UNGA adopts resolution asking Myanmar to ensure safe, sustainable Rohingya return

Dhaka Tribune

Humayun Kabir Bhuiyan
November 15th, 2019

File photo: Rohingya refugees attend a ceremony organised to remember the second anniversary of a military crackdown that prompted a massive exodus of people from Myanmar to Bangladesh, at the Kutupalong refugee camp in Ukhia on August 25, 2019 AFP

The draft resolution was passed in UNGA Third Committee by 140 in favour, 9 against including China and 32 abstentions

The Third Committee of the United Nations General Assembly has adopted a draft resolution, asking Myanmar to demonstrate genuine political goodwill to ensure the safe and sustainable return of the Rohingyas.

UN chief urges Myanmar to ensure 'safe' return of Rohingya

FRANCH24
03/11/2019
Bangkok (AFP)

The UN chief on Sunday urged Myanmar to ensure the "safe" return of Rohingya refugees driven out by army operations, a plea made in front of Aung San Suu Kyi more than two years since her country cracked down on the Muslim minority.

Speaking at a summit of Southeast Asian leaders in Bangkok -- with Myanmar's de facto head Suu Kyi in the room -- Antonio Guterres said he remains "deeply concerned" about the plight of the Rohingya.

Rohingyas Should Go Back to Their Motherland

daily sun
Editorial
A.K.M. Atiqur Rahman
30 August, 2019

Motherland is always like a heaven to each and every human being in the world. I had the opportunity to take part, as a Freedom Fighter, in our Liberation War in 1971 as well as to visit a number of countries during my diplomatic career. I understand the basic difference being in my motherland and in a foreign country. One may pass a financially well off life in a foreign country, but he cannot feel the same mental advantages there like in his motherland. Motherland is the mother of all mothers. It is really difficult to find a person who does not love his or her mother. A child is nothing but a mother’s flesh and blood. It is the natural binding that starts from the day a child grows in the womb of a mother. This is the truth; it does not matter whether a mother is financially poor or rich.

Regulator waiting for ground info before looking into ‘NGO conspiracy’ over Rohingya return

bdnews24.com
Senior Correspondent
bdnews24.com
Updated: 28 Aug 2019

File Photo: A boy holds a placard as hundreds of Rohingya refugees protest against their repatriation at the Unchiprang camp in Teknaf, Bangladesh November 15, 2018. Reuters

The director general of the Bureau of NGO Affairs that regulates non-government organisations in Bangladesh is waiting for the ground information to look into the possible link of NGOs with the botched attempt on Rohingya repatriation on Aug 22.

 

“I am waiting for their information on what really happened there. After getting their information, we will take the next step,” KM Abdus Salam said when asked about the matter at a dialogue in Dhaka on Tuesday.

Two years after the Rohingya genocide, name the crime and stop suggesting sham returns

JEWISH WORLD WIDE
August 23, 2019
Ann Strimov Durbin

 Rohingya children living in a Jewish World Watch-funded bamboo shelter in a refugee camp in Bangladesh. Photos by Rares Michael Ghilezan  

The Rohingya suffered genocide at the hands of their own homeland’s military. This Sunday, Aug. 25, marks the two-year anniversary of the brutal crackdown against this long-persecuted minority group by the Myanmar (Burmese) military and security apparatus known as the Tatmadaw. The “clearance operations” unleashed on that day left tens of thousands killed and raped, and entire villages pillaged and burned to the ground. The crackdown — the apotheosis of a carefully calculated and long-developing genocidal plan against the Rohingya — also triggered a mass exodus of approximately 750,000 people to neighboring Bangladesh.

Today, nearly 1 million Rohingya remain in Bangladesh, living in sprawling, squalid and fetid camps — the majority of them women and children. They are stateless because of their native Myanmar’s refusal to recognize them as citizens, leaving them trapped in a protracted limbo between the urge to return to a homeland where they would face near-certain annihilation and their inability to assimilate into Bangladesh, an impoverished country incapable of absorbing them and eager for them to leave.

U.N. agency, Bangladesh begin survey of Rohingya over return to Myanmar

REUTERS
August 20, 2019

Ruma Paul

 

DHAKA (Reuters) - The United Nations’ refugee agency and Bangladesh authorities on Tuesday started to consult more than 3,000 Rohingya refugees from Myanmar to determine if any want to return home, officials said, as a fresh repatriation bid was launched. 

FILE PHOTO: A Rohingya refugee walks at a refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, March 7, 2019. REUTERS/Mohammad Ponir Hossain

More than 730,000 Rohingya fled Rakhine for neighbouring Bangladesh after a military-led crackdown in August 2017 the United Nations has said was perpetrated with “genocidal intent”, but many refugees refuse to go back, fearing more violence.

UK Commissioner in Bangladesh Stresses 3-Point Rohingya Return Plan

The Irrawaddy
By Muktadir Rashid
9 July 2019

British High Commissioner to Bangladesh Robert Chatterton Dickson speaks at a press conference in Dhaka on Monday

DHAKA—British High Commissioner to Bangladesh Robert Chatterton Dickson reaffirmed a three-point plan for a permanent solution to the Rohingya crisis at a press conference on Monday, but said he looked forward to hearing more about the discussions Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina held with her Chinese counterparts on the matter recently.

Rohingya return top priority in PM’s China visit

NEWAGE
Diplomatic Correspondent 
Published: , Jun 24,2019

Repatriation of Rohingyas would be the top priority issue during prime minister Sheikh Hasina’s visit to China in the first week of July, foreign minister AK Abdul Momen said on Sunday.

‘Beginning repatriation of Rohingya people [to Myanmar] would be a top priority,’ he told journalists at his office, adding, ‘we’ll continue to say they should go.’

The minister said that China would support the signing arrangements with Myanmar to begin the repatriation process.

ASEAN predicts 'smooth' Rohingya return to Myanmar

Prothum Alo------ 

AFP . Yangon | 

Update:  Jun 07, 2019 

 

An ASEAN report predicting half a million Rohingya refugees will return to Myanmar in two years has left observers incredulous for glossing over army atrocities, ignoring an ongoing civil war in Rakhine state and failing to mention the persecuted Muslim minority by name.

The leaked report, penned by the Southeast Asian bloc's "Emergency Response and Assessment Team" (ASEAN-ERAT) and seen by AFP, is expected to be released in the coming weeks.

Outcry as ASEAN predicts 'smooth' Rohingya return to Myanmar

the japanese times
Asia Pacific
AFP-JIJI

YANGON - An ASEAN report predicting half a million Rohingya refugees will return to Myanmar in two years has left observers incredulous for glossing over army atrocities, ignoring an ongoing civil war in Rakhine state and failing to mention the persecuted Muslim minority by name.

The leaked report, penned by the Southeast Asian bloc’s “Emergency Response and Assessment Team” (ASEAN-ERAT) and seen by AFP, is expected to be released in the coming weeks.

UN bodies sign MoU with Myanmar for Rohingya return

AA

SM Najmus Sakib

01.06.2019 

DHAKA, Bangladesh

Two UN bodies have given the Myanmar government one more year, to establish a framework for the voluntary return of ethnic Rohingya Muslims to their homes.

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) on Tuesday signed extension of a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Myanmar for one year.

'Results' needed from Myanmar over Rohingya return: UNHCR head

NEW 
STRAITSTIMES 

By AFP -  

May 25, 2019 

YANGON: Myanmar must ‘show results’ to convince Rohingya refugees to return, the UN’s High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi said Friday at the end of his first visit to Myanmar since the crackdown against Rohingya Muslims in 2017.

Facing Myanmar’s brutal persecution, Rohingya refugees still can’t return home.

PBSO

NEWS
HOUR

Apr 24, 2019 

Transcript

The Rohingya people of Myanmar have long been persecuted by their government, primarily for their Muslim faith amid a Buddhist majority. A million of them have fled the violence to camps in neighboring Bangladesh, which is tiring of their presence. Amna Nawaz talks to Refugees International's Dan Sullivan about genocide and the hostile conditions in Myanmar preventing Rohingya from returning home.

Myanmar must ensure safety of returning Rohingya: UK

The Peninsula

20 Feb 2019

In this file photo taken on November 26, 2017, Rohingya Muslim refugees walk down a hillside in the Kutupalong refugee camp in Bangladesh. AFP/Ed Jones

By Md. Kamruzzaman I Anadolu

DHAKA: A top British official on Tuesday urged Myanmar’s authorities to ensure a safe environment for the repatriation of hundreds of thousands of persecuted Rohingya Muslims who fled the country since August 2017.

Setting Rohingya return timeline a necessity: experts

Diplomatic Correspondent | Published: Jan 28,2019

 

 BRAC University hosts a public lecture delivered by Nanyang Technological University research fellow Alistair DB Cook on complex humanitarian emergencies and disaster management on Rohingya perspective in Dhaka on Sunday. — New Age photo

Local and foreign researchers on Sunday stressed the need for setting a timeline for the repatriation of Rohingya people to Myanmar as the crisis raised concern over ethnic balance and political stability in the region.

No Rohingya return from Bangladesh in sight: UN expert.

bdnews24.com
Published: 26 Jan 2019 01:45 AM BdST

 A UN human rights expert does not expect Rohingya refugees to return to Myanmar from Bangladesh anytime soon.

“It is clear that Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh cannot return to Myanmar in the near future,” the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar, Yanghee Lee, said on Friday.