Malaysia: Ensure Accountability for Mass Graves, Human Trafficking Atrocities Against Rohingya

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Malaysia: Ensure Accountability for Mass Graves, Human Trafficking Atrocities Against Rohingya

Report finds trafficking syndicate committed crimes against humanity

(KUALA LUMPUR, March 27, 2019)—In a new joint report released today, the Human Rights Commission of Malaysia (SUHAKAM) and Fortify Rights find reasonable grounds to believe that a human-trafficking syndicate committed crimes against humanity in Malaysia and Thailand against Rohingya men, women, and children from 2012 to 2015.

The 121-page report follows the Government of Malaysia’s recent creation of a Royal Commission of Inquiry to investigate human trafficking and mass graves—believed to contain the bodies of trafficked Rohingya and Bangladeshis—discovered in Wang Kelian, Perlis State in 2015. The Royal Commission of Inquiry is expected to submit its final report in June.

House Foreign Affairs Committee Leadership Calls on Administration to Recognize Rohingya Genocide

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February 27, 2019

WASHINGTON—Representative Eliot L. Engel, Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee, led a bipartisan group of members in calling on the Trump Administration to formally designate the Burmese military atrocities against the Rohingya people as genocide. In a letter to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on February 15, the members urged the Department to follow the lead of the United Nations, Congress, and non-governmental expert organizations in properly denouncing these crimes as genocide.

Asia World Sees Myanmar's New Concrete Road as Catalyst.

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Saturday, 23 February 2019,

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The Asia World Foundation said today that a new, all-weather 54-kilometer concrete road will serve as a major confidence booster and catalyst for direct investments in Rakhine State which today kicked off a three-day investment fair that was inaugurated by Myanmar's State Counsellor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi.

Penny Mordaunt: the Rohingya crisis must not be forgotten

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 Published 19 February 2019

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Department for International Development and The Rt Hon Penny Mordaunt MP

The UK is providing vital humanitarian aid to many of the one million Rohingya refugees and vulnerable local communities in Cox’s Bazar.

The plight of the Rohingya refugees must not be forgotten, International Development Secretary Penny Mordaunt said during her second visit to Cox’s Bazar in Bangladesh.

Switzerland provides additional 10 million francs for Rohingya refugees

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Government of Switzerland
Published on 15 Feb 2019 — View Original

Press release, 15.02.2019

In 2019, Switzerland will provide CHF 10 million and deploy experts from the Swiss Humanitarian Aid Unit (SHA) to help tackle the Rohingya refugee crisis in Bangladesh. The humanitarian crisis in eastern Bangladesh, a region that has taken in large numbers refugees, remains acute. The international Joint Response Plan seeks to raise USD 920 million to meet basic needs.

Amnesty International UK Press releases; Myanmar: Fresh evidence of new violations during military operations in Rakhine State.

Amnesty International UK

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11 Feb 2019

Military blocking access to food and indiscriminately shelling villagesArmy units responsible for past atrocities involved in operations

More than 5,000 civilians displaced since December

“The Myanmar military have operated from the same brutal playbook for decades” – Tirana Hassan

Myanmar's security forces have shelled villages and blocked civilians from accessing food and humanitarian assistance in Rakhine State in recent weeks, Amnesty International said today.

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

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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.

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ျမန္မာႏွစ္သစ္ကူးအခါသမယ အထိမ္းအမွတ္အားျဖင့္လည္းေကာင္း၊ ႏုိင္ငံအခ်င္းခ်င္း မိတ္ဝတ္မပ်က္ ဆက္ ဆံေရးကိုေရွးရႈေသာအားျဖင့္လည္းေကာင္း၊ လူသားခ်င္းစာနာေထာက္ထားမႈကို အေလးထားေသာ အား  ၿဖင့္လည္းေကာင္း အက်ဥ္းေထာင္အသီးသီးတြင္ အက်ဥ္းက်ခံေနၾကရေသာ ႏုုိင္ငံျခားသားအက်ဥ္းသား/သူ (၅၁) ဦးအား ရာဇဝတ္က်င့္ထုံးဥပေဒပုဒ္မ ၄၀၁၊ ပုဒ္မခြဲ (၁)အရ စည္းကမ္းသတ္မွတ္ခ်က္မထားဘဲ လြတ္ၿငိမ္းသက္သာခြင့္ျပဳ၍ ျပည္ႏွင္ဒဏ္ေပးလိုက္သည္။

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