Boat carrying 111 Rohingya refugees lands in Indonesia's Aceh

Dhaka Tribune
Reuters
November 15, 2022

The Rohingya, a persecuted Muslim minority, have for years sailed to countries such as Malaysia, Thailand and Indonesia between November and April when the seas are calmer.

Hundreds have reached Aceh in recent years, many having been at sea for months.

In Myanmar, the Rohingya are widely considered to be illegal immigrants from Bangladesh, despite being born in Myanmar.

Buthidaung township, Tha Peik Taung village is being burnt down by the terrorist military

Myanmar Pressphoto Agency
MPA
September 24, 2022

Residents have confirmed that the 22nd Division of the terrorist military started burning Tha Peik Taung village (Rakhine) near the No. 8 Border Guard Police Battalion in the southern Buthidaung Township on September 23rd at 9:00 p.m. today.

There is Ah Lal Chaung Rohingya village near No.8 Border Guard Police Battalion, and the Tha Peik Taung village is also located nearby.

Japan: Myanmar situation preventing full-scale Rohingya repatriation

Dhaka Tribune

UNB
November 14, 2022 

Myanmar needs to halt violence, release detainees and restore democracy, says Japanese Ambassador to Bangladesh Ito Naoki

File photo of a Rohingya camp in Cox’s Bazar Syed Zakir Hossain/Dhaka Tribune

Japanese Ambassador to Bangladesh Ito Naoki on Monday said it is unlikely to see a full-scale Rohingya repatriation anytime soon due to the situation in Myanmar at this moment.

"It'll be very difficult to see repatriation of Rohingyas on full-scale soon. Unless you see the improvement of the situation in Myanmar, it'll very difficult for us to see their repatriation to Myanmar," he said.

The ambassador said Japan is communicating with the Myanmar military and Myanmar needs to halt violence, release detainees and restore democracy there.

Rohingya, Geopolitics and Myanmar: An Uncertain Future

The Daily Star

Shamsher M. Chowdhury, BB
Mon Nov 14, 2022 

Remains of a Rohingya village in Rakhine, Myanmar, after the security forces razed it to the ground during the 2017 crackdown. FILE PHOTO: REUTERS

That the Rohingya community (mostly Muslims) has been subjected to the most acute form of societal scorn and institutionalised discrimination in their own country for decades is all too well-known. The situation started getting bad in the late 1970s, when more than 200,000 Rohingyas were driven out of their homeland in Myanmar's Rakhine (originally Arakan) state by the country's military government, and were forced to take shelter across the border in Bangladesh. Their eventual return was ensured through negotiations between the two countries.

Targeted Killings Spread Terror in Rohingya Refugee Camps

THE I DIPLOMAT

Tanbirul Miraj Ripon

November 15, 2022

Both Bangladesh police and Rohingya accuse the militant group ARSA of conducting a campaign of terror and crime in the refugee camps.

Elite police in Bangladesh launched a crackdown named “Operation Root Out” after targeted killings spiked in Rohingya camps. Police have arrested at least 90 Rohingya refugees, including 24 who were directly involved in the murders. Last October, six Rohingya community leaders and a child were killed in the camp, allegedly by the Myanmar-based armed organization Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA).

Bangladesh seeks OIC’s help to continue Rohingya genocide case

Dhaka Tribune

UNB
November 10, 2022


‘The solution to the Rohingya problem through the ICJ is a long-term process’
 

Rohingyas walk on a road at a refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, on Wednesday, August 11, 2021 Allison Joyce/Dhaka Tribune

Bangladesh Ambassador to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and Permanent Representative to the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Mohammad Javed Patwari has sought the help of OIC member states to continue the Rohingya genocide case lodged by Gambia at the International Court of Justice (ICJ).

Javed sought the help at the ad-hoc meeting of OIC ministers on Myanmar's accountability for violating human rights of Rohingyas, held in Jeddah on Thursday.

Southeast Asian Leaders Struggle With Question of Myanmar Violence

THE I DIPLOMAT

David Rising and Sopheng Cheang
November 11, 2022

ASEAN’s member states continue to be divided on how to handle their problem member, as the country’s conflict continues to worsen.

Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) leaders struggled Friday to come to a consensus on how to pressure Myanmar to comply with a plan for peace, with violence in the member state spiraling out of control since the military seized power in 2021.

The group has banned leaders of Myanmar, also known as Burma, from participating in its top-level events, like the ongoing summit in Phnom Penh, in an effort to pressure them to comply with ASEAN’s Five-Point Consensus plan for peace, so far with little effect.

Myanmar's financial blacklisting is worth the risks it brings

NIKKEI ASIA

Zachary Abuza
November 10, 2022

Disruption of fund flows will hit aid groups and opposition, alongside regime

The Myanmar kyat has lost 60% of its value, © AP

Zachary Abuza is a professor at the National War College in Washington. The views expressed here are his own and may not reflect those of the college or the U.S. government.

Last month, Myanmar took its place alongside North Korea and Iran on the blacklist of the Financial Action Task Force, a Paris-based international organization that combats money laundering, over its failure to regulate its banking system and financial markets.

Rohingya crisis and the need for political unity

The Daily Star

Hrishik Roy, Zaheer Abbas
Mon Sep 5, 2022 

The world must collectively work towards building the capacity of the Rohingya community. PHOTO: REUTERS

Aung San Suu Kyi has been sentenced to five years of imprisonment – although this does not account for the other charges levelled against her, as well as her advanced age. It could very well be that Myanmar's erstwhile paragon of democracy and human rights will never be free again. It is a thumping victory for its military, which has for long battled to undermine democracy in the state.

Bangladesh urges EU to take steps to repatriate displaced Rohingya

AA
SM Najmus Sakib, Md. Kamruzzaman
DHAKA, Bangladesh
10.11.2022

Premier Hasina informs visiting EU delegation that number of refugees increases every day as new children are born, making issue difficult to handle

Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday urged the European Union (EU) to take steps to repatriate displaced Rohingya who are currently taking shelter in the country's southeast coastal district of Cox's Bazar.

Over 1.2 million persecuted Rohingya are currently housed in Bangladesh on a large hilly forest site in Cox's Bazar, after fleeing a brutal military crackdown in Myanmar in August 2017.

She emphasized the Rohingya repatriation at a meeting with a five-member EU team led by Commissioner for Home Affairs YIva Johansson at her Dhaka office.

Why aid groups, and Rohingya themselves, should stop using the term ‘stateless’

The New Humanitarian

Conflict, Interview
BANGKOK
10 November 2022

Rohingya refugees hold placards at the Kutupalong camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, to mark the fifth anniversary of their flight from neighbouring Myanmar to escape a 2017 military crackdown, on 25 August 2022.

 

The use of the terms “stateless” or “statelessness” when referring to the Rohingya population is demotivating and inaccurate, says Aung Kyaw Moe, who serves as a human rights advisor to Myanmar’s National Unity Government – the civilian government-in-exile formed in the wake of the February 2021 military coup. He’s calling for aid organisations to stop using the nomenclature and for all Rohingya to admonish its use.

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Bangladesh launches a campaign of raids in the Rohingya refugee camps against the elements "criminal"

East Post 

2022-10-31

Elite Bangladesh police forces have launched a crackdown on criminals and suspected insurgents in Rohingya refugee camps, following an upsurge in attacks on camp officials, police officials said Sunday.

The “armed police battalion” in charge of security in 34 camps housing about one million Rohingya refugees said it had arrested at least 56 people since Friday night.

About 740,000 Rohingya fled to Bangladesh to escape a military campaign against them in Myanmar in 2017, joining more than 200,000 Rohingya who were previously in camps in Cox’s Bazar, southeastern Bangladesh.

Dhaka seeks proactive role from Thailand, Asean to repatriate Rohingya

Dhaka Tribune

UNB
October 30, 2022

Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen with Permanent Secretary-designate of Thailand Sarun Charoensuwan UNB

Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen on Sunday sought a pro-active role from Thailand in particular, and from the Asean in general, for ensuring an expeditious and sustainable repatriation of the Rohingya people to their homeland in Myanmar.

Momen also requested participation of the Thai foreign minister and deputy prime minister at the Indian Ocean Rim Association (IORA) Ministerial meeting in Dhaka next month.

Bangladesh seeks proactive role from Thailand, ASEAN

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United News of Bangladesh .
Dhaka | Published: Oct 31,2022

Foreign minister AK Abdul Momen on Sunday sought a pro-active role from Thailand in particular, and from the ASEAN in general, for ensuring an expeditious and sustainable repatriation of the Rohingya people to their homeland in Myanmar.

Momen also requested participation of the Thai foreign minister and deputy prime minister at the Indian Ocean Rim Association Ministerial meeting in Dhaka next month.

The issues were discussed when visiting permanent secretary-designate of Thailand Sarun Charoensuwan met Momen at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Sunday.

During the meeting, they exchanged warm greetings on the occasion of the 50 years of diplomatic ties between Bangladesh and Thailand, which is being celebrated on both sides with fervour and enthusiasm.

The perils of repatriation for Rohingya refugees

ASIA TIME

by Saqib Sheikh
October 31, 2022

Myanmar’s main goal is to ease tensions with neighboring Bangladesh, not to show genuine respect for human rights

Rohingya gather at a market in Bangladesh’s Kutupalong refugee camp in Ukhia on May 15, 2020. Photo: AFP

The Rohingya people forced out of the homeland remain at the mercy of the geopolitics of host countries in the region, with potentially worrying implications. 

Bangladesh faces an election in 2023 and the issue of the Rohingya is seen as important for the government to allay concerns of its electorate about the sustainability of meeting the needs of such a large refugee population, and also perceived frictions with locals.

APBn conducts drives in Rohingya camps after murders

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AFP . Cox's Bazar
30 Oct 2022  

This handout photograph taken on October 28, 2022, and released by Bangladesh Armed Police Battalion (APBN) shows detained Rohingya refugees sit next to security personal after crackdown in Rohingya refugee camp in Ukhia 28, 2022 — AFP 

 

The Armed Police Battalion (APBn) has launched a crackdown against suspected criminals and insurgents after a rise in attacks on Rohingya community leaders in refugee camps, officers said Sunday.

The police, tasked with security in 34 refugee camps which are home to nearly one million Rohingya refugees, said they have arrested at least 56 Rohingyas since Friday night.

Bangladesh cracks down on Rohingya camps after killings

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AFP/Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh
October 30 2022

Detained Rohingya refugees next to security personal after a crackdown at the Rohingya refugee camp in Ukhia, Bangladesh.

 

Elite Bangladeshi police have launched a crackdown against suspected criminals and insurgents after a rise in attacks on Rohingya community leaders in refugee camps, officers said yesterday.

The Armed Police Battalion, tasked with security in 34 refugees camps which are home to nearly 1mn Rohingya refugees, said they have arrested at least 56 Rohingya since Friday night.

Bangladesh cracks down on Rohingyas after murders

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AFP
Published October 31, 2022

This handout photograph taken on October 28 and released by Bangladesh Armed Police Battalion (APBN) shows detained Rohingya refugees sit next to security personal after crackdown in Rohingya refugee camp in Ukhia. — AFP 

COX’S BAZAR: Elite Bangladeshi police have launched a crackdown against suspected criminals and insurgents after a rise in attacks on Rohingya community leaders in refugee camps, officers said on Sunday.

The Armed Police Battalion, tasked with security in 34 refugees camps which are home to nearly one million Rohingya refugees, said they have arrested at least 56 Rohingyas since Friday night.

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