နာမည္ပ်က္ေနတဲ့ ျမန္မာ့လူ႔အခြင့္အေရး ဘယ္လို အဖတ္ ဆယ္မလဲ

ဧရာဝတီ
28 June 2020
ေအာင္မ်ိဳးမင္း

မၾကာမီက ကုလသမဂၢကေန ျမန္မာ့တပ္မေတာ္ကို ကေလး စစ္သားအသုံးျပဳတဲ့ အမည္ပ်က္စာရင္း ကေန ထုတ္ပစ္ခဲ့ပါတယ္ / ဧရာဝတီ

ကုလသမဂၢမွာ နိုင္ငံတခုနဲ႔ပတ္သက္ၿပီး ဆုံးျဖတ္ခ်က္ခ်တဲ့လုပ္ငန္းစဥ္ ၂ ခုရွိပါတယ္။ တခုကေတာ့ နိုင္ငံရဲ့ လူ႔အခြင့္အေရးအေျခအေနေတြနဲ႔ပတ္သက္ၿပီး လူ႔အခြင့္အေရး ေကာင္စီကေန ထုတ္ျပန္တဲ့ လူ႔အခြင့္အေရး ဆိုင္ရာ ဆုံးျဖတ္ခ်က္ (UN Human Rights Council Resolution) ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ လူ႔အခြင့္အေရးကို ဦးစားေပး ေလ့ရွိပါတယ္။ ေနာက္တခုကေတာ့ နယူးေယာက္ၿမိဳ႕မွာ ႏွစ္စဥ္ႏွစ္တိုင္းက်င္းပတဲ့ အေထြေထြ ညီလာခံက ေန ထုတ္ျပန္တဲ့ ကုလသမဂၢရဲ့ ဆုံးျဖတ္ခ်က္ (UN General Assembly Resolution) ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။

EXCLUSIVE: 'Rohingya issue, not Muslims v/s Buddhist paradigm'

AA
Mehmet Ozturk, Iftikhar Gilani, Sorwar Alam and Ahmet Gurhan Kartal
ANKARA/LONDON 
27.06.2020


In an exclusive interaction, Maung Zarni said Myanmar was taking advantage of strategic rivalry between China and India

Maung Zarni, 56, scholar and activist, known for his opposition to the violence in Myanmar and his support to the Rohingya population said the Burmese military was taking advantage of strategic rivalry between China and India and blamed genocide of Rohingya to an institutional hate campaign.

Born in a Burmese Buddhist family, Zarni said a campaign of ignorance was manufactured in his country through schools, mass media, and Buddhist organizations against Rohingya, which eventually culminated in the genocide.

ဒေါ်အောင်ဆန်းစုကြည်ကို ဝေဖန်ခြင်း(ဘာသာပြန်ဆောင်း ပါး)

DVB
20 June 2020
ဘာသာပြန်ဆောင်းပါး

အနောက်တိုင်းသား လစ်ဘရယ်တွေက သူတို့ မျှော်လင့်သလို မဖြစ်လာတဲ့အခါမှာ ဒေါ်အောင်ဆန်း စုကြည် ကို အပြစ်တင်ကြတော့တာပဲ။ အများက စံထားရတဲ့ ပုဂ္ဂိုလ်တွေထဲမှာ ဒေါ်အောင်ဆန်းစုကြည်လိုမျိုး နေ့ချင်းညချင်း ပုံရိပ်ကျဆင်းသွားတာမျိုးက သိပ်မများပါဘူး။ ဒေါ်အောင်ဆန်းစုကြည်ဆိုတာ မြန်မာပြည်ကို လက်တွေ့အုပ်ချုပ် နေတဲ့ ခေါင်းဆောင်၊ အမျိုးသားဒီမိုကရေစီအဖွဲ့ချုပ်ရဲ့ ခေါင်းဆောင်၊ နိုင်ငံတော် အတိုင်ပင်ခံ ပုဂ္ဂိုလ် ဖြစ်ပါတယ်။

ရခိုင်စစ်ပွဲနှင့် သူ၏ ဇာတ်ကောင်များ (အပိုင်း ၆ )

ဧရာဝတီ
By မောင်မောင်စိုး
20 June 2020

ရခိုင်ပြည်နယ် စစ်ဆင်ရေးတွင် သယ်ယူပို့ဆောင်ရေး ရဟတ်ယာဉ်များ အသုံးပြု၍ စစ်အင်အား၊ လက်နက်ခဲယမ်း၊ ရိက္ခာသယ်ယူပို့ဆောင်ခြင်းများကို တွေ့ရသည် / ဧရာဝတီ

တပ်မတော်နှင့် ရခိုင်ပြည်နယ်

တပ်မတော်သည် ရခိုင်ပြည်နယ်တွင် ဦးစွာရင်ဆိုင်ရသည့်ပြဿနာမှာ ရိုဟင်ဂျာဟု မိမိကိုယ်မိမိခေါ်ဆိုသောရခိုင် ပြည်နယ်ရှိ ဘင်္ဂါလီမွတ်ဆလင် ပြသနာဖြစ်သည်။ ရခိုင်ပြည်နယ်ရှိ ဘင်္ဂါလီမွတ်ဆလင်များအား နအဖ တပ်မ တော် အစိုးရ လက်ထက်က ဝှိုက်ကဒ် White card များ ထုတ်ပေးထားခဲ့ပြီး ၂၀၁၀ ရွေးကောက်ပွဲတွင် မဲပေးခွင့် ပေးထားစဉ်က ဘင်္ဂါလီများနှင့် တပ်မတော်၊ ပြည်ခိုင်ဖြိုး ပါတီတို့ အကြား ဆက်ဆံရေးကောင်း မွန်ခဲ့သည်။

Will Facebook Finally Choose to Protect Rohingya Muslims From Further Genocide?

BYLINE TIMES
CJ Werleman
16 June 2020

 Rohingya refugees make the journey across the Naf river from Myanmar to Bangladesh in 2017


CJ Werleman reports on a case being brought against the social media giant by The Gambia to uncover who was involved in Myanmar’s mass murder of its Muslim minority.

There are so many legitimate reasons to hate Facebook. It not only encourages polarisation and radicalisation, the company has also engineered the platform to “exploit the human brain’s attraction to divisiveness”, which helps rake in billions of dollars in profit from nefarious political entrepreneurs, grifters and manipulators who peddle hate and sow division.

Rohingyas in Camps and at sea: Crises and despair

Daily Times

Perspectives

Dr Mohammad Zaman

Tuesday, June 16, 2020

The Rohingya refugees are enduring crisis after crisis, including recent incidents at sea, where several stranded refugee families were afloat in the Bay of Bengal for weeks before being rescued by Bangladeshi coastguards and then quarantined at the controversial Bashan Char island. Faced with pressure from EU countries and other international bodies to rescue the stranded, Bangladesh’s Foreign Minister, AK Abdul Momen, expressed his enragement and asked EU countries to accept the refugees in their own countries “if they are so worried about their well-being.” He further said that Bangladesh was “neither obligated nor in a position to take any more Rohingya.”

Plight of Rohingyas Under COVID-19 Spotlights ASEAN’s Failure

THE I DIPLOMAT

By Nor Arlene Tan

June 16, 2020

Amid the pandemic and global economic chaos, the ongoing Rohingya refugee crisis in Southeast Asia has quietly been swept under a rug.

This year has been dystopian for many people in the world, with the coronavirus pandemic virtually grinding the global economy to a halt. While the looming recession has given rise to social disruptions such as massive unemployment and the Black Lives Matter protests in the United States have had worldwide impact, the ongoing Rohingya refugee crisis in Southeast Asia has quietly been swept under a rug by much of the global media.

The United Nations estimates that there are a million Rohingya refugees worldwide; most of them fled Myanmar in the last decade as persecution against the vulnerable minority intensified. Last year, Myanmar Foreign Minister and de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi, once a democracy darling and now disgraced, refuted a recent UN investigation into the alleged genocide by the military junta.

ရိုဟင်ဂျာတို့ရှေ့ရေး ဝေဝါးဆဲ - ကမ္ဘာ့ဒုက္ခသည်များနေ့ အထူးဆောင်းပါး

VOA
 ဗွီအိုအေ (မြန်မာဌာန)
14 ဇွန်၊ 2020
မဆုမွန်

ကမ္ဘာ့အကြီးဆုံး ဒုက္ခသည်စခန်းလို့ တင်စားခေါ်ကြတဲ့ ဘင်္ဂလားဒေ့ရှ်နိုင်ငံတွင်း ရိုဟင်ဂျာဒု္ခသည်စခန်းတွေ ထဲက ဒုက္ခသည်တွေရဲ့ မရေရာတဲ့ အနာဂတ်နဲ့ မသေချာသေးတဲ့ အိမ်အပြန်လမ်းတွေအကြောင်း မဆုမွန် စုစည်း တင်ပြထားပါတယ်။

ဘင်္ဂလားဒေ့ရှ် ဒုက္ခသည်စခန်းတွင် ပထမဆုံး ကိုဗစ်-၁၉ ကြောင့် သေဆုံး

ဧရာဝတီ
Muktadir Rashid
3 June 2020

ကုတုပလောင်တွင် ကုတင် ၅၀ ဆန့် ကုသရေးစခန်းတခုနှင့် ယူခီယာတွင် ၁၄၅ ကုတင်ဆန့် ကုသရေး စခန်းတခု UNHCR က ဖွင့်ထားသည်

ဘင်္ဂလားဒေ့ရှ်နိုင်ငံ ကော့ဗဇားရှိဆေးရုံတခုတွင် တနင်္ဂနွေနေ့က သေဆုံးသော အသက်အရွယ်ကြီးရင့်သူ တဦး၏ ဓါတ်ခွဲခန်းနမူနာတွင် ကိုရိုနာဗိုင်းရပ်စ်ပိုးတွေ့ရှိကြောင်း ဒေသခံအရာရှိများ၏ အဆိုအရ တနင်္လာနေ့က သိရ သည်။ လူဦးရေးထူထပ်သည့် ဒုက္ခသည်စခန်းများတွင် ကိုရိုနာဗိုင်းရပ်စ်ပျံ့နှံ့မှုကိုတားဆီးရန်အရှိန်မြှင့်လုပ်ဆောင် သွားမည်ဟုလည်း ထိုအရာရှိများပြောသည်။

လူမ်ိဳးေရး အဓိက႐ုဏ္းဆီ တြန္းမပို႔ၾကပါနဲ႔

ဧရာဝတီ
ေက်ာ္လင္း
1 June 2020

ရခိုင္ျပည္နယ္ရွိ ေရွးေဟာင္းၿမိဳ႕ေတာ္ ေျမာက္ဦးတြင္ ေဒသခံမ်ားကို ေတြ႕ရစဥ္ / ေဇာ္ေဇာ္ 

ယခုတေလာ ျပင္းထန္လာသည့္ ရကၡိဳင့္တပ္မေတာ္(AA)ႏွင့္ ျမန္မာ့တပ္မေတာ္တို႔၏ ေျမျပင္စစ္ပြဲမ်ားသာမ က ဆိုရွယ္မီဒီယာမ်ားေပၚတြင္လည္း ၂ ဘက္ ေထာက္ခံသူမ်ား အျပန္အလွန္ ဆဲဆိုမႈမ်ား ျပင္းထန္ေနဆဲ ၿဖစ္ သည္။ အမုန္းတရားမ်ားအား ထိန္းခ်ဳပ္ရန္ဟု အေၾကာင္းျပခဲ့ေသာ ခ်င္းျပည္နယ္ ပလက္၀ၿမိဳ႕အပါအဝင္ ရခိုင္ျပည္ေျမာက္ပိုင္း ကိုးၿမိဳ႕နယ္တို႔အား အင္တာနက္ပိတ္ထားမႈသည္ အလုပ္မျဖစ္ပါ။

Myanmar’s violent civil war makes it hard to obey ICJ orders to protect the Rohingya

ASEAN Today
May 30, 2020

Aerial view of a burned Rohingya village in Rakhine State, Myanmar. Photo: Zlatica Hoke (VOA) / Public domain

Myanmar recently sent its first report to the International Court of Justice on the steps it’s taking to protect the Rohingya. The report isn’t public, but Rohingya activists and rights advocates say ongoing violence and human rights abuses show Myanmar hasn’t complied with the court’s orders.

Covid19 and Conflict in Myanmar: No Truce for the Rohingya

ORF
OBSERVER  
RESEARCH  
FOUNDATION
K. Yhome
May 30'2020

As conflict escalates in western Myanmar amid the rise of coronavirus cases in the country, there is growing concern of a deepening humanitarian crisis. As of May 26, Myanmar has recorded 206 confirmed COVID-19 cases and 6 deaths. Clashes between the Myanmar military and the Arakan Army (AA), an armed group seeking greater autonomy for ethnic Rohingya people, have displaced hundred thousand people since conflicts started over a year ago.

Rohingya Influx and its Economic Significance for Bangladesh

moderndiplomacy
May 31, 2020

Shuva Das

Authors:Shuva Das & Sherajul Mustajib Sharif*

Rohingya refugees fleeing conflict and persecution in Myanmar (file photo). IOM/Mohammed 

It is generally perceived that refugees are curse for host countries though the former often play positive roles for the latter. The context of Bangladesh over hosting Rohingya refugees is portrayed in such a way that demonstrates they are solely an obvious danger for the country in the areas of its economy, politics, environment, health, and security. The above argument is true but it is a one-sided view which is enough to make hospitable Bangladeshis hostile against the Rohingya. Thus, it is crucial to explore in which areas the Rohingya have made positive contributions in Bangladesh. In this article, we intend to elucidate the economic benefits offered by the displaced Rohingya for the host country.

Track II diplomacy in solving Asia’s refugee crisis

EASTASIAFORUM
Economics, Politics and Public Policy in East Asia and the Pacific
30 May 2020

Authors: Melissa Conley Tyler and Tiffany Liu, Asialink at the University of Melbourne

In February, experts from government, think tanks, civil society and academia met in Bangladesh for the ninth meeting of the Asia Dialogue on Forced Migration (ADFM) to address the challenge of people movement and displacement in the region. The dialogue has already seen some positive outcomes, and it highlights an important role for non-official actors in diplomacy.

We, the Rohingya, can’t wait for justice from faraway courts

Frontier
MYANMAR

ZAHIDULLAH, SHOHID & ABDULLAH ZUBAIR
Thursday, May 28, 2020

A Rohingya refugee in a camp in southern Bangladesh watches on a mobile phone a live feed of State Counsellor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi speaking at the International Court of Justice in The Hague on December 11, 2019. (AFP) 

 

Expectations about international justice are unrealistically high among Rohingya in the camps in Bangladesh, and the case before the ICJ is likely to end in disappointment.
On May 23, Myanmar had to submit its first report to the International Court of Justice in The Hague about the measures it has taken to prevent the genocide of the Rohingya people. The report was not made public so we can only guess what Myanmar is telling the court about the situation in Rakhine State.

Rohingya’s plight worsens as pandemic spreads

THE I DIPLOMAT
The Debate | Opinion
By Param-Preet Singh and Nadia Hardman

May 28, 2020

Burmese authorities are using COVID-19 response measures as a pretext to harass and extort Rohingyas. 

The Diplomat has removed paywall restrictions on our coverage of the COVID–19 crisis.

This is what life is like for the 130,000 internally displaced Rohingyas trapped in detention camps in central Rakhine state in Myanmar: in the camps, they have no future, with little access to land or livelihoods. They depend on foreign aid supplies and die of treatable diseases because of limited access to healthcare. Shelters, built in 2012 to last two years, have deteriorated. Most children can only attend basic classes at temporary learning spaces.

We're watching you, Myanmar

Bangkok Post
28 May 2020
Nicholas Koumjian

The global coronavirus pandemic has understandably dominated the attention of Asia and the entire world in recent months. But the Independent Investigative Mechanism for Myanmar has a message to send: our investigations are open and the virus will not blind us to ongoing crimes.

Last month, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar, Ms Yanghee Lee, warned that "While the world is occupied with the Covid-19 pandemic, the Myanmar military continues to escalate its assault in Rakhine state, targeting the civilian population."

Activists championed by rights groups have history of anti-Rohingya messaging

Frontier

MYANMAR

ANDREW NACHEMSON and LUN MIN MANG
Sunday, May 24, 2020

Ko Zayar Lwin (centre left, with white rose) attends a court in Yangon with other Peacock Generation members on October 30, 2019. (Nyein Su Wai Kyaw Soe | Frontier)

 

Some prominent activists who say they stand for human rights and democracy have propagated hatred for the Rohingya, a double-standard that international watchdog groups weren’t fully aware of. 

 

Ko Zayar Lwin, 29, has become an icon in Myanmar’s activist community since his arrest in April 2019 for a Thangyat performance mocking the military. Zayar Lwin and four of his colleagues in the Peacock Generation troupe, who performed the traditional form of satirical theatre during the annual Thingyan festival, were charged with defamation and undermining the military, and face increasingly lengthy jail sentences. The plight of the young satirists has attracted international attention, even as the civilian government led by their idol State Counsellor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi has remained silent.

Q&A: The Gambia v. Myanmar, Rohingya Genocide at The International Court of Justice, May 2020 Factsheet

Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect and the Global Justice Center

21 May 2020

Policy Brief

 

On 11 November 2019, the Republic of The Gambia filed suit against the Republic of the Union of Myanmar in the International Court of Justice (“ICJ”) for violating the Genocide Convention. Two months later and at the request of The Gambia, the ICJ ordered the government of Myanmar to take certain actions to protect the Rohingya via “provisional measures” while the case proceeds. This historic lawsuit brings a critical focus to Myanmar’s responsibility as a state for the Rohingya genocide.

The Gambia’s case focuses on the actions of Myanmar’s security forces, starting in October 2016 and then again in August 2017, where they engaged in so-called “clearance operations” against the Rohingya, a distinct Muslim ethnic minority, in Rakhine State. The operations, in particular those that started in August 2017, were characterized by brutal violence and serious human rights violations on a mass scale. Survivors report indiscriminate killings, rape and sexual violence, arbitrary detention, torture, beatings, and forced displacement. As a result, an estimated 745,000 people – mostly ethnic Rohingya – were forced to flee to Bangladesh. The “clearance operations” followed decades of institutionalized discrimination and systematic persecution of the Rohingya, including the passage of laws that stripped the Rohingya of their citizenship, restricted their religious freedoms, as well as reproductive and marital rights.

No ‘bitter end’ for Rohingya

ASIA TIMES

Christopher P Catrambone 
May 20, 2020

 A wooden boat carrying suspected Rohingya migrants detained in Malaysian territorial waters off the island of Langkawi on April 5. Photo: AFP/Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency 

When it comes to writing about the plight of refugees, one can often feel like a broken record. There is a disheartening sense that everything has been said, twice, and yet nothing changes for the better.

Indeed, there’s a kind of perverse Murphy’s Law at work. Every new twist marks an expansion of our understanding of the threshold for human misery, and of our capacity for failing our fellow man. This is particularly true for the Rohingya.