Canada must help find a safe zone for Rohingya in Myanmar

HAMILTON THE SPECTATOR

By Washim Ahmed
Wed., March 10, 2021

Myanmar is once again attracting international attention after its military overthrew Aung San Suu Kyi’s elected government declaring a state of emergency for a period of one year. All G7 members condemned the coup and Canada has introduced sanctions against nine additional Myanmar military officials under the Special Economic Measures (Burma) Regulations passed in 2007, bringing the total count to 54.

‘Safe zones’ plan shows Bangladesh is accepting Rohingya reality

ARAB NEWS

DR. AZEEM IBRAHIM
September 29, 2020

Rohingya refugees stretch their hands to receive aid at Balukhali makeshift refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, Sept. 14, 2017. (Reuters)

 

The government of Bangladesh this week called on the international community to establish “safe zones” within Myanmar to allow for the Rohingya to safely return to the country of their birth. This is not likely to happen, but it does signal a welcome evolution on the part of the government of Bangladesh on the Rohingya situation.

'Safe Zones' in northern Rakhine: Best option to protect Rohingya

Prothum Alo------ 

Md Shahidul Haque
Opinion
2020.08.28

Weary Rohingya trudging from Myanmar's Rakhine state to Ukhia, BangladeshSyful Islam

In the wake of the mass exodus of the Rohingyas from the Northern Rakhine State of Myanmar from 25 August 2017, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, while opening the border for them, made a call to the international community to create UN supervised ‘safe zones’ inside Myanmar for protection of all civilians irrespective of religion and ethnicity.

Rohingya repatriation can begin anytime: foreign secretary

The Daily Star
August 19, 2019
Staff Correspondent

Repatriation of Rohingya refugees -- who fled a brutal military crackdown in Myanmar in August 2017 -- can begin anytime, foreign secretary Shahidul Haque said yesterday at a discussion.

“Repatriation is always on the table. It can start anytime. It is a continual process,” Shahidul Haque said while responding to a journalist’s query on whether the repatriation of Rohingyas will start on August 22 as reported by an international news agency.

Reuters on Thursday reported that Myanmar and Bangladesh have agreed to start a fresh attempt to repatriate Rohingyas on August 22.

Dhaka for ‘non-militarised safe zone’ for Rohingyas in Rakhine

NEWAGE
Shahidul Islam Chowdhury |
Published:  May 08,2019

Lavrov critical of UN high-ups’ Rohingya dealings

Bangladesh has sought to establish non-militarised safe zones by Myanmar in highly militarised Rakhine State for receiving Rohingya people in safety with support from ASEAN and other international actors.

Foreign minister AK Abdul Momen raised the matter of establishing ‘non-militarised safe zones’ with support from ASEAN countries and other international organisations in a meeting with his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov in Moscow last week, according to diplomatic sources in the Russian capital.

ASEAN wants to create ‘safe zones’ for Rohingya.

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Anadolu Agency

Md. Kamruzzaman |04.04.2019

Regional organization wants to create welcome environment in Myanmar where Rohingya might feel safe to go back, says FM

DHAKA, Bangladesh 

The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) wants to play a leading role in the repatriation of Rohingya refugees living in Bangladesh, a minister said late Wednesday.

“Thailand is the current chair of ASEAN. They are willing to take a leading role in the Rohingya repatriation process,” Bangladeshi Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen said at a press briefing following a meeting with his Thai counterpart Don Pramudwinai in Dhaka, local media reported.

‘Safe zones’ for the Rohingya are a prelude to apartheid — and worse

The Washington Post  

By Azeem Ibrahim  

March 20 at 3:48 PM

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 Rohingya refugees gather at a market in a refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, on March 7. (Mohammad Ponir Hossain/Reuters)

Azeem Ibrahim is a director at the Center for Global Policy and author of “Rohingyas: Inside Myanmar’s Genocide.”

Bangladesh is once again calling for the establishment of safe zones for the Rohingya in Myanmar, so that it can begin resettling some of the 1 million or so refugees in its care around the district of Cox's Bazar . This is not the first time that the government in Dhaka has pushed for this. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina pressed Myanmar on the issue before the U.N. General Assembly in September 2017.

Rohingya safe zone plan is ‘fake news’: China, Myanmar

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By Coconuts Yangon Mar. 5, 2019

A Rohingya refugee carries a placard that says “We never return” at a protest against a disputed repatriation programme at the Unchiprang refugee camp near Teknaf on November 15, 2018. (Photo by Dibyangshu SARKAR / AFP)

A UN-created “safe zone” for Rohingya refugees in Myanmar’s western Rakhine State, floated in recent weeks by Bangladesh’s foreign minister, appears nowhere near reality despite reports to the contrary in Bangladeshi media.

ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာ Safe Zone ထားေပးဖို႔ေထာက္ခံေၾကာင္း သတင္း တရုတ္သံရံုးျငင္းဆုိ

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လြတ္လပ္တဲ့ အာရွအသံ
2019-03-04

Bangalanews24 က ၂၀၁၉၊ မတ္လ ၃ ရက္ေန႔က ေရးသားထားတဲ့ သတင္းကို ေတြ႔ရစဥ္

ဘဂၤလားေဒ့ရွ္ႏိုင္ငံ သတင္းမီဒီယာတစ္ခုျဖစ္တဲ့ Bangalanews24 ကေန မေန႔က ေရးသားထားတဲ့ ေနရပ္ စြန္႔ခြာရိုဟင္ဂ်ာေတြအတြက္ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံအတြင္းမွာ Safe Zone တည္ေထာင္ေပးေရးကို တရုတ္ႏိုင္ငံဘက္ က သေဘာတူေထာက္ခံတယ္ ဆိုတဲ့သတင္းဟာ အေျခအျမစ္ လံုး၀မရွိေၾကာင္း ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံဆိုင္ရာ တရုတ္ သံရံုး က ဒီေန႔ ေၾကညာခ်က္ ထုတ္ျပန္ ျငင္းဆိုလိုက္ပါတယ္။

ရိုဟင်ဂျာအတွက် Safe Zone နောက်ဆုံးမှာ တရုတ်သဘောတူ လိုက်ပြီ (ပူးတွဲ ကန့်ကွက်စာများ)

ရိုဟင်ဂျာများမိမိဌာနေသို့ဂုဏ်သိက္ခာရှိရှိ ပြန်နိုင်ရေးအတွက် လုံခြုံဘေးကင်းရာဇုံ နယ်မြေကို ရခိုင်ပြည်နယ် အတွင်းထူထောင်ရေးအတွက် တရုတ်က နောက်ဆုံးတွင်သဘောတူညီလိုက်သည်။

မြန်မာပြည်အတွင်း safe zone ထူထောင်ရေးအတွက် ဘင်္ဂလားဒေ့ရှ်အစိုးရက အစဉ်တစိုက်တောင်းဆို ခဲ့ပြီး မြန်မာအစိုးရကမူ safe zone ကိုနိုင်ငံတကာကအုပ်ချုပ်မည်ဖြစ်သည့်အတွက် အချုပ်အခြာအာဏာပိုင်ဆိုင်မှု ကိုထိခိုက်စေသည်ဆိုကာအစဉ်တစိုက်ကန့်ကွက်ခဲ့သည်။

အိုင်စီစီရှေ့နေချုပ် မစ္စဖာတူ ဘန်ဆူဒါ သည် ရိုဟင်ဂျာဒုက္ခသည်စခန်းများသို့ လာရောက်မည်ဟူသည့် သ တင်း နှင့်အတူ တရုတ်၏မြန်မာအပေါ် သစ္စာဖောက်မည်ဟူသည့်သတင်းထွက်ပေါ်လာခြင်းဖြစ်သည်။

Safe Zone မှာ တရုတ်နှင့်ကုလား ခြယ်လှယ်မှာစိုး

 ရခိုင်မြောက်ပိုင်းတွင်ထူထောင်မည့် safe zone အားတရုတ်၊အိန္ဒိယ နှင့် အာဆီယံတို့ကို မအုပ်ချုပ်စေလို
ဘဲ ယူအက်စ်၊ကနေဒါ၊အီးယူနှင့် အာဆီယံတို့သာကြီးကြပ် စေလိုကြောင်းဆန္ဒပြု သံများပေါ်ထွက်လာသည

China gives consent to Safe Zone for Rohingyas in Myanmar

Diplomatic Correspondent | banglanews24.com
Update: 2019-03-03 2:51:02 PM

DHAKA: China gave consent to Bangladesh’s proposal to setting up a safe zone for the Rohingya inside Myanmar for dignified repatriation of displaced millions of Rohingyas.

Bangladesh has already started holding talks with Asean countries to agree Myanmar to create a safe zone which may generate perception of safety and security for Rohingya people and make them willing to voluntarily return. Countries also gave positive response to this initiative, foreign ministry sources said.

Restore Rohingyas’ fundamental rights, ensure their repatriation: Dhaka

Asian Age Online  
15 February 2019

State Minister for Foreign Affairs M Shahriar Alam has said the international community has a shared responsibility to help restore the Rohingyas’ fundamental rights and freedoms, including their right to return to Myanmar in safety and dignity.

Rohingya Urgently Need Relief, but is World Willing to Make an Effort?

THE GLOBAL POST

by Vincent Auger, February 13, 2019 in Opinion

A Rohingya refugee girl in Bangladesh. Photo: AFP 

Eighteen months after being driven from their homes in Myanmar by what U.N. officials described as a campaign of genocidal violence by the military, the situation facing Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh remains perilous. Hundreds of thousands of people live in camps (the camp in Kutupalong alone houses more than 600,000 people), relying on aid from the World Food Program and help from the government of Bangladesh.

Bangladesh Proposes Creation of Safe Zone for Rohingyas In Myanmar's Rakhine

LATEST LY
Marisha Dolly Singh Feb 14, 2019
 

Toronto, February 14: Even as Bangladesh continues to host close to one million Rohingya refugees from Myanmar, the Sheikh Hasina government wants to begin the process of repatriating them back to Myanmar sooner rather than later. To begin this process, Bangladesh’s Foreign Minister has called for India along with Russia and China to help monitor a ‘safe zone’ in the state of Rakhine, Myanmar to which the Rohingya would be sent back to.

Bangladesh proposes safe zone in Myanmar for Rohingya refugees

Al Jazeera

February 13 2019
Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen calls on Russia, China and India to help Dhaka in tackling the Rohingya refugee crisis.

Over 750,000 Rohingya refugees have crossed the border into Bangladesh since 2017, according to the UN [Jayanta Dey/Reuters]

Bangladesh's Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen has called on Russia, China and India to help the country tackle the Rohingya refugee crisis.

In an interview with Anadolu news agency on Sunday, Momen said his government has proposed to establish a safe zone in Rakhine state in Myanmar from where the refugees fled state persecution in late 2017.

Momen: Bangladesh for creating ‘safe zone’ in Rakhine

DhakaTribune

February 10th, 2019

Aerial view of a burned Rohingya village near Maungdaw, north of Rakhine state, Myanmar on September 27, 2017 Reuters file photo

Safe zone in Rakhine under the supervision of Asean countries will ensure safety of Rohingyas, minister says

Bangladesh is working on a proposal to create a “safe zone” in Myanmar’s Rakhine sate in order to ensure a peaceful repatriation of the Rohingyas.

Dhaka wants ‘safe haven’ for Rohingyas in Myanmar’s Rakhine state

The Star Online
February 9th 2019

                       In this undated AFP file photo Rohingya refugees queue for food at the Kutupalong refugee camp in Bangladesh.

Bangladesh wants a “safe haven” for the forcibly displaced Myanmar nationals in Rakhine state by ensuring their safe, secured and dignified repatriation under the monitoring of India, China and other ASEAN nations.