ASEAN could bar Myanmar general from leaders’ summit

Aljazeera
7 Oct 2021

Regional envoy says the military has made ‘no progress’ on the peace plan agreed in April, as Malaysia says it could open dialogue with shadow administration.

ASEAN invited Myanmar's armed forces chief to a summit in Jakarta in April - at which a so-called consensus towards peace was agreed, but the group's special envoy says 'no progress' has been made since [File: Courtesy of Rusman/Indonesian Presidential Palace/Handout via Reuters] 

 

 

Countries from Southeast Asia are discussing not inviting the head of Myanmar’s military regime to their leaders’ summit later this month, after the generals failed to make progress on an agreed road map to restore peace after their February coup plunged the country into chaos, a regional envoy has said.

Bangladesh: Who killed Rohingya leader Mohibullah?

DW
Date 05.10.2021
Author Arafatul Islam

The murder of a top Rohingya leader in his office has international leaders calling for an investigation and has stoked anger within Bangladesh's Rohingya refugee communities.

Some have blamed the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army for Mohibullah's death

Mohibullah, a high-profile figurehead for the Rohingya who have fled Myanmar, was killed by unidentified gunmen last week in an event that has left investigators looking for a culprit.

Mohibullah was shot last Wednesday, September 29, in one of the sprawling camps in the coastal Bangladeshi city of Cox's Bazar. The leader left for Bangladesh when over 730,000 Rohingya Muslims fled Myanmar after a military crackdown in August 2017, in the largest Rohingya exodus to date.

Rohingya refugees fear for lives after leader's murder in Bangladesh camp

UCA news

Stephan Uttom, Dhaka
Published: October 06, 2021
Rights group calls for urgent measures to protect Rohingya activists and refuge

Human Rights Watch and the Catholic Church have called for the protection of Rohingya refugees and activists in Cox's Bazar in Bangladesh. (Photo: Stephan Uttom/UCA News)

Human Rights Watch (HRW) has called on Bangladeshi authorities and the United Nations to take urgent measures to protect Rohingya refugees and activists facing threats and violence inside refugee camps.

Many have been scared for their lives since unidentified gunmen shot and killed Mohib Ullah, 46, chair of the Arakan Rohingya Society for Peace and Human Rights (ARSPH), in Kutupalong camp in Cox’s Bazar on Sept. 29.

More U.S. Aid for the Rohingya Refugee Crisis

VOA
EDITORIALS POLICY FOUCUS
October 6th'2021

The United States will contribute nearly $180 million in additional assistance for the humanitarian crisis facing Rohingya in and outside of Burma, and affected host communities in neighboring Bangladesh.

Link : Here

Chairman Meeks, Senator Cardin, and Rep. Chabot Introduce BURMA Act

Foreign Affairs Committee

Press Releases

October 5, 2021

Washington, DC – Today, House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Gregory W. Meeks (D-NY), House Foreign Affairs Asia-Pacific Subcommittee Ranking Member Steve Chabot (R-OH) and Senator Benjamin L. Cardin (D-MD) introduced the “Burma Unified through Rigorous Military Accountability Act of 2021” or BURMA Act.

The legislation condemns the actions taken by the Burmese military during its February 1 coup d’état and its aftermath. By authorizing targeted sanctions against the Burmese military, the State Administrative Council, as well as their affiliated entities and conglomerates, the bill holds accountable those responsible for the perpetration of the coup and the ensuing atrocities that have claimed over a thousand lives. In light of the growing crisis in Burma, the legislation also authorizes support for civil society and humanitarian assistance and calls on the State Department to issue a genocide determination for the persecution of the Rohingya.

ျမန္မာနယ္စပ္က ရာဇဝတ္မႈေတြကို ဘဂၤလားေဒရွ္႔ဘက္က ပစ္ခတ္ႏွိမ္နင္းမည္

VOA

ဗြီအိုေအ (ျမန္မာပုိင္း)

06 ေအာက္တိုဘာ၊ 2021

ဘဂၤလားေဒ့ရွ္ ျမန္မာနယ္စပ္မွာ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံဘက္ကေန တရားမ၀င္ ၀င္ေရာက္လာမႈ၊ မူးယစ္ေဆးဝါးနဲ႕ လက္ နက္ေမွာင္ခိုတင္သြင္းမႈ ေတြကို ရပ္တန္႕ေအာင္ တားဆီးရမွာျဖစ္ၿပီး လိုအပ္ပါကပစ္ခတ္ႏွိမ္နင္းမွာျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း ဘဂၤလားေဒ့ရွ္ ႏိုင္ငံျခားေရး၀န္ႀကီးက အဂၤါေန႔မွာ ေျပာဆို လိုက္ပါတယ္။

ယခင္က ျမန္မာနယ္စပ္မွာ ပစ္မိန္႕ေပးမထားေပမယ့္ အခုအခါ လက္နက္၊ မူးယစ္ေဆးဝါး နဲ႕ လူကုန္ကူးမႈေတြ ကို တားဆီးဖို႔ ပစ္မိန္႕ေပးမွာ ျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း ႏိုင္ငံျခားေရး၀န္ႀကီး Dr. AK Abdul Momen က သူရဲ႕ေရြးေကာက္ပဲြ နယ္ေျမ Sylhet (ေဆလ္ ဟက္) မွာ သတင္းေထာက္ေတြကို ေျပာၾကားစဥ္ ထည့္သြင္းေျပာၾကားခဲ့တာပါ။

Bangladesh urges UN again to resolve Rohingya crisis

rising bd.com
Dhaka,
Chhabed Sathee, Staff Reporter, USA || risingbd.com
Published: 5 October 2021

Ambassador Rabab Fatima

Ambassador Rabab Fatima, Permanent Representative of Bangladesh to the United Nations, said, “The international community and regional countries must continue their efforts to resolve the Rohingya crisis. Creating conducive environment in the Rakhine State and ensuring accountability for the horrendous crimes committed against them are critical in this regard.”

Ambassador Rabab Fatima said this while delivering her statement at the 3rd committee general debate held at the UN headquarters on Monday (October 4).

ASEAN ‘disappointed’ with Myanmar military’s peace commitment

Aljazeera
4 Oct 2021

Indonesia FM says country’s military rulers have made no significant progress in implementing the group’s peace road map.

The military leader has pledged to hold fresh elections in two years and cooperate with ASEAN on finding a political solution. [Reuters]

Myanmar’s military has made no significant progress in implementing a Southeast Asian roadmap for peace following their coup or given any feedback on the work of a regional envoy in the country, Indonesia’s foreign minister has said.

Bangladesh arrests five over the killing of Rohingya activist

Aljazeera
3 Oct 2021

Mohibullah was a high-profile figurehead for the nearly one million-strong Muslim minority based in Bangladesh [File: Mohammad Ponir Hossain/Reuters]

Five Rohingya men have been arrested in connection with the killing of a prominent community leader in a refugee camp in Bangladesh, according to the police, adding that they were probing links to an armed group.

Mohibullah – a high-profile figurehead for the nearly one million-strong Muslim minority in Bangladesh – was killed by gunmen late on Wednesday in one of the sprawling camps in Cox’s Bazar district.

PM Hasina: UNGA discussion will help continue international pressure for Rohingya repatriation

Dhaka Tribune

BSS
October 4th, 2021

She hopes Bangladesh delegation's participation in the session would strengthen Dhaka's position in the multilateral forum

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday said international pressure on Myanmar would continue for a permanent solution to the protracted Rohingya crisis as the issue was widely discussed in the 76th United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) session.

She said: "The issue of the Rohingya crisis and its permanent solution was discussed elaborately in the UNGA session which I believe will help to continue global pressure on Myanmar for bringing back their Rohingya nationals from Bangladesh."

Rohingya leader Mohib Ullah murder: 2 placed on 3-day remand

the independent

UNB, Cox’s Bazar

A Cox’s Bazar court on Sunday placed two people on a three-day remand in a case over the killing Rohingya leader Mohib Ullah.

Cox’s Bazar Senior Judicial Magistrate Tamanna Farah passed the order in the morning.

Those remanded are—Mohamamd Selim alias Lamba Selim and Shawkat Ullah.

Earlier on Saturday, police produced them before the judge with a 7-day remand prayer, said court inspector Chandan Kumar Chakrawarty.

UN Seeks Investigation Into Killing of Rohingya Rights Defender

VOA
Lisa Schlein
October 02, 2021 

FILE - Rohingya activist Mohib Ullah speaks with Rohingya refugees in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, April 7, 2019. Unidentified gunmen shot and killed Ullah at Kutupalong refugee camp, also in Cox's Bazar, Sept. 29, 2021.

GENEVA —

U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet is calling on Bangladeshi authorities to conduct a prompt and thorough investigation into the killing of Rohingya activist Mohib Ullah while he was visiting a Cox’s Bazaar refugee camp in Bangladesh earlier this week.

Bachelet paid tribute to the prominent human rights defender, who she said spent his life fighting to end decades of discrimination against the Rohingya people. She said Ullah lost his life while seeking to restore his people’s basic rights in Myanmar, including their rights to nationality, land, health, and education.

Arms are coming from Myanmar to destabilise Rohingya camps: minister

bdnews24.com

Senior Correspondent,
Published: 03 Oct 2021 

Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan (File Photo)

Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal has said arms are coming into the country from Myanmar in various ways in an attempt to create "instability" in the Rohingya refugee camps in Cox's Bazar.


However, he claimed that the law and order situation in the camps is "good enough" and that the killers of Rohingya refugee leader Mohammad Mohib Ullah will be brought to justice "soon".

The home minister's remarks came on Sunday after a meeting at the Secretariat on the security measures surrounding Durga Puja.

မိုဟစ္အူလာ လုပ္ႀကံခံရမႈ ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာ ငါးေယာက္ကို ထပ္ ဖမ္းထား

RFA
လြတ္လပ္တဲ့အာရွအသံ
04.10.2021

လုပ္ႀကံခံရတဲ့ ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာဒုကၡသည္ေခါင္းေဆာင္ ဦးမိုဟစ္အူလာကို ဘဂၤလားေဒ့ရွ္နိုင္ငံ ကုတုပေလာင္ဒုကၡ သည္စခန္းမွာ၂ဝ၁၉ ခုႏွစ္က ေတြ႕ရစဥ္ Photo: Reuters

ဘဂၤလားေဒ့ရွ္နိုင္ငံ ေကာက္ဆက္ဘဇားက ဒုကၡသည္စခန္းတစ္ခုမွာ လုပ္ႀကံသတ္ျဖတ္ခံလိုက္ရတဲ့ မိုဟစ္အူ လာ ကိစၥနဲ႔ပတ္သက္လို႔ ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာ ငါးေယာက္ကို ဘဂၤလားေဒ့ရွ္ရဲက မေန႔ကဖမ္းလိုက္တယ္လို႔ AFP သတင္း မွာ ေဖာ္ျပထားပါတယ္။

Rohingya leader killed for wanting to return: minister

The Phnom Penh Post

AFP
Publication date 03 October 2021

Police say a 28-year-old Rohingya man has been arrested over the murder of Mohib Ullah. AFP

BANGLADESHI foreign minister AK Abdul Momen on October 2 vowed to bring the killers of Rohingya leader Mohib Ullah to justice soon.

He said a vested quarter killed Mohib Ullah as he wanted to return to his home country of Myanmar.

"The government will take stern action against those involved in the killing. Nobody will be spared," he said.

This was the minister's first remarks after the global condemnation of the Rohingya leader's murder.

Rights groups urge full probe into Rohingya leader’s killing

Aljazeera
2 Oct 2021

Mohibullah, a prominent Rohingya leader, was killed this week at world’s largest refugee camp in Bangladesh.

Rohingya refugees offer funeral prayers for Rohingya community leader Mohibullah at Kutupalong refugee camp in Ukhia on September 30, 2021, a day after unidentified assailants gunned him down outside his office [Tanbir Miraj / AFP]

Rights groups have called for an investigation into the killing of a prominent Rohingya leader who was shot to death at the world’s largest refugee camp in Bangladesh.

Bangladesh arrests members of Rohingya insurgent group after refugee leader’s murder

South China Morning Post
dpa
Published: 3 Oct, 2021

• Mohib Ullah, who was killed on Wednesday, had met former US president Donald Trump and joined a UN Human Rights Council session in 2019
• Three suspects with links to an armed insurgent group were detained and are being interrogated, officials said.

Bangladesh police officials stand guard near the crime scene after the Mohib Ullah a top Rohingya community leader, was shot dead in Cox’s Bazaar. Photo: EPA-EFE

Police inBangladesh arrested three suspects believed to have links to an armed insurgent group among Rohingya refugees, as officials promised justice for the killers of a prominent Rohingya rights activist.

“The killers will certainly be brought to justice. None will be spared,” Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen said on Saturday, three days after the murder of Mohib Ullah, the head of the Arakan Rohingya Society for Peace and Human Rights (ARSPH).

Arrests in Rohingya leader death probe

Magnet 

OCTOBER 3 2021 
Nazrul Islam

The search for the killers of Rohingya leader Mohib Ullah continues in Bangladesh.

Police in Bangladesh have arrested three suspects believed to have links to an armed insurgent group among Rohingya refugees, as officials promised justice for the killers of a prominent Rohingya rights activist.

"The killers will certainly be brought to justice. None will be spared," Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen said on Saturday, three days after the murder of Mohib Ullah, the head of the Arakan Rohingya Society for Peace and Human Rights (ARSPH).

Another Rohingya man detained over Mohib Ullah killing

bdnews24.com
Cox’s Bazar Correspondent,
Published: 03 Oct 2021

Mohib Ullah, a Rohingya Muslim leader from the Arakan Rohingya Society for Peace and Human Rights, poses for a potrait at his office in Kutupalong refugee camp in Ukhiya, Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, April 19, 2018. Picture taken April 19, 2018. REUTERS/Mohammad Ponir Hossain

The Armed Police Battalion (APBn) has detained another Rohingya man in connection with the killing of Rohingya community leader Mohammad Mohib Ullah in Cox’s Bazar’s Ukhiya.

Thirty-five-year-old Mohammad Ilias was taken into custody around noon on Sunday, said APBn Captain and Superintendent of Police Mohammad Naimul Haq.

The detainee will be questioned, he said.

Law enforcers have detained a total of five suspects over Mohib Ullah’s death.

A group of unidentified gunmen killed the 48-year-old Mohib Ullah at a refugee camp in Cox's Bazar's Ukhiya on Sept 30.

“The working class in Myanmar stood before the military regime, and they showed us the way.”

Sagebrush Rider

Obadiah Silva 

October 3, 2021

Eight months after the bloody military coup, we interviewed Tincher Sunley, a Burmese grassroots activist who described the situation in his country today. Myanmar is a country in Southeast Asia, a former British colony with decades of political instability and strategic emphasis on China’s natural resources and its access to the Indian Ocean, which will give further economic impetus to its southern region. In the Biden era, the United States aimed at its strategic rival, the Asian Company, with the cynical discourse of “democracy” aimed at restoring the value of international institutions. President Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy is the party that won the November 2020 election, which was overthrown by a coup, but in previous years it ruled alongside the military and was previously complicit in crimes against ethnic minorities. He is now part of the military junta, the opposition front of the “National Unity Government” (NUG), and they rely on this controversy of central powers, which is being transformed into imperialism in the form of “diplomacy”: ONU. The real opposition to the coup arose as young people fighting in the streets against military tanks, their workers in factories and textile workshops went on strike.