Malaysia must push for peace and justice for Rohingyas

ALIRAN
22 July 2024 

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There is a revolution ongoing in Myanmar. But where do the ethnic minority Rohingyas fit into this picture?

Landslides at Rohingya camps in Cox’s Bazar of Bangladesh, 9 dead

ddnews.gov.
19/06/2024 

In Bangladesh, nine people including eight Rohingyas died in landslides in separate Rohingya camps in Cox’s Bazar on Wednesday amid heavy rain.

The local administration official said big chunks of mud collapsed on a number of houses in No 9 and 10 Rohingya camps around 6 am on Wednesday, leaving six and three people dead respectively on the spot.

Rohingya CSOs support U.S. Congress GAP Act

mizzima
July 20, 2024

Ten Rohingya civil society organisations from Cox’s Bazar Rohingya Camp have released a statement expressing support for the Rohingya GAP Act that has been introduced into the U.S. Congress.

The Rohingya GAP Act was proposed to the U.S. Congress by U.S. Representatives Gregory Meeks (D-NY) and Michael McCaul (R-TX)

Repatriation only solution for Rohingya issue: Chinese envoy in Bangladesh

NEW AGE
United News of Bangladesh, Dhaka
16 July, 2024, 

Chinese ambassador to Bangladesh Yao Wen addresses a press conference at Chinese embassy in Dhaka on Tuesday. | UNB photo

Chinese ambassador to Bangladesh Yao Wen on Tuesday said that they agreed that there was no other solution except safe repatriation of the Rohingyas to their homeland.

Argentinian Arrest Warrants for Crimes against the Rohingya: The Power of Small States

Opinio Juris
16.07.2024

[Eva Buzo is a barrister and Executive Director of Victim Advocates International. Clare Brown is a Senior Legal Officer and Gender Advisor for Victim Advocates International. Kate Gibson is an international criminal lawyer and Senior Counsel to Victim Advocates International. Pia Conradsen is Rohingya Victim Coordinator of Victim Advocates International.]

PM Hasina seeks Chinese cooperation to repatriate Rohingyas

prothomalo
BSS Beijing
Updated: 10 Jul 2024,  

A high-level Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, a very important wing of the Chinese Communist Party led by its Chairman Wang Huning called on Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at the Great Hall of the People, Beijing on 9 July 2024BSS

 

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Tuesday called upon China to help Bangladesh repatriate the forcibly displaced Rohingyas to their homeland in Myanmar.

UN Human Rights Council adopts unanimous resolution calling for repatriation of Rohingyas

daily sun
Daily Sun Report, Dhaka
Publish: Wednesday, 10 July, 2024 

Over a million Myanmar nationals, popularly known as Rohingya, sheltered in Bangladesh amid military brutality in August 2017.

Photo : Collected

 

The 56th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva on Wednesday (10 July) unanimously adopted a resolution on repatriation of forcible displaced Rohingya population to Rakhine State in Myanmar.

2 women among 5 Rohingya persons held in Tripura, police say they wanted to move to Hyderabad in search of jobs

THE INDIAN EXPRESS
Written by Debraj Deb
Agartala | Updated: July 10, 2024

In the last few weeks, a large number of Bangladeshi and Rohingya persons were arrested at the Agartala Railway Station and different parts of Tripura for illegally entering the state.

On July 5, 25 Rohingya persons were held in North Tripura district while they were trying to leave for Hyderabad in search of jobs. File photo

Barely five days after 25 Rohingya persons were held in Tripura, five others of Rohingya origin, including two women, were arrested from Agartala Railway Station on Tuesday night.

Hate speech: BJP's Nitesh Rane targeted Rohingyas, not Indians, police tells court

INDIA TODAY
Vidya, Mumbai,
UPDATED: Jul 9, 2024

Four cases were lodged against Rane for allegedly promoting enmity and disharmony amongst religious groups with speeches made during his rally in January this year. 

The Maharashtra police told the High Court that no case was established for Section 295A against BJP MLA Nitesh Rane. (File photo).

 

The Maharashtra police informed the Bombay High Court on Tuesday that they have chosen not to invoke provisions for outraging religious sentiments against BJP leaders, including Kankavli MLA Nitesh Rane. This decision stems from the understanding that the words "Rohingyas and Bangladeshis" used in their speeches were not targeted at Indians.

Four cases were lodged against Rane for allegedly promoting enmity and disharmony among religious groups with speeches made during his rally in January this year. 

 

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The fate of the Rohingya may be in the Arakan Army’s hands

Aljazeera
Nasir Uddin
Professor of Anthropology at the University of Chittagong
3 July 2024

A woman cooks next to destroyed houses and burned trees following fighting between Myanmar's military and the Arakan Army in a village in Minbya Township in Rakhine State on May 21, 2024 [File: AFP]

 

In late May, reports emerged that tens of thousands of Rohingya have been forced to flee their homes in the townships of Buthidaung and Maungdaw, northern Rakhine State.

Rohingya ‘genocide intensifying’ as war rages in Myanmar’s Rakhine: BROUK

Al Jazeera
By Al Jazeera Staff
Published On 26 Jun 2024

Warning from rights group comes as fighting between Myanmar’s military and Arakan Army traps Rohingya in the western state.

People can be seen on the Myanmar side of the border, during the continuing conflict in Rakhine State, in the Teknaf area of Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, on June 24, 2024 [Mohammad Ponir Hossain/ Reuters]

 

 A United Kingdom-based rights group has called for global action over what it called an “intensifying genocide” against Myanmar’s mostly Muslim Rohingya minority as fighting between the Southeast Asian country’s military and a powerful ethnic armed group escalated in the western Rakhine State.

What’s Unsaid | Who can the Rohingya rely on?

The New Humanitarian
27 June 2024

‘Generations have convinced themselves that Rohingyas are foreigners’ 

 The current military rulers of Myanmar came to power in a February 2021 coup. Since then, they have been accused of massive rights abuses towards civilians, especially the Rohingya.

Rohingyas need security to return home in Myanmar: Swedish envoy

Financial Express
Jun 25, 2024 

Outgoing Swedish Ambassador to Bangladesh Alexandra Berg Von Linde on Tuesday said that the forcibly displaced Rohingyas can’t return to their homeland unless a conducive atmosphere is restored in Myanmar.

Rohingya may have entered Bangladesh in recent Myanmar clashes, refugee official says

REUTERS
By Sudipto Ganguly and Ruma Paul
June 21, 2024

Rohingya refugees cross a bamboo-made bridge during an ongoing heatwave in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, May 2, 2024. REUTERS/Ro Yassin Abdumonab/File Photo Purchase Licensing Rights

DHAKA, June 21 (Reuters) - Escalating violence in Myanmar's western Rakhine state in recent months may have spurred some Rohingya Muslims to cross into Bangladesh, a key refugee official said, although Dhaka insists it cannot accept more refugees from its war-torn neighbour.

Fresh attacks against Rohingya in Myanmar, UN decries beheadings, violence

ABC News
By Libby Hogan and wires
Posted Mon 17 Jun 2024

                        The UN has denounced signs of new attacks on Rohingya civilians.(Reuters: Jorge Silva)

• In short: A powerful ethnic armed group has asked residents to leave a town ahead of their planned offensive in Myanmar.
• The Rohingya primarily inhabit Maungdaw town.
• What next? The Rohingya say they have nowhere to flee to and fear their homes will be burned down.

Thousands of Rohingya feared trapped in fighting in western Myanmar

REUTERS
June 17, 2024 

June 17 (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of Muslim minority Rohingya are feared to be caught in fighting in western Myanmar, as a powerful armed ethnic group bears down on junta positions in a coastal town on the border with Bangladesh, which is reluctant to accept them.

Myanmar Armed Group Calls for Evacuation as It Approaches Border Town

THE I DIPLOMAT
Sebastian Strangio
June 17, 2024

The Arakan Army has called for the mostly Rohingya residents of Maungdaw to leave, a month after it was accused of mass arson attacks in a neighboring township. 

A powerful ethnic armed group in Myanmar’s west says that it is on the verge of capturing Maungdaw, a mainly Rohingya town close to the country’s border with Bangladesh, and has called on its residents to evacuate as a matter of urgency.

Arsa gun commander Zakaria arrested from Rohingya camp in Ukhiya

THE BUSINESS STANDARD
14 June, 2024, 

RAB arrests Arsa leader Md Zakaria. Photo: TBS

Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) has arrested the gun commander of the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (Arsa), Md Zakaria, from Ukhiya Rohingya Camp.

They also recovered a G3 rifle and five rounds of fresh bullets from the spot, said Colonel HM Sajjad Hossain, captain of RAB 15, during a press conference around 11:30am today (14 June).

They left a trail of ash: decoding the Arakan Army’s arson attacks in the Rohingya heartland

THE STRATEGIST
13 Jun 2024
Nathan Ruser

The village of Maw Ni Bill (Oe Thei) being burnt by arson attack on May 18th.

 

In the late evening of Friday 17 May 2024, Rohingya neighbourhoods in the town of Buthidaung in Myanmar’s Rakhine State were disturbed by an ominously familiar sight. Armed gunmen had come to their doors and ordered them to leave before the gunmen set their houses alight. If they refused, they were told, they would be burnt with their house.

Whose Justice? Rohingya Perspectives on Post-Atrocity Justice

JUST SECURITY
by Rebecca Hamilton
June 11, 2024

Over the past two decades of listening to survivors of atrocity crimes – including the perspectives shared in a recent survey of Rohingya survivors of genocidal violence in Myanmar – I have seen time and again that while the desire for justice is universal, the question of what justice means in any given community (and for different individuals within any given community) is often very particular and highly influenced by local context. There is nothing terribly surprising in this observation. What is striking, however, is the degree to which the professional community working on and around international criminal law (ICL) (and I include myself in this) often fails to absorb the full implications of this reality.