Breaking the deadlock in Rakhine

Frontier
MYANMAR

By MYO SANN AUNG | FRONTIER

A Border Guard Police officer looks through a fence into the no-man's-land between Myanmar and Bangladesh where several thousand Rohingya are stranded. (Steve Tickner | Frontier)

Dialogue between the Rakhine and Rohingya communities is essential to achieve a sustainable solution to an increasingly complex crisis.

CONFLICTS MOTIVATED by religious and ethnic intolerance have made Rakhine State feature prominently on the radar of the international community. Some regard the situation as a threat, while others see it as an opportunity. There is no one-size-fits-all solution to the Rakhine crisis: its resolution will require compromises, including on issues such as rights, and it will take time.

New York conference critical of UN over Rohingya crisis

BIG
NEWS
NETWORK
Dildar Baykan - Anadolu Agency
11th February 2019, 10:23 GMT+11 

NEW YORK, New York - An international conference in New York called for the boycott of Myanmar due to ethnic cleansing accusations regarding the country.

The International Conference on Protection and Accountability in Burma held at Barnard College, Columbia University, in New York on Sunday, brought together the leading Rohingya campaigners, activists, renowned genocide scholars and UN officials.

မြောက်ဦးမြို့နယ် ရန်ကုန်-စစ်တွေကားလမ်းအနီး ဆွဲမိုင်းပေါက်ကွဲ

DVB
11 February 2019

ရခိုင်ပြည်နယ်၊ မြောက်ဦးမြို့နယ်၊ ရန်ကုန်-စစ်တွေအမြန်လမ်းမအနီးမှာ ဖေဖော်ဝါရီ ၁၀ ရက် မနက် ၉ နာရီလောက်က တောင်ဦးကျေးရွာနဲ့ ထိပ်ဝပြင်ကျေးရွာကြား ဆွဲမိုင်းပေါက်ကွဲမှု ဖြစ်ပွားခဲ့တယ်လို့ တပ်မတော် သတင်းမှန်ပြန်ကြားရေးအဖွဲ့မှ တာဝန်ရှိသူတဦးက ပြောပါတယ်။

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.

Persecutors of Rohingya should face trial: Professor

09.02.2019, By Dildar Baykan 
Generals who have run genocidal campaign must become international pariahs, says Gregory Stanton

NEW YORK, Perpetrators of the Rohingya genocide should stand trial at an international court for their crimes against humanity, the founding president of non-governmental organization Genocide Watch said Friday.

Eight Buddhist families return to Myanmar from Bangladesh border.

bdnews24.com
Bandarban Correspondent
Published: 11 Feb 2019

          Eight of the 38 Buddhist families from Myanmar, who took refuge at the border with Bangladesh a week ago, have returned home

The 28 people returned on Sunday and the others also said they would return gradually, Colonel Zahirul Haque, commander of Border Guard Bangladesh or BGB in Bandarban, told bdnews24.com.

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( ၁၁-၀၂-၂၀၁၉ ) ေၾကးမံု သတင္းစာ

( ၁၁-၀၂-၂၀၁၉ ) ၿမန္မာ့အလင္း သတင္းစာ

Rohingya Activists Share Stories of Community's Plight.

Fars News Agency

Sun Feb 10, 2019

TEHRAN (FNA)- Fear, intimidation, repression and genocide; The words used by members of the Rohingya community to describe what is happening to them at the hands of Myanmar's military forces.

"Some may think that by leaving a repressive, genocidal regime, Rohingya will be free," Yasmin Ullah, a Rohingya activist, said, Anadolu news agency reported.

People Flee Escalating Violence in Myanmar's Rakhine, Southern Chin States.

VOA NEWS
February 10, 2019,
By: Lisa Schlein

A Mro ethnic women with child displaced from the surge of fighting between ethnic armed rebel group of the Arakan Army and government troops take refuge at a compound of a Buddhist pagoda in Buthidaung township in the restive Rakhine state, Jan. 25, 2019.

GENEVA — The U.N. refugee agency says it is worried by reports of people fleeing escalating violence in Myanmar's southern Chin State and Rakhine State, adding to growing instability in these regions.

India, Bangladesh call for expediting safe and sustainable repartition of Rohingya refugees

FINANCIAL EXPRESS

By: PTI | Published: February 9, 2019 3:41 AM

During the fifth meeting of the India-Bangladesh Joint Consultative Commission (JCC), External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj assured her Bangladeshi counterpart A K Abdul Momen India's continued support for safe, speedy and sustainable return of the displaced persons to Myanmar. 

 

A group of Rohingya refugees making their way on the muddy road after travelling over the Bangladesh-Myanmar border in Teknaf, Bangladesh in September 2017. (Reuters)

The Other Wall.

New Delhi | February 11, 2019


The world must give it to Prime Minister Begum Hasina that thus far she has been no less accommodating than Germany’s Chancellor, Angela Merkel, vis-a-vis the migrants from North Africa and the Arab countries.

Rescued Rohingya refugees pose for photographs at the Border Guard Bangladesh camp in Teknaf on February 8, 2019. - Bangladeshi border guards have rescued 30 Rohingya refugees from a coastal town who were waiting to board on boats which would "take them to Malaysia", an official said on February 8. (Photo by STR / AFP) 

Unlike the contentious US-Mexican frontier, the “wall” has come up almost readily on the Bangladesh-Rakhine border to ward off the further influx of the persecuted Rohingyas from Myanmar. This doubtless exacerbates the worst humanitarian crisis since World War II with its attendant ethnic cleansing of the “nowhere men”. It is beyond question too that the responsibility rests almost entirely with the government in Naypidaw which has consistently stopped short of putting rehabilitation measures in place for the refugees, should they come in, if at all. As it turns out, they have nowhere to turn except Bangladesh.

‘India should monitor safety of Rohingya’

NEW DELHI, February 10, 2019

By: Kallol Bhattacherjee

Bangladesh wants India, China and the ASEAN to monitor the promise of safety by Myanmar to ensure the protection of the Rohingya community, a Bangladesh source said on Sunday, reflecting the new official position that Dhaka has adopted.

The Foreign Minister of Bangladesh, Dr. A.K. Abdul Momen, had informed the Indian leadership about the new stance of Dhaka during his visit last week. “The Minister had asked for a safe haven for the Rohingya in Myanmar that should be watched by the ASEAN, India and China,” said the diplomatic source.

Hasina saved global leaders from disgrace.

Hasina saved global leaders from disgrace

Says finance minister on sheltering Rohingyas

The Daily Star

February 11, 2019

Unb, Dhaka

Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen yesterday said Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has saved the face of the global leaders from “ignominy and disgrace” by sheltering the persecuted people of Rakhine province in Myanmar.

“If she wouldn't have given them shelter, it would end up with the gravest and worst genocide of the century since WWII,” he said, urging world leaders to show a genuine commitment to human rights values by sending the Rohingyas back to their place of origin with safety and dignity.

Cow smugglers clamp on a police official in illegal Rohingya influenced Mewat region of Haryana

OpIndia Staff

February 10, 2019

Mewat region which cuts across Rajasthan and Haryana is a hot-bed of organised crime, cattle smuggling and illegal Rohingya settlement

 

 

As per a report by Navbharat Times, A canter carrying 8 calves broke a barricade near Shahpur Kheda area of Ferozepur Jhirka, in Nuh district of Haryana and also mowed down an Additional Superintendent of Police, injuring him badly. Nuh forms part of the Mewat region which cuts across Rajasthan and Haryana.

Delhi: 50 Rohingya families whose homes gutted in Kalindi Kunj fire still picking up pieces

THE NEW
INDIAN EXPRESS

By Midita Girotra

Meenara regrets that she did not get a post-mortem examination done.

The slum in Delhi’s Kalindi Kunj area where around 50 Rohingyas found shelter after fleeing their homeland. (Pic bottom) Meenara Begum with her children | Parveen Negi and express

NEW DELHI: In April last year, a fire gutted a refugee camp which sheltered about 50 Rohingya families in south Delhi’s Kalindi Kunj area. Meenara Begum along with her husband and four children had to start afresh. Three months later, fresh tragedy befell Meenara as she lost her husband. Till date, the 30-year-old is confused about what went wrong with Jahid. He must have died of depression, she thought then.

Six Rohingyas nabbed along Indo-Nepal border, after this happened

CIPPER28

February 10, 2019

In a major development, as many as six Rohingyas were arrested on Saturday by the Border Interaction Team.
The arrest came about at Panitanki along the Indo-Nepal border.
Sources said that the arrest took place as they were trying to cross over into Nepal from India.
The six arrested persons, including a woman, were handed over to Khoribari Police station.
It was said that at least two persons were sent to a correctional home while the other four were sent to police custody.

They were produced before the Siliguri Court

Source : https://www.clipper28.com/en/six-rohingyas-nabbed-along-indo-nepal-border-after-this-happened/

Cops block man’s bid to wed 11-year-old Rohingya in Penang

malaymail

10 February 2019,By Emmanuel Santa Maria Chin

File photo of an ethnic Rohingya refugee who was among a boatload of asylum seekers standing by the window of an immigration quarantine centre in Langsa district in Aceh province. — AFP pic

KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 10 — Penang police halted a wedding ceremony between an 11-year-old Rohingya girl and a 21-year-old man in Taman Senangin, Butterworth on Wednesday.

The agency acted on a report by Lifebridge Learning Centre director K. Sudhagaran Stanley Singh, after he noticed the girl’s absence from the centre.

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