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:

Genocide Against Rohingya Is Intensifying, Warns Burmese Rohingya Organisation UK

Prograssive Voice of Myanmar
Author: Burmese Rohingya Organisation UK
April 2nd, 2024

Press Release

                                    Media Release from Burmese Rohingya Organisation UK

The Burmese Rohingya Organisation UK (BROUK) today sounded the alarm, warning that the ongoing genocide against the Rohingya is intensifying. BROUK urged the UN Security Council to immediately take steps to enforce the International Court of Justice’s provisional measures order on Myanmar to protect the ‘extremely vulnerable’ Rohingya. The British government, as penholder on Myanmar at the United Nations (UN) Security Council, should urgently convene a meeting to discuss the growing crisis.

အမုန်းစကားဖြန့်ရန် Facebookစာမျက်နှာများကို စစ်တပ်ကြိုးကိုင်ခဲ့ဟု UN ပြော

Myanmar Now
AFP,March 31, 2024

၂၀၁၇ တွင် စစ်တပ်က Facebook စာမျက်နှာအများအပြားတွင် ရေး သား လှုံ့ဆော်ပြီးနောက် ရိုဟင်ဂျာတို့ကို သတ်ဖြတ်မှု ပေါ်လာခြင်းဖြစ်ကြောင်း ကုလသမဂ္ဂစုံစမ်းရေးအဖွဲ့က ထုတ်ပြန်သည်။

၂၀၁၇ ခုနှစ်အတွင်း ရိုဟင်ဂျာမွတ်စလင် လူနည်းစုအပေါ် မြန်မာစစ်တပ်က ပြင်းပြင်းထန်ထန် တိုက်ခိုက်ဖြိုခွင်းမှု မဖြစ်ပွားမီ ရိုဟင်ဂျာများနှင့် ပတ်သက်ပြီး အမုန်းစကား ရေးသား ဖြန့်ဝေခဲ့ကြသည့် Facebook စာမျက်နှာ ဒါဇင်ပေါင်းများစွာ၏ နောက်ကွယ်တွင် မြန်မာစစ်တပ်ရှိနေခဲ့သည်ဟု ကုလ သမဂ္ဂစုံစမ်းစစ်ဆေးရေးအဖွဲ့က မတ်လ ၂၇ ရက်နေ့တွင် ဖော်ထုတ်ခဲ့သည်။

Eleven Rohingya found dead after Indonesia boat capsize: UN

TRT World
March 25'2024 

UN officials say they have recovered the bodies of at least 11 Rohingya refugees who were fleeing from violence-ridden Myanmar on boat. 

Thousands risk their lives each year on long and expensive sea journeys in flimsy boats to cross to Malaysia or Indonesia. / Photo: AFP

The bodies of at least eleven Rohingya refugees have been recovered off Indonesia's westernmost coast after their boat believed to be carrying around 150 people capsized last week, UN officials say.

Protecting Rohingyas: Don’t repeat mistakes of the past

The Daily Star
Diplomatic Correspondent
Sat Mar 2, 2024 

UN rights chief urges int’l community 

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk has appealed to the international community not to repeat the failings of the past in protecting the Rohingya community in Myanmar's Rakhine State which has spiralled further in violence since November.

Myanmar: Unbearable levels of suffering and cruelty

Unite Nations
Human Rights
1 March 2024  

© UNICEF/Patrick Brown

Rohingya refugees arrive by boat from Myanmar on the Bay of Bengal to Teknaf in Cox's Bazar District, Bangladesh. (file)

The crisis in Myanmar is a “never-ending nightmare” for the country’s people happening far away from the international spotlight, UN rights chief Volker Türk told the Human Rights Council on Friday. 

UN issues call to rescue hundreds of Rohingya adrift at sea

The Star
AseanPlus News
Sunday, 03 Dec 2023 

BANGKOK/YANGON (AFP): The United Nations called Saturday for nations to rescue hundreds of Rohingya it said were trapped onboard two unseaworthy vessels adrift in the Andaman Sea.

Thousands of the mostly Muslim Rohingya, heavily persecuted in Buddhist-majority Myanmar, risk their lives each year in long, expensive sea journeys -- often in boats in poor condition -- trying to reach Malaysia or Indonesia.

Historic consensus on Rohingya resolution in UN

Dhaka Tribune
Tribune Report
Publish : 16 Nov 2023,

• Commends generosity and humanitarian supports of Bangladesh
• Calls upon Myanmar to address the root causes of the Rohingya crisis   

FILE IMAGE: People walk through a marketplace at a Rohingya refugee camp in Cox`s Bazar, Bangladesh, on Wednesday, August 11, 2021 Allison Joyce/Dhaka Tribune

 

In a historic move, the third committee of the United Nations General Assembly adopted the annual resolution on the situation of human rights of Rohingya Muslims and other minorities in Myanmar by consensus on Wednesday.

Jointly tabled by the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) and the European Union (EU), the resolution was co-sponsored by 114 countries, marking the highest level of international support since 2017.

UN refugee chief says Rohingya who fled Myanmar must not be forgotten during other world crises

The Final Call
AP
October 24, 2023

BANGKOK—The UN High Commissioner for Refugees urged the international community on October 17 not to forget the plight of ethnic Rohingya refugees from Myanmar in the midst of many other world crises. More support is needed to help the displaced Rohingya and also relieve the burden on the countries hosting them, High Commissioner Filippo Grandi said.

Massacre Of Hindus By Rohingya In Myanmar Could Be International Crime: UN

INDIA WEST JOURNAL
October 24,2023

UNITED NATIONS, (IANS) – The massacre of 99 Hindus by a Rohingya group in Myanmar could qualify as an international crime, according to the UN official carrying out investigations of serious human rights violations there.

SAV Explainer: International Law Has Failed to Protect the Rohingya Refugees

South Asian Voice
Written by Himel Rahman
October 10, 2023

On 25 August 2023, 1.3 million Rohingya refugees residing in southeastern Bangladesh observed ‘Genocide Day.’ This marked the 6th anniversary of their mass expulsion from northern Rakhine by the Tatmadaw, the Myanmar Armed Forces. The Rohingyas are one of the most persecuted ethnic minority groups in the world and the international community has so far failed to uphold their rights, allowing flagrant violations of international law.

မြန်မာ့အရေး ကုလ ကြိုးပမ်းမှုတွေ အောင်မြင်မှုမရှိကြောင်း SAC-M ပြော

VOA
ဗွီအိုအေ (မြန်မာဌာန)
၀၃ အောက်တိုဘာ၊ ၂၀၂၃ 

ကုလသမဂ္ဂလုံခြုံရေးကောင်စီအစည်းအဝေးတခု

 

မြန်မာ့အရေး ဖြေရှင်းဖို့ ကုလသမဂ္ဂရဲ့ ကြိုးပမ်းမှုတွေဟာ အောင်မြင်မှုမရှိကြောင်း ကုလသမဂ္ဂအရာရှိ ဟောင်းတွေ ပါဝင်တဲ့ မြန်မာနိုင်ငံဆိုင်ရာ အထူးအကြံပေးကောင်စီ (SAC-M) ကပြောလိုက်ပါတယ်။ ကုလသမဂ္ဂ အဖွဲ့ဝင်နိုင်ငံတွေ၊ အစိုးရတွေရဲ့ ဆွေးနွေးဖြေရှင်းမှုတွေမှာလက်တွေ့အရေးယူဆောင်ရွက် တာတွေ မရှိသလို၊ မြန်မာနိုင်ငံက ကုလသမဂ္ဂရုံးဟာလည်း စစ်အာဏာပိုင်တွေ ကျေနပ်အောင်လုပ်နေ တဲ့ မအောင်မြင်တဲ့ ချဉ်းကပ်မှုတွေကို ထပ်လုပ်နေတယ်လို့လည်း ဒီကနေ့ ထုတ်ပြန်လိုက်တဲ့“မြန်မာနိုင် ငံ အတွက် ကုလသမဂ္ဂက ဘယ်နည်းဘယ်ပုံ ပျက်ကွက်နေသလဲ” လို့ အမည်ပေးထားတဲ့ အစီရင်ခံစာ မှာ ဖော်ပြလိုက်တာပါ။

Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh face new crisis as funding diminishes: UN

Xinhua
Editor: huaxia
2023-09-27

UNITED NATIONS, Sept. 26 (Xinhua) -- Rohingya refugees in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, now face a dire situation as aid funding diminishes, a UN spokesman said on Tuesday.

The Rohingya, who have faced repeated climate shocks since their exodus from Myanmar seven years ago, now face hunger, deepening their vulnerabilities, said Stephane Dujarric, chief spokesman for UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres.

ကုလသမဂ္ဂ မြန်မာသံအမတ်အဖြစ် ဦးကျော်မိုးထွန်း ဆက် လက်တာဝန်ယူဖို့ ဆုံးဖြတ်၊ ရိုဟင်ဂျာဒုက္ခသည်တွေအတွက် အမေရိကန်အစိုးရက ၇၄ သန်း ထောက်ပံ့ဖို့ ကြေညာ

မိုးမခ
(မိုးမခ) စက်တင်ဘာ ၂၂၊ ၂၀၂၃ 

၂၀၂၁ ခုနှစ် စက်တင်ဘာလ ကုလသမဂ္ဂ မြန်မာနိုင်ငံဆိုင်ရာ သံအမတ်အဖြစ် ဆက်တာဝန်ယူဖို့ ကုလ ကိုယ်စားပြုမှု အတည်ပြုရေးကော်မတီက ဆုံးဖြတ်ခဲ့တဲ့ အတိုင်း ၂၀၂၃ ခုနှစ်မှာလည်း ဒုတိ ယအကြိမ်အဖြစ် ဆက်လက် အတည်ပြုဆုံးဖြတ်ခဲ့ကြတယ်လို့ ဒီနေ့ သတင်းတွေမှာ ဖေါ်ပြထားကြ ပါတယ်။ Credential Committee လို့ခေါ်ဆိုတဲ့ ကုလသမဂ္ဂမှာ ကိုယ်စားပြုတက်ရောက်ခွင့်ရှိတဲ့ အစိုးရတွေရဲ့ ကိုယ်စားလှယ်တွေနဲ့ ပတ်သက်လို့ ဆုံးဖြတ်ပေးတဲ့ ကော်မတီက နိုင်ငံအချို့ရဲ့ အငြင်း ပွားစရာ ကိုယ်စားပြု သံအမတ်ခန့်အပ်မှုနဲ့ ဆိုင်တဲ့ ကိစ္စတွေကို ဆုံးဖြတ်ပေးခွင့်ရှိတာ ဖြစ်ပြီးမြန်မာ နိုင်ငံက စစ်အာဏာသိမ်းပြီး လအနည်းငယ်အကြာ အန်အယ်လ်ဒီအစိုးရလက်ထက်က ခန့်အပ်ခဲ့တဲ့ သံအမတ်ကြီး ဦးကျော်မိုးထွန်းက အာဏာသိမ်း စစ်ကောင်စီကို ဆန့်ကျင်ကြောင်း ပြောကြားခဲ့ကာ စစ်ကောင်စီကို ကိုယ်စားမပြုတဲ့ မြန်မာနိုင်ငံဆိုင်ရာ ကုလသံအမတ်ကြီးအဖြစ်နဲ့ ရပ်တည်ခဲ့တာ ခု ဆိုရင် ကာလအားဖြင့် ၂ နှစ်ခွဲကျော်၊ ကုလညီလာခံအနေနဲ့ တတိယအကြိမ်မြောက် ရှိပြီဖြစ်ပါ တယ်။

Durable solutions to the Rohingya crisis in Myanmar

United Nations
21 June 2023

 

At
Panel discussion on durable solutions to the Rohingya crisis and to end human rights violations and abuses against Rohingya Muslims and other minorities in Myanmar

53rd session of the Human Rights Council

Statement by Nada Al-Nashif, UN Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights

Mr President,
Distinguished Panelists,
Excellencies,

Rohingya Muslims and other minorities in Myanmar have endured decades of persecution and systematic discrimination. Today, eleven years after the 2012 violence in Rakhine State, and six years after the 2017 military operations that killed thousands and displaced hundreds of thousands of Rohingya, more than one million languish in refugee camps in Bangladesh. An estimated 600,000 remain in Myanmar where they continue to be deprived of their basic rights.

UN agencies face funding challenges in feeding Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh

daily obsever
Tuesday, 30 May, 2023

Olivier De Schutter, U.N. special rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights addresses a press conference in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Monday, May 29, 2023. (AP Photo/Al-emrun Garjon)

Bangladesh should not bear the burden of more than 1 million Rohingya refugees alone while U.N. agencies are facing challenges to feed them, a United Nations official said Monday, AP reports.

UN To Cut Food Rations Again For Rohingya Refugees In Bangladesh

euroasiareview
BenarNews
Kamran Reza Chowdhury and Abdur Rah
May 24, 2023

Rohingya children look at food offered at a shop in the Leda refugee camp in Teknaf, Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. Photo Credit: Abdur Rahman/BenarNews

 

The United Nations food agency is reducing rations for Rohingya in Bangladesh for the second time this year citing a funds shortage, a move that refugees fear could push them to the brink of starvation.

Starting June 1, the World Food Program will cut food aid to U.S. $8 a month per person from $10 – after having cut the monthly food ration from $12 in March – marking a total decline of 33% to date this year, a Bangladeshi official confirmed on Tuesday.

UN expert exposes $1 billion “death trade” to Myanmar military

United Nation

17 May 2023

NEW YORK / GENEVA (17 May 2023) – The Myanmar military has imported at least $1 billion USD in arms and raw materials to manufacture weapons since the coup in February 2021, according to a new report today by the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar, Tom Andrews.

UN Member States are enabling this trade either through outright complicity, lax enforcement of existing bans, and easily circumvented sanctions, according to the report.

“Despite overwhelming evidence of the Myanmar military’s atrocity crimes against the people of Myanmar, the generals continue to have access to advanced weapons systems, spare parts for fighter jets, raw materials and manufacturing equipment for domestic weapons production,” Andrews said. “Those providing these weapons are able to avoid sanctions by using front companies and creating new ones while counting on lax enforcement.

Airstrikes by Burmese military kill dozens at anti-junta event

THE GUARDIAN
Min Ye Kyaw and Rebecca Ratcliffe
Tue 11 Apr 2023

Attack targeted opening ceremony for office set up by military’s opponents in Sagaing region of Myanmar

An anti-coup protest in Sagaing, Myanmar, last year. Sagaing, where the attack on Tuesday happened, is one of the frontlines in the battle against the junta. Photograph: AFP/Getty Images

Myanmar’s military has killed dozens of people in airstrikes on an event organised by its domestic opponents, in what is feared to be one of the deadliest attacks since the junta seized power more than two years ago.

Local independent media reported that the attack on Tuesday morning targeted a ceremony marking the opening of an office set up by the military’s opponents in the village of Pa Zi Gyi, in Sagaing region.

UN must act and investigate its agencies involvement in Rohingya refugees repatriation pilot project

Progressive Voice
April 3rd, 2023 

It has been over five years since the Myanmar military has launched its genocidal campaign against the Rohingya in Rakhine State that drove out more than 800,000 Rohingya to the Bangladesh border. The same military has committed war crimes and crimes against humanity against other ethnic and religious minorities including mass killings, rape and gang rape, torture, forced displacement, arbitrary arrests and detention, and burning of villages to ashes. They continue to enjoy blanket impunity fueled by international community’s apathy and inability to hold them accountable.