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26.04.2024

• ‘Neutral’ Border Guard Force helped Myanmar military retake Myawaddy: KNU Myanmar Now
• 173 Bangladeshis repatriated from Myanmar - MSN
• AA commits to protect civilians of Buthidaung regardless of their race or religion | Narinjara News
• AA Pledges to Protect Buthidaung Residents Regardless of Race or Religion Burma News International
• AA responds to UN OCHR Chief Volker Türk's statement - mizzima
• 'Afraid to sleep at home': Myanmar civilians flee to Thai border as conflict intensifies - CNA
• Aung Mingalar outpost falls to AA, junta soldiers conduct airstrikes using jet fighters | Narinjara News
• Bangladesh repatriates Hundreds of Myanmar Junta troops after fighting on the border The Economic Times
• Bangladesh Repatriates Myanmar Troops After Fighting On Border | Barron's
• Bangladesh, Myanmar exchange prisoners amidst Rakhine strife Voice of America
• Brazil: Rohingya crisis tends to get worse if remains unresolved - Dhaka Tribune
• Burma's Military Junta Totters Toward the Brink - The American Conservative
• Burmese journalist wins Soros Fellowship for New Americans | Cornell Chronicle - Cornell University
• China Seeks to Deepen Collaboration With Myanmar Junta on Border Crime Crackdown The Irrawaddy
• Erdogan Says World 'Blind and Deaf' to Rohingya Plight - Naharnet
• HC seeks list of Rohingya voters - Somoy News - Somoy Tv
• HC wants to know the number of Rohingya voters in Cox's Bazar | The Business Standard
• Junta recruits another 300 Rohingya in new round of conscription - Radio Free Asia
• Myanmar Junta Steps Up Conscription With Forced Abductions After Thingyan The Irrawaddy
• Myanmar rebel group withdraws troops from key town on Thai border - NBC News
• Myanmar warlord at centre of battle for key border town | Reuters
• Myanmar’s Arakan Army Denies Killing Five Rohingya Civilians The Irrawaddy
• Real victory in Rakhine State means defeating the Myanmar junta's divide-and-rule tactics Myanmar Now
• Rohingya refugees risk dangerous sea route to Indonesia in search of safety and freedom UNHCR
• Shifting tides: India's port dominance in Myanmar - Research Foundation
• Study: Rohingya mental health crisis in Myanmar labeled genocide - Dhaka Tribune
• Thailand eyes ASEAN troika to negotiate with Myanmar junta Union of Catholic Asian News
• Thousands of Houses Destroyed by Junta in Buthidaung | Burma News International
• Unrest in Myanmar should get India on the alert Deccan Herald
• US report paints grim human rights situation in Asia - UCA News UCA News

Junta forces Rohingyas to protest ethnic rebels in Myanmar’s Rakhine state

RFA
By RFA Burmese
2024.04.22 

Those who refuse to denounce the Arakan Army are made to pay fines.

Rohingyas from Bu May and Bar Sar Ra villages of Sittwe township, Rakhine state, protest March 23, 2024. Myanmar Military

 

Junta authorities in western Myanmar forced hundreds of Rohingya Muslims to protest an ethnic rebel offensive that has the military on the ropes in Rakhine state – and fining them if they didn’t participate, residents said Monday. 

No more words, the Rohingya deserve justice

Dhaka Tribune
Tribune Editorial
Publish : 21 Apr 2024,

The international community has a moral duty to ensure that the Rohingya are ensured justice.

It has now been close to eight years since the Rohingya crisis resulted in over a million of Myanmar’s ethnic minorities being driven out of their homeland and finding shelter within the borders of Bangladesh.

Displaced by conflict in Myanmar, thousands of Rohingya gather along Bangladesh border seeking refuge

Yeni Safak
21/04/2024 Sunday

Rohingya in Myanmar's Rakhine state becoming victim of ongoing conflict between junta forces, insurgent groups, say community leaders

Thousands of Rohingya displaced due to conflict in Myanmar gathered along the Myanmar-Bangladesh border near the transboundary Naf River to seek refuge, a Rohingya leader in Bangladesh told Anadolu.

Myanmar Junta Using Rohingya Recruits to Sow Ethnic Hatred: Activists

The Irrawaddy
Brian Wei
April 19, 2024

                                The burned Doctors Without Borders office. 

Myanmar’s junta is accused of burning down Buthidaung town in Rakhine State using forced Rohingya recruits in an apparent attempt to boost ethnic hatred.

What’s Happening In Myanmar’s Civil War?

The New York Times
By Hannah Beech and Weiyi Cai
April 19, 2024

• Why did the military stage a coup?
• Who is fighting back?
• How successful have the rebels been?
• How are civilians affected?
• Who lives in the country?
• Is it Myanmar or Burma?
• Will Myanmar hold together?

Myanmar’s military staged a coup in 2021, strangling democratic reforms and jailing much of the country’s civilian leadership. Three years on, the Southeast Asian nation is teetering on the brink of failed statehood. Insurgent groups, including pro-democracy forces and ethnic militias, are battling the junta’s soldiers. Tens of thousands of people have been killed, and millions more are displaced.

Burmese Rohingya Association in Japan condemns Rohingya conscription

mizzima
April 18, 2024 

Rohingya refugees walk after crossing the Naf river from Myanmar into Bangladesh in Whaikhyang/Photo: AFP

The Burmese Rohingya Association in Japan ( BRAJ) has released a statement condemning the Myanmar junta’s conscription of Rohingya civilians into the army.

Below is the 16 April BRAJ statement:

The Burmese Rohingya Association in Japan ( BRAJ) is outraged, deeply concerned and condemns the forced conscription of Rohingya men into the brutal Burmese military regime services and forcing vulnerable Rohingya civilians to take part in the regime-orchestrated protests against Arakan Army (AA) in some parts of Arakan, which were aiming to destroy unity and to divide people along ethnic and religious lines.

Moving Towards Understanding and Reconciliation in Myanmar’s Rakhine State

THE I DIPLOMAT
By Christopher Win
April 18, 2024

Recent comments by the commander of the Arakan Army have prompted a heated debate about history, language, and ethnic identity. 

The Sakya Man Aung pagoda in Mrauk-U, the ancient capital of Arakan, in Rakhine State, Myanmar.

In discussions of Myanmar’s intricate ethnic tapestry, the discourse around identity, particularly the term “Rohingya,” remains highly charged and complex. The controversy was reawakened last month, when the United League of Arakan/Arakan Army (ULA/AA), an ethnic Rakhine insurgent group fighting for autonomy from the central state, used the term “Bengali” in an official statement in lieu of the term “Rohingya.” This was then echoed in social media posts by Twan Mrat Naing, the leader of ULA/AA, sparking significant controversy among both domestic and international observers.

Thousands of Burma nationals seek refuge in Thailand; New Zealand unable to block invitation to regime

DVB
FROM THE DVB NEWSROOM,English Editor
April 17, 2024

A Karen soldier burned the Burma flag and hoisted the Karen National Union flag after it repelled a regime attack on Myawaddy Sunday. (Credit: Reuters)

Thousands of Burma nationals seek refuge in Thailand

Rental rates in Mae Sot, Thailand have risen as thousands of Burma nationals have arrived in the town to escape fighting in Karen State. Myawaddy residents have fled to Mae Sot in fear of attacks by the military after the Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA) seized control of the town on April 11.

Rohingya Muslims forcibly conscripted in Myanmar, deployed as human shields

ABNA
Tuesday,16 April 2024

The military in Myanmar military has forcibly recruited over a thousand Rohingya Muslim men and boys while the religious minority members are denied citizenship, a report said.

AhlulBayt News Agency: The military in Myanmar military has forcibly recruited over a thousand Rohingya Muslim men and boys while the religious minority members are denied citizenship, a report said.

‘Human shields on the battlefield’: Myanmar forces Rohingya into military

Al Jazeera
16 Apr 2024

Forced conscription into the military is the latest tactic Myanmar’s military-led government is using to target the persecuted Rohingya population.

Link : Here

Myanmar: If the hospitals are closed, where do people go?

MSF
15 Apr 2024

Myanmar is facing an acute humanitarian crisis since fighting escalated at the end of October 2023. The intensification of conflict has led to a lack of humanitarian access, a decimation of the healthcare system, and—due to a law passed in February—increasing fear of military conscription or forced recruitment into other armed groups.

Rohingya mark Eid in Indonesia limbo after treacherous sea voyage

M today
Published April 13, 2024 

Rohingya refugees take part in Eid al-Fitr prayers, marking the end of the holy month of Ramadan, at a temporary shelter in Meulaboh, Indonesia's Aceh province on April 10, 2024.

 

MEUABOH (INDONESIA) — At a damaged temporary shelter in western Indonesia, Rohingya men slick their hair with gel while women apply make-up and colourful hijabs to look the part for prayers at the start of Eid-al-Fitr festivities.

‘A living death’: Camp conditions push Rohingya to the high seas

Frontier Myanmar
April 10, 2024

Rohingya refugees wait to be rescued from the hull of their capsized boat as a vessel of Indonesia’s National Search and Rescue Agency approaches in waters off Aceh province on March 21. (AFP)

Amid budget cuts and surging crime in the refugee camps in Bangladesh and war in their native Rakhine, more Rohingya are taking a perilous journey by boat to Indonesia and Malaysia, where an increasingly hostile reception awaits.

Rohingya ordered by Myanmar officer to ‘fight for our faith’

RFA
By Kyaw Lwin Oo, Sann Maw Aung and Khet
Mar 2024.04.09 

Conscription among the stateless Muslim minority long-targeted for their religion is violent and widespread. 

Rohingya Muslims ride in the back of a junta military vehicle, March 9, 2024.
(Image from citizen journalist video)

Just before midnight on Feb. 25, Ali opened his door to see junta soldiers pointing guns at him. Myanmar’s military had been making its way through Rakhine state, as part of a newly launched forced conscription campaign and the young Rohingya man was their latest victim.  

Arakan Army’s gains enough to enable self-rule in Myanmar’s Rakhine state

RFA
A commentary by Zachary Abuza
2024.04.06 

Their strength will impact future negotiations over establishing a federal democracy and questions of citizenship. 

The Arakan Army, or AA, is continuing their sweep across Rakhine, furthering the military gains of the ethnic Three Brotherhood Alliance, of which it is a member, in Shan state. While the capture of nine towns, with a tenth in southern Chin state, is another humiliating defeat for the Burmese military, it also sets the scene for a very messy political discussion moving forward.

Nippon Foundation chief for Rohingya youth’s skills development

BSS NEWS
07 Apr 2024, 

DHAKA, April 07, 2024 (BSS) - Chairman of the Japan-based donor organisation Nippon Foundation, Sasakawa Yohei emphasised the importance of fisheries and skills development for the youth to enhance the quality of life of the Rohingya community in Bhashan Char.

U.N. Security Council: Refer Mass Internment Of Muslims And Other Atrocities In Myanmar To ICC

SCOOP World
Sunday, 7 April 2024,
Press Release: Fortify Rights 

Mass arbitrary detention, life-threatening restrictions in Rakhine State

(BANGKOK, April 4, 2024)– The Myanmar military junta’s ongoing confinement of more than a half million Rohingya Muslims to internment camps and villages in Rakhine State constitutes a situation of mass arbitrary detention and an act of genocide under international law, said Fortify Rights today. According to a new investigation by Fortify Rights, the junta not only continues to confine Rohingya en masse, but it has also tightened restrictions on lifesaving humanitarian aid to Rohingya and Kaman Muslims in internment camps and villages throughout the state.

Fisheries skills can improve lives of Rohingyas in Bhasan Char: Nippon Foundation chief

THE BUSINESS STANDARD
TBS Report
06 April, 2024

As part of Government's Ashrayan-3 project, Bhasan Char began hosting Rohingya refugees relocated from Cox's Bazar in December 2020 

Photo: Courtesy

Developing fisheries skills among the Rohingya youth can enhance the community's quality of life in Bhasan Char, said Nippon Foundation Chairman Sasakawa Yohei.