UN Human Rights Council adopts unanimous resolution calling for repatriation of Rohingyas

daily sun
Daily Sun Report, Dhaka
Publish: Wednesday, 10 July, 2024 

Over a million Myanmar nationals, popularly known as Rohingya, sheltered in Bangladesh amid military brutality in August 2017.

Photo : Collected

 

The 56th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva on Wednesday (10 July) unanimously adopted a resolution on repatriation of forcible displaced Rohingya population to Rakhine State in Myanmar.

CNA Explains: Myanmar’s ex-president visited China, followed by its junta No 2. What’s the play?

CNA
Leong Wai Kit
10 Jul 2024

Myanmar correspondent Leong Wai Kit unpacks recent trips to China by Thein Sein and Soe Win, and what both countries want from each other.

This handout photograph taken on Jul 6, 2024 and released by the Myanmar Military Information Team shows Myanmar's military deputy commander in chief of defence services Soe Win (C), upon his arrival at Qingdao in Shandong province of China. (Photo: AFP) 

Beijing has been regularly inviting Myanmar’s junta-appointed ministers to China on various official visits.

Rohingya ‘genocide intensifying’ as war rages in Myanmar’s Rakhine: BROUK

Al Jazeera
By Al Jazeera Staff
Published On 26 Jun 2024

Warning from rights group comes as fighting between Myanmar’s military and Arakan Army traps Rohingya in the western state.

People can be seen on the Myanmar side of the border, during the continuing conflict in Rakhine State, in the Teknaf area of Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, on June 24, 2024 [Mohammad Ponir Hossain/ Reuters]

 

 A United Kingdom-based rights group has called for global action over what it called an “intensifying genocide” against Myanmar’s mostly Muslim Rohingya minority as fighting between the Southeast Asian country’s military and a powerful ethnic armed group escalated in the western Rakhine State.

What’s Unsaid | Who can the Rohingya rely on?

The New Humanitarian
27 June 2024

‘Generations have convinced themselves that Rohingyas are foreigners’ 

 The current military rulers of Myanmar came to power in a February 2021 coup. Since then, they have been accused of massive rights abuses towards civilians, especially the Rohingya.

Rohingyas need security to return home in Myanmar: Swedish envoy

Financial Express
Jun 25, 2024 

Outgoing Swedish Ambassador to Bangladesh Alexandra Berg Von Linde on Tuesday said that the forcibly displaced Rohingyas can’t return to their homeland unless a conducive atmosphere is restored in Myanmar.

Rohingya Refugees in Bangladesh Pressured to Join Myanmar’s Civil War

THE I DIPLOMAT
By Dayna Santana Pérez
June 21, 2024

After the midday prayers on a hot Wednesday, Hussain* was summoned by an armed group to a “community meeting” in his block within the world’s largest refugee settlement.

Rohingya may have entered Bangladesh in recent Myanmar clashes, refugee official says

REUTERS
By Sudipto Ganguly and Ruma Paul
June 21, 2024

Rohingya refugees cross a bamboo-made bridge during an ongoing heatwave in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, May 2, 2024. REUTERS/Ro Yassin Abdumonab/File Photo Purchase Licensing Rights

DHAKA, June 21 (Reuters) - Escalating violence in Myanmar's western Rakhine state in recent months may have spurred some Rohingya Muslims to cross into Bangladesh, a key refugee official said, although Dhaka insists it cannot accept more refugees from its war-torn neighbour.

The ‘impossible’ life of Myanmar’s Rohingya refugees

Aljazeera
By Aisyah Llewellyn
Published On 20 Jun 2024

The first group of Rohingya refugees was found off Aceh in June 2020 [Antara Foto/Rahmad via Reuters]

Aceh and Medan, Indonesia - Gura Amin spends 12 hours a day, six days a week packing boxes in a Malaysian factory.

The 22-year-old Rohingya refugee makes about 2,400 Malaysian ringgit ($510) a month, which he uses for his daily expenses and to pay off a 10,000 Malaysian ringgit ($2,123) debt to the people who brought him across the sea from Indonesia.

Fresh attacks against Rohingya in Myanmar, UN decries beheadings, violence

ABC News
By Libby Hogan and wires
Posted Mon 17 Jun 2024

                        The UN has denounced signs of new attacks on Rohingya civilians.(Reuters: Jorge Silva)

• In short: A powerful ethnic armed group has asked residents to leave a town ahead of their planned offensive in Myanmar.
• The Rohingya primarily inhabit Maungdaw town.
• What next? The Rohingya say they have nowhere to flee to and fear their homes will be burned down.

They left a trail of ash: decoding the Arakan Army’s arson attacks in the Rohingya heartland

THE STRATEGIST
13 Jun 2024
Nathan Ruser

The village of Maw Ni Bill (Oe Thei) being burnt by arson attack on May 18th.

 

In the late evening of Friday 17 May 2024, Rohingya neighbourhoods in the town of Buthidaung in Myanmar’s Rakhine State were disturbed by an ominously familiar sight. Armed gunmen had come to their doors and ordered them to leave before the gunmen set their houses alight. If they refused, they were told, they would be burnt with their house.

Myanmar’s Rohingya People: A Documented History, Identity and Presence

FORSEA
Maung Zarni, PhD
Fellow, (Genocide) Documentation Centre – Cambodia
June 8, 2024

While there are multiple inter-communal tensions and attacks among Myanmar’s ethnic communities, there is no other case where a group’s ancestral history and identity have been singled out for sustained and vicious assault in the same way Rohingya people have been. 

Myanmar’s 3-year-old popular resistance – known as Nway Oo or Early Summer Revolution – against Senior General Min Aung Hlaing’s coup regime has triggered a popular recognition of Rohingya as an ethnic people. There is also increasing public acknowledgement of the slow-burning genocide that Rohingyas have been subjected to primarily by the country’s national armed forces, but also by the hybrid government of Aung San Suu Kyi – Min Aung Hlaing.

Arakan Army treatment of Rohingya minority poses challenge to Myanmar opposition

RFA
A commentary by Zachary Abuza
2024.06.08

 The Rakhine force, the most effective rebel army fighting the junta, vents its grievances on the battlefield.

Illustration by Amanda Weisbrod/RFA; Images by Adobe Stock

Evidence of Arakan Army culpability in mass arson attacks on Rohingya homes in western Myanmar's Buthidaung township – where satellite imagery has confirmed that more than 400 homes were burnt to the ground – poses a serious challenge to the anti-junta opposition.

Myanmar’s Rohingya ‘trapped between hammer and anvil’ as junta, rebels sow terror in Rakhine

SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST
Shaikh Azizur Rahman
Published: 6 Jun 2024

• Muslim minority residents ‘pushed to the wall’ as security forces and the Arakan Army target villages with arson attacks and killings 
  

A woman cooks next to destroyed houses and burned trees following fighting between Myanmar’s military and the Arakan Army in a village in Rakhine state on May 21. Photo: AFP

A fierce gunfight between Myanmar’s military and the Arakan Army (AA) rebels in Rakhine state has thrust Rohingya Muslims into a fresh spiral of organised violence as alleged beheadings and arson attacks rattle the persecuted community.

Rohingya Camps Turn Into Hub Of Global Terrorism; Pose Big Security Threat To India, B’Desh: OPED

The Eur Asia
Guest Author
June 3, 2024

OPED By: Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury

Officials of law enforcement agencies in Bangladesh have been consistently saying radical Islamic militancy outfit Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA) is involved in murders, and members of this outfit regularly enter Bangladesh from Myanmar and commit a series of crimes while they also run drug peddling, arms trafficking, human trafficking, and kidnapping.

Recently, Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan told reporters that Rohingya camps in Bangladesh may become the hub of international terrorists. He said, “There may be an influx of arms. Many things can happen. And we already see some signs of these”.

Bangladesh calls for UN push to solve Rohingya crisis amid efforts by Myanmar to stem criticism

AA
SM Najmus Sakib
DHAKA, Bangladesh
01.06.2024  

In meetings with UN officials, Bangladesh alleges Myanmar is using its internal conflict as pretext to delay repatriation

Bangladesh’s top diplomat has called for coordinated efforts by UN agencies to resolve the longstanding Rohingya crisis, accusing neighboring Myanmar of using its internal conflict as a pretext to delay repatriation of the persecuted Muslim group.

The Rohingya in Myanmar face yet another genocide

ARAB NEWS
Dr. Azeem Ibrahim
May 29, 2024

The international community must act swiftly to prevent another genocide against the Rohingya (File/AFP)

 

The Rohingya have been described as the most persecuted minority in the world, as a result of decades of systematic discrimination and violence. Their plight has culminated in their current status as stateless refugees, predominantly residing in the world’s largest refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh.

The Arakan Army responds to Rohingya abuse accusations in Myanmar

The New Humanitrian
Conflict
Ali M. Latifi
Asia Editor Interview
29 May 2024

‘We suggest observers give balanced attention and concentration to all the horrible civilian loss of lives and properties all across Myanmar including Arakan.’ 

Tun Myat Naing is the commander-in-chief of the Arakan Army (AA) and also the chairman of its political wing, the United League of Arakan (ULA).

The Arakan Army, one of the most prominent armed opposition groups challenging military rule in Myanmar, has been accused of committing abuses against the Rohingya minority and of spreading harmful rhetoric about them.

Rohingyas bear the brunt as violence escalates in Myanmar

The South Asia Times
Friday, 24 May, 2024 

About 600,000 Rohingya remain in Myanmar, mostly in Rakhine state. (Photo courtesy: Wikimedia Commons) 

 

New York: Having faced decades of discrimination and repression under successive Myanmar authorities, the situation remains dire for the Muslim minority Rohingyas who have been bearing the brunt of fighting between the military and an ethnic armed group.

Foreign fighters training anti-regime forces in Myanmar

NIKKEI ASIA
LORCAN LOVETT,
May 23, 2024 09:31 JST

Numbers too small so far to be game changing in overall battle situation.

A British fighter helping train resistance forces in Chin State, Myanmar. (Photo by PDF Zoland)

 

 BANGKOK -- Three years after Myanmar's military seized power in February 2021 and arrested its democratically elected leaders, foreign fighters have made their first known appearance with anti-regime forces in several parts of the country, giving a small boost to battle training and aiming to enhance the capabilities of resistance forces.

On the Situation in Burma’s Rakhine State ( U.S. Embassy Burma )

On the Situation in Burma’s Rakhine State
PRESS STATEMENT
MATTHEW MILLER, DEPARTMENT SPOKESPERSON

MAY 21, 2024 

The United States is deeply troubled by the reports of increased violence and intercommunal tension in Rakhine State, including reports of towns being burned and residents, including Rohingya, being displaced. These developments follow concerning reports of forced conscription of Rohingya, as well as the spread of disinformation, misinformation, and hate speech.