Bangladesh - Rohingya Crisis Response Plan 2020

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Envoy: Turkey with Bangladesh in dealing with Rohingya crisis

Dhaka Tribune 

UNB
November 5th, 2020

File photo of a Rohingya camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh Syed Zakir Hossain/Dhaka Tribune

 

Bangladesh is hosting over a million Rohingyas in Cox's Bazar camps

Turkish Ambassador to Bangladesh Mustafa Osman Turan has reiterated his country's continued support to the government of Bangladesh over the Rohingya issue.

The ambassador made the assurance while paying a two-day visit to Cox’s Bazar to meet new RRRC Shah Rezwan Hayat and Deputy Commissioner Md Kamal Hossain.

Rohingya crisis: Bangladesh seeks Greece, Japan’s support

Dhaka Tribune

UNB  

October 25th, 2020

Bangladesh Ambassador to Greece Ashud Ahmed with President Katerina Sakellaropoulou at a ceremony at the Greek Presidency in Athens UNB

Bangladesh also sought lucrative business investments in the country

Bangladesh has sought support from Japan and Greece for the early repatriation of Rohingyas continuously being persecuted in their homeland in western Rakhine province of Myanmar.

Bangladesh Ambassador to Greece Ashud Ahmed discussed the issue while presenting his credentials to President Katerina Sakellaropoulou at a ceremony at the Greek Presidency in Athens recently, said the embassy on Sunday.

Play robust role in resolving Rohingya crisis

The Daily Star

PM urges UN
October 24, 2020

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has urged the United Nations to play a more decisive and robust role in resolving existing global challenges, including the Rohingya crisis.

"There are still areas where the UN can play a more decisive and robust role in resolving many of today's intractable challenges such as the Rohingya crisis," the premier said in a message issued yesterday on the occasion of the UN's 75th founding anniversary.

UNHCR appeals for humanitarian aid for Rohingyas currently seeking refuge in Bangladesh

WION
Oct 23, 2020 

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Rohingya crisis among worst tragedies in modern times, senior Turkish diplomat says

DAILY SABAH

DAILY SABAH WITH AA ISTANBUL
Diplomacy
Oct 21, 2020

Rohingya refugee children sit on relief supplies at Kutupalong refugee camp in Ukhia, Bangladesh, Oct. 15, 2020. (AFP Photo)

The Rohingya crisis is among the gravest tragedies in modern times, a senior Turkish diplomat said Tuesday.

In a ministerial committee meeting on the persecuted Muslim group held by the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), Deputy Foreign Minister Yavuz Selim Kıran underlined that the U.N. Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on the matter had recorded incidents in Myanmar involving "genocidal intentions." 

'Rohingya crisis among worst modern tragedies'

AA

Muhammet Tarhan

ANKARA  

21.10.2020

Senior Turkish diplomat urges Muslim countries to show solidarity with Rohingya Muslims

The Rohingya crisis is among the gravest tragedies in modern times, a senior Turkish diplomat said Tuesday.

In a ministerial committee meeting on the persecuted Muslim group held by the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), Deputy Foreign Minister Yavuz Selim Kiran underlined that the UN Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on the matter had recorded incidents in Myanmar involving "genocidal intentions."

Solution to Rohingya crisis unlikely if impunity, geopolitical appeasement continues: Momen

FINANCIAL EXPRESS 

October 20, 2020

 Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen on Tuesday said there will be no sustainable solution to the Rohingya crisis in near future if the defiance, impunity and geopolitical appeasement of Myanmar continues.

He said a culture of appeasement of Myanmar geopolitically through enhanced bilateral trade, investment and development assistance continues to grow while the country has done nothing to redress the rapes, gender-based violence, mass atrocities and genocide committed on its minorities that its neighbour Bangladesh diligently continues to host in temporary camps that threatens its very security and sovereignty.

Myanmar’s Rohingya crisis exposes ASEAN weaknesses: Report

Aljazeera
20 Oct 2020

Regional bloc’s response has fallen short because of lack of leadership, failure to grasp gravity of rights abuses.

A police officer stands guard in Maungdaw township in Rakhine State after the mass exodus of Rohingya in 2017 [File: Nyein Chan Naing/EPA]

 

The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) has failed to respond effectively to the Rohingya crisis in Myanmar thanks to a lack of leadership and the 10-member organisation’s inability to grasp the scale of the human rights abuses, a report from a group of regional lawmakers said on Tuesday.

ASEAN Parliamentarians for Human Rights said ASEAN had been hampered by its own institutional structure, which allowed member state Myanmar the space to “set the parameters of ASEAN’s engagement”.

IOM Bangladesh Rohingya Crisis Response - Monthly Situation Report (August 2020)

Date: 16 Oct 2020

IOM, in Partnership with the Government of Bangladesh, expand Severe Acute Respiratory Infection Isolation and Treatment Center support to Rohingya and Host Communities

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Mirza Fakhrul’s ‘incorrect’ comments may hinder progress of efforts to resolve Rohingya crisis: Quader

Prothum Alo------ 
Prothom Alo English
3 October 2020

Ruling Bangladesh Awami League general secretary and road transport and bridges minister Obaidul Quader on Friday said the farsighted leadership of prime minister Sheikh Hasina kept intact and re-established all kinds of interests of the country at the international arena, reports state-run news agency BSS.

He said this in a statement strongly protesting and condemning the comments made by Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir at a press conference today.

Dhaka asks UN to do more to solve Rohingya crisis

Dhaka Tribune

Humayun Kabir Bhuiyan

September 30th, 2020

Newly-appointed Permanent Representative to UN, Geneva Mustafizur Rahman presents his letter of credentialsto Tatiana Valovaya, director-general of the UN, Geneva on Sept 28, 2020 Courtesy

Newly-appointed Permanent Representative to UN, Geneva, Mustafizur Rahman presents his letter of credentials

Dhaka has urged the United Nations to play a more proactive role to find an acceptable solution at the earliest to the protracted Rohingya crisis that has been affecting Bangladesh in a bad manner for a long time.

Bangladesh’s newly-appointed Permanent Representative to the UN in Geneva Mustafizur Rahman made the call while presenting his letter of credentials to Tatiana Valovaya, director-general of the UN, Geneva, on Monday.

Vietnam FM On ASEAN Talks, ASEAN Chief On Rohingya

REPUBLIC WORLD
Associated Press Television News
12th September, 2020

Vietnamese Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh said on Saturday that ASEAN will continue to pursuit the bloc's neutral position to avoid being stuck inbetween rivalry among major powers.

Washington assures Dhaka of continuing support to solve Rohingya crisis

theindepedent
BSS, Dhaka
11 September, 2020

US Defence Secretary Dr. Mark T Esper called Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina over phone today and assured her of continuing his country’s support in bringing a peaceful solution to the protracted Rohingya crisis.

“The US defence secretary phoned Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina this evening and assured her of continuing US support in bringing a peaceful solution to the Rohingya problem,” PM’s Press Secretary Ihsanul Karim told BSS.

The press secretary said the US defence secretary expressed his appreciation for the generosity shown by Bangladesh on the Rohingya issue and thanked Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in this regard.

Momen leaves for Turkey Sunday, bilateral talks on Sept 15

FINANCIAL EXPRESS
September 12, 2020

Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen will leave Dhaka for Turkey on Sunday on a four-day visit for holding a bilateral meeting with his Turkish counterpart Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu on September 15.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will virtually inaugurate the newly-built Bangladesh chancery complex in Turkish capital Ankara on September 14. Momen and the Turkish foreign minister will join the virtual inaugural ceremony from the chancery complex, reports UNB.

Rohingya crisis: Relocation plan meets opposition

Aljazeera

Tanvir Chowdhury

12 Sep 2020

As well as being stateless and homeless, the coronavirus pandemic is worsening the plight of Rohingya.

The Bangladeshi government wants to relocate more than 100,000 Rohingya refugees to a remote island in the Bay of Bengal.

But some are opposing the plan, while UN agencies are questioning whether the new site is suitable.

Al Jazeera’s Tanvir Chowdhury reports. 

Link :https://www.aljazeera.com/videos/2020/09/12/rohingya-crisis-relocation-plan-meets-opposition/

Rohingya Crisis: 3 years after Aug 2017, situation deteriorated in Rakhine

Dhaka Tribune
Humayun Kabir Bhuiyan 
August 29th, 2020

An aerial view shows burned down villages once inhabited by the Rohingya seen from the Myanmar military helicopters that carried the U.N. envoys to northern Rakhine state, Myanmar on May 1, 2018 Reuters 

UN also asks Myanmar to ensure participation of Rohingyas in upcoming elections in November

Three years after the violence that forced about 800,000 Rohingyas to flee from their homes in Rakhine, the situation has deteriorated and little has been done to create viable conditions for their safe return, a senior official of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) has said.

Rohingya crisis: Gambia to submit memorandum to ICJ in October

Dhaka Tribune
UNB
August 27th, 2020

A Rohingya man carrys bricks on a hill for construction works in Jamtoli refugee camp, near Ukhiya in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, on Sunday, August 23, 2020 AFP

The country is working ‘extremely hard with international lawyers,’ Cherno Marenah of Gambia’s Ministry of Justice says

The Gambia will submit the first memorandum in the case at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) over Rohingya issue in October, Cherno Marenah, solicitor general and legal secretary at the Gambia's Ministry of Justice, has said.

"We are working extremely hard along with international lawyers," he said, adding that the Gambia always takes the lead when it comes to humanitarian crises, and they are especially active in the African continent.

Three years later, US pressed to declare Rohingya crisis 'genocide,' hold Myanmar accountable

MYCENTRALOREGON.com
By CONOR FINNEGAN, ABC News

(NEW YORK) — Three years ago, Myanmar’s military escalated its persecution of the Rohingya — a mostly-Muslim ethnic minority — with a sustained, violent campaign of murder, rape and beatings that cleared hundreds of thousands from their land and burned their villages to the ground.

But even amid continued sporadic violence against Rohingya in Myanmar, the United States has declined to declare the campaign a genocide.

Timeline: Three years on, a look at the Rohingya crisis

REUTERS
August 21, 2020

(Reuters) - This month marks the third anniversary of the fleeing of more than 730,000 Rohingya from Myanmar’s Rakhine State to Bangladesh after a military-led crackdown in response to an attack by Muslim militants on Myanmar security posts.

FILE PHOTO: Rohingya refugees carry supplies at Kutupalong refugee camp, near Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, November 20, 2017. REUTERS/Susana Vera/File Photo

Here is a timeline of events in the crisis:

Aug. 25, 2017 - Muslim insurgents of the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA) attack 30 police posts and an army base in the north of Rakhine State.