Rohingyas see a ray of hope

The Daily Star
November 16, 2019
Porimol Palma

Lawsuit at UN court, ICC genocide probe seen as major steps towards fight for justice

 The Rohingyas, who have been facing rights abuses in Myanmar for decades, now see a ray of hope of getting justice following a lawsuit with the highest UN court and the ICC’s approval to probe crimes against them.

Leaders of the persecuted community believe the steps will help mount pressure on Myanmar to grant them citizenship and other rights.

Rohingya Crisis: Should Rakhine Be Under Bangladesh’s Sovereignty?

the quint
Shafiur Rahman

Opinion

Five years ago, an op-ed in a Bangladeshi daily, Dhaka Tribune, ruffled the feathers of the powers that be in Myanmar’s capital, Nay Pyi Taw. Such was the offence taken that the Bangladeshi Ambassador was summoned for a dressing down by the Burmese Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

In the opinion piece, now long removed from the web, journalist Zeeshan Khan had argued that the Rohingya “should have the option of forming an independent country between Bangladesh and Myanmar”.

Now, a broadly similar proposition has resurfaced in an intervention by US Congressman Brad James Sherman, in the House of Representatives’ Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific. 

 

Also Read : Meet Tasmida,  the First Rohingya Refugee Girl to Enter College

‘I Am Doing This for Every Place Where Rape Is a Weapon of War.’ Meet the Woman Documenting Sexual Violence Against Myanmar's Rohingya.

TIME
27th March 2019 
BY LAIGNEE BARRON 

Razia Sultana, a Rohingya lawyer and advocate, speaks during a press conference in Ottawa, Canada on Sept. 20, 2018.  Sean Kilpatrick—AP

When Rohingya refugees began fleeing into Bangladesh in 2016 and 2017, lawyer and activist Razia Sultana found herself on the frontline of a sexual violence epidemic.

The Myanmar military, in its scorched-earth campaign against the Muslim minority, laid waste to entire villages, carried out massacres and lined up women to be raped, according to U.N. investigators, who have called for the alleged crimes to be prosecuted as genocide. As the exodus swelled to more than 770,000, Razia Sultana got to work documenting the violence.

Rohingya have no future in Bangladesh camps, says campaigner

malaymail
Published on 14 March 2019  

Rohingya children are seen at a refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh March 7, 2019. — Reuters pic

DHAKA, March 14 — There is no future for the 900,000 Rohingya refugees living in Bangladesh, a leading campaigner said yesterday, likening the camps to zoos and calling for a proper repatriation strategy.

Razia Sultana: Rohingya have no future in Bangladesh camps

DhakaTribune
Thomson Reuters Foundation
Published at 10:47 am March 14th, 2019

 

Rohingya refugees gather at a market inside a refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, March 7, 2019 Reuters

Rohingya lawyer Razia Sultana said there was a lack of hope among the refugees

There is no future for the 900,000 Rohingya refugees living in Bangladesh, a leading campaigner said on Wednesday, likening the camps to zoos and calling for a proper repatriation strategy.

၂၀၁၉ ႏုိင္ငံတကာ အမ်ိဳးသမီးသတၱိရွင္စာရင္း ကရင္ နဲ႔ ႐ိုဟင္ဂ်ာ ပါ၀င္

VOA

ဗြီအိုုေအ (ျမန္မာဌာန)
07 မတ္၊ 2019 

၂၀၁၉ ခုႏွစ္ ႏုိင္ငံတကာ အမ်ိဳးသမီး သတၱိရွင္စာရင္း၀င္ ေနာ္ကေညာေဖာနဲ႔ Razia Sultana။ 

အေမရိကန္ ႏိုင္ငံျခားေရးဌာနက ခ်ီးျမႇင့္တဲ့ ၂၀၁၉ ခုႏွစ္အတြက္ ႏိုင္ငံတကာ အမ်ိဳးသမီးသတၱိရွင္ဆုကို ျမန္ မာႏိုင္ငံ တိုင္းရင္းသူ ေနာ္ကေညာေဖာနဲ႔ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံမွာ ေမြးဖြားတဲ့ ဘဂၤလားေဒ့ခ်္ႏိုင္ငံသူ Razia Sultana တို႔က ႏိုင္ငံတကာ အမ်ိဳးသမီး က်န္ ၈ ဦးနဲ႔ အတူ လက္ခံရရွိၾကမွာ ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။

ေနာ္ကေညာေဖာဟာ ၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရး တက္ႂကြလႈပ္ရွားသူ တဦးျဖစ္ၿပီး ကရင္အမ်ိဳးသမီးအဖဲြ႔ KWO ရဲ႕အေထြ ေထြ အတြင္းေရးမွဴးလည္း ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ စစ္ေရး ပဋိပကၡေတြအတြင္း အမ်ိဳးသမီးေတြလိင္ပိုင္းဆိုင္ရာအေစာ္ ကားခံရတာ ခဲြျခားဆက္ဆံခံရတာေတြကို ကိုယ္က်ိဳးမငဲ့ဘဲ မွတ္တမ္းျပဳစုရာမွာ တက္တက္ႂကြႂကြ လုပ္ ေဆာင္ခဲ့သူ တဦးျဖစ္ပါတယ္။

Bangladeshi lawyer gets US award for advocating Rohingya rights

bdnews24.com
Senior Correspondent, bdnews24.com

Published: 07 Mar 2019 

 

 

Razia Sultana, a Bangladeshi lawyer and advocate for the rights of the Rohingya, will receive the 2019 International Women of Courage Awards in Washington on Thursday.

Sultana is one of 10 “extraordinary” women from around the world who will receive the award this year at the US Department of State in a ceremony hosted by Secretary of State Pompeo, the embassy in Dhaka said in a Facebook post.

First Lady Melania Trump will deliver special remarks on the occasion.

The US embassy has sent its “heartfelt congratulations” to Sultana.

Link :https://bdnews24.com/people/2019/03/07/bangladeshi-lawyer-gets-us-award-for-advocating-rohingya-rights 

Rohingya lawyer gets US award

The Daily Star

March 06, 2019

In this photo taken from UN News, Razia Sultana, human rights activist and lawyer, addresses the Security Council's open debate on behalf of the NGO Working Group on Women, Peace and Security. Photo: UN Photo/Mark Garten

Rohingya-born Bangladeshi citizen Razia Sultana has been awarded the United States’ International Women of Courage (IWOC) Award for her work with Rohingya refugees.

She is among the 10 extraordinary women from around the world who will be honoured this year, said a press release from the State Department of United States issued today.

Rohingya Activists Share Stories of Community's Plight.

Fars News Agency

Sun Feb 10, 2019

TEHRAN (FNA)- Fear, intimidation, repression and genocide; The words used by members of the Rohingya community to describe what is happening to them at the hands of Myanmar's military forces.

"Some may think that by leaving a repressive, genocidal regime, Rohingya will be free," Yasmin Ullah, a Rohingya activist, said, Anadolu news agency reported.