The Rohingya News Bank : 2021

Anti-junta protesters flooded Myanmar's social media with pictures of themselves wearing black Sunday in a show of solidarity for the Rohingya, a minority group that is among the most persecuted in the country.

Since the military ousted civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi from power in a February 1 coup, an anti-junta movement demanding a return to democracy has grown to include fighting for ethnic minority rights.

Myanmar dispatches: ‘we need humanitarian aid in Min Dat right NOW’

JRIST

URIST Staff
JUNE 11, 2021

JURIST EXCLUSIVE – One of our Myanmar law students reporting for JURIST calls on the international community to help thousands of Myanmar people displaced from their homes in Min Dat, Chin State, by recent junta military action. She also comments on a disquieting surge in COVID-19 in Kalay State, near the border with India.

The military junta is putting enormous pressure on Min Dat. They mainly target unarmed villagers. They use unarmed civilians as human shields and pressure PDF [People’s Defence Force] and CDF [Chin Defence Force] soldiers to retreat. People’s defense forces have no choice but at the verge of threats against lives, they have to retreat.

Malaysia’s Anti-Rohingya Refugee Poster Angers Rights Groups

Benar News

Hadi Azmi and Nisha David
Kuala Lumpur
2021-06-11

Rohingya who illegally entered Thailand and were bound for Malaysia, sit in a house in Bangkok, Jan. 3, 2021.

[Handout from Thailand's Immigration Bureau via AFP]

Rights groups in Malaysia are incensed by an illustration posted on social media by government agencies that shows armed security officials and navy ships surrounding a boat, with a caption that says, “Rohingya migrants, your arrival is not welcome.”

Posts of the illustration prepared by the National Task Force were taken down from the Immigration Department’s Twitter feed and the border agency’s Facebook page, after rights watchdog Amnesty International issued a harsh statement against the illustration.

Bodies of Rohingya woman, two children recovered from Naf River

Dhaka Tribune
Abdul Aziz, Cox's Bazar
June 12th, 2021

File photo: Naf River flows along the Bangladesh-Myanmar border region in Teknaf, Cox's Bazar Dhaka Tribune

They drowned while crossing the river

Police have recovered the bodies of a Rohingya woman and two children from the Naf River from Teknaf of Cox’s Bazar on Saturday.

The bodies were found floating on the river at Teknaf upazila’s Whykong union around 2pm.

Police believe all three bodies were Rohingyas who presumably died while trying to swim across the river.

Bangladeshi artist wins international award

Dhaka Tribune
UNB
June 12th, 2021

Fawaz Rob’s painting 'Long Walk Home' UNB

The dehumanization of Muslim communities across the world is the tragedy of our time, says the artist

Bangladeshi artist Fawaz Rob’s art work on the plight of Myanmar’s displaced citizens, Rohingyas, has been voted the best entry among all participants at the PenhArt International exhibition.

Jurors and audience voted his art "Long Walk Home" to be the best among 80 participants from all over the world, including France, Japan, the USA, and the UK.

“I’m very delighted to receive this international award. An artist has the responsibility to stand up against the evil of his era,” said Fawaz Rob.

Amnesty International slams ‘hateful’ anti-Rohingya poster

FMT

FMT Reporters
June 11, 2021

The immigration department poster shared on social media, which Amnesty International has described as ‘despicable’.

PETALING JAYA: A rights group has slammed the immigration department over an anti-Rohingya poster it shared on its Twitter account, saying it could foster “hatred, violence and xenophobia”.

In a hard-hitting statement, Amnesty International Malaysia (AIM) said it was “despicable” to say that a community that had undergone ethnic cleansing and endured unimaginable brutality was not only unwelcomed but also threatened with brute force.

‘A catastrophe’: UN warns of intensifying violence in Myanmar

Aljazeera
11 Jun 2021

UN human rights chief Michelle Bachelet says military government is ‘singularly responsible’ for violence and ‘must be held to account’.

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet said that multiple reports indicate that armed conflict is continuing, including in Kayah State, Chin State and Kachin State [File: Denis Balibouse/Reuters]

The United Nations human rights chief has warned that violence is intensifying across Myanmar, slamming the country’s military government for being “singularly responsible” for a “human rights catastrophe”.

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Immigration Comes Out With Warning To Rohingyas To Stay Off Malaysian Shores

TRP
HAKIM HASSAN
JUNE 11, 2021

Some are saying that it’s inhumane to treat to the Rohingya in that manner.

The Malaysian Immigration Department today has come out with a warning to illegal immigrants, particularly the Rohingya to stay away from the country.

Complete with a poster very much like that of an action movie, featuring officers in uniform, the message was posted on social media platforms signaling the intent of denying Rohingyas entry and refuge in the country.

Myanmar conflict may bring ethnic groups together

The Daily Star
Mokbul Morshed Ahmad
June 12, 2021

Photo: Reuters

With the February 2021 military coup, Myanmar once again hit global media headlines. While the military junta continues to clamp down on pro-democracy protestors and the country is wracked with conflict and unrest, how will the changing political situation affect the Rohingya community in Bangladesh and in Rakhine State in Myanmar?

More than one-third of Myanmar's population is composed of ethnic minorities, who inhabit a vast frontier where the country's natural resources are concentrated. They have staged periodic insurgencies against the military, which has ruled the country for most of the past six decades. The National League for Democracy (NLD) is the only nationally popular political force in Myanmar, but it has a recent history of turning a blind eye to the persecution of ethnic minorities, especially in Rakhine. Although the party won a landslide re-election in November 2020, more than one million members of ethnic minorities were disenfranchised during the vote. The British, who colonised what was then known as Burma, called the country "a zone of racial instability".

Illegal entrant tests positive for COVID-19 in Maungdaw Twsp

DMG
DMG Newsroom

11 June 2021, Maungdaw

One of 19 Muslims in Maungdaw Township who entered Arakan State illegally from Bangladesh was found to have been infected with coronavirus, according to a source from the Maungdaw District People’s Hospital.

The person has been identified as 36-year-old Mamat Taw Yup from the Balukhali refugee camp in Bangladesh. He tested positive for the virus on June 10, according to the medical superintendent of the Maungdaw District People’s Hospital, Dr. Nu Kay Thi San.

UN flags ongoing concern over shrinking space for free expression in junta-run Myanmar

DMG

DMG Newsroom
11 June 2021, Yangon

A United Nations official has said the UN country team in Myanmar “remains very concerned over continued efforts to undermine the freedom of expression and the freedom of the press through systematic imposition of restrictive policies and practices since the military took over” on February 1.

Stéphane Dujarric, the spokesperson for the UN secretary-general, urged the junta to release all people detained arbitrarily, including journalists, adding that “freedom of expression is the cornerstone of any democracy and must be protected.”

Beyond the Coup in Myanmar: The Views of Rohingya Refugees in Bangladesh

JUST SECURITY

Jessica Olney and Shabbir Ahmad
June 10, 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.

This installment reflects conversations with Rohingya residents of refugee camps in Bangladesh about the coup in Myanmar. Camp residents’ views were collected by Shabbir Ahmad and other members of a team of Rohingya researchers during a recent community feedback collection project. The opinions expressed here are the views of the authors and camp residents, not those of any institution with which the authors are affiliated.

Bangladesh island gets UNHCR nod for Rohingya

ARAB NEWS

SHEHAB SUMON

04 June 2021

Bangladeshi authorities have shifted 18,000 out of a planned 100,000 people to the island to take pressure off Cox’s Bazar. (Reuters/File

The UNHCR had voiced concerns as to whether it was safe as the island is vulnerable to severe weather and flooding

DHAKA: The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has recognized Bhasan Char as a potential location for the Rohingya seeking shelter in Bangladesh despite recent protests by some of the refugees living in the remote, cyclone-prone island.

Since December, Bangladeshi authorities have shifted 18,000 out of a planned 100,000 people to the island to take pressure off Cox’s Bazar, a city in Bangladesh that already hosts more than 1.1 million Rohingya Muslims, members of an ethnic and religious minority group who fled persecution in neighboring Myanmar during a military crackdown in 2017.

Are formal interactions with China helping legitimise Myanmar’s junta in the eyes of the world?

SCMP

Pei-Hua Yu
10 Jun, 2021

A recent Chinese embassy statement referring to coup architect Min Aung Hlaing as the ‘leader of Myanmar’ is among the exchanges decried by the shadow National Unity Government
But analysts say while there are concerns over Beijing’s actions, they should not be over-interpreted – and Asean’s next moves could play a significant role in how the regime is perceived

China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi (right) bumps elbows with junta representative Wunna Maung Lwin at a June 8 meeting marking the 30th anniversary of formal relations between China and Asean. Photo: Xinhua

Recent formal interactions between Myanmar’s junta and officials from China have raised questions about whether the generals who staged February’s coup are garnering international recognition as the Southeast Asian nation’s legitimate executive authority.

7,000 Myanmar Refugees Seek Safety in India

PERSECUTION
06/10/2021

Myanmar (International Christian Concern)- Thousands have fled the violence in Myanmar, where a military junta has ruled since a coup on February 1. The months following have seen escalating bloodshed and worsening attacks on civilians as a growing pro-democracy protest movement sweeps the country. Since the military took over, it has resulted over 800 deaths due to the violence of the coup.

Much of the violence today centers around the pro-democracy movement, but Myanmar has been torn by political, ethnic, and religious conflicts for years, leading well over a million refugees to flee the country and causing the internal displacement of hundreds of thousands more. The Tatmadaw has long persecuted Rohingya Muslims and ethnic-minority Christians, including with bombings, torture, and attempts to forcefully convert minorities to Buddhism.

ေလွစီးေျပး ႐ိုဟင္ဂ်ာ ၈၀ ေက်ာ္ အင္ဒိုနီးရွား မီဒန္ ၿမိဳ႕ကို ေျပာင္းေရႊ႕

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ဗြီအိုေအ (ျမန္မာပုိင္း)
11 ဇြန္၊ 2021

မီဒန္ ၿမိဳ႕ကို ေရာက္ရွိတဲ့ ေလွစီးေျပး ႐ိုဟင္ဂ်ာတခ်ိဳ႕ (ဓါတ္ပံု: VOA/Anugrah Andriansyah)

ဘဂၤလားေဒ့ရွ္ ႏိုင္ငံ Cox's Bazar ဒုကၡသည္ စခန္းကေန အင္ဒိုနီးရွားႏိုင္ငံ အာေခ်ျပည္နယ္ထဲကို ေသာၾကာ ေန႔ က စက္ေလွနဲ႔ ေရာက္လာတဲ့ ႐ိုဟင္ဂ်ာ ၈၁ ေယာက္ကို အေနာက္စုမားၾတား ျပည္နယ္ၿမိဳ႕ေတာ္ Medan ကို ေရာက္ရွိသြားၿပီျဖစ္ပါတယ္။

အင္ဒိုနီးရွား အစိုးရ ဒုကၡသည္အေရး ကိုင္တြယ္ေဆာင္ရြက္တဲ့ PPLN နဲ႔ အတူ မီဒန္ၿမိဳ႕ အုပ္ခ်ဳပ္ေရးအဖြဲ႔ နဲ႔ အေရွ႕Aceh ရင္ခြင္ပိုက္အစိုးရ တို႔ၾကား ေဆြးေႏြးမႈအၿပီး သူတို႔ ကို ေျပာင္းေရႊ႕ဖို႔ အၾကံျပဳခဲ့တာ ျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း ေရႊ ႕ေျပာင္းအေျခခ်သူမ်ားဆိုင္ရာ အင္ဒိုနီးရွား IOM အဖြဲ႔ က ဇြန္လ ၁၀ ရက္ ၾကာသပေတးေန႔မွာ ေျပာပါတယ္။

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Myanmar's anti-junta movement shows viral support for Rohingya