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Thursday, October 15, 2020

အိုင်စီစီရောက် တပ်မတော်သားနှစ်ဦးကို ပြန်တောင်းယူ မယ် လို့ အစိုးရ ပြော

လွတ်လပ်တဲ့အာရှအသံ( RFA )

မြန်မာဌာန | သတင်းများ
သက်စုအောင်
2020-10-14

ရခိုင်ပြည်နယ်မြောက်ပိုင်းမှာ ရိုဟင်ဂျာအမြောက်အများကို ကိုယ်တိုင်သတ်ဖြတ်ခဲ့တယ်လို့ ဝန်ခံထားတဲ့ တပ် မတော်သားနှစ်ဦးဟာ၊ လက်ရှိ နိုင်ငံတကာရာဇဝတ်ခုံရုံး အိုင်စီစီကို ရောက်၊ မရောက် အငြင်းပွားမှုတွေ ရှိနေ ပြီး၊ တကယ်လို့ ရောက်နေတယ်ဆိုရင် မြန်မာအစိုးရအနေနဲ့ သူတို့နှစ်ဦးကို သံတမန်နည်းနဲ့ တရားဝင် ပြန် တောင်းယူသွားမယ်လို့ သမ္မတရုံး ပြောခွင့်ရ ဦးဇော်ဌေးက ပြောလိုက်ပါတယ်။

IOM, UK Emergency Medical Team Continue COVID-19 Health Support for Refugees, Locals in Cox’s Bazar

IOM UN Migration
Date:10/13/20

Cox’s Bazar – From the outset of the COVID-19 health crisis in Bangladesh, humanitarian agencies in Cox's Bazar have worked around the clock to prepare to effectively respond to the outbreak in the district, which hosts one of the largest refugee settlements in the world.

Key to this enormous effort includes enhancing existing partnerships and seeking new collaborative opportunities to address the lack of technical expertise and strained human resources in an already complex refugee crisis.

Hate Speech Against Rohingya in Myanmar Election Has Worrisome Precedents

RADIO FREE ASIA
2020-10-13

Rohingya candidate Abdul Rasheed, a member of the Democracy and Human Rights Party who was barred from running in Myanmar's upcoming elections, sits in the party's office in Yangon, Aug. 12, 2020. Rights groups decried his disqualification as discriminatory and a symptom of the 'ongoing genocide' against the persecuted ethnic minority group.

AFP

Online and offline hate speech targeting Myanmar’s Rohingya Muslims has reared its head in the run-up to national elections in November, as some candidates and others target the largely disenfranchised and despised ethnic minority group to gain support from voters.

Can a Lawsuit Stop a Genocide?

COMMONWEAL

By Paul C. Saunders

October 13, 2020

The case against Myanmar

Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh (Alamy/Mahady Hasan Riad)

On January 23, 2020, the International Court of Justice in The Hague, informally known as the World Court, rendered a historic judgment. The decree ordered the government of Myanmar to comply with several directives: to take measures to prevent genocide against the Rohingya people; to ensure that its military refrain from acts prohibited by the Genocide Convention; and to preserve evidence and submit a report to the court within four months, detailing compliance with the court’s order. The unanimous decision by the fifteen-judge court represented only the third time that the Genocide Convention has been invoked before the World Court in a contentious case—and the first case ever to consider the claims, under the convention, of non-contiguous, non-warring countries.

Anti-migrant sentiment fanned on Facebook in Malaysia

REUTERS

By Rozanna Latiff, A. Ananthalakshmi
October 14, 2020

KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - As coronavirus infections surged in Malaysia this year, a wave of hate speech and misinformation aimed at Rohingya Muslim refugees from Myanmar began appearing on Facebook.

FILE PHOTO: Rohingyas living in Malaysia protest against the treatment of Myanmar's Rohingya Muslims near the Myanmar embassy in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia September 8, 2017. REUTERS/Lai Seng Sin/File Photo

Alarmed rights groups reported the material to Facebook.

But six months later, many posts targeting the Rohingya in Malaysia remain on the platform, including pages such as “Anti Rohingya Club” and “Foreigners Mar Malaysia’s Image”, although those two pages were removed after Reuters flagged them to Facebook recently.

Bangladesh: Teen injured in Rohingya clashes dies

SM Najmus Sakib

DHAKA, Bangladesh

13.10.2020

File Photo

A 14-year-old boy became the latest victim of days of violence inside Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh’s southern Cox’s Bazar district, officials said on Saturday.

The victim was identified as Ziabur Rahman, son of Mohammad Arif Ullah, and a resident of the Kutupalong refugee camp.

“The boy died on Saturday morning. His parents say he was abducted after a clash on Oct. 3 and was released after a few days in injured condition. He died today at a hospital in Cox’s Bazar,” Khalilur Rahman Khan, the camp manager, told Anadolu Agency.

Myanmar: New evidence of attacks in Rakhine state

SM Najmus Sakib

DHAKA, Bangladesh
13.10.2020

UN Security Council must urgently refer situation in Myanmar to International Criminal Court, says Amnesty International

Human rights organization Amnesty International announced Monday that it has gathered fresh evidence of indiscriminate attacks on civilians in western Myanmar amid an escalation in an ongoing armed conflict between the country’s military and the Arakan Army.

The evidence suggests that the Myanmar military burned villages and wounded and killed civilians in Rakhine in early September.

မြန်မာနိုင်ငံသို့ ရိုဟင်ဂျာများနေရပ်ပြန်ရေးကြန့်ကြာမှုအပေါ် တရုတ်နိုင်ငံစိုးရိမ်နေ

People Media
OCTOBER 12, 2020
ဒါကာ၊ အောက်တိုဘာ ၁၂

ရိုဟင်ဂျာများ ရခိုင်ပြည်နယ်မှနေရပ်သို့ပြန်မည့်လုပ်ငန်းစဉ်များ အထမမြောက် သေးသည့်အတွက် စိုးရိမ် ကြောင်း ဘင်္ဂလားဒေ့ရှ်နိုင်ငံဆိုင်ရာတရုတ်သံအမတ်ကြီး လီဂျင်မင်းက တနင်္ဂနွေနေ့ တွင်ပြောသည်။

Amnesty urges UNSC to take Myanmar to ICC for military abuses

JURIST

Becca Salamacha | U. Pittsburgh School of Law, US
October 12, 2020

Amnesty International urged the UN Security Council Monday to take action against Myanmar for military abuses. Amnesty’s condemnation of Myanmar’s military action follows after reports of intensified violence between Myanmar’s military and Araken Army that led to civilian casualties.

Ethnic Rakhine in Bangladesh Protest against Myanmar’s ‘Military Aggression’

RADIO FREE ASIA

Sharif Khiam
Dhaka
2020-10-12

Members of the ethnic Rakhine community in Bangladesh hold banners as they protest in Dhaka against what they say is Myanmar’s military aggression in Rakhine state, Oct. 11, 2020.
Sharif Khiam/BenarNews

Hundreds of Bangladeshis from the mainly Buddhist, ethnic Rakhine minority group staged a rare, if not unprecedented, protest over the weekend against Myanmar’s alleged military aggression in Rakhine state, saying their community there faces operations aimed at ethnic cleansing, much like the stateless Rohingya.

An armed conflict between Myanmar government forces and the Arakan Army (AA), an ethnic Rakhine rebel group fighting for greater autonomy for the Rakhine people, intensified in early 2019. This past March, Myanmar declared it a terrorist organization.

OP-ED: Bangladesh is being held hostage

Dhaka Tribune

Anis Alamgir

October 12th, 2020

Abandoned by all BIGSTOCK

With little support from the international arena, what is the future of the Rohingya in Bangladesh?

On October 5, Vikram Doraiswami, the newly appointed Indian High Commissioner to the country, arrived in Bangladesh. He told reporters at the land port in Akhaura: “Bangladesh is one of India’s closest friends, and thus we are eager to continue and enhance our bilateral relationship with this neighbouring country.”

Beijing is now more interested in keeping Bangladesh as a development partner through the continuous effort of distancing Dhaka from Delhi. Recently, Sino-Indian relations with Bangladesh are looking great, but the reality is different.

Rohingya Refugees, Workers Raise Funds to Help Ethnic Rakhines Displaced by War

RADIO FREE ASIA

2020-10-12

Rohingya refugees in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, are shown raising funds for ethnic Rakhine displaced by fighting in Myanmar, Sept. 28, 2020.
Photo provided by citizen journalist

Rohingya Muslims both in refugee camps in Bangladesh and in cities in Myanmar are raising humanitarian relief funds for Buddhist Rakhine people displaced by fighting in their northern Myanmar state, easing traditional hostility between the two ethnic groups, sources say.

Collected funds are going to provide refugees with shelter and food amid a surge of coronavirus infections in Rakhine state, where fighting between government troops and the ethnic Arakan Army (AA) has killed nearly 300 civilians and driven more than 220,000 from their homes since late 2018.

Rohingya: Dhaka wants Suu Kyi to join talks in Beijing

Dhaka Tribune

UNB
October 12th, 2020

Myanmar's leader Aung San Suu Kyi leaves the International Court of Justice (ICJ), the top United Nations court, during court hearings in a case filed by Gambia against Myanmar alleging genocide against the minority Muslim Rohingya population, in The Hague, Netherlands December 12, 2019 Reuters

Chinese Ambassador to Bangladesh Li Jiming proposed a tripartite meeting between foreign ministers of the three countries - Bangladesh, Myanmar and China

Bangladesh wants Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi to be present at a tripartite meeting in Beijing, as proposed by China to discuss Rohingya repatriation issues.

"It will not be done without her presence. She should be there," Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen conveyed to China.

Suu Kyi, state counsellor of Myanmar, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize but she has subsequently been widely criticised for doing nothing to stop the rape, murder and genocide in Rakhine, refusing to condemn the Myanmar military or acknowledge accounts of their atrocities.

The foreign minister said the number one objective of Bangladesh is to see the repatriation of the Rohingyas to their place of origin in Rakhine State.

US Deputy Secy of State Biegun arrives tomorrow

The Daily Star

October 13, 2020
Diplomatic Correspondent

Dhaka to raise Rohingya repatriation, RMG export issues

The repatriation of Rohingya refugees, privileges for readymade garments export and investments in infrastructure will be the main issues that Bangladesh will raise during US Deputy Secretary of State Stephen E Biegun's visit beginning tomorrow.

"Rohingya repatriation is our major issue. It is not just our responsibility. They will have to help us," Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen told reporters at his ministry yesterday.

Bangladesh-Myanmar: Rohingya Conundrum – Analysis

eurasiareview

By S. Binodkumar Singh*
October 13, 2020

Rohingya's in Kutupalong Refugee Camp in Bangladesh. Photo taken by John Owens/VOA, Wikipedia Commons.

On October 6, 2020, four people were killed in clashes between two groups of Rohingyas over establishing supremacy at the Lombasia Camp in the Kutupalang area of Cox’s Bazar District. 20 persons were injured in the violent clashes.

ဘင်္ဂလားဒေ့ရှ်ရှိ ဒုက္ခသည်စခန်းများ၌ အစွန်းရောက်အဖွဲ့ များ ထိုးဖောက်စည်းရုံးများရှိနေ

မြန်မာတိုင်းမ်နေ့စဉ်
13 OCT 2020

ကော့စ်ဘဇားစီရင်စု အူခီယားအရပ်ရှိ ဒုက္ခသည်စခန်းတစ်ခု။ အီးပီအေ-အီးအက်ဖ်အီး

ဘင်္ဂလားဒေ့ရှ်နိုင်ငံရှိ ရိုဟင်ဂျာများကိုထားရှိသော ဒုက္ခသည်စခန်းတချို့သို့ အစွန်းရောက်အဖွဲ့များ ထိုး ဖောက်ဝင်ရောက်ပြီး စည်းရုံးသိမ်းသွင်းမှုများကို ပြုလုပ်နေကြောင်း Euroasiareview ဝက်ဘ်ဆိုက်က အောက်တိုဘာ ၁၃ ရက်တွင် ဖော်ပြခဲ့သည်။

ရိုဟင်ဂျာများနေရပ်ပြန်ရေး ကြန့်ကြာမှုအပေါ် တရုတ်နိုင်ငံ စိုးရိမ်နေ

UNB

2020-10-13

ရိုဟင်ဂျာများ ရခိုင်ပြည်နယ်မှနေရပ်သို့ပြန်မည့် လုပ်ငန်းစဉ်များ အထမမြောက်သေးသည့်အတွက် စိုးရိမ် ကြောင်း ဘင်္ဂလားဒေ့ရှ်နိုင်ငံဆိုင်ရာ တရုတ်သံအမတ်ကြီး လီဂျင်မင်းက တနင်္ဂနွေနေ့တွင်ပြောသည်။

ရခိုင္အေရး ICC ကို လႊဲေျပာင္းေပးဖို႔ AI အဖြဲ႕ ေတာင္းဆို

လြတ္လပ္တဲ့အာရွအသံ ( RFA )

ျမန္မာဌာန | သတင္းမ်ား
2020-10-13

ၿပီးခဲ့တဲ့ စက္တင္ဘာ ၃ ရက္ေန႔က ရခိုင္ျပည္နယ္ ေက်ာက္ေတာ္ၿမိဳ႕နယ္ ဘုရားေပါင္းရြာနဲ႔ ေတာင္ေပါက္ရြာ ႏွစ္ရြာကို မီးရွို႔ၿပီး အရပ္သားေတြကို သတ္ျဖတ္ခဲ့တာဟာ တပ္မေတာ္ရဲ့ လက္ခ်က္ျဖစ္တယ္လို႔ နိုင္ငံတကာ လြတ္ၿငိမ္း ခ်မ္းသာခြင့္အဖြဲ႕ AI က စြပ္စြဲလိုက္ၿပီး အျပည္ျပည္ဆိုင္ရာ ရာဇဝတ္မႈတရား႐ုံး ICC က အေရး ယူနိုင္ေရး ေဆာင္ရြက္ေပးဖို႔ ကုလသမဂၢ လုံျခဳံေရးေကာင္စီကို ေတာင္းဆိုလိုက္တာပါ။

UN urged to take action against Myanmar over civilian abuses

Aljazeera
12 Oct 2020

First-hand testimonies and images obtained by Amnesty show the Myanmar military’s ‘utter disregard for civilian suffering’ in Rakhine, Chin states.

Myanmar's armed forces, also known as Tatmadaw, have been battling the Arakan Army, a rebel group seeking greater autonomy for the country's western region, including Rakhine and Chin states [File: Hein Htet/EPA]

Amnesty International has called on the United Nations Security Council to take urgent action against Myanmar before the International Criminal Court, amid mounting evidence of military abuses, including indiscriminate firing at civilians in the continuing conflict with armed Arakan rebels.

In a report released on Monday, Amnesty said that first-hand testimony, photographs and video evidence obtained by the group show the Myanmar military’s “utter disregard for civilian suffering” in areas at the epicentre of the fighting.

China concerned at delay in repatriation of Rohingyas