Vietnam FM On ASEAN Talks, ASEAN Chief On Rohingya

REPUBLIC WORLD
Associated Press Television News
12th September, 2020

Vietnamese Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh said on Saturday that ASEAN will continue to pursuit the bloc's neutral position to avoid being stuck inbetween rivalry among major powers.

အာဆီယံ ႏုိင္ငံျခားေရးဝန္ႀကီးမ်ား ရခိုင္အေရး ေဆြးေႏြး

VOA
ဗြီအိုေအ (ျမန္မာပုိင္း)

13 စက္တင္ဘာ၊ 2020

အြန္လုိင္း ဗြီဒီယိုကတဆင့္ ျပဳလုပ္ခဲ့တဲ့ အာဆီယံ ႏုိင္ငံျခားေရးဝန္ႀကီးမ်ား အစည္းအေဝး။ (စက္တင္ဘာ ၉၊ ၂၀၂၀)

အြန္လိုင္းဗီြဒီယိုကတဆင့္ က်င္းပျပဳလုပ္ခဲ့တဲ့ ၄ ရက္ၾကာ အာဆီယံ ႏုိင္ငံျခားေရးဝန္ႀကီးမ်ား အစည္း အေ ဝးမွာ ကို႐ိုနာဗိုင္းရပ္စ္ကို တုံ႔ျပန္တိုက္ဖ်က္ေရး ပူးေပါင္း ေဆာင္ရြက္ၾကဖို႔နဲ႔ အျငင္းပြားေနတဲ့ ေတာင္ တ ႐ုတ္ပင္လယ္ကိစၥ ေတြ႔ဆုံေဆြးေႏြးပြဲေတြ အရွိန္ျမႇင့္ လုပ္ေဆာင္ဖို႔ ကတိကဝတ္ ျပဳခဲ့ၾကတဲ့အျပင္ ကိုရီး ယားကၽြန္းဆြယ္ လုံၿခဳံေရး၊ ျမန္မာက ရခိုင္ျပည္နယ္ကိစၥ အပါအဝင္ ဆိုက္ဘာလုံၿခဳံေရးကိစၥ၊ အၾကမ္းဖက္မႈ တိုက္ဖ်က္ေရးကိစၥ၊ နယ္စပ္ျဖတ္ေက်ာ္ ရာဇဝတ္မႈခင္း စတဲ့ ကိစၥရပ္ ေတာ္ေတာ္မ်ားမ်ားကိုလည္း ေဆြးေႏြး ခဲ့တယ္လို႔ ဗီယက္နမ္ ႏိုင္ငံျခားေရးဝန္ႀကီး Pham Binh Minh က ေျပာပါတယ္္။

ရိုဟင်ဂျာများအား ရွေးကောက်ပွဲတွင် ပါဝင်ခွင့်ပေးရန် မြန်မာနိုင်ငံအား UNSC အဖွဲ့ဝင်နိုင်ငံများက တိုက်တွန်း

AIR WORLD SERVICE
September 13, 2020
သတင်းအသစ်


လာမည့်နိုဝင်ဘာလ ၈ ရက်နေ့၌ ကျင်းပမည့် အထွေထွေရွေးကောက်ပွဲတွင် ရိုဟင်ဂျာများအား ပါဝင်ခွင့်ပြု ရန် မြန်မာနိုင်ငံအား ကုလသမဂ္ဂ လုံခြုံရေးကောင်စီ (UNSC) အဖွဲ့ဝင် ၈ နိုင်ငံက တိုက်တွန်းပြောကြား လိုက်သည်။ အားလုံးပါဝင်နိုင်ပြီး သန့်ရှင်းသည့် ရွေးကောက်ပွဲတွင် ရိုဟင်ဂျာများအပါအဝင် လူမှုအသိုင်း အဝိုင်း အားလုံး လုံခြုံ မှု၊ အပြည့်အဝရှိမှုနှင့် တန်းတူညီမျှမှုတို့နှင့်အတူ ပါဝင်သွားနိုင်ရန် ဘယ်လ်ဂျီယမ်၊ ဒိုမီနီကန်ရီပတ်ဘလစ်၊ အက်စ်တိုနီးယား၊ ပြင်သစ်၊ ဂျာမဏီ၊ တူနီးရှား၊ ဗြိတိန်နှင့် အမေရိကန်တို့မှ သော ကြာနေ့၌ ပူးတွဲထုတ်ပြန်ခဲ့သည့် ကြေညာချက်တွင် ရေးသားဖော်ပြထားသည်။

ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲတြင္ ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာမ်ား ပါဝင္ခြင့္ရေစရန္ ကုလ ေတာင္းဆို

MIZZIMA

By ဘုန္းျမင့္ဦး 

စက္တင္ဘာ ၁၃၊ ၂၀၂၀

Rohingya Muslim children and elders gather at the Thet Kel Pyin camp in Rakhine state. Photo: Phyo Hein Kyaw/AFP

ျမန္မာနိုင္ငံတြင္ က်င္းပမည့္ ၂၀၂၀ အေထြေထြ ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲ၌ ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာမ်ား (မူရင္း) ပါဝင္ခြင့္ရေစရန္ ကုလသမဂၢ လုံျခဳံေရးေကာင္စီ အဖြဲ႕ဝင္ ရွစ္နိုင္ငံက ေတာင္းဆိုလိုက္သည္။

တံခါးပိတ္ ဗီဒီယို ေဆြးေႏြးပြဲအၿပီးတြင္ ယခုကဲ့သို႔ ေတာင္းဆိုေၾကာင္း စက္တင္ဘာလ ၁၁ ရက္ေန႔က ထုတ္ျပန္ျခင္းျဖစ္ၿပီး ဘယ္လ္ဂ်ီယံ၊ ဒိုမီနီကန္ သမၼတနိုင္ငံ၊ အက္စတိုးနီးယား၊ ျပင္သစ္၊ ဂ်ာမနီ၊ တူနီးရွား၊ ၿဗိတိန္ႏွင့္ အေမရိကန္ ျပည္ေထာင္စုတို႔က ပါဝင္ လက္မွတ္ေရးထိုးထားသည္။

Terror At Sea: Migrants Tell Of 200-Day Ordeal

THE ASEAN POST

13 September 2020 

This photo taken on 8 September, 2020 shows a group of Rohingya men sleeping on a pile of donated clothes at a transit camp on the beach in Lhokseumawe on the northern coast of Indonesia's Sumatra island. (AFP Photo)

When hundreds of Rohingya refugees paid traffickers to escape their squalid camp in Bangladesh, they were promised a new life in Malaysia after just one week at sea.

Instead, the group of mostly women and children suffered more than 200 days of terror on the high seas, until they landed this week on Indonesia's northern coast, where they are now back in refugee tents.

Foreign minister set to leave for Turkey today

The Daily Star

Unb, Dhaka
September 13, 2020

Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen. File photo

Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen is scheduled to leave for Turkey today to attend the inauguration ceremony of the newly-constructed Bangladesh Chancery Complex, said a senior official of the ministry yesterday.

Dr Momen will join his Turkish counterpart Mevlut Cavusoglu at the ceremony, to be held in Ankara on September 14. He will also attend other bilateral engagements during his visit.

8 UNSC members appeal to Myanmar: Appeal for Rohingya participation in general elections

WION
Sep 13, 2020,

8 member nations of the UNSC have urged Myanmar to ensure that the Rohingyas can participate in the general elections. Watch report.

Link:https://www.wionews.com/videos/8-unsc-members-appeal-to-myanmar-appeal-for-rohingya-participation-in-general-elections-327125

ရခိုင်နဲ့ ချင်းမှာ တိုက်ပွဲတွေရပ်ဖို့ လုံခြုံရေးကောင်စီ အဖွဲ့ဝင် အများစု တောင်းဆို

VOA
ဗွီအိုအေ (မြန်မာပိုင်း)
12 စက်တင်ဘာ၊ 2020 

ရခိုင်ပြည်နယ်တွင်း တိုက်ပွဲတွေကြောင့် ထွက်ပြေးတိမ်းရှောင်လာကြတဲ့ ဒေသခံရွာသားများ။ (ဇွန် ၂၉၊ ၂၀၂၀)

တပ်မတော်နဲ့ ရခိုင်လက်နက်ကိုင်အဖွဲ့ (AA) တို့အကြား တိုက်ခိုက်နေကြတာကို ချက်ချင်းရပ်ဆိုင်းဖို့ ကုလ သမဂ္ဂ လုံခြုံရေးကောင်စီအဖွဲ့ဝင် အများစုက တောင်းဆိုလိုက်ကြပါတယ်။

မြန်မာနိုင်ငံဆိုင်ရာ ကုလသမဂ္ဂ အထူးသံတမန် Christine Schraner Burgener၊ လူ့အခွင့်အရေးဆိုင်ရာ ကုလ သမဂ္ဂ မဟာမင်းကြီး Filippo Grandi၊ ကုလသမဂ္ဂ ဖွံ့ဖြိုးတိုးတက်ရေးအစီအစဉ် (UNDP) ရဲ့ အာရှနဲ့ ပစိဖိတ ဒေ သ ဆိုင်ရာ လက်ထောက်အတွင်းရေးမှူးချုပ် Kanni Wignaraja တို့ စက်တင်ဘာလ ၁၁ ရက်နေ့က လုံခြုံရေးကောင်စီမှာ မြန်မာ့အရေး တင်ပြပြောဆိုခဲ့ကြပြီးတဲ့နောက် အခုလို တောင်းဆိုလိုက်တာပါ။

UN calls for Rohingya to take part in Myanmar election

EASTERNEYES
September 12, 2020

FILE PHOTO: Rohingya refugees gather to mark the second anniversary of the exodus at the Kutupalong camp in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, August 25, 2019. REUTERS/Rafiqur Rahman/File Photo

EIGHT Security Council members of the UN called for the Muslim Rohingya minority, victims in 2017 of what the UN calls a “genocide,” to participate in Myanmar’s upcoming elections.

The statement, published after a closed-door video conference, is signed by Belgium, the Dominican Republic, Estonia, France, Germany, Tunisia, Britain and the US.

UN calls for Rohingya to take part in Myanmar election

FMT
AFP
September 12, 2020

Rohingya refugees react after being rescued in Teknaf near Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh in April. (AP pic)

WASHINGTON: Eight Security Council members called Friday for the Muslim Rohingya minority, victims in 2017 of what the UN calls a “genocide”, to participate in Myanmar’s upcoming elections.

The statement, published after a closed-door video conference, is signed by Belgium, the Dominican Republic, Estonia, France, Germany, Tunisia, Britain and the US.

UN council members urge halt to Myanmar-Arakan Army fighting

spectrum

By Associated Press AP

Sep. 11, 2020

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — A majority of U.N. Security Council members called for an immediate halt to fighting between Myanmar government forces and the Arakan Army guerrilla force following a closed council meeting on the latest situation in the southeast Asian nation.

A joint statement from eight of the 15 council nations said the clashes in western Rakhine and Chin states are taking “a heavy toll” on local communities and risk escalating, and stressed that a halt to fighting is “even more urgent in light of the increased number of COVID-19 cases in Rakhine State.”

Washington assures Dhaka of continuing support to solve Rohingya crisis

theindepedent
BSS, Dhaka
11 September, 2020

US Defence Secretary Dr. Mark T Esper called Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina over phone today and assured her of continuing his country’s support in bringing a peaceful solution to the protracted Rohingya crisis.

“The US defence secretary phoned Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina this evening and assured her of continuing US support in bringing a peaceful solution to the Rohingya problem,” PM’s Press Secretary Ihsanul Karim told BSS.

The press secretary said the US defence secretary expressed his appreciation for the generosity shown by Bangladesh on the Rohingya issue and thanked Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in this regard.

Dhaka suggests engaging foreign civilian observers for Rohingya repatriation

Dhaka Tribune
September 12th, 2020

Photo: SYED ZAKIR HOSSAIN

Bangladesh foreign minister is seeking support from ARF partners

Dhaka on Saturday suggested Myanmar to engage non-military civilian observers from its friendly countries in Rohingya repatriation process to reduce trust deficit among the forcibly displaced people for returning to their land of origin in Rakhine with safety and security.

“In order to decline trust deficit and build confidence, we suggested Myanmar to engage non-military civilian observers from their friendly country like ASEAN, China, Russia, India or other friends of their choice,” said Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen.

Just vanished!

The Daily Star
Pinaki Roy and Muhammad Ali Jinnat

September 12, 2020

Numbers not adding up at Cox’s Bazar Rohingya camps, local organisations say refugees leaving camps; govt officials deny

So where have they gone?

Despite 76,000 children being born in the camps in the last three years, the number of Rohingya refugees in all camps of Ukhiya and Teknaf has actually decreased to 8.60 lakh as of July this year.

It was about 9.57 lakh in December 2018, as per reports of the Inter Sector Coordination Group (ISCG).

Rohingyas lack confidence in Myanmar govt, FM tells ASEAN

Prothum Alo------  

 Prothom Alo English Desk

Published: 12 September 2020, 

Weary Rohingya trudging from Myanmar's Rakhine state to Ukhia, Bangladesh.Prothom Alo file photo

Bangladesh has once again conveyed to the international community that the displaced Rohingyas are not returning to their homeland primarily because they do not trust their government on the issues of safety and security, reports UNB.

In order to reduce trust deficit and confidence building, Bangladesh suggested Myanmar to engage non-military civilian observers from their friendly countries like ASEAN, China, Russia, India or other friends of their choice. 

Foreign minister AK Abdul Momen conveyed it to the foreign ministers of the ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF) on Saturday adding such initiative may reduce trust deficit for a sustainable return.

Momen leaves for Turkey Sunday, bilateral talks on Sept 15

FINANCIAL EXPRESS
September 12, 2020

Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen will leave Dhaka for Turkey on Sunday on a four-day visit for holding a bilateral meeting with his Turkish counterpart Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu on September 15.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will virtually inaugurate the newly-built Bangladesh chancery complex in Turkish capital Ankara on September 14. Momen and the Turkish foreign minister will join the virtual inaugural ceremony from the chancery complex, reports UNB.

Two Burmese soldiers confess to war crimes against the Rohingya

The Economic
Sep 12th 2020 edition

They shot the smoking guns

They are being questioned by the International Criminal Court


PRIVATE MYO WIN TUN looked steadily into the camera as he recounted two weeks in August 2017 when he and his battalion laid waste to several villages in Rakhine, a state in the far west of Myanmar. They were there, he said, as part of the Burmese army’s “clearance operations” targeting the Rohingya, a persecuted Muslim ethnic minority, which sparked the exodus of more than 740,000 Rohingyas to neighbouring Bangladesh. Mr Myo Win Tun confessed to participating in the massacre of 30 Rohingyas, whom he helped to bury in a mass grave, and to raping one woman. In another video, Private Zaw Naing Tun said that his battalion “wiped out about 20 Muslim villages”, and that he stood sentry while his superiors raped women. Based on their accounts, Fortify Rights, a human-rights NGO which obtained the footage, believes these two men may be directly responsible for killing 180 Rohingyas.

Rohingya crisis: Relocation plan meets opposition

Aljazeera

Tanvir Chowdhury

12 Sep 2020

As well as being stateless and homeless, the coronavirus pandemic is worsening the plight of Rohingya.

The Bangladeshi government wants to relocate more than 100,000 Rohingya refugees to a remote island in the Bay of Bengal.

But some are opposing the plan, while UN agencies are questioning whether the new site is suitable.

Al Jazeera’s Tanvir Chowdhury reports. 

Link :https://www.aljazeera.com/videos/2020/09/12/rohingya-crisis-relocation-plan-meets-opposition/

Racism Is Fueling Myanmar’s Deadly Second Wave of COVID-19

THE I DIPLOMAT
By Andrew Nachemson
September 11, 2020

Anti-migrant — and especially anti-Rohingya and anti-Rakhine — sentiments are undermining efforts to control the pandemic.

This article is freeThe Diplomat has removed paywall restrictions on our coverage of the COVID–19 crisis.

As COVID-19 cases surge in Myanmar, the country’s famously serene State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi appears to be getting flustered. In a severe speech delivered September 2, she castigated “reckless and unsympathetic” nightclub owners, admonished Yangon residents for flouting COVID-19 restrictions, and threatened legal punishment against uncooperative citizens. On August 24, a week after the second wave began, she also warned against potential racial tension in Rakhine state, the epicenter of Myanmar’s renewed outbreak, reminding Burmese that recent violence there has made Myanmar a global “embarrassment.”

Myanmar army tries to discredit Rohingya abuse confessions

Digital Journal
By AFP
10th September2020

Myanmar's military has sought to undermine the confessions of two soldiers who said they were ordered to "exterminate" Rohingya Muslims before taking part in the massacre of scores of men, women and children.

NGO Fortify Rights and the New York Times on Tuesday released details of the filmed interviews -- seen by AFP -- of Private Myo Win Tun, 33, and Private Zaw Naing Tun, 30, in which they described "wiping out" entire villages.