( 30.11.2016 ) Burma Officials Lodge Complaints with BBC, UNHCR ( Irrawaddy )

The Irrawaddy

30/11/2016

                                                   By Moe Myint 28 November 2016

Burmese officials have lodged complaints with both the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) and the BBC World Service over comments and reports made on the Arakan State situation last week.

The Burmese Embassy in Britain wrote a letter of complaint on Friday to the BBC World Service over their Nov. 22 report “Rohingya Muslims hated and hounded from Burmese Soil” which the Embassy said was “based on rumors, hearsay and one-sided views which are far from the true situation.”

( 30.11.2016 ) HRW satellite data shows 1250 Maungdaw structures destroyed ( Myanmar Times )

By AFP | Tuesday, 22 November 2016

More than 1200 houses have been destroyed in northern Rakhine State, according to an analysis of satellite images by Human Rights Watch released yesterday.

( 29.11.2016 ) Myanmar lodges protest over UNHCR official’s critical Rakhine comments ( Myanmar Times )

Myanmar Times

Monday, 28 November 2016

A UNHCR representative’s comments about violence in Rakhine State have sent the government into public relations overdrive, with a senior cabinet member describing the UN official’s remarks as “just allegations” and calling into question his professionalism.

Bangladesh refuses Rohingya fleeing 'ethnic cleansing'

Al Jazeera
28/11/2016

Eight boats carrying Rohingya refugees have been turned away by Bangladesh as thousands amass on the border.

Thousands of Rohingya refugees have crossed into Bangladesh by boat in recent weeks [File: Mohammad Ponir Hossain/Reuters]

Multiple boats packed with Rohingya refugees fleeing violence in Myanmar have been turned back by Bangladesh border guards despite appeals by the country's opposition to provide shelter to the persecuted Muslim minority. 

Khaleda asks Myanmar to stop Rohingya genocide

Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) chairperson Khaleda Zia on Sunday called the repression of Rohingya Muslims by Myanmar forces as ‘genocide’, asking the Bangladesh authorities to give them shelter as much as possible.
“I am deeply shocked and concerned over the brutal genocide being carried out by the government forces of neighbouring Myanmar on the Rohingya community,” she said in a statement issued by her press secretary Maruf Kamal Khan.

( 27.11.2016 ) “ဘီဘီစီမှ ၂၂-၁၁-၂၀၁၆ ရက်နေ့တွင်ထုတ် လွှင့်ခဲ့သည့်အစီအစဉ်အပေါ် မြန်မာသံရုံး၊ လန်ဒန်မြို့မှ ကန့်ကွက်စာပေးပို့ထားရှိမှု”

“ဘီဘီစီမှ ၂၂-၁၁-၂၀၁၆ ရက်နေ့တွင် ထုတ်လွှင့်ခဲ့သည့်  အစီအစဉ်အပေါ် မြန်မာသံရုံး၊ လန်ဒန်မြို့မှ ကန့်ကွက် စာပေးပို့ထားရှိမှု”

Response by Myanmar Embassy to the BBC World News Program.

Restore citizenship to Rohingya

malaysia kini

P Ramasamy   

Published: 26 Nov 2016

The Rohingya is one of the most deprived and exploited minority groups in the world today. While there is much emotional frenzy about their tragic plight, the Malaysian government has not taken any concrete step to address their issue at the international forums. The least that the government can do is to press home the point that the present government in Myanmar should restore their citizenship status that was deprived many years back.

Malaysia to Summon Burmese Ambassador as Protests Mount Over Treatment of Rohingya

The Irrawaddy
25.11.2016

Protesters hold signs during a demonstration against what organizers say is the crackdown on ethnic Rohingya Muslims in Burma, outside the Burmese embassy in Jakarta, Indonesia on November 25, 2016. The text on the poster reads, “Rohingya are our brothers.” / Darren Whiteside / Reuters 

By Reuters 25 November 2016 

KUALA LUMPUR & DHAKA – Malaysia will summon Myanmar’s ambassador over the crackdown on Rohingya Muslims in northwestern Arakan State, it said on Friday, as protesters across Southeast Asia demonstrated against the rising violence.

Malaysia to summon Myanmar envoy on Rohingya as protests mount

REUTERS
By Joseph Sipalan and Ruma Paul
KUALA LUMPUR/DHAKA
November 25, 2016 

[1/2]Muslims protest against what they say is Myanmar's crackdown on ethnic Rohingya Muslims, outside the Myanmar embassy in Bangkok, Thailand November 25, 2016. REUTERS/Jorge Silva Acquire Licensing Rights

( 24.11.2016 ) Rohingya face Myanmar 'ethnic cleansing': UN official ( ALjazira )

Al Jazeera
24/11/2016

UNHCR chief accuses country's troops of killing men and raping women, forcing stateless minority to flee to Bangladesh.

Hundreds of thousands live in camps in Bangladesh [Mohammad Ponir Hossain/Reuters]


Myanmar is carrying out "ethnic cleansing" of Rohingya Muslims, a United Nations official has said, as stories of gang rape, torture and murder emerge from among the thousands who have fled to Bangladesh.

( 24.11.2016 ) Bangladesh briefs foreign diplomats on Rohingya influx concerns ( bdnews24.com )

Senior Correspondent, bdnews24.com
Published: 2016-11-24



Foreign Minister AH Mahmood Ali has told Dhaka-based diplomats about the government’s concerns over the influx of Rakhine Muslims into Bangladesh despite the border guards’ efforts to stop the flow.

He briefed them on the evolving situation in Myanmar and Bangladesh-Myanmar relations at State Guest House Padma on Thursday.

( 23.11.2016 ) Foreign ministry summons Myanmar envoy over Rohingya crisis ( bdnews24 )

Senior Correspondent, bdnews24.com
Published: 2016-11-23



Rohingya Muslims cry as Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) catch them in a check post in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, November 21, 2016. Reuters.

The foreign ministry has summoned the Myanmar envoy and expressed concerns over a renewed crisis as more Rohingyas, fleeing persecution, cross the border to Bangladesh.

( 24.11.206 ) Myanmar wants ethnic cleansing of Rohingya - UN official ( BBC News) Video

B  B  C

24 November 2016

Myanmar is seeking the ethnic cleansing of the Muslim Rohingya minority from its territory, a senior UN official has told the BBC.

Armed forces have been killing Rohingya in Rakhine state, forcing many to flee to neighbouring Bangladesh, says John McKissick of the UN refugee agency.

( 23.11.2016 ) Jakarta: Rohingya's last hope ( Jarkata Post )

Canberra | Wed, November 23, 2016

In this May 12 file photo, ethnic Rohingya sit at a refugee camp north of Sittwe, western Rakhine state, Myanmar. The long-persecuted Rohingya, many of whose families arrived in Myanmar generations ago, are treated as illegal migrants from neighboring Bangladesh and virtually excluded from the political process. (AP/Gemunu Amarasinghe )

( 22.11.2016 ) Bangladesh pushes back 125 Rohingyas ( The Nation )

THE NATION
By The Daily Star
Asia News Network
DHAKA

November 22, 2016

Bangladeshi students of Dhaka University carry banners 'Stop Genocide in Myanmar' take part in a protest against the recent attacks on the Rohingyas in Arakan in Myanmar, in Dhaka, Bangladesh, 21 November 2016./ EPA

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( 22.11.2016 ) Hundreds of Rohingya cross into Bangladesh, fleeing unrest (The Nation )

The Nation
November 22, 2016 
By Agence France-Presse DHAKA

Hundreds of Rohingya have arrived in Bangladesh after fleeing violence in neighbouring Myanmar, community leaders said Tuesday, but border guards have pushed back hundreds more despite a United Nations plea to let them in.

The UN says up to 30,000 Rohingya have been displaced by violence in Myanmar's Rakhine state, where dozens of people have been killed in clashes with the military, and has urged Dhaka to open its border to them. Instead the Bangladesh government, under pressure from local communities to limit the number of migrants, has intensified patrols along the 237-kilometre (147-mile) border to prevent a large-scale influx.

( 22.11.2016 ) Myanmar’s War on the Rohingya ( New York Times )

The New York Times  
The Opinion Pages
By THE EDITORIAL BOARDNOV. 21, 2016

A family outside a market destroyed by fire, in a Rohingya village in Myanmar, in October. Credit Soe Zeya Tun/Reuters

Myanmar has long persecuted the country’s Rohingya Muslim minority, denying it basic rights to citizenship, to marry, to worship and to an education. After violence unleashed in 2012 by Buddhist extremists drove tens of thousands of Rohingya out of their homes, many risked their lives to escape in smugglers’ boats; more than 100,000 others are living in squalid internment camps. Now, a counterinsurgency operation by Myanmar’s military is again forcing thousands of Rohingya to abandon their villages.

( 22.11.2016 ) Satellite images reveal destruction in Rohingya villages ( Washinton Post)

The Washington Post

22-11-2016

This Thursday, Nov. 10, 2016, satellite image taken by DigitalGlobe and distributed by Human Rights Watch, Monday, Nov. 21, 2016, shows the building destruction in the village of Wa Peik, Maungdaw District, Myanmar. Human Rights Watch said Monday that high-definition satellite images show 820 newly identified structures destroyed this month in five Rohingya Muslim villages in the Myanmar’s troubled Rakhine state where the military is carrying out counter-insurgency operations. (DigitalGlobe via AP) (Associated Press)

By Esther Htusan | AP November 21 at 9:47 AM

YANGON, Myanmar — High-definition satellite images show 820 newly identified structures destroyed this month in five Rohingya Muslim villages in Myanmar’s troubled Rakhine state where the military is carrying out counter-insurgency operations, a human rights group said Monday.

U.S.-based Human Rights Watch urged the government to invite the United Nations to assist in an impartial investigation.

( 22.11.2016 ) မောင်တောမြို့နယ် အဘူဂျရားကျေးရွာအနီး ယာယီတဲဖြင့်နေထိုင်လျက်ရှိသည့် ထွက်ပြေးတိမ်းရှောင်လာသူများအား လူသားချင်းစာနာထောက်ထားမှုဆိုင်ရာ အကူအညီများပေးအပ်၊ မူလနေရပ်သို့ ပြန်လည်ပို့ဆောင်ရန်စီစဉ်

မောင်တောမြို့နယ် အဘူဂျရားကျေးရွာအနီး ယာယီတဲဖြင့်နေထိုင်လျက်ရှိသည့် ထွက်ပြေးတိမ်းရှောင် လာသူများအား လူသားချင်းစာနာထောက်ထားမှုဆိုင်ရာ အကူအညီများပေးအပ်၊ မူလနေရပ်သို့ ပြန် လည်ပို့ဆောင်ရန်စီစဉ်

မောင်တောမြို့နယ် အဘူဂျရားကျေးရွာအနီးတွင် အခြားကျေးရွာများမှ ထွက်ပြေးလာသူများသည် ယာယီ တဲများဖြင့် နေထိုင်လျက်ရှိကြောင်း မြေပြင်သတင်းများအရနယ်မြေခံလုံခြုံရေးတပ်ဖွဲ့ဝ င်များ ကနိုဝင်ဘာ၂၀ ရက်နံနက်၁၁နာရီခွဲတွင်သွားရောက်စိစစ်ရာဒါးကြီးစား ကျေးရွာနှင့် မျောတောင် ကျေးရွာများမှ ထွက်ပြေး တိမ်းရှောင်လာသူ ၁,၂၁၃ ဦး အား ယာယီတဲများဖြင့် နေထိုင် လျက်ရှိကြောင်းတေ့ွရှိရသည်။ အဆိုပါ ကျေးရွာသူကျေးရွာသားများကို ရခိုင်ပြည်နယ်အစိုးရက ဆန်အိတ် (၁၀၀) ၊ ငါးခြောက် ပိဿာ (၁၀၀) နှင့် ခေါက်ဆွဲခြောက် ဖာ (၁၀၀) စသည့် လူသားချင်းစာနာထော က်ထားမှုဆိုင်ရာ အထောက်အပံ့ပစ္စည်းများ ပေးအပ်ခဲ့ပြီး မူလနေရပ်သို့ အမြန်ဆုံး ပြန်လည်ပို့ဆောင်နိုင်ရေး စီမံဆောင်ရွက်လျက် ရှိကြောင်း သိရှိရ သည်။

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( 22.11.2016 ) ဘူးသီးတောင်မြို့နယ်၌ မသင်္ကာသူ ရွာသား (၁၀) ဦး ဖမ်းဆီးရမိ နှာခေါင်းတို ရဲကင်းစခန်းအနီး လူတစ်စု ချဉ်းကပ်လာ၍ ပစ်ခတ် ရှင်းလင်းခဲ့ ( English - Burmese )

 ဘူးသီးတောင်မြို့နယ်၌ မသင်္ကာသူ ရွာသား (၁၀) ဦး ဖမ်းဆီးရမိနှာခေါင်းတို ရဲကင်းစခန်းအနီး လူတစ် စု ချဉ်းကပ်လာ၍ ပစ်ခတ် ရှင်းလင်းခဲ့

မောင်တောမြို့နယ် နယ်မြေ (၈) နှာခေါင်းတို နယ်ခြားစောင့် ရဲကင်းစခန်း ခြံစည်းရိုး အနီးသို့ ည ၁၂ နာရီ မိနစ် ၅၀ တွင် မသင်္ကာဖွယ် လူအုပ်စု တစ်စုချဉ်းကပ်လာသဖြင့်လုံခြုံရေးတပ်ဖွဲ့ဝင်များမှ ပြန်လည် ပစ်ခတ် ခဲ့ရာ ဆုတ်ခွာသွားပြီး နံနက်ပိုင်းတွင် စခန်းဝန်းကျင်အနီး ရှင်းလင်းစဉ် ရင်ဘတ် ကျည်ထိမှန် ဒဏ်ရာဖြင့် သေဆုံးနေသူတစ်ဦးအား တွေ့ရှိရသည်။