Showing posts with label Myanmar Military. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Myanmar Military. Show all posts

Wednesday, April 24, 2019

In Rohingya camps, a political awakening faces a backlash.

REUTERS
APRIL 24, 2019


Reporting by, Simon Lewis, Poppy McPherson, Ruma Paul
KUTUPALONG REFUGEE CAMP, Bangladesh (Reuters) - It was after Mohib Ullah scored his first political victories that the death threats began in earnest. On a recent morning, the Rohingya refugee leaned back on a plastic chair in the Bangladesh camp where he lives, and translated the latest warning, sent over the WhatsApp messaging app.



Mohib Ullah, a leader of Arakan Rohingya Society for Peace and Human Rights, is seen in his office in Kutupalong camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh April 7, 2019. Picture taken April 7, 2019. REUTERS/Mohammad Ponir Hossain

“Mohib Ullah is a virus of the community,” he read aloud, with a wry chuckle. “Kill him wherever he is found.”

The 44-year-old leads the largest of several community groups to emerge since more than 730,000 Rohingya Muslims fled Myanmar after a military crackdown in August 2017.

Myanmar’s Military Reports ARSA Attack on Police Vehicle in Rakhine State.

RADIO FREE ASIA   
2019-04-23

Myanmar soldiers walk away from a helicopter that took them to Maungdaw in western Myanmar's Rakhine state to track down attackers who staged deadly raids on border posts, Oct. 10, 2016.
AFP

Myanmar’s military reported that the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA) attacked a police vehicle with mines Monday in Rakhine state’s Maungdaw township, repeating an earlier claim that the Muslim Rohingya militant group was working with the ethnic Rakhine rebel Arakan Army (AA).

Friday, April 12, 2019

Is Bangladesh Really Interested in Justice on Rakhine Issue?

The Irrawaddy
12 April 2019
By NYEIN MAUNG



ICOE members in Maungdaw, northern Rakhine State, in August 2018. / ICOE


Bangladesh has finally allowed the Independent Commission of Enquiry (ICOE) to visit the country. According to a press release on the ICOE’s website, the Bangladeshi foreign minister has agreed in principle to meet with the commission next month. What is unclear—and frankly, this must be the crux of the issue—is whether Bangladeshi authorities will allow the ICOE to conduct evidence gathering in Cox’s Bazar. No information on this is available on the ICOE’s website.

Thursday, April 11, 2019

Myanmar military helicopters open fire on Rohingya Muslims

Big News Network.com
7th April 2019,


GENEVA, Switzerland - Intensifying clashes between the Myanmar military and armed separatists that reportedly involved a deadly helicopter bombing raid on civilians earlier this week in Rakhine state, have been condemned by the UN human rights office, OHCHR.

"The Myanmar military is again carrying out attacks against its own civilians; attacks which may constitute war crimes," spokesperson Ravina Shamdasani told reporters in Geneva.

Myanmar Army Launches Helicopter And Jet Strikes in Fierce Fighting in Rakhine State.

RADIO FREE ASIA
2019-04-10


A view of the entrance to the police battalion headquarters in Myanmar's northern Rakhine state, March 2019.


The Myanmar military unleashed helicopter and jet strikes in response to the rebel Arakan Army's (AA) on-the-ground attacks on a police residential unit and battalion headquarters believed to contain heavy arms belonging to government troops in war-ravaged Rakhine state’s Mrauk-U township, with spokesmen for the two forces releasing competing, imprecise casualty counts.

Tuesday, April 9, 2019

Myanmar says six Rohingya killed in attack were 'with insurgents'

Frontier
MYANMAR
Monday, April 08, 2019
By AFP

A Myanmar border guard policeman stands near a group of Rohingya Muslims in front of their homes during a government-organised visit for journalists to Buthidaung Township in January. (AFP)

  
YANGON — The Myanmar army said Friday that six Rohingya killed by helicopter gunfire in restive Rakhine state were working with a rebel group, the latest escalation in violence that the UN says "may constitute war crimes".

Ethnic and religious tensions divide western Rakhine State, where the army forced out some 740,000 Rohingya Muslims in 2017 in a brutal crackdown.

Sunday, April 7, 2019

Rohingya Survivors in Rathedaung Yet to Receive Aid from ICRC.

ROHINGYA TODAY

Yan Naing | Apr 07, 2019




Rathedaung — Rohingya Genocide Survivors in northern Rathedaung Township have been affected the most by the ongoing fightings between Myanmar military and Rakhine rebels (or Arakan Army) but are yet to receive humanitarian aids from ICRC (International Committee of the Red Cross), survivors say.

Myanmar says six Rohingya killed in attack were 'with insurgents'

FRANCH
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Date created : 05/04/2019 
Yangon (AFP) 
Some 750,000 Rohingya Muslims were forced out of Myanmar in a brutal crackdown in 2017 AFP/File

The Myanmar army said Friday that six Rohingya killed by helicopter gunfire in restive Rakhine state were working with a rebel group, the latest escalation in violence that the UN says "may constitute war crimes".

Friday, April 5, 2019

Dozens of Rohingya Survivors Killed and Wounded in Myanmar Military's Gunship Attack in Buthidaung.

ROHINGYA TODAY
05th, April 2019 
By:Thein Wai

 


Buthidaung — At least twenty Rohingya Genocide survivors were reported to have been killed and forty other wounded in a gunship attack by the Myanmar military in Buthidaung Township on Wednesday (Apr 3). 


The attack took place at around 2:30 pm of the day when a Myanmar military gunship arrived and is said to have deliberately fired on a group of Rohingya villagers cutting bamboos and making rafts in the forest nearby 'Saing Din' river in southeastern Buthidaung. 


Monday, April 1, 2019

Rakhine rebels kill 9 in contemporary strike on Myanmar police

Infosurhoy
by Denis Bedoya
Mar 31, 2019 | News


YANGON (Reuters) – Arakan Army insurgents killed nine Myanmar police in the latest attack in the country’s western Rakhine State, the government said on Sunday, as clashes threaten to engulf a large part of the troubled region.

Villagers heard gunfire as fighters from the armed group, which recruits from the mainly Buddhist Rakhine ethnic group, raided a police post in the village of Yoe Ta Yoke late on Saturday night.

Thursday, March 28, 2019

Campaigners target firms doing business with Myanmar's military

Aljzeera
by
March 28' 2019
 
Facebook and Western Union are among the most recognisable names on 'dirty list' distributed by human rights activists.

Myanmar's military has been accused of 'genocidal intent' in its crackdown against the Rohingya [Ye Aung Thu/AP]

Yangon, Myanmar - Sprinklers whirled as workers swept leaves and pushed lawn mowers on a recent sun-baked afternoon at the Okkala Golf Resort in Myanmar's main city.

As he steered a golf buggy between the fairways, the caddy master gestured to a man teeing off nearby who he said was a local movie star.

Myanmar must protect civilians in Rakhine: Rights group.

AA
Vakkas Dogantekin |28.03.2019


Burma Human Rights Network calls on military to immediately cease operations against civilian areas of state

Myanmar must protect civilians in Rakhine: Rights group

ANKARA 

The London-based Burma Human Rights Network (BHRN) called on Myanmar’s military Wednesday to immediately cease operations in civilian areas of Rakhine state.

“In this conflict, the Burmese military is proving again that they have no concern for human life or the safety of civilians," said a statement by BHRN’s Executive Director, Kyaw Win.

"This is especially true of minorities in the country, and the ethnic Rakhine and Rohingya living in Rakhine state are evidence of this inhumane disregard," Win said.

Thursday, March 21, 2019

Myanmar military’s massacre denial complex

ASIATIMES
March 21, 2019

“Trust us.” That’s the implicit message in the Myanmar military’s announcement this week of the creation of an “investigation court” to probe the state-backed mass violence targeted at the country’s Muslim Rohingya population in August 2017.

The announcement on the website of the Office of the Commander in Chief of Defense Services describes the court as consisting of three senior military (Tatmadaw) officials tasked to “further scrutinize” the bloodshed of August 2017. It reiterates the military’s long-discredited narrative that all military activity in northern Rakhine state in August 2017 were legitimate operations in response to attacks on police posts allegedly perpetrated by the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army, a non-state insurgent group.

Senators ask US to sanction Myanmar army chief.

MailOnline 
By AFP |20 March 2019


Myanmar military chief Senior General Min Aung Hlaing, seen here inspecting a bridge in August 2018, is facing calls from US senators to face punishment over the campaign against the Rohingya minority
Myanmar military chief Senior General Min Aung Hlaing, seen here inspecting a bridge in August 2018, is facing calls from US senators to face punishment over the campaign against the Rohingya minority


Senators called Wednesday for the United States to slap sanctions on Myanmar's army chief, saying more needed to be done to bring accountability over the campaign against the Rohingya.



In a letter to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, the four senators said Myanmar has shown "no credible signs of progress" despite widespread international condemnation of the killings and sexual violence against members of the mostly Muslim minority.

Tuesday, March 19, 2019

Myanmar military court to probe atrocities

THE AUSTRALIAN
Reuters
March 18, 2019

Myanmar's army has set up a military court to investigate its conduct during a crackdown on the Rohingya Muslim minority in 2017 that forced more than 730,000 to flee to neighbouring Bangladesh.

The court, comprising a major-general and two colonels, will investigate events in western Myanmar's Rakhine state in August 2017, the military said on Monday in a statement posted online.

Myanmar military fights rebels among ancient Rakhine temples

A
Channel News Asia
 19 Mar 2019


Ethnic Mro refugees displaced by fighting between Arakan Army rebels and Myanmar soldiers gather at a pagoda compound during a January 2019 government-organised visit to Buthidaung, in the restive Rakhine state. (AFP/Richard SARGENT)

YANGON: Fighting between Myanmar's military and ethnic Rakhine insurgents has now reached the ancient temples of Mrauk U, the former capital of the Rakhine kingdom and a popular tourist site, local residents said on Monday (Mar 18).

Rakhine state in Myanmar's west is riven with ethnic and religious divisions.

Monday, March 18, 2019

An Unholy Alliance: Monks and the Military in Myanmar

Aljazeera 
18 Mar 2019 

Is the joining of forces between radical Buddhist monks and generals threatening Myanmar's young and fragile democracy?
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A film by Fatima Lianes

With almost 90 percent of Myanmar's population being devoted Buddhists, the religion has been at the heart of the nation's very identity for centuries.
But while the pillars of Buddhist teachings are love, compassion and peace, there is a very different variation to the philosophy being taught at the Ma Ba Tha monastery in Yangon's Insein township.

Wednesday, March 6, 2019

International Criminal Court team in Bangladesh for Rohingya atrocities probe

bdnews24.com
Senior Correspondent,  bdnews24.com Published: 07 Mar 2019

Demonstrators in front of the European Union headquarters in Brussels call for an end to the genocide of Rohingyas in Myanmar's Rakhine State. File Photo: mostafigur rahman 

A delegation from the office of the International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor has arrived in Dhaka for an initial probe into alleged atrocities committed against the Rohingya by the Myanmar military.

Apart from meeting with the relevant ministers and senior officials, the seven-member team would go to Cox’s Bazar, an official with knowledge of their visit told bdnews24.com on Wednesday.

Why Myanmar’s military will win the Rakhine war

ASIA TIMES
ByAnthony Davis, Bangkok

A Myanmar border guard stands near a group of Rohingya Muslims in a Buthidaung township village in the country’s restive Rakhine state, January 25, 2019. Photo: Richard Sargent/AFP
 
Triggered by a wave of rebel attacks, the recent surge in hostilities in Myanmar’s western Rakhine state marks an ominous watershed in a hitherto low-intensity conflict between Arakan Army (AA) insurgents and government forces.

Saturday, February 23, 2019

Rakhine Villagers Hold Funeral for Slain Woman, Recall Shooting by Myanmar Forces.

RADIO FREE ASIA 
Feb. 22, 2019.



Relatives mourn Ye Ye Soe, who was killed by gunfire amid fighting between Myanmar soldiers and the Arakan Army in Rathedaung township, western Myanmar’s Rakhine state, Feb. 22, 2019.



A funeral was held on Friday for a young woman shot dead by the Myanmar military in restive Rakhine state’s Rathedaung township state, where government forces are battling the rebel Arakan Army, as residents of the village where the woman was killed described indiscriminate firing upon them by national troops.
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