The West Is Returning To The Rohingya Issue In An Attempt To Divide & Rule This Part Of Asia

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By Andrew Korybko
aprill 5, 2024

Russian Permanent Representative to the UN Vasily Nebenzia condemned the UK for calling an open session of the Security Council on Myanmar since “there are things that cannot be discussed in the ‘megaphone diplomacy’ mode” that the British insisted on. Thursday’s talks mostly focused on the situation in Rakhine State, which is where the Bangladeshi-originating Rohingya mostly resided prior to 2017’s conflict pushing most of them into that neighboring nation. Here are some background briefings:

We must not allow Myanmar to become a forgotten crisis: UK statement at the UN Security Council

GOV.UK
From: Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office and Dame Barbara Woodward DCMG OBE Published4 April 2024

Statement by Ambassador Barbara Woodward at the UN Security Council meeting on Myanmar. 

Thank you President, and thank you ASG Khiari and Director Doughten for your insightful briefings.

Colleagues, as we’ve heard, it is now over three years since the Myanmar military overturned the democratically elected government, setting the country on a path of violence and humanitarian suffering.

UN Human Rights Council 55: UK Statement on Interactive Dialogue on Myanmar

Speech
From:Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office and Rita French
Location: Geneva
Published:1 March 2024

High Commissioner, we share your deep concern about rising atrocity risks across Myanmar.

Military airstrikes and the shelling of civilian targets continues to demonstrate a shocking disregard for innocent lives.

UK seeks long-term solution to Rohingya crisis

daily sun
Diplomacy
Daily Sun Report, DhakaWednesday,
18 October, 2023,

UK Minister for the Indo-Pacific Anne-Marie Trevelyan speaks at a UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) regional conference in Bangkok on the Rohingya crisis on Tuesday

The UK Minister for the Indo-Pacific, Anne-Marie Trevelyan, on Tuesday announced further UK funding of £4.5 million to provide vital humanitarian services to Rohingya refugees and host communities in Bangladesh.

She made the announcement at a UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) regional conference in Bangkok on the Rohingya crisis.

ရိုဟင်ဂျာတွေအတွက် အကူအညီ ဒေါ်လာသုံးသန်းကျော် UK ထောက်ပံ့မည်

VOA
ဗွီအိုအေ (မြန်မာဌာန)
၁၃ စက်တင်ဘာ၊ ၂၀၂၃ 

Bangladesh Rohingya

ဘင်္ဂလားဒေ့ရှ်မှာနေထိုင်နေကြရတဲ့ ရိုဟင်ဂျာ ဒုက္ခသည်တွေအတွက် ပေါင် ၃ သန်း အမေရိကန် ဒေါ်လာအားဖြင့် ၃.၇ သန်း ရံပုံငွေထည့်ဝင်မယ်လို့ ယူကေ က အင်္ဂါနေ့က ကြေညာလိုက်ကြောင်း တူရကီသတင်းဌာန Anadolu က ဖော်ပြပါတယ်။

UK provides £3,000,000 of new humanitarian support for Rohingya refugees

GOV.UK

From: British High Commission Dhaka
Published12 September 2023

This funding will help refugees in Cox’s Bazar and Bhasan Char access healthcare, clean water, hygiene and sanitation services, and cooking fuel.

 

Sir Philip Barton, Permanent Under-Secretary at the UK’s Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO), has announced that the UK will provide £3,000,000 (around 42 crore taka) of new funding through the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) to support Rohingya refugees in Cox’s Bazar and Bhasan Char.

UN HRC53: UK Statement for Panel Discussion on Myanmar

GOV.UK
From: Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office and Rita French
Published21 June 2023

 Speech 

Statement for Panel Discussion on human rights violations against Rohingya & other minorities in Myanmar. Delivered by UK Human Rights Ambassador Rita French. 

Thank you, Mr President.

The United Kingdom thanks the distinguished panellists for their presentations.

We share your deep concern regarding the human rights situation of Rohingya and members of minorities in Myanmar, which has deteriorated since the coup.

UK provides additional support for Rohingya and host communities in Bangladesh, in the aftermath of cyclone Mocha

UK.GOV
From: British High Commission Dhaka
Published21 May 2023

The UK is providing an additional £2.3 million (over 300 million Taka) in humanitarian support for the Rohingya refugees and host communities in Bangladesh. 

This new UK support will provide Rohingya communities with health care, shelter, and basic site management support. It will also strengthen safeguarding systems for Rohingya refugees and host communities in Cox’s Bazar.

Acting British High Commissioner to Bangladesh, Matt Cannell, announced this additional funding during a visit to the Rohingya camps and host communities in Cox’s Bazar in the aftermath of cyclone Mocha.

UK announces humanitarian support for 175,000 affected by Cyclone Mocha in Myanmar

 Press release 

From: Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office 

and The Rt Hon Andrew Mitchell MP 

Published19 May 2023

 

The UK has announced £2 million in new humanitarian funding to support vulnerable communities in Myanmar, following the impact of Cyclone Mocha.

• the UK is providing an additional £2 million to support communities impacted by Cyclone Mocha in Myanmar
• this new funding will supply clean water and shelter for up to 175,000 people

2023 HRW REPORT ( MYANMAR )

HRW

2023 REPORT

• Torture, Political Executions, Deaths in Custody
• War Crimes and Other Atrocities
• Displaced Populations and Aid
• Persecution of Rohingya
• Shrinking Civic Space and Legal Challenges
• Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
• Key International Actors

Since staging a coup on February 1, 2021, the Myanmar military has carried out a brutal nationwide crackdown on millions of people opposed to its rule. The junta security forces have carried out mass killings, arbitrary arrests, torture, sexual violence, and other abuses that amount to crimes against humanity. Freedom of speech and assembly face severe restrictions.

This resolution sends a firm message to the Myanmar military: UK Statement at the UN Security Council

GOV.UK
21 December 2022
From: Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office and Dame Barbara Woodward DCMG OBE

Explanation of vote by Ambassador Barbara Woodward at the Security Council meeting on the Situation in Myanmar 

Thank you, President.

Today we have adopted the first Security Council resolution on the situation in Myanmar. It is the result of many weeks of careful consultation with Council Members, with ASEAN members, and with other key regional partners.

In February 2021, the military overturned the results of a democratic election, seized power and plunged Myanmar and its 55 million people into a series of cascading crises - humanitarian, economic and political. The coup has had negative consequences for the region and its stability, including by exacerbating existing challenges facing the Rohingya.

Looking forward to working closely: PM in greeting Rishi Sunak

The Daily Star

UNB, Dhaka
Tue Oct 25, 2022

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today (October 25, 2022) greeted new British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak saying she was looking forward to working closely with him in further strengthening "our long-standing political, economic, and strategic partnerships".

"I, on behalf of the Government and the people of Bangladesh, extend the heartiest congratulations to Your Excellency on your assumption of the Office of the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland," she said in a congratulatory letter.

ေဖ့စ္ဘုတ္ကို ႐ိုဟင္ဂ်ာဒုကၡသည္မ်ား တရားစြဲမႈ အလား အလာ

VOA
ဗီြအိုေအၿမန္မာပိုင္း
ဝင္းမင္း
11 ဒီဇင္ဘာ၊ 2021  

ဘဂၤလားေဒ့ရွ္ႏုိင္ငံ ကုတုပေလာင္ ဒုကၡသည္စခန္းတြင္းမွ ႐ုိဟင္ဂ်ာဒုကၡသည္မ်ား။ (ဧၿပီ ၁၊ ၂၀၂၀)

႐ိုဟင္ဂ်ာေတြအေပၚ အၾကမ္းဖက္တဲ့အထိ အမုန္းတရားေတြ ျပန႔္ပြားေစတဲ့ ေရးသားေဖာ္ျပမႈေတြ၊ သတင္း မွား ေတြကို ေဖ့စ္ဘုတ္က ထိထိေရာက္ေရာက္ အေရးယူ မကိုင္တြယ္ခဲ့ဘူးလို႔ စြပ္စြဲၿပီး ႐ိုဟင္ဂ်ာ ဒုကၡသည္ေတြက Meta ကုမၸဏီကို ေဒၚလာ ၁၅၀ ဘီလ်ံ ေလ်ာ္ေၾကးေပးဖို႔ အေမရိကန္ျပည္ေထာင္စုမွာ ၿပီးခဲ့တဲ့ တနလၤာေန႔က တရားစြဲတင္ခဲ့ပါတယ္။ ဒီစြဲဆိုမႈေၾကာင့္ လူအေျမာက္အျမား ေသဆုံးခဲ့တဲ့ ျဖစ္ရပ္အေပၚ နည္းပညာကုမၸဏီႀကီး တခုအတြက္ နာမည္ဆိုး က်န္ခဲ့လိမ့္မယ္လို႔ ၿဗိတိန္အေျခစိုက္ ျမန္မာ႐ိုဟင္ဂ်ာမ်ားအဖြဲ႔ ဥကၠ႒ ဦးထြန္းခင္က ေျပာပါတယ္။ ကိုဝင္းမင္းက ဆက္သြယ္ေမးျမန္း တင္ျပထားပါတယ္။

Rohingya genocide: Facebook faces massive $200 bn legal action in UK, US

Ahamedabad Mirror
06-12-2021

Rohingya genocide: Facebook faces massive $200 bn legal action in UK, US 

 

Lawyers in the UK and the US on Monday initiated coordinated legal campaigns against Facebook, now known as Meta, on behalf of Rohingya Muslims for its alleged role in facilitating the genocide perpetrated by the Myanmar regime and extremist civilians against the Rohingya people.  

 

According to the lawyers, Facebook contributed to the 2017 genocide of Rohingya Muslims by allowing hate speech against the persecuted minority to be propagated in Myanmar. The United Nations had described the violence as "a textbook example of ethnic cleansing".

UK should self-examine before advising others on human rights, democracy: Momen

The Daily Star

Star Digital Report
Mon Jul 12, 2021 

Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen. File photo

Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen has suggested that the UK pay attention to its position before advising others on human rights and democracy.

"They should look at themselves in the mirror before advising others. If they cannot improve their situation, they should stop this practice," he said in response to queries from reporters at his ministry today regarding the UK's global report on Human Rights and Democracy of 2020.

Media freedom in Bangladesh under “pressure”, political freedom “restricted”: UK

UNB

UNB NEWS
DHAKA
JULY 08, 202

The United Kingdom (UK) has said media freedom in Bangladesh is under “pressure” while political freedom “remained restricted”.

In its latest report titled "Human Rights and Democracy Report 2020", the UK said there was no overall improvement in the human rights situation in Bangladesh in 2020.

The UK government said it will continue to address governance and human rights concerns in Bangladesh through diplomatic engagement and development programming.

Bangladesh abstains from voting against Myanmar

Prothom Alo 

Prothom Alo English Desk

Published: 20 Jun 2021, 

The United Nations logo is seen on a window in an empty hallway at United Nations headquarters during the 75th annual UN General Assembly high-level debate in New York, US, on 21 September 2020Reuters

The UN General Assembly on Friday took a rare step of calling on member states to “prevent the flow of arms” into Myanmar, which is a part of a non-binding resolution condemning the military coup in the violence-wracked country.

The resolution -- which did not go so far as to call for a global arms embargo -- also demands that the military “immediately stop all violence against peaceful demonstrators,” reports Reuters.

It was approved by 119 countries, with 36 abstaining including China, Myanmar’s main ally. Only one country, Belarus, voted against it. Bangladesh also abstained from voting.

Aid cuts ‘to leave 100,000 refugees without water’

Morning Star

SUNDAY, JUNE 6, 2021


PM faces rebellion after launching £4bn raid on overseas budget

TORY foreign aid cuts will leave 100,000 refugees without water and devastate health services for the world’s most vulnerable, campaigners have warned.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson was slammed by MPs on all sides for his decision to temporarily reduce foreign aid from 0.7 per cent of national income to 0.5 per cent, breaking a 2019 manifesto committment in the process.

The government claimed that the reduction was reasonable given the economic disruption caused by the pandemic.

UK accused of ‘abandoning’ Rohingya with ‘catastrophic’ 40% aid cut

The Guardian

Kaamil Ahmed
Fri 21 May 2021

Children in overcrowded Cox’s Bazar settlement likely to suffer most from reduced humanitarian spending, say campaigners

Campaigners have warned of a ‘lost generation’ of children if funding targets for the response in Myanmar are not met. Photograph: Kazi Salahuddin Razu/NurPhoto/REX/Shutterstock

The government has been accused of abandoning Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh after cutting aid to the humanitarian response by more than 40%.

The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) pledged £27.6m to the humanitarian sector’s joint response plan launched this week, compared with £47.5m last year.

International aid for Rohingya in Cox's Bazar camps declines

AsiaNews.it
05/20/2021

Bangladesh is concerned about funding cuts to the refugee aid programme for Muslims who fled Myanmar. Donor conference comes up with only 35 per cent of what is required. UNHCR chief Filippo Grandi tells donors not to take for granted the host community’s patience, asks Asian donors to step up to the plate.

Dhaka (AsiaNews/Agencies) – The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) issued an appeal this week to fund the 2021 Joint Response Plan destined for Rohingya refugees in Bangladeshi camps. So far this year, funding is down.