Call for end to persecution as Rohingya refugees demand justice on ‘black day’

bdnews24.com
Masum Billah, bdnews24.com
Published: 25 Aug 2019

Thousands of Rohingya Muslims started to gather on a muddy field next to the largest refugee camp of the world, Kutupalong in Cox’s Bazar, under the sweltering sun after rains on Sunday morning, the second anniversary of the start of a Myanmar army operation dubbed ‘ethnic cleansing’

Myanmar: Crimes Against Rohingya Go Unpunished

HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH

 



August 22, 2019

                         Address Causes of Crisis, Cooperate With UN

Rohingya refugees gather behind a barbed-wire fence in the “no-man’s land” border zone between Myanmar and Bangladesh, April 25, 2018.
© 2018 Ye Aung Thu/AFP/Getty Images

(Bangkok) – The Myanmar government should stop obstructing international efforts to investigate widespread crimes committed against Rohingya Muslims, Human Rights Watch said today. Donors and concerned governments should press Myanmar to protect their basic rights, facilitate international justice for victims, and ensure that any returns of Rohingya refugees are voluntary, safe, and dignified.

Two years after the Rohingya genocide, name the crime and stop suggesting sham returns

JEWISH WORLD WIDE
August 23, 2019
Ann Strimov Durbin

 Rohingya children living in a Jewish World Watch-funded bamboo shelter in a refugee camp in Bangladesh. Photos by Rares Michael Ghilezan  

The Rohingya suffered genocide at the hands of their own homeland’s military. This Sunday, Aug. 25, marks the two-year anniversary of the brutal crackdown against this long-persecuted minority group by the Myanmar (Burmese) military and security apparatus known as the Tatmadaw. The “clearance operations” unleashed on that day left tens of thousands killed and raped, and entire villages pillaged and burned to the ground. The crackdown — the apotheosis of a carefully calculated and long-developing genocidal plan against the Rohingya — also triggered a mass exodus of approximately 750,000 people to neighboring Bangladesh.

Today, nearly 1 million Rohingya remain in Bangladesh, living in sprawling, squalid and fetid camps — the majority of them women and children. They are stateless because of their native Myanmar’s refusal to recognize them as citizens, leaving them trapped in a protracted limbo between the urge to return to a homeland where they would face near-certain annihilation and their inability to assimilate into Bangladesh, an impoverished country incapable of absorbing them and eager for them to leave.

Omar Faruk murder: 2 Rohingyas killed in Cox’s Bazar 'gunfight'

The Daily Star  

Star Online Report
August 24, 2019

Two Rohingya people, also accused of Jubo League leader Omar Faruk murder case, are killed in a reported gunfight with police in Cox’s Bazar on August 24, 2019. This is an undated photo of Jubo League leader Omar Faruk. Photo: Collected

Two Rohingya people, also accused of Jubo League leader Omar Faruk murder case, were killed in a reported gunfight with police in Cox’s Bazar early today.

Deceased Muhammad Shah and Abdu Shukkur were residents of Zadimura Rohingya refugee camp at Hnila union of the district’s Teknaf upazila, our Cox's Bazar correspondent reports.

UN expert: No peace in Myanmar if no military prosecutions

AP

EDITH M. LEDERER
24 August 2019


UNITED NATIONS (AP) — There will be no long-term peace in Myanamar and no return of Rohingya refugees unless there is accountability for the “brutality” of the Asian country’s military forces, a member of the U.N. Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Myanmar said Friday.

Radhika Coomaraswamy, a Sri Lankan lawyer who is one of the mission’s three international experts, told an informal Security Council meeting on accountability in Myanmar that the commission believes a domestic judicial process is not possible at this time.

ရိုဟင်ဂျာဒုက္ခသည်တွေ လူမှောင်ခိုအန္တရာယ် သတိ ထား ဖို့ IOM ပြော

RFA
လွတ်လပ်တဲ့ အာရှအသံ
23 August 2019

■ ဘင်္ဂလားဒေ့ရှ်နိုင်ငံ ဒုက္ခသည်စခန်းတွေက ရိုဟင်ဂျာတွေအတွက် လူမှောင်ခိုဂိုဏ်းတွေရဲ့ အန္တရာယ် ရှိ နေတယ်လို့ နိုင်ငံတကာ ရွှေ့ပြောင်းနေထိုင်သူများဆိုင်ရာအဖွဲ့ IOM က သတိပေးလိုက်တယ်လို့ ရိုက်တာ သတင်းတစ်ပုဒ်မှာ မနေ့က ဖော်ပြပါတယ်။

မြန်မာ့တပ်မတော်နဲ့ပတ်သက်လို့ လုံခြုံရေးကောင်စီ အဖွဲ့ဝင်တွေဆွေးနွေး

RFA
လွတ်လပ်တဲ့ အာရှအသံ
2019-08-23

အမေရိကန် ပြည်ထောင်စု နယူးယောက်မြို့က ကုလသမဂ္ဂရုံးမှာ ၂ဝ၁၉ ခုနှစ် သြဂုတ်လ ၂၂ ရက်နေ့က ကျင်းပတဲ့ သတင်းစာရှင်းလင်းပွဲမှာ တွေ့ရတဲ့ FFM အဖွဲ့ဝင် ရာဒီကာကုမာရဆွာမိ။
Screen shot: UN Web TV

မြန်မာ့တပ်မတော်ရဲ့ လူ့အခွင့်အရေးချိုးဖောက်မှုတွေ၊ လိင်ပိုင်းဆိုင်ရာအကြမ်းဖက်မှုတွေကို ဘယ်လိုအရေး ယူဆောင်ရွက်သင့်လဲ ဆိုတဲ့အကြောင်း ကုလသမဂ္ဂလုံခြုံရေးကောင်စီ အဖွဲ့ဝင်တွေဖြစ်တဲ့ ဂျာမဏီ၊ ပီရူးနဲ့ ကူဝိတ်နိုင်ငံတို့ ကမကထပြုလုပ်ပြီး အဖွဲ့ဝင်နိုင်ငံ ကိုယ်စားလှယ်တွေက မြန်မာ့အရေး ဆောင်ရွက်နေတဲ့ နိုင်ငံတကာ NGO တွေနဲ့အတူ နယူးယောက်မြို့က ကုလသမဂ္ဂရုံးချုပ်မှာ မနေ့ နေ့လယ်က ဆွေးနွေး ကြပါတယ်။

ပိတ်ဆို့မှုတွေတိုးလုပ်ဖို့ ကန်အစိုးရကို ဘာသာရေး လွတ်လပ်ခွင့်ကော်မရှင် တိုက်တွန်း

RFA
လွတ်လပ်တဲ့ အာရှအသံ 
2019-08-24

ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာအမ်ိဳးသမီး ဒုကၡသည္မ်ား။

Photo: AFP

■ ကုလသမဂ္ဂ လွတ်လပ်တဲ့ အချက်အလက်ရှာဖွေဖော်ထုတ်ရေးမစ်ရှင် FFM အဖွဲ့က သြဂုတ် ၂၃ ရက်နေ့ က ထုတ်ပြန်တဲ့ အစီအရင်ခံစာမှာ မြန်မာ့တပ်မတော်လုံခြုံရေးတပ်ဖွဲ့တွေက ရိုဟင်ဂျာမွတ်စလင်တွေနဲ့ တ ခြားသူတွအပေါ် လိင်ပိုင်းဆိုင်ရာ အကြမ်းဖက်မှုတွေ ကျူးလွန်ခဲ့တာနဲ့ တချို့ဒေသတွေမှာ ဆက်လက် ကျူး လွန်နေတာဟာ တပ်မ တော်ရဲ့ လူမျိုးတုံးဖယ်ရှားရေး ရည်ရွယ်ချက်ကို ဖော်ပြနေတယ်လို့ အမေရိ ကန် ပြည်ထောင်စု နိုင်ငံတကာဘာသာရေးလွတ်လပ်ခွင့် ကော်မရှင် USCIRF က မနေ့က ကြေညာချက် ထုတ် ပြန် ပြောကြားလိုက်ပါတယ်။

Rohingya woman's NID data in EC’s server

Dhaka Tribune
Bilkis Irani
August 23rd, 2019

File photo of Nirbachan Bhaban, which houses the offices of the Election Commission and its secretariat, in Dhaka's Agargaon Syed Zakir Hossain/Dhaka Tribune

EC to investigate duplicitous data entry

Recently, a Rohingya woman's national identity card (NID) was created using a fake name and address in Hathazari, Chittagong. Even her information is stored in the Election Commission's (EC) database.

According to the EC, this Rohingya woman’s name is Ramjan Bibi but she used her name as one ‘Lucky’ and apparently created fake national identity card.

Govt has failed diplomatically on Rohingya issue: BNP

bdnews24.com
Senior Correspondent, bdnews24.com
Published: 23 Aug 2019

Senior BNP leader Ruhul Kabir Rizvi says the government has diplomatically failed to repatriate forcibly displaced Rohingyas to Myanmar from Bangladesh.

He made the remarks at an event in Dhaka on Friday, a day after a second attempt to repatriate the Rohingyas fell flat following first attempt made in November last year.

Dhaka seeks strong global response to resolve Rohingya crisis

Dhaka Tribune

UNB
August 23rd, 2019

Rohingya people line up to be interviewed for the repatriation to Myanmar outside the office of the camp-in-charge in Shalbagan refugee camp, Cox's Bazar on Wednesday, August 21, 2019 Syed Zakir Hossain/Dhaka Tribune

Myanmar must convince its nationals to return, says foreign minister

Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen has said that Bangladesh will take a tougher position over the Rohingya issue saying the global leadership must resolve it quickly to ensure greater peace and stability in the region.

Dhaka seeks strong global response to resolve Rohingya crisis

dailySun
UNB
23rd August, 2019

Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen on Friday said Bangladesh will take a tougher position over Rohingya issue saying the global leadership must resolve it quickly to ensure greater peace and stability in the region.

“We tried our best, we worked as per your suggestions but finally it (repatriation) didn’t happen. We’ll make our position stronger,” he said. The Foreign Minister was talking to reporters after a discussion titled “15 August and Its Impact on Bangladesh” at Bangabandhu Memorial Trust auditorium organised by Awami League’s international affairs sub-committee.

BNP blames govt for failure to repatriate Rohingyas

daily Sun
UNB
23rd August, 2019

BNP on Friday alleged that the government has diplomatically failed to initiate the repartition of Rohingyas to their homeland in Myanmar.

“The government couldn’t do anything to start the repatriation of Rohingyas. It's been a long time since they (Rohingyas) came here, but you (govt) couldn't still send any of them,” said BNP senior joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi. He further said, “It’s an utter failure. You’ve failed diplomatically to send the Rohingyas back.”

Locals storm Rohingya camp after Jubo League leader’s murder

daily Sun
Sun Online Desk
23rd August, 2019

Hundreds of agitated locals stormed a Rohingya camp and vandalised makeshift houses and NGO offices following the murder of a local Jubo League leader in Teknaf.

They burned tyres and plastic boxes to block a five-kilometre road from Teknaf municipality to Leda Point in Cox’s Bazar for three hours. The residence of Rohingya leader Noor Mohammad was also torched. Pradip Kumar Das, officer-in-charge of Teknaf Police Station, said they persuaded the agitated locals to end their blockade around 3:00 pm assuring them of arresting the killers and bringing them to justice.

Unelected government faces diplomatic failure to repatriate Rohingyas: BNP

daily Sun
Sun Online Desk
24th August, 2019

BNP on Friday alleged that the government has diplomatically failed to initiate the repartition of Rohingyas to their homeland in Myanmar.

BNP vice Chairman Abdul Awal Mitoo said the government is not serious about sending back Rohingyas to their homeland Rakhine state in Myanmar. Mentioning that the ruling government an unelected one, the BNP leader said the government failed to mount global pressure over Myanmar authority to take back their people from Bangladesh. He also said the incumbent government has not been getting enough global support over this crucial situation as they were not an elected government.

Myanmar blames Rohingya repatriation failure on Bangladesh!

daily sun
AFP
23rd August, 2019

 Myanmar on Friday pushed blame for its second failed attempt to repatriate the Rohingya on Bangladesh, a day after not a single refugee turned up to return to conflict-scarred Rakhine state.

The Myanmar military waged a brutal crackdown on the stateless Muslim minority in western Rakhine state, leading to an exodus of more than 740,000 Rohingya to neighbouring Bangladesh. The region remains riven by religious and ethnic conflict.

“Rohingys” gun down Jubo League leader in Cox’s Bazar

Asian Age Online
Asian Age Online 
23 August 2019

A Jubo League leader was shot dead reportedly by Rohingyas at Jadimura in Teknaf upazila on Thursday night.

The victim was identified as Omar Faruk, 30, president of ward No 9 unit of Jubo League and son of Abdul Monaf.

Myanmar must be ‘accommodative’ to convince Rohingyas to go back, says Bangladesh FM

bdnews24.com
Senior Correspondent
bdnews24.com

23 Aug 2019 

Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen has called on Myanmar to be “accommodative” towards the demands of Rohingyas so that they get the confidence to return home.

“We are still hopeful,” he said on Friday, a day after a second failed attempt to start the repatriation of Rohingyas, two years after 700,000 Myanmar nationals fled ‘ethnic cleansing’ in the Rakhine State and took shelter in Cox’s Bazar.

သြဂုတ် ၂၂ ရက်နေ့မှာ ရိုဟင်ဂျာတွေ မပြန်နိုင်သေး တာကို မြန်မာဘက်က ကြိုသိခဲ့

B B C
ဘီဘီစီ မြန်မာပိုင်း 
23 ဩဂုတ် 2019

ရခိုင်ပြည်မြောက်ပိုင်း ပဋိပက္ခတွေကြောင့် ဘင်္ဂလားဒေ့ရှ် နိုင်ငံဘက်အခြမ်း ထွက်ပြေးခဲ့ရတဲ့ ရိုဟင်ဂျာ တွေ ထဲက စိစစ်ပြီးသား ဒုက္ခသည် ၃၄၅၀ ကို သြဂုတ်လ ၂၂ ရက်နေ့မှာ ပြန်လာဖို့ မြန်မာနဲ့ ဘင်္ဂလား ဒေ့ရှ်အကြား သဘောတူထားခဲ့ကြပေမယ့် သတ်မှတ်ထားတဲ့နေ့မှာ ဒုက္ခသည် တစ်ဦးတစ်ယောက်မှ ပြန်မလာနိုင်ခဲ့ကြ ပါ ဘူး။

ရိုဟင်ဂျာ ပြန်ပို့ရေးအစီအစဉ် ကုလဝေဖန်

VOA
ဗွီအိုအေ (မြန်မာဌာနဗွီဒီယို
23 သြဂုတ်၊ 2019
ကိုရန်နိုင်

 
 ဘင်္ဂလားဒေ့ရှ်နိုင်ငံဘက်ကို ထွက်ပြေးသွားကြတဲ့ ရိုဟင်ဂျာဒုက္ခသည်တွေ နေရပ်ပြန်နိုင်ဖို့အတွက် မြန်မာနိုင်ငံဘက်က အခြေအနေတွေက အဆင်သင့်မဖြစ်သေးဘူးလို့ ကုလသမဂ္ဂက ပြောလိုက်ပါတယ်။ အခု သီ တင်းပတ်ကစပြီး ဒုက္ခသည်တွေကို မြန်မာဘက်က လက်ခံဖို့ လုပ်ဆောင်ခဲ့ပေမယ့်လည်း၊ ဒုက္ခသည် တွေ တစ်ယောက်မှ ပြန်လာခြင်းမရှိတဲ့နောက် ကုလသမဂ္ဂဘက်က အဲဒီလို ပြောလိုက်တာ ဖြစ်ပါတယ်။ ဒုက္ခ သည်တွေကတော့ သူတို့ရဲ့ အခွင့်အရေးတွေ အပြည့်အ၀ မရမချင်း မြန်မာနိုင်ငံကို မပြန်ဘူးလို့ ပြော ပါ တယ်။ ရိုက်တာသတင်းဌာနရဲ့ ဆောင်း ပါးကို အခြေခံပြီး ကိုရန်နိုင်က ပြောပြပေးမှာဖြစ်ပါတယ်

 

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