All out efforts sought to solve Rohingya crisis

Dhaka Tribune
Kamrul Hasan
Published at June 30th, 2019

File photo of Rohingya refugees gather as hundreds of them protest against the repatriation at the Unchiprang camp in Teknaf, Bangladesh on Thursday; November 15, 2018 Reuters

'We are yet to see our expected solution in sending the Rohingya people back to their country in a safe, and sound condition'

Alongside the continuing bilateral approaches, Bangladesh needs to make effective use of the international instruments to ensure safe return of Rohingyas to their homeland, rights activists, and security experts have advised.

ရခိုင်နဲ့ ချင်း Internet ပြန်ဖွင့်ပေးဖို့ ကန် တောင်းဆို

VOA
ဗွီအိုအေ (မြန်မာပိုင်း)
30 ဇွန်၊ 2019

 ရခိုင်ပြည်နယ် မြောက်ဦးမြို့ရှိ ရှေးဟောင်းစေတီပုထိုးများ (နိုဝင်ဘာ၊ ၀၈၊ ၂၀၁၂)

တိုက်ပွဲတွေ ဖြစ်နေတဲ့ ရခိုင်နဲ့ ချင်းပြည်နယ်တွင်းက ဒေသတွေမှာ မြန်မာ အစိုးရဘက်က အင်တာနက်ဖြတ်တောက်ထားတာကို အမြန်ဆုံး ပြန်ပြီး ဖွင့်ပေးဖို့ အမေရိကန်က စနေနေ့မှာ တိုက်တွန်းလိုက်ပါတယ်။

Why the UN failed to save the Rohingya

Al Jazeera
by Joshua Carroll

28 Jun 2019

Insiders say UN sought to downplay criticism of Myanmar and was hamstrung by China, Russia opposition to firm response.

A Rohingya refugee and her children wade ashore after crossing the Bangladesh-Myanmar border by boat in September 2017 [File: Mohammad Ponir Hossain/Reuters]

Yangon, Myanmar - When Liam Mahony travelled to Myanmar to advise the United Nations on its handling of the Rohingya crisis, the dozens of aid workers he spoke to were almost unanimous in their appraisal of the organisation's approach.

Their view, the researcher recalls, was "this was all screwed up... this was not going to help the Rohingya population".

တပ်မတော်စစ်ကြောင်းဝင်လာ၍ မင်းပြားမြို့နယ် မင်းဖူးကျေးရွာသားများ စိုးရိမ်နေ

DVB
By ဒီဗွီဘီ
30 June 2019

ရခိုင်ပြည်နယ်၊ မင်းပြားမြို့နယ် မင်းဖူးကျေးရွာကို ဒီကနေ့ မနက် ပိုင်း ၁၀ နာရီဝန်းကျင် လောက်က တပ်မေ တာ်စစ်ကြောင်းတခုဝင်လာတာကြောင့် ကျေးရွာသားတွေက စိုးရိမ်ထိတ်လန့် နေကြတယ်လို့ ကျေးရွာသား တွေနဲ့ လွှတ်တော်ကိုယ်စားလှယ်တွေက ဒီဗွီဘီကိုပြောပါတယ်။

( 30.06.2019) New Light of Myanmar

Mushahid announces parliamentary forum on Palestine, Kashmir & Rohingya

International 
THE NEWS
June 29, 2019

Islamabad: Chairman of Senate Foreign Relations Committee Senator Mushahid Hussain Sayed has said that the unholy Indo-Israeli alliance has put regional and global peace at stake and this anti-Muslim nexus has crossed all the limits and norms of a civilised society by brutally violating human rights and suppressing the voices for freedom in Indian occupied Kashmir and Israeli Occupied Palestine, says a press release.

Britain training monstrous Myanmar military

BLiTZ
Vijaya Laxmi Tripura
June 29, 2019

 

Despite the fact of the Burmese military having an appalling human rights record, Britain has been giving training to this monstrous regiment at the cost of British tax-payers.

In September 2017, a group of 157 MPs called on the then Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson to halt Britain’s military training in Myanmar, which cost the UK around £305,000 in the previous year. Although in response, Mr Jhonson said, Britain was not giving any combat training to the Myanmar military. Rather it was educating them on democracy, leadership and the English language.

ရသေ့တောင်မြို့နယ်မြောက်ပိုင်းတွင် မိုင်းပေါက်ကွဲသံ နှင့်အတူ ပစ်ခတ်သံများကြား၍ ရွာသားထောင်နှင့် ချီပြီးထွက်ပြေးတိမ်းရှောင်

နိရဉ္စရာ၊
 ဇွန် ၂၉/ ၂ဝ၁၉

 ရခိုင်ပြည်နယ် ရသေ့တောင်မြို့နယ် မြောက်ပိုင်း ကျောက်တန်းနှင့် လိုင်ဂွင်အကြား တံတားအနီးတွင် မိုင်း ပေါက်ကွဲသံများနှင့် အတူ လက်နက်ကြီး လက်နက်ငယ်သံ ပစ်ခတ်သံကြားရ၍ ရွာသားများ ထောင်နှင့်ချီပြီး ထွက်ပြေးတိမ်းရှောင်ခဲ့ကြရသည်ဟု သတင်းရရှိသည်။

US Congressman proposes to bring Rakhine under BD

Daily Bangladesh
International Deskdaily-bangladesh.com
Published: June 2019

A Congressman of the United States has proposed bringing the Rakhine state of Myanmar under the Bangladesh territory, arguing that Naypyidaw has failed to protect its nationals in that area.

The Congressman Bradley James Sherman made the proposal in the Congress during a hearing on the budget for South Asia on June 13, urging the US State Department to consider the matter.

Referring to the US supporting the split of South Sudan from Sudan, he asked why the government will not take a similar step about Myanmar for the protection of the civil rights of Rohingya people in Rakhine.

Engaging honorary consuls in Rohingya repatriation

NEWAGE

M Serajul Islam
Article 
Published:  Jun 29,2019

A file photo shows Rohingya refugees queue for aid in Cox’s Bazar in September 2017. — New Age/Reuters  

A RECENT appeal of the foreign minister to honorary consuls at home and abroad ‘to engage their respective governments and civil societies to facilitate the repatriation of Rohingya refugees’ surprised many. The minister exposed his lack of knowledge about honorary consuls in making the appeal. The honorary consuls are not diplomats. They pursue their normal professions and provide services for the embassies of the countries that appoint them as facilitators on a voluntary basis. Their role is limited mainly to providing protocol assistance to the embassies and promote the interest of their countries in matters of trade, commerce, consular affairs, tourism, et cetera.

Myanmar crackdown: Lessons from recent history

THE ASEAN POST
Sheith Khidhir

29 June 2019 

In this file photo taken on 27 March, 2019, Myanmar's soldiers march in a formation during a parade to mark the country's 74th Armed Forces Day in Naypyidaw. (AFP Photo)

On 21 June, the government of Myanmar ordered mobile phone operators in the country to shut down all Internet data across at least eight townships in Rakhine and one in neighbouring Chin state. United Nations (UN) Special Rapporteur to Myanmar, Yanghee Lee expressed serious concern regarding the blackout, saying that it could be cover for "gross human rights violations" in an area where a brutal army crackdown has already forced hundreds of thousands of Rohingya to flee.

The military is locked in a battle with the Arakan Army (AA), insurgents fighting for more autonomy for the region's ethnic Rakhine Buddhists.

ရခိုင်အရေးကြောင့် သွေးမကွဲစေလိုပါ

The Voice Journal
by The Voice Journal
Jun 29, 2018

ရခိုင်အရေးကား ရှုပ်ထွေးလှသည်။ သို့သော် မရှင်းလို့ကလည်း မဖြစ်။ ဘိုးဘွားအမွေ ဖြစ်နေသည်။ အချုပ်အခြာအာဏာက ဘိုးဘွားအမွေဖြစ်သလို ပြဿနာကလည်း ဘိုးဘွားအမွေဟု ဆိုရလောက်အောင် ပင် အစဉ်အဆက်ကတည်းက ဖြစ်ခဲ့သောပြဿနာတစ်ခု။ ထို့ကြောင့် မဖြစ်မနေတော့ ရှင်းကြရပေလိမ့်မည်။ အထူးသတိချပ်ရမည်မှာ ပြဿနာကိုရှင်းရင်း ပြဿနာမတက်ကြဖို့ဖြစ်သည်။

Bring Rakhine under BD -The Asian Age

The Asian Age 

29th June 2019

Kazi Nazrul Islam Ave, Dhaka

A Congressman of the United States has proposed bringing Rakhine state of Myanmar under the Bangladesh territory, arguing that Naypyidaw has failed to protect its nationals in that area.Bradley James Sherman made the proposal in the Congress during a hearing on the budget for South Asia on June 13, urging the US State Department to consider the matter.

Referring to the US supporting the split of South Sudan from Sudan, he asked why the government will not take similar step about Myanmar for the protection of the civil rights of Rohingya people in Rakhine.Sherman, the chairman of the Subcommittee on Asia, the Pacific of the Congress, described as genocide the atrocities Myanmar forces had unleashed against the Rohingyas, the Muslim minority in the predominately Buddhist country.

Bangladesh highlights UN’s failure to prevent atrocities in Myanmar

The Daily Star
June 29, 2019

A Rohingya refugee repairs the roof of his shelter at the Balukhali refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, March 5, 2019. Reuters file photo

The Permanent Representative (PR) of Bangladesh Ambassador Masud Bin Momen has highlighted the UN's systematic failure to prevent atrocities in Rakhaine state of Myanmar.

He referred to the recent report on 'Independent inquiry into the involvement of the UN in Myanmar from 2010 to 2018' of Gert Rosenthal, the former Guatemalan Foreign Affairs Minister.

PM’s China Visit: Dhaka wants stronger role of Beijing on Rohingya

The Daily Star
 June 29, 2019

Dhaka is expecting Beijing, a close ally of Myanmar, to play a more effective role in addressing the Rohingya crisis as Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina visits China from July 1-5.

“We hope Rohingya issue will get prominence during her visit. We have high hopes to see progress in this regard,” Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen said at a press briefing at his ministry yesterday.

Bangladesh seeks more Chinese support to Rohingya issue

AA

Md. Kamruzzaman | 

DHAKA, Bangladesh

28.06.2019 

China, Russia and India now mostly standing in favor of Bangladesh in Rohingya issue, Dhaka's top diplomat claims 

 

Bangladesh will ask more support from China on the issue of safe and dignified repatriation of Rohingya Muslim to their own land in Myanmar, an official said Friday.

"We are hopeful that we will get China’s full support to pressurize Myanmar to return their citizens [Rohingya] with safety and dignity”, Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen told reporters in Dhaka while briefing about Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's upcoming visit to Beijing.

( 29.06.2019 ) New Light of Myanmar

PM to highlight Rohingya crisis during China visit

Dhaka Tribune
Tribune Desk
Published at  June 28th, 2019

File photo: Rohingya refugees gather at a market inside a refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, March 7, 2019 Reuters

Dhaka, Beijing is expected to adopt a joint statement
Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen has said, Rohingya crisis will top the agenda of discussions during Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s upcoming visit to China from July 2 to 6.

“The Rohingya issue will come up as a major topic during the prime minister’s visit … we do believe, after that, Beijing will take a ‘proactive role’ in resolving the crisis [Rohingya repatriation],” he said at a press briefing at the Foreign Ministry yesterday.

ဒုက္ခသည်တွေ ပြန်ပို့ရေး ဘင်္ဂလားဒေ့ရှ်နဲ့ မြန်မာ အပြန် အလှန်ပြောဆိုမှုများ

RFA
လွတ်လပ်တဲ့ အာရှအသံ 
2019-06-27

ဘင်္ဂလားဒေ့ရှ်နိုင်ငံက ရိုဟင်ဂျာ ဒုက္ခသည်စခန်း။ 
Photo: AFP

                                    

ဒုက္ခသည်တွေကို ပြန်ပို့နိုင်ဖို့ ရခိုင်ပြည်နယ်မှာ နေနိုင်တဲ့ အခြေအနေ လုပ်မထားဘဲ လက်ခံဖို့ အချိန်ဆွဲ ထားတယ်လို့ ဘင်္ဂလားဒေ့ရှ်က ပြောပေမယ့် မြန်မာနိုင်ငံကတော့ လက်ခံဖို့ အဆင်သင့်ပဲလို့ ပြောပါတယ်။ သဘောတူညီချက်အတိုင်းဆိုရင် မိမိသဘောဆန္ဒအလျောက်ပြန်လာရမယ်လို့ ပါရှိပါတယ်။

အဲဒီလို ပြန်လာရမယ့် နောက်ကွယ်က အကြောင်းအရာတချို့ကို RFA ဝိုင်းတော်သူ ဒေါ်စမ်းစမ်းတင် စု စည်းတင်ပြထားပါတယ်။ 

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Canada lauds Bangladesh for sheltering Rohingyas

The Daily Star
June 28, 2019

Expresses concern over lack of democratic space, rights situation

While Canada lauds Bangladesh for sheltering Rohingyas, it remains concerned about a lack of democratic space and human rights issues in the country, said Canadian High Commissioner to Dhaka Benoit Préfontaine yesterday.

“We note that there are human rights issues which we do raise with the government time to time. We remain concerned about a lack of democratic space in the country, enforced disappearances, and workers’ rights,” he said.