Myanmar army chief denies systematic persecution of Rohingya

REUTERS
February 15, 2019

TOKYO (Reuters) - Myanmar’s army chief, who is facing international calls that he be prosecuted for genocide against the Rohingya Muslim minority, has denied any systematic army persecution and said such accusations were an insult to his country’s honor.

Rohingya refugees are seen near a shop in the evening at Balukhali camp in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, November 16, 2018. REUTERS/Mohammad Ponir Hossain

Rohingya Crisis: EU releases €24 million for Bangladesh

reliefweb

Brussels, 15 February 2019 

Reported from:European Commission's Directorate-General for European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations.

The European Commission has released an additional €24 million in humanitarian aid for vulnerable Rohingya refugees and host communities living in Cox's Bazar district, in Bangladesh.

Part of the funding will also cover disaster preparedness initiatives in the country.

UN seeks $920m to support Rohingya refugees in 2019

AL JAZEERA
15th February 2019

More than half the money is earmarked for critical aid including food, water, sanitation and shelter.

Rohingya refugee children at the Balukhali camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh [File: Mohammad Ponir Hossain/ Reuters]

The United Nations, aid agencies and NGO partners have said they need $920 million this year to support more than 900,000 Rohingya refugees who fled their homes in Myanmar in the wake of a brutal military crackdown in 2017 and are now living in sprawling camps in Bangladesh.

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.

( 15.02.2019 ) New Light of Myanmar

( ၁၅-၀၂-၂၀၁၉) ေၾကးမံု သတင္းစာ

( ၁၅-၀၂-၂၀၁၉) မြန်မာ့အလင်း သတင်းစာ

မလေးရှားသွားဖို့ကြိုးစားတဲ့ ရိုဟင်ဂျာ ၄၀ ကျော် ဖမ်းဆီးခံရ

VOA
ဗွီအိုအေ (မြန်မာပိုင်း)
14 ဖေဖော်ဝါရီ၊ 2019,

  ဧပြီ ၂၀၁၈ တုန်းက မလေးရှားသွားဖို့ကြိုးစားတဲ့ ရိုဟင်ဂျာများ

မလေးရှားနိုင်ငံကို ရေကြောင်းကနေသွားဖို့ ကြိုးစားကြတဲ့ ရိုဟင်ဂျာ ၄၃ ယောက်ကို ဘင်္ဂလားဒေ့ရှ်ရဲတပ်ဖွဲ့ က တားဆီးနိုင်ခဲ့ကြောင်း ဘင်္ဂလားဒေ့ရှ် အာဏာပိုင်တွေက ပြောပါတယ်။ ဒီအထဲမှာ ပါဝင်တဲ့ အမျိုးသမီး တွေ ကတော့ လူမှောင်ခိုတွေက ဖမ်းဆီးတာ ခံရကြောင်း ပြောဆိုခဲ့တယ်လို့လည်း ဆိုပါတယ်။

ရိုဟင်ဂျာနိုင်ငံသားရရှိခွင့် အာဆီယံဝင်မစွက်သင့် - စင်ကာပူနိုင်ငံခြားရေးဝန်ကြီး

VOA
သားညွန့်ဦး
14 ဖေဖော်ဝါရီ၊ 2019, 

မြန်မာနိုင်ငံ ရခိုင်မြောက်ပိုင်းက ရိုဟင်ဂျာဒုက္ခသည်တွေ နိုင်ငံသားဖြစ်ရေးအခွင့်အရေးဟာ မြန်မာနိုင်ငံကဆုံးဖြတ်ရမယ့်ကိစ္စဖြစ်ပြီး၊ အခြားနိုင်ငံတွေက ဝင်ရောက်စွက်ဖက်တာမျိုး မသင့်ဘူးလို့ စင်ကာပူနိုင်ငံ ခြား ရေးဝန်ကြီးက ပြောခဲ့ပါတယ်။ ဒါ့အပြင် ရိုဟင်ဂျာဒုက္ခသည်တွေ နေရပ်ပြန်ရေးမှာ ဒုက္ခသည်တွေရဲ့ ဆန္ဒနဲ့ ဘေးကင်းလုံခြုံရေးကို ဦးစားပေးရမှာမို့၊ အာဆီယံအနေနဲ့ ဒီလုပ်ငန်းစဉ်ဖြစ်လာဖို့ ဘေးက အကူ အညီပေး နိုင်တဲ့အဆင့်မှာပဲရှိမယ်လို့ စင်ကာပူနိုင်ငံခြားရေးဝန်ကြီးက စင်ကာပူပါလီမန်မှာ ပြောသွားပါတယ်။ ကိုသားညွန့်ဦးက ဒီအ ကြောင်း တင်ပြပေးမှာပါ။

မောင်တော နယ်ခြားစောင့်ရဲကင်း တိုက်ခိုက်ခံရ

VOA
နိုင်ကွန်းအိန်
14 ဖေဖော်ဝါရီ၊ 2019,

ရခိုင်ပြည်နယ် မောင်တောမြို့နယ် ဘင်္ဂလားနယ်စပ်အနီး အောင်သပြေကျေးရွာ နယ်ခြားစောင့်ရဲကင်း စခမ်းတခုကို အမည်မသိအဖွဲ့ ကနေ မနေ့ညကနေ ဒီမနက်ပိုင်းအထိ ဝင်ရောက်ပစ်ခတ်တိုက်ခိုက်ခဲ့ ပါတယ်။

စားပွဲဝိုင်းဆွေးနွေးပွဲ ကျင်းပရေးအဆို ရခိုင်ပြည်နယ် လွှတ်တော်မှာ ဆွေးနွေးမည်

RFA 
လွတ်လပ်တဲ့ အာရှအသံ
2019-02-14

 ၂၀၁၉ ဖေဖော်ဝါရီ ၁၃ ရက်နေ့ကကျင်းပတဲ့ ရခိုင်ပြည်နယ် လွှတ်တော်အစည်းအဝေးကို တွေ့ရစဉ်

  

ရခိုင်ပြည်နယ်ထဲမှာ အစိုးရတပ်မတော်နဲ့ AA ရက္ခိုင့်တပ်မတော်တို့ဖြစ်ပွားနေတဲ့ တိုက်ပွဲတွေ ရပ်တန့် နိုင်ရေး စားပွဲဝိုင်းမှာဆွေးနွေးဖို့ ပြည်နယ်အစိုးရကနေတဆင့် ပြည်ထောင်စုအစိုးရထံ တိုက်တွန်းကြောင်း အဆိုကို ရခိုင်ပြည် နယ် လွှတ်တော်မှာ ကန့်ကွက်မယ့်သူမရှိတာကြောင့် ဒီနေ့ အတည်ပြုလိုက်ပါတယ်။

AA Chief Vows to Set Up HQ in Rakhine State Soon

The Irrawaddy

By Moe Myint 13 February 2019

Arakan Army chief Maj-Gen. Tun Myat Naing, who currently lives in Kachin State's Laiza Township / Supplied

YANGON—Amid intense fighting between government troops and the Arakan Army (AA) in northern Rakhine, the armed group’s chief, Major-General Tun Myat Naing, told the Arakanese public that the group will build a temporary headquarters in Rakhine State very soon.

Village Head Shot Dead by Unknown Assailants in Myanmar’s Rakhine State

RADIO FREE ASIA 

Feb. 12, 2019. 

Maung Kyaw, administrator of Kyauk Khot village, was killed by unknown assailants at his home in Minyba township's Tharyarkone village tract, western Myanmar’s Rakhine state, 

Feb. 12, 2019.

A village administrator was shot dead on Tuesday at his home in a township in western Myanmar’s violence-ridden Rakhine state, prompting speculation by local officials that the rebel Arakan Army, whose fighting with Myanmar forces has intensified in recent months, was behind the killing.

Bangladesh rescues ‘abducted’ Malaysia-bound Rohingya

malaymail 

Published 11 hours ago on 14 February 2019

Rohingya refugees stand in a queue to collect aid supplies in Kutupalong refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, January 21, 2018. — Reuters pic

DHAKA, Feb 14 — Bangladesh police have stopped 43 Rohingya refugees from being smuggled to Malaysia by boat with a dozen women claiming they were abducted by traffickers, officials said today.

Dhaka wants UNHCR to ask other countries to open doors

NEWAGE

Diplomatic Correspondent | Published: 15:41, Feb 14,2019

Foreign minister AK Abdul Momen on Wednesday stressed the need for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees to take steps to convince the other countries except Bangladesh to allow Rohingya people of Myanmar to cross their respective borders. 

‘We have taken enough people (from Myanmar),’ he said replying to a question on the UNHCR’s call to keep the Bangladesh borders open for more Myanmar people. 

The Rohingya Diaspora Is Crucial to Achieving Justice in Myanmar

TIME

By John Quinley III, Nov. 15, 2018.

Rohingya demonstrators shout slogans as they protest repatriation from the Unchiprang refugee camp in Teknaf, Bangladesh on Nov. 15, 2018.K M Asad—LightRocket/Getty Images

When the Myanmar military unleashed its campaign of rapes, arson and murder against the Rohingya Muslims in 2016, members of the persecuted minority’s diaspora were swift to act. They documented the violence. They petitioned the international community. And they helped spotlight the unfolding humanitarian catastrophe as more than 700,000 refugees fled to neighboring Bangladesh. Yet in the fight to hold Myanmar accountable, the Rohingya diaspora is too often overlooked.

22 Myanmar nationals including Rohingya deported since August 2017: MHA

The Indian EXPRESS
Friday, February 15, 2019

The Home Ministry in August 2017 had come out with an advisory to identify and deport illegal immigrants from Bangladesh and Myanmar.

 According to government estimates, there are nearly 40,000 Rohingya Muslims across India with the highest number in Jammu and Kashmir. (Reuters/File) 

As many as 22 Myanmar nationals, including Rohingya, have been deported since August 2017, the Union Ministry of Home Affairs has informed the Rajya Sabha.

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.

How Facebook Is Responding To Its Role In The Rohingya Genocide

GIRTDAILY
Cyberspace and Technology, Emerging Tech, NewsPosted on February 13, 2019

Facebook admitted recently that it had played a role in spreading hate, propaganda and crime in Myanmar, a Southeast-Asian country torn apart by genocide. The social network commissioned Business for Social Responsibility (BSR). BSR is a nonprofit group that specializes in advising businesses on how they impact human rights, politics, and climate change. The company released a 60-page analysis on the impact Facebook had over crimes against the Rohingya people, a minority muslim group that’s been forced to flee from Myanmar. Now, Facebook is trying to tackle the issue head on by identifying and eliminating hate groups present on the site. Is the move a well-informed decision to reduce the amount of hate-speech on the site? Or was it an overreaction to criticisms of the company’s practices?

Myanmar again shows St Martin’s as its territory

daily sun
14th February, 2019

Myanmar keeps distorting facts showing Bangladesh’s St Martin’s Island as part of its territory in Myanmar's government maps prompting Dhaka to react sharply and lodge a strong protest officially against the ‘deliberate’ attempt.