U.N. mission head sees risk of Rohingya genocide recurring in Myanmar

the japan times 
Oct 23, 2019 
AP

Rohingya refugees come out of their homes after the visit of Indonesian President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo at the Jamtoli refugee camp near Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, last year. Authorities in Bangladesh said Tuesday they want to start relocating thousands of Rohingya refugees to a Bay of Bengal island soon from crammed camps near the border with Myanmar, from where they fled. | AP

UNITED NATIONS – The head of a U.N. fact-finding mission on Myanmar warned Tuesday that “there is a serious risk of genocide recurring” against the estimated 600,000 members of the Rohingya Muslim minority still living in the country.

စစ်တပ်အစား အရပ်ဘက်စီးပွားရေးတွေနဲ့ပဲ ပေါင်းလုပ်ဖို့ FFM ဥက္ကဋ္ဌ တောင်းဆို

VOA
ဗွီအိုအေ (မြန်မာဌာန)
23 အောက်တိုဘာ၊ 2019
အင်ကြင်းနိုင်

FFM မြန်မာနိုင်ငံဆိုင်ရာ ကုလသမဂ္ဂ အချက်အလက် ရှာဖွေရေးမစ်ရှင် ဥက္ကဌ Marzuki Darusman

မြန်မာနိုင်ငံမှာ ရက်စက်ကြမ်းကြုတ်မှုတွေ ကျူးလွန်နေတဲ့ တပ်မတော်နဲ့ ဆက်စပ်နေတဲ့ စီးပွားရေး လုပ်ငန်း တွေကို ပိတ်ဆို့အရေးယူပြီး အရပ်ဖက် စီးပွားရေးလုပ်ငန်းတွေနဲ့သာ ပူးပေါင်းဆောင်ရွက်ဖို့ FFM မြန်မာနိုင် ငံဆိုင်ရာ အချက်အလက်ရှာဖွေရေးမစ်ရှင် ဥက္ကဋ္ဌက ကုလသမဂ္ဂအဖွဲ့ဝင်နိုင်ငံတွေကို တောင်းဆိုလိုက် ပါ တယ်။ အင်္ဂါနေ့က နယူးရောက် ကုလသမဂ္ဂဌာနချုပ်မှာကျင်းပတဲ့ ကုလသမဂ္ဂအထွေထွေညီလာခံ တတိယ ကော်မတီ အစည်းအဝေးမှာ FFM ရဲ့ နောက်ဆုံး မြန်မာနိုင်ငံဆိုင်ရာ အစီရင်ခံစာကို တင်သွင်းချိန်မှာ သူက အဲဒီလို ပြောသွားတာပါ။ မအင်ကြင်းနိုင်က အပြည့်အစုံကို တင်ပြမှာပါ။

မြန်မာ့လူ့အခွင့်အရေး ကုလအထွေထွေညီလာခံ တတိယ ကော်မတီမှာ အပြန်အလှန်ပြောဆို

VOA
ဗွီအိုအေ (မြန်မာဌာန)
23 အောက်တိုဘာ၊ 2019
မသိင်္ဂီထိုက်

ရိုဟင်ဂျာတွေ အပေါ် လူ့အခွင့်အရေး ကျူးလွန် ချိုးဖောက်မှုတွေ အတွက် နိုင်ငံတကာ ရာဇဝတ် ပြစ်မှုဆိုင် ရာ ခုံရုံး ဒါမှမဟုတ်လည်း နိုင်ငံတကာ ခုံရုံးတခု ဖွဲ့စည်းကြဖို့ မြန်မာဆိုင်ရာ ကုလသမဂ္ဂ လူ့အခွင့်အရေး အ ထူး ကိုယ်စားလှယ် ယန်ဟီးလီက ကုလသမဂ္ဂ အထွေထွေ ညီလာခံ တတိယ ကော်မတီမှာ တင်သွင်းသွား ပါတယ်။

UN, NGOs accused of bungling effort to educate Rohingya children

Aljazeera
by Clare Hammond & Victoria Milko
October 8th 2019.

Questions raised over efforts to give Rohingya children and youth formal education under Myanmar curriculum.

According to UNICEF about 461,000 of the 910,000 refugees in Cox's Bazar are children [File: Abir Abdullah/EPA] 

On May 13, a group of Rohingya refugee education leaders had the rare chance to ask some of the questions that had been weighing on their minds for more than two years.

For the first time, they were meeting representatives from the United Nations and international NGOs tasked with providing education to about half a million Rohingya refugee children living in camps in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh.

Minutes of the meeting obtained by Al Jazeera, show how the community leaders questioned the officials about the slow effort to give refugees formal education, the absence of a Myanmar curriculum in the camps, and the lack of consultation with the community.

U.N. Human Rights Commissioner meets Rohingya refugees in Malaysia

WION
Reuters ,Kuala Lumpur
Oct 05, 2019,

Bachelet visiting Rohingya education centre. Photograph:( Reuters )

The United Nations human rights chief Michelle Bachelet on Friday paid a visit to a school for Rohingya refugees children in Kuala Lumpur during a visit to Malaysia.

The visit was the first by a current U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights to Malaysia.

Tripartite repatriation talks scheduled at UN

MYANMAR TIMES

Nyan Lynn Aung  

23 Sep 2019

Myanmar, Bangladesh and China will meet to discuss the repatriation of Muslim refugees from Bangladesh on Monday on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly, according to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

The ministry said the meeting will focus on resolving issues that hamper the repatriation of the more than 700,000 Muslim refugees who have fled from northern Rakhine State to Bangladesh since August 2017.  

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Monsoon destroys Rohingya shelters, sparking record UN emergency food agency response in Bangladesh

UN News

13 September 2019

Humanitarian Aid

 

WFP/Nihab Rahman
The UN World Food Programme launched its biggest rapid food response following heavy rains and flash flooding in the Cox’s Bazar refugee camps and host communities. 

 

Unusually heavy monsoon rains have inundated shelters in refugee camps in southern Bangladesh creating “havoc”, the World Food Programme (WFP) said on Friday, as it launched its biggest emergency response of the year for displaced Rohingya families. 

Bangladesh to UN: 'Support Rohingya island relocation or leave the country'

DW

In an interview with DW, Bangladesh's Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen expressed disappointment over "inadequate" international pressure on Myanmar to take back the Rohingya refugees currently camped in Cox's Bazar.

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.