Video shows Rohingya refugees beaten by traffickers on boat

TRT World Now
Dec 16, 2020

AFP news agency has obtained video evidence showing brutal treatment that Rohingya refugees are facing at the hands of the traffickers. We speak to Co-founder at Free Rohingya Coalition Nay San Lwin.

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Video shows smugglers beating Rohingya on trafficking boat

Aljazeera
15 Dec 2020

 

This video grab taken on December 4, 2020 from an AFPTV video shows Rohingya refugees in a boat in Chakmarkul on August 26, 2020 [AFP]

Smugglers mercilessly beat rake-thin refugees crowded onto a fishing boat, in a video obtained by AFP news agency that shows rarely seen images from the front lines of the Rohingya trafficking network.

Filmed on a mobile phone by a smuggler who later fled the vessel, the video shows dozens of asylum seekers, including children, sitting in the hull and on the deck as smugglers stand among them.

Commission redistributes nearly £200,000 to Rohingya refugees as two trustees are disqualified

Charity Today

15/12/2020

A Charity Commission inquiry, published today (Tuesday 15 December), is highly critical of a pair who raised money for Rohingya refugees but could not show how all funds were used.

The Commission has redistributed approximately £196,000 of the money Mr Mohammed Hasnath and Ms Ruksana Ali (the former trustees) raised and both have been removed as trustees from the fund and disqualified.

The former trustees operated two online fundraising platforms, creating a fund for Rohingya refugees. Whilst they never registered the fund as a charity, its stated purpose made it charitable under the law.

Over 2,000 houses destroyed by fire in Rakhine conflict

Narinjara
Tuesday, December 15, 2020 

 

Ein Soe Pru — Nearly 2005 houses were burnt during the two-year long war in Rakhine State and Paletwa township of Chin State, said a report released by Rakhine Ethnics Congress (REC).

Some of the houses caught fire from artillery shells but most were set on fire by the troops, added the report.

The reported damaged houses belong to eight villages under Buthidaung township (163 houses), 14 villages under Kyauktaw township (1275 houses ), 9 villages under Rathedaung township (69 houses), four villages under Mrauk-U township (210 houses) and one village under Minbya township (28 houses).

Rohingya trafficking network sells dreams, delivers violence and extortion

FRANCH 24 

Cox's Bazar (Bangladesh) (AFP)

Issued on: 15/12/2020 - 

A months-long AFP investigation uncovered mobile phone images taken by a smuggler aboard a boat - AFP

Auto rickshaws slip easily past barbed-wire checkpoints at the world's biggest refugee camp, their drivers among the smallest players in a complex human trafficking network involving high-seas extortion gangs, corrupt police and drug lords.

Aboard the spluttering rickshaws are small groups of young men, women and children hoping to escape the misery of life with other members of their stateless Rohingya group who are crowded into shanties in Bangladesh.

Smugglers beat Rohingya on trafficking boat

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Agence France-Presse
Cox's Bazar,Bangladesh
Dec 15, 2020

Filmed on a phone by a smuggler who later fled the vessel, the video shows asylum seekers sitting in the hull and on the deck as smugglers stand among them

Smugglers mercilessly beat rake-thin refugees crowded onto a fishing boat, in a video obtained by the Agence France-Presse (AFP) that shows rarely seen images from the frontlines of the Rohingya trafficking network.

Why Is Jordan Selling Arms to the Sanctioned Myanmar Military?

Published December 15th, 2020

A report published lately by the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project has revealed a Jordanian role in supporting efforts of the military in Myanmar to acquire European-manufactured aircrafts, in an attempt to circumvent international sanctions on the Tatmadaw.

Video chat only hope for divided Rohingya couple

FRANCH 24

Kutupalong (Bangladesh) (AFP)
Issued on: 15/12/2020

 

Rohingya refugee Julekha Begum is stuck in a camp in Bangladesh; her husband, who she married via video call, lives in Malaysia Munir UZ ZAMAN AFP

 

 
The human traffickers told Julekha Begum it would take less than a week to smuggle her to Malaysia to meet the husband she barely knows.

Instead she spent two months marooned at sea in the hold of a fishing boat with 500 others. In that time, she said traffickers beat her sister to death and threw countless bodies into the sea.

လူကုန္ကူးကြန္ရက္ရဲ့ သားေကာင္ျဖစ္ေနရရွာတဲ့ ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာ မ်ား

မဇၥ်ိမ
By AFP
15 December 2020

 Photo: AFP

ငါးဖမ္းေလွနဲ႔တင္ေဆာင္လာတဲ့ ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာဒုကၡသည္ေတြကို လူေမွာင္ခိုကူးသူေတြက ရက္ရက္စက္ စက္ ရိုက္ႏွက္ေနတဲ့ ဗီဒီယိုဖိုင္တစ္ခုကို AFP က ရရွိခဲ့ၿပီး ဒါဟာ ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာလူေမွာင္ခိုကူးကြန္ရက္ေရွ႕တန္းမ်က္ ႏွာ စာမွာ ျဖစ္ပ်က္ေနတာေတြကို ရွားရွားပါးပါး ျမင္ေတြ႕လိုက္ရတာျဖစ္ပါတယ္။

ေနာက္ပိုင္းမွာ ေရယာဥ္ကေနထြက္ေျပးသြားတဲ့ ေမွာင္ခိုကူးသူတစ္ေယာက္က မိုဘိုင္းဖုန္းနဲ႔ရိုက္ထားတဲ့ ဗီဒီ ယိုဖိုင္ထဲမွာ ကေလးေတြအပါအဝင္ ခိုလႈံခြင့္ရွာသူ ဒါဇင္ေပါင္းမ်ားစြာဟာ ေလွကုန္းပတ္နဲ႔ စင္ေတြေပၚမွာ ထိုင္ ေနၾကတာကို ေတြ႕ျမင္ရပါတယ္။

Int’l community must acknowledge its policy to Rohingya failed: UN expert

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Prothom Alo English Desk

Updated: 11 December 2020, 11:36

It was reasonable for the Bangladesh government to seek to create options for the refugees who desire alternatives to the mega camps in Cox’s Bazar, said Thomas Andrews, the UN special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar

 

Rohingya camps south of Cox's Bazar in southeast Bangladesh that now make up the world's largest refugee settlement, home to more than 900,000 people. Balukhali camp, Bangladesh, on 28 January 2019Thomson Reuters Foundation

 
The UN special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar Thomas Andrews on Thursday said the international community must acknowledge that after three years its policy with respect to the Rohingya refugees has failed, reports news agency UNB.

ANALYSIS - Anti-Rohingya monk promotes Myanmar ‘Buddhist’ nationalism

AA

Maung Zarni

LONDON 

14.12.2020 

Monk’s description of ‘Buddhists truths’ superior to Universal Declaration of Human Rights is far from ground realities.

The writer is a Burmese coordinator of the Free Rohingya Coalition and a fellow of the Genocide Documentation Center in Cambodia.

Exuding a palpable sense of spiritual and cultural superiority, a genocide-denying Myanmar Buddhist monk declared Myanmar’s “true nationalism” which is anchored in the “universal declaration of Buddhist truths” to be even superior to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

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

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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

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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.

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