UN expert: No peace in Myanmar if no military prosecutions

AP

EDITH M. LEDERER
24 August 2019


UNITED NATIONS (AP) — There will be no long-term peace in Myanamar and no return of Rohingya refugees unless there is accountability for the “brutality” of the Asian country’s military forces, a member of the U.N. Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Myanmar said Friday.

Radhika Coomaraswamy, a Sri Lankan lawyer who is one of the mission’s three international experts, told an informal Security Council meeting on accountability in Myanmar that the commission believes a domestic judicial process is not possible at this time.

ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာ ျပန္ပို႔ေရးအစီအစဥ္ ကုလေ၀ဖန္

VOA

ဗြီအိုုေအ (ျမန္မာဌာနဗီြဒီယို
23 ၾသဂုတ္၊ 2019
ကုိရန္ႏုိင္
ဘဂၤလားေဒ့ရွ္ႏုိင္ငံဘက္ကို ထြက္ေျပးသြားၾကတဲ့ ႐ုိဟင္ဂ်ာဒုကၡသည္ေတြ ေနရပ္ျပန္ႏုိင္ဖို႔အတြက္ ျမန္မာ နုိင္ငံဘက္က အေျခအေနေတြက အဆင္သင့္မျဖစ္ေသးဘူးလို႔ ကုလသမဂၢက ေျပာလိုက္ပါတယ္။ အခု သီ တင္းပတ္ကစၿပီး ဒုကၡသည္ေတြကို ျမန္မာဘက္က လက္ခံဖို႔ လုပ္ေဆာင္ခဲ့ေပမယ့္လည္း၊ ဒုကၡသည္ ေတြ တစ္ေယာက္မွ ျပန္လာျခင္းမရွိတဲ့ေနာက္ ကုလသမဂၢဘက္က အဲဒီလို ေျပာလိုက္တာ ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ ဒုကၡ သည္ေတြကေတာ့ သူတုိ႔ရဲ႕ အခြင့္အေရးေတြ အျပည့္အ၀ မရမခ်င္း ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံကို မျပန္ဘူးလို႔ ေျပာ ပါ တယ္။ ႐ုိက္တာသတင္းဌာနရဲ႕ ေဆာင္းပါးကို အေျခခံၿပီး ကိုရန္နုိင္က ေျပာျပေပးမွာျဖစ္ပါတယ္။

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U.N. agency, Bangladesh begin survey of Rohingya over return to Myanmar

REUTERS
August 20, 2019

Ruma Paul

 

DHAKA (Reuters) - The United Nations’ refugee agency and Bangladesh authorities on Tuesday started to consult more than 3,000 Rohingya refugees from Myanmar to determine if any want to return home, officials said, as a fresh repatriation bid was launched. 

FILE PHOTO: A Rohingya refugee walks at a refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, March 7, 2019. REUTERS/Mohammad Ponir Hossain

More than 730,000 Rohingya fled Rakhine for neighbouring Bangladesh after a military-led crackdown in August 2017 the United Nations has said was perpetrated with “genocidal intent”, but many refugees refuse to go back, fearing more violence.

Rohingya repatriation can begin anytime: foreign secretary

The Daily Star
August 19, 2019
Staff Correspondent

Repatriation of Rohingya refugees -- who fled a brutal military crackdown in Myanmar in August 2017 -- can begin anytime, foreign secretary Shahidul Haque said yesterday at a discussion.

“Repatriation is always on the table. It can start anytime. It is a continual process,” Shahidul Haque said while responding to a journalist’s query on whether the repatriation of Rohingyas will start on August 22 as reported by an international news agency.

Reuters on Thursday reported that Myanmar and Bangladesh have agreed to start a fresh attempt to repatriate Rohingyas on August 22.

ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာဒုကၡသည္ငါးသိန္းေက်ာ္ကို မွတ္ပံုတင္ကတ္ ထုတ္ေပးၿပီးျဖစ္

RFA
လြတ္လပ္တဲ့ အာရွအသံ

09.08.2019

■ ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာျပႆနာဟာ ေဒသတြင္း ျငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရးနဲ႔ လံုျခံဳေရးကို ျခိမ္းေျခာက္လာႏိုင္တယ္လို႔ အိႏၵိယႏိုင္ငံ ဆိုင္ရာ ဘဂၤလားေဒ့ရွ္ေကာ္မရွင္နာမင္းၾကီးက သတိေပးလိုက္ျပီး၊ ဒုကၡသည္ေတြကို မူလတိုင္းျပည္ အျမန္ ဆံုးျပန္ပို႔တဲ့နည္းနဲ႔ ျပႆနာကို ေစာေစာေျဖရွင္းဖို႔ တိုက္တြန္းလိုက္ပါတယ္။

တပ္မေတာ္အပါအဝင္ ကုမၸဏီတခ်ိဳ႕ကို အေရးယူပိတ္ ဆို႔ဖို႔ UN အခ်က္အလက္ရွာေဖြေရးမစ္ရွင္ ထုတ္ျပန္

RFA 

လြတ္လပ္တဲ့ အာရွအသံ 
2019-08-05

ၿမန္မာ့အေရးနဲ႔ပတ္သက္ၿပီး ကုလသမဂၢ အခ်က္အလက္ရွာေဖြေရးအဖြဲ႔ ဥကၠ႒ မာဇူကီ ဒါရုစ္မန္း (Marzuki Darusman) ကို ၂၀၁၉၊ ၾသဂုတ္ ၅ ရက္ေန႔က အင္ဒိုနီးရွားႏိုင္ငံ၊ ဂ်ကာတာၿမိဳ႕မွာ က်င္းပတဲ့ သတင္းစာရွင္းလင္းပြဲမွာ ေတြ႔ရစဥ္  Photo: ASSOCIATED PRESS

                                      

ၿမန္မာ့တပ္မေတာ္ကို လက္နက္ေရာင္းခ်ခြင့္ပိတ္ဖို႔ အပါအဝင္ တပ္မေတာ္နဲ႔ ဆက္ႏြယ္ေနတဲ့ စီးပြားေရး ကုမၸဏီေတြကိုပါ ပိတ္ဆုိ႔အေရးယူဖုိ႔ ကုလသမဂၢရဲ႕ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံဆိုင္ရာ အခ်က္အလက္ရွာေဖြေရး မစ္ရွင္က ဒီေန႔ အစီရင္ခံစာထုတ္ျပန္ၿပီး ႏိုင္ငံတကာ အဖြဲ႔အစည္းေတြကို တိုက္တြန္း ေတာင္းဆိုလိုက္ပါတယ္။

UN Fact-Finding Mission on Myanmar exposes military business ties, calls for targeted sanctions and arms embargoes

UNITED NATION 
HUMAN RIGHTS

5 August 2019

 

 

Audio Rohingya language (Abridged version, in case of discrepancy, the English version shall prevail)

GENEVA (5 August 2019) – The U.N. Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Myanmar urged the international community on Monday to sever ties with Myanmar’s military and the vast web of companies it controls and relies on. The Mission said the revenues the military earns from domestic and foreign business deals substantially enhances its ability to carry out gross violations of human rights with impunity.

The report, for the first time, establishes in detail the degree to which Myanmar’s military has used its own businesses, foreign companies and arms deals to support brutal operations against ethnic groups that constitute serious crimes under international law, bypassing civilian oversight and evading accountability.

U.N. urges sanctions on Myanmar army businesses, says foreign partners could be complicit

REUTERS

Angie Teo, Poppy McPherson

05 August 2019

 

JAKARTA (Reuters) - United Nations investigators urged world leaders on Monday to impose targeted financial sanctions on companies linked to the military in Myanmar, and said foreign firms doing business with them could be complicit in international crimes.

 Marzuki Darusman, chairperson of the Independent International Fact-finding Mission (IFFM) on Myanmar, gestures during a news conference at the United Nation office in Jakarta, Indonesia, August 5, 2019. REUTERS/Sekar Nasly

 

A panel of human rights experts identified scores of companies tied to the army, which controls vast swathes of Myanmar’s economy through holding firms and their subsidiaries, and is accused by the U.N. of executing a campaign with “genocidal intent” against the Rohingya minority.

Momen: UN wants Rohingya solution soon BSS

Dhaka Tribune
July 25th, 2019

File photo: Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen meets with UN chief Antonio Guterres in New York on Tuesday, July 16, 2019 PID

'You (the UN) should work more in Rakhine rather than in Bangladesh. I conveyed this (to Guterres),' he said

Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen has said the United Nations (UN) is putting all efforts for resolving the Rohingya crisis in the shortest possible time.

UN: Conditions in Rohingya camps improved, emergency prevails

Dhaka Tribune
Tribune Desk
July 15th, 2019

A market inside Rohingya refugee camp at Ukhiya in Cox's Bazar Dhaka Tribune

Rohingya camps and aid organisations are well-equipped to respond says UN
Efforts throughout 2018 and early 2019 have dramatically improved conditions in the Rohingya camps, and aid organisations are well-equipped to respond, UN agencies said.

However, there is still an emergency affecting vulnerable families living in a difficult, hazard-prone terrain, that requires ongoing support from the international community, and constant work by humanitarian actors, the UN agencies said on Monday, reports UNB.

As monsoon rains pound Rohingya refugee camps, UN food relief agency steps up aid

UN News 
12 July 2019

Humanitarian Aid

 

WFP/Gemma Snowdon,Days of heavy monsoon rains and wind have pounded the refugee camps in the Cox’s Bazar area of Bangladesh since 4 July 2019.

Since 4 July, heavy monsoon rains and wind have pounded the refugee camps in Bangladesh’s Cox’s Bazar, with deaths, displacement and major damage following in their wake, the World Food Programme (WFP) said on Friday. 

Those in the most vulnerable living situations have been relocated to safer, newly developed land in the camps”, WFP Spokesperson Herve Verhoosel told the regular news briefing in Geneva, noting that 5,600 people had been displaced.

Why is the UN’s Response to Myanmar’s Rohingya Persecution so Powerless?

THE 
GLOBE POST
Max Pensky
July 11, 2019
Opinion

 In August 2017, Myanmar’s military launched 'area clearance operations' against the Rohingya in its western Rakhine Province, driving nearly three-quarters of a million citizens into neighboring Bangladesh. Photo: AFP

Recent reports about the United Nations’ response to Myanmar’s persecution of the Rohingya minority highlights just how deep the U.N.’s dysfunction has become. U.N. officials now openly worry that ongoing aid provision to internally displaced Rohingya civilians confined to squalid camps within Myanmar will have the unintended effect of “entrenching segregation,” effectively helping Myanmar in its efforts to isolate the Rohingya.

UN warns of possible new war crimes in Myanmar

THE GURDIAN
Hannah Ellis-Petersen
Thu 4 Jul 2019

Special rapporteur tells of abductions and torture of civilians by Myanmar military and insurgent group

 The UN special rapporteur to Myanmar, Yanghee Lee, said the situation in Myanmar was worsening by the day. Photograph: Fabrice Coffrini/AFP/Getty Images

Human rights abuses that may amount to fresh war crimes are being committed against civilians in Myanmar’s restive Rakhine and Chin states, the UN has said, as the fighting between the military and rebel groups intensifies.

Speaking to the UN human rights council (UNHRC), Yanghee Lee, the UN special rapporteur on Myanmar, detailed accounts of abduction and torture of civilians by both the Myanmar army and the rebel insurgent group the Arakan Army, which is fighting for greater autonomy in the region.

“The conflict with the Arakan Army in northern Rakhine state and parts of southern Chin state has continued over the past few months and the impact on civilians is devastating,” Lee told the UNHRC on Tuesday. “Many acts of the Tatmadaw [Myanmar armed forces] and the Arakan Army violate international humanitarian law and may amount to war crimes, as well as violating human rights.”

ရခိုင္မွာ စစ္တပ္နဲ႔ AA တို႔ လူ႔အခြင့္အေရး ခ်ိဳးေဖါက္ ေၾကာင္း ယန္ဟီးလီ ေျပာ

RFA 

လြတ္လပ္တဲ့ အာရွအသံ

02.07.2019

■ ရခိုင္ျပည္နယ္မွာ ျမန္မာစစ္တပ္နဲ႔ AA တပ္ဖြဲ႕ ႏွစ္ဖက္လံုးက အရပ္သားျပည္သူေတြအေပၚ လူ႔အခြင့္အေ ရး ခ်ိဳးေဖါက္မႈေတြ က်ဴးလြန္ခဲ့ၾကတယ္လို႔ ကုလသမဂၢရဲ႕ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံဆိုင္ရာ လြတ္လပ္တဲ့ လူ႔အခြင့္အေရး ကၽြမ္းက်င္သူ ယန္ဟီးလီ က ေျပာပါတယ္။

ၿပီးခဲ့တဲ့လေတြအတြင္း ရခိုင္ျပည္နယ္ေျမာက္ပိုင္းနဲ႔ ခ်င္းျပည္နယ္ ေတာင္ပိုင္းမွာ စစ္ေရးပဋိပကၡေတြ ဆက္ လက္ေပၚေပါက္ခဲ့တဲ့အတြက္၊ ေဒသခံျပည္သူေတြအေပၚ ဆိုးက်ိဳးသက္ေရာက္မႈေတြရွိခဲ့ေၾကာင္း၊ ႏွစ္ဖက္ တပ္ေတြဟာ ႏိုင္ငံတကာ လူ႔အခြင့္အေရးနဲ႔ လူသားခ်င္းစာနာေရး ဥပေဒေတြ ခ်ိဳးေဖါက္ခဲ့ၾကသလို၊ စစ္ရာ ဇ၀တ္မႈေတြ က်ဴးလြန္ခဲ့ၾကေၾကာင္း အဂၤါေန႔က ေျပာၾကားခဲ့ပါတယ္။


ၿပီးခဲ့တဲ့ သီတင္းပတ္ကလည္း ရခိုင္နဲ႔ ခ်င္းမွာ အင္တာနက္ မိုဘိုင္းဖုန္းဆက္သြယ္ေရးကို စစ္တပ္က ပိတ္ လိုက္တဲ့ကိစၥအေပၚ လူ႔အခြင့္အေရးခ်ိဳးေဖါက္မႈအျဖစ္ ကုလသမဂၢမွာ ေျပာဆိုခဲ့သလို၊ AA ကလည္း ပလက္ ၀ၿမိဳ႕က ေဆာက္လုပ္ေရးအလုပ္သမား ၁၂ ဦးနဲ႔ ဘဂၤလားေဒ့ရွ္နယ္စပ္အနီးက ရြာသူရြာသား ၅၂ ဦး အပါအ ၀င္ အရပ္သားေတြကို ျပန္ေပးဆြဲခဲ့ေၾကာင္းလည္း ေျပာဆိုခဲ့ပါတယ္။

Photo: Yanghee Lee's Twitter
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Why the UN failed to save the Rohingya

Al Jazeera
by Joshua Carroll

28 Jun 2019

Insiders say UN sought to downplay criticism of Myanmar and was hamstrung by China, Russia opposition to firm response.

A Rohingya refugee and her children wade ashore after crossing the Bangladesh-Myanmar border by boat in September 2017 [File: Mohammad Ponir Hossain/Reuters]

Yangon, Myanmar - When Liam Mahony travelled to Myanmar to advise the United Nations on its handling of the Rohingya crisis, the dozens of aid workers he spoke to were almost unanimous in their appraisal of the organisation's approach.

Their view, the researcher recalls, was "this was all screwed up... this was not going to help the Rohingya population".

Bangladesh highlights UN’s failure to prevent atrocities in Myanmar

The Daily Star
June 29, 2019

A Rohingya refugee repairs the roof of his shelter at the Balukhali refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, March 5, 2019. Reuters file photo

The Permanent Representative (PR) of Bangladesh Ambassador Masud Bin Momen has highlighted the UN's systematic failure to prevent atrocities in Rakhaine state of Myanmar.

He referred to the recent report on 'Independent inquiry into the involvement of the UN in Myanmar from 2010 to 2018' of Gert Rosenthal, the former Guatemalan Foreign Affairs Minister.

UN warns of telecom blackout cover for Myanmar military abuses

Aljazeera
25 Jun 2019

Blackout in parts of Rakhine and Chin states imposed amid reports of escalating military offensive against Arakan Army.

The UN Special Rapporteur says the military is stepping up operations against ethnic Buddhist rebels in Rakhine state [FILE/Ann Wang/Reuters]

Myanmar's army may be committing serious human rights violations under cover of a mobile phone blackout in parts of Rakhine and Chin states in the west of the country, Yanghee Lee, UN special rapporteur on Myanmar, said on Monday.

Rohingya group wants UN secretary general to resign over Myanmar 'failure'

IOL
19 June 2019, 
Jacob Goldberg

Rohingya refugees look out from their camp near a fence during a government-organized media tour to a no-mans land between Myanmar and Bangladesh, near Taungpyolatyar village, Maung Daw, northern Rakhine State, Myanmar. File picture: Min Kyi Thein/AP

Yangon - A Rohingya advocacy group on Wednesday called for the resignation of United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres after a UN inquiry found "systemic failure" in its own conduct in Myanmar. 

UN warns of aid cut over Rohingya camp closures

THE ASEAN POST
19 June 2019

Myanmar police escort journalists during a government organized visit to Rohingya Muslims confined at Thet Kae Pyin camp in Rakhine state as they celebrate Eid al-Adha on 22 August, 2018. (Phyo Hein Kyaw / AFP Photo)

 

The United Nations (UN) has warned it will pare back aid to thousands of Rohingya Muslims left destitute as Myanmar's government closes camps in Rakhine state, over fears its continued support "risks entrenching segregation".

ကုလမှာ တိကျတဲ့ မူမရှိလို့ ရခိုင်အရေး ထိရောက် အောင် မကူညီနိုင်ခဲ့

B B C
ဘီဘီစီ မြန်မာပိုင်း
18 ဇွန် 2019

မြန်မာနိုင်ငံ အခြေစိုက် ကုလသမဂ္ဂ အဖွဲ့အစည်းတွေရဲ့ လုပ်ပုံကိုင်ပုံ နည်းနာတွေ မှားယွင်းခဲ့တယ်၊ ဖွဲ့စည်း မှု စနစ် ယန္တရားအရကို အပြစ် အနာအဆာတွေ ရှိနေတယ်လို့ ဝေဖန်ထားတဲ့ အစီရင်ခံစာ တစ်စောင်ဇွန်လ ၁၇ ရက်နေ့ ရက်စွဲနဲ့ ထွက်လာပါတယ်။

ဒီ အစီရင်ခံစာကို ကုလသမဂ္ဂရဲ့ ထိပ်တန်း တာဝန်တွေ ထမ်းဆောင်ခဲ့ဖူးတဲ့ ဂွာတီမာလာ ဝါရင့် သံတမန် ဂတ်(ထ) ရိုဇင်ထဲလ် Gert Rosenthal က ရေးသားတာ ဖြစ်ပါတယ်။