Argentine Court: Rohingyas testify about the horrors they faced

The Daily Star
Diplomatic Correspondent
Thu Aug 19, 2021 

In a historic development for Myanmar, Rohingya women have described in an Argentine court of law, under the aegis of universal jurisdiction, how the Myanmar military carried out a brutal massacre in their village.

Speaking remotely to the Federal Criminal Appeals Court in Bueno Aires from the world's largest refugee camp in Cox's Bazar on Tuesday, the women spoke of how soldiers killed their husbands in Chuk Pyin of Myanmar's Rakhine, according to a statement from the Burmese Rohingya Organization UK (BROUK).

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They said soldiers killed hundreds of people, while some women were raped before being killed. The soldiers went on to rape many other women in their village and then burned their homes to the ground.

Rohingya to give first testimony in push for Myanmar army probe

Frontier Myanmar
AFP
AUGUST 18, 2021

The President of The Burmese Rohingya Organisation UK , Tun Khin (L) and Argentine human rights lawyer Tomas Ojea Quintana (R) leave Argentine federal court in Buenos Aires on November 13, 2019. (AFP)

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.

႐ိုဟင္ဂ်ာေတြအတြက္ ၂၀၂၀ ဟာ အဆိုးဆုံးေရေၾကာင္း ခရီးသြားႏွစ္အျဖစ္ ကုလမွတ္တမ္းတင္

VOA
ဗြီအိုေအ (ျမန္မာပုိင္း)
20 ၾသဂုတ္၊ 2021 

Bangladeshi villagers help two elderly Rohingya women from a boat after crossing a canal at Shah Porir Deep, in Teknak, Bangladesh, Aug. 31, 2017.

အမ်ိဳးသမီးနဲ႔ ကေလးေတြ အမ်ားစု အပါအဝင္ ေရေၾကာင္းကေန ထြက္ေျပးၾကတဲ့ ႐ိုဟင္ဂ်ာ ဒုကၡသည္ေတြအ တြက္ ၿပီးခဲ့တဲ့ႏွစ္ဟာ အဆိုးဆုံးႏွစ္တႏွစ္ ျဖစ္ခဲ့ေၾကာင္း ကုလသမဂၢက ေျပာလိုက္ပါတယ္။

 ဘဂၤလားပင္လယ္ေအာ္နဲ႔ ကပၸလီပင္လယ္ေတြကို ျဖတ္သန္းၿပီး ေရေၾကာင္းခရီး သြားခဲ့ၾကသူေတြအတြက္ ၂၀၂၀ ျပည့္ႏွစ္ဟာ အေသအေပ်ာက္အမ်ားဆုံးအျဖစ္ မွတ္တမ္းဝင္ခဲ့ေၾကာင္း ဒုကၡသည္မ်ားဆိုင္ရာ ကုလသ မဂၢ မဟာမင္းႀကီး႐ုံး (UNHCR) ရဲ႕ ၾကာသပေတးေန႔ ထုတ္ျပန္တဲ့ အစီရင္ခံစာမွာ ေဖာ္ျပလိုက္တာပါ။

၂၀၂၀ မွာ ပင္လယ္ျဖတ္ရင္း ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာဒုကၡသည္ေတြ အမ်ားဆုံးေသဆုံးရ

RFA
လြတ္လပ္တဲ့အာရွအသံ
2021-08-19

၂ဝ၂ဝ ခုႏွစ္ ဇြန္က ပင္လယ္ျဖတ္ရင္း အင္ဒိုနီးရွားနိုင္ငံမွာ ေသာင္တင္ခဲ့တဲ့ ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာမ်ား။
ၤၤၤၤFile Photo: Reuters

ဘဂၤလားပင္လယ္ေအာ္နဲ႔ ကပၸလီပင္လယ္ျပင္ကို ျဖတ္သန္းခ်ိန္မွာ ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာဒုကၡသည္ေတြ ေသေဘးနဲ႔ ရင္ ဆိုင္ရၿပီး အမ်ိဳးသမီးနဲ႔ကေလးေတြ အမ်ားဆုံး ေသဆုံးရတယ္လို႔ UNHCR ကုလသမဂၢ ဒုကၡသည္မ်ား ဆိုင္ရာ မဟာမင္းႀကီး႐ုံးက မေန႔က ေျပာၾကားလိုက္ပါတယ္။

၂၀၂၀ ဟာ ဘဂၤလားပင္လယ္ေအာ္နဲ႔ ကပၸလီပင္လယ္ျပင္ကို ျဖတ္သန္းတဲ့ ဒုကၡသည္ေတြ အေသအေပ်ာက္ အမ်ားဆုံး ႏွစ္ပဲလို႔လည္း အစီရင္ခံစာမွာ ေဖာ္ျပပါတယ္။

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.

အာဂ်င္တီးနား ဗဟိုတရား႐ုံးမွာ ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာေတြရဲ့ျဖစ္ရပ္ဆိုး ၾကားနာ

RFA

လြတ္လပ္တဲ့အရွအသံ
ရဲေခါင္ျမင့္ေမာင္ (ဝါရွင္တန္ဒီစီ)
2021-08-17

 ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာ အဖြဲ႕အစည္းေတြနဲ႔ ေတာင္အေမရိက နိုင္ငံေတြက လူ႔အခြင့္အေရး လႈပ္ရွားသူ အဖြဲ႕အစည္းေတြ ဟာ ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာေတြအေပၚ ျမန္မာစစ္တပ္က က်ဴးလြန္တဲ့ ရာဇဝတ္မႈေတြအတြက္ ဗိုလ္ခ်ဳပ္မႉးႀကီး မင္းေအာင္ လွိုင္နဲ႔ နိုင္ငံေတာ္အတိုင္ပင္ခံ ပုဂၢိဳလ္ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ အပါအဝင္ စစ္ဘက္နဲ႔ အရပ္ဘက္ ေခါင္းဆာင္ အခ်ိဳ႕ကို တာဝန္ရွိသူေတြအျဖစ္ သတ္မွတ္ၿပီး၊ အာဂ်င္တီးနားနိုင္ငံ ေဘြနိုေအးရီးၿမိဳ႕ တရား႐ုံးမွာ ၂၀၁၉ ခုႏွစ္ ေအာက္တိုဘာလက တရားစြဲဆိုခဲ့တာ ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။

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။

ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာေတြရဲ့ျဖစ္ရပ္ဆိုးေတြကို အာဂ်င္တီးနားတရား႐ုံး ပထမဆုံးအႀကိမ္ ၾကားနာမည္

RFA
လြတ္လပ္တဲ့အာရွအသံ
2021-08-16

၂ဝ၁၇ ခုႏွစ္က ရခိုင္ျပည္နယ္ေျမာက္ပိုင္းကေန ဘဂၤလားေဒ့ရွ္နိုင္ငံကို ထြက္ေျပးလာၾကေသာ ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာဒုကၡသည္မ်ားကို ေတြ႕ရ စဥ္။File Photo: Reuters

ရခိုင္ျပည္နယ္ေျမာက္ပိုင္းမွာ ျမန္မာစစ္တပ္ရဲ့ ရက္ရက္စက္စက္ ဖိႏွိပ္ခံရခ်ိန္က စစ္သားေတြရဲ့ လိင္ပိုင္းဆိုင္ ရာ အဓမၼျပဳက်င့္ခံရမႈကေန အသက္မေသဘဲ က်န္ခဲ့သူေတြက သူတို႔ရဲ့ အေတြ႕အၾကဳံကို အာဂ်င္တီးနား နိုင္ ငံက တရား႐ုံးမွာ ဒီေန႔ ၾသဂုတ္လ ၁၇ ရက္မွာ ပထမဆုံးအႀကိမ္ ထြက္ဆိုမယ္လို႔ သတင္းရရွိပါတယ္။

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.

ရခိုင္သို႔ ဗမာျပည္မဘက္က ကားျဖင့္ဝင္လာသူ မူဆလင္ အမ်ိဳးသမီးတစ္ဦးအပါအဝင္ (၈)ဦး အမ္းဂိတ္တြင္ ဖမ္းဆီး ခံရ

နိရဥၥရာ၊ 

သၽွင္မင္းဇံ

ၾသဂုတ္ ၁၃/၂၀၂၁

 

ရခိုင္သို႔ ျပည္မဘက္က ကားျဖင့္ ဝင္ေရာက္လာသည့္ အေထာက္အထားမဲ့ ဝင္လာသူ မူဆလင္အမ်ိဳးသမီး တစ္ဦးႏွင့္ အမ်ိဳးသားခုႏွစ္ ဦးတို႔ကို အမ္းၿမိဳ႕ ၊ ပဲပဒုံးပူေပါင္းစစ္ေဆးေရးဂိတ္တြင္ ၾသဂုတ္လ ၈ ရက္ေန႔ႏွင့္ ၉ ရက္ေန႔ မ်ား၌ အသီးသီးဖမ္းဆီးခံခဲ့ရသည္ဟု သတင္းရရွိသည္။

 

ဖမ္းဆီးခံရသူမ်ားအထဲမွ ပထမ၄ ဦးမွာ ၾသဂုတ္လ ၈ ရက္ေန႔ ဖမ္းဆီးခံခဲ့ရၿပီး ၎တို႔မွာ မင္းျပားၿမိဳ႕နယ္၊ ဟာ ရပိုင္ေက်းရြာက အဒူေဂၚဖူး (၂၃ႏွစ္) ၊ မာမြတ္ေတာ္ကီ (၂၅ႏွစ္)၊ အဒူရာမန္(၃၈ႏွစ္) သုံးဦးႏွင့္ ေနာက္တစ္ ဦး မွာ ေျမာက္ဦးၿမိဳ႕နယ္ ရွမ္းေတာင္ေက်းရြာက မိုဟာမြတ္ဆာ (၂၆) တို႔ ျဖစ္ၾကသည္ဟု သိရသည္။

 

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).