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United News of Bangladesh .
Dhaka
12 June, 2024,
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THE GEOGRAPHIC (TGP)
Mehjabin Maliha Hossain
September 2, 2023
With the election approaching, Dhaka is busy greeting foreign delegates and observers. The foreign observers are all invariably pressing for a free and fair election. It appears a balanced goal of the Westerners holding to their deep convictions of democracy and freedom. However, the policy is riddled with inconsistency and only appears subordinate to the geostrategic goals. The esteemed values of democracy and freedom are not sacrosanct per se — rather only viewed from a narrow geostrategic prism.
Dhaka
Tribune
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ASIA TIME
Saqib Sheikh
April 7, 2022
The Biden administration should push for change on the ground rather than merely issuing statements
Rohingya refugees gather at a market in Bangladesh’s Kutupalong refugee camp in Ukhia on May 15, 2020. Photo: AFPThe recent announcement by US President Joe Biden’s administration affirming that the Myanmar military was guilty of a genocidal acts and crimes against humanity directed at the Rohingya was largely welcomed by the Rohingya stateless diaspora.
Activists and analysts, though, have commented on how late this decision has been made, coming nearly five years after the military operation in 2017 that resulted in a mass exodus of the Rohingya from their ancestral homeland in Rakhine state to neighboring Bangladesh as well as other countries in the region.
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Rohingya refugees walk through a shallow canal after crossing the Naf River as they flee violence in Myanmar to reach Bangladesh in Palongkhali near Ukhia on Oct. 16, 2017. (Munir Uz Zaman/AFP/Getty Images)
On Monday, Secretary of State Antony Blinken officially declared that the U.S. government defines the crimes perpetrated by the Myanmar military against the Rohingya people as a genocide.
For me and many other Rohingya, this is an epochal moment. For too long, we have felt abandoned by the world. For years, we pleaded for help — but our calls went unanswered. The violence and suffering we endured were compounded by the realization that so much of the world preferred to look away. This collective memory has further traumatized us. How could no one care when they burned down our homes and slaughtered our people? How could the international community close its eyes when hundreds of thousands of us were forced to flee our country?
Bloomberg
Khine Lin Kyaw
22 March 2022,
Rohingya refugees wait for food distribution at the refugee camp of Balukhali in Bangladesh in Sept. 2017.Photographer: Dominique Faget/AFP/Getty Images
Myanmar’s military government on Tuesday rejected U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s declaration that the Min Aung Hlaing-led military committed genocide against the Rohingya minority in 2016 and 2017.
The Foreign Affairs
Ministry said in a statement that “Myanmar has never engaged in any
genocidal actions” and harbors no “genocidal intent” for any group.
Blinken’s remarks were “politically motivated and tantamount to
interfering in the internal affairs of a sovereign state.”
THE GUARDIAN
Alex Hern and agencies
@alexhern
Tue 22 Mar 2022
Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh have welcomed the US move to designate atrocities committed by Myanmar’s military a genocide. Photograph: Allison Joyce/Getty ImagesRohingya refugees in Bangladesh have welcomed the announcement by the US that it considers the violent repression of their largely Muslim ethnic group in Myanmar a genocide.
“We are very happy on the declaration of the genocide; many many thanks,” said 60-year-old Sala Uddin, who lives at Kutupalong camp, one of the many in Cox’s Bazar district that are now home to about 1 million Rohingya.
THE I DIPLOMAT
Sebastian Strangio
March 21, 2022
The declaration is long overdue, but accountability for Myanmar’s military remains a long way off.
Yesterday, Reuters published an exclusive report claiming that the United States is intending to declare that Myanmar’s brutal treatment of the Rohingya Muslim population is a “genocide.” According to the article, which cited Biden administration officials with knowledge of the matter, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken will make the long-anticipated designation today at an event at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, where there is currently an exhibit detailing the plight of the Rohingya.
B B C
2022-03-21
Rohingya Muslims are continuing to flee MyanmarThe Biden administration is to declare that Myanmar's military has committed genocide against the Rohingya minority, US officials have said.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken is expected to make the announcement when he visits the Holocaust Museum in Washington later on Monday.
Hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims have fled Myanmar since the military crackdown that began in 2017.
More than 6,000 people were killed in the first month of the onslaught.
The
world community is aghast over the acute tensions between the United
States and its NATO allies on one side and Russia on the other, which is
poised critically on the brink of a military confrontation, the likes
of which the world didn’t see in the entire Cold War era.
The
shocking part is that it has become a no-holds barred struggle that is
being fought tooth and claw, as hidden racial and religious prejudices
lying just below the surface have welled to the surface in the Western
world.
VOA
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ဝင္းမင္း
11 ဒီဇင္ဘာ၊ 2021
Rohingya genocide: Facebook faces massive $200 bn legal action in UK, US 
