Freedom of movement: HRW demands release of 30 Rohingyas held in Myanmar

The Daily Star

October 09, 2019

Star Online Report

A destroyed Rohingya village in Rakhine, Myanmar. PHOTO: REUTERS 

Human Rights Watch has demanded that Myanmar authorities should immediately release 30 Rohingya Muslims detained for attempting to travel from Rakhine State to the city of Yangon.

"The government should lift all travel restrictions on ethnic Rohingya and repeal discriminatory regulations that limit their right to freedom of movement," the HRW said in a news report published yesterday.

Myanmar: Rohingya Jailed for Traveling

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October 8, 2019
End Arbitrary Restrictions on Persecuted Muslim Minority

A police officer stands guard at a checkpoint in Shwe Zar village, northern Rakhine state, Myanmar, September 6, 2017. © 2017 AP Photo

(New York) – Myanmar authorities should immediately release 30 Rohingya Muslims detained for attempting to travel from Rakhine State to the city of Yangon, Human Rights Watch said today. The government should lift all travel restrictions on ethnic Rohingya and repeal discriminatory regulations that limit their right to freedom of movement.

ခရီးသြားရင္းဖမ္းခံရသူ ႐ိုဟင္ဂ်ာ ၃၀ ျပန္လႊတ္ဖို႔ HRW ေတာင္းဆို

VOA
ဗြီအိုေအ (ျမန္မာပုိင္း)

09 ေအာက္တိုဘာ၊ 2019  

ရခုိင္ျပည္နယ္ကေန ရန္ကုန္ကုိ ခရီးသြားရင္း ဖမ္းဆီးေထာင္ခ်ခံခဲ့ရတဲ့ ႐ုိဟင္ဂ်ာမြတ္ဆလင္ ၃၀ ကုိ ခ်က္ ၿခင္း ျပန္လႊတ္ေပးဖုိ႔ ႏုိင္ငံတကာ လူ႔အခြင့္အေရး လႈပ္ရွားမႈ အဖဲြ႔တခုျဖစ္တဲ့ Human Rights Watch က ေတာင္းဆုိလုိက္ပါတယ္။

႐ုိဟင္ဂ်ာေတြအေပၚ ခဲြျခားဆက္ဆံၿပီး လြတ္လပ္စြာ သြားလာခြင့္ေတြကုိ ကန္႔သတ္ထားတာေတြကုိ အစုိးရ က ဖယ္ရွားဖုိ႔လည္း ေၾကညာခ်က္မွာ ေျပာဆုိခဲ့တာပါ။

Bangladesh: Halt Plans to Fence-In Rohingya Refugees

HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH

September 30, 2019

Barbed Wire, Guard Towers to Deny Freedom of Movement

 Rohingya refugees gather behind a barbed-wire fence in the “no-man’s land” 

border  zone between Myanmar and Bangladesh, April

25, 2018. © 2018 Ye Aung Thu/AFP/Getty Images

(New York) – The Bangladesh government’s plans for barbed wire and guard towers around Rohingya refugee camps in Cox’s Bazar violate refugees’ rights to freedom of movement, Human Rights Watch said today. Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan announced the plan on September 26, 2019, saying it was specifically ordered by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.

Clampdown on Rohingya Refugees in Bangladesh, Human Rights Watch calls for end to restrictions on movement, Internet

The Milli Gazette Online
Published Online: Sep 08, 2019

New York: The Bangladesh government should end restrictions on Rohingya refugees’ freedom of movement and access to the internet and online communications, Human Rights Watch said today. Government restrictions have intensified following a failed attempt to repatriate refugees to Myanmar, a large rally by Rohingya refugees, and the killings of a local politician and four refugees.

“Bangladesh authorities have a major challenge in dealing with such a large number of refugees, but they have made matters worse by imposing restrictions on refugee communications and freedom of movement,” said Brad Adams, Asia director at Human Rights Watch. “The authorities should take a level-headed approach instead of overreacting to tensions and protests by isolating Rohingya refugees in camps.”

ဂူတာပြင်ရွာလူသတ်မှုအတွက် တပ်မတော်က စစ်ဆေး ရေးခုံရုံးဖွဲ့တဲ့အပေါ် HRW သံသယဖြစ်

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လွတ်လပ်တဲ့ အာရှအသံ
02.09.2019

၂ဝ၁၈ ခုနှစ် ဖေဖော်ဝါရီ ၂ ရက်နေ့က ဘူးသီးတောင်မြို့နယ်အုပ်ချုပ်ရေးမှူး ဦးဆောင်သောအဖွဲ့ ဂူတာပြင်ကျေးရွာဝန်းကျင်ကို ကွင်းဆင်းစစ်ဆေးခဲ့ကြစဉ်။Photo: MOI

■ ရခိုင်ပြည်နယ်မြောက်ပိုင်း ဂူတာပြင်ကျေးရွာမှာ ရိုဟင်ဂျာ ရွာသား ၄ဝဝ လောက်အထိကို သတ်ဖြတ် ခဲ့ တယ်လို့ စွပ်စွဲခံရတဲ့ လုံခြုံရေးတပ်ဖွဲ့ဝင်တွေကို မြန်မာ့တပ်မတော်က စစ်ခုံရုံးဖွဲ့ စစ်ဆေးပြီးအရေးယူ အပြစ်ပေးဖို့ စီစဉ်နေတဲ့အကြောင်း ကြေညာချက်ထုတ်ပြန်လိုက်တာနဲ့ ပတ်သက်ပြီး၊ သံသယရှိကြောင်း နယူး ယောက်အခြေစိုက် လူ့အခွင့်အရေး စောင့်ကြည့်ရေးအဖွဲ့ HRW က ကြေညာလိုက်ပါတယ်။

Myanmar: Crimes Against Rohingya Go Unpunished

HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH

 



August 22, 2019

                         Address Causes of Crisis, Cooperate With UN

Rohingya refugees gather behind a barbed-wire fence in the “no-man’s land” border zone between Myanmar and Bangladesh, April 25, 2018.
© 2018 Ye Aung Thu/AFP/Getty Images

(Bangkok) – The Myanmar government should stop obstructing international efforts to investigate widespread crimes committed against Rohingya Muslims, Human Rights Watch said today. Donors and concerned governments should press Myanmar to protect their basic rights, facilitate international justice for victims, and ensure that any returns of Rohingya refugees are voluntary, safe, and dignified.

Myanmar Delegation Fails to Make Convincing Case for Safe Return

HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH

Meenakshi Ganguly
South Asia Director
@mg2411
July 31, 2019

Rohingya refugee girls cross a makeshift bamboo bridge at Kutupalong refugee camp, where they have been living amid uncertainty over their future after they fled Myanmar to escape violence a year ago, in Bangladesh on Tuesday, August 28, 2018.

Myanmar officials arrived at the sprawling refugee settlement in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh this week to discuss the repatriation of the Rohingya population.

Thailand Offers Persecuted Rohingya Little Hope

HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH

Sunai Phasuk Senior Researcher,

Asia Division SunaiBKK


Prime Minister’s Racist Comments Reflect Inhumane Asylum Seeker Policy

Rohingya refugees sit behind bars at a police station in Satun province, southern Thailand on Wednesday, June 12, 2019. © 2019 AP Photo/Sumeth Panpetch 

Thai Prime Minister Gen. Prayuth Chan-ocha’s racist slurs directed at the Rohingya are bad enough. But they are made even worse because they reflect the Thai government’s cruel policy toward Rohingya asylum seekers who take perilous journeys to escape persecution and serious abuses in Myanmar’s Rakhine State.

မြန်မာအပေါ် လူ့အခွင့်အရေးဖိအားပေးဖို့ ဂျပန်ကို HRW တိုက်တွန်း

VOA
ဗွီအိုအေ (မြန်မာဌာန)
30 ဇူလိုင်၊ 2019
ဒေါ်ခင်မျိုးသက်

၂၀၁၈ ဇန်နဝါရီလတုန်းက ဂျပန်နိုင်ငံခြားရေး ဝန်ကြီး Taro Kono နဲ့ နိုင်ငံတော်အတိုင်ပင်ခံ တွေ့ဆုံစဉ်  

မြန်မာနဲ့ ဘင်္ဂလားဒေ့ရှ် ၂ နိုင်ငံ ခရီးစဉ် သွားရောက်နေတဲ့ ဂျပန်နိုင်ငံခြားရေး ဝန်ကြီး Taro Kono အနေနဲ့ မြန်မာ နိုင်ငံရဲ့ လူ့အခွင့်ရေး အခြေနေတွေနဲ့ ပတ်သက်ပြီး ထုတ်ဖေါ်ပြောကြားဖို့ နယူးရောက် အခြေစိုက် Human Rights Watch လူ့အခွင့်ရေး အဖွဲ့ကြီးက တိုက်တွန်းလိုက်ပါတယ်။

Bangladesh: Rohingya Face Monsoon Floods, Landslides

HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH

  July 12, 2019

Donor Support Critical for Refugees’ Safety, Protection  

Rohingya refugees walk in the rain during monsoon season in Jamtoli refugee camp, Bangladesh, June 26, 2018. © 2018 AP Photo

 (New York, July 12, 2019) – Rohingya refugees in crowded camps in Bangladesh are at serious risk of displacement and injury from monsoon flooding and landslides, Human Rights Watch said today. Since early July 2019, flooding and landslides have displaced nearly 6,000 refugees in the camps near Cox’s Bazar, damaged over 3,500 shelters, and killed two people, including a child.

ဘဂၤလားေဒ့ရွ္ေရာက္ ႐ုိဟင္ဂ်ာေတြ ေရေဘးအႏၱ ရာယ္ HRW သတိေပး

VOA 

ႏိုင္ငံတကာ

ဗြီအိုေအ (ျမန္မာပုိင္း)
13 ဇူလိုင္၊ 2019

႐ုိဟင္ဂ်ာ ဒုကၡသည္မ်ား (ဇူလိုင္၊ ၀၄၊ ၂၀၁၈)

ဘဂၤလားေဒ့ရွ္ႏုိင္ငံက ႐ိုဟင္ဂ်ာ ဒုကၡသည္စခန္းေတြမွာ မုတ္သံုရာသီကာလ မိုးမ်ားၿပီး ေရႀကီး ေျမၿပိဳတာ ေတြေၾကာင့္ ဒုကၡသည္ ေနအိမ္ေတြ အမ်ားအျပား ဆံုး႐ံႈးရမယ့္အေျခအေနနဲ႔ ထိခိုက္ဒဏ္ရာရမႈေတြ မ်ား လာႏို္င္တဲ့အထိ ဆိုးဆိုးရြားရြား ႀကံဳေနရတဲ့အေၾကာင္း ႏိုင္ငံတကာ လူ႔အခြင့္အေရး ေစာင့္ၾကည့္မႈအဖြဲ႔ Human Rights Watch က ေျပာပါတယ္။

ICC Prosecutor Seeking to Investigate Crimes Against Rohingya

HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH

 



Param-Preet Singh
Associate Director, International Justice Program

UN Security Council Should Ensure Justice for All Victims of Myanmar Violence

Smoke is seen rising from Burma’s Taung Pyo Let War village from across the border in Bangladesh.

On June 26, the International Criminal Court (ICC) announced that Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda will request that the court’s judges open an investigation into crimes relating to two waves of violence in Myanmar’s Rakhine State. Myanmar is not an ICC member. But last year, the court confirmed its jurisdiction over crimes where an element occurred in Bangladesh, an ICC member since June 2010.

For Rohingya Refugees, There’s No Return in Sight

HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH

Meenakshi Ganguly South Asia Director 
Brad Adams Asia Director

 Rohingya refugee girls cross a makeshift bamboo bridge at Kutupalong refugee camp, where they have been living amid uncertainty over their future after they fled Myanmar to escape violence a year ago, in Bangladesh on Tuesday, August 28, 2018.

The Rohingya Muslims have faced persecution in Myanmar for decades. And yet no violence in their recent history has compared to that which the Myanmar military inflicted in August 2017. After militants from the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army attacked police and army posts in northwestern Rakhine State on August 25, the military responded by killing thousands of Rohingya civilians, raping hundreds of Rohingya women and girls, and burning entire villages to the ground. In the course of a little more than three months, more than 700,000 Rohingya were forced to flee for their lives to Bangladesh. Myanmar authorities claimed they had conducted a “clearance operation” to rid the country of militants. In reality, they were fulfilling a long-standing dream of Myanmar’s Buddhist nationalists: the ethnic cleansing of the Rohingya Muslims.

Condemnations pour in over release of Myanmar soldiers

HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH

Md. Kamruzzaman 
DHAKA, Bangladesh
27.05.2019

7 soldiers who murdered Rohingya Muslims in Rakhine state set free, report claims
Human rights activists across the world have expressed concerns over the release of seven Myanmar soldiers who murdered 10 Rohingya Muslims in a 2017 military crackdown in its western Rakhine state.

“The only reason these seven soldiers were arrested is because Reuters journalists Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo exposed these cold-blooded murders in an investigative news story that could not be refuted,” Phil Robertson, deputy Asia director of Human Rights Watch tweeted.

ရခိုင္မွာ တပ္မေတာ္ထိန္းသိမ္းထားစဥ္ လူ ၆ ဦး ေသ ဆံုးမႈ စံုစမ္းစစ္ေဆးဖုိ႔ HRW တုိက္တြန္း

VOA
ဗြီအိုေအ (ျမန္မာပုိင္း)

08 ေမ၊ 2019  

ရခိုင္ျပည္နယ္ ရေသ့ေတာင္ၿမိဳ႕နယ္ ေက်ာက္တန္းေက်းရြာမွာ တပ္မေတာ္ရဲ့ ဖမ္းဆီးစစ္ေဆးမႈ ခံေနရသူ
ေတြ ထဲက ၆ ဦး ေသဆံုးခဲ့ရမႈအတြက္ ျမန္မာအာဏာပိုင္ေတြအေနနဲ႔ လြတ္လပ္တဲ့ စံုစမ္းစစ္ေဆးမႈေတြ လုပ္သင့္တယ္လို႔ Human Rights Watch လူ႔အခြင့္ေရး အဖြဲ႔ႀကီးက ေမလ ၆ ရက္ တနလၤာေန႔က ေၾကညာ ခ်က္ ထုတ္ျပန္ေျပာဆိုခဲ့ပါတယ္။

Myanmar: Deaths in Army Custody Need Independent Inquiry

HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH

May 6, 2019

Killing of 6 Villagers in Rakhine State Should Be Fully, Credibly Investigated

 

Maj. Gen. Nyi Nyi Tun and Maj. Gen. Soe Naing Oo of the Myanmar military’s information team announce the Arakan Army’s classification as a terrorist organization at a press conference in Naypyidaw, January 18, 2019. © 2019 AP Photo 

(New York) – Myanmar authorities should independently investigate the killing of detainees held by the military in Rakhine State, Human Rights Watch said today. On May 2, 2019, army soldiers shot and killed at least six villagers from among several hundred who had been detained in Kyauk Tan, Rathedaung township, for suspected links to the Arakan Army, an ethnic Rakhine armed group.

Myanmar: Surge in Arrests for Critical Speech

HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH

 



April 26, 2019

Repeal Laws Criminalizing Peaceful Expression

 Demonstrators shout slogans at a protest against an amendment to Myanmar’s public assembly law in Yangon, March 5, 2018. © 2018 Thein Zaw/AP Phot  

(New York) – Myanmar’s authorities have in recent weeks engaged in a series of arrests of peaceful critics of the army and government, Human Rights Watch said today. The parliament, which begins its new session on April 29, 2019, should repeal or amend repressive laws used to silence critics and suppress freedom of expression.

ဘဂၤလားေဒရွ္႕ေရာက္ ႐ိုဟင္ဂ်ာဒုကၡသည္ ကေလး ေတြ ေက်ာင္းထုတ္ခံရမႈ HRW ေ၀ဖန္

VOA
04 ဧၿပီ၊ 2019
ဗြီအိုေအ (ျမန္မာပုိင္း)

ဘဂၤလားေဒရွ္႕ ေက်ာင္းတခု။ 

ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာ ဒုကၡသည္ က်ာင္းသူေက်ာင္းသား အမ်ားအျပားကို ဘဂၤလာေဒ့ရွ္ အာဏာပိုင္ေတြက ေက်ာင္းေတြ ကေန ထုတ္ပစ္လိုက္တဲ့အေပၚ Human Rights Watch ႏိုင္ငံတကာ လူ႔အခြင့္အေရး ေစာင္ၾကည့္ေရးအဖြဲ႔ ႀကီးက ကန္႔ကြက္လိုက္ပါတယ္။

ဘဂၤလားေဒ့ရွ္ႏိုင္ငံ အေရွ႕ေတာင္ပိုင္းက ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာ ဒုကၡသည္စခန္းေတြနားက ေက်ာင္းေတြမွာ ေက်ာင္း တက္ေနၾကတဲ့ ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာ ေက်ာင္းသူေက်ာင္းသား အနည္းဆံုး ၅၀ ထက္မနည္း ေက်ာင္းအထုတ္ခံခဲ့ရ တယ္လို႔ Human Rights Watch အဖြဲ႔ရဲ့ ဧၿပီလ ၁ ရက္ေန႔ထုတ္တဲ့ ေၾကညာခ်က္မွာ ေဖၚျပထားပါတယ္။

ရခုိင္ျပည္နယ္ ျဖစ္ရပ္ေတြ သတင္းေပးတုိင္ၾကားလုိ သူေတြကုိ တပ္မေတာ္ဖိတ္ေခၚ

RFA

လြတ္လပ္တဲ့ အာရွအသံ

 2019-04-03

 ဘူးသီးေတာင္ၿမိဳ႕အဝင္ဆိုင္းဘုတ္ကို ေတြ႔ရစဥ္

ရခုိင္ျပည္နယ္ ဘူးသီးေတာင္နဲ႔ ေမာင္ေတာေဒသေတြမွာ ARSA အၾကမ္းဖက္အဖြဲ႔က တုိက္ခုိက္ၿပီးေနာက္ ဆက္စပ္ျဖစ္ရပ္ေတြနဲ႔ ပတ္သက္ၿပီး သတင္းေပးတုိင္ၾကားလုိသူေတြအေနနဲ႔ အခ်က္အလက္နဲ႔ မွတ္တမ္း
ေတြ ေပးပုိ႔တုိင္ၾကားႏိုင္ေၾကာင္း တပ္မေတာ္က ဖြဲ႕စည္းထားတဲ့ စုံစမ္းစစ္ေဆးေရးခုံရုံးက ဖိတ္ေခၚလိုက္ ပါတယ္။