Catch-22 for Rohingya caught up in Myanmar citizenship dilemma

mizzima
24 September 2023

Mizzima Editorial

The figures are sketchy but according to a local media report several dozen Muslim Rohingya women are caught up in a Catch-22 situation in Pathein Prison. Their circumstances provide a window on the dire circumstances for many Rohingya in a country that does not recognize them as citizens.

Joint forces operation on Rohingya camps soon

dailyobserver 

Published : Tuesday, 30 August, 2022 

 

In a bid to wipe out growing terror and criminal activities in Rohingya camps, the government has decided to conduct joint operation by combining Army, Police and other law enforcement agencies. In addition, army and relevant law enforcers will be deployed in the camps to deter drug smuggling.

However, on one hand we welcome the planned joint forces operation while on the other the operation has been long overdue.

Still seeking justice

THE NEWS

Editorial

The Rohingya, an ethnic Muslim minority based in the Rakhine province of Myanmar, are still a long way off from achieving justice and rights as citizens of Myanmar. After the 2017 genocide, 90,000 Rohingyas fled to neighbouring Bangladesh where they have been housed in squalid camps with too few resources to sustain them, the parallel government set up in Myanmar by former legislators has asked the Rohingya to join the fight against the military junta which seized power in February this year after overthrowing the NLD government of Aung San Suu Kyi. The Rohingya have been told by the shadow government that they will be given citizenship, denied to them since 1982, if they join in the struggle and that the law will be altered to grant Myanmar citizenship to all persons born in the country regardless of ethnicity or other issues.

Give voice to the Rohingya

Bangkok Post 

Editorial . 

Bangkok Post editorial column
25 Sep 2020

The Rohingya saga has been prominent in some international headlines of late. In addition to the mass exodus, with nearly 300 Rohingya drifting to the shores of Indonesia's Aceh province after spending months at sea, another major cause for concern is the deprivation of voting rights of those Rohingya remaining in western Rakhine state as well as the one million refugees living in neighbouring Bangladesh.

Don't ignore the Rohingya

Bangkok Post 

 Editorial

2 Nov 2019 

Even though the joint communique released after their previous meeting in June said they are committed to assisting Myanmar ensure safety in Rakhine state for the repatriation of Rohingya refugees, Asean's leaders' "commitment" has had little effect on the ground.

As leaders gather this weekend in Bangkok for the Asean Summit and on Monday for the East Asia Summit, a draft of the East Asia Summit statement leaked to Kyodo News agency indicates that the Rohingya issue will not be on the agenda, largely due to pressure exerted by Myanmar.

Myanmar targets remnants of Rohingya identity

ARAB NEWS 
Editorial
Dr. Azeem Ibrahim
July 31, 2019 

A Rohingya village obliterated by fire in Rakhine, Myanmar. (Reuters)

The 1 million-plus Rohingya huddled in refugee camps around Cox’s Bazar in Bangladesh continue to be a stain on the conscience of the international community, two years after the military of Myanmar started its “clearing operations” to remove them from their native homeland in northern Rakhine State.

Myanmar’s real intent now transparent

The Daily Star

July 27, 2019
Editorial 

The foreign minister is absolutely right when he says the repatriation of Rohingyas depends entirely on Myanmar. Mere expression of willingness by Myanmar to take back the refugees is not enough. Demonstrative actions must follow quickly on the part of Myanmar. Regrettably, with every passing day the prospect of the Rohingyas going back to their own country is becoming bleaker. With the expulsion of the majority of the Rohingyas two years ago, Myanmar has put its final touches to their plans to divest the entire eastern Rakhine of the minority Rohingyas. The destruction of Rohingya villages and the Myanmar army setting up bases in this area only show that Myanmar is not prepared for the repatriation which Bangladesh hopes would start before September.

The Rohingya need an answer: The Nation

THE STRAITS TIMES

Jun 13, 2019,Editorial Notes

A group of Rohingya Muslims sitting on the sand at the Tarutao Marine National Park on Rawi island, southern Thailand on June 11, 2019.PHOTO: AFP

In its editorial, the paper urges Asean to take into account the concerns of the stateless minority, instead of ploughing ahead with plans to repatriate refugees.

BANGKOK (THE NATION/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) - Repatriation of Rohingya refugees from Bangladesh to Myanmar's conflict-torn Rakhine state will be on the table when Asean leaders meet later this month in Bangkok.

Rohingya plight

International The News
April 8, 2019

The fate of the Burmese Rohingya is being settled in front of our very eyes. As with many other populations that have faced ethnic genocide, such as the Rwandans and the Kosovar, the world does not care about the Rohingya. Not only is a return home filled with the same dangers that had forced the entire Rohingya population to get up and leave, they are not welcome in their new homes either. In Myanmar this week, another twenty Rohingya were killed after an attack by a military helicopter.

Round One to Suu Kyi

The Statemen

Editorial | New Delhi | February 27, 2019 12:10 am

Comment on whether her agenda will attain fruition must await the evolution of developments not the least because the military still retains the power to veto constitutional change.

That tryst with democracy has been anathema in Myanmar since the early 1990s, when Suu Kyi scored a famous victory, but was yet denied the opportunity to assume power. (Representational Image: iStock)

In parallel to the intriguing silence over the tragedy of the Rohingyas, there has emerged a silver lining in Myanmar over Aung San Suu Kyi’s assertion to set up a committee to craft a revised Constitution, to replace the one choreographed by the dominant military. Comment on whether her agenda will attain fruition must await the evolution of developments not the least because the military still retains the power to veto constitutional change.

The Rohingya crisis needs a local solution

FOYASAL KHAN
Published: 15th Jan 2019,

Myanmar's democratization process may help the suffering nation to save itself from turmoil and inhumane crises, and build a stronger and more secure country.


As of now, more than 700,000 Rohingya women, men and children have fled from Myanmar's northern Rakhine State to neighboring Bangladesh since Aug. 25, 2017, when Myanmar security forces began a widespread attack on the Rohingya people.

Myanmar's latest ploy to push out Rohingyas

12:00 AM, January 13, 2019

Will the international community do nothing?

FILE PHOTO: REUTERS/DAMIR SAGOLJ

After forcing almost a million Rohingyas to flee from their homes and take shelter in Bangladesh, Myanmar is now taking steps to construct a concrete structure in the no-man's land on its border with Bangladesh in Bandarban's Ghumdhum area.