UN Shows Conflicting Approaches to Myanmar Crisis

HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH
John Sifton
Asia Advocacy Director
April 4, 2024 

The United Nations Security Council’s first open meeting on Myanmar since 2019, New York, April 4, 2024. © 2024 John Sifton/Human Rights Watch

Myanmar’s already abysmal human rights situation is getting worse.

That’s what senior United Nations officials told the UN Security Council on April 4, during a rare open meeting on Myanmar, its first since February 2019.

The council heard of a spiraling human rights and humanitarian catastrophe, with particularly worrisome abuses in Rakhine State. Conflict has “weakened transnational security” and instability has led to a crisis with “global implications,” officials said.

As Crisis in Myanmar Worsens, Security Council Must Take Resolute Action to End Violence by Country’s Military, Address Humanitarian Situation, Speakers Urge

United Nation
9595th Meeting (AM)
SC/15652
4 April 2024

Meetings Coverage and Press Releases

Senior UN Official Announces Plan to Appoint Special Envoy ‘in the Coming Days’ 

 Bringing the multifaceted crisis in Myanmar to the fore, speakers urged the Security Council today to take decisive measures to end violence by that country’s military and address the deteriorating humanitarian situation, also calling for the swift appointment of a United Nations Special Envoy to enhance the Organization’s engagement on the matter.

We must not allow Myanmar to become a forgotten crisis: UK statement at the UN Security Council

GOV.UK
From: Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office and Dame Barbara Woodward DCMG OBE Published4 April 2024

Statement by Ambassador Barbara Woodward at the UN Security Council meeting on Myanmar. 

Thank you President, and thank you ASG Khiari and Director Doughten for your insightful briefings.

Colleagues, as we’ve heard, it is now over three years since the Myanmar military overturned the democratically elected government, setting the country on a path of violence and humanitarian suffering.

Myanmar Asylum Seeker Crisis Needs a Humane and Regional Solution

THE I DIPLOMATS
By Perry Q. Wood
April 01, 2024

 A more coordinated response would open more formal channels for asylum seekers to seek refuge in other countries.

In this image from a video, Rohingya refugees walk at the Balukhali refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, on Feb. 2, 2021.

Credit: AP Photo/Shafiqur Rahman, File

More deaths at sea, another capsized boat and more tragedy. This time it is Rohingya fleeing either persecution in Myanmar or unlivable conditions in makeshift camps outside the country. Seventy deaths and counting from the latest incident alone.

The Rohingya in Cox’s Bazar: 45 Years On

The Irrawaddy
by Tony Waters and R.J. Aung
March 6, 2024

Rohingya refugees wait to receive supplies of rice, water and cooking oil at the Kutupalong refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar. /AFP

A month after the prime minister of Bangladesh raised concerns about the possibility of Rohingya repatriation, UNHCR representatives in Myanmar met with the junta’s education minister on February 7 to discuss repatriation. Meanwhile, Bangladeshi officials are reluctant to act in any way that might be perceived as taking sides between the junta and the ethnic Arakan Army; Bangladesh has perhaps started to understand there is a new sheriff in Rakhine, just across the Naf River.

Helping the abandoned Rohingya

The Jarkarta Post
Editorial board (The Jakarta Post) Jakarta
Mon, December 18, 2023

Newly arrived Rohingya refugees wait to board trucks to move to a temporary shelter after villagers rejected their relocated camp in Banda Aceh, Aceh, on Dec. 11, 2023. Some of the more than 300 Rohingya refugees who arrived on the western coasts of Indonesia on Dec. 10 were transferred to a temporary shelter during the visit of a United Nations representative. (AFP/Chaideer Mahyuddin)

The central government must help the people and government of Aceh deal with the ongoing influx of Rohingya refugees and, if necessary, take over their humanitarian burden. The beleaguered Rohingya, our Southeast Asian neighbors, have fled their homes and shelters to escape systematic ethnic cleansing and seek a better future. 

Office of the Special Envoy Engagements with Myanmar Stakeholders Jakarta, 20-22 November 2023

Ministry of foreign Affairs of Republic of Indonesia
Friday, 24/November/2023

Jakarta (22/11) – Continuing the process undertaken as the ASEAN Chair 2023, the Office of the Special Envoy on Myanmar has organised a meeting attended by major stakeholders of Myanmar to push forward the implementation of the Five-Point Consensus (5PC) and work towards the convening of inclusive dialogues for a comprehensive and durable political solution to the crisis in Myanmar.

Indonesian Foreign Minister: The Rohingya Cry in Silence, We Must Not Remain Silent

MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS OF THE REPUBLIC OF INDONESIA
Friday, 22/September/2023 

 

New York, USA - "The fate of the Rohingya community remains unclear. The global situation and domestic conditions in Myanmar make this issue more complex and difficult. Strong political commitment to resolve this issue is inevitable," said Indonesian Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi at a Side Event meeting on Rohingya entitled "Have they Forgotten Us? Ensuring Continued Global Solidarity with the Rohingya of Myanmar" on the sidelines of the High Level Week of the 78th UN General Assembly Session (21/9).

PM for redouble global support to end Rohingya crisis

daily Sun
BSS, New York
23rd September, 2023

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has urged the world community, particularly the ASEAN member states, to redouble their collective efforts to repatriate Rohingyas to their homeland in Myanmar side by side with executing the resolutions of security council and general assembly to ensure a sustainable solution to the crisis.

Bangladesh asks ASEAN to "carry" Rohingya

KOMPAS
FX LAKSANA AGUNG SAPUTRA DARI NEW YORK, AS
23 September 2023 

The fate of the Rohingya ethnic group who were forced to flee Myanmar in 2017 is unclear. The issue is getting deeper and deeper with various recent dynamics. 

KOMPAS/FX LAKSANA AGUNG SAPUTRA

From left to right, Director General of the International Organization for Migration, Antonio Vitorino, President of Timor Leste, Jose Ramos-Horta, Prime Minister of Bangladesh, Sheikh Hasina, and Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Karim AA Khan KC. The meeting discussed the Rohingya issue which was held during the High Level Week of the 78th United Nations General Assembly in New York, United States, on Thursday (21/9/2023).

NEW YORK, KOMPAS - Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina urged ASEAN to continue prioritizing the Rohingya issue as a significant regional agenda. She encouraged ASEAN to increase efforts to build trust in Myanmar, so that Rohingya ethnic groups could return to their homeland with dignity.

Mobilizing Support for the Rohingya Crisis: Malaysia’s Call to OIC and ASEAN

BNN
By Asim Khan
2023 September 20  

Mobilizing Support for the Rohingya Crisis: Malaysia's Call to OIC and ASEAN

Malaysia Advocates for Rohingya Assistance

Malaysia has called upon the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) for a united front in addressing the Rohingya crisis. The appeal was made by Malaysian Foreign Minister, Datuk Seri Dr Zambry Abd Kadir, who expressed the urgency for the two organizations to call for a de-escalation of violence in Myanmar, particularly from its military authorities. The call was made during an OIC meeting held concurrently with the 78th Session of the United Nations General Assembly. 

 

Malaysia calls for OIC-ASEAN collaboration to resolve Rohingya issue

theSundaily
20-09- 2023 

Pix credit: Datukseridrzambry Abdul Kadir FB

In making the call, Foreign Minister Datuk Seri Dr Zambry Abd Kadir said both OIC and ASEAN should ask for de-escalation and cessation of violence, especially by the military authorities in Myanmar.

NEW YORK: Malaysia has called on the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) to collaborate with ASEAN to resolve the Rohingya humanitarian crisis.

Malaysia calls for OIC-Asean collaboration to resolve Rohingya issue

malaymail
Wednesday, 20 Sep 2023 

A Rohingya refugee walks at a refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh. — Reuters pic

 

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NEW YORK, Sept 20 ― Malaysia has called on the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) to collaborate with Asean to resolve the Rohingya humanitarian crisis.

In making the call, Foreign Minister Datuk Seri Zambry Abd Kadir said both OIC and Asean should ask for de-escalation and cessation of violence, especially by the military authorities in Myanmar.

ASEAN completes 11 priority economic deliverables, MITI to continue championing Malaysian exporters’ interests

theSundaily
10-09- 2023 

AFPix

KUALA LUMPUR: ASEAN has completed 11 out of 16 Priority Economic Deliverables (PEDs) under Indonesia’s chairmanship, while five out of seven PEDs under the purview of ASEAN Economic Ministers have been completed, according to the Ministry of Investment, Trade and Industry (MITI).

ASEAN Sleepwalking Into Perpetual Limbo – Analysis

eurasiareview
By Collins Chong Yew Keat
September 9, 2023 

The 43rd ASEAN Summit and Related Summits in Jakarta are again a manifestation of distinct power plays and indifference in facing new threats and urgency of risks. This state of inescapable loop is interwoven with conflicting individual and collective interests and strategic calculations, denting any aspired efficacy of the scramble to elevate conflict prevention mechanisms.

JFM calls on other ASEAN members to refuse to attend air force meeting following Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines

JUSTIC FOR MYANMAR
September 8, 2023

MEDIA PRESS

Justice For Myanmar calls on other ASEAN members to follow Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines in refusing to attend the upcoming ASEAN Air Chiefs’ Conference (AACC), heeding the outcry from Myanmar and international civil society.

We call on ASEAN members to bar the illegal junta from all ASEAN defence activities, and failing that, to refuse to attend activities in which the junta participates.

ရိုဟင်ဂျာအရေး နည်းလမ်းရှာဖို့ နိုင်ငံတကာကို ဘင်္ဂလား ဒေ့ရှ် တိုက်တွန်း

RFA
RFA Burmese
2023.09.07

၂၀၁၇ ခုနှစ် အောက်တိုဘာ ၉ ရက်နေ့က ဘင်္ဂလားဒေ့ရှ်နိုင်ငံကို ထွက်ပြေးခိုလှုံလာကြသည့် ရခိုင်ပြည်နယ်မှ ရိုဟင်ဂျာဒုက္ခသည်များ။ AFP

ဘင်္ဂလားဒေ့ရှ်နိုင်ငံမှာ ခိုလှုံနေတဲ့ ရိုဟင်ဂျာတွေအရေး ဖြေရှင်းနိုင်အောင် ရေရှည်ခံတဲ့ နည်းလမ်းရှာ ဖွေဖို့ နိုင်ငံတကာအသိုင်းအဝိုင်းကို ဘင်္ဂလားဒေ့ရှ် သမ္မတ မိုဟာမက် ရှာဟာဘူဒင်က ပြောလိုက်ပါ တယ်။

အင်ဒိုနီးရှားနိုင်ငံ၊ ဂျကာတာမြို့မှာ စက်တင်ဘာ ၇ ရက်က ကျင်းပတဲ့ အာဆီယံထိပ်သီးညီလာခံမှာ ဘင်္ဂလားဒေ့ရှ် သမ္မတ မိုဟာမက် ရှာဟာဘူဒင်က ပြောလိုက်တာပါ။

ရိုဟင်ဂျာနေရပ်ပြန်နိုင်ရေး အကူအညီပေးကြဖို့ နိုင်ငံတကာ ကို ဘင်္ဂလားဒေ့ရှ်တိုက်တွန်း

VOA
ဗွီအိုအေ (မြန်မာပိုင်း)
၀၇ စက်တင်ဘာ၊ ၂၀၂၃ 

အင်ဒိုနီးရှားနိုင်ငံ ဂျာကာတာမြို့မှာကျင်းပတဲ့ ၄၃ ကြိမ်မြောက် အာဆီယံထိပ်သီးအစည်းအဝေးအတွင်း တက်ရောက်လာတဲ့ ဘင်္ဂလားဒေ့ရှ်နိုင်ငံ သမ္မတ Mohammad Shahabuddin (စက်တင်ဘာ ၇၊ ၂၀၂၃)

  

ဘင်္ဂလားဒေ့ရှ်နိုင်ငံကို ရောက်နေတဲ့ ရိုဟင်ဂျာ ဒုက္ခသည်တွေ နေရပ်ပြန်နိုင်ရေးနဲ့ ဒုက္ခသည် အကျပ် အတည်းကို ဖြေရှင်းရေးမှာ နိုင်ငံတကာက ဝိုင်းဝန်း ကူညီဆောင်ရွက်ပေးဖို့ဘင်္ဂလားဒေ့ရှ်နိုင်ငံသမ္မတ Mohammad Shahabuddin က အင်ဒိုနီးရှားနိုင်ငံ ဂျကာတာမြို့မှာကျင်းပနေတဲ့ အာဆီယံ ထိပ်သီး အစည်းအဝေးမှာ ဒီကနေ့ ပြောဆိုသွားပါဝယ်။

Rohingya crisis may destabilise the region

Bangladesh Post
By Diplomatic Correspondent
Published : 02 Sep 2023 

Foreign Minister of Bangladesh Dr. A K Abdul Momen said that Rohingya crisis has the potential to destabilize the whole region unless the international community intensifies their efforts to eventuate the sustainable repatriation of the 1.2 million forcibly displaced Rohingyas, temporarily sheltered in Bangladesh, to their homeland Myanmar.

Good reason to tread carefully on Rohingya crisis

Jarkata Post
Tan Hui Yee

15.12.2016

 

 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 )

Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak broke with the spirit of Asean camaraderie by joining a recent march protesting against Myanmar's treatment of its beleaguered Rohingya, a Muslim minority group within the predominantly Buddhist country. "We want to tell Aung San Suu Kyi enough is enough!" he told the leader of the fellow Asean member, in reference to alleged atrocities some have condemned as "genocide".