OPINION: ‘I escaped genocide but I cannot escape Australia’s immigration policies’

SBS Dateline
By JN Joniad
23 September 2019
 

In 1982, the Myanmar government introduced regulations denying citizenship to anyone who could not prove Burmese ancestry dating back to 1823. Now, the United Nations has officially called Rohingya a ‘stateless’ ethnicity. As of today, nearly one million Rohingyans have fled to Bangladesh since Myanmar’s military began ethnic cleansing. JN Joniad, a Rohingya man, told Dateline his story. 

 

In Myanmar, I was given a ‘White Card’. I needed this card to travel within my own town. I was banned from going to other cities and I couldn’t get a passport. I had, effectively, a temporary residency permit in my own country.

Rohingya repatriation: UK welcomes Chinese initiative

Dhaka Tribune
Humayun Kabir Bhuiyan
September 23rd, 2019

File photo of British High Commissioner to Bangladesh Robert Chatterton Dickson Courtesy

Pressure on Myanmar to continue, says UK envoy

The United Kingdom has welcomed the Chinese initiative to help the safe, secure and dignified repatriation of hundreds of thousands of Rohingyas back to their homes in Rakhine.

“What we see is greater Chinese engagement in the situation. What I would say...I think what we have seen a greater Chinese engagement. China has enormous influence (on Myanmar),” British high commissioner in Dhaka Robert Chatterton Dickson told a press conference at his residence yesterday.

Former darling of the west has fallen from grace

NEW

STRAITSTIMES

By Salleh Buang

September 22, 2019

THE New York Times reported on Tuesday that Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi, once the darling of the West and an icon of democracy, has fallen from grace.

Quoting United Nations investigators, the report said she could be prosecuted for crimes against humanity and genocide because of the military’s attacks on Rohingya Muslims and other minority groups.

Tripartite repatriation talks scheduled at UN

MYANMAR TIMES

Nyan Lynn Aung  

23 Sep 2019

Myanmar, Bangladesh and China will meet to discuss the repatriation of Muslim refugees from Bangladesh on Monday on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly, according to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

The ministry said the meeting will focus on resolving issues that hamper the repatriation of the more than 700,000 Muslim refugees who have fled from northern Rakhine State to Bangladesh since August 2017.  

How Myanmar’s Military Chief Could Become President

The Irrawaddy
Commentary
By Kyaw Zwa Moe  
23 September 2019 

Myanmar military commander-in-chief Senior General Min Aung Hlaing attends a military exercise in the Irrawaddy delta region on Feb. 3, 2018. / REUTERS

Have you ever entertained the notion that Myanmar’s military chief, Senior General Min Aung Hlaing, could be the president of the country after the 2020 election? No one should underestimate him, as politics here are more unpredictable than anywhere. Still, the possibility depends on at least one big “IF”.

The commander-in-chief could be the president, IF—as I said—the Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP), formed by the ex-military regime and still the key ally of the military, and its allied parties win 26 percent of the seats in the bicameral Union Parliament.

ေပါင္စတာလင္ ၈၇ သန္း ႐ုိဟင္ဂ်ာအတြက္ ၿဗိတိန္ ထပ္လွဴ မည္

VOA

ဗြီအိုုေအ (ျမန္မာဌာန)

23 စက္တင္ဘာ၊ 2019

ဘဂၤလားေဒ့ရွ္ႏုိင္ငံ ေကာ့ဇ္ဘဇားရွိ ဒုကၡသည္စခန္းတခုအတြင္းမွ ႐ုိဟင္ဂ်ာဒုကၡသည္အခ်ဳိ႕။ (ဧၿပီ ၂၄၊ ၂၀၁၉)

ဘဂၤလားေဒရွ္႕ႏုိင္ငံ ေကာ့ဇ္ဘဇားက ႐ုိဟင္ဂ်ာ ဒုကၡသည္ေတြအတြက္ ၿဗိတိန္ႏုိင္ငံက စတာလင္ေပါင္ ၈၇ သန္း ထပ္မံေပးအပ္မယ္လို႔ တနဂၤေႏြေန႔မွာပဲ ေၾကညာလိုက္ၿပီး ၂၀၁၇ ခုႏွစ္ ၾသဂုတ္လ ႐ုိဟင္ဂ်ာပဋိပကၡ စတင္ၿပီးေနာက္ပိုင္း ၿဗိတိန္ရဲ႕ ေထာက္ပံ့မႈက စတာလင္ေပါင္ ၂၂၆ သန္းထိ ရွိသြားၿပီ ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။

Naive to think Suu Kyi will now back Rohingyas’ cause

Arab News
Dr. Azeem Ibrahim
September 22, 2019

Aung San Suu Kyi. (AP)

The UN Special Rapporteur for Human Rights in Myanmar, Yanghee Lee, last week appealed to Aung San Suu Kyi to “open your eyes, listen, feel with your heart, and please use your moral authority before it is too late.” Prof. Lee was referring to a newly published report by the UN on the risk to the hundreds of thousands of Rohingya still remaining in Myanmar, who were described as being at “serious risk of genocide.”

ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာကိစၥ နိုင္ငံေတာ္အတိုင္ပင္ခံကို တရားစြဲနိုင္သလား၊ အခ်က္အလက္ ရွာေဖြေရးအဖြဲ႕ဝင္နဲ႔ ေမးျမန္းခ်က္

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ဘီဘီစီ ၿမန္မာပိုင္း

22 September 2019

ျမန္မာျပည္ အေနာက္ပိုင္းက ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာေတြ သိန္းခ်ီ ထြက္ေျပးခဲ့ရတဲ့ကိစၥ ျဖစ္ခဲ့တာ ႏွစ္ႏွစ္ ရွိခဲ့ပါၿပီ။ လူ ခုနစ္သိန္းေက်ာ္ အိုးအိမ္စြန္႔ခြာ ေျပးခဲ့ရၿပီး လူ တေသာင္းေလာက္ သတ္ျဖတ္ ခံခဲ့ရတယ္လို႔ ဆိုပါတယ္။

မႏွစ္ကစၿပီး ကုလသမဂၢ ဖြဲ႕ေပးတဲ့ အခ်က္အလက္ ရွာေဖြေရး အဖြဲ႕ က ျမန္မာ့တပ္မေတာ္ကို လူမ်ိဳးတုံး သတ္ျဖတ္မႈေတြ က်ဴးလြန္တယ္ ဆိုၿပီး စြပ္စြဲခဲ့ပါတယ္။

ဒီရွာေဖြေရးအဖြဲ႕က သူတို႔ လုပ္ငန္းစဥ္ေတြ အၿပီးသတ္ ေနခ်ိန္မွာပဲ ျမန္မာ အရပ္သား ေခါင္းေဆာင္ ေဒၚေ အာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ကို တရားစြဲေရး ျဖစ္လာနိုင္သလား ေျပာဆိုတာေတြ ရွိလာပါတယ္။

What the Rohingya presence means for us

Dhaka Tribune

Muhammad Zamir
September 22nd, 2019

MAHMUD HOSSAIN OPU

Is there salvation on the horizon?

Injustice, communal hatred, and racial discrimination have persisted in Myanmar because the Myanmar administration does not bother to be consistent with international law and human rights regulations. They have dictated their own terms, followed their own hacked grammar of life, and disregarded accepted norms of behaviour.

Letter to the editor: Bangladesh envoy on Rohingya

ASIATIMES

By Mohammad Ziauddin
September 22, 2019

In her September 18 column Bangladesh does about-face on Rohingya, Sabria Chowdury Balland mischaracterizes Bangladesh’s handling of the Rohingya refugee crisis. Since 2017, 740,000 Rohingya refugees have fled to Bangladesh bringing the total number of refugees in the country to well over a million. Bangladesh generously gave them sanctuary and extended every public service it could to help them survive their ordeal, asking for nothing in return.

Balland cynically claims that Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina undertook this sprawling effort to win praise as a humanitarian. This false assertion ignores her personal history and the history of Bangladesh.

RFA စကားဝိုင်း အစီအစဉ် “တပ်ချုပ်လှုပ်ရှားမှုရဲ့ လားရာ”

RFA

လွတ်လပ်တဲ့ အာရှအသံ

21 September 2019

■ လွတ်လပ်တဲ့အာရှအသံ RFA က အပတ်စဉ် စနေနေ့ နေ့လယ် ၂ နာရီကနေ ၂ နာရီ ၄၅ မိနစ်အထိ “RFA စကားဝိုင်း” (Call-in Show) အစီအစဉ်ကို ထုတ်လွှင့်သွားမှာဖြစ်ပါတယ်။

ဒီတစ်ပတ်မှာ “တပ်ချုပ်လှုပ်ရှားမှုရဲ့ လားရာ” ခေါင်းစဉ်နဲ့ ဆွေးနွေးမှာဖြစ်ပြီး အငြိမ်းစား ဗိုလ်မှူး ဝင်းနိုင် ကျော်၊ Mosaic Myanmar အဖွဲ့ အမှုဆောင်ဒါရိုက်တာ ဦးအောင်ကိုကို နဲ့ ခေတ်ရနံ့မဂ္ဂဇင်း အယ်ဒီတာ ချုပ် ဦးပြည် သွေးနိုင် တို့က ဦးဆောင်ဆွေးနွေးမှာ ဖြစ်ပါတယ်။

 

Rohingya refugees face mobile phone blackouts

Aljazeera
21 September 2019

The Bangladeshi government orders ban on the sale of SIM cards to a million Rohingya in the world’s biggest refugee camp. 

Last week, we received a WhatsApp message from a Rohingya refugee in Bangladesh. It may have been one of the last messages he could send.

ျမန္မာအေပၚ ႏိုင္ငံတကာတရားစီရင္ေရး အလားအလာ

VOA

ဗြီအိုုေအ (ျမန္မာဌာန)

20 September 2019

ၿမန္မာႏိုင္ငံမွာ လူ႔အခြင့္အေရး ခ်ဳိးေဖာက္၊ ဖိႏွိပ္မႈေတြ ေျဖရွင္းႏိုင္ျခင္းမရွိပဲ အခ်ိန္ ၾကာေလေလ ေဒၚေ အာင္ ဆန္းစုၾကည္ ဦးေဆာင္တဲ့ အရပ္သားအစိုးရအေနနဲ႔ ႏိုင္ငံတကာ ရာဇ၀တ္မႈမွာ တာ၀န္ရွိသူေတြ အျဖစ္ က ေန ရုန္းထြက္ႏိုင္ဖို႔ လမ္းမရွိေလ ျဖစ္လာေနေၾကာင္း ကုလသမဂၢစံုစမ္းစစ္ေဆးေရးမွဴးေတြက သတိေပး ေၿပာဆိုခဲ့ၾကပါတယ္။

ေျမာက္ပုိင္းမဟာမိတ္ သံုးဖြဲ႕ ၂၀၁၉ ႏွစ္ကုန္ထိ အပစ္ရပ္ သက္တမ္းတုိး

RFA 
လြတ္လပ္တဲ့ အာရွအသံ

20 September 2019

( ေျမာက္ပိုင္းမဟာမိတ္ေလးဖြဲ႔နဲ႔ အစိုးရ၊ တပ္ကိုယ္စားလွယ္ေတြတို႔ ရွမ္းျပည္နယ္အေရွ႕ပုိင္း က်ိဳင္းတုံၿမိဳ႕ မွာ ၂၀၁၉၊ စက္တင္ဘာ ၁၇ ရက္ေန႔က ေတြ႕ဆုံေဆြးေႏြးစဥ္)

■ ညီေနာင္မဟာမိတ္သုံးဖြဲ႕ျဖစ္တဲ့ တေအာင္း၊ ကုိးကန္႔နဲ႔ ရခုိင္တုိင္းရင္းသား လက္နက္ကုိင္တပ္ဖြဲ႕ေတြက တစ္ဖက္သတ္ပစ္ခတ္တုိက္ခုိက္မႈရပ္စဲသည့္ကာလကုိ ထပ္မံသက္တမ္းတုိးေၾကာင္း ဒီကေန႔ သတင္း ထုတ္ ၿပန္လုိက္ပါတယ္။

ရုိဟင္ဂ်ာျပႆနာ သုံးပြင့္ဆုိင္ေဆြးေႏြးပြဲ လာမယ့္အပတ္ က်င္းပမယ္

RFA
လြတ္လပ္တဲ့ အာရွအသံ
20 September 2019

(ဘဂၤလားေဒ့ရ္ွႏိုင္ငံဆိုင္ရာ တရုတ္သံအမတ္သစ္ Li Jiming နဲ႔ ေကာ့ဘဇားခရိုင္ Shalbagan ဒုကၡသည္စခန္းက ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာေခါင္းေဆာင္ေတြ ၂၀၁၉ စက္တင္ဘာ ၁၆ ရက္ေန႔ကေတြ႕ဆံုစဥ္)

■ ရုိဟင္ဂ်ာျပႆနာေျဖရွင္းေရးအတြက္ ျမန္မာ၊ ဘဂၤလားေဒ့ရွ္နဲ႔ တရုတ္ႏုိ္င္ငံတုိ႔ ပါဝင္မယ့္ သုံးပြင့္ဆုိင္ ေဆြးေႏြးပြဲကုိ လာမယ့္အပတ္အတြင္း တရုတ္ျပည္ရဲ႕ ပါဝင္ညွိႏုိ္င္းေပးမႈနဲ႔ နယူးေယာက္ၿမိဳ႕မွာ က်င္းပမယ္ လုိ႔ ဒါကာျမဳိ႕က ဒီကေန႔ လာတဲ့ သတင္းတပုဒ္မွာ ေဖၚျပထားပါတယ္။ ကုုလသမဂၢ အေထြေထြညီလာ ခံက် င္းပေ ေနစဥ္ကာလအတြင္း ညီလာခံျပင္ပမွာ အဲဒီေတြ႔ဆုံပြဲကုိ ျပဳလုပ္မွာ ျဖစ္တယ္လုိ႔ The Daily Star သ တင္းစာက ေရးပါတယ္။

ေျမာက္ဦးၿမိဳ႕နယ္မွာ လက္လုပ္မုိင္းနဲ႔အတူ ဖမ္းဆီးရမိတဲ့ အမ်ိဳးသမီး လြတ္ေျမာက္သြား

RFA
လြတ္လပ္တဲ့ အာရွအသံ
20 September 2019


■ ေျမာက္ဦးၿမိဳ႕နယ္၊ ေတာင္ဦးေက်းရြာက ေနအိမ္တခ်ိဳ႕ကို တပ္မေတာ္က ဝင္ေရာက္စစ္ေဆးရာမွာေနအိမ္ တစ္လံုးအတြင္း လက္လုပ္မိုင္းေတြ ေတြ႔တာေၾကာင့္ အိမ္ရွင္အမ်ိဳးသမီးကို ဖမ္းဆီးၿပီး တိမ္ညိဳရဲတပ္ဖြဲ႔ကုိ လႊဲေျပာင္းခဲ့ပါတယ္။

ရဲတပ္ဖြဲ႕က ဖမ္းဆီးေခၚေဆာင္လာစဥ္လမ္းမွာ ရကၡိဳင့္တပ္ေတာ္ AA နဲ႔ တိုက္ပြဲျဖစ္ပြားခဲ့ၿပီး ဖမ္းဆီးခံအမ်ိဳး သမီး လြတ္ေျမာက္သြားခဲ့ပါတယ္။


RFA သတင္းေထာက္ မေဝမာထြန္း စုစည္းတင္ျပထားပါတယ္။

ရိုဟင်ဂျာကို လူမျိုးအဖြစ် တရားဝင်အသိအမှတ်ပြုဖို့ မြန်မာ အစိုးရကို ဥရောပပါလီမန်တိုက်တွန်း

RFA 

လွတ်လပ်တဲ့ အာရှအသံ

2019-09-19

ဘင်္ဂလားဒေ့ရှ်နိုင်ငံရောက် ရိုဟင်ဂျာဒုက္ခသည်များ။

Photo: AFP

                                                                    
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Special Rapporteur on Myanmar & IIFFM Myanmar - Press Conference (Geneva, 12 September 2019)

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Special Rapporteur on Myanmar & IIFFM Myanmar - Press Conference (Geneva, 12 September 2019) 

17 Sep 2019 - Subject: Sharing of the main findings of the UN Special Rapporteur on human rights in Myanmar and the Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Myanmar 

Yanghee Lee, UN Special Rapporteur on human rights in Myanmar Marzuki Darusman, Chair of the Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Myanmar

Radhika Coomaraswamy, Member of the Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Myanmar

Chris Sidoti, Member of the Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Myanmar 

Link:http://webtv.un.org/watch/special-rapporteur-on-myanmar-iiffm-myanmar-press-conference-geneva-12-september-2019/6087028480001/?term=&lan=french

UN expert implores Myanmar’s Suu Kyi: “open your eyes, listen, feel with your heart

United Nation Human Rights (OHCHR)

17 September 2019


GENEVA (17 September 2019) – A UN human rights expert has implored Myanmar’s civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi to ‘feel with her heart before it is too late’, saying that even if refugees wished to return they have little to go back to.

Yanghee Lee, the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar, told the Human Rights Council the situation in Myanmar was of extreme concern, and was not what she and others had hoped to see nearly four years after the election of the National League for Democracy.

“I would like to ask the State Counsellor if the Myanmar that exists today is what she had truly aspired to bring about throughout the decades of her relentless fight for a free and democratic Myanmar? I implore you Madame State Counsellor to open your eyes, listen, feel with your heart, and please use your moral authority, before it is too late.”