UN fails to take action on order against Myanmar on Rohingya

Aljazeera
2020.02.04

Myanmar's allies China and Vietnam block vote on a joint statement forcing EU member states to make separate report.

More than 700,000 Rohingya fled to Bangladesh after Myanmar security forces launched a crackdown on the Muslim minority in August 2017 [File: Abir Abdullah/EPA]

The UN Security Council on Tuesday discussed the International Court of Justice's order that Myanmar do all it can to prevent genocide against the Rohingya Muslims, but failed to agree on a statement.

Suu’s strategies failed but NLD will win poll

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By Htun Aung Gyaw

October 24, 2019

 

Burma’s democratic government has a chance to win a second term in office in the 2020 election because of Aung San Suu Kyi’s fame and her popularity is still strong within the country even though her government is facing many difficulties.

Burmese politicians are preparing for elections in 2020 and that includes the military’s Senior General Min Aung Hlaing. Burmese politics is very complicated with various ethnic issues and armed conflict between ethnic armed groups and the Army (or Tatmadaw) is not going to stop. Both the ruling National League for Democracy party and the military have said they are willing to establish a federal union, but the 2008 constitution drawn up by the military imposes a unitary system.

Bangladesh-Myanmar: Failed Repatriation – Analysis

eurasiareview
October 8, 2019
By S. Binodkumar Singh*

 

Rohingya's in Kutupalong Refugee Camp in Bangladesh. Photo taken by John Owens/VOA, Wikipedia Commons. 

Following two failed attempts to repatriate the Rohingyas, Bangladesh officials stated, on October 3, 2019, that Bangladesh would not make a third, to begin the repatriation of hundreds of thousands of Rohingyas sheltered in the Cox’s Bazar District, along the Bangladesh-Myanmar International Border. An unnamed Foreign Ministry official stated, “We are not going to make any attempt before being sure that the repatriation will actually happen. Even if the repatriation starts in a small scale, that will be a good thing.”

Govt has failed diplomatically on Rohingya issue: BNP

bdnews24.com
Senior Correspondent, bdnews24.com
Published: 23 Aug 2019

Senior BNP leader Ruhul Kabir Rizvi says the government has diplomatically failed to repatriate forcibly displaced Rohingyas to Myanmar from Bangladesh.

He made the remarks at an event in Dhaka on Friday, a day after a second attempt to repatriate the Rohingyas fell flat following first attempt made in November last year.

Why the UN failed to save the Rohingya

Al Jazeera
by Joshua Carroll

28 Jun 2019

Insiders say UN sought to downplay criticism of Myanmar and was hamstrung by China, Russia opposition to firm response.

A Rohingya refugee and her children wade ashore after crossing the Bangladesh-Myanmar border by boat in September 2017 [File: Mohammad Ponir Hossain/Reuters]

Yangon, Myanmar - When Liam Mahony travelled to Myanmar to advise the United Nations on its handling of the Rohingya crisis, the dozens of aid workers he spoke to were almost unanimous in their appraisal of the organisation's approach.

Their view, the researcher recalls, was "this was all screwed up... this was not going to help the Rohingya population".