka also requested Naypyidaw to initiate urgent measures so that the Muslim minorities are not forced to seek shelter across the border.
The Myanmar government has been rejecting allegations by residents and rights groups that soldiers have burnt houses and killed civilians during the military operation.
The army has declared the Muslim Rohingya-majority northern Rakhine as an "operations zone", where it claims to be battling Islamist insurgents.
The government has blocked international journalists from visiting the area.
The military crackdown began after nine border police personnel were killed in attacks by 'insurgents' at three outposts on Oct 9.
Authorities have confirmed 86 deaths and said that 69 of them were suspected militants. Rights groups claim the number is much higher.
Hundreds of Rohingyas are trying to cross the border into Bangladesh amid escalating violence.
The Myanmar government denies the Rohingya flight, but Bangladesh border guards have pushed hundreds of them back to their country in the last few days.
The 1.1 million Rohingyas are seen as illegal immigrants from Bangladesh by many of the country's majority Buddhists.
They are denied citizenship and face severe restrictions on their travel.
Up to 30,000 people are now estimated to be displaced and thousands more affected by the recent fighting, the UN has said.
( 24.11.206 ) Myanmar wants ethnic cleansing of Rohingya - UN official ( BBC News) Video
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Myanmar is seeking the ethnic cleansing of the Muslim Rohingya minority from its territory, a senior UN official has told the BBC.
Armed forces have been killing Rohingya in Rakhine state, forcing many to flee to neighbouring Bangladesh, says John McKissick of the UN refugee agency.
Wednesday, November 23, 2016
( 23.11.2016 ) Jakarta: Rohingya's last hope ( Jarkata Post )
Canberra | Wed, November 23, 2016
In this May 12 file photo, ethnic Rohingya sit at a refugee camp north of Sittwe, western Rakhine state, Myanmar. The long-persecuted Rohingya, many of whose families arrived in Myanmar generations ago, are treated as illegal migrants from neighboring Bangladesh and virtually excluded from the political process. (AP/Gemunu Amarasinghe )
Tuesday, November 22, 2016
( 22.11.2016 ) Bangladesh pushes back 125 Rohingyas ( The Nation )
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November 22, 2016
Bangladeshi students of Dhaka University carry banners 'Stop Genocide in Myanmar' take part in a protest against the recent attacks on the Rohingyas in Arakan in Myanmar, in Dhaka, Bangladesh, 21 November 2016./ EPA
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( 22.11.2016 ) Hundreds of Rohingya cross into Bangladesh, fleeing unrest (The Nation )
The Nation
November 22, 2016
By Agence France-Presse DHAKA
Hundreds of Rohingya have arrived in Bangladesh after fleeing violence in neighbouring Myanmar, community leaders said Tuesday, but border guards have pushed back hundreds more despite a United Nations plea to let them in.
The UN says up to 30,000 Rohingya have been displaced by violence in Myanmar's Rakhine state, where dozens of people have been killed in clashes with the military, and has urged Dhaka to open its border to them. Instead the Bangladesh government, under pressure from local communities to limit the number of migrants, has intensified patrols along the 237-kilometre (147-mile) border to prevent a large-scale influx.
November 22, 2016
By Agence France-Presse DHAKA
Hundreds of Rohingya have arrived in Bangladesh after fleeing violence in neighbouring Myanmar, community leaders said Tuesday, but border guards have pushed back hundreds more despite a United Nations plea to let them in.
The UN says up to 30,000 Rohingya have been displaced by violence in Myanmar's Rakhine state, where dozens of people have been killed in clashes with the military, and has urged Dhaka to open its border to them. Instead the Bangladesh government, under pressure from local communities to limit the number of migrants, has intensified patrols along the 237-kilometre (147-mile) border to prevent a large-scale influx.
( 22.11.2016 ) Myanmar’s War on the Rohingya ( New York Times )
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By THE EDITORIAL BOARDNOV. 21, 2016
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By THE EDITORIAL BOARDNOV. 21, 2016
A family outside a market destroyed by fire, in a Rohingya village in Myanmar, in October. Credit Soe Zeya Tun/Reuters
Myanmar has long persecuted the country’s Rohingya Muslim minority, denying it basic rights to citizenship, to marry, to worship and to an education. After violence unleashed in 2012 by Buddhist extremists drove tens of thousands of Rohingya out of their homes, many risked their lives to escape in smugglers’ boats; more than 100,000 others are living in squalid internment camps. Now, a counterinsurgency operation by Myanmar’s military is again forcing thousands of Rohingya to abandon their villages.
( 22.11.2016 ) Satellite images reveal destruction in Rohingya villages ( Washinton Post)
The Washington Post
22-11-2016
This Thursday, Nov. 10, 2016, satellite image taken by DigitalGlobe and distributed by Human Rights Watch, Monday, Nov. 21, 2016, shows the building destruction in the village of Wa Peik, Maungdaw District, Myanmar. Human Rights Watch said Monday that high-definition satellite images show 820 newly identified structures destroyed this month in five Rohingya Muslim villages in the Myanmar’s troubled Rakhine state where the military is carrying out counter-insurgency operations. (DigitalGlobe via AP) (Associated Press)
By Esther Htusan | AP November 21 at 9:47 AM
YANGON, Myanmar — High-definition satellite images show 820 newly identified structures destroyed this month in five Rohingya Muslim villages in Myanmar’s troubled Rakhine state where the military is carrying out counter-insurgency operations, a human rights group said Monday.
U.S.-based Human Rights Watch urged the government to invite the United Nations to assist in an impartial investigation.
( 22.11.2016 ) ေမာင္ေတာၿမိဳ႕နယ္ အဘူဂ်ရားေက်းရြာအနီး ယာယီတဲျဖင့္ေနထုိင္လ်က္ရွိသည့္ ထြက္ေျပးတိမ္းေရွာင္လာသူမ်ားအား လူသားခ်င္းစာနာေထာက္ထားမႈဆုိင္ရာ အကူအညီမ်ားေပးအပ္၊ မူလေနရပ္သို႔ ျပန္လည္ပို႔ေဆာင္ရန္စီစဥ္
ေမာင္ေတာၿမိဳ႕နယ္ အဘူဂ်ရားေက်းရြာအနီး ယာယီတဲျဖင့္ေနထုိင္လ်က္ရွိသည့္ ထြက္ေျပးတိမ္းေရွာင္ လာသူမ်ားအား လူသားခ်င္းစာနာေထာက္ထားမႈဆုိင္ရာ အကူအညီမ်ားေပးအပ္၊ မူလေနရပ္သို႔ ျပန္ လည္ပို႔ေဆာင္ရန္စီစဥ္
ေမာင္ေတာၿမိဳ႕နယ္ အဘူဂ်ရားေက်းရြာအနီးတြင္ အျခားေက်းရြာမ်ားမွ ထြက္ေျပးလာသူမ်ားသည္ ယာယီ တဲမ်ားျဖင့္ ေနထုိင္လ်က္ရွိေၾကာင္း ေျမျပင္သတင္းမ်ားအရနယ္ေျမခံလံုၿခံဳေရးတပ္ဖဲြ႔ဝ င္မ်ား ကႏိုဝင္ဘာ၂၀ ရက္နံနက္၁၁နာရီခြဲတြင္သြားေရာက္စိစစ္ရာဒါးႀကီးစား ေက်းရြာႏွင့္ ေမ်ာေတာင္ ေက်းရြာမ်ားမွ ထြက္ေျပး တိမ္းေရွာင္လာသူ ၁,၂၁၃ ဦး အား ယာယီတဲမ်ားျဖင့္ ေနထုိင္ လ်က္ရွိေၾကာင္းေတ႔ြရွိရသည္။ အဆိုပါ ေက်းရြာသူေက်းရြာသားမ်ားကို ရခိုင္ျပည္နယ္အစိုးရက ဆန္အိတ္ (၁၀၀) ၊ ငါးေျခာက္ ပိႆာ (၁၀၀) ႏွင့္ ေခါက္ဆြဲေျခာက္ ဖာ (၁၀၀) စသည့္ လူသားခ်င္းစာနာေထာ က္ထားမႈဆုိင္ရာ အေထာက္အပံ့ပစၥည္းမ်ား ေပးအပ္ခဲ့ၿပီး မူလေနရပ္သို႔ အျမန္ဆံုး ျပန္လည္ပို႔ေဆာင္ႏုိင္ေရး စီမံေဆာင္ရြက္လ်က္ ရွိေၾကာင္း သိရွိရ သည္။
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( 22.11.2016 ) ဘူးသီးေတာင္ၿမိဳ႕နယ္၌ မသကၤာသူ ရြာသား (၁၀) ဦး ဖမ္းဆီးရမိ ႏွာေခါင္းတို ရဲကင္းစခန္းအနီး လူတစ္စု ခ်ဥ္းကပ္လာ၍ ပစ္ခတ္ ရွင္းလင္းခဲ့ ( English - Burmese )
ဘူးသီးေတာင္ၿမိဳ႕နယ္၌ မသကၤာသူ ရြာသား (၁၀) ဦး ဖမ္းဆီးရမိႏွာေခါင္းတို ရဲကင္းစခန္းအနီး လူတစ္ စု ခ်ဥ္းကပ္လာ၍ ပစ္ခတ္ ရွင္းလင္းခဲ့
ေမာင္ေတာၿမိဳ႕နယ္ နယ္ေျမ (၈) ႏွာေခါင္းတို နယ္ျခားေစာင့္ ရဲကင္းစခန္း ၿခံစည္းရိုး အနီးသို႔ ည ၁၂ နာရီ မိနစ္ ၅၀ တြင္ မသကၤာဖြယ္ လူအုပ္စု တစ္စုခ်ဥ္းကပ္လာသျဖင့္လံုၿခံဳေရးတပ္ဖြဲ႕၀င္မ်ားမွ ျပန္လည္ ပစ္ခတ္ ခဲ့ရာ ဆုတ္ခြာသြားၿပီး နံနက္ပိုင္းတြင္ စခန္း၀န္းက်င္အနီး ရွင္းလင္းစဥ္ ရင္ဘတ္ က်ည္ထိမွန္ ဒဏ္ရာျဖင့္ ေသဆံုးေနသူတစ္ဦးအား ေတြ႕ရွိရသည္။
ထို႔အျပင္ ဘူးသီးေတာင္ၿမိဳ႕နယ္ ေသကံ ေက်းရြာအတြင္း အမွတ္ (၃) နယ္ျခားေစာင့္ ရဲတပ္ဖြဲ႕ခြဲမွ ၀င္ေရာက္ ရွင္းလင္းရာ အၾကမ္းဖက္ တိုက္ခိုက္မႈတြင္ ဆက္စပ္ ပါ၀င္သည္ဟု သံသယရွိသည့္ အဒူ ကာဒီ (၆၁) ႏွစ္၊ (ဘ) အဒူ ေဂါေဖာရ္ ပါ (၁၀) ဦးအား ဖမ္းဆီးရမိခဲ့သည္။
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Ten suspects arrested in Buthidaung Township
Security police found a suspected group approaching the fence of No.8 Na Khaung To border guard police outpost in Maungtaw at 12:50 am Tuesday and opened fire.
Due to the action of the security force, the group retreated. The security police found a dead body with a wound to the chest while conducting area clearance operation near the outpost, according to the Information Committee of the State Counsellor’s office.
Meanwhile, 10 people including Adu Kardi, 61, who are suspected of involvement in violent attacks, were arrested in Thay Kan village in Buthidaung Township by No.3 border guard police while clearing the area.
( 21.11.2016 ) Myanmar wrecked 1,250 Rohingya homes during 6-week lockdown: HRW
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Mon Nov 21, 2016
Human Rights Watch (HRW) says the government in Myanmar has destroyed as many as 1,250 residential structures belonging to minority Rohingya Muslims in the country just over the past 6 weeks.
A picture taken on October 21, 2016 shows armed Myanmarese soldiers patrolling a village in the Rakhine State in Myanmar’s west during “counterinsurgency” operations. (By AFP)
Human Rights Watch (HRW) says the government in Myanmar has destroyed as many as 1,250 residential structures belonging to minority Rohingya Muslims in the country just over the past 6 weeks.
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