Dr M: Stop trading with Myanmar over Rohingya abuse

malaymail

Wednesday, 29 Apr 2020
BY YISWAREE PALANSAMY

Former prime minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad today called for a rejection of trade with Myanmar over its cruelty towards its Rohingya community. — Picture by Hari Anggara

KUALA LUMPUR, April 29 — Malaysia has already accepted too many Rohingya refugees and other nations must do their part to address the crisis, former prime minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad said today.

On his blog, Dr Mahathir also called for a rejection of trade with Myanmar over its cruelty towards its Rohingya community.

Right now, Rohingya crisis bigger than China’s treatment of Uyghur - Dr M

malaysia kini
6th November 2019

Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad said Malaysia will only join the world in protesting China’s alleged ill-treatment of the Uyghur Muslims if it resulted in a mass emigration of Uyghurs fleeing the country.

မေလးရွား ဝန္ႀကီးခ်ဳပ္ ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာေတြအေရး ေျပာၾကားခ်က္

RFA
လြတ္လပ္တဲ့ အာရွအသံ
28 September 2019

■ ကုလသမဂၢ အေထြေထြ ညီလာခံ တက္ေရာက္ဖို႔ နယူးေယာက္ၿမိဳ႕မွာ ေရာက္ရွိေနတဲ့ မေလးရွား ဝန္ႀကီး ခ်ဳပ္ ေဒါက္တာ မဟတ္သီယာ မိုဟာမက္က ရခိုင္ျပည္နယ္က ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာေတြအေရးနဲ႔ ပတ္သက္ၿပီးေျပာၾကား ထားတာေတြကို အာအက္ဖ္ေအ အဖဲြ႔သား ဦးခင္ေမာင္ညိန္းက တင္ျပထားပါတယ္။

Photo: Vladimir SMIRNOV / TASS Host Photo Agency / AFP

႐ိုဟင္ဂ်ာ ျပႆနာ အျမန္ေျဖရွင္းဖို႔ မေလးရွား၀န္ႀကီးခ်ဳပ္ ပန္ၾကား

VOA
26 စက္တင္ဘာ၊ 2019
ဗြီအိုေအ (ျမန္မာပုိင္း)

မွတ္တမ္းဓာတ္ပံု - မေလးရွား ၀န္ႀကီးခ်ဳပ္ Mahathir Mohamad ကို တိုက်ိဳက သတင္းစာ ရွင္းလင္းပြဲမွာ ေတြ႔ရစဥ္။ 

အေမရိကန္ ျပည္ေထာင္စု နယူးေယာက္ၿမိဳ႕ ကုလသမဂၢဌာနခ်ဳပ္မွာ က်င္းပေနတဲ့ (၇၄) ႀကိမ္ေျမာက္ ကုလ သမဂၢ အေထြေထြညီလာခံမွာ အဂၤါေန႔ေဆြးေႏြးပြဲေတြ အတြင္းမွာပဲ မေလးရွားဝန္ႀကီးခ်ဳပ္ မဟာသီယာမို ဟာမက္က ႐ိုဟင္ဂ်ာျပႆနာကို အျမန္ေျဖရွင္းေရး အတြက္ ႏိုင္ငံတကာက ပါဝင္ၾကဖို႔ ပန္ၾကားခဲ့ပါတယ္။

သဘာပတိနဲ႔ ႂကြေရာက္လာတဲ့ ပရိတ္သတ္မ်ားခင္ဗ်ား ျမန္မာအစိုးရဟာ ႐ိုဟင္ဂ်ာျပႆနာကို ေျဖရွင္းဖို႔ ဆႏၵမရွိဘူးဆိုတာ ထင္ရွားပါတယ္။ ဒါေၾကာင့္ ႏိုင္ငံတကာ အသိုင္းအဝိုင္းက လုပ္ေဆာင္ေပးဖို႔ ေတာင္းဆိုရ တာ ျဖစ္ပါတယ္လို႔ မေလးရွားဝန္ႀကီးခ်ဳပ္က ေျပာသြားတာပါ။

Myanmar rejects the comments by Malaysian Leader

Ministry of Foreign Affairs Myanmar
Nay Pyi Taw,
31 July 2019

U Myint Thu, Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, received His Excellency Mr. Zahairi Baharim, Ambassador of Malaysia to Myanmar, at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on 31 July 2019 at 1500 hrs.

Permanent Secretary expressed his dismay and objected to the comments recently made by Malaysian Prime Minister that displaced persons should be treated as nationals or be given a chance to form their own state and that genocide is happening in the country.

Rohingyas should be citizens or be given their own state, says Dr M

NEW
STRAITSTIMES
Bernama
July 27, 2019

KUALA LUMPUR: The Rohingyas should be treated as Myanmar nationals or be given a chance to form their own state, said Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad.

He said even though Malaysia generally does not wish to interfere with the internal affairs of other countries, it does so in this case due to the massacre or genocide that is happening in Myanmar.

“Myanmar, of course, at one time was made up of many different states. But the British decided to rule Myanmar as one state - and because of that, many of the tribes (were) included in the state of Burma.

Asean Leaders Hold Off From Demanding Citizenship for Rohingyas

Bloomberg
By Philip Heijmans
23 June 2019,

Rohingyas at the Unchiprang refugee camp, Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh.
Photographer: Paula Bronstein/Getty Images AsiaPac

Southeast Asian leaders held back from collectively demanding that Myanmar provide citizenship for Rohingyas even as some member nations sought more rights for the persecuted minority group.

Dr M suggests international supervision of Rohingya returning to Myanmar

malaymail 

Published on 23 June 2019

BY G. PRAKASH

Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad speaking during a press conferences in conjunction with his three-day visit at the Malaysia High Commission London June 15, 2019. — Bernama pic 

BANGKOK, June 23 — An independent international community should monitor the repatriation of the Rohingya back to Myanmar to ensure they are not punished, Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad said today.