I Am Rohingya: A Genocide in Four Acts review – youthful counterblast to oppression

The Guardian

Mike McCahill
Wed 13 Mar 2019

A group of refugees from Myanmar, living in Canada, make a stage show of their traumatic experiences in Yusuf Zine’s deliberately upbeat documentary.
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Testament of youth … I Am Rohingya: A Genocide in Four Acts. Photograph: Huh Nation 

The levels of displacement in today’s world are such that it is possible to make a film about the plight of Myanmar’s indigenous Rohingya people without travelling beyond a few snowy blocks in Toronto.

Rohingya have no future in Bangladesh camps: campaigner

REUTERS

By Naimul Karim

DHAKA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - There is no future for the 900,000 Rohingya refugees living in Bangladesh, a leading campaigner said on Wednesday, likening the camps to zoos and calling for a proper repatriation strategy.

Rohingya lawyer Razia Sultana said there was a lack of hope among the refugees from the mainly Muslim minority, who fled a brutal military crackdown in Myanmar launched in response to militant attacks in August 2017.

Media partisanship and irrational citizenship

The Manila Times

By ANTONIO CONTRERAS
Opinion/ Op-Ed Columns
March 14, 2019,

 

THE news about the political turmoil in Venezuela, where hospitals are now turning away even emergency patients because they do not have medicine to treat them, and massive power outages have paralyzed the country, has distressed me.

But what distressed me even more was the reaction from one of my online followers to my lament of how Nicolas Maduro, the beleaguered Venezuelan president, could allow his people to suffer just to keep himself in power. He wrote: “Wala tayo sa Venezuela (We are not in Venezuela), we don’t know what’s really going on there. Can we trust the mainstream media? Have we forgotten what they did to Marcos, Ghadafi, what they’re doing to Duterte right now?

 

'Tk 150 crore spent on hotel bills in 6 months'

The Daily Star

Wednesday, "March 13, 2019"

Minister blasts foreign agencies working for Rohingyas

Foreign agencies working for Rohingyas spent Tk 150 crore on hotel bills in the last six months, whereas they have spent no more than 25 percent of total aid for the refugees, Liberation War Affairs Minister AKM Mozammel Haque said yesterday.

He was speaking to journalists following a meeting of the cabinet committee on law and order affairs held at the conference room of home ministry, reports BSS. Mozammel is the chairman of the newly formed cabinet committee.

The silence over China's Muslims in Xinjiang.

Bangkok Post
13th March 2019
By: GWYNNE DYER
INDEPENDENT JOURNALIST

Muslim governments were not silent when Myanmar murdered thousands of Rohingya, its Muslim minority, and expelled 700,000 of them across the border into Bangladesh. They were unanimous in their anger when the Trump administration moved the US embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. But they are almost silent on China's attempt to suppress Islam in its far western province, Xinjiang.

ရခိုင်စစ်ပြေးဒုက္ခသည် တသောင်းကျော်ထိ တိုးလာ

VOA

ဗွီအိုအေ (မြန်မာဌာန)
နိုင်ကွန်းအိန်၊ 13 မတ်၊ 2019

ရခိုင်စစ်ပြေးဒုက္ခသည်များ (သတင်းဓါတ်ပုံ-Khine Murn Chun )

ရခိုင်ပြည်နယ်၊ ပုဏ္ဏားကျွန်းမြို့နယ်အတွင်း မနေ့က ဖြစ်ပွားတဲ့ တိုက်ပွဲကြောင့် ဒေသခံ ရွာသား (၃၀၀)နီးပါး စစ်ဘေး တိမ်းရှောင်နေရပါတယ်။ ရခိုင်လက်နက်ကိုင်အဖွဲ့ AA နဲ့ မြန်မာ စစ်တပ်ကြား တိုက်ပွဲတွေကြောင့် အိုးအိမ်စွန့်ခွာထွက်ပြေးနေရသူတွေဟာ ခုချိန်မှာ သောင်းဂဏန်းအထိ ရှိလာနေပြီး တိုက်ပွဲဖြစ်ပွားရာဒေ သတွေမှာ ရွာသားတွေကို တပ်မတော်က မသင်္ကာလို့ ဖမ်းဆီးတာတွေလည်း ပိုများလာနေပါတယ်။

ရိုဟင်ဂျာအထိမ်းအမှတ်နေ့ လှုပ်ရှားသူတွေကန်လွှတ် တော်တွင်း စုဝေး

VOA

ဗွီအိုအေ (မြန်မာဌာန)
ဦးသိန်းထိုက်ဦး၊
13 မတ်၊ 201

 Rohingya advocacy day

 

ရခိုင်ပြည်နယ်မြောက်ပိုင်း ရိုဟင်ဂျာမူဆလင်တွေအပေါ် မြန်မာစစ်တပ်ရဲ့ ညှဉ်းပန်းမှုတွေကို "Genocide" လူမျိုးတုန်း သတ်ဖြတ်မှုအဖြစ် အမေရိကန်အထက်လွှတ်တော်အနေနဲ့ မဲခွဲဆုံးဖြတ်ပေးဖို့နဲ့၊ မြန်မာနိုင်ငံ အ ပေါ် ပိုပြီး ပြင်းထန်တဲ့ အရေးယူမှုတွေ ချမှတ်ပေးဖို့ အမေရိကန်ပြည်ထောင်စု အခြေစိုက် ရိုဟင်ဂျာအရေး လှုပ်ရှားနေသူတွေနဲ့ တိုင်းရင်းသား အခွင့်အရေး လှုပ်ရှားနေသူတွေက တိုက်တွန်းနေပါတယ်။

ျမန္မာပူးေပါင္းေဆာင္ရြက္မႈမရွိေပမဲ့ အေရးယူႏိုင္ဖို႔ ICC ႀကိဳးပမ္းမည္

VOA

ဗြီအိုုေအ (ျမန္မာဌာန)

အင္ၾကင္းႏိုင္၊ 13 မတ္၊ 2019

 

Director of the Jurisdiction, Complementarity and Cooperation Division of the International Criminal Court, Mr Phakiso Mochochoko, speaks during a press conference in Dhaka on March 11. (AFP)

ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံ ရခိုင္ျပည္နယ္ကေန ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာေတြကို အစုလိုက္အၿပံဳလိုက္ ေမာင္းထုတ္ခဲ့တဲ့ ဖိႏွိပ္ညွင္းပမ္း မႈေတြအတြက္ တာ၀န္ရွိသူေတြအေနနဲ႕ အေရးယူခံရမွာျဖစ္တယ္လို႔ ICC ႏိုင္ငံတကာရာဇ၀တ္ခံုရံုး တာ ၀န္ရွိသူက အခိုင္အမာေျပာၾကားလိုက္ပါတယ္။

ကျောက်တော်မြို့က မတရားအသင်းဆက်သွယ်မှုနဲ့ ဖမ်းဆီးခံရသူ ၂ ဦး ပြန်လွတ်မြောက်

RFA 

လွတ်လပ်တဲ့ အာရှအသံ

2019-03-13

 ကျောက်တော်မြို့ အဝင်ကို တွေ့ရစဉ်

မတရားအသင်း ဆက်သွယ်မှု ပုဒ်မ ၁၇ (၁) (၂) နဲ့ တရားစွဲ ဖမ်းဆီးထားတဲ့ ရခိုင်ပြည်နယ် ကျောက်တော် မြို့နယ် ဒေသခံ ၄ ဦးထဲက ၂ ဦးကို ရဲတပ်ဖွဲ့က မနေ့ညနေမှာ ပြန်လွှတ်ပေးလိုက်ပါတယ်။

စုံစမ်းရေးအဖွဲ့တွေကို ရခိုင်သွားခွင့်ပေးဖို့ အမေရိကန် သံအမတ် မျှော်လင့်

RFA 
လွတ်လပ်တဲ့ အာရှအသံ
2019-03-12

အေမရိကန္သံအမတ္ႀကီး Scot Marciel ကို ၂ဝ၁၉ မတ္လ ၁၂ ရက္ေန႔က ေတြ႕ရစဥ္

ရခိုင်အရေးနဲ့ ပတ်သက်လို့ မြန်မာနိုင်ငံအပေါ် နိုင်ငံတကာအဖွဲ့အစည်းတွေရဲ့ ဖိအားပေးမှုတွေ လျော့ချနိုင်ဖို့အ တွက် နိုင်ငံတကာက လွတ်လပ်တဲ့ စုံစမ်းစစ်ဆေးရေး အဖွဲ့တွေကို ရခိုင်ပြည်နယ်အတွင်း လွတ်လပ်စွာ သွားရောက် လေ့လာခွင့်ပေးဖို့ မျှော်လင့်ကြောင်း မြန်မာနိုင်ငံဆိုင်ရာ အမေရိကန်သံအမတ်ကြီး စကော့မာစီ ရယ် က ဒီနေ့ ပြောလိုက်ပါတယ်။

UAE Foundation continues to provide educational assistance to Rohingya students.

Bernama.com
12/03/2019

KUALA LUMPUR, March 12 (Bernama) -- The Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan Foundation of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), through its embassy here, continues to provide educational assistance and aid for Rohingya students by donating RM300,000 today.

Arakan Army Says It Is Holding 11 Myanmar Soldiers After Fierce Weekend Fighting.

RADIO FREE ASIA 

2019-03-12

The Arakan Army displays weapons and ammunition it seized during a weekend attack on Myanmar Army soldiers near Pyan So village in Paletwa township, western Myanmar's Chin state, March 11, 2019.

Photo courtesy of the Arakan Army's website

The Arakan Army has taken 11 Myanmar Army soldiers prisoner and seized arms following a weekend clash in Chin state’s Paletwa township, which abuts volatile Rakhine state where hostilities have intensified between the two sides since late last year, an AA official said Tuesday.

Myanmar wants 'biased' UN rapporteur replaced

UCAnews

John Zaw, Mandalay
Myanmar
March 13, 2019 

Human rights official is accused of lacking impartiality and damaging social cohesion

Yanghee Lee, the United Nations special rapporteur on human rights in Myanmar, speaks during a press conference in Yangon on July 21, 2017. Myanmar has accused her of being biased in her reports and want her replaced. (Photo by Ye Aung Thu/AFP)

Myanmar’s government has asked the United Nations Human Rights Council to replace the country’s special rapporteur on human rights because it claims she is biased. 

Rohingya run schools in India for rejected kids

LACROIX 
international 
Umar Manzoor Shah, Srinagar India
March 13, 2019 

Govt schools turn away children of Muslim refugees as Hindu groups in Kashmir demand they be deported to Myanmar

A bashful Tasleema Akhtar, 4, has her photo taken at a makeshift classroom inside a refugee camp in India's Jammu. She is among about 100 Rohingya children who are attending the preparatory school after government-run schools in the area began turning the refugees away. (Photo by Umar Manzoor Shah/ucanews.com)

US welcomes govt promises of Rohingyas' voluntary relocation to Bhashan Char

DhakaTribune
 Published at March 13th, 2019

 Before Bangladesh, no other country came to their aid MAHMUD HOSSAIN OPU

The government plans to relocate up to 100,000 Rohingyas to Bhashan Char, as early as mid-April

US Ambassador to Bangladesh Earl R Miller has welcomed the government’s assurances that any relocation of Rohingyas to Bhashan Char Island, will be completely voluntary, based on informed consent.

Rohingya militants condemn violence in refugee camps amid reports of killings

KFGO
FM Fargo-Moorhead
Wednesday, March 13, 2019

Rohingya refugees gather at a market inside a refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, March 7, 2019.              REUTERS/Mohammad Ponir Hossain

YANGON (Reuters) - Myanmar's Rohingya militants urged their followers on Wednesday to refrain from crime in Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh, following reports of killings and abductions attributed to the group, the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA).

VOA Asia – Keeping the lane narrow on denuclearization talks

VOA Asia 15 
March 12, 2019



Link: https://www.voanews.com/a/4819720.html

US welcomes govt assurances of Rohingyas' voluntary relocation to Bhashan Char

UNB

Publish Date - March 13, 2019

Earl R Miller traveled to Cox’s Bazar to monitor US assistance to Rohingya and local communities in preparation for the annual monsoon and cyclone seasons. The US works hand-in-hand with the local community to build multi-purpose cyclone shelters and train emergency first responders. Photo: Twitter

Dhaka, Mar 13 (UNB) - US Ambassador to Bangladesh Earl R Miller has welcomed the government’s assurances that any relocation of Rohingyas to Bhashan Char island will be fully voluntary based on informed consent.

“My Family Was Massacred Before My Eyes”: Riyaz, A 70-Year-Old Rohingya Refugee

YKA
YOUTH KI  AWAAZ

Omar Hafiz in Society, Staff Picks

TRIGGER WARNING: VIOLENCE

During my work with Rohingya refugees in Jammu, I worked extensively for better health and education for them. Months after my joining, during a field survey, I met an elderly gentleman who I assumed must have been in his late 70s. He was accompanied by two children, a boy and a girl. Usually, my interactions with the refugees would remain confined to the health and education of their children, and I used to spend a lot of time convincing them to enroll their children in schools.

The task required extensive advocacy, as these kids were into rag picking, which would pay them around Rs 3000 per month, an amount which could help them run their lives.

Riyaz Karim. a Rohingya refugee, with his grandchildren.

When I met this old gentleman, I was surprised to know that he willingly sought enrollment of the children with him in any school. I was very curious to know how these children were related to him, and engaged him in a conversation. He smiled and said that they were his grandchildren. His own children were no more. Hearing this I offered him a chair and requested him to tell me how he reached Jammu.

RM300,000 education aid for Rohingyas

NEW 
STRAITSTIMES
By NST - March 13, 2019 @ 8:54am

THE Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan Foundation, through the United Arab Emirates (UAE) embassy in Malaysia, presented education aid worth RM300,000 to students from the Rohingya community living in Malaysia yesterday.