Bangladesh Cracks Down on Crime at Rohingya Camps, Nets Dozens of Suspects

Radio Free Asia - RFA

2021-10-12

Police launched the operation after the killing of refugee leader Muhib Ullah last month.

Bangladesh foreign secretary Masud Bin Momen (center) listens to a relative of slain Rohingya leader Muhib Ullah during a visit to the crime scene at the Kutupalong refugee camp in Ukhia, Cox's Bazar, Oct. 9, 2021.

Courtesy Armed Police Battalion, Cox's Bazar

Bangladesh police have arrested nearly 40 refugees, including many suspected of involvement with illegal weapons and drugs, since they launched a crackdown against criminality at Rohingya camps after community leader Muhib Ullah was slain last month, an official said Tuesday.

Among the dozens of Rohingya refugees taken into custody as part of the crackdown, five are suspected of being linked directly to the Sept. 29 killing of Ullah, a prominent Rohingya activist, at his office in the Kutupalong refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar district, according to the authorities.

Rohingya Influx Next to NCR Demands Home Ministry and NIA’s Full Security Attention

NEWS 18

K Yatish Rajawat
October 12, 2021, 

The Tablighi Jamaat, which was founded in Nuh district in Haryana but has expanded globally, could be facilitating the entry of Rohingyas into the region.

 The airport in Delhi is a few kilometers away from the millennium city of Gurgaon, and just 50 kilometers from the millennium city is the district of Nuh (Mewat). Despite its proximity to Delhi, the district has the dubious distinction of being the only backward district of Haryana; the callousness now extends to security matters. The district has been witnessing a continuous, rising influx of Rohingya immigrants in the last few years, yet the district administration, while being aware of this influx, is limited in its action and can do little to prevent it.

There is a perception about the district built by the administrators in Gurgaon—that it is a den of criminals. This baseless perception has done immense harm to the development, and even to the security, of the district. The national media also picks up selective stories about the district based on this perception.

UN, Bangladesh sign deal to aid Rohingya relocated to island

Aljazeera
11 Oct 2021

Authorities said another 81,000 refugees would be relocated to the remote Bhasan Char island over next three months. 

Rohingya refugees prepare to board a ship as they move to Bhasan Char island, near Chattogram, Bangladesh [File: Mohammad Ponir Hossain/Reuters]

 

The United Nations and Bangladesh’s government have signed an agreement to work together to help Rohingya refugees on an island in the Bay of Bengal where thousands have been relocated from crammed camps near the Myanmar border.

More than 19,000 Rohingya have already been moved to Bhasan Char island by the government, and the UN said one of the key reasons to sign the agreement was to start serving that population. 

Rohingyas were promised a new home in Bangladesh. They are now trying to escape it

New York Times
By Saif Hasnat, Sameer Yasir,
Oct 11, 2021,

Buildings meant to accommodate Rohingya refugees at Bhasan Char, Bangladesh, in the Bay of Bengal.Credit...Mahmud Hossain Opu/Associated Press

They Were Promised a New Home. Then They Tried to Escape It. 

Bangladesh is relocating Rohingya refugees who fled Myanmar to a vulnerable, environmentally unstable island that is giving some cause to run again.

DHAKA, Bangladesh — Its name translates into “floating island,” and for up to 100,000 desperate war refugees, the low-slung landmass is supposed to be home.

One refugee, Munazar Islam, initially thought it would be his. He and his family of four fled Myanmar in 2017 after the military there unleashed a campaign of murder and rape that the United Nations has called ethnic cleansing. After years in a refugee camp prone to fires and floods, he accepted an invitation from the government of neighboring Bangladesh to move to the island, Bhasan Char.

EU Parliament Voices Support for Myanmar’s Opposition Government

THE I DIPLOMAT

By Sebastian Strangio
October 11, 2021

Despite the motion, Western support for the National Unity Government is likely to remain informal and unofficial.

The European Parliament has voted to support Myanmar’s shadow National Unity Government (NUG) and its parliamentary committee as the legitimate representatives of crisis-hit Myanmar.

In a resolution adopted late last week, the European Parliament expressed its “support for the people of Myanmar in their struggle for democracy, freedom, and human rights.” It said that it “supports the CRPH [Committee Representing Pyidaungsu Hluttaw] and the NUG as the only legitimate representatives of the democratic wishes of the people of Myanmar” and called on the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and other foreign governments “to include and involve them in genuine and inclusive political dialogue and efforts aimed at the peaceful resolution of the crisis.”

Myanmar has been in a state of severe crisis since the coup, which immediately prompted a nationwide movement of protests and work stoppages, which have been complemented in recent months by growing armed resistance.

Bangladesh arrests 16 Rohingya refugees in anti-militant crackdown

Eastern Eye
By: Chandrashekar Bhat
Chandrashekar
11 October, 2021

Members of the Armed Police Battalion stand guard near the office of slain Rohingya leader Mohib Ullah, who was shoot dead by gunmen last month, at Kutupalong refugee camp in Ukhia on October 6, 2021. (Photo by MUNIR UZ ZAMAN/AFP via Getty Images)

BANGLADESH police arrested at least 16 Rohingya refugees in a series of raids on camps in Dhaka after the murder of a top leader of their community last week, officials said on Sunday (10).

Rights advocate Mohib Ullah was gunned down 10 days ago by unidentified assailants outside his office at Kutupalong, the world’s largest refugee settlement in Bangladesh’s southeast.

His family and fellow community leaders have blamed the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA) – a militant outfit behind a series of attacks on Myanmar security posts – saying his growing popularity had enraged the group. ARSA has denied any involvement in the murder.

မိုဟစ္အူလာ လုပ္ႀကံခံရမႈ ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာ ၁၆ ေယာက္ အဖမ္းခံရ

RFA
လြတ္လပ္တဲ့အာရွအသံ
2021-10-10

လုပ္ႀကံခံရတဲ့ ဦးမိုဟစ္အူလာကို ဘဂၤလားေဒ့ရွ္နိုင္ငံ ကုတုပေလာင္ဒုကၡသည္စခန္းမွာ၂ဝ၁၉ ခုႏွစ္က ေတြ႕ရစဥ္ Photo: Reuters

ဘဂ္လားေဒ့ရွ္နိုင္ငံ ေကာ့ဆက္ဘဇားၿမိဳ႕က ဒုကၡသည္စခန္းတစ္ခုမွာ အသတ္ခံလိုက္ရတဲ့ မိုဟစ္အူလာ ျဖစ္ ရပ္နဲ႔ ပတ္သက္လို႔ ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာ ၁၂ ေယာက္ကို ဘဂၤလားေဒ့ရွ္ရဲက ဖမ္းထားတယ္လို႔ ေအအက္ဖ္ပီ သတင္းမွာ မေန႔က ေဖာ္ျပထားပါတယ္။ ဒါေၾကာင့္ စုစုေပါင္းဖမ္းမိထားတာ ၁၆ ေယာက္ရွိၿပီလို႔ ဒီအမႈကိုကိုယ္တြယ္ေနတဲ့ ရဲအရာရွိ ေနမူလ္ဟတ္က ေျပာပါတယ္။

ရိုဟင်ဂျာဒုက္ခသည်စခန်းတွင်း စစ်သွေးကြွနှိမ်နင်းရေး ဖမ်းဆီးမှု ဆက်လုပ်

VOA
ဗွီအိုအေ (မြန်မာပိုင်း)
11 အောက်တိုဘာ၊ 2021

ကုတုပလောင် ဒုက္ခသည်စခန်းတွင်းမှာ အသတ်ခံရသူ ရိုဟင်ဂျာအရေးခေါင်းဆောင် Mohib Ullah ရဲ့ဈာပန။ (စက်တင်ဘာ ၃၀၊ ၂၀၂၁)

ဘင်္ဂလားဒေ့ရှ်နိုင်ငံက ဒုက္ခသည်စခန်းမှာ ရိုဟင်ဂျာ ခေါင်းဆောင်တဦးဖြစ်တဲ့ Mohib Ullah ပြီးခဲ့တဲ့ သီတင်း ပတ်ထဲ အသတ်ခံခဲ့ရပြီးနောက်ပိုင်း ဒီဒုက္ခသည်စခန်းတွေမှာ ရဲတွေက ဝင်ရောက်ရှာဖွေ ဖမ်းဆီးမှုတွေ လုပ်နေ တာဖြစ်ပြီး အခုချိန်ထိ ရဲကဖမ်းထားသူ အနည်းဆုံး ၁၆ ဦးရှိပြီလို့ ဘင်္ဂလားဒေ့ရှ် အာဏာပိုင်တွေက တနင်္ဂနွေနေ့မှာ ပြောပါတယ်။

Bhasan Char ကၽြန္းက ႐ိုဟင္ဂ်ာေတြကူညီဖို႔ ကုလနဲ႔ ဘဂၤလားေဒ့ရွ္ သေဘာတူ

VOA

ဗြီအိုေအ (ျမန္မာပုိင္း)
09 ေအာက္တိုဘာ၊ 2021

ဘဂၤလားေဒ့ရွ္ႏိုင္ငံ ဒုကၡသည္စခန္းက ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာဒုကၡသည္ေတြ Bhashan Char ကုိ ေျပာင္းေရႊ႕ေနတဲ့ ျမင္ကြင္း။ (ဒီဇင္ဘာ ၂၉၊ ၂၀၂၀)

ျပင္သစ္ႏိုင္ငံက နာမည္ေက်ာ္ ဘိုင္ယူး စစ္သတင္းေထာက္ဆု (Bayeux Calvados- Normandy Award) အတြက္ ဒီႏွစ္ ၂၀၂၁ ခုႏွစ္မွာ ပထမဆုကို New York Times သတင္းစာက ျမန္မာဓာတ္ပုံသတင္းေထာက္ကို ခ်ီးျမႇင့္လိုက္ပါတယ္။ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံမွာ ရွိေနတဲ့ ဓာတ္ပုံဆရာအတြက္ အႏၲရာယ္ရွိတာေၾကာင့္ အမည္ကိုေတာ့ ေဖာ္ျပမထားပါဘူး။

ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာေခါင္းေဆာင္ လုပ္ႀကံခံရမႈ မ်က္ျမင္သက္ေသ သ႐ုပ္ေဖာ္ပုံၾကမ္း

RFA
လြတ္လပ္တဲ့အာရွအသံ
Oct 8, 2021 

■ ၂၀၂၁ စက္တင္ဘာလ ၂၉ ရက္ေန႔က ဘဂၤလား‌ေဒ့ရွ္နိုင္ငံ ကုတုပါေလာင္ ဒုကၡသည္စခန္းမွာ ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာ ဒုကၡ သည္ေခါင္းေဆာင္ မိုဟစ္အူလာ လုပ္ႀကံသတ္ျဖတ္ခံရ စဥ္က အတူရွိေနခဲ့တဲ့ မ်က္ျမင္သက္ေသတစ္ဦးရဲ့ ျပန္ ေၿပာျပခ်က္ကို RFA ကာတြန္းဆရာ Rebel Pepper က သ႐ုပ္ေဖာ္ပုံၾကမ္း ေရးဆြဲေပးထားပါတယ္။

Link : Here

ရိုဟင်ဂျာ ၈ သောင်းကျော် ဘာဆန်ချာကျွန်း ပြောင်းရွှေ့ဖို့ ဘင်္ဂလားဒေ့ရှ်စီစဉ်

VOA
ဗွီအိုအေ (မြန်မာပိုင်း)
09 အောက်တိုဘာ၊ 2021

ကုတုပလောင် ဒုက္ခသည်စခန်း မြင်ကွင်းတခု။ ၆ အောက်တိုဘာ၊ ၂၀၂၀

ရိုဟင်ဂျာ ၈ သောင်းကျော် ဘာဆန်ချာကျွန်း ပြောင်းရွှေ့ဖို့ ဘင်္ဂလားဒေ့ရှ်စီစဉ်

ကုလသမဂ္ဂက အကူညီပေးဖို့ သဘောတူညီချက်ရခဲ့တဲ့နောက် ဘင်္ဂလားပင်လယ်အော်ထဲက ဘာဆန်ချာ ကျွန်း ဆီကို ရိုဟင်ဂျာ ဒုက္ခသည် ၈၀ ၀၀၀ ကျော် ပို့ ပေးဖို့ ဘင်္ဂလားဒက်ရှ်အစိုးရက စီစဉ်နေပါတယ်။ လူ့ အ ခွင့်ရေးအဖွဲ့တွေက စိုးရိမ်ကြောင်း ပြောနေတဲ့ ကြားက ဒီကျွန်းပေါ်က ဒုက္ခသည်စခန်းကိုပို့ပေးထားတဲ့ ရိုဟင်ဂျာဒုက္ခ သည်က ၁၉ ၀၀၀ လောက်ရှိနေပြီဖြစ်ပါတယ်။

ASEAN may exclude Myanmar junta chief from upcoming summit

THE SCOOP

Ain Bandial

October 6, 2021 

With little progress on an agreed roadmap to restore peace, ASEAN's special envoy says Myanmar's inaction is "tantamount to backtracking" 

FILE PHOTO: Brunei's Second Minister of Foreign Affairs, YB Dato Erywan Yusof, speaks during a press conference in Bandar Seri Begawan on Aug 7, 2021 following the wrap-up of the ASEAN Regional Forum. Photo: Rasidah Hj Abu Bakar/The Scoop

BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN – Southeast Asian countries are in talks to bar the head of Myanmar’s junta from the ASEAN summit later this month, due to a lack of progress on an agreed roadmap to restore peace in the strife-torn country.

The junta’s inaction on a five-point plan reached with ASEAN last April was “tantamount to backtracking”, YB Dato Erywan Yusof, the bloc’s special envoy to Myanmar, told a news conference Wednesday.

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

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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.