Rohingya Refugee Crisis

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April 01, 2024

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Recently Rohingya refugees are rescued in the waters of West Aceh, Indonesia has once again drawn attention to the plight of the refugees who are increasingly embarking on dangerous sea journeys to seek a better life.

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Dozens of Rohingya killed in 5 months of renewed fighting in western Myanmar

RFA
By RFA Burmese
2024.04.01

The attacks have left an already traumatized community in constant fear for their lives.

Residents of Thada village, Minbya township, Myanmar, mourn villagers killed during an overnight airstrike by the military junta, March 18, 2024. ,AA Info Desk

Junta airstrikes and artillery bombardments in western Myanmar’s Rakhine state have killed 79 Rohingya Muslims and injured 127 more since ethnic Arakan Army rebels ended a ceasefire with the military in November, according to data compiled by RFA Burmese.

No justice, and nowhere to go for the victims of Myanmar’s forgotten genocide

Michael West Media
Indipendent Journalists
by Farah Abdurahman | Apr 1, 2024 

Rohyngya refugee camp. Image: Wikipedia

 The holocaust in Gaza has eclipsed the long-standing genocide of the Rohingya people of Myanmar, 569 of whom died at sea last year alone. Farah Abdurahman reports on the humanitarian disaster and the response of the Australian government.

More than seven years on from the genocide committed against the Rohingya by Myanmar’s military, the group is no closer to peace or freedom.

Shrinking aid for Rohingyas is a serious concern

daily observer
S A Korobi
Published : Monday, 1 April, 2024 

Since 2017, the United Nations has been seeking humanitarian assistance for the Rohingya under the name of Joint Response Plan (JRP).The Rohingyas, who had taken refuge in Bangladesh to save their lives from a genocidal attempt by the Myanmar military, are still living in congested camps and restricted livelihoodswith no hope of change any soon. To add salt to the wound, the funding for them, the worlds most persecuted community, has been declining as every year passes.

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NEWS TODAY

31.03.2024

• 3 more Myanmar soldiers enter Bangladesh seeking refuge | The Business Standard
• Afghanistan beats Myanmar 6-1 in Futsal match Pajhwok
• Arakan Army launches offensive in Rakhine, targets Myanmar junta's military hub - Dhaka Tribune
• Arakan Army reports 25 Myanmar junta soldiers killed during clashes in Rakhine and Magway mizzima
• Asian Headlines at 6:29 p.m. GMT Yahoo News UK
• Citizenship Conundrum - The Statesman
• Clashes erupt between AA fighters and junta soldiers in Magway region - Narinjara News
• Closure of Maungdaw hospital leaves residents including pregnant women with ... - Narinjara News
• Explosion kills 3 including 2 children in Myanmar's Yangon China.org.cn
• Families of Myanmar crane collapse victims agree B1.6m compensation Bangkok Post
• Former Australian prisoners held by China, Iran and Myanmar unite against ‘hostage diplomacy’ The Straits Times
• Junta conducts airstrikes in AA-controlled Minbya, Myebon townships, many injured Narinjara News
• Junta families shifted from Buthidaung due to military escalation | Narinjara News
• Magwe Resistance Traps Junta Resupply Vehicles - The Irrawaddy
• Myanmar youths resent military conscription | NHK WORLD-JAPAN News nhk.or.jp
• Rohingya activists call for more control over aid money - ShiaWaves
• ROHINGYA CAMPS VIOLENCE - Buffalo News
• Rohingya NGO urges UN to ensure peace for the Rohingya in Myanmar's Rakhine Mizzima
• Rohingya refugees continue to risk their lives at sea | Inside South Asia - YouTube
• The Aid Ebb For Rohingya Refugees – OpEd - Eurasia Review
• The latest updates on the Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh Globe Echo
• The military was behind spreading Rohingya hatred on Facebook: UN | The The Business Standard
• The 'Night Government' Expands Its Violent Reach in Rohingya Camps The New York Times
• Two held for illegally selling foreign liquor in Burma Bazaar - The Hindu
• Two Yangon Homes Become Emblems of the Myanmar People's Dreams - The Irrawaddy 

Rohingya NGO urges UN to ensure peace for the Rohingya in Myanmar’s Rakhine

mizzima
March 30, 2024

The Myanmar Ethnic Rohingya Human Rights Organisation in Malaysia (MERHROM) issued a statement 29 March urging the UN Security Council (UNSC), the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC), world leaders, and the international community to intervene immediately in order to restore peace and save the Rohingya, especially in Rakhine State.

Unravelling the Rohingya crisis

The Star
Saturday, 30 Mar 2024

Gruelling journey: A file pic of ethnic Rohingya disembarking from their boat upon landing on a beach in Ulee Madon, North Aceh, Indonesia, on Nov 16, 2023. — AP 

A dramatic story of survival and rescue off the western coast of Indonesia’s Aceh province has put the spotlight again on the plight of ethnic Rohingya Muslim refugees from Myanmar who make extremely dangerous voyages across the Indian Ocean to seek better lives.

The ‘Night Government’ Expands Its Violent Reach in Rohingya Camps

The New York Times
By Verena Hölzl
Reporting from Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh
March 30, 2024,

Gunfights, kidnappings and homicides have become widespread in the refugee settlements in Bangladesh, as armed groups and criminal gangs have become more brazen.

A Rohingya refugee camp, along the Naf River, near Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, in November.Credit...Munir Uz Zaman/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

 

They could not worship freely. The authorities denied their very existence and razed evidence of their historical communities. Then came a campaign of ethnic cleansing that forced them to flee to a foreign country where they crowded into bamboo-and-tarp shelters. There they have waited years for a better life.

New Light of Myanmar ( English Newspaper ) March, 2024

Global New Light of Myanmar

March '2024

31.03.2024

Publication of IIMM Analytical Report ( Second )

Publication of IIMM Analytical Reports

Reports on Myanmar military’s anti-Rohingya hate speech campaign and Myanmar authorities’ failure to investigate and punish sexual violence committed against Rohingya

Statement by Nicholas Koumjian, Head of the Independent Investigative Mechanism for Myanmar

Geneva, 27 March 2024 – Today the Independent Investigative Mechanism for Myanmar is publicly releasing two analytical reports. One report details the Myanmar military’s covert Facebook network that systematically distributed hate speech against the Rohingya at the time of the 2017 clearance operations. The second report examines the response of Myanmar state authorities to allegations of sexual and gender-based crimes committed by security forces against the Rohingya. This report concludes that the authorities failed in their duty under international law to investigate and punish these acts.

Angry Indonesians in Aceh again storm a shelter, push Rohingya out

Benar News
Pizaro Gozali Idrus
2024.03.27
Jakarta

A Rohingya refugee looks out of a National Search and Rescue Agency (BASARNAS) vessel after he and many other refugees were rescued from their capsized boat in waters off the coast of Aceh, Indonesia, March 21, 2024 Zahlul Akbar/AF

For the second time in three months, a belligerent and resentful crowd of locals in Indonesia’s Aceh province made authorities move dozens of newly arrived Rohingya refugees from their shelter by storming the facility, officials said Wednesday.

Weeping, weak and soaked, Rohingya refugees rescued from hull of capsized boat

abc News
ByREZA SAIFULLAH Associated Press and EDNA TARIGAN Associated Press
March 21, 2024, 

An Indonesian search and rescue ship has located a capsized wooden boat that had been carrying dozens of Rohingya Muslim refugees, and began pulling survivors who had been standing on its hull to safety

MEULABOH, Indonesia -- An Indonesian search and rescue ship on Thursday located a capsized wooden boat that had been carrying dozens of Rohingya Muslim refugees, and began pulling survivors who had been standing on its hull to safety.

Rohingya rescued off Indonesia relocated after local anger

CNA
27 Mar 2024

Rohingya refugees wait to be rescued from the hull of their capsized boat as a National Search and Rescue Agency (BASARNAS) vessel approaches in waters some 29km off west Aceh on Mar 21, 2024. (Photo: AFP/Zahlul Akbar)

JAKARTA: Dozens of Rohingya refugees saved after their boat capsized off Indonesia's westernmost coast last week have been forced from their temporary shelter due to local protests, a United Nations refugee agency official said on Wednesday (Mar 27).

India says new law saves persecuted refugees. Rohingya ask ‘Why not us?’

Aljazeera
By Gurvinder Singh
Published On 27 Mar 2024

 As New Delhi claims to help persecuted minorities in South Asia through the law, the mainly Muslim refugees from Myanmar face deportation.

Rohingya live in India under constant threat of crackdown and deportation [Handout via Al Jazeera]

Kolkata, India – Muhammad Hamin has been unable to sleep at night since March 8 when the government of the northeast Indian state of Manipur ordered the deportation of Rohingya refugees.

11 Rohingya found dead after Indonesia boat capsize: officials

ARAB NEWS
AFP
March 25, 2024

Rohingya refugees hold a morning prayer in a temporary shelter at the Indonesian Red Cross Office, after being evacuated from the sea at Meulaboh, West Aceh, Indonesia. (AP)

•  The head of the local search and rescue operation, Muhammad Fathur Rachman said nearly half-a-dozen Rohingya were found dead at sea 14 nautical miles from shore
  

MEULABOH: The bodies of at least 11 Rohingya refugees have been recovered off Indonesia’s westernmost coast after their boat believed to be carrying around 150 people capsized last week, officials said Monday.

Eleven Rohingya found dead after Indonesia boat capsize: UN

TRT World
March 25'2024 

UN officials say they have recovered the bodies of at least 11 Rohingya refugees who were fleeing from violence-ridden Myanmar on boat. 

Thousands risk their lives each year on long and expensive sea journeys in flimsy boats to cross to Malaysia or Indonesia. / Photo: AFP

The bodies of at least eleven Rohingya refugees have been recovered off Indonesia's westernmost coast after their boat believed to be carrying around 150 people capsized last week, UN officials say.

Six more bodies are found days after a boat of Rohingya refugees capsized off Indonesia

abc News
ByREZA SAIFULLAH Associated Press and EDNA TARIGAN Associated Press
March 25, 2024, 

Local authorities say six more bodies of Rohingya refugees have been found at sea off Indonesia after a boat with more than 150 people aboard capsized last week.

The bodies of the six women were found off the coast of Aceh province, search and rescue officials said in a statement. Five bodies were found over the weekend.

3 Rohingya leaders visited Rohingya camps in Bangladesh

Rohingya Refugee Camp
Bangladesh
Mar 11, 2024

Mr. Reza Uddin,Mr. Nay San Lwin and Mr.Tun Khin, Rohingya activists who are unwaveringly dedicated to justice and humanity, warmly greet all of us  during the holy month of Ramadan. 

Do Rohingyas Have a Place in Myanmar’s Revolution?

BFM
Ro Nay San Lwin, Rohingya Activist
20-Mar-24

There is a revolution ongoing in Myanmar. The people of Myanmar of various political ideologies and regions are engaging in civil disobedience and have also taken up arms against the military junta. There’s been talk about forging a new constitution and building a new Myanmar beyond and free from the junta.