Now it's US, voicing concerns on Bangladesh transfer of Myanmar Rohingya

THE Star 

Sunday, 13 Dec 2020 

Rohingyas from Myanmar preparing to board a ship as they move to Bhasan Char island near Chattogram, Bangladesh, Dec 4, 2020. - Reuters

WASHINGTON, Dec 13 (AFP): The United States has voiced concern over Bangladesh's transfer of Rohingya refugees to a low-lying island and said that any movement should be voluntary.

Bangladesh, which has taken in nearly one million Rohingya who fled a brutal offensive in neighboring Myanmar, has started the relocation of 100,000 of them from squalid camps on the mainland to Bhashan Char, a silt island frequently in the path of cyclones.

The United States reiterated its appreciation to Bangladesh for accepting the refugees but said it was "concerned" about last week's transfer of more than 1,600 Rohingya and plans to move more.

Rohingya terror group may hit India!

NE NOW NEWS KOLKATA ,
December 13, 2020 

Representative image.

 

Indian intelligence agencies have intercepted details of financial transactions that indicate a possible attack by a Malaysia-based Rohingya outfit may be in the offing in India.

“There is good reason to believe that a module of this new terror outfit has received a lot of money from Malaysia through hawala channels. They may be in an advanced stage of orchestrating a terror strike in that country by a group led by a woman,” said a senior external intelligence officer.

He said the terror group is possibly linked to controversial Indian preacher Zakir Naik, who has been given permanent residence in Malaysia, after Delhi refused to allow him to return to India.

US voices concern on Bangladesh transfer of Rakhine Muslims

MYANMAR TIMES 

AFP
14 DEC 2020

Northern Rakhine refugees disembark from a Bangladesh Navy ship to the island of Bashar Char in Noakhali on December 4. Photo: AFP

The United States on Thursday voiced concern over Bangladesh's transfer of Northern Rakhine Muslim refugees to a low-lying island and said that any movement should be voluntary.

Bangladesh, which has taken in nearly one million refugees who fled a brutal offensive in neighboring Myanmar, has started the relocation of 100,000 of them from squalid camps on the mainland to Bhashan Char, a silt island frequently in the path of cyclones.

Rights groups urge UK to join Rohingya case at ICJ

AA

Büşra Nur Bilgiç Çakmak

ANKARA

12.12.2020

Human rights bodies ask UK to follow Canada and Netherlands to join genocide case against Myanmar at ICJ 

FILE PHOTO - Source: official website of the ICJ

 

International human rights organizations on Friday urged the UK to support the genocide case against Myanmar at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague.

“In September, the Netherlands and Canada said they were planning to make a formal intervention in the case. We now urge the British government to also throw its weight behind the case,” said the statement issued by the human rights groups including the European Rohingya Council and Free Rohingya Coalition.

The groups added that it was becoming clear that the Myanmar government has no intention to follow the provisional measures set out by the court.

UN should help Rohingyas in Bhasan Char: Foreign minister

Prothum Alo------  

Prothom Alo English Desk
Dhaka
Published: 7 December 2020,

Foreign minister AK Abdul MomenUNB

Foreign minister AK Abdul Momen on Monday said the United Nations should help Rohingyas in Bhasan Char following the mandate on the basis of which the UN works in Bangladesh, reports UNB.

"They (UN) should follow their mandate (on refugees). It doesn't matter where they're living," he told reporters.

Momen said the UN should not think of whether the Rohingyas are living in Kutupalong, Bhasan Char or somewhere else. "It's their mandate to help them (refugees). They should do it."

US asks Myanmar to create conditions for Rohingya repatriation, voices concern over relocation

Prothum Alo------ 

Reuters
Washington
Published: 11 December 2020,

 

 

The first batch of Rohingyas has started out for Bhasan Char from the Chattogram in the morning of 4 December 2020Prothom Alo

The United States on Thursday said it was concerned about Bangladesh's relocation of 1,642 Rohingya refugees to Bhasan Char island and plans to carry out further moves, calling on Bangladesh to accept independent assessments of the move.

The United States also backed the United Nations in calling for any such relocations to be "fully voluntary and based on informed consent without pressure or coercion", State Department spokesman Cale Brown said in a statement.

Brown also reiterated Washington's call on Myanmar to create the conditions conducive for Rohingya refugees’ voluntary, safe, and dignified return to their home country.

Rohingya Woman Files First Complaint in Myanmar HRC After 'Genocide'

Reuters

12/Dec/2020

 

The woman has sought $ 2 million in compensation for the death of her husband, who was killed by government soldiers during a 2017 military crackdown in western Myanmar. 

File Photo: Rohingya refugees stretch their hands to receive aid distributed by local organisations at Balukhali makeshift refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, September 14, 2017. Photo: Reuters/Danish Siddiqui/File Photo

A Rohingya woman is seeking $2 million in compensation for the death of her husband, who was killed by government soldiers during a 2017 military crackdown in western Myanmar, lawyers said.

Legal Action Worldwide (LAW) and an international law firm, McDermott Will & Emery, said they filed a complaint on Thursday with Myanmar’s human rights commission on behalf of Setara Begum, whose husband Shoket Ullah was killed at Inn Din village in Rakhine state.

Her claim is the first complaint related to the Rohingya known to have been filed through Myanmar’s human rights commission, according to LAW, a legal non-profit organisation based in Geneva.

Rohingya widow seeks compensation from Myanmar government

REUTERS

By Reuters Staff

December 11, 2020

(Reuters) - A Rohingya woman is seeking $2 million in compensation for the death of her husband who was killed by government soldiers during a 2017 military crackdown in western Myanmar, lawyers said.

Legal Action Worldwide (LAW) and international law firm McDermott Will & Emery said they filed a complaint on Thursday, with Myanmar’s human rights commission on behalf of Setara Begum, whose husband Shoket Ullah was killed at Inn Din village in Rakhine state.

Her claim is the first complaint related to the Rohingya known to have been filed through Myanmar’s human rights commission, according to LAW, a legal non-profit organisation based in Geneva.

VOA Rohingya Broadcast

VOA
Friday, December 11, 2020

Guest:1. Dr. Wakar Uddin, Director General of Arakan Rohingya Union.

          2. U Shwe Maung @ Abdu Razzak Former Member of Parliament at Phithu                               Hluttaw, Buthidaung Township Constituency, Rakhine State.

          3.Mr. Mohamed Eleyas, A Rohingya activist and General Secretary of Myanmar Muslim               Association Netherlands (MMAN).

 Topic: About the Relocation of Rohingya Refugees from Cox’s Bazaar to Bhason Char and Reaction of Rohingya Leaders.

Link : Here

အင်းဒင်ဖြစ်ရပ်သေဆုံးမှု နစ်နာသူ ရိုဟင်ဂျာအမျိုးသမီး တရားစွဲဆို

VOA
ဗွီအိုအေ (မြန်မာပိုင်း)
12 ဒီဇင်ဘာ၊ 2020

သေဆုံးသွားတဲ့ ခင်ပွန်းဖြစ်သူအတွက် နစ်နာကြေး ‘အမေရိကန်ဒေါ်လာ ၂ သန်း’ ပေးဖို့ မြန်မာအစိုးရကိုရိုဟင် ဂျာအမျိုးသမီးတဦးက တောင်းဆိုလိုက်ပါတယ်။

ပြီးခဲ့တဲ့ ၂၀၁၇ ခုနှစ်တုန်းက မြန်မာနိုင်ငံအနောက်ပိုင်း ရခိုင်ပြည်နယ်မှာ ဖြစ်ပွားခဲ့တဲ့ မြန်မာစစ်တပ်ရဲ့ အကြမ်း ဖက် ဖြိုခွဲမှုတွေအတွင်း စစ်သားတွေသတ်လို့ သေဆုံးသွားရတဲ့ သူမခင်ပွန်းအတွက် နစ်နာကြေး တောင်းဆို လိုက်တာလို့ ရှေ့နေတွေက ပြောပါတယ်။

ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာBhasan Char ကြ်န္းပို႔တဲ့အေပၚ ၿပည္ပေရာက္ ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာအေရး လွဳပ္ရွားသူေတြရဲ့ အၿမင္သေဘာထားမ်ား

VOA
ဗြီအိုုေအ (ျမန္မာဌာန)
12 ဒီဇင္ဘာ၊ 2020

 

Link : Here

ရိုဟင်ဂျာအမျိုးသမီးတစ်ဦးက ခင်ပွန်းသေဆုံးမှုအတွက် မြန်မာအစိုးရကို ဒေါ်လာနှစ်သန်း လျော်ကြေးတောင်း

VOM
Editor
ဒါကာ၊ ဒီဇင်ဘာ-၁၂-၂၀၂၀
မျိုးဆက် (VOM)

 ရခိုင်ပြည်နယ်မှာ ၂၀၁၇ ခုနှစ်ကပြုလုပ်ခဲ့တဲ့ မြန်မာတပ်မတော်ရဲ့ စစ်ဆင်ရေးအတွင်း ခင်ပွန်းဖြစ်သူသေဆုံးခဲ့ တဲ့အတွက် ရိုဟင်ဂျာအမျိုးသမီးတစ်ဦးဖြစ်သူ Setara Begumက မြန်မာအစိုးရဆီကနေ လျော်ကြေးငွေ ဒေါ် လာ နှစ်သန်းတောင်းခံနေတယ်လို့ အဲ့ဒီအမျိုးသမီးရဲ့ ရှေ့နေက ပြောပါတယ်။

Don’t worry about Rohingya relocation to Bhasan Char: Dhaka to UNHCR

theindepedent 

UNB, Dhaka
10 December, 2020

Bangladesh has conveyed to the UN refugee agency that the international community has no reason to worry about relocation of Rohingyas to Bhasan Char.

Permanent Representative of Bangladesh to the United Nations (UN) offices and other international organizations in Geneva Ambassador Md Mustafizur Rahman shared the logical points behind such voluntary relocation during a virtual meeting with UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)Filippo Grandi on Wednesday.

Ambassador Mustafizur said no Rohingya could be repatriated over the last three years due to lact of political will from Myanmar despite Bangladesh’s sincere efforts to send back the Rohingyas to their place of origin in Rakhine State.

Pakistan, Myanmar In US “Religious Freedom Violators” List

Newsnext

Newsnext Bangladesh
by our correspondent in Dhaka
December 9, 2020

Pakistan and Myanmar are among those listed for “religious freedom violators,” while neighbouring India’s status has been downgraded.

On Pakistan, it noted the condition has deteriorated with blasphemy and anti-Ahmedia laws have forced minority faiths to convert to Islam.

“The systematic enforcement of blasphemy and anti-Ahmadia laws, and authorities’ failure to address forced conversions of religious minorities — including Hindus, Christians, and Sikhs — to Islam, severely restricted freedom of religion or belief,” added the 2020 report noting that religious freedom conditions across Pakistan had continued to trend negatively.

UN expert wants scrutiny of conditions at Bhasan Char

Aljazeera
11 Dec 2020

An estimated 1,642 Rohingya were moved to the flood-prone island in the Bay of Bengal before the UN could assess the safety of the refugees.

Rohingya travel by boat to Bhasan Char island on December 4 [Mohammad Ponir Hossain/Reuters]

A United Nations human rights expert has called for an independent assessment on the conditions at Bhasan Char, the remote island in Bangladesh where more than a thousand Rohingya were taken earlier this month, as he condemned the world’s “failure” to take action to help the refugees return home to Myanmar.

The 1,642 Rohingya refugees were moved to Bhasan Char island before the UN could even determine whether or not the island was “suitable to safely host this vulnerable population”, said Tom Andrews, the special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar.

U.N., U.S. urge safety assessment of Bangladeshi island where Rohingya shipped

REUTERS

by Reuters

Thursday, 10 December 

Bangladesh moved Rohingya refugees to a flood-prone, remote island in the Bay of Bengal despite complaints by refugees and rights groups

Dec 10 (Reuters) - A U.N. human rights investigator urged Bangladesh on Thursday to allow a safety assessment of the remote island where the government shipped 1,600 Rohingya refugees last week, amid U.S. concern about plans to carry out further relocations.

The United Nations says it has not been allowed to conduct a technical and safety assessment of Bhasan Char, a flood-prone island in the Bay of Bengal, and was not involved in the transfer of refugees there.

Thomas Andrews, the U.N. human rights investigator for Myanmar, said the assessment as well as a verification process to ensure that refugees are not forced to go were in the "best interest of all".

"They will assure the government of Bangladesh of the suitability of Bhasan Char to host refugees or identify changes that might be necessary," he said in a statement.

"It will also assure that the government's policy of strict voluntary relocation to Bhasan Char is, indeed, being faithfully carried out."

U.S. voices concern about Bangladesh's relocation of Rohingya

REUTERS

By Reuters Staff

DECEMBER 10, 2020

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The United States on Thursday said it was concerned about Bangladesh’s relocation of 1,642 Rohingya refugees to Bhasan Char island and plans to carry out further moves, calling on Bangladesh to accept independent assessments of the move.

The United States also backed the United Nations in calling for any such relocations to be “fully voluntary and based on informed consent without pressure or coercion”, State Department spokesman Cale Brown said in a statement.

Bangladesh naval vessels moved the Rohingya refugees to the flood-prone, remote island in the Bay of Bengal on Dec. 4, despite complaints by refugees and rights groups that some were being coerced.

ရိုဟင်ဂျာတွေ Bhasan Char ကျွန်းပြောင်းတဲ့ကိစ္စ ဆန်းစစ် ဖို့ ကုလအထူးကိုယ်စားလှယ်တိုက်တွန်း

VOA

ဗွီအိုအေ (မြန်မာပိုင်း)
11 ဒီဇင်ဘာ၊ 2020

Bhasan Char ကျွန်းမှာ ရောက်ရှိနေကြတဲ့ ရိုဟင်ဂျာဒုက္ခသည်များ။ (ဒီဇင်ဘာ ၃၊ ၂၀၂၀)

 ဘင်္ဂလားဒေ့ရှ်နိုင်ငံ၊ Cox's Bazar မှာရှိတဲ့ ရိုဟင်ဂျာဒုက္ခသည်တွေကို ဘာဆန်ချာကျွန်းကို ပို့တဲ့အပေါ် သီးခြား လွတ်လပ်တဲ့ ဆန်းစစ်မှုတွေလုပ်ပြီး ဒီလူတွေအနေနဲ့ သူတို့ရဲ့ ဆန္ဒအလျောက်သွားတယ်ဆိုတာကို အတည်ပြု ဖို့ မြန်မာနိုင်ငံဆိုင်ရာ ကုလသမဂ္ဂ လူ့အခွင့်အရေး အထူးကိုယ်စားလှယ် Tom Andrews က တိုက်တွန်း လိုက် ပါတယ်။ ပြီးခဲ့တဲ့ရက်ပိုင်းက ဘင်္ဂလားဒေ့ရှ်နိုင်ငံက ဒုက္ခသည်စခန်းတွေမှာ ရှိတဲ့ ရိုဟင်ဂျာဒုက္ခသည်၁,၆၄၂ယောက် ကို ဘာဆန်ချာကျွန်းကို ဘင်္ဂလားဒေ့ရှ်အစိုးရက ရွှေ့ပြောင်းပေးခဲ့တာဖြစ်ပါတယ်။ ဒီလူတွေကို အဲဒီ ကျွန်းမှာဘေး ကင်းလုံခြုံစွာ ထားနိုင်ဖို့အတွက် သင့်တော်ရဲ့လားဆိုတာကို အတည်ပြုဖို ကုလသမဂ္ဂရဲ့ သီးခြား လွတ်လပ်တဲ့ အကဲဖြတ်ချက်မပါဘဲ ရွှေ့ပြောင်းလိုက်တဲ့အပေါ်မှာ စိုးရိမ်တယ်လို့ Tom Andrews ကပြော ပါ တယ်။

Bangladesh – Rohingya Response Operation Overview, November 2020

reliefweb
Logistics Cluster
WFP ,
9 Dec 2020

 

Fears of forced removals as Bangladesh moves hundreds of Rohingya refugees to remote island

KRDO

By CNN
Published December 8, 2020

 

Hundreds of Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh are being relocated to a controversial island facility in the Bay of Bengal today amid fears that some could be coerced to move there and held indefinitely.

A ship carrying 1642 refugees is traveling to Bhasan Char, an island about 40 kilometers (24 miles) off the coast near the city of Chittagong, according to Shahriar Alam, Bangladesh Minister of State for Foreign Affairs.

The Bangladeshi government has spent years constructing a network of shelters on the island to accommodate up to 100,000 people currently living in sprawling refugee camps in Cox’s Bazar, near the Myanmar border.

But human rights groups and the refugees themselves have long expressed concerns over the safety of the uninhabited, low-lying island, as it often becomes partially submerged during monsoon season and is vulnerable to cyclones.