US Under Secretary of State asks Myanmar to ensure safe return of Rohingyas

Star Online Report 

October 28, 2020 

US Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs David Hale

 

US Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs David Hale has pressed Myanmar to end conflicts and secure return of the Rohingyas sheltered in Bangladesh.

"Under Secretary Hale pressed the Burmese government to end conflict across the country and secure the voluntary, safe, dignified, and sustainable return of Rohingya and other refugees and internally displaced persons," according to a readout of the US State Department.

8 including 7 Rohingyas arrested for selling yaba

Dhaka Tribune 

Tanjil Hasan, Munshiganj
Published : October 25th, 2020

File photo of Yaba tablets Mehedi Hasan/Dhaka Tribune

Police also seized 900 yaba pills and Tk90,000 in cash

Police have arrested eight people, including seven Rohingyas, over yaba sale and for their suspected involvement in yaba trade in Munshiganj.

They were arrested in two separate drives on Saturday afternoon --- one at Muktarpur, and the other at Goalimandra in Louhajang.

Rohingya: Bangladesh seeks Egypt's support for Gambia at ICJ

UNB

UNB News

Dhaka

Publish- October 25, 2020,

Bangladesh has requested Egypt to continue providing required support to The Gambia over the Rohingya issue at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) as a leading OIC member country.

Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen made the request when outgoing Ambassador of Egypt Walid Ahmed Shamseldin met him on Sunday.

The Gambia on Friday filed a more than 500-page Memorial, which also includes over 5,000 pages of supporting material, in its lawsuit against Myanmar at the ICJ in The Hague, making its case for how the government of Myanmar is responsible for genocide against Rohingya.

Teach-in on Rohingya Genocide in Myanmar

Yale Daily News

Razel Suansing
Contributing Reporter
Oct 26, 2020

Eric Wang, Senior Photographer

On Saturday, three human rights experts and student advocates gathered over Zoom to call the Yale community’s attention to the Rohingya Genocide in Myanmar. “Justice for Burma,” moderated by Yale Genocide Studies Program Director David Simon, aimed to educate the public on the origins of Rohingya prejudice in Myanmar, the approaches the international community has taken against the genocide and the steps the Yale community can take to address the atrocities. The Dwight Hall Peace Initiative joined other external organizations including Action Corps, Justice for All, Burma Task Force and International Campaign for the Rohingya to organize the teach-in. Guest speakers included political advisor to the Rohingya legal case Hassan Abdein, human rights advocate Wai Wai Nu, international counsel Arsalan Suleman and student activists Jan Jan Maran and Sirazul Islam.

 

Myanmar will take back Rohingya from Bangladesh: China

AA

Md. Kamruzzaman

DHAKA, Bangladesh

25.10.2020 

Myanmar has told China it is willing to take back Rohingya refugees currently living in Bangladesh, according to the Bangladeshi Foreign Ministry.

In a statement, the ministry said China’s top diplomat Wang Yi conveyed this information to his Bangladeshi counterpart AK Abdul Momen in a phone call on Thursday night.

Report documents Myanmar army rape of Rohingyas

Dhaka Tribune 

 Tribune Desk
October 25th, 2020

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

Interviews with health workers who have treated Rohingya survivors in Bangladesh corroborate allegations of sexual violence by the Myanmar military

A new report from Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) has documented widespread sexual violence committed by the Tatmadaw, the armed forces of Myanmar, and Myanmar security forces against the Rohingyas.

 

Rohingya teen killed in landmine explosion

The Daily Star 

 Sanjoy Kumar Barua
October 25, 2020

A Rohingya teenage boy was killed in a landmine explosion on the Myanmar side of the border along Bandarban on Friday afternoon, said police.

The dead is Mohammad Jaber, 13, of Kutupalong Lambashia Rohingya camp, said Alamgir Hossain, officer-in-charge of Naikhyangchhari Police Station.

Jaber died near pillar number 40 at Ghumdum in Bandarban's Naikhongchhari upazila when he was returning along with a few others from Myanmar to Kutupalong camp on Friday afternoon, said the OC.

Voices rising: Rohingya priorities for an end to their displacement in Myanmar

Analysis
Source Oxfam
25 Oct 2020

$597m pledged for Rohingyas

The Daily Star 

Diplomatic Correspondent
October 24, 2020

Donors aim to meet $1b target in funding for the refugees in 2020, urge Myanmar to create conditions for their return

Rohingya camps in Cox’s Bazar. Photo: Star/ Anisur Rahman

The international community yesterday pledged $597 million in humanitarian assistance for Rohingyas in the region and urged Myanmar to create conditions for their repatriation.

The US, EU, and UK, announced $200 million, €96 million and £37 million.

The announcement came at a donors' conference for the Rohingyas co-hosted by the US, UK, EU and UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR).

This year, Bangladesh received less than 50 percent of the $1 billion required for the Rohingya refugees.

Three years on: Rohingyas at a crossroad

News and Press Release
DRC
22 Oct 2020 

British sanctions against Myanmar military are ‘toothless’, says UK-based pressure group

Myanmar Now
Published on Oct 20, 2020

  

None of the 16 people subject to sanctions in the UK have had any assets frozen there, says Burma Campaign UK 

A member of the border guard force seen in Buthidaung township, Rakhine early last year. (Aye Chan Khaing/Myanmar Now) 

Senior members of Myanmar’s military and security services have been completely unscathed by “toothless” British sanctions imposed in response to the mass killing of Rohingya in Rakhine state, a rights group said.

A recent annual review from the British Treasury showed that none of the 16 individuals, including commander-in chief Min Aung Hlaing, have had any of their assets frozen as a result of measures.

Myanmar Calls Off Polling in Rakhine, Shan Conflict Zones

THE I DIPLOMAT

Sebastian Strangio
October 19, 2020 

 The cancellations were expected, but some say the decisions were selective and benefit the ruling National League for Democracy.

On October 16, Myanmar’s Union Election Commission (UEC) announced the cancellation of the upcoming national elections in conflict-ridden regions of the country, including swathes of territory in Shan and Rakhine states.

Rohingya’s suffering continues in Bangladesh

ASIA TIMES  

Opinion

by Sabria Chowdhury Balland 

October 19, 2020 

While Bangladesh is rightly commended for granting Rohingya refuge, more should be done to respect their rights 

Rohingya at the Kutupalong refugee camp in Bangladesh. Photo: AFP

“Migrants and refugees are not pawns on the chessboard of humanity.” – Pope Francis

The Rohingya have been subjected to persecution, discrimination and torture for decades in Myanmar. In 2017, almost a million of them had to leave their homeland because of fierce human-rights abuses. Consequently, Bangladesh welcomed them. However, three years down the line, the Rohingya are still suffering, still not able to speak up for their rights and still marginalized.

India to give submarine to Myanmar, sends strong message to China

Dhaka Tribune  

Anando Mostofa
October 16th, 2020

Kilo Class Type 636 INS Sindhurakshak. Soviet Kilo-Class submarines can sink just about anything Collected

The move comes as a part of India’s initiative to strengthen ties with Myanmar, according to political analysts

In an unprecedented move to provide military assistance to Myanmar, India is set to hand over INS Sindhuvir, a Kilo class attack submarine, to the Myanmar Navy. 

This will be the first submarine of Myanmar military, who are accused of systematic genocide against the minority ethnic Rohingya Muslim community.

Why Bangladesh Must Let the Rohingya Speak for Themselves

THE I DIPLOMAT

By Saad Hammadi
October 16, 2020

 

Any durable solution for the Rohingya will not come through more restrictions on their lives.

People shop for vegetables at the Kutupalong Rohingya refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, Tuesday, June 2, 2020. Credit: AP Photo/Shafiqur Rahman

Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh drew the attention and concern of the world when they fled deadly violence in Myanmar in 2017. Three years later, they are among the most disempowered people in the world, with the least control over their lives. Recent events have accentuated this, and it is time for change.

Responding to Genocide half a world away

UVIC

University od Victoria
Law
Jonathan Woods
October 15, 2020

Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, March 2018. UN Women set up a centre in the Balukhali refugee camp to provide a safe space for Rohingya women and adolescent girls. Photo credit: UN Women/Allison Joyce

Virtual roundtable results in calls to action in seeking justice for the Rohingya

“Canada must take immediate, robust action on justice for the Rohingya people” and must fully address gender-based sexual violence and other gender-based atrocities that have been “central in the genocide against the Rohingya.”

Rohingyas fear deportation after Saudi request to Bangladesh

NEWAGE

Online Desk
Oct 15,2020  

Rohingya refugees wait to collect relief materials in Kutupalong refugee camp in Ukhia on October 14, 2020. — AFP photo 

 

Rohingya living in Saudi Arabia are worried that Riyadh will deport them, after the kingdom threatened Bangladesh with a migration ban unless Dhaka gave Bangladeshi passports to members of the persecuted minority, reports the Middle East Eye.

Last month, Bangladesh’s foreign minister AK Abdul Momen confirmed in a Dhaka press conference that Riyadh had made the request for Bangladesh to give Rohingya living in Saudi Arabia Bangladeshi citizenship.

‘Many of the refugees have never come to Bangladesh and have no idea about the country. They know Saudi culture and speak the Arabic language,’ said Momen.

Rohingya fear deportation after Saudi Arabia calls on Bangladesh to give minority passports

M&E

MIDDLE EAST EYE

Areeb Ullah  

Date: 14 October 2020

 

Riyadh threatens Dhaka with curbing migration if it fails to adhere to its request, which could be disastrous for Bangladesh's economy

Rohingya refugees living in Malaysia shout slogans during a protest against the treatment of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar, in Kuala Lumpur on 8 September 2017 (AFP)

 

Rohingya living in Saudi Arabia are worried that Riyadh will deport them, after the kingdom threatened Bangladesh with a migration ban unless Dhaka gave Bangladeshi passports to members of the persecuted minority.

Last month, Bangladesh’s Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen confirmed in a Dhaka press conference that Riyadh had made the request for Bangladesh to give Rohingya living in Saudi Arabia Bangladeshi citizenship.

Anti-migrant sentiment fanned on Facebook in Malaysia

REUTERS

By Rozanna Latiff, A. Ananthalakshmi
October 14, 2020

 

 

KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - As coronavirus infections surged in Malaysia this year, a wave of hate speech and misinformation aimed at Rohingya Muslim refugees from Myanmar began appearing on Facebook.

FILE PHOTO: Rohingyas living in Malaysia protest against the treatment of Myanmar's Rohingya Muslims near the Myanmar embassy in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia September 8, 2017. REUTERS/Lai Seng Sin/File Photo

Alarmed rights groups reported the material to Facebook.

But six months later, many posts targeting the Rohingya in Malaysia remain on the platform, including pages such as “Anti Rohingya Club” and “Foreigners Mar Malaysia’s Image”, although those two pages were removed after Reuters flagged them to Facebook recently.

Bangladesh-Myanmar: Rohingya Conundrum – Analysis

eurasiareview

By S. Binodkumar Singh*
October 13, 2020

Rohingya's in Kutupalong Refugee Camp in Bangladesh. Photo taken by John Owens/VOA, Wikipedia Commons.

 

On October 6, 2020, four people were killed in clashes between two groups of Rohingyas over establishing supremacy at the Lombasia Camp in the Kutupalang area of Cox’s Bazar District. 20 persons were injured in the violent clashes.