Rohingya photography competition to announce winners in online event

DhakaTribune

Features Desk

November 29th, 2020

Photography competition documents Rohingya life through their own eyes

Held over a period of four months, the Rohingya Photography Competition will end with a Facebook live program on December 5, where winners of the competition will be announced.

Organized by the UK-based documentary filmmaker and journalist Shafiur Rahman, the worldwide photography competition for Rohingya ended on August 25, a date marked as ‘Genocide Day’ by the Rohingya refugees.

The Rohingya crisis and Myanmar's dark road to democracy

TheNewArab

Aung San Suu Kyi's party, the National League for Democracy (NLD), is set to form a civilian government for the second time in a row following the end of Myanmar's 50-year military rule.

The NLD won by a huge margin of 396 parliamentary seats in the 8 November election against the military-aligned main opposition party the Union Solidarity of Development Party (USDP), securing a second five-year term.

In-depth: Excluded from voting and long denied citizenship, Rohingya Muslims face a precarious future in post-election Myanmar. 

Why Rohingya were excluded from voting in Myanmar elections

TRT WORLD
Date : 11th November 2020

Co-founder at the Free Rohingya Coalition Nay San Lwin explains why Myanmar excluded more than 1.1 million Rohingya from voting in Sunday’s general election.

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Myanmar ‘undermining lifeblood of democracy’ before polls

Aljazeera

Andrew Nachemson

7 Nov 2020

 

Anti-Muslim sentiment intensify across the majority Buddhist country ahead of November 8 vote, threatening to disenfranchise minority groups. 

 

 

 

In 2015, the National League for Democracy won Myanmar’s first democratic election in decades in a landslide, catapulting Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi to de facto head of state and heralding a new era of anticipated democratic reforms.

The heady optimism all came crashing down in 2017, when some 700,000 Rohingya Muslims were driven out of the country in a brutal campaign of arson, rape and murder which has since been described as a genocide. Shockingly, to some, Aung San Suu Kyi refused to condemn the atrocities and even defended the Myanmar military.

Rohingyas Brace For The Worst During Myanmar’s Election As Suu Kyi Takes The Lead

Transcontinental Times
By Tanbirul Miraj Ripon
November 8, 2020

The future of democracy and the fate of the Rohingya refugees hangs in the balance

Photo credit: Wikimedia Commons

MYANMAR. Yangon: The country’s general election took place today. Due to COVID-19, voting has been completed in accordance with health regulations. Because of this, voting is still going on in some areas. A majority of 322 seats are needed to form a government. The National League For Democracy (NLD) and the Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) have received the majority of the votes so far. Early results show the NLD have already secured 13 Seats, with 33,677 votes, and the USDP with currently zero seats, but 12,133 votes.

“Wir spielen keine Rolle”: Rohingya wurde bei den Wahlen in Myanmar der Stimme beraubt.

Writeschaftsblatt

By RAINER PROKSCH
on November 8, 2020 

Hunderttausende von Rohingya-Muslimen, die in Bangladesch Zuflucht gesucht haben, beklagen ihren Ausschluss von den Wahlen.

Mohammad Yusuf stimmte von 1974 bis 2010 bei fast allen Wahlen in Myanmar ab – das letzte Mal, dass ethnische Rohingya in dem Land wählen durften, das er nach seiner Flucht vor drei Jahren nach einer brutalen Militäroffensive immer noch zu Hause anruft.

We don’t matter’: Rohingya deprived of vote in Myanmar elections

Aljazeera
Al Jazeera English
Nov 6, 2020

Myanmar is holding its second general election on Sunday since it ended military rule. The government has cancelled voting in areas where there has been fighting between the military and ethnic armed groups. Al Jazeera's Florence Looi reports.

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'As though we are dead': Unable to vote, Myanmar poll robs Rohingya of hope

REUTERS
By Naimul Karim

DHAKA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Mohammad Yusuf voted in almost every Myanmar election from 1974 until 2010 - the last time ethnic Rohingya were allowed to vote in the country he still calls home after fleeing three years ago.

When Myanmar on Sunday holds its second democratic election after decades of military rule, Yusuf will be among hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims deprived of a vote - leading the United Nations to warn that the polls will not be free or fair.

‘We don’t matter’: Rohingya deprived of vote in Myanmar elections

Aljazeera
6 Nov 2020

Hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims, who have taken shelter in Bangladesh, lament their exclusion from the polls. 

 

Successive military governments in Myanmar have stripped the Rohingya of identity documents, leaving many with no proof of their origins [Mohammed Jamjoom/Al Jazeera]

Mohammad Yusuf voted in almost every Myanmar election from 1974 until 2010 – the last time ethnic Rohingya were allowed to vote in the country he still calls home after fleeing three years ago in the wake of a brutal military offensive.

Rohingya leaders want measures against crimes in camps

NEWAGE  

Staff Correspondent

Date :Oct 27,2020

Rohingya rights activists in a joint statement on Monday demanded an end to all ongoing injustice, violence and inhumane crimes against the innocent Rohingya people in the camps in Bangladesh.

They said that the innocent Rohingyas, including women, children, elderly and sick people, were sandwiched and killed in the infightings between October 3 and October 7 centring illegal Yaba drugs business. ‘We have loudly and clearly spoken out against such criminal activities because they neither reflect our peace-loving culture and religion nor serve our ultimate interest of restoring our universal rights in our motherland,’ the statement reads.

The Rohingya right campaigners — Ambia Parveen, Anwar Shah Arkani, Hla Kyaw, Mohammed Ibrahim, Mojib Ullah, Khairul Amin, Nay San Lwin, Tun Khin and Zaw Min Htut — urged Bangladesh government to take the issue seriously before further deterioration of the situation.

 

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Nay San Lwin, co-founder of the Free Rohingya Coalition, talks to ANews regarding the current situation of the Rohingya Muslims.

 

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Rohingya fear deportation after Saudi Arabia calls on Bangladesh to give minority passports

M&E

MIDDLE EAST EYE

Areeb Ullah  

Date: 14 October 2020

 

Riyadh threatens Dhaka with curbing migration if it fails to adhere to its request, which could be disastrous for Bangladesh's economy

Rohingya refugees living in Malaysia shout slogans during a protest against the treatment of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar, in Kuala Lumpur on 8 September 2017 (AFP)

 

Rohingya living in Saudi Arabia are worried that Riyadh will deport them, after the kingdom threatened Bangladesh with a migration ban unless Dhaka gave Bangladeshi passports to members of the persecuted minority.

Last month, Bangladesh’s Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen confirmed in a Dhaka press conference that Riyadh had made the request for Bangladesh to give Rohingya living in Saudi Arabia Bangladeshi citizenship.

Rohingya crisis: Exiled blogger describes Myanmar violence

DW
Date:

 

Rohingya activist and blogger Nay San Lwin has been documenting torture and subjugation faced by his people in Myanmar. His blog has become one of the most reliable sources on the brutal crackdown against the Rohingya.Long before the suffering inflicted on Myanmar's prompted global outcry, Nay San Lwin's website, Rohingya Blogger, provided daily updates on the Muslim minority's everday plight.

Bangladesh: Teen injured in Rohingya clashes dies

AA

SM Najmus Sakib 

DHAKA, Bangladesh 

13.10.2020 

File Photo

A 14-year-old boy became the latest victim of days of violence inside Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh’s southern Cox’s Bazar district, officials said on Saturday.

The victim was identified as Ziabur Rahman, son of Mohammad Arif Ullah, and a resident of the Kutupalong refugee camp.

“The boy died on Saturday morning. His parents say he was abducted after a clash on Oct. 3 and was released after a few days in injured condition. He died today at a hospital in Cox’s Bazar,” Khalilur Rahman Khan, the camp manager, told Anadolu Agency.

Myanmar: New evidence of attacks in Rakhine state

AA

SM Najmus Sakib

DHAKA, Bangladesh
13.10.2020

UN Security Council must urgently refer situation in Myanmar to International Criminal Court, says Amnesty International

Human rights organization Amnesty International announced Monday that it has gathered fresh evidence of indiscriminate attacks on civilians in western Myanmar amid an escalation in an ongoing armed conflict between the country’s military and the Arakan Army.

The evidence suggests that the Myanmar military burned villages and wounded and killed civilians in Rakhine in early September.

Rohingya refugees face continuous violence

NEW FRAME 
Friday, 2 October 2020

Two Myanmar soldiers have confessed to committing atrocities against Rohingya Muslims, giving more evidence of the genocide against the minority group.

Two personnel in Myanmar’s military have confessed to “exterminating” Rohingya Muslims. Human rights defenders believe that this public acknowledgement could substantiate the ongoing international genocide investigation at the International Court of Justice against Myanmar’s military establishment.

Myo Win Tun, 33, and Zaw Naoing Tun, 30, who belong to separate light infantry battalions, claimed they were given orders to “shoot and rape villagers” while raiding “kalar” villages – “kalar” is a derogatory term for Muslim Rohingyas.

Coronavirus and security issues cast a pall over Myanmar polls

DW
30.09.2020

Political parties in Myanmar are calling for the postponement of a national election amid rising COVID-19 cases. Continued unrest in the country's northeast also threatens to keep people from voting.

Political parties in Myanmar have urged the Union Election Commission (UEC) to postpone November's election, saying the "COVID-19 restrictions will hinder their election campaigns."

But the ruling National League for Democracy (NLD) party, headed by State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi, has decided to go ahead with its election campaign on social media.

MYANMAR: ROHINGYA DROWNING IN BLAME FOR SECOND WAVE OF COVID-19

ASIA MEDIA

September 26, 2020

SARA ALTUWAIJRI WRITES — Myanmar is facing a second wave of COVID-19, new cases are skyrocketing and, with general elections coming November 8, officials are accusing Rohingya of spreading the second wave of COVID. Why the blame? So that those aiming for election or re-election can gain people’s support. As elections get closer, politicians are spreading hate against the Rohingya. As stated by Rohingya activist Nay San Lwin, “Politicians in Myanmar are always trying to take advantage of the situation we are in. Although there were no Rohingya victims in the second COVID-19 wave, some politicians began propagating against us.” She adds that despite the fact that the first two new cases of coronavirus involved Rakhine Buddhists, Muslim Rohingya are blamed for the second wave and accused of bringing the virus from Bangladesh.

Riyadh’s pressure on Dhaka unfair

The Daily Star
Porimol Palma
September 25, 2020

Analysts, activists say about insistence that 54,000 Rohingyas in KSA be issued Bangladeshi passports; Momen says no passport without proof

Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen. File photo

The Saudi Arabian pressure on Bangladesh to issue passports to 54,000 Rohingyas and bring back 462 others is unacceptable and unfair, analysts and Rohingya activists have said.

They said if the kingdom was really to send back the Rohingyas, they should mount pressure on Myanmar. They questioned as to why Bangladesh, which had taken in over a million Rohingyas, should take the 54,000 more.

Racism Is Fueling Myanmar’s Deadly Second Wave of COVID-19

THE I DIPLOMAT
By Andrew Nachemson
September 11, 2020

Anti-migrant — and especially anti-Rohingya and anti-Rakhine — sentiments are undermining efforts to control the pandemic.

This article is freeThe Diplomat has removed paywall restrictions on our coverage of the COVID–19 crisis.

As COVID-19 cases surge in Myanmar, the country’s famously serene State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi appears to be getting flustered. In a severe speech delivered September 2, she castigated “reckless and unsympathetic” nightclub owners, admonished Yangon residents for flouting COVID-19 restrictions, and threatened legal punishment against uncooperative citizens. On August 24, a week after the second wave began, she also warned against potential racial tension in Rakhine state, the epicenter of Myanmar’s renewed outbreak, reminding Burmese that recent violence there has made Myanmar a global “embarrassment.”