Dhaka seeks Berlin's support on Rohingya issue

Dhaka Tribune
Tribune Desk
October 19th, 2019

Bangladesh Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen meets German Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs Heiko Maas in Berlin on Friday, October 18, 2019 UNB

He also asked for German car manufacturers to invest in Bangladesh and set up their assembly plants

Bangladesh has urged Germany to put pressure on Myanmar so that they can start taking their nationals back, noting that not a single Rohingya has been repatriated over the last two years.

Massacred at Home, in Misery Abroad, 730,000 Rohingya Are Mired in Hopelessness

The New York Times
By Hannah Beech
Published Aug. 22, 2019Updated Oct. 19, 2021

The Kutupalong Rohingya refugee camps near Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, in June.Credit...Adam Dean for The New York Times

When things go wrong, those in power often promise to make it right. But do they? In this series, The Times investigates to see if those promises were kept.

NGA KHU YA, Myanmar — Rusting behind barbed wire, rows of trailers at a repatriation center sit empty and uninviting, evocative of a prison awaiting its inmates.

ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာျပန္လက္ခံေရး အာဆီယံအကူအညီနဲ႔ ေဆာင္ရြက္ ေန

RFA
လြတ္လပ္တဲ့ အာရွအသံ
2019-10-18

ဘဂၤလားေဒ့ရွ္ေရာက္ေနတဲ့ ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာ ဒုကၡသည္ေတြ ျပန္လည္လက္ခံေရး အစီအစဥ္အတြက္ ျမန္မာအစိုးရ ဘက္က ေဆာင္ရြက္ခ်က္ေတြကို ဒုကၡသည္ေတြသိေအာင္ အာဆီယံႏုိင္ငံေတြက သတင္းစကားျဖန္႔ေ၀ေပး ေနတယ္လို႔ UEHRD ေကာ္မတီ ဒုဥကၠ႒ ေဒါက္တာ၀င္းျမတ္ေအး က ဒီေန႔ ေျပာလိုက္ပါတယ္။

RFA သတင္းေထာက္ မသက္စုေအာင္ က တင္ျပထားပါတယ္။


လင့္၊https://www.rfa.org/burmese/multimedia/rohingya-asean-bangladesh-10182019110835.html

မြန်မာကို ရိုဟင်ဂျာအရေး ဖိအားပေးဖို့ ဂျာမဏီကို ဘင်္ဂလား ဒေ့ရှ် တိုက်တွန်း

VOA  

19 အောက်တိုဘာ၊ 2019
ဗွီအိုအေ (မြန်မာပိုင်း)

ဘင်္ဂလားဒေ့ရှ်မှာ ခိုလှုံနေတဲ့ ဒုက္ခသည်တွေကို မြန်မာနိုင်ငံက ပြန်လည် လက်ခံရေးအတွက် ဖိအားပေးဖို့ ဘင်္ဂလားဒေ့ရှ်နိုင်ငံခြား ရေးဝန်ကြီးက ဂျာမနီနိုင်ငံခြားရေးဝန်ကြီးကို တိုက်တွန်းလိုက်ပါတယ်။

“သူတို့ကိုပြန်ခေါ်မယ်လို့ မြန်မာနိုင်ငံက ကတိပေးထားတာ နှစ်နှစ်နီးပါးရှိပါပြီ။ အကြောင်းမလှစွာဘဲ ဒီကနေ့ အချိန်ထိ ရိုဟင်ဂျာတယောက်ကိုမှ သူတို့နိုင်ငံကို ပြန်မခေါ်သေးပါဘူး။ သူတို့လူတွေကို ပြန်ခေါ်ရေး မြန်မာ  နိုင်ငံအပေါ် ဖိအားပေးဖို့ ဝန်ကြီးကို ကျနော်တို့ ပန်ကြားချင်ပါတယ်။”

Facebook Doesn’t Understand How Dangerous Its Megaphone Is

The Washinton Post
By Shira Ovide | Bloomberg
Oct. 18, 2019

Mark Zuckerberg on Thursday gave a passionate defense of how Facebook Inc. and the rest of the internet are essential tools for the free expression that is essential in a healthy democracy. I agree with this in principle, as I imagine most Americans would.

The dark side of Facebook and the mass-market internet is not necessarily the ideas behind them. It is how those principles can wittingly or unwittingly be subverted when principle meets reality. The question is whether the good that comes from anything — Facebook, the automobile, electricity — outweighs the inevitable negative effects and whether it’s possible to mitigate the latter while accentuating the former.

UAE-backed project bringing light to lives of Rohingya refugees

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Haneen Dajani
Oct 18, 2019
Thousands of displaced families at a refugee camp in Bangladesh are being supported by a campaign led by a winner of the Zayed Sustainability Prize

Sunna Design teamed up with Electricians Without Borders to bring light to refugee camps in Bangladesh. Courtesy Electricians Without Borders

Rohingya refugees have known only darkness for years, but finally many have a chance to step into the light thanks to a UAE-backed initiative.

In August 2017, hundreds of thousands of the Muslim-minority group were forced to flee their homes in Myanmar amid a brutal campaign of violence branded as ethnic cleansing and possible genocide by the United Nations.

USC doctor finds evidence of human rights abuses, alleged war crimes against Rohingya refugees

USC News
BY Eric Lindberg
October 17, 2019

Through interviews with Rohingya refugees who fled Myanmar, USC emergency physician Parveen Parmar and others document brutal attacks against the Muslim minority group.

The attacks usually start at night, foreshadowed by barking dogs and the chatter of machine guns in the distance.

AA ရခိုင္လက္နက္ကိုင္အဖြဲ႔ လူသစ္စုေဆာင္းမႈ

VOA

ဗြီအိုုေအ (ျမန္မာဌာန)

17 ေအာက္တိုဘာ၊ 2019
သားၫြန္႔ဦး

ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံတြင္း လူနည္းစုတိုင္ရင္းသားလက္နက္ကိုင္ေတြနဲ႔ ျမန္မာအစိုးရတပ္ေတြအၾကား စစ္ေရးတင္းမာ မႈေတြ တိုးလာေနတာေၾကာင့္၊ AA ရခိုင္လက္နက္ကိုင္အဖြဲ႔လိုမ်ိဳး တိုင္းရင္းသားအဖြဲ႔ေတြကို လူသစ္ေတြ ပို ၿပီး ဝင္ေရာက္လာေနၾကပါတယ္။ Steve Sandford ေရးသားေပးပို႔ထားတာကို ကိုသားၫႊန႔္ဦး ကတင္ျပထား ပါတယ္။ 

Link :https://burmese.voanews.com/a/5127782.html

‘The sooner they return, the better for Bangladesh’

The Daily Star
October 17, 2019
UNB, Dhaka

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday stressed the need for quick repatriation of the displaced Rohingyas to their place of origin in Rakhine State of Myanmar.

The sooner they go back, the better it is for Bangladesh if she said.

The PM came up with the remark when a seven-member delegation of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) met her at her official residence Gono Bhaban.

EP calls for stronger int'l action to end atrocities against Rohingya

Kuwait New Agency ( KUNA )
16/10/2019

European Parliament hosts conference on Rohingya

BRUSSELS, Oct 16 (KUNA) -- Speakers at a conference on Rohingya hosted by the European Parliament (EP) urged the international community and the European Union to take stronger action to stop the persecution and atrocities against the Rohingya community in Myanmar.

U.S. Announces More Aid for Rohingya

VOA
October 15, 2019 

Bangladesh Rohingya

The United States recently announced more than 127 million dollars in additional aid for the Rakhine State Crisis in Burma and Bangladesh of which more than 89 million dollars is for programs inside Bangladesh.

  

Arakan Army in Myanmar is Recruiting and Training

VOA

By Steve Sandford

October 16, 2019 

Arakan Army recruits scale the climbing ropes at the Laiza, Kachin State base camp. 

 

On the edge of a mountainside in Northern Myanmar’s Kachin state, several hundred young army recruits kick up the dust as they jog down a trail during early morning military drills.

New recruits are joining groups such as the Arakan Army which has set up training camps in Kachin state, home to fellow Northern Alliance member, the Kachin Independence Army (KIA).

Myanmar might finally be held accountable for genocide, but the court case must recognise sexual violence

THE CONVERSATION
Susan Hutchinson

PhD Candidate, Australian National University
16th October 2019

It has been more than two years since “clearance operations” by Myanmar’s security forces, the Tatmadaw, forced more than 700,000 Rohingya across the border to neighbouring Bangladesh.

During this time, the UN Security Council has remained silent on the plight of Rohingya, with China and Russia working to keep it off the council’s agenda.

Rohingya Refugee Response - Bangladesh: Protection Partner Presence (as of 30 September 2019)

Bangladesh gives Myanmar new list of Rohingya refugees

AA

SM Najmus Sakib 

DHAKA, Bangladesh

15.10.2019

Dhaka provides total 105,000 Rohingya names to Myanmar over three phases to expedite repatriation process 

 

Bangladesh on Tuesday sent Myanmar a fresh list of some 50,000 Rohingya refugees currently taking shelter in the country's Cox’s Bazar refugee camp.

With the new list, Dhaka has provided the names of some 105,000 Rohingya refugees to Myanmar over three phases, in order to expedite their repatriation process to Myanmar.

Bangladesh imposes more restrictions on Rohingya refugees

Al Jazeera
16th October 2019

Following failed repatriation attempts and the murder of a local politician, Bangladesh authorities are cracking down on Rohingya refugees
 

The government of Bangladesh has recently put severe restrictions on Rohingya refugees from Myanmar.

Many have had their mobile phones taken away.

And some Rohingya children have been forced to drop out of Bangladeshi schools.

Al Jazeera's Tanvir Chowdhury reports from Cox's Bazar.

Link:https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/10/bangladesh-imposes-restrictions-rohingya-refugees-191015133210712.html?fbclid=IwAR2TyjD0XdSLl3Fc18KuYhAJI91mSKZJ6_bST9bJiVhRAg
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Forced Migration Review Issue 62: Return: voluntary, safe, dignified and durable?

Myanmar gets fresh list of 50,000 Rohingyas for verification

UNB
October 15, 2019

Tripartite meeting with Myanmar, China soon, says FM 

Bangladesh is currently hosting more than 1.1 million Rohingyas. File photo/AP

Dhaka, Oct 15 (UNB) – Bangladesh has handed over a new list of around 50,000 Rohingyas to Myanmar authorities for verification and subsequently expediting their repatriation efforts.

Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen came up with the figure while talking to a small group of reporters at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

He said there are many stages of preparing a list and they are now expediting the process to facilitate the verification and repatriation process.

Rohingya youth killed over stalking of girl

NEWAGE
Our Correspondent . Cox’s Bazar |
Oct 15,2019

A Rohingya youth was hacked to dead by another Rohingya allegedly over sexual harassment of a girl at Lombasiha of Kutupalong refugee camp at Ukhiya police station of the district at about 10:00am on Monday.

The dead is Moulavi Mohammad Yunus, 25, son of Mohammad Ali of Block-C of Lombasiha of Kutupalonf camp.

Ukhiya police officer-in-charge Abul Mansor said police recovered a dead body of a Rohingya youth from Kutupalong refugee camp after being informed by the local people.

‘Mohammad Yunus was hacked to death by another Rohingya after Yunus reportedly harassed and taunted the younger sister of the suspected killer,’ Abul Mansor said quoting Rohingya refugees.

Ukhiya police sent the body to Cox’s Bazar sadar hospital morgue for autopsy.

A case was filed with the Ukhiya police station.

Police were trying to catch the suspect, the OC said. 

Link :http://www.newagebd.net/article/87729/rohingya-youth-killed-over-stalking-of-girl

Rohingya youth butchered in Cox's Bazar

Dhaka Tribune
Abdul Aziz, Cox's Bazar
October 14th, 2019

File photo of Kutupalong Rohingya refugee camp in Ukhiya, Cox's Bazar Syed Zakir Hossain/Dhaka Tribune

Md. Abul Monsur, Officer-in-Charge of Ukhiya police station confirmed the matter to Dhaka Tribune

A Rohingya youth had been butchered at the Ukhiya Rohingya camp in Cox's Bazar, around 10am on Monday.