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02.12.2022

• 11th ASEAN Society of Colorectal Surgeons opens in HCM City Vietnam Plus
• Acting NUG president expresses joy over release of prisoners, calls for continued pressure Mizzima
• Arakan geopolitics render Rohingya stateless ethnicity - Prothom Alo English Prothom Alo English
• Arakan State IDPs hold off on return, for now, in wake of latest ceasefire Burma News International
• Australian jailed in Myanmar applauded in Parliament - Manistee News Advocate Manistee News Advocate
• Brussels exhibition celebrates EU-ASEAN 45-year ties Vietnam Plus
• Can Myanmar-Bangladesh Strategic Engagement Ensure Peace And Stability For South And Southeast… Eurasia Review
• China-Laos Railway facilitates trade between China, ASEAN countries CGTN
• Column: Asia crude oil imports hit record high, but strength is deceptive: Russell | Reuters Reuters
• Deadly bomb blast in Panghsang USWA-controlled territory - Burma News International Burma News International
• Death sentences handed down by secret Myanmar courts shock UN rights chief The National
• Declining aid for Rohingyas making it hard to meet their needs - The Business Standard The Business Standard
• Digital ID schemes allegedly marginalizing Roma in Serbia, Rohingyas in Myanmar Biometric Update
• Family members unable to meet seven Kyauktaw Twsp detainees Burma News International
• In crowded camps, Rohingya refugees embrace family planning | Frontier Myanmar Frontier Myanmar
• In crowded camps, Rohingya refugees embrace family planning RFI
• 'Meant Illegal Bangladeshis, Rohingya': Paresh Rawal Says on 'Cook Fish for Bengalis' Remark The Wire
• Myanmar democracy leader says 2,000 dead fighting junta, urges military aid | Reuters Reuters
• Myanmar junta arms convoy from Indian border attacked - Burma News International Burma News International
• Myanmar Junta Sentences Seven Students to Death - The Irrawaddy The Irrawaddy
• Myanmar military agrees to ceasefire with armed group | NHK WORLD-JAPAN News nhk.or.jp
• Myanmar: AA, Business Owners Call For Self-Sufficiency In Wake Of Ceasefire Eurasia Review
• Myanmar: UN Human Rights Chief Alarmed At Death Sentences By Secretive Military Courts Scoop
• Myanmar’s Civilian President Warns NUG Ministers not to Raise False Hopes The Irrawaddy
• Myanmar's exiled National Unity Government cautiously recognises rights of Rohingyas The Hindu
• Myanmar's Rohingya IDs deny citizenship - New Straits Times New Straits Times
• NUG acting president speaks out against gender-... Mizzima
• NUG Suggests how ASEAN can get Meaningful Changes From Myanmar Junta The Irrawaddy
• Photo Essay: Sittwe's Kandawgyi Lake drying up | Burma News International Burma News International
• Psychosocial Support to Improve Mental Health and Child Development Among Rohingya Refugees in Bangaldesh The Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab
• Rohingya adopt family planning in Bangladesh camps Union of Catholic Asian News
• Rohingya caught dangerously in the middle of Rakhine war - Frontier Myanmar Frontier Myanmar
• Security situation remains dangerous despite junta reopening roads and waterways in Rakhine Burma News International
• Senator Markey, Colleagues Urge Biden Admin. to Work to Improve Access to Education for ... Senator Edward Markey
• Stronger Asean ties eyed for 'green cities' The Manila Times
• Traders hope that highway from Indian border will be re-opened following ceasefire Mizzima
• UN human rights chief decries new Myanmar death sentences ABC News

Myanmar’s exiled National Unity Government cautiously recognises rights of Rohingyas

THE HINDU
KALLOL BHATTACHERJEE
December 01, 2022

However, the exiled opposition of Myanmar is aware of certain ‘limitations’ regarding the displaced community

The refugee crisis exploded in August-September 2017 when the Myanmar military intensified its so-called anti-terror military campaign that evicted more than a million Rohingyas who were forced to seek shelter in Bangladesh. | Photo Credit: AP

The laws of Myanmar that prompted one of the largest refugee crises in recent decades involving the Rohingya community of the Rakhine province is deeply unpopular among the democratic anti-junta forces. The Hindu was told recently that the ruling military junta is under growing pressure from the “troops” of the National Unity Government (NUG) which is being “actively engaged” by several countries, including France and the United States.

Rohingya caught dangerously in the middle of Rakhine war

Frontier 

MYANMAR

November 30, 2022 

Myanmar’s most vulnerable minority group has been caught in the crossfire of a brutal conflict and say they are pressured to collaborate by both sides, pushing many to risk death or arrest to escape abroad.

When, in July, an informal ceasefire between the Myanmar military and Arakan Army broke down in Rakhine State after 20 months, fighting between the two groups spread to new battlegrounds. This includes the far northern township of Maungdaw, where the vulnerable Rohingya Muslim community form the majority.

“We have been suffering for a long time, but it is getting worse with fighting resuming,” said a 30-year-old Rohingya resident of Maungdaw Township. “We Rohingya people have been shot dead and arrested by both the military and the AA, but we have no right to make complaints to either side.”

 

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• 3 Days After Ceasefire Deal with AA- most Roads and Waterways Remain Blocked by ... Burma News International
• Acting NUG president expresses joy over release of prisoners, calls for continued pressure Mizzima
• Asean launches Sustainable and Responsible Fund Standards The Manila Times
• Elderly Civilians Killed in Myanmar Junta Raids in Sagaing - The Irrawaddy
• Freed Myanmar Activist Mya Aye Describes Harrowing Imprisonment voanews.com
• His Majesty receives outgoing ASEAN Secretary-General Borneo Bulletin
• Informal ceasefire with Myanmar military ‘not permanent’ solution, Arakan Army says Myanmar Now
• KNDF forms an artillery arm in Karenni State | Burma News International
• Myanmar detention was 'hell,' says freed Japanese filmmaker - NBC News
• Myanmar junta and Arakan Army sign ceasefire Mizzima
• Myanmar Junta's miscalculations in Rakhine - The Business Standard
• Myanmar Military and Arakan Army Agree Temporary Truce in Rakhine State The Irrawaddy
• Myanmar military, Arakan Army halt hostilities on humanitarian grounds Radio Free Asia
• Myanmar’s Civilian President Warns NUG Ministers not to Raise False Hopes The Irrawaddy
• Netherlands to provide $7.5m for Rohingyas, host community | The Daily Star
• NUG acting president speaks out against gender-... Mizzima
• NUG Suggests how ASEAN can get Meaningful Changes From Myanmar Junta The Irrawaddy
• Rakhine Truce Between Myanmar Junta and Arakan Army 'Hanging by a Thread' The Irrawaddy
• Rohingya caught dangerously in the middle of Rakhine war Frontier Myanmar
• Rohingya leader killed in Cox's Bazar camp -  Dhaka Tribune
• Rohingya leader stabbed to death at camp -  New Age
• Rohingya Muslims Stuck between Myanmar's Military Junta, Rebel Arakan Army -  IQNA
• Security Update: November 29, 2022 -  U.S. Embassy in Burma
• 'They tried to erase us': Rohingya IDs deny citizenship - bdnews24.com
• ULA/AA Reaches Informal Ceasefire With Regime - Burma News International
• World Bank-backed Yoma Bank Working With Myanmar military's Mytel Network Operator The Irrawaddy  
• Years of horrific atrocities against Rohingya women and girls cannot go unanswered PoliticsHome
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New Light of Myanmar ( English Newspaper )2022 November

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30.11.2022

'They tried to erase us': Rohingya IDs deny citizenship

Eco-Business
Thomson Reuters Foundation
Nov. 29, 2022

 Zaw Win’s grandparents had the same identify card as everyone else in Myanmar, but a generation later his parents were given a separate ID for minority Rohingyas. Today, Zaw Win is classed as an illegal immigrant in the land of his birth.

For more than three decades, Myanmar’s ruling powers have weaponised the country’s identity card system in a wider campaign of persecution, exclusion and surveillance targeting the Muslim ethnic community, human rights groups say.

Netherlands, IOM join hands to strengthen resilience of Rohingyas in Cox’s Bazar

Dhaka Tribune

Tribune Desk
November 28, 2022

The project aims to provide multi-sectoral support assistance for the Rohingya refugees and the host communities in Cox’s Bazar

Courtesy

The Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Dhaka and the International Organization for Migration (IOM) have signed an agreement based on which the Netherlands will provide $7.5 million to IOM for the implementation of the “Restoring the Environment and Strengthening Resilience of Rohingya Refugees and Host Communities in Cox's Bazar” project.

The project aims to provide multi-sectoral support assistance for the Rohingya refugees and the host communities in Cox's Bazar.

Rohingya Muslims stuck between Myanmar’s military junta, rebel Arakan Army

AA
Halil Ibrahim Medet
ISTANBUL
28.11.2022

Effect of military coup in country led to even more pressure on Rohingya after decades of oppression, says Arakanese activist

File Photo - A Rohingya Muslim man, fled from oppression within ongoing military operations in Myanmar’s Rakhine state, recites Adhan (call to prayer) as they take shelter at a makeshift camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh on September 24, 2017

After suffering decades of oppression, Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar are now caught between two fires from the country’s repressive military junta and the rebel Buddhist Arakan Army, according to local Arakanese activists.

The UN and other international human rights organizations have called the violence against the country’s Rohingya “ethnic cleansing” or “genocide,” saying the Muslim group is “the most persecuted minority in the world.”

 

Bangladesh Launches Police Probe on ARSA Chief and Others Over Intelligence Officer’s Death

The Irrawaddy
Muktadir Rashid
26 November 2022

Bangladesh security personnel stand guard during a crackdown in a Rohingya refugee camp against suspected criminals and insurgents in October. / AFP

 

DHAKA — An investigation has been launched in Bangladesh into 66 alleged members of a Rohingya militant group over a shootout earlier this month on Myanmar’s border in which a Bangladeshi security officer was killed.

An investigation into Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA) commander-in-chief Ataullah abu Ammar Jununi and 65 others was launched on Wednesday over the killing of Directorate General of Forces Intelligence (DGFI) officer Rizwan Rushdee and injuring of a Rapid Action Battalion member during an anti-smuggling operation in hilly Bandarban district on November 14.

Declaration on Rohingya Unity

"In the name of Allah, the Most Merciful, the Most Beneficent"

Declaration on Rohingya Unity

                                                                        November 20, 2022 

 

1. Mindful of the tragedy the Rohingya people are facing since at least 2012 genocidal extermination reaching to its climax in 2017 and still continuing resulting in the fresh exodus of more than 1 million Rohingya from Arakan into Bangladesh and other countries;   
2. Whereas the international community has failed the Rohingya people again and again even 5 years after the most recent mass exodus in 2017;
    
3. Realising the absence of unified representation of the Rohingya people at relevant international forums as well as in all internal and external negotiations with concerned parties, including Myanmar authorities, Myanmar oppositions or stakeholders, results in finding a solution more elusive;
   

Rohingya rights groups form alliance for self-determination, dignified survival in Myanmar

AA
Md. Kamruzzaman
DHAKA, Bangladesh
24.11.2022

Several leading groups, prominent activists came together to form Arakan Rohingya National Alliance, which its co-founder views as an urgent need

For the first time since the genocide against Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar’s Rakhine State in Aug. 2017, several leading organizations and prominent activists have formed a greater alliance titled “Arakan Rohingya National Alliance (ARNA)” with the aim at ensuring the persecuted community's safe and dignified survival in their homeland.

Nay San Lwin, a founding member of ARNA and co-founder of the Free Rohingya Coalition, told Anadolu Agency on Thursday that a unified representation of the Rohingya was necessary at relevant international forums, Bangladesh, and Myanmar.

Among the diaspora and refugee communities, Rohingya has dozens of organizations, but none of them is the only representative, Lwin said, adding that a stronger collaboration among Rohingya organizations was required to represent the entire community.

UN resolution offers a glimmer of hope for Rohingya?

Pakistan Today

OPINION
By Dr Arpita
November 24, 2022

Since the overwhelming exodus of Rohingya refugees to Bangladesh in 2017, the Rohingya problem has gained attention. To continue housing more than 1.1 million refugees in Bangladesh, however, is proving to be an incredibly challenging endeavor given the recent emergence of other national and international challenges.

A ray of light is provided, nonetheless, by the recent Rohingya resolution passed by the UN General Assembly’s Third Committee. The resolution was jointly introduced on November 18 by members of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) and the European Union (EU), who all agreed that it was urgent to confront Myanmar’s reprehensible treatment of the Rohingya people and other minorities.

Japan: Rohingya repatriation possible upon democracy resumption in Myanmar

Dhaka Tribune  

BSS
November 23, 2022

File photo of a Rohingya camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh Reuters

Japanese State Minister for Foreign Affairs TAKEI Shunsuke said sustainable repatriation of the forcibly displaced Rohingyas would be possible after resumption of democracy in Myanmar.

He said this while paying a courtesy call on Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at her official Ganabhaban residence on Wednesday evening.

Rohingyas form new platform

NEWAGE

Staff Correspondent
Published: Nov 21,2022 

Several Rohingya organisations and prominent activists have come together and floated a new platform called the Arakan Rohingya National Alliance.

The alliance brings together Rohingya leaders residing in different countries to achieve the rights of self-determination of the Rohingya people within the federal union of Myanmar, according to a press release on Monday.

The leadership called for greater unity among Rohingyas and said that Rohingya were not secessionists but would want to be a part of the future Federal Democratic Union of Myanmar.

They expressed their desire to cooperate with all stakeholders inside Myanmar, the press release said, adding that they were committed to upholding ‘peaceful coexistence’ on the agreed upon union principle of ‘unity in diversity’.

Rohingya Unite to Launch Myanmar Rights Alliance

The Irrawaddy 

By Muktadir Rashid
22 November 2022 

Rohingya refugees attend mark the first anniversary of the 2017 military crackdown at the Kutupalong refugee camp in Ukhia on August 25, 2018. / AFP

 

DHAKA — Several Rohingya organizations and activists have united to form a group to demand human rights in Myanmar.

The Arakan Rohingya National Alliance (ARNA) called for Rohingya unity and said the Muslim community was not secessionist.

It said the Rohingya wanted to be part of a future federal democratic Myanmar to uphold peaceful coexistence through unity in diversity.

The groups said it would work with the civilian National Unity Government (NUG) and United League of Arakan in Rakhine State to achieve full and effective equality and the right to self-determination, like other ethnic groups in Myanmar.

An online press conference on Sunday aimed to unite the global Rohingya diaspora and announce the alliance’s intent to achieve self-determination for the Rohingya in Myanmar.

Thirty-five Rohingya sentenced in Myanmar to 5 years in jail

MIZZIMA
21 November 2022

Lawyers have reported that on 16 November, Bogale Township Court sentenced 35 Muslim Rohingya to five years in prison.

Military Council troops apprehended 62 Rohingya people near Kadonelay island, Kadonkani village-tract, Bogale Township, Ayeyarwaddy Region, at 10 pm on 30 October.

UN adopts Rohingya resolution by consensus

USA NEWS
November 16, 2022 

USANewsOnline.Com, New York : Today 16 November 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. The resolution, jointly tabled by the member states of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) and the European Union (EU), was cosponsored by 109 countries, the highest number of countries since 2017. 

The primary focus of the resolution was the human rights situation of the Rohingya Muslims and other minorities in Myanmar, including in the context of current political developments. It called upon Myanmar to address the root causes of the Rohingya crisis and create conducive environment in Rakhine to facilitate voluntary, safe and dignified return of the Rohingyas to their homeland in Myanmar. The resolution also called upon Myanmar to cooperate fully with the Special Envoy of the Secretary General on Myanmar and all the human rights mechanisms of the UN. The resolution recognized the important role of the regional countries and the regional organizations, such as ASEAN in addressing the political and humanitarian crisis in Myanmar, and in this regard called for swift implementation of ASEAN’s 5-point consensus. The resolution noted the ongoing justice and accountability processes and welcomed the developments in the case against Myanmar in the International Court of Justice and the investigation by the Prosecution of the International Criminal Court.

UN adopts resolution on human rights of Rohingya, other minorities in Myanmar

The Daily Star 

UNB, Dhaka
Thu Nov 17, 2022 

 Reuters file photo

The UN General Assembly (UNGA) has adopted a resolution "on the situation of human rights of Rohingya and other minorities in Myanmar" without a vote.

"We would like to see the increased role of the regional countries and the regional organisations in resolving the Rohingya crisis with enhanced urgency, before it turns into a regional security crisis," according to the statement of Bangladesh at the adoption of 3rd Committee Resolution on the situation of Rohingya in Myanmar.

Third Committee Approves Six Draft Resolutions, Including Texts on Human Rights in Iran, Myanmar, Syria, Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Crimea

United Nation
General Assembly
Third Committee

Seventy-seventh Session,

52nd & 53rd Meetings (AM & PM)

GA/SHC/4369

16 November 2022

The Third Committee (Social, Humanitarian and Cultural) approved six draft resolutions today, five of which focused on country-specific situations, while the last drew attention to the rising number of refugees and displaced persons in Africa.

A draft resolution on the human rights situation in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol — approved by a recorded vote of 78 in favour to 14 against, with 79 abstentions — would have the Assembly condemn the ongoing temporary occupation of Crimea by the Russian Federation, as well as its unprovoked aggression against Ukraine.