Rohingya refugees reach Indonesia shores in latest boat arrival

ALJAZEERA
2 Dec 2023 

Newly arrived Rohingya refugees rest at a beach on Sabang island in Indonesia's Aceh province. [Chaideer Mayhuddin/AFP]

More than 100 Rohingya refugees, including women and children, have landed in Indonesia’s westernmost province, officials say, but locals have threatened to push them back out to sea.

Hundreds more of the mostly Muslim refugees from Myanmar were trapped on board another two unseaworthy vessels adrift in the Andaman Sea, the office of the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) said on Saturday.

UN Report Slams Israel for Selling Arms to Myanmar Army despite Muslim Rohingya ‘Genocide’

PALESTAINE CHRONIC
August 5, 2019
Blog, News

 Myanmar officials attended weapons conference in Tel Aviv, despite weapons ban over Rohingya genocide. (Photo: via Social Media)

A United Nations fact-finding mission called on Monday for an embargo on arms sales to Myanmar and for targeted sanctions on businesses with connections to the military after finding they are funding human rights abuses.

UN investigators detailed how businesses run by Myanmar’s army, also known as the Tatmadaw, are engaged in such violations and provide financial support for military operations such as efforts to force Muslim Rohingya out of Rakhine state in what has been branded a “genocide”.

 

172 arrested in Bangladesh since killing of Rohingya leader

La Prensa Latina Media

Online News Editor

November 2, 2021

Dhaka, Nov 2 (EFE)- A total 172 people have been arrested in Bangladesh in a month since the killing of Arakan Rohingya Society for Peace and Human Rights (ARSPH) chairman Mohibullah in his office, the authorities reported Tuesday.

The arrests have been made at the Rohingya refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar in the southeast of the country, Namiul Haque, the commander of the armed police battalion posted in the camp, told EFE.

ASEAN urged to address Myanmar crises, as special envoy named

Aljazeera
4 Aug 2021

Rights groups call on regional political bloc to work with shadow NUG, local health organisations to deliver urgent humanitarian aid.

Volunteers in protective suits carry a COVID patient lying on a bed as they try to relocate oxygen-dependent patients from the COVID centre during floods in Karen state [Karen Information Center/Handout via Reuters]

The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) urgently needs to address Myanmar’s “dire” human rights and humanitarian crises, which are being compounded by a COVID-19 health emergency and recent flooding, rights groups have said, warning the regional bloc to avoid giving legitimacy to the country’s military.

Rohingya refugee landing in Aceh dies of respiratory illness

THE JAKARTAPOST
News Desk
The Jakarta Post
Jakarta / Thu, September 10, 2020

Ninety-four Rohingya refugees, comprising 15 men, 49 women and 30 children, were found stranded on a boat 4 miles from the coast of Seunuddon in North Aceh regency, Aceh, on June 24. (Antara/Nova Wahyudi)

Midshalimah, 21, a Rohingya refugee who was among hundreds who arrived in Aceh early on Monday, has reportedly died from some form of respiratory illness.

Lhokseumawe city public relations head Marzuki said on Wednesday that Midshalimah had complained of shortness of breath upon landing at Ujong Blang Beach in Lhokseumawe just after midnight.

Brands Declare Black Lives Matter, but Activists See a 'Double Standard' in Asia

VICE
Andrew Nachemson
July 2, 2020


Despite public shows of support for the movement for racial justice taking place around the world, some corporations have been complicit in racial violence in the world's most populous continent.

Arsenal's German defender Shkodran Mustafi (C) takes a knee to show support for the Black Lives Matter movement and as a protest against racism before kick off of an English Premier League football match on June 20, 2020. (Photo by Gareth Fuller / POOL / AFP) 

As countries around the world reckon with widespread protests against centuries of systemic racism, high-profile companies have found themselves scrambling to adjust to the new paradigm.

Some have scrubbed long-overlooked offensive mascots, while many others have used the platform afforded by major brand recognition to voice their support for the movement.

'Best of humanity': Indonesian fishermen rescue stranded Rohingya

Aljazeera
26th June 2020
Aceh residents bring stranded Rohingya ashore themselves in defiance of authorities as rights groups urge ASEAN action.

Nearly 100 Rohingya people who were stranded off the coast of Indonesia were pulled to shore on Thursday by local people furious at local authorities' refusal to give them shelter because of fears about the coronavirus.

Some 94 people from the persecuted Myanmar minority - including 30 children - were plucked from their boat by fishermen this week before being intercepted by maritime officials from Sumatra island who pulled them closer to shore.

Myanmar Navy Detains 50 Rohingya Who Were Trying to Leave Country

Radio Free Asia
2020-02-13

Naval authorities bring in Rohingya boat people discovered in a vessel in waters off a beach near Pauk Hla Gyaing village, Panthein township, in southern Myanmar's Ayeyarwady region, Feb. 12, 2020. RFA video screensho 

The Myanmar Navy has detained roughly 50 Rohingya refugees at sea in southern Myanmar’s Ayeyarwady region, while local authorities have apprehended five suspected human traffickers who allegedly helped them try to leave the country for an unknown destination, a local official said Thursday.

Europeans Press For Action on Rohingya After China, Vietnam Shield Myanmar at UNSC

RADIO FREE ASIA
2020-02-05

The UN Security Council discusses maintaining international peace and security and upholding the United Nations Charter during a meeting at UN headquarters in New York, Jan. 9, 2020.
AFP/UN/Mark Garten 

European member states of the United Nations called for Myanmar on Tuesday to take measures to hold to account those responsible for committing human rights violations against Rohingya Muslims after the Security Council failed to support an order by the international body’s top court to protect members of the minority group.

Letter To Editor From Bangladesh’s Ambassador To US

eurasiareview

November 4, 2019 

By Mohammad Ziauddin

In the op-ed, “Bangladesh Papering Over The Cracks At Home And Abroad,” (Nov. 1) writer Chloe Durham makes factual errors regarding Bangladesh’s 2018 election and mischaracterizes elements of Bangladesh’s civil society and media freedoms.

Contrary to Ms. Durham’s claim, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s Awami League did not win “96% of the vote.” Rather, the Awami League received 76% of the vote cast. A simple Google search would have saved Ms. Durham from this mistake. 

UN chief 'deeply concerned' over Rohingya crisis

Aljazeera
3rd November 2019

Guterres addresses ASEAN summit, where leaders try to salvage progress towards what could be world's biggest trade bloc.

 Myanmar is responsible to 'ensure a conducive environment for the safe, voluntary, dignified and sustainable repatriation of refugees', Guterres said [Soe Zeya Tun/Reuters]

United Nations chief Antonio Guterres has expressed "deep" concern over the plight of hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees, urging Myanmar to assume responsibility by dealing with the "root causes" of their flight and work towards their safe repatriation.

A brutal army campaign in August 2017 forced more than 740,000 members of the mostly-Muslim minority to flee Myanmar's Rakhine state, most seeking refuge in overcrowded camps across the border in Bangladesh. During its crackdown, which was launched in response to attacks by an armed group, the military carried out mass killings and gang rapes with "genocidal intent", according to United Nations-mandated investigators.

Turkey, the Rohingya crisis and Erdoğan's ambitions to be a global Muslim leader

MENAFN 

Author: Simon P. Watmough 

Date 7/10/2019 

(MENAFN - The Conversation) The emerging humanitarian crisis that has been rocking Myanmar - where an estimated 370,000 Rohingyahave been forced out of the country– has prompted broadinternational condemnation . But so far it has translated intolittle concrete action .

United Nations (UN) human rights chief Zeid Raad Al Hussein has called the Rohingya's plight a'textbook example of ethnic cleansing'following a similarstatement from UN Secretary General António Guterres . While Western countries have been slow and hesitant to respond, leaders of Muslim-majority countries – particularly Malaysia, Indonesia, Bangladesh and Pakistan – have sought to place as much international pressure as possible onthe Myanmar government .

A novel approach to reach Rohingya refugees: Speak Rohingya

The New Humanitarian  ( IRIN news)
Irwin Loy
Asia Editor

Kutupalong Camp, Cox's Bazar

A UN rights probe this month called on the international community to cut financial ties to Myanmar’s military, which it says could be responsible for genocide. But alongside the English-language statement was an unusual addition: an audio version recorded in the Rohingya language.

The UN-appointed fact-finding mission on Myanmar has been tasked with investigating abuses across the country, including the August 2017 purge of more than 700,000 Rohingya from Rakhine State.