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19.10.2020

Border killing deplorable: FM - newagebd.net

Bullet injured victim dies in Sittwe general hospital Burma News International

Covid-19 hospital facilities expanded for Rohingyas, locals in Cox's Bazar Dhaka Tribune

Dancing on the Rainbow Star of Mysore

ED: United for the Rohingya - Dhaka Tribune

FM Momen: Govt under pressure over plan to relocate Rohingyas to Bhashan Char Dhaka Tribune

For young Rohingya brides, marriage means a deadly crossing The Hindu

INGOs creating pressure against Bhasan Char Rohingya relocation plan: Momen The Daily Star

International agencies continue COVID-19 health support in Cox's Bazar The Financial Express BD

IOM, UK EMT continue Covid health support for Rohingyas United News of Bangladesh

Keep locked up in inhumane conditions AlKhaleej Today

Myanmar: Govt says most Rakhine voting stations will not operate in Nov election The Star Online

NCA signatories call for solving Arakan State's problems via political means Burma News International

Netherlands determined to ensure justice for Rohingyas Dhaka Tribune

Reining in the rogue state The Daily Star

Rohingya Atrocities: Netherlands for ensuring justice through ICJ United News of Bangladesh

Rohingya repatriation: Dhaka asks Manila to exert pressure on Naypyidaw with Asean Dhaka Tribune

Rohingya's suffering continues in Bangladesh Asia Times

US seeks unified voice from Myanmar's all neighbours for Rohingya repatriation Dhaka Tribune

IOM Bangladesh Rohingya Crisis Response - Monthly Situation Report (August 2020)

Date: 16 Oct 2020

IOM, in Partnership with the Government of Bangladesh, expand Severe Acute Respiratory Infection Isolation and Treatment Center support to Rohingya and Host Communities

Link : Here

India to give submarine to Myanmar, sends strong message to China

Dhaka Tribune  

Anando Mostofa
October 16th, 2020

Kilo Class Type 636 INS Sindhurakshak. Soviet Kilo-Class submarines can sink just about anything Collected

The move comes as a part of India’s initiative to strengthen ties with Myanmar, according to political analysts

In an unprecedented move to provide military assistance to Myanmar, India is set to hand over INS Sindhuvir, a Kilo class attack submarine, to the Myanmar Navy. 

This will be the first submarine of Myanmar military, who are accused of systematic genocide against the minority ethnic Rohingya Muslim community.

US, Others Announce Donor Conference to Aid Rohingya

BenarNews

Kamran Reza Chowdhury and BenarNews staff
Dhaka and Washington
2020-10-15

U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Stephen Biegun (left) and Bangladesh Foreign Minister A.K. Abdul Momen speak to reporters at the Padma State Guesthouse in Dhaka, Oct. 15, 2020.
 Kamran Reza Chowdhury/BenarNews

An international conference is to be held next week to call on countries worldwide to “help provide much needed funding” for supporting Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh and those who have been displaced by conflict inside their home state of Rakhine in Myanmar, the U.S. State Department announced Thursday.

The virtual donor conference, co-hosted by the United States, United Kingdom, European Union and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, will take place on Oct. 22, officials said.

Why Bangladesh Must Let the Rohingya Speak for Themselves

THE I DIPLOMAT

By Saad Hammadi
October 16, 2020

 

Any durable solution for the Rohingya will not come through more restrictions on their lives.

People shop for vegetables at the Kutupalong Rohingya refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, Tuesday, June 2, 2020. Credit: AP Photo/Shafiqur Rahman

Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh drew the attention and concern of the world when they fled deadly violence in Myanmar in 2017. Three years later, they are among the most disempowered people in the world, with the least control over their lives. Recent events have accentuated this, and it is time for change.

Responding to Genocide half a world away

UVIC

University od Victoria
Law
Jonathan Woods
October 15, 2020

Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, March 2018. UN Women set up a centre in the Balukhali refugee camp to provide a safe space for Rohingya women and adolescent girls. Photo credit: UN Women/Allison Joyce

Virtual roundtable results in calls to action in seeking justice for the Rohingya

“Canada must take immediate, robust action on justice for the Rohingya people” and must fully address gender-based sexual violence and other gender-based atrocities that have been “central in the genocide against the Rohingya.”

Rohingya in Bangladesh protest killings in Myanmar

AA

Md. Kamruzzaman

DHAKA, Bangladesh 

14.10.2020 

Hundreds of Rohingya refugees in southeast Bangladesh held a protest on Wednesday against the killing and torturing of their community members in Myanmar, a Rohingya member told Anadolu Agency.

Holding banners and placards, the refugees at a camp gathered and formed a human chain, demanding an immediate end to the killings and torturing in Myanmar’s Rakhine state .

“Due to restrictions, we did not gather in huge numbers. Some 300 members of us peacefully took part in today’s demonstration just to highlight that we are still being killed in Myanmar,” Ansar Ali, a Rohingya at the camp, told Anadolu Agency.

Suu Kyi’s tainted policies alienate foreign investors

ASIA TIMES 

by Rory Wallace
October 15, 2020

YANGON – Aung San Suu Kyi’s government is putting off foreign companies that emphasize human rights in their investment decisions, as Britain’s CDC Group, Norway’s Telenor and international mining groups struggle to navigate her administration’s controversial policies and their associated reputation risks.

That’s holding back the underdeveloped nation’s economic and business potential, significantly at a time the de facto national leader is running for national re-election amid a moribund economy. 

We want immediate repatriation of Rohingyas: PM to US Deputy Secretary of State

The Daily Star 

UNB, Dhaka
October 15, 2020

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was holding meeting with visiting US Deputy Secretary of State Stephen E Beigun at her official residence Gono Bhaban on Thursday. Photo: PID

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today renewed her call to the international community, including the United States, to help Bangladesh rehabilitate Rohingyas in their homeland, Myanmar.

She also put emphasis on immediate repatriation of them and said Myanmar should take their citizens back.

"We want immediate repatriation of the Rohingyas and the world community, including the United States, should help rehabilitate them in their homeland of Myanmar," she said.

For Young Rohingya Brides, Marriage Means a Perilous, Deadly Crossing

The New York Times 

By Hannah Beech
Oct. 17, 2020

Girls and young women from refugee camps in Bangladesh, promised to men they have never met, are undertaking the dangerous journey to Malaysia to join them.

After months at sea, hundreds of ethnic Rohingya refugees, most of them women and girls, landed in the Indonesian province of Aceh in September.Credit...Zik Maulana/Associated Press

BANGKOK — Haresa counted the days by the moon, waxing and waning over the Bay of Bengal and the Andaman Sea. Her days on the trawler, crammed into a space so tight that she could not even stretch her legs, bled into weeks, the weeks into months.

“People struggled like they were fish flopping around,” Ms. Haresa, 18, said of the other refugees on the boat. “Then they stopped moving.”

Nay San Lwin, co-founder of the Free Rohingya Coalition, talks to ANews regarding the current situation of the Rohingya Muslims.

 

Link : Here

Don’t be fooled. Myanmar’s ‘democratic election’ is a sham.

The Washington Post 

Opinion by Tun Khin 

Oct. 14, 2020

Tun Khin is president of the Burma Rohingya Organization UK.

 

What a difference five years can make. In 2015, many of my fellow Rohingya people cheered as the party of the famed opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi won a landslide victory in Myanmar’s first democratic elections of the 21st century, bringing an end to decades of outright military rule. Euphoria reigned. We hoped not only for a new beginning for the country, but also for an end to the oppression against us.

Today, as Myanmar gears up for another general election on Nov. 8, the situation is starkly different. Three years ago, Aung San Suu Kyi, now the country’s de facto head of state, stood by as military leaders launched a brutal ethnic cleansing campaign that killed thousands of Rohingya and drove more than 700,000 across the border into Bangladesh, where they now languish in immense refugee camps. The roughly 500,000 who remain in the country have been effectively disenfranchised. They are denied access to Myanmar’s democracy simply because of who they are.

Rohingyas fear deportation after Saudi request to Bangladesh

NEWAGE

Online Desk
Oct 15,2020  

Rohingya refugees wait to collect relief materials in Kutupalong refugee camp in Ukhia on October 14, 2020. — AFP photo 

 

Rohingya living in Saudi Arabia are worried that Riyadh will deport them, after the kingdom threatened Bangladesh with a migration ban unless Dhaka gave Bangladeshi passports to members of the persecuted minority, reports the Middle East Eye.

Last month, Bangladesh’s foreign minister AK Abdul Momen confirmed in a Dhaka press conference that Riyadh had made the request for Bangladesh to give Rohingya living in Saudi Arabia Bangladeshi citizenship.

‘Many of the refugees have never come to Bangladesh and have no idea about the country. They know Saudi culture and speak the Arabic language,’ said Momen.

Amnesty blasts Myanmar military's ‘utter disregard’ for civilians in Rakhine

 Myanmar Now

Published on Oct 13, 2020

Rights group says it has new evidence of indiscriminate attacks on civilians 

An IDP camp in Rathedaung, Rakhine, that houses over 700 people (Kaung Mrat Naing/Myanmar Now) 

Myanmar’s military has shown an “utter disregard” for civilians caught up in its conflict with the Arakan Army (AA), Amnesty International said on Monday.

Citing witness testimonies, satellite images, and videos obtained from within Rakhine state, the group said in a report it had found “new evidence of indiscriminate attacks on civilians.”

“The Myanmar military’s utter disregard for civilian suffering grows more shocking and brazen by the day,” said Ming Yu Hah, Amnesty’s deputy regional director for campaigns. 

“The UN Security Council must urgently refer the situation in Myanmar to the International Criminal Court,” she added.

Rohingya fear deportation after Saudi Arabia calls on Bangladesh to give minority passports

M&E

MIDDLE EAST EYE

Areeb Ullah  

Date: 14 October 2020

 

Riyadh threatens Dhaka with curbing migration if it fails to adhere to its request, which could be disastrous for Bangladesh's economy

Rohingya refugees living in Malaysia shout slogans during a protest against the treatment of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar, in Kuala Lumpur on 8 September 2017 (AFP)

 

Rohingya living in Saudi Arabia are worried that Riyadh will deport them, after the kingdom threatened Bangladesh with a migration ban unless Dhaka gave Bangladeshi passports to members of the persecuted minority.

Last month, Bangladesh’s Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen confirmed in a Dhaka press conference that Riyadh had made the request for Bangladesh to give Rohingya living in Saudi Arabia Bangladeshi citizenship.

UN voices ‘deep alarm’ over violence against children in Myanmar

UNB

UNB News,Dhaka
October 15, 2020,

             A settlement in Rakhine province, northern Myanmar. Photo:UN News (File)

UN agencies in Myanmar have voiced “deep alarm” over an alarming increase in reports of killings and injuries of children in Myanmar.

The UN agencies also expressed "sadness and shock" over the killing of two boys, allegedly used as human shields by security forces in the country’s northern Rakhine State, earlier this month.

In a statement, the UN agencies -- co-chairs of the UN Country Taskforce on Monitoring and Reporting on Grave Violations against Children in Myanmar (CTFMR) -- called for a “full, transparent, and expedited investigation into the incident” and for anyone responsible for the use and killing of the children to be held accountable.

USAID Mission Director Aler Grubbs Remarks at the virtual launch of Myanmar’s Beneficial Ownership Disclosure Website

 

 

 

 

 

 

U.S.Embassy in Burma
October 14, 2020

Remarks as Prepared for USAID Mission Director Aler Grubbs

at the virtual launch of Myanmar’s Beneficial Ownership Disclosure Website

 

Honorable Deputy Minister U Maung Maung Win, Director General U Thant Zin Lwin, National Coordinator U Aye Lwin, representatives of the Government of Myanmar, representatives of civil society, representatives of the private sector, distinguished guests. I am glad to join for this important launch of Myanmar’s newly upgraded Beneficial Ownership Disclosure Website. Thank you for your continued effort and partnership to improve transparency and accountability in Myanmar’s extractives industry.

Rohingya crisis: Exiled blogger describes Myanmar violence

DW

Date:

 

 Rohingya activist and blogger Nay San Lwin has been documenting torture and subjugation faced by his people in Myanmar. His blog has become one of the most reliable sources on the brutal crackdown against the Rohingya.Long before the suffering inflicted on Myanmar's prompted global outcry, Nay San Lwin's website, Rohingya Blogger, provided daily updates on the Muslim minority's everday plight.

IOM, UK Emergency Medical Team Continue COVID-19 Health Support for Refugees, Locals in Cox’s Bazar

IOM UN Migration
Date:10/13/20

Cox’s Bazar – From the outset of the COVID-19 health crisis in Bangladesh, humanitarian agencies in Cox's Bazar have worked around the clock to prepare to effectively respond to the outbreak in the district, which hosts one of the largest refugee settlements in the world.

Key to this enormous effort includes enhancing existing partnerships and seeking new collaborative opportunities to address the lack of technical expertise and strained human resources in an already complex refugee crisis.

Hate Speech Against Rohingya in Myanmar Election Has Worrisome Precedents

RADIO FREE ASIA
2020-10-13

Rohingya candidate Abdul Rasheed, a member of the Democracy and Human Rights Party who was barred from running in Myanmar's upcoming elections, sits in the party's office in Yangon, Aug. 12, 2020. Rights groups decried his disqualification as discriminatory and a symptom of the 'ongoing genocide' against the persecuted ethnic minority group.

AFP

Online and offline hate speech targeting Myanmar’s Rohingya Muslims has reared its head in the run-up to national elections in November, as some candidates and others target the largely disenfranchised and despised ethnic minority group to gain support from voters.