#rohingyalivesmatter

The New Nation
Shah Muhammad Shirajis Shadik
04th-Jul-2020

Raise Voice Against Verified Persecution

 

A public uprising is shaking the world right now, being originated in the USA, spread through the borders, amid a highly communicable COVID-19 pandemic, from the same old ghost of xenophobia that was declined in the long past. Hashtag #blacklivesmatter is now rampant on every particular media, social media along with the customary print and electronic media. The unrest is attaining its triumphs in its melee as well. Following the story, other communities of beforehand marginalized people around the world, having a longstanding history of deprivation, persecution, and oppression, are trying to focus their issues with similar hashtags as well. For example, the Indian minority Muslims are hovering their issues with hashtag #muslimlivesmatter, Kashmiri peoples' issues did come up with hashtag #kashmirilivesmatter. The overturning issues of occupied Palestinian people had its induction with hashtag #paletinianslivesmatter to protest against their occupiers.

Exiled: The Roots of Myanmar's Persecution of the Rohingya

Aljazeera
25 Nov 2019

Insight into the harrowing experiences faced by Myanmar's Rohingya at the hands of the military and Buddhist factions.

A film by Shahida Tulaganova

"After killing all the men, they asked: 'Who are you?' We replied: 'We are Rohingya, Rohingya'. They said: 'This is not your country, you can't live here," recalls Rowza Begun, a Rohingya refugee.

Jewish groups praise bill to sanction Burma for persecution of Rohingya Muslims

THE TIMES OF ISREAL
By Josefin Dolsten Today, 

19 US organizations lobby in support of bill; American rabbis previously spoke to congressional representatives pushing for action against Burmese government.

 

Rohingya refugees wait after crossing the Naf river from Myanmar into Bangladesh in Whaikhyang, October 9, 2017. (AFP PHOTO / FRED DUFOUR)

 

JTA — Jewish groups applauded the introduction of a bipartisan bill in the Senate to sanction Burmese officials responsible for the persecution of the Rohingya people.

Taking refuge from persecution and violence.

The Washington Times
Tuesday, April 9, 2019
By Mohammad Ziauddin

How Bangladesh saves Rohingya refugees from scorn and hardships

Photo by: Dar Yasin

Rohingya refugee children shout slogans during a protest against the repatriation process at Unchiprang refugee camp near Cox's Bazar, in Bangladesh, Thursday, Nov. 15, 2018. The head of Bangladesh's refugee commission said plans to begin a voluntary repatriation of Rohingya Muslim refugees to their native Myanmar on Thursday were scrapped after officials were unable to find anyone who wanted to return. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)

ANALYSIS/OPINION:

Reports out of the Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh usually focus on the massive humanitarian efforts carried out by Bangladesh and its international partners. Together, they have supplied food, education, housing and medicine for hundreds of thousands of people with no other place to go.

Race, Ethnicity, and Culture: How do Rohingya Explain Concepts that Undermine their Existence?

THE GLOBAL POST
By Cresa Pugh
April 9, 2019

Myanmar Rohingya refugees in a refugee camp in Teknaf, in Bangladesh's Cox's Bazar. Photo: Munir Uz Zaman, AFP

Following a series of state-sponsored military campaigns involving torture, rape, and mass killings, nearly 800,000 Rohingya, Myanmar’s largest Muslim ethnic minority group, have fled the country since August 2017.

In addition to these attacks, Rohingya and other Muslims throughout the Asian country have, over the last seven years, been the target of intercommunal violence at the hands of Buddhist nationalists.

Bangladeshi PM calls for safe repatriation of Rohingya.

Anadolu Agency

Md. Kamruzzaman |03.04.2019

Locals suffering due to huge number of Rohingya in Cox's Bazar, with some 40,000 newborn babies in the refugee camps

Prime Minister of Bangladesh Sheikh Hasina

DHAKA, Bangladesh

Bangladesh called for the safe and quick repatriation of Rohingya refugees who have taken shelter in makeshift camps in southern Cox’s Bazar district, local media reported.

"It will be good for all if the Rohingya can be repatriated to their own country as soon as possible, ensuring [their] safety and security," Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said Tuesday while receiving newly appointed British High Commissioner to Dhaka Robert Chatterton Dickson at her official residence.

Myanmar must ensure safety of returning Rohingya: UK

The Peninsula

20 Feb 2019

In this file photo taken on November 26, 2017, Rohingya Muslim refugees walk down a hillside in the Kutupalong refugee camp in Bangladesh. AFP/Ed Jones

By Md. Kamruzzaman I Anadolu

DHAKA: A top British official on Tuesday urged Myanmar’s authorities to ensure a safe environment for the repatriation of hundreds of thousands of persecuted Rohingya Muslims who fled the country since August 2017.

'No proof' Myanmar military persecuted Rohingya: army chief

Mail Online 

By Afp ,Published: 14:10, 15 February 2019

Myanmar military chief Senior General Min Aung Hlaing says accusations the military committed atrocities "hurts the nation's dignity"

Myanmar's powerful army chief has given a rare foreign media interview to insist there was no "certain proof" the military had persecuted the country's stateless Rohingya Muslim community.

Around 740,000 Rohingya fled over the border into Bangladesh after a bloody military campaign in 2017.

Amnesty: Myanmar army ops target Rakhine state.

5,200 men, women, children displaced due to ongoing fighting by Jan. 28, according to human rights group citing UN figures.

11.02.2019

By Ahmet Gurhan Kartal

LONDON

Myanmar security forces have shelled villages and blocked civilians from accessing food and humanitarian assistance in western Rakhine state since early 2019, a rights groups said Monday.

“Security forces have also used vague and repressive laws to detain civilians in the area,” according to the Amnesty International report based on fresh evidence on ongoing military operations.

Myanmar Army Chief Must be Prosecuted for Rohingya "Genocide": U.N. Rights Envoy Says.

Saturday 1440/5/20 - 2019/01/26

Bangkok, Dhaka, Jan 25, 2019, SPA -- Myanmar's army chief should be prosecuted for genocide against the Rohingya Muslim minority, a U.N. human rights investigator said, adding that holding perpetrators to account for crimes was necessary before refugees who fled the country could return.

Yanghee Lee, the United Nations' Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Myanmar, was speaking during a trip to Thailand and Bangladesh, where she met officials and Rohingya driven out of western Rakhine state after an army crackdown in 2017.

US Congressman hails Bangladesh govt for hosting persecuted Rohingyas.

The Daily Star

January 26, 2019

Star Online Report

Bangladesh Foreign Secretary Md Shahidul Haque met with US Congressman Eliot Engel, also the chairman of US House Foreign Affairs Committee, at the Hill in Washington DC on January 24, 2019. Photo: Courtesy

 

US Congressman Eliot Engel has appreciated the government of Bangladesh for hosting the persecuted Rohingyas from Myanmar, and also expressed his hope to visit Bangladesh, see the Rohingya camps and hold talks with various stakeholders.

Engel, also the chairman of US House Foreign Affairs Committee, told this to Bangladesh Foreign Secretary Md Shahidul Haque when the latter met the Congressman at the Hill in Washington DC on January 24, according to a press release issued by Bangladesh Embassy in Washington DC.

The history of the persecution of Myanmar’s Rohingya

THE CONVERSATION
Academic rigour, journalistic flair
Engy Abdelkader

Rutgers University

September 21, 2017

 Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh waiting to receive aid. Mohammad Ponir Hossain/Reuters

Some 420,000 Rohingya Muslims, a religious and ethnic minority community in Myanmar, have fled to neighboring Bangladesh since August this year.

The United Nations has called the Rohingya the world’s most persecuted minority group and described the atrocities by Myanmar’s authorities as “ethnic cleansing,” whereby one group removes another ethnic or religious community through violence.

The history of the persecution of Myanmar’s Rohingya

 

Academic rigour, journalistic flair
Will de Freitas
Environment + Energy Editor
September 21, 2017

Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh waiting to receive aid. Mohammad Ponir Hossain/Reuters 

Some 420,000 Rohingya Muslims, a religious and ethnic minority community in Myanmar, have fled to neighboring Bangladesh since August this year.

The United Nations has called the Rohingya the world’s most persecuted minority group and described the atrocities by Myanmar’s authorities as “ethnic cleansing,” whereby one group removes another ethnic or religious community through violence.