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Saturday, March 11, 2023

Is Myanmar junta going to repatriate Rohingyas finally?

daily obsever
Op-Ed
Mehjabin Bhanu
Sunday, 12 March, 2023

Bangladesh and Myanmar are working fast to start a pilot project for Rohingya repatriation before the monsoons. The list of more than 1000 Rohingya citizens has already been handed over from Bangladesh for repatriation. The Myanmar government is speedily verifying it. Besides, the country is arranging the rehabilitation of Rohingyas in Rakhine.

Myanmar wants to start the pilot project quickly to increase the acceptance of the military junta under pressure from the international community. The first priority of Bangladesh is the repatriation of Rohingya and the government is working towards this goal. Rakhine situation is now better than ever. Security, living arrangements, education and health conditions for Muslims in Rakhine have greatly improved. For this reason, the two countries want to start repatriation.

World Bank’s Proposal: Local Integration Of Rohingyas In Bangladesh Possible? – OpEd

eurasiareview

MD Pathik Hasan

August 4, 2021

Rohingya's in Kutupalong Refugee Camp in Bangladesh. Photo taken by John Owens/VOA, Wikipedia Commons.

Absolutely not is my answer in this regard. Why will Bangladesh give them shelter permanently? Why will Bangladesh integrate the Myanmar’s citizens with its own inner land.

Bangladesh has been hosting over 1.1 million Rohingyas in Cox’s Bazar and Bhasan Char since military crackdowns in 2017 started driving the ethnic minorities out of Myanmar.

OP-ED: What is the future of the Rohingya?

Dhaka Tribune

Julian Francis
July 2nd, 2020

Many refugees absolutely refuse to go back to Myanmar REUTERS

Putting the worst refugee crisis of our times in historical context

On June 29, I was very glad to attend an important online discussion in recognition of World Refugee Day, which was organized by the Centre for the Study of Genocide and Justice and the Liberation War Museum.

The guest of honour was the Honourable Foreign Secretary Masud Bin Momen, who gave the keynote address, and the function was also addressed by Steven Corliss, UNHCR’s Bangladesh country representative and the country representative of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature, Raquibul Amin.

Media partisanship and irrational citizenship

The Manila Times

By ANTONIO CONTRERAS
Opinion/ Op-Ed Columns
March 14, 2019,

THE news about the political turmoil in Venezuela, where hospitals are now turning away even emergency patients because they do not have medicine to treat them, and massive power outages have paralyzed the country, has distressed me.

But what distressed me even more was the reaction from one of my online followers to my lament of how Nicolas Maduro, the beleaguered Venezuelan president, could allow his people to suffer just to keep himself in power. He wrote: “Wala tayo sa Venezuela (We are not in Venezuela), we don’t know what’s really going on there. Can we trust the mainstream media? Have we forgotten what they did to Marcos, Ghadafi, what they’re doing to Duterte right now?

Round One to Suu Kyi

The Statemen
Editorial | New Delhi | February 27, 2019 12:10 am

Comment on whether her agenda will attain fruition must await the evolution of developments not the least because the military still retains the power to veto constitutional change.

That tryst with democracy has been anathema in Myanmar since the early 1990s, when Suu Kyi scored a famous victory, but was yet denied the opportunity to assume power. (Representational Image: iStock)

In parallel to the intriguing silence over the tragedy of the Rohingyas, there has emerged a silver lining in Myanmar over Aung San Suu Kyi’s assertion to set up a committee to craft a revised Constitution, to replace the one choreographed by the dominant military. Comment on whether her agenda will attain fruition must await the evolution of developments not the least because the military still retains the power to veto constitutional change.

DANGER IN WAITING

State Times

on: February 24, 2019, Jammu and Kashmir

Hundreds of Rohingya families have found refuge in the winter capital of Jammu and Kashmir, living in temporary homes made up of branches and shrubs and covered with plastic sheets. According to United Nations refugee agency UNHCR, thousands of unregistered refugees are living elsewhere in India.

Myanmar: Why Is China On ‘Overdrive’ To Solve The Ethnic Question – OpEd

February 2nd, 2019

By SAAG

Burma / Myanmar

By S. Chandrasekharan

From the flurry of activities of Sun Guoxiang, Special Envoy for Asian Affairs and the Chinese Ambassador at Yangon, it looks that Chinese are in a desperate hurry to solve the question of the ethnic minorities and their armed organisations operating in the Kachin and the Shan areas on the Chinese border.

Asean hobbles itself

29.01.2019 , OPINION

Thailand's first test as this year's Asean chair occurred two weeks ago in Chiang Mai. It was not a resounding success. At the 10-nation group's annual retreat of foreign ministers, the Rohingya issue was at the top of the agenda. But what the participants had agreed upon -- a spirited discussion -- quickly petered out. Now, the issue has been once again overtaken by the United Nations.

India's Rohingya shame

by Ashley Starr Kinseth ,Opinion/ India

29th January '2019

The Indian government has adopted attitudes similar to Myanmar's towards the Rohingya.

Earlier this month, India sparked panic among its long-suffering Rohingya refugee population by deporting a family of five to their home country of Myanmar, where they will most certainly face human rights violations and imprisonment. This expulsion came on the heels of the controversial forced repatriation of seven Rohingya men last October.

Propaganda of omission: Britain’s role in Rohingya genocide absent from UK reports

In recent years, tens of thousands of ethnic Rohingya have been killed by the Burmese military. The ethnic cleansing made international headlines. But Britain’s role is conspicuously absent from UK mainstream reporting.

The Rohingya crisis needs a local solution

FOYASAL KHAN
Published: 15th Jan 2019,

Myanmar's democratization process may help the suffering nation to save itself from turmoil and inhumane crises, and build a stronger and more secure country.

As of now, more than 700,000 Rohingya women, men and children have fled from Myanmar's northern Rakhine State to neighboring Bangladesh since Aug. 25, 2017, when Myanmar security forces began a widespread attack on the Rohingya people.

Aung San Suu Kyi and the world of Buddhist Islamophobia by Dr.Zarni (AJ )

Opinion

03 November 2013

Aung San Suu Kyi and the world of Buddhist Islamophobia ( Click Here )

Myanmar's Muslim minority, demonised and persecuted for decades, is facing a fresh wave of violence amid media silence.

by Maung Zarni

Thursday, October 31, 2013

Where is ethical leadership over Syria? (AJ )

Opinion

31 October 2013

Where is the ethical leadership over Syria ? ( Click Here )

Who in Syria will lead the people to safety and who will prevent the great powers from causing further harm?

by Desmond Tutu

Friday, October 18, 2013