Agenda: World must not forget Rohingya crisis

The Herald
By Agenda ,By Dr Abdullah Yusuf

31st August

Dr Abdullah Yusuf, Lecturer in Politics and International Relations, University of Dundee

THE horrifying situation in Afghanistan should act as a reminder of other grave humanitarian crises engulfing the world. I have spent the past few years researching the impact of other conflicts, many of which have been all but been forgotten by the international community.

It is now four years since the Myanmar military embarked upon a brutal campaign of ethnic cleansing that forcibly displaced around a million Rohingya Muslims into Bangladeshi refugee camps. The persecution of the Rohingya is not new, but the scale and magnitude of the displacement since August 2017, is unprecedented. More than 700,000 refugees fled following actions internationally described as genocidal.

Bangladesh Looks To Russia To Resolve Rohingya Crisis – Analysis

eurasiareview
By Anand Kumar*
Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (MP-IDSA)

August 8, 2021 

Rohingya refugees. Photo Credit: Tasnim News Agency

The issue of Rohingya refugees has turned out to be a major problem for Bangladesh in recent times, especially after the mass exodus of Rohingyas from Myanmar in August 2017. Bangladesh has tried to engage bilaterally with Myanmar and also attempted to garner international support to deal with this problem effectively. It has managed to get support not only from the Western countries and the Muslim world but also from important international organisations like the United Nations (UN). Despite this, the problem is far from resolved. In its bid to find a solution to this problem and to repatriate Rohingyas to Myanmar, Bangladesh has now sought the help of Russia as the relationship of the Myanmar junta with Russia is gathering strength.

‘Track Two Diplomacy’ needed for sustainable solution of Rohingya crisis

Financial Express
June 20, 2021

Social cohesion, environmental recovery need to be ensured until repatriation

The ultimate solution to the Rohingya crisis is the sustainable solution, and to ensure that, track two diplomacy is needed for putting pressure on the Myanmar government.

Speakers during a webinar on Sunday organised by Cox’s Bazar CSO NGO Forum (CCNF) said this.

They also urged all stakeholders to ensure the human dignity of the Rohingya community, and social cohesion until the repatriation, says a statement.

Bangladesh, Japan agree to work together for tackling Covid-19, Rohingya crisis

The Daily Star
Star Digital Report
June 09, 2021

Japanese Ambassador Ito Naoki calls on Bangladesh's State Minister for Foreign Affairs Shahriar Alam at his office on June 8, 2021. Photo: Collected

Bangladesh and Japan have agreed to work together to tackle the challenges of Covid-19 and Rohingya crisis.

The consensus came when Japanese Ambassador Ito Naoki called on State Minister for Foreign Affairs Shahriar Alam at his office yesterday (Tuesday).

They comprehensively discussed the bilateral relations and issues of common concerns, says a foreign ministry statement today.

Rohingya Crisis And OIC: Assessing The Role – Analysis

eurasiareview
Shaikh Abdur Rahman
May 20, 2021 

1. Introduction

The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), after the United Nations (UN) is the second leading international governmental organization, with the membership of 57 states from four continents. [1] It represents the Islamic world and strives for protecting its interests. Bangladesh, a member of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), has conceded much of the socio-economic, political and security cost of providing asylum to approximately 1.2 million Rohingya refugees. The institution has so far played an important role in the Rohingya crisis through fundraising and legal support.

Rohingya crisis: 2021 JRP appealing for $943 million to be launched Tuesday

Dhaka Tribune

Humayun Kabir Bhuiyan
May 16th, 2021

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

This must not become a forgotten crisis, UNHCR says, calling for renewed and strong international support

The international joint response plan (JRP) to look after the persecuted Rohingyas sheltered in Cox’s Bazar for 2021 will be launched in Geneva on Tuesday.

In the JRP, to be launched virtually due to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, the United Nations agencies and NGO partners will appeal for $943 million to meet the basic needs of the Rohingyas and the host communities.

Rohingya crisis - WHO Bangladesh situation report #9, 14 May 2021 (Period covered: Weeks 17-18, 26 April-9 May)

Situation Report 

Source :WHO
17 May 2021

ASEAN, Myanmar and Rohingya crisis

Prothomalo

M Sakhawat Hossain
05 May 2021,

I was speaking at a digital seminar at the Bangladesh Institute of International Strategic Studies (BIISS) on 21 April. The topic of the seminar was ‘Rohingya Crisis: Response of the International Community and Repatriation Process’. My presentation was on ‘ASEAN, Myanmar and the Rohingya Crisis’. In other words, I discussed the stance of the ASEAN member states on the Rohingya crisis and Myanmar.

BIISS is better known as the foreign ministry’s think tank and so naturally the ministry’ s Myanmar desk director was present at the seminar. State minister for foreign affairs Shahriar Alam, as chief guest, gave the concluding speech. The issue was discussed quite openly and the general consensus was that Bangladesh would have to actively step up pressure on Myanmar. While keeping the doors open to continued bilateral talks and repatriation, diplomatic efforts would also have to be increased in the international arena.

Saudi UN envoy chairs meeting for OIC members about Rohingya crisis

ARAB NEWS
April 27, 2021

The contact group of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation on the Rohingya is led by Saudi Arabia. (Twitter/@OIC_OCI)

• Delegates discussed the humanitarian situation due to the COVID-19 pandemic
• They also discussed political developments in Myanmar

LONDON: Saudi Arabia’s permanent representative to the UN, Abdallah Al-Mouallimi, and the UN’s special envoy for Myanmar, Christine Schraner Burgener, chaired a virtual meeting about the Rohingya crisis on Tuesday.

Representatives of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation’s Contact Group on the Rohingya Muslim Minority were briefed on the latest developments in the humanitarian situation, and discussed how best it might be addressed, taking into account the effects of the coronavirus pandemic.

The delegates also talked about the latest political developments in Myanmar.

Link : Here

IOM Bangladesh Rohingya Humanitarian Crisis Response - Monthly Situation Report (March 2021)

Situation Report
Source:IOM
19 Apr 2021

Bangladesh hopes Malaysia plays instrumental role to help solve Rohingya crisis

malay mail
Tuesday, 13 Apr 2021

Bangladesh High Commissioner to Malaysia Md Golam Sarwar said Malaysia was one of the countries that had immediately responded to Bangladesh’s call for assistance during the early weeks of the Rohingya crisis in 2017. — Reuters pic

KUALA LUMPUR, April 13 — Bangladesh hopes Malaysia would play an instrumental role to move the issue of Rohingya refugees forward within Asean and help Bangladesh achieve a durable solution to this crisis.

IOM Bangladesh: Rohingya Humanitarian Crisis Response, Situation Report on the Fire Response (One Week Later)

Situation Report 

Source :IOM
30 Mar 2021

Link : Here

Bangladesh: Assessment of the Education Sector response to the Rohingya crisis - Rohingya refugee response (March 2021)

Education Cluster
REACH,UNICEF
30 Mar 2021

Link : Here

Bangladesh urges Biden Administration to play a leading role in resolving Rohingya crisis

IBG News
By Suman Munshi
February 28, 2021

Bangladesh urges Biden Administration to play a leading role in resolving Rohingya crisis

 

 

Bangladesh urges Biden Administration to play a leading role in resolving Rohingya crisis:

Foreign Minister has requested the new US Administration to play a leading role, both bilaterally and multilaterally, to bring about a durable solution of the Rohingya crisis, during his interaction with the US Think Tank ‘Newlines Institute on Strategy and Policy’ yesterday.

Director of the Institute Dr. Azeem Ibrahim moderated the event. During the discussion Dr. Momen reiterated that the only durable solution is the repatriation for the persecuted 1.1 million Rohingyas temporarily sheltered in Bangladesh. Among others, dignitaries, including former US Ambassador to the United Nations, Commissioner from the US Congress on Religious Freedom, and prominent journalists, Members of Congress, State Department officials, UN personnel, and senior leadership of the OIC attended the event, both physically and online. The event was live-streamed on YouTube.

Egyptian Ambassador assures Bangladesh PM of Cairo’s continued support over Rohingya crisis

THE POLICY TIMES
TPT Bureau
February 18, 2021

Egypt will continue its support to repatriate the forcibly displaced Rohingyas to their homeland in Myanmar.

DHAKA Bureau Policy Times:

Egyptian Ambassador in Dhaka Bangladesh Haytham Ghobashy Wednesday (17 February) assured Bangladesh Prime Minister, Sheikh Hasina, his country would continue to stand by Bangladesh over the Rohingya crisis as he paid a courtesy call on her at the premier’s official Ganobhaban residence.

“The newly appointed envoy said Egypt will continue its support to repatriate the forcibly displaced Rohingyas to their homeland in Myanmar,” a premier’s office spokesman said after the call on.

Rohingya crisis: PM Hasina pushes for peaceful solution

Dhaka Tribune 

UNB
January 28th, 2021

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina virtually hands over certificates among participants of Defence Services Command and Staff College (DSCSC) 2020-21 Course at Sheikh Hasina Complex in Mirpur Cantonment in Dhaka on Thursday, January 28, 2021 ISPR

 

Bangladesh is continuing discussions with Myanmar so that they take back their citizens, says the prime minister

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said Bangladesh continues its discussions with Myanmar with a friendly attitude for the repatriation of Rohingyas without engaging in any conflict for the sake of regional security and development.

Bangladesh to buy Myanmar rice, putting aside Rohingya crisis

REUTERS
Ruma Paul
APAC
January 24, 2021 

General view of a rice field in a valley in Nyaung Shwe, Shan state, Myanmar, November 6, 2019. REUTERS/Ann Wang

 

DHAKA (Reuters) - Bangladesh will buy 100,000 tonnes of rice from Myanmar, putting aside a rift over the Rohingya refugee crisis as the government races to overcome a shortage of the staple food for the country’s more than 160 million people.

High rice prices pose a problem for the Dhaka government, which is ramping up efforts to replenish its depleted reserves after floods last year ravaged crops and sent prices to a record high.

Muslim-majority Bangladesh and mostly Buddhist Myanmar have been at odds over the more than 1 million Muslim Rohingya refugees in camps in southern Bangladesh. The vast majority of them fled Myanmar in 2017 from a military-led crackdown that U.N investigators said was executed with “genocidal intent” - assertions that Myanmar denies.

Rohingya Crisis: Dhaka seeks active global support

The Daily Star 

January 24, 2021
Unb, Dhaka

Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen. File photoForeign Minister AK Abdul Momen. File photo

Bangladesh has sought effective and proactive support from the international community to find a solution to the Rohingya crisis apart from management of the huge displacement.

"We need effective and proactive support from the international community to manage this huge displacement," said Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen.

He said the Global Forum on Migration and Development (GFMD) provides a voluntary, non-binding and government-led process to discuss all possible solutions.

The minister also said they had the firsthand experience as Bangladesh is hosting 1.1 million Rohingyas who were forcibly displaced from their ancestral home and a good number of Bangladesh population was regularly displaced due to erratic climate change every year.

OIC FMs meet today, Rohingya among top agenda

NEWAGE

Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha . Niamey, Niger
Published: Nov 27,2020

Foreign ministers of Organisation of Islamic Cooperation countries are set to meet together in Niger today while the Rohingya genocide case with the International Court of Justice is expected to come up among the top agendas.

OIC secretary general Yousef Al-Othaimeen said in a statement that the council of foreign ministers would discuss how to raise funds for the Rohingya case at the ICJ in addition to other issues concerning the Muslim world like Palestinian cause, fight against violence, extremism and terrorism, Islamophobia and religious defamation.

OIC secretariat set the stage for the two-day 47th session of 57-member OIC’s council of foreign ministers meeting in Niger’s capital Niamey from Nov 27-28.

Rohingya Crisis: UN adopts resolution for urgent solution

The Daily Star

Unb, Dhaka
November 20, 2020 

The United Nations has adopted a resolution stating that there should be an urgent solution to the Rohingya crisis to ensure safe and sustainable return of Rohingyas to their homes by creating a conducive environment inside Myanmar.

The resolution on "The situation of human rights of the Rohingya Muslims and other minorities in Myanmar" called for specific actions on part of Myanmar, such as addressing the root causes of the Rohingya crisis, including granting them citizenship, and ensuring their safe and sustainable return to their homes.