Bangladesh to move more Rohingya to remote Island despite rights groups' warnings

PRESS TV
27 December 2020

Nearly 1000 Rohingya refugees are in second batch to be sent to Bangladesh's remote island

PRESS TV
29 December 2020

Scope with Waqar Rizvi | France govt targets mosques and Muslim migrants | Episode 336 | Indus News

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Dec 5, 2020

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1) France government targets mosques and Muslim migrants
2) Bangladesh relocating Rohingya refugees
3) NATO accuses Russia of threatening western interests.

Guests

  1) Dr. Raphaël Liogier - Sociologist (Paris) 

 2) Yasser Louati - Civil Liberties Activist (Paris) 

 3) Ro Nay San Lwin - Rohingya Activist (Frankfurt) 

 4) Dr. Robin Ramcharan - Human Rights Expert (Bangkok) 

 5) Dr. Katarzyna Zysk - Analyst (Oslo) 

 6) Dr. Daria Vorobyeva - Researcher (Moscow) 

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Controversial plan to relocate Rohingya refugees to an allegedly dangerous island begins

 

euronews (in English)
4 Dec 2020

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Bangladesh Rohingya relocation to isolated island criticized by rights groups

DW

03-12.2020

 Bangladesh has transferred hundreds of Rohingya refugees to Bhasan Char, a low-lying island in the Bay of Bengal prone to cyclones and floods. International aid groups complain they weren't involved in the move.

Rohingya board a ship on December 4 to Bhasan Char

On Thursday, hundreds of Rohingya refugees were seen boarding buses in front of refugee camps in Cox's Bazar, a coastal town near the Bangladesh-Myanmar border.

They were heavily guarded by security forces and barred from talking to journalists. Government officials, who were present at the site, have yet to give any official statement. Additional police forces were seen patrolling the area.

The refugees are being taken to Bhasan Char, which is Bengali for "floating island." It formed out of Himalayan silt flowing into the Meghna Estuary in the Bay of Bengal less than 20 years ago. Located 34 kilometers (21 miles) from mainland Bangladesh, Bhasan Char's geography makes it prone to cyclones and floods.

Bangladesh faces opposition on Rohingya relocation

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SM Najmus Sakib
DHAKA, Bangladesh
29.11.2020

Citing ‘huge pressure’ on Cox’s Bazar, Dhaka plans to start transferring Rohingya to   remote islet in December

Bangladesh remains determined to transfer 100,000 Rohingya refugees in the temporary shelter to a remote island despite widespread opposition from rights groups and UN agencies.

The South Asian nation said it is set to initiate the relocation to the remote islet, 50 kilometers (31 miles) from its southwestern coast in December, citing “rising pressure” on the tourist hub of Cox’s Bazar, where 1.2 million Rohingya refugees are currently housed in camps.

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

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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.