Thursday, February 11, 2021
Myanmar: UN office expresses ‘strong concern’ at use of force against demonstrators
Monday, February 8, 2021
UN condemns Myanmar coup
THE WEEK
February 06, 2021
The has sent shock waves across the country
In a first contact between the UN and Myanmar Army since generals seized power in a bloodless coup, the Secretary General's special envoy Christine Schraner Burgener on Myanmar spoke with the country's deputy military chief and expressed strong condemnation of its action and called for the immediate release of all detained leaders.
"Our special envoy today had a first contact in which she expressed clearly our position to the deputy military commander," Guterres told AFP.
Wednesday, February 3, 2021
U.N. fears for Myanmar Rohingya after coup, Security Council due to meet Tuesday
A 2017 military crackdown in Myanmar’s Rakhine State sent more than 700,000 Rohingya Muslims fleeing into Bangladesh, where they are still stranded in refugee camps. U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and Western states accused the Myanmar military of ethnic cleansing, which it denied.
U.N. fears situation will worsen for Rohingya in Myanmar
“There are about 600,000 Rohingya those that remain in Rakhine State, including 120,000 people who are effectively confined to camps, they cannot move freely and have extremely limited access to basic health and education services,” he said.
Sunday, January 31, 2021
UN, embassies fret over Myanmar coup talk
29 Jan 2021
Supreme Court postpones decision on military-linked party's claim of electoral fraud
Myanmar is just a decade out of nearly 50 years of military rule. (AFP Photo)
The submissions filed by the military-linked Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) would be “reserved for judgement", the court said.
Saturday, December 19, 2020
Move of Rohingya Refugees Poses Environmental and Human Rights Concerns
Dec. 18, 2020
Monday, December 14, 2020
UN should help Rohingyas in Bhasan Char: Foreign minister
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"They (UN) should follow their mandate (on refugees). It doesn't matter where they're living," he told reporters.
Momen said the UN should not think of whether the Rohingyas are living in Kutupalong, Bhasan Char or somewhere else. "It's their mandate to help them (refugees). They should do it."
Wednesday, December 9, 2020
Netherlands, Sweden call for urgent UN assessment on safety of Rohingyas at Bhasan Char
The Daily Star
Star Online ReportDecember 08, 2020
The Netherlands and Sweden have called for urgent need for a UN assessment on the safety, feasibility and sustainability of Bhasan Char as a place for refugees to live.
The call came after a visit by the two European ambassadors to Cox's Bazar where about a million Rohingyas are living in congested refugee camps.
At least 1642 Rohingyas were transferred to Bhashan Char on December 5 amid criticism from the UN and rights bodies who say the island in Hatiya of Noakhali is low-lying and isolated. UN said it was waiting for assessment by a technical team of the UN.
Monday, December 7, 2020
UN recognises enormous investment in Bhasan Char: Mia Seppo
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Wednesday, December 2, 2020
Rohingya relocation: UN reiterates offer to engage
UN says it has 'limited information' on Rohingya relocation to Bhasan Char
Published: 02 Dec 2020
Monday, November 30, 2020
Bangladesh faces opposition on Rohingya relocation
DHAKA, Bangladesh
29.11.2020
The South Asian nation said it is set to initiate the relocation to the remote islet, 50 kilometers (31 miles) from its southwestern coast in December, citing “rising pressure” on the tourist hub of Cox’s Bazar, where 1.2 million Rohingya refugees are currently housed in camps.
Friday, November 27, 2020
Myanmar ignoring Rohingya genocide trial measures, say activists
Human rights lawyers and activists said on Monday (23) that Myanmar is continuing to commit genocide against Rohingya Muslims in breach of orders by the UN’s top court.
The International Court of Justice (ICJ) in January rejected arguments made personally by Myanmar’s civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi in The Hague and imposed urgent interim measures on the predominantly Buddhist nation.
Sunday, November 22, 2020
UN Rohingya resolution reeks of Dhaka’s diplomatic failures
NEWAGE
Nov 21,2020
THE United Nations having adopted a resolution on November 18 urging Myanmar to resolve the Rohingya crisis appears to the Bangladesh side to be ‘a major achievement’. But experts believe that the adoption of such a resolution is of little significance. This also speaks of major diplomatic failures on part of Bangladesh authorities. After the latest round of ‘security operations’ by Myanmar’s military in Rakhine, 8,60,000 Rohingyas had fled unbridled violence to safety into Bangladesh since August 25, 2017 to join many others having already lived here since the late 1970s to take the total number of Rohingyas in Bangladesh to more than 1.1 million. Efforts to repatriate the Rohingyas since August 2017 have faltered twice — on August 22, 2019 and November 15, 2018 — mostly because Myanmar continued creating a fearful situation for the Rohingyas in Rakhine, with none living in Cox’s Bazar camps voluntarily turning up to accept the repatriation offer, citing a ‘lack of a congenial atmosphere’ in their homeland. The process of Rohingya repatriation has since then been left somewhat unattended. Although the Bangladesh permanent representative to the United Nations describes the adoption of the resolution as ‘a very strong mandate’, this speaks of grave Bangladesh failures at the diplomatic level.
Thursday, November 5, 2020
Hate speech rife in Myanmar ahead of elections: Study
Ahead of general elections, state-sponsored hate speech, fake news, incitement to violence have mar campaigns, says report
The study, released on Wednesday by the UK-based Burma Human Rights Network (BHRN), reported 39 cases of hate speech and disinformation, of which some were shared over online platforms more then 2,000 times.
Thursday, October 22, 2020
'Rohingya crisis among worst modern tragedies'
In a ministerial committee meeting on the persecuted Muslim group held by the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), Deputy Foreign Minister Yavuz Selim Kiran underlined that the UN Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on the matter had recorded incidents in Myanmar involving "genocidal intentions."
Wednesday, October 14, 2020
OP-ED: Bangladesh is being held hostage
On October 5, Vikram Doraiswami, the newly appointed Indian High Commissioner to the country, arrived in Bangladesh. He told reporters at the land port in Akhaura: “Bangladesh is one of India’s closest friends, and thus we are eager to continue and enhance our bilateral relationship with this neighbouring country.”
Beijing is now more interested in keeping Bangladesh as a development partner through the continuous effort of distancing Dhaka from Delhi. Recently, Sino-Indian relations with Bangladesh are looking great, but the reality is different.
Tuesday, October 13, 2020
UN urged to take action against Myanmar over civilian abuses
12 Oct 2020
First-hand testimonies and images obtained by Amnesty show the Myanmar military’s ‘utter disregard for civilian suffering’ in Rakhine, Chin states.
Amnesty International has called on the United Nations Security Council to take urgent action against Myanmar before the International Criminal Court, amid mounting evidence of military abuses, including indiscriminate firing at civilians in the continuing conflict with armed Arakan rebels.
In a report released on Monday, Amnesty said that first-hand testimony, photographs and video evidence obtained by the group show the Myanmar military’s “utter disregard for civilian suffering” in areas at the epicentre of the fighting.
Tuesday, October 6, 2020
The UN Sees The Rohingyas as The World's Most Persecuted. Here is Why?
October 4th, 2020
Rohingya Muslims held in open-air detention camps in Myanmar's Rakhine State since 2012 have been subjected to "institutional oppressions" and "grave rights violations," according to a new report by an international rights group.