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Thursday, January 23, 2025

Myanmar crisis: Civilians killed in airstrikes as Rohingya risk dangerous journeys

UNITED NATION
By Vibhu Mishra
22 January 2025 

UNICEF/Patrick BrownA child at an internally displaced persons (IDP) centre in Myanmar. (file)
The security situation in Myanmar continues to remain highly volatile, with intensified airstrikes across multiple regions leading to dozens of civilian casualties, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) reported on Wednesday.

‘We’ve lost all hope’: Rohingya trapped as Bangladesh closes Myanmar border

The Guardian
Sarah Aziz
Wed 22 Jan 2025 

Muslim refugees fleeing persecution in Myanmar are being detained and forced back by Bangladeshi border guards 

Rohingya refugees crossing into Bangladesh in 2017. Nearly a million of the Muslim minority have fled from Myanmar and live in squalid camps in Bangladesh. Photograph: Zuma/Alamy

In the dim light of his home in Arakan, Myanmar, Mohammed is talking above the wailing of his youngest child. All three of his children are hungry, he says. The 32-year-old Rohingya man’s parents, leaning together against the wall, are just visible as Mohammed speaks on the video call.

Thursday, January 2, 2025

Threadbare facilities, high mortality, cats in the corridors: the realities of life for new Rohingya mothers in Cox’s Bazar

The Guardian
Rebecca Root in Cox's Bazar
Thu 2 Jan 2025

Midwife Sumana Akter checks on a newborn baby inside the Friendship hospital in a Rohingya refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar. In some areas of the camp, maternal mortality is 44% higher than the Bangladesh average Photographs by Thomas Cristofoletti/Ruom for the Guardian

In the world’s largest refugee site, a lack of healthcare coupled with rising gang violence makes the journey to motherhood a perilous one

It is mid-afternoon on a Wednesday and Toyoba Begum, 37, is sitting upright at the end of her hospital bed, the second in a row of eight. Dressed in a beige tunic and canary yellow trousers, a belly recovery belt clasped around her stomach, she watches her two-day-old daughter sleeping under a fleece blanket.

Sunday, December 29, 2024

Tormentors Change, but Not the Torment

The NewYork Times
By Hannah Beech
Photographs by Adam Ferguson
Reporting from Teknaf, Bangladesh
Dec. 28, 2024 
 
Rohingya refugees Shamshida, 25, left, and Manwara, 19, in their tent in Teknaf, Bangladesh. 

Brutally persecuted for years by the military in Myanmar, the Rohingya ethnic minority has now become the target of one of the junta’s most formidable rivals in the country’s civil war.

Friday, December 27, 2024

Act now to secure a future for Rohingyas

The Daily Star
Hasina Rahman, Adnan Junaid
Thu Dec 26, 2024

More than 30 percent of Rohingya refugees are young people, packed with untapped energy and potential. FILE PHOTO: REUTER

Recently, we travelled to Cox's Bazar, where around one million Rohingya refugees live in 33 congested camps. Among them are hundreds of thousands of children—more than 50 percent of the population—whose lives have been confined to these camps. These children have no memory of their homeland and are growing up without the basic rights every child deserves: education, safety, freedom, and opportunities for a brighter future.

Sunday, December 22, 2024

Dhaka’s repeated calls for Rohingyas’ return fall on deaf ears

daily observer
Sunday, 22 December, 2024

Dhaka has once again called for the safe and immediate repatriation of Rohingyas from Bangladesh, pointing to the fact that there can't be lasting peace and stability in Myanmar without resolving the Rohingya crisis.

This was pointed out by Bangladesh Foreign Affairs Adviser Md Touhid Hossain on Friday at a bilateral meeting with Thai Foreign Minister Maris Sangiampongsa on the sideline of the Informal Consultation on Myanmar in Bangkok. The meeting was also attended by high-level representatives from China, India, Lao PDR and Myanmar.

Thursday, December 19, 2024

စစ်ကောင်စီခေါင်းဆောင် ICC မှာ တရားရင်ဆိုင်ရနိုင်လား?

သံလွင်ခက်
ဘုန်းမောင်
ဒီဇင်ဘာ ၁၉၊ ၂၀၂၄။

မြန်မာပြည်သူလူထုက ရွေးကောက်တင်မြှောက်ထားတဲ့ အရပ်သားအစိုးရကိုဖြုတ်ချပြီး ၂၀၂၁ ခုနှစ် ဖေဖော်ဝါရီ ၁ ရက်မှာ နိုင်ငံတော်အာဏာသိမ်းယူခဲ့တဲ့ မြန်မာစစ်ခေါင်းဆောင် ဗိုလ်ချုပ်မှူးကြီး မင်းအောင်လှိုင်ကို လူသားမျိုးနွယ်အပေါ် ရာဇဝတ်မှုကျူးလွန်ခဲ့တယ်ဆိုတဲ့ အထောက်အထားတွေနဲ့ ဖမ်းဝရမ်းထုတ်ပေးဖို့ နိုင်ငံတကာရာဇဝတ်ခုံရုံး (ICC) ရဲ့ရှေ့နေချုပ် ကာရင်အာဆက်အာမက်ခမ်းက ပြီးခဲ့တဲ့ နိုဝင်ဘာလ ၂၇ ရက်မှာ လျှောက်ထားခဲ့ပါတယ်။

To reckon with the Rohingya genocide, Min Aung Hlaing’s arrest is a critical start

almayadeen
Hannan Hussain
Source: Al Mayadeen English
18 Dec 2024

Given the unspeakable brutality, condemnation, and injustices directed toward Rohingya Muslims, a warrant against Hlaing is a bare minimum of what ought to follow. 

Min Aung Hlaing's arrest is a cretical start to reckon with the Rohingya genocide ( illustrated by Batoul Chamas )

Min Aung Hlaing, Myanmar’s de-facto military ruler, was the commander in chief during the 2017 Rohingya genocide. It was under his watch that Rohingya Muslims were subject to a horrific ethnic cleansing campaign that entailed rape, mass murder, and demolition of villages. Scores of children were beaten to death, and mosques were targeted.

Tuesday, December 17, 2024

The Arakan Army’s Capture Of The Bangladeshi Border Could Prompt A Crisis With Dhaka

Andrew Korybko
Dec 16, 2024

China, Pakistan, and the US could take advantage of this to expand their military influence in Bangladesh at the expense of India’s legitimate national security interests.

Assad's fate haunts Myanmar junta

Bangkok Post
Kavi Chongkittavorn
PUBLISHED : 17 Dec 2024

This photo dated Nov 30 shows naval patrol vessels docking in Ranong after rescuing crew from Thai trawlers on which three Myanmar warships opened fire. (Photo: Royal Thai Navy)

The recent overthrow of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad provides insights into the potential undoing of Myanmar's military regime in Nay Pyi Taw. Senior General Min Aung Hlaing must take note and study why even a strong 55-year-old family empire with heavyweight outside backing still crumbled like a house of cards.

Born in displacement: The forgotten childhoods of Rohingya refugee kids

The Daily Star
Rakib Al Hasan
Tue Dec 17, 2024

Seven years. That is how long it has been since hundreds of thousands of Rohingya children were forced to flee their homes in Myanmar, leaving behind everything they knew. In the makeshift camps of Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, these children have spent nearly their entire lives in displacement, trapped in a cycle of trauma, poverty and uncertainty. Born into this crisis or carried as infants through borders of despair, they have witnessed horrors no child should ever know. And yet, their future—one full of hope, dreams and opportunity—remains hopelessly out of reach.
 

Aung San Suu Kyi Asks U.S. Not to Refer to ‘Rohingya’

iSP
By ISP Admin
June 26, 2016 


BANGKOK — Myanmar recognizes 135 ethnic groups within its borders. But the people who constitute No. 136? They are the people-who-must-not-be-named.

Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, the leader of Myanmar’s first democratically elected government since 1962, embraced that view last week when she advised the United States ambassador against using the term “Rohingya” to describe the persecuted Muslim population that has lived in Myanmar for generations.

Monday, December 16, 2024

Resolving the Rohingya crisis needs a three-pronged diplomatic strategy

THE BUSINESS STANDARD
Dr Mohammad Tarikul Islam
11 October, 2024,


Bangladesh now needs to take proactive and well-coordinated action to stop the Rohingya migration and move towards the restoration of their rights
Rohingya refugees' fear of violence upon their return caused previous attempts at repatriation in 2018 and 2019 to fail. Photo: Bloomberg

Because of the presence of around one million Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh, concerns have been raised about the safety of the native people. In spite of diplomatic efforts, Myanmar, which has been ruled by a military junta since 2021, has refused to allow its Rohingya citizens to return home, infuriating Bangladesh and jeopardising regional stability. 

Thursday, December 12, 2024

Unholy Alliance: Myanmar Military Junta and Arakan Army vs Rohingya

Workers' Liberty
by martin on
Author: Hein Htet Kyaw
12 December, 2024 

Pic: displaced Rohingya in 2017, from Wikimedia Commons

The Rohingya are an Indo-Aryan ethnic group from the state of Arakan (Rakhine). A British scholar named Francis Buchanan-Hamilton said in his 1799 article "Burma Empire" that "the Mohammedans, who have long dwelt in Arakan," refer to themselves as "Rooinga, or natives of Arakan". "Inhabitant of Rohang" was the early Muslim name for Arakan.

Wednesday, December 11, 2024

မင်းအောင်လှိုင် တစ်သက်တာ ရှောင်ပြေးနေရမည့် အိုင်စီစီ ဖမ်းဝရမ်း

Myanmar Now
သုတဇော်
December 11, 2024

စစ်ခေါင်းဆောင် မင်းအောင်လှိုင်ကို ဖမ်းဝရမ်းထုတ်ပေးရန် နိုင်ငံတကာရာဇဝတ်ခုံရုံး (အိုင်စီစီ) ၏ တရားစွဲအရာရှိ Karim A.A. Khan KC က ခုံရုံးသို့ နိုဝင်ဘာလ ၂၇ ရက်နေ့တွင် ဦးတိုက်လျှောက်ထားမှုသည် မြန်မာ့အရေး နိုင်ငံတကာ အသိုက်အဝန်း၏ ကြိုးပမ်းအဖြေရှာမှုများအထဲ နောက်ဆုံး ပေါ်ထွက်လာသော နည်းလမ်းတစ်ခု ဖြစ်လာပါသည်။

China Compels Myanmar Rebel Groups To Negotiate With Junta – OpEd

eurasiareview
By Subir Bhaumik
December 10, 2024

China has forced two powerful armed rebel groups in north Myanmar to start negotiations with the Burmese military junta and call off the 1027 offensive they started October last year.

Experts say this might well be the most decisive Chinese intervention to stop a conflict in its neighborhood and might well set the tenor for a more proactive future policy on such issues.

Tuesday, December 10, 2024

Arakan Army could be key to justice for the Rohingya

ARAB NEWS
Dr. Azeem Ibrahim
December 09, 2024

By engaging with all stakeholders, the international community can help turn this opportunity into a foundation for peace (AFP)

For more than a decade, the Rohingya people of Myanmar have faced unimaginable suffering: denied citizenship, subjected to systemic violence and forced to flee their ancestral homes. Today, nearly 1 million of them live in overcrowded camps in Bangladesh, where dwindling international aid and political instability have pushed them to the brink.

Saturday, November 30, 2024

ICC Pursues Arrest Warrant For Myanmar Junta Chief

THE PINNACLE GAZETTE
by Evrim Ağac
29 November 2024

International action intensifies as ICC moves against Min Aung Hlaing for Rohingya crimes

The International Criminal Court (ICC) has made waves by formally seeking an arrest warrant for Myanmar's junta chief, General Min Aung Hlaing. This unprecedented move is primarily centered on the grave crimes alleged against the Rohingya population during the violent military crackdowns of 2016-2017. The prosecution's request was submitted with considerable urgency, indicating the ICC's intent to hold high-ranking officials accountable for actions deemed crimes against humanity.

ICC’s Request For Min Aung Hlaing’s Arrest Warrant: A Call For Realistic Expectations And Strategic Action – OpEd

eurasiareview
By James Shwe
November 30, 2024

Myanmar's military junta leader, General Min Aung Hlaing. Photo Credit: Mil.ru

As the international community learns of the International Criminal Court’s (ICC) request for an arrest warrant for Myanmar’s junta chief Min Aung Hlaing (MAH), it is essential for supporters of democracy and human rights to approach this development with cautious optimism and strategic foresight. This marks the first request by the ICC prosecutor for a warrant against a senior Myanmar official, signaling a significant move toward accountability for the Rohingya crisis. 

China in Burma: A form of neo-colonialism?

Workers' Liberty
martin
Author: Hein Htet Kyaw
29 November, 2024 


China has many different economic interests in Myanmar. Oil and gas pipelines that reach Kunming in southern China, the Wanbao copper mines, hydropower projects in Kachin and northern Shan states, their special economic zone and the planned deep-water intermodal container port in Kyaukphyu, and the rare earth and jade mines in Kachin are a few of them.