Smart diplomacy needed to stop Rohingya deportation by KSA ( Article )

The New Nation 

Wednesday, January 9, 2019 10:47:01 PM


DAYS after India deported a Rohingya Muslim family of five lodged at an Assam prison to Myanmar, the Saudi authorities on Tuesday deported 13 Rohingyas to Bangladesh, who had travelled to the Kingdom with Bangladeshi passports around seven years back. Newspapers reported that, Riyadh may send back more Rohingyas, now kept in detention camps in Jeddah, creating more worries for Bangladesh which is already burdened with over 1.2 million Rohingya refugees.

Rohingya — The forgotten genocide of our time (Article )

Leila Yasmine Khan and Daud Khan :
The Rohingya are a minority community living in Rakhine State in Myanmar. The Muslim Rohingya are considered intruders into Buddhist Myanmar - illegal immigrants from bordering Bangladesh. They have been always discriminated against, looked down upon, ostracized, and denied any civil and judicial rights.

How did Rohingyas get Bangladeshi passports?

The Daily Star

January 11, 2019

As reported by the domestic and international media, dozens of stateless Rohingya individuals are being deported to Bangladesh from Saudi Arabia. They allegedly went to the country with Bangladeshi passports, which they had obtained from smugglers who manufactured fake or counterfeit documents for them. Some of them are now being sent to Bangladesh, having spent years languishing in jail, while some others still remaining there.

UN human rights expert to visit Bangladesh soon

Published : Friday, 11 January, 2019

 

The UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar, Yanghee Lee, will visit Bangladesh soon apart from her visit to Myanmar's another neighbour Thailand.
Lee's two-nation visit will begin on January 14 and end on January 24, according to a message received from Geneva on Friday, UNB reports.

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Rohingya Repatriation Might Be More Complex ( Article )

A.K.M. Atiqur Rahman

11 January, 2019
Having a landslide victory at the national election held on 30 December 2018, Bangladesh Awami League has formed the government on 7 January 2019. The Hon’ble Ministers of the new government have already joined their respective Ministry. I was about to write on foreign affairs as pledged by Awami League in its election manifesto. But for the last few days, a number of reports on the Rohingya issue, published in the local dailies, have forced me to write about this matter right now. However, I agree that the Rohingya issue has been included as a part of the foreign affairs pledge in the election manifesto.

43 Rohingyas held in Comilla

All of them will be sent to a Cox's Bazar Rohingya camp, says police

Police have arrested 43 Rohingyas, including children, at separate places in Comilla.

They were arrested on Thursday.

Reuters journalists challenge conviction under Myanmar state secrets act

"THE WASHINGTON POST"
By Cape Diamond and Timothy McLaughlin
January 11

YANGON, Myanmar — A court in Myanmar is set to rule Friday in the appeal of two Reuters journalists jailed last year for violating the country’s colonial-era secrets law in a case that drew widespread condemnation from rights groups, foreign governments and media watchdogs as an attack on the free press.

KNU, RCSS must make clear timeframe for suspension of talks

AUNG NAING OO | 11 JAN 2019

A friend who follows the peace process from afar wrote to me recently and asked, “Is Myanmar trying to keep a ceasefire that may no longer exist soon?”

His comment came following the suspension of cooperation in November by the two biggest ethnic armed organisations – the Karen National Union (KNU) and Restoration Council of Shan State (RCSS) – that signed the Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement in October 2015.

Made in Myanmar

PHOE WA | 11 JAN 2019

There are great new business opportunities for vendors who partook in the Made in 

Myanmar industry event which aimed to strengthen the bonds between consumers and producers. Made in Myanmar, the brainchild of three businesswomen, invited Myanmar producers to come together and celebrate their cultural bonds and for the public to celebrate, and purchase, Myanmar cultural arts.

State Counsellor calls for support for federal union.

MARAN | 11 JAN 2019

Daw Aung San Suu Kyi yesterday called on all people in Myanmar to strive for developing a true democratic federal union, urging them not to rely on the government alone.

Myanmar Reuters journalists jailed over Rohingya investigation to hear appeal decision.

PUBLISHED: 11 JAN 2019

YANGON (AFP) - Two Reuters journalists jailed in Myanmar over their investigation of atrocities committed against the Rohingya will learn on Friday (Jan 11) if an appeal against their conviction has succeeded.

Myanmar cracking down on opium, but conflicts fuel drug trade.

UN reports shows less land being used to grow opium poppies, but conflicts hampering eradication programme.

Al Jazeera: 11th Jan 2019 @ 04:09

The amount of land being used to grow opium poppies continues to decline in Myanmar, but ongoing conflicts are hampering efforts to stamp out the trade at a time when the illicit drug economy is becoming increasingly diverse, according to a new UN report.

NLD needs to seize the moment, analysts say.

EI EI TOE LWIN 11 JAN 2019

The government led by theNational League for Democracy (NLD) is half-way through its five-year term and there is a big question on whether the NLD and its leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi are on the right track amidst a humanitarian crisis in northern Rakhine, the moribund peace process, the sluggish economy and what some perceive as failure to uphold free speech and the rule of law.

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ဧရာဝတီ
10 January 2019 
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  ဇန်နဝါရီလ ၄ ရက်နေ့ တိုက်ခိုက်မှု အပြီးတွင် ရခိုင်ပြည်နယ်အတွင်း တပ်မတော်ဘက်မှ တပ်အင်အား တိုး ချဲ့ပြီး ရက္ခိုင့် တပ်မတော် (AA) ကို ချေမှုန်းရန်လည်း နိုင်ငံတော်သမ္မတရုံးမှ သဘောတူထားသည်။

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Rohingyas trickle into Bangladesh again

Violence in Rakhine stokes fear of new influx, UN denied access to Rakhine, repatriation unlikely soon .

Shahidul Islam Chowdhury with Mohammad Nurul Islam in Cox’s Bazar | 

Published: Jan 11,2019

The entry of minority Rohingyas of Myanmar in small groups into Bangladesh has once again become visible as tension mounts in Rakhine State amid clashes between Myanmar military and Buddhist armed groups, triggering fear of a new spate of influx.

City of London Corporation votes in favour of revoking Aung San Suu Kyi honorary freedom award

City of London Corporation councillorshave voted in favour of removing the honorary freedom award granted to Aung San Suu Kyi over her failure to condemn atrocities committed against the Rohingya people in Myanmar.

Today the Corporation's prime legislative body, the court of common council, voted in favour of a motion proposed by Portsoken councillor Munsur Ali that would see the Corporation start the process of revoking the award.