Still unsafe for Rohingya to return to Myanmar: US envoy

Myanmar Now

AFP,July 14, 2023

A top US rights envoy in Bangladesh said Thursday that conditions remain unsafe for the return of ethnic Rohingya refugees to Myanmar, with Washington pledging further aid for the crisis.

Bangladesh is home to around a million members of the stateless minority, most of whom fled a 2017 military crackdown in neighbouring Myanmar that is now subject to a genocide probe at the International Criminal Court.

Burmese opposition figure Dr Sasa: 'The world has to stop another genocide'

FRANCH 24   

Marc Perelman
08/04/2021

THE INTERVIEW © FRANCE 24

Exiled Burmese opposition figure Dr Sasa is the UN envoy for Myanmar's CRPH, a committee representing the parliament that was elected in November but which has not been able to take office because of the military coup. Dr Sasa called on the international community – Russia and China included – to stop the junta's military crackdown on Myanmar's people. He called on world leaders to act now to prevent the civil unrest from turning into a "genocide" that might soon send refugees into neighbouring countries.

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Myanmar junta offers ceasefire to some, as UN envoy warns of 'bloodbath'

CNN
Richard Roth, Caitlin Hu and Taylor Barnes,
April 1, 2021

UN envoy says a 'bloodbath is imminent' in Myanmar 04:51

(CNN)As the United Nations Security Council discussed Myanmar's military coup on Wednesday, the country's junta declared a "ceasefire" -- though it said it would continue to respond to "actions that disrupt government security and administration."

The ceasefire appeared to refer to actions taken against ethnic armed groups, where fighting has increased since the junta's seizure of power in a coup on February 1. The statement, carried on Myanmar's state television MRTV, called on ethnic armed groups to "keep the peace" and said the military would "suspend its operations unilaterally from April 1 to April 30."

Excluded from the peace, however, are those who "disrupt" government security.

Myanmar Military Fires U.N. Envoy Who Spoke Against Its Coup

The New York Times

By Richard C. Paddock
Feb. 27, 2021

The regime fired the ambassador, U Kyaw Moe Tun, who called for international help in restoring demo
cracy and gave the three-finger salute of the protest movement.



An image released by the United Nations shows U Kyaw Moe Tun, Myanmar’s ambassador to the U.N., pleading for international action in overturning the military coup in the country.Credit...United Nations Tv, via Reuters

BANGKOK — Myanmar’s month-old military regime fired the country’s ambassador to the United Nations on Saturday, a day after he gave an impassioned speech to the U.N. General Assembly in New York, pleading for international help in restoring democracy to his homeland.

The ambassador, U Kyaw Moe Tun, ended his speech with a three-finger salute, a gesture from the “Hunger Games” films that has become a symbol of pro-democratic defiance for protesters in Myanmar and, before that, in neighboring Thailand.

State television announced his firing, saying he had “betrayed the country and spoken for an unofficial organization which doesn’t represent the country and had abused the power and responsibilities of an ambassador.”

Outgoing UN Envoy Hopes Myanmar’s Suu Kyi Can Change

THE I DIPLOMAT
By Luke Hunt
May 06, 2020

Explosions heard in Rakhine villages as military searches door-to-door. 

Outgoing UN human rights envoy for Myanmar Yanghee Lee says she believes State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi can change after failing to live up to her reputation as a humanitarian. But that seems unlikely to happen as fighting continues in the troubled northern state of Rakhine.

Sources close to the fighting said explosions had been heard near Rathedaung, where the Myanmar military (known as Tatmadaw) was going door-to-door in three villages searching for members of the Arakan Army, which it describes as a “terrorist group.”

The U.N. Envoy for Myanmar Will 'Ring the Alarm Bell' If No Action is Taken on the Rohingya Crisis

TIMES
By Edith M. Lederer / AP

10:52 PM EDT 

(UNITED NATIONS) — The U.N. envoy for Myanmar said Monday that progress on alleviating the crisis that led more than 720,000 Rohingya Muslims to flee to neighboring Bangladesh has been slow and if there is no action it will be time to “ring the alarm bell.”

Christine Schraner-Burgener was responding to frustrated speeches and questions from many countries — from Bangladesh to Saudi Arabia to the United States — on the lack of progress in returning Rohingya nearly two years after they fled a violent crackdown by Myanmar’s military.

‘UN special envoy sees no immediate solution to Rohingya crisis’

Dhaka Tribune
Humayun Kabir Bhuiyan 
Saturday, Apr 06, 2019

Bangladesh’s Refugee Relief and Repatriation Commissioner (RRRC) Mohammad Abul Kalam Dhaka Tribune

An interview with Refugee Relief and Repatriation Commissioner Mohammad Abul Kalam

The United Nations Secretary General’s Special Envoy on Myanmar Christine Schraner Burgener sees no immediate solution to the Rohingya crisis engulfing Bangladesh in the worst possible manner, Bangladesh’s Refugee Relief and Repatriation Commissioner (RRRC) Mohammad Abul Kalam has said.

ဘဂၤါလီအေရး ဘဂၤလားေဒ့ရွ္၏ အျပဳသေဘာပူးေပါင္း ေဆာင္ရြက္မႈ လိုအပ္ဟု တပ္ခ်ဳပ္ေျပာ

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By ထက္အာကာေက်ာ္ 

On  Thu, 2019-03-28 
Location ရန္ကုန္ Issue No. No. 2096, 

Thursday, March 28, 2019

ဘဂၤါလီအေရးႏွင့္ ပတ္သက္၍ ဘဂၤလားေဒ့ရွ္ႏုိင္ငံ ကအျပဳသေဘာေဆာင္ပူးေပါင္း ေဆာင္ရြက္ရန္လို အပ္ သည္ဟု တပ္မေတာ္ကာကြယ္ေရးဦးစီး ခ်ဳပ္ ဗိုလ္ခ်ဳပ္မွဴးႀကီးမင္းေအာင္ လိႈင္ကေျပာၾကားသည္။

ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံသို႔ (၆) ႀကိမ္ ေျမာက္ခရီးစဥ္အျဖစ္လာေရာက္ ေသာ ကုလသမဂၢအေထြေထြအ တြင္းေရးမွဴးခ်ဳပ္ ၏ အထူးကိုယ္ စားလွယ္မစၥစ္ခရစၥတင္းရွယန္နာ ဘာဂီနာကို ေနျပည္ေတာ္ရွိဘုရင့္ ေနာင္ရိပ္သာဧည့္ ခန္း မေဆာင္၌ မတ္လ ၂၆ ရက္က လက္ခံေတြ႕ ဆံုစဥ္တပ္မေတာ္ကာကြယ္ေရး ဦးစီးခ်ဳပ္က ယင္းသို႔ထည့္သြင္း ေျပာၾကားျခင္းျဖစ္သည္။

U.N. envoy fears 'new crisis' for Rohingya if moved to Bangladesh island

REUTERS
March 11, 2019

GENEVA (Reuters) - A United Nations human rights investigator on Myanmar voiced deep concern on Monday over Bangladesh’s plan to relocate 23,000 Rohingya refugees in April to a remote island, saying it may not be habitable and could create a potential “new crisis”.

FILE PHOTO: Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar, Yanghee Lee gives her report to the Human Rights Council at the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, March 12, 2018. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse

Bangladesh says moving refugees to Bhasan Char - whose name means “floating island” - will ease chronic overcrowding in its camps at Cox’s Bazar, which hold some 730,000 Rohingya. The U.N. says the Muslim minority fled mass killings and rapes committed during an army crackdown in Rakhine state since August 2017.

Show genuine commitment to end displacement in Rakhine: Jolie

daily sun

05th Feb 2019

 

 

UNHCR special envoy and famous Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie on Tuesday urged the Myanmar authorities to show the genuine commitment to end the cycle of violence, displacement, and improve the conditions for all communities in Rakhine State, including Rohingyas.

UN envoy: No prospect Rohingya refugees can go home soon

 

 

 

 

 

By: JULHAS ALAM, Associated Press
Posted: Jan 25, 2019 06:23 PM CST  

 

DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) - A U.N. human rights envoy said that hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslim refugees won't be able to return to Myanmar soon because of threats to their safety in the Buddhist-majority nation.

Myanmar has been criticized by global rights groups and many nations for state-sponsored violence against ethnic minorities.

( 07.11.2018 ) ရုိဟင္ဂ်ာေတြ ဌာေနျပန္ပို႕ႏိုင္ မယ့္အေျခအေနမရွိေသးေၾကာင္း ဘဂၤလား ေဒ့ရွ္ကို ကုလစံုစမ္းေရးမွဴး သတိေပး

ဘဂၤလားေဒ့ရွ္မွာရွိတဲ့ ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာဒုကၡသည္ေတြ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံဘက္ျခမ္းကို ဒီလအတြင္း စတင္ၿပီး ျပန္ပို႕မယ့္ အစီအစဥ္ကို ရုပ္သိမ္းေပးဖို႔ ကုလသမဂၢ လူ႕အခြင့္အေရး စံုစမ္းစစ္ေဆးေရးမွဴး Yanghee Lee က ဘဂၤ လားေဒ့ရွ္အစိုးရကို ေတာင္းဆိုလိုက္ပါတယ္။

Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar ( PAULO SÉRGIO PINHEIRO )

PAULO SÉRGIO PINHEIRO

ABRIDGED CURRICULUM VITAE

Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar ( Mr. Tomás Ojea Quintana )

Mr. Tomás Ojea Quintana

Mr. Tomás OJEA QUINTANA is a lawyer with more than 14 years of activities in the field of human rights. He has worked at the Inter-American Commission of Human Rights. He was also the Executive Director of the OHCHR Programme for Protection and Promotion of Human Rights in Bolivia.

Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar ( Ms. Yanghee Lee )

Ms. Yanghee Lee (Republic of Korea) is a professor at Sungkyunwan University. She is highly recognized nationally, regionally, and internationally for her expertise in human rights and served as member (2003-2013) and chairperson of the Committee on the Rights of the Child (2007-2011). She has also served as chairperson of the Meeting of Chairpersons of Treaty Bodies (2010-2011).

( 26.04.2018 ) Secretary-General Appoints Christine Schraner Burgener of Switzerland as Special Envoy on Myanmar

Secretary-General Appoints Christine Schraner Burgener of Switzerland as Special Envoy on Myanmar