Village locals raise hygiene, safety concerns over rising Rohingya population

NEW
Straits Times
By OMAR AHMAD - March 11, 2024 

The presence of a large group of Rohingyas in Kampung Kangkar Tebrau in Johor Baru has caused concern and anxiety among more than 200 families of the village. -NSTP/OMAR AHMAD

 

JOHOR BARU: The presence of a large group of Rohingyas in Kampung Kangkar Tebrau here has caused concern and anxiety among more than 200 families of the village, which is located in the middle of the city.

Immigration busts Rohingya human trafficking gang

FMT
Bernama -
28 Feb 2024,

The syndicate had been bringing in migrants and transporting them to Kuala Lumpur using express buses. 

Immigration’s special tactical unit members checking the car used by the syndicate to smuggle undocumented migrants into Malaysia. (Facebook pic)

 

PUTRAJAYA: The immigration department busted a Rohingya migrant smuggling syndicate in a special operation in Kota Bharu, Kelantan, on Sunday. Immigration director-general Ruslin Jusoh said the operation led to the arrest of 10 people, including Ali, a Rohingya man suspected to be the syndicate’s mastermind, as well as two suspected coordinators.

LIVE: Dozens Of Rohingya Refugees Flee Malaysian Immigration Detention Centre | News18 LIVE | N18L

CNN News-18
February 02,2024

Immigration officials give a news conference about the detainees who tried to escape last night after a riot at detention centre. Malaysia is searching for dozens of Rohingya refugees and other people from Myanmar after they escaped from a temporary immigration detention centre in the country’s north.

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Dozens of Rohingya refugees flee Malaysian immigration detention centre

Aljazeera
2 Feb 2024

Police blame riot after 115 Rohingya and 16 other people from Myanmar escaped the facility on Thursday night.

Ethnic Rohingya men have been taking risky sea journeys to Southeast Asia [File: Reza Saifullah/A{ Photo]

 

Malaysia is searching for dozens of Rohingya refugees and other people from Myanmar after they escaped from a temporary immigration detention centre in the country’s north.

Alarm bells sound for Kelantan folk as Rohingya refugees flood Ketereh

NEW STRAITSTIMES
By Syaherah Mustafa -
January 22, 2024

Thousands of Rohingya United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) cardholders have flooded remote villages in the Melor subdistrict of Ketereh, causing unease among the locals. - NSTP/ NIK ABDULLAH NIK OMAR

 

KOTA BARU: Thousands of Rohingya United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) cardholders have flooded remote villages in the Melor subdistrict of Ketereh, causing unease among the locals.

Southeast Asia fears US neglect, ostracised Muslims and resurgent extremists as Israel-Gaza war rages on

Institute of stragetc & Ineternational Studies
Thomas Daniel,
By Maria Siow and Amy Sood
- 23 October 2023 Related:
Israel, Malaysia, Middle East, Palestine, Southeast Asia

 

• Analysts warn of a spike in Hamas-inspired radicalisation and plummeting interfaith relations as the Middle Eastern conflict continues to escalate
• Washington’s attention, meanwhile, looks set to remain elsewhere due to a fundamental ‘shift of focus’ – unless China ‘does something really drastic’

 

As the civilian death toll from the bloodiest Israel-Gaza conflict in decades climbs ever higher, analysts warn that Asia must be on guard against deep divisions over the war tearing at the region’s social fabric – and the consequences of an increasingly distracted United States turning the bulk of its attention elsewhere.

SAV Explainer: International Law Has Failed to Protect the Rohingya Refugees

South Asian Voice
Written by Himel Rahman
October 10, 2023

On 25 August 2023, 1.3 million Rohingya refugees residing in southeastern Bangladesh observed ‘Genocide Day.’ This marked the 6th anniversary of their mass expulsion from northern Rakhine by the Tatmadaw, the Myanmar Armed Forces. The Rohingyas are one of the most persecuted ethnic minority groups in the world and the international community has so far failed to uphold their rights, allowing flagrant violations of international law.

Mobilizing Support for the Rohingya Crisis: Malaysia’s Call to OIC and ASEAN

BNN
By Asim Khan
2023 September 20  

Mobilizing Support for the Rohingya Crisis: Malaysia's Call to OIC and ASEAN

Malaysia Advocates for Rohingya Assistance

Malaysia has called upon the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) for a united front in addressing the Rohingya crisis. The appeal was made by Malaysian Foreign Minister, Datuk Seri Dr Zambry Abd Kadir, who expressed the urgency for the two organizations to call for a de-escalation of violence in Myanmar, particularly from its military authorities. The call was made during an OIC meeting held concurrently with the 78th Session of the United Nations General Assembly. 

 

Malaysia calls for OIC-ASEAN collaboration to resolve Rohingya issue

theSundaily
20-09- 2023 

Pix credit: Datukseridrzambry Abdul Kadir FB

In making the call, Foreign Minister Datuk Seri Dr Zambry Abd Kadir said both OIC and ASEAN should ask for de-escalation and cessation of violence, especially by the military authorities in Myanmar.

NEW YORK: Malaysia has called on the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) to collaborate with ASEAN to resolve the Rohingya humanitarian crisis.

Malaysia calls for OIC-Asean collaboration to resolve Rohingya issue

malaymail
Wednesday, 20 Sep 2023 

A Rohingya refugee walks at a refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh. — Reuters pic

 

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NEW YORK, Sept 20 ― Malaysia has called on the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) to collaborate with Asean to resolve the Rohingya humanitarian crisis.

In making the call, Foreign Minister Datuk Seri Zambry Abd Kadir said both OIC and Asean should ask for de-escalation and cessation of violence, especially by the military authorities in Myanmar.

ASEAN completes 11 priority economic deliverables, MITI to continue championing Malaysian exporters’ interests

theSundaily
10-09- 2023 

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KUALA LUMPUR: ASEAN has completed 11 out of 16 Priority Economic Deliverables (PEDs) under Indonesia’s chairmanship, while five out of seven PEDs under the purview of ASEAN Economic Ministers have been completed, according to the Ministry of Investment, Trade and Industry (MITI).

ASEAN Sleepwalking Into Perpetual Limbo – Analysis

eurasiareview
By Collins Chong Yew Keat
September 9, 2023 

The 43rd ASEAN Summit and Related Summits in Jakarta are again a manifestation of distinct power plays and indifference in facing new threats and urgency of risks. This state of inescapable loop is interwoven with conflicting individual and collective interests and strategic calculations, denting any aspired efficacy of the scramble to elevate conflict prevention mechanisms.

17 dead after Rohingya boat from Myanmar capsizes on the way to Malaysia

CNN
By Su Chay, Heather Chen and Mihir Melwani, CNN
Thu August 10, 2023

CNN- Rescue teams have found at least 17 bodies on Myanmar’s shores after a Rohingya boat capsized while on its way to Malaysia on Monday, officials told CNN.

Among the dead were 10 women and seven men – all of whom were Rohingya Muslims, said Bya Latt, a spokesperson for the Shwe Yaung Matta Foundation rescue group.

Rohingya drown, govts fail to act

Bangkok Post

PUBLISHED : 16 JAN 2023

On Jan 8, a boat with 185 Rohingya refugees washed ashore on the coast of Indonesia's Aceh province. They had spent weeks at sea in desperate conditions, fleeing cramped and overcrowded refugee camps in Bangladesh in search of a better life. More than half were women and children.

Sadly, they are far from alone. Just since November last year, at least another three boats have landed in Aceh after similarly perilous journeys, carrying hundreds of refugees, with at least 20 people dying at sea. According to UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, thousands of Rohingya women, men and children took to boats just in 2022.

Insight: What we know about the Rohingya refugee crisis at sea

mizzima
AFP
02 January 2023

Rohingya refugees wait for an identification process by the local police at their temporary shelter provided by Aceh local Government in Pidie, Aceh, Indonesia, 28 December 2022. Photo: EPA

At least 2,000 Rohingya refugees are believed to have fled camps in Bangladesh on overcrowded boats in recent months seeking sanctuary elsewhere in Southeast Asia, with hundreds feared to have died at sea.

The Muslim Rohingya originally fled persecution in Buddhist-majority Myanmar in 2017, with around a million now estimated to be living in refugee camps in neighbouring Bangladesh.

154 Rohingya drifting in Andaman Sea rescued, handed to Myanmar authorities

AA

SM Najmus Saki
DHAKA, Bangladesh
10.12.2022

Rohingya rights group worries about fate of rescued Rohingya in hands of Myanmar junta

A group of Rohingya, who had been drifting in a boat on the Andaman Sea along the Thailand coast, were rescued by a Vietnamese oil service vessel and handed to the Myanmar military government.

The boat was floating in Thai territory.

The Thai Navy went to examine the boat but did not help its occupants with food for people who had been starving for days.

Relatives of the victims received a message that they were rescued by the Vietnamese, according to a Rohingya rights group.

Challenging Malaysia’s Moral Authority on Myanmar

THE I DIPLOMAT
Luke Hunt
October 26, 2022

Deportations of Myanmar asylum seekers and the failure to act on Rohingya death camps are disheartening.

Malaysia has long sought to bolster its diplomatic stocks by exerting its religious credentials through the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, and, closer to home, within ASEAN, where it has forged a troika with fellow Muslim countries Indonesia and Brunei.

The troika is an admirable club that emerged after the military in Myanmar, or Tatmadaw, inflicted an ethnic cleansing and alleged genocide against that country’s Muslim Rohingya community in 2017, resulting in more than 1.4 million of them now living in squalid camps in neighboring Bangladesh.

Rohingya man narrates 16 days’ ordeal on route of trafficking

The Daily Star

Mohammad Jamil Khan
Thu Oct 13, 2022 

A transnational syndicate is using a new land route through Myanmar to traffic people, mostly Rohingyas from refugee camps in Bangladesh, to Thailand and Malaysia.

Previously, Rohingyas used to be trafficked to those countries by sea, but traffickers started using the new route as law enforcers increased vigilance in Cox's Bazar and in the Bay of Bengal.

The human trafficking syndicate comprises of Bangladeshis, Rohingyas, people of the Burmese Mog tribe, and Thai and Malaysian nationals and it has been using this land route for around eight months, said sources in law enforcement agencies, Rohingya leaders, and a trafficked youth.

Luring Rohingyas with promises of a better life in Malaysia or Thailand, members of the syndicate first take them from camps in Cox's Bazar, to a village in near Myanmar border, and then send them to the destinations via Rakhine State, they said.

All countries should take in more Rohingya refugees: PM

theSundaily
24-09- 2022

NEW YORK, Sept 23 -- Malaysian Prime Minister Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob giving his speech at the general debate of the 77th session of the United Nations General Assembly at the UN headquarters Friday. - BERNAMAPIX

NEW YORK: It is the responsibility of all countries to take in more Rohingya refugees to be resettled in their respective countries following the crisis in Myanmar, Prime Minister Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob.

He said although Malaysia is not a signatory to the 1951 Convention on the Status of Refugees and the 1967 Protocol, the country, on humanitarian grounds, has accepted nearly 200,000 Rohingya refugees.

Bukit Aman: Police deploy helicopter to track down remaining Rohingya detainees

malay mail
Thursday, 21 Apr 2022 07:32 PM MYT

Bukit Aman Internal Security and Public Order Department director Datuk Seri Hazani Ghazali said the Royal Malaysia Police aircraft was today sent to the search area which has been expanded from time to time depending on police intelligence. — Picture by Firdaus Latif

KUALA LUMPUR, April 21 — The police have deployed an Air Operations Force (PGU) helicopter to track down the remaining Rohingya detainees who are still at large after escaping from the Sungai Bakap Immigration Detention Depot yesterday.