Chinese Ambassador Chen Hai gives an Interview on the Rakhine Issue

Mnstry of Foeigm Affairs 
of The Peop's Republic of Chna
From Chinese Embassy in Myanmar）
2019/11/10

H.E. Mr Chen Hai, Chinese Ambassador to Myanmar, gave an interview to the Myanmar correspondent and expounded China's stance on the Rakhine issue. The interview was broadcast on MRTV and MITV. Below is the transcript of his response.

Ambassador Chen said that the Rakhine issue is a complicated issue with specific historical background and realistic roots. China is a friendly neighbour to both Myanmar and Bangladesh. China hopes that Myanmar and Bangladesh can properly resolve the issue through bilateral friendly consultations, striving to improve the livelihood of the people from Myanmar and Bangladesh who live and work in the neighbouring areas of Rakhine State and make this area a bond of friendship and cooperation between the two countries. I hope that the international society can also play a positive role in this regard.

Suu Kyi: Myanmar constitution must change for 'complete democracy'

Nikkei Asian Review 
Interview

WATARU SUZUKI and YUICHI NITTA, 

Nikkei staff writers October 23, 2019 

De facto leader calls Rohingya crackdown a response to 'terrorist attack' 

Myanmar's State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi speaks to the Nikkei Asian Review on Oct. 23 in Tokyo. (Photo by Wataru Ito) 

TOKYO -- Myanmar's State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi said amending the constitution is needed for Myanmar to transition to a "complete democracy," but is unlikely to happen before next year's election.

In a 30-minute interview with the Nikkei Asian Review in Tokyo, where she was visiting to attend the enthronement of the Japanese emperor, Suu Kyi also said the crackdown against the Muslim minority group Rohingya was in response to a "terrorist attack."

Bangladesh foreign minister: 'We're balancing our ties with China and India'

DW
21.10.2019

In an exclusive interview with DW, Bangladesh's Foreign Minister A. K. Abdul Momen spoke about the Rohingya repatriation to Myanmar as well as his country's ties with China and India. He says his country wants to maintain good relations with everyone.

Link :https://www.dw.com/en/bangladesh-foreign-minister-were-balancing-our-ties-with-china-and-india/av-50916393?fbclid=IwAR1BnNc7KiHNw4nt1qyILj9jeVs5da1R7ZJVpzAUNMQHblONzrUnxoZrN50

Narratives and Facts “အလ္ဟာဂ်္ ဦးေအးလြင္ (ဦးေဆာင္ ေဆာ္ၾသေရးမႉး၊ အစၥလာမ္ဓမၼဗိမာန္)ႏွင့္ ေတြ႕ဆုံေမးျမန္း ခန္း''

ၿမန္မာ့အသံနွင့္ရုပ္ၿမင္သံၾကား
Myanmar Radio and Television
Wednesday, October 16, 2019
Link :https://www.mrtv.gov.mm/mm/news-55052?fbclid=IwAR2sJnACx1mKOAV1TpLgEmv7k_VSg6hJrvEYp5XXRENr7BoEm9Ps3c5bWro

Rohingya refugees face mobile phone blackouts

Aljazeera
21 September 2019

The Bangladeshi government orders ban on the sale of SIM cards to a million Rohingya in the world’s biggest refugee camp. 

Last week, we received a WhatsApp message from a Rohingya refugee in Bangladesh. It may have been one of the last messages he could send.

ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာဒုကၡသည္ေတြရဲ့ အနာဂတ္

RFA
လြတ္လပ္တဲ့ အာရွအသံ

17 September 2019

■ ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာဒုကၡသည္အမ်ားစုက တတိယႏိုင္ငံကိုသြားၾကဖို႔ထက္ ကိုယ့္ေနရပ္ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံဘက္ကိုပဲ ျပန္ ခ်င္ေနၾကတယ္လို႔ ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာအေရးလႈပ္ရွားသူ ဦးထြန္းခင္ကေျပာပါတယ္။

ဒီလကုန္ပိုင္းက်င္းပမယ့္ ကုလသမဂၢအေထြေထြညီလာခံမွာ ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာအေရးနဲ႔ပက္သတ္ၿပီး ျမန္မာအစိုးရနဲ႔ စစ္တပ္ကိုပိုၿပီး ဖိအားေပးေရးဦးထြန္းခင္က တိုက္တြန္းေနတာပါ။ အေမရိကန္ျပည္ေထာင္စုကိုေရာက္ေနတဲ့ ၿဗိတိန္အေျခစိုက္ျမန္မာ-ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာအသင္းရဲ႕ ဥကၠဌ ဦးထြန္းခင္ကို ဝါရွင္တန္ဒီစီ RFA ရံုးခ်ဳပ္မွာ ေစာဖိုးခြား က ေတြ႔ဆံုေမးျမန္းထားပါတယ္။

လင့္၊https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FqwfPStBOc

"Myanmar continues to harbor genocidal intent"

Press TV
17 September 2019

Rohingya remaining in Myanmar's Rakhine state face a "serious risk of genocide", UN investigators have said. Press TV interviewed Myra Dahgaypaw, US Campaign for Burma and Nay San Lwin, Free Rohingya Coalition today morning.



        

Link :https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJypbLEQ6F0

‘The land where we lived has gone' – the life story of a Rohingya refugee

The Guardian
@Gay_Alcorn
Sun 4 Aug 2019

  Habiburahman ... “I am three years old and effectively erased from existence” he writes in his book.                                                   Photograph: Sophie Ansel

As a young man Habiburahman fled oppression in his native Myanmar and lives, stateless, in Australia. Now he has written a book about his struggle – and his suffering people.

“A tyrant leant over my cradle and traced a destiny for me that will be hard to avoid: I will either be a fugitive or I won’t exist at all.” – From First, They Erased Our Name: A Rohingya Speaks, by Habiburahman.

There has been much written about the Rohingya people of Myanmar, formerly known as Burma. The Muslim ethnic group has been persecuted for generations, most recently from 2017, when 800,000 picked up whatever they could carry to flee to Bangladesh. But little has been written from the point of view of a Rohingya growing up in Myanmar – the daily humiliations, the struggle for survival, the fear, the stories whispered through generations to ensure they are not lost. Habiburahman, known as Habib, was born in a village in the west of the country around 1979 – he is not quite sure of the year. He has written his life story, and through that, the story of his people.

Tun Khin Al Jazeera interview

Al Jazeera
28 July 2019

EXCLUSIVE - Mahathir: Malaysia sees Turkey as alternative trade partner

AA

Mehmet Ozturk, Sorwar Alam and Zuhal Demirci |
26.07.2019
ANKARA

Malaysia’s PM talks to Anadolu Agency on bilateral ties with Turkey, global issues such as Rohingya, Uighur and Palestine

Malaysia’s Prime Minister Mahathir Bin Mohamad said on Friday that Turkey could be an alternative source of import for his country.

In an exclusive interview with Anadolu Agency in the capital Ankara during his tightly packed four-day official visit to Turkey, the veteran politician of Muslim world talked about bilateral issues along with the Rohingya crisis, the Palestinian cause and the situation of Uyghur Muslims in East Turkestan, the area otherwise known as China’s Xinjiang province.

Sweden to pressurise Myanmar for Rohingya repatriation

Prothum Alo------ 
Mizanur Rahman Khan

Jul 04, 2019 

 

Imtiaz Ahmed, professor of international relations at Dhaka University, talks to Prothom Alo on various aspects of Bangladesh-India bilateral relations and the recent India election.


Prothom Alo: Did the election results in India surprise you?

Imtiaz Ahmed: Dynastic politics is Congress' biggest weakness. They could not form an opposition alliance. People could not rely on Rahul Gandhi. And BJP has widened its vote bank by using communalism. It is now a question as to how far India will survive as we know it. BJP was not supposed to win if we consider various issues including the rate of unemployment, 22 polluted cities out of 30 in the world, farmers’ hardship and demonetization. BJP has efficiently manipulated the election results. Earlier, Modi won the election by getting 36 per cent votes in two-third seats. I am waiting to find out what he has done this time. The rise of communalism is not only a concern for India, but for also its neighbours.

Interview: ‘I Really Think That Myanmar is Going Down a Dark Path Now’

RFA
2019-06-27

Yanghee Lee, the UN’s special rapporteur on human rights in Myanmar, discusses the Myanmar military and human rights in the Southeast Asian nation during a video call with RFA, June 26, 2019.

Yanghee Lee, the United Nations special rapporteur on human rights in Myanmar, has been an outspoken critic of Myanmar’s powerful military and its brutal crackdowns on Rohingya Muslims in Rakhine state in 2016 and 2017. She has called for the prosecution of those responsible for committing suspected acts of genocide against the Rohingya, and blasted the armed forces for their treatment of other ethnic minorities in conflict zones in Kachin and northern Shan states. In late 2017, the Myanmar government barred Lee from visiting the country to assess the rights situation after it said a previous mission report she issued was biased and unfair.

‘We Are United Because We Are All Under Threat’: AA Chief

The Irrawaddy  

Analysis

By Aung Zaw
6 June 2019

Arakan Army (AA) soldiers at their Kachin State headquarters in April 2019. / The Irrawaddy

PANGHSANG, Wa Self-Administered Region—With almost daily fighting taking place between the Myanmar Army and the Arakan Army (AA), the casualties on both sides are higher than we have seen on the news.

Interview with Dr. Min Soe Aung, the doctor of the Zeditaung cottage hospital (Development Media Group)

BNI

Tuesday, May 21, 2019
Development Media Group

 

Mortar shells landed on the maternity ward of the 16-bed hospital at Zeditaung village in Buthidaung Township on May 2, causing some damage. Medical staff had to be evacuated to a safer place due to the battles. Currently, the doctor of the cottage hospital and some medical staff are giving health care to patients. After shells landed, the DMG conducted an interview with Dr. Min Soe Aung, the doctor of the Zeditaung cottage hospital about the situation in the hospital.

Q – First of all, could you introduce yourself please?

 

When misinformation online leads to death threats

B B C News 

13 May 2019 

 Ethan Lindenberger, Tun Khin and Jessikka Aro have all had false information spread about them on social media sites, which has led to harassment and even death threats. They spoke about their stories as they came face-to-face with tech companies in Silicon Valley to try and tackle the problem. By Cody Godwin and Dave Lee -
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Link: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-us-canada-48261087/when-misinformation-online-leads-to-death-threats?SThisFB&fbclid=IwAR244yHh68wJEn8lK1m9IQYyAdz8qR9oeCg8UnNXKXhp11RzBWzwTciYntI

Bill Richardson says Aung San Suu Kyi 'doesn't deserve credit' for releasing two jailed journalists

PRI
May 13, 2019 · 

By The World staff

 Former UN Ambassador and New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson.

Credit: Gus Ruelas/Reuters 

Today in Myanmar, two Reuters journalists are enjoying time with their families days after their release from prison. Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo served more than 500 days in jail after they were arrested for violating the country's Official Secrets Act when they uncovered details around the killings of 10 Rohingya men and boys.

Arakan Army chief cries out in Myanmar

ASIATIMES  

Interview

By Christian Bouche-Villeneuve, Pangsang

Rebel leader tells Asia Times in an interview that his insurgency has mass support and that the international community has his fight all wrong 

 

Tun Myat Naing, commander-in-chief of the Arakan Army, attends a meeting of leaders of Myanmar's ethnic armed groups at the United Wa State Army headquarters in Pansang in Myanmar's northern Shan State, May 6, 2015. Photo: Twitter

Myanmar’s upstart Arakan Army (AA) has intensified its insurgent operations in recent months, opening a new front of instability in the nation’s long-running ethnic civil wars.

The armed conflict has compounded volatility in Rakhine state, from where over 700,000 Muslim Rohingya have been expelled in government “clearance operations” beginning in 2017 the United Nations and others suggest may have had “genocidal intent.”

‘Kyaukphyu BRI Projects a Bigger Threat Than Myitsone’

The Irrawaddy
By The Irrawaddy 8 April 2019 
Interview

 Journalist and author Bertil Lintner in interviewed with The Irrawaddy. / The Irrawaddy

Amid growing public concern about Chinese-backed development projects in Myanmar, State Counselor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi will leave for Beijing late this month to attend the second Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) summit. During her meeting with the Chinese President Xi Jinping there, she is quite likely to discuss the Myitsone Dam, the most controversial Chinese project in the country so far. As well the Myitsone dam, another important China-backed development project is now underway on the shore of Bay of Bengal in Myanmar’s western state of Rakhine. Prior to Daw Aung San Suu Kyi’s visit to China, The Irrawaddy talks to Bertil Linter, a Swedish journalist and author who has been covering Myanmar and Southeast Asia for nearly four decades, on China’s major involvement—from development projects to the peace process—in the country.

VOA Burmese interview with Dr Zarni

Is Myanmar Committing Genocide against the Rohingya? (with Dr Thomas MacManus)