The Burma Act in the House: What it means for the Rohingya

Jewish World Watch
June 14, 2019
Ann Strimov Durbin

Rohingya children living in a refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh. Photo by Rares Michael Ghilezan  

Congress is not giving up on the Rohingya! After much anticipation, the House companion bill to the newest incarnation of the Burma Act was introduced on Tuesday, June 14. The Burma United through Rigorous Military Accountability Act (H.R. 3190) — sponsored by Rep. Eliot Engel (D-N.Y.) and Rep. Steve Chabot (R-Ohio) — authorizes significant humanitarian assistance and aims to hold Burma’s Tatmadaw military accountable not only for the atrocities it continues to perpetrate against the Rohingya Muslim minority population, but also for campaigns targeting other minority groups within the Buddhist-majority country.

UN member states urged to play effective role over Rohingya issue

The Daily Star
Star Online Report
June 12, 2019

 Bangladesh has urged the UN member states to play an effective role for a permanent solution to the Rohingya crisis and promote an effective migration governance to ensure safe and orderly migration.

The call was made at an Eid reunion organised by the Bangladesh’s Permanent Mission to the UN in New York on Tuesday attended by permanent representatives and diplomats of more than 100 countries including India, Japan, Russia, China, Sri Lanka, Saudi Arabia and Qatar.

I’ll visit China in July to talk on Rohingya issue: PM

The Daily Star

 June 09, 2019

Star Online Report

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. Star file photo

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today said that she would visit China by July to talk about repatriation of Rohingya refugees who fled to Bangladesh from Myanmar’s Rakhine state in the face of ethnic cleansing there.
“I hope that I would be successful in dealing with the Rohingya issue with China,” the PM said while addressing a press conference at her official Gono Bhaban residence this afternoon.

Why Suu Kyi is silent on the Rohingya issue

The Daily Star  

Thursday, "April 18, 2019"

Sayeed Ahmed

The Nobel Peace Prize winner stood up against the ruthless military regime as she fought for democracy, but not when it came to defending the persecuted Rohingya people. Why?

 Aung San Suu Kyi, General Aung San's daughter, rose to prominence during her 15 years of imprisonment over a period of 21 years from 1989 to 2010. PHOTO: REUTERS/Cathal McNaughton

Aung San Suu Kyi's inability to speak up for the Rohingya in Myanmar has been a riddle. The Western world had elevated her almost to the status of sainthood, only to find that she is actually a politician, happy to switch sides as convenient. In the process, it is the Myanmar regime that benefited most from her celebrity status, as they legitimised their hold on power. Suu Kyi, however, defended her government's actions, saying that it cannot solve the Rohingya issue within a short time as the “…situation in Rakhine has been such since many decades.”

Rohingya, trade to dominate Momen-Pompeo talks

Dhaka Tribune
Brajesh Upadhyay, Washington
Published at  April 8th, 2019

                           Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen and US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo
Foreign Minister Momen arrived in Washington DC on Sunday

The Rohingya crisis and US investments in Bangladesh will top the agenda when Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen meets US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, at the State Department, on Monday.

( 12.12.2016 ) Under diplomatic pressure, Myanmar calls ASEAN meet to discuss ‘Rohingya issue’

hindustantimes

Updated: Dec 12, 2016

In this handout photograph released by Myanmar state counsellor office on Sunday shows Muslim minority residents of Maungdaw located in Rakhine State gathering to received humanitarian aid from UNHCR officiated by Rakhine State officials and UNHCR officials on December 9, 2016. Myanmar has called an emergency ASEAN meeting to discuss the Rohingya crisis, a diplomat said on December 12, 2016, as regional tensions rise over a bloody military crackdown on the Muslim minority. (AFP)