Kuala Lumpur Summit: Five major issues facing Muslim world

Aljazeera
2019-12-18

Leaders from some of the world's most populous Muslim-majority countries set to address issues on Islamophobia, poverty. 

A 2018 report says the gap in real average income between the top 20 percent households and the middle 40 percent and bottom 40 percent households in Malaysia have almost doubled between 2008 and 2018 [File: Ahmad Yusni/EPA]

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia - Leaders from some of the world's most populous Muslim-majority countries are set to meet in Malaysia's capital on Thursday, to address issues such as Islamophobia and poverty, with the organisers insisting the event is not meant to rival the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC).

ICJ speech: Suu Kyi fails to use 'Rohingya' to describe minority

Aljazeera

Anealla Safdar & Usaid Siddiqui

2019-12-12

While defending military against genocide charges, Myanmar leader does not use Rohingya to describe persecuted minority. 

Aung San Suu Kyi failed to use the word Rohingya in a 3,400-word speech at the ICJ [Koen Van Weel/ANP/AFP]

 

In a speech on Wednesday at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) that lasted about 30 minutes, Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi defended her country's military against allegations of genocide.

The case, filed by The Gambia, accuses Myanmar of violating the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, with regard to a bloody crackdown in 2017 in which thousands of Rohingya were abused, displaced and killed.

Aung San Suu Kyi defends Myanmar against genocide allegations

Aljazeera 
2019-12-12

In unprecedented move, former human rights icon defends Myanmar generals at ICJ over killings, rape and displacement.

Aung San Suu Kyi has shocked critics by travelling to The Hague to head her country's delegation [Peter Dejong/The Associated Press]

Nobel peace prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi has defended Myanmar's military against genocide allegations made at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) amid accusations of mass killings, rape and expulsion of the Rohingya Muslim minority.

The Gambia, a small West African country, filed the case at the ICJ in The Hague, the United Nations' highest court, alleging it violated the 1948 Genocide Convention.

Rohingya campaigners launch Myanmar boycott

Aljazeera
09-12-2019

The Free Rohingya Coalition begins 'Boycott Myanmar Campaign' in the face of genocide hearings at the ICJ.

More than 730,000 Rohingya fled to neighbouring Bangladesh following the brutal crackdown by the military in August 2017 [File: Dar Yasin/AP] 

Human rights campaigners supporting Myanmar's Rohingya mainly Muslim minority have called for a global boycott of the country, a day before genocide hearings begin at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague.

The Free Rohingya Coalition (FRC) said in a statement on Monday it was starting the "Boycott Myanmar Campaign" with 30 organisations in 10 countries. It called on "corporations, foreign investors, professional and cultural organizations to sever their institutional ties with Myanmar".

ၿမန္မာအစိုးရက ICJ အမႈအတြက္ ငွားထားတဲ့ေရွ႕ေန William Schabas ဆိုတာ ဘယ္သူလဲ။

 ၿမန္မာအစိုးရက ICJ အမႈအတြက္ငွားထားတဲ့ေရွ႕ေန William Schabas ဟာ   ၂၀၁၃ ခု ေအာက္တိုဘာလ (၃၀) ရက္ တုံးက အာလ္ဂ်ာဇီးရား ရုပ္ၿမင္သံၾကား သတင္းမွတ္တမ္း ေတြ့ဆံုေမးၿမန္းခန္းတစ္ရပ္တြင္ ၄င္းကိုယ္တိုင္ ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာလူမ်ဳိးမ်ားအား လူမ်ဳိးတံုးသတ္ၿဖတ္ေၾကာင္း ေၿပာၾကားခဲ့သည္။ ေအာက္ပါ ဗီြဒီယိုကို
ရွဴစားၾကည့္ၾကပါ။


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Will cases brought against Myanmar deliver justice to Rohingya?

Aljazeera
Mia Swart

19 November 2019

Genocide case filed at ICJ and Suu Kyi named in lawsuit in Argentina while ICC set to investigate Rohingya crimes.

Thousands of Rohingya have been killed and more than 740,000 have taken shelter in neighbouring Bangladesh since August 2017 [Rafiqur Rahman/Reuters]

Last week, three separate cases were filed against Myanmar for atrocities against Rohingya people in the first international legal attempts to bring justice to the persecuted Muslim minority.

The Gambia brought a genocide case against Myanmar on November 11 in the International Court of Justice (ICJ), urging the United Nations court to order measures to immediately stop atrocities and genocide against its own Rohingya people.

Lawsuit: Aung San Suu Kyi 'committed crimes' against Rohingya

Aljazeera

Joshua Carroll
15th November 2019

Human rights icon Suu Kyi accused of 'tending towards the annihilation of the Rohingya', criminal complaint alleges.

Rohingya men kneel as members of Myanmar's security forces stand guard in Inn Din village in September 2017 [Reuters] 

Yangon, Myanmar - Before becoming Myanmar's leader, Aung San Suu Kyi spent 15 years under house arrest for defying the country's feared generals. Now, the Nobel peace laureate faces an attempt to have her imprisoned for supporting them.

A lawsuit filed in Argentina on Wednesday alleges the former human rights icon contributed to a genocidal campaign against the Rohingya minority that included military-led mass killings in August 2017.

UN chief 'deeply concerned' over Rohingya crisis

Aljazeera
3rd November 2019

Guterres addresses ASEAN summit, where leaders try to salvage progress towards what could be world's biggest trade bloc.

 Myanmar is responsible to 'ensure a conducive environment for the safe, voluntary, dignified and sustainable repatriation of refugees', Guterres said [Soe Zeya Tun/Reuters]

United Nations chief Antonio Guterres has expressed "deep" concern over the plight of hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees, urging Myanmar to assume responsibility by dealing with the "root causes" of their flight and work towards their safe repatriation.

A brutal army campaign in August 2017 forced more than 740,000 members of the mostly-Muslim minority to flee Myanmar's Rakhine state, most seeking refuge in overcrowded camps across the border in Bangladesh. During its crackdown, which was launched in response to attacks by an armed group, the military carried out mass killings and gang rapes with "genocidal intent", according to United Nations-mandated investigators.

Bangladesh imposes more restrictions on Rohingya refugees

Al Jazeera
16th October 2019

Following failed repatriation attempts and the murder of a local politician, Bangladesh authorities are cracking down on Rohingya refugees
 

The government of Bangladesh has recently put severe restrictions on Rohingya refugees from Myanmar.

Many have had their mobile phones taken away.

And some Rohingya children have been forced to drop out of Bangladeshi schools.

Al Jazeera's Tanvir Chowdhury reports from Cox's Bazar.

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Myanmar jails 21 Rohingya, detains children, for trying to travel

Al Jazeera
by Joshua Carroll

October 11th 2019

Rights groups say group is being punished for trying to escape dismal camps amid severe restrictions on everyday life.

The movement of Rohingya still living in Myanmar's Rakhine state is severely restricted and many are still in camps[File:Soe Zeya Tun/Reuters]

Yangon, Myanmar - A five-year-old child is among 30 Rohingya who have been arrested in Myanmar for attempting to travel to the main city of Yangon from western Rakhine state, where they were among hundreds of thousands confined to squalid camps in a system some rights groups have compared with apartheid.

UN, NGOs accused of bungling effort to educate Rohingya children

Aljazeera
by Clare Hammond & Victoria Milko
October 8th 2019.

Questions raised over efforts to give Rohingya children and youth formal education under Myanmar curriculum.

According to UNICEF about 461,000 of the 910,000 refugees in Cox's Bazar are children [File: Abir Abdullah/EPA] 

On May 13, a group of Rohingya refugee education leaders had the rare chance to ask some of the questions that had been weighing on their minds for more than two years.

For the first time, they were meeting representatives from the United Nations and international NGOs tasked with providing education to about half a million Rohingya refugee children living in camps in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh.

Minutes of the meeting obtained by Al Jazeera, show how the community leaders questioned the officials about the slow effort to give refugees formal education, the absence of a Myanmar curriculum in the camps, and the lack of consultation with the community.

What will happen to the Rohingya people?

Aljazeera
September 25, 2019

Go home, begs Bangladesh. We can't, lament the Rohingya.

Many Rohingya refugees lost their lifeline to the world this month after the Bangladeshi government blocked their access to mobile phone services. The communication blackout was apparently for security reasons. But it comes soon after efforts to repatriate thousands of Rohingya back to Myanmar failed in August . Overwhelmed with the refugee crisis, Bangladesh is also trying to relocate some Rohingya to a remote island in the Bay of Bengal. But Bhasan Char is prone to cyclones, and refugees fear being stuck there for good.

Rohingya refugees face mobile phone blackouts

Aljazeera
21 September 2019

The Bangladeshi government orders ban on the sale of SIM cards to a million Rohingya in the world’s biggest refugee camp. 

Last week, we received a WhatsApp message from a Rohingya refugee in Bangladesh. It may have been one of the last messages he could send.

Has the world failed the Rohingya Muslims?

Aljazeera
17 Sep 2019
 
Hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar face a 'serious risk of genocide', the UN has warned. 

     
Two years after Myanmar's military crackdown on the Rohingya, UN investigators say conditions remain "deplorable" for the Muslim ethnic minority in the country.

Akter, 20, expelled from university for being Rohingya

Aljazeera

Sunaina Kumar

17 September 2019

Rahima Akter has become the face of the struggle of Rohingya refugees who want, but are not allowed to pursue education.

 Rahima Akter is a young Rohingya woman who wants to pursue higher education [Fabeha Monir/Al Jazeera] 

Rahima Akter hid her Rohingya identity to enrol at a private university in Bangladesh's Cox's Bazar, but her dreams of pursuing higher education were dashed after she was suspended by her university earlier this month.

The 20-year-old from Kutupalong refugee camp has become the face of the struggle of Rohingya refugees who want to study, as Bangladesh does not allow Rohingya to enrol in schools or colleges.

Poor healthcare, prospects for Rohingya babies in Bangladesh

Aljazeera

by Stefanie Dekker

28 August 2019

Few Rohingya babies are taken to Bangladeshi camp clinics and lack birth certificates when born.

 

Health workers in the world’s largest refugee camp say they’re struggling to provide proper care for babies born to Rohingya women in Bangladesh.

More than 100 babies are born every day in Rohingya refugee camps in southeast Bangladesh.

'Genocide Day': Thousands of Rohingya rally in Bangladesh camps

Aljazeera
25 August 2019

Refugees in Bangladesh camps demand rights and citizenship on second anniversary of exodus after Myanmar crackdown.

             

Thousands of Rohingya refugees have marked the second anniversary of their exodus into Bangladesh by rallying and praying as they demand Myanmar grant them citizenship and other rights before they agree to return.

Almost 200,000 Rohingya participated in a peaceful gathering, which was attended by UN officials, at the Kutupalong camp in Bangladesh's Cox's Bazar on Sunday, police officer Zakir Hassan told AFP news agency.

Rohingya suspicious as Myanmar touts repatriation plan

Al Jazeera

by Joshua Carroll
 30th July 2019

Refugees in Cox's Bazar question Myanmar motives amid Rakhine unrest, but some see 'breakthrough' in repatriation talks.

More than 700,00 Rohingya were forced to flee northern Rakhine in Myanmar following a brutal military crackdown in 2017 [File: Anadolu/Masfiqur Sohan]

Yangon, Myanmar - When a team of top Myanmar officials met Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh's Cox's Bazar over the weekend, they handed out flyers aimed at persuading members of the persecuted minority to return home two years after fleeing a brutal military crackdown in 2017.

With its happy cartoon figures and its promise of a return "to normal life," the brochure paints a rosy picture for refugees who agree to be repatriated to Buddhist-majority Myanmar on the government's terms.

Tun Khin Al Jazeera interview

Al Jazeera
28 July 2019

Myanmar officials hold repatriation talks with Rohingya leaders

Al Jazeera
Published on Jul 27, 2019

  A high-level delegation from Myanmar has visited Rohingya camps in Bangladesh, to persuade refugees to return home. Hundreds of thousands have been sheltering there since fleeing a violent crackdown.. Al Jazeera's Tanvir Chowdhury reports from Cox's Bazar.

Link :https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGyzr9NnYkA