India needs to be more open and cooperative

Prothum Alo------ 

Touhid Hossain
Updated: 18 December 2020, 

It was obvious that there would be no progress on the Teesta agreement during the talks this time. We have no alternative but to depend on India regarding the Teesta agreement. I do not expect the agreement to be signed when Narenda Modi comes to Dhaka in March next year.

Bangladesh won its independence through bloodshed and the liberation war of 1971 with the support of India. Bangladesh is grateful for this support from its close neighbour. Even after independence Bangladesh has received support and cooperation from India. We always want friendly relations with India.

More than 100 UK MPs want intervention in The Gambia’s Rohingya genocide case

The Daily Star 

Star Online Report
December 18, 2020

 

Photo: AFP/File 

More than 100 UK MPs have called on the British government to make an intervention supporting The Gambia's Rohingya genocide case at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), as human rights violations against the Rohingyas continue.

"Ending impunity is essential not only to ensure justice and uphold international law, but also to deter further international crimes by the military in Myanmar," according to a letter to the UK Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, Dominic Raab MP, issued on December 17.

Rohingya Women: A Life of Desperation

albawaba

Published December 17th, 2020

Stay in a squalid refugee camp -- hopeless, starving, and made to feel a burden -- or leave, risking death, rape, human trafficking and months at sea to reach a husband you've never met.

This is the bleak choice many Rohingya women, already scarred from fleeing violent persecution in Myanmar, are now facing.

As conditions deteriorate in increasingly overcrowded Bangladeshi refugee camps, desperate parents are marrying off their daughters to Rohingya men thousands of kilometers away in Malaysia.

Virtual weddings and international betrothals can seem an ideal solution.

US Pledges to Continue Support for Myanmar’s Democratic Transition

The Irrawaddy
By NAN LWIN
18 December 2020

YANGON — The United States has pledged to continue its support for Myanmar’s democratic transition and discussed cooperation on Rakhine State development, including creating a better environment for the Rohingya, according to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

In a teleconference with Myanmar’s international cooperation minister, U Kyaw Tin, the outgoing deputy US secretary of state, Stephen Biegun, on Thursday, praised the Nov. 8 general election and discussed positive cooperation over Rakhine State, the ministry said.

The ministry said in a press release that U Kyaw Tin and Biegun discussed long-term cooperation in Rakhine State, including creating a better environment for refugees.

Moving refugees to Bashan Char is not a solution to Bangladesh’s Rohingya problem

ARAB NEWS

DR. AZEEM IBRAHIM
December 18, 2020

Now that the government of Bangladesh seems finally to have recognized the fact that the Rohingya will be in the country for the long haul, it has started looking for long-term options for managing the huge refugee population.

Authorities in Dhaka are correct that holding more than one million people in cramped conditions at Cox’s Bazaar is not a sustainable solution. But the authorities are wrong to believe that moving some of them to Bashan Char will help to solve the problem.

104 British MPs ask UK govt to support ICJ Rohingya case

NEWAGE

Diplomatic Correspondent  

Published: Dec 18,2020

In this picture taken on October 13, 2020, Rohingya refugee Julekha Begum, who got married through IMO, a video-call application to ‘Abdu Hamid’ (a pseudonym), a Rohingya hotel worker in Malaysia, cries at her makeshift shelter at Kutupalong Rohingya refugee camp in Ukhia.– AFP photo

One hundred and four British parliamentarians from across parties have asked the UK government to formally engage at the International Court of Justice to prevent genocidal violence against the minority ethnic Rohingya people by the Myanmar government and the military by extending formal support to the case filed by the Gambia.

‘Ending impunity is essential not only to ensure justice and uphold international law, but also to deter further acts of genocide by the military and government in Myanmar,’ said the bipartisan parliamentarians in a joint memorandum to British secretary of state for foreign and commonwealth affairs Dominic Raab on Thursday. 

Sesame Street creates Rohingya muppets for refugee children

B B C 

18 December 2020

The US children's show Sesame Street has created two new muppets to help deliver early years education to Rohingya children living in the world's largest refugee camp.

Noor and Aziz are six-year-old twins who will feature in a series of educational videos for children living in Bangladesh's Cox's Bazar.

Since 2017, more than 700,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled a brutal army crackdown in neighbouring Myanmar.

ဂမ်ဘီယာက ICJ မှာ မြန်မာကိုစွဲချက်တဲ့အမှု တနှစ်ပြည့်ပေ မယ့် ပြောင်းလဲမှုမရှိသေး (ရိုဟင်ဂျာအရေး တက်ကြွလှုပ် ရှားသူ)

VOA

ဗွီအိုအေ (မြန်မာပိုင်း)
19 ဒီဇင်ဘာ၊ 2020 

ICJ နိုင်ငံတကာတရားရုံးမှာ ဂမ်ဘီယာက မြန်မာကို လူမျိုးတုန်းသတ်ဖြတ်မှု စွဲချက်နဲ့ တရားစွဲဆိုထားတာ တနှစ်ပြည့်သွားပြီဖြစ်ပေမဲ့ ရခိုင်ပြည်နယ်မှာ ရိုဟင်ဂျာတွေရဲ့ အခြေအနေဟာ ဘာမှ ပြောင်းလဲတိုးတက်  ခြင်း မရှိသေးဘူးလို့ ပြည်ပရောက် ရိုဟင်ဂျာတွေက ပြောဆိုလိုက်ပါတယ်။ ကုလသမဂ္ဂလုံခြုံရေးကောင်စီအနေနဲ့ ကြားဝင်ဆောင်ရွက်ဖို့လည်း တောင်းဆိုခဲ့ကြပါတယ်။

ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာဒုကၡသည္ေတြကို လူကုန္ကူးတဲ့ကြန္ရက္

ေမာင္း
By Maun Writer
December 18, 2020

ဘဂၤလားေဒရွ႕္ ဒုကၡသည္စခန္းေတြ မွာ ေနထိုင္ေနတဲ့ ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာ ဒုကၡသည္ေတြကို မေလးရွားနိုင္ငံကို ပို႔ေပး မယ္လို႔ ဆိုၿပီး စည္း႐ုံးေျပာဆိုကာ လူကုန္ကူးမႈေတြ ရွိေနတယ္လို႔ AFP သတင္း ဌာန က စုံစမ္းေဖာ္ထုတ္ခဲ့ ပါတယ္။

ဘဂၤလားေဒ့ရွ္ စခန္းေတြက ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာ ဒုကၡသည္ေတြကို မေလးရွားကို ပို႔ေဆာင္ေပးတဲ့ လူကုန္ကူးမႈဟာ ဆန္း ၿပား ရႈပ္ေထြးၿပီး စခန္းတြင္းက လူေတြ အဓိက ပါဝင္ပတ္သတ္ေနတဲ့ ေဒၚလာ သန္းခ်ီတဲ့ လုပ္ငန္းျဖစ္တယ္လို႔ AFP သတင္းမွာ ေဖာ္ျပထား ပါတယ္။

အင္းဒင္ရြာ အသတ္ခံရသူတစ္ဦးရဲ့ဇနီး ေဒၚလာ ႏွစ္သန္း နစ္နာေၾကးေတာင္း

လြတ္လပ္တဲ့အာရွအသံ ( RFA )
ျမန္မာဌာန | သတင္းမ်ား
ေက်ာ္လြင္ဦး
2020-12-18

ဆဲသာရာေဘဂမ္ (Setara Begum ) ရဲ့ ခင္ပြန္းျဖစ္သူ အသက္ ၂၃ ႏွစ္အရြယ္ ေရွာ္ကတ္အုလႅာ (Shoket Ullah) ဟာ ၂၀၁၇ ခုႏွစ္ စက္တင္ဘာလက အင္းဒင္ေက်းရြာမွာ အစုလိုက္ အျပဳံလိုက္ သတ္ျဖတ္မႈခံရၿပီး ေျမျမႇုပ္ခံလိုက္ရတဲ့ အမ်ိဳးသား ၁၀ ေယာက္ထဲက တစ္ေယာက္ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။

၂၀၁၇ ခုႏွစ္က ရခိုင္ျပည္နယ္ ေျမာက္ပိုင္းမွာ တပ္မေတာ္ရဲ့ နယ္ေျမရွင္းလင္းေရးအတြင္း ေရွာ္ကတ္အုလႅာ အပါအဝင္ အင္းဒင္ေက်းရြာက ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာ ၁၀ ေယာက္ သတ္ျဖတ္ခံခဲ့ရပါတယ္။

National committee formed to coordinate Rohingya-related activities

The Daily Star 

BSS, Dhaka
Thursday, December 17, 2020

The government has formed a national committee to coordinate and manage overall activities, including controlling law and order, of the forcibly displaced Myanmar-nationals in the camp areas of Bangladesh.

The Cabinet Division has formed a 17-member committee for coordinating, managing and maintaining law and order of Rohingyas by publishing a gazette where the home minister has been made its convener.

Part II: Refugees trafficking network’s route to false salvation

MYANMAR TIMES 

AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE
17 DEC 2020

Northern Rakhine Muslim refugees alight from a ship that brought them to Aceh Indonesia in June. Photo: AFP

 

For the northern Rakhine Muslim refugees, escaping the Bangladesh camp starts with a down payment that can reach the equivalent of $2,000, often paid by a northern Rakhine Muslim's husband or other relatives in Malaysia using mobile banking applications.

 

Refugees then get a phone call typically from someone they do not know.

"The call came after a few days and a man instructed us to go to the rickshaw stand in the main food market area of the camp," said 20-year-old Julekha Begum, who married a northern Rakhine Muslim man in Malaysia via a video chat app.

This Week’s Under-reported News Summary – Dec. 16, 2020

Between the lines
Compiled by Bob Nixon
Dec. 3, 2020 

• Halt relocation of Rohingya refugees to remote island
• Making coal history
• NYPD cops cash in sex trade arrests with little evidence

 Thousands of Rohingya refugees, who fled mass violence in Myanmar are being relocated to an uninhabited island in the Bay of Bengal, named Bhasan Char. In early December, Bangladeshi authorities transported over 1,600 refugees there from a massive camp on the border with Myanmar. Human rights groups protested the move, charging that the refugees were forcibly relocated to the island. Facilities there had not been inspected by the United Nations. Bangladesh plans to send a total of 100,000 refugees to low-lying Bhasan Char, which is vulnerable to cyclones and other dangerous storms.

Traffickers: Selling False Dreams To The Rohingya

THE ASEAN POST
Athira Nortajuddin 

16 December 2020 

This photo taken on 25 June, 2020 shows six-year-old Nosmin Fatima (R) with other Rohingya migrants as they arrive in Lhokseumawe in North Aceh. (AFP Photo)

 

From Rakhine state in Myanmar, the Rohingya are an ethnic community of largely Muslim people. Perhaps a million of them have fled from violence in the ASEAN member state in successive waves of displacement since the early 1990s. In 2017, hundreds of thousands more fled Myanmar to escape persecution, war crimes and alleged genocide.

Today, over 900,000 Rohingya live in camps in Cox’s Bazar in southeast Bangladesh – the world’s largest refugee settlement. Some have escaped to other neighbouring countries such as Malaysia and Indonesia – said to be among the Rohingya’s favoured destinations.

‘What choice do we have?’

The Daily Star

AFP, Kutupalong
December 17, 2020 

After escaping prosecution in Myanmar, Rohingya women face odyssey of misery

In this file photo taken on September 7, 2020, Rohingya migrants look on following their arrival by boat in Lhokseumawe, Aceh, Indonesia. Photo: AFP

 

Stay in a squalid refugee camp -- hopeless, starving, and made to feel a burden -- or leave, risking death, rape, human trafficking and months at sea to reach a husband you've never met.

This is the bleak choice many Rohingya women, already scarred from fleeing violent persecution in Myanmar, are now facing.

As conditions deteriorate in increasingly overcrowded Bangladeshi refugee camps, desperate parents are marrying off their daughters to Rohingya men thousands of kilometres (miles) away in Malaysia.

ေသဆုံးၿပီ ထင္ကာ ဇနီးနဲ႔ သမီးကို အသုဘခ်ၿပီးမွ ျပန္လည္ ဆုံဆည္းနိုင္ခဲ့တဲ့ ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာ မိသားစု

မဇၥ်ိမ

ဒီဇင္ဘာ ၁၇ ၊ ၂၀၂၀

                                                                 Photo: AFP

ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာအမ်ိဳးသား နီမတ္ရွာဟာ သူ႔ဆီ လာဖို႔ႀကိဳးစားရင္း သူ႔ဇနီးနဲ႔ သမီးဟာ ပင္လယ္ျပင္မွာ ေသဆုံးခဲ့ရၿပီ လို႔ ယူဆၿပီး အသုဘခ်ေပးခဲ့ပါတယ္။

သီတင္းပတ္ေတြအၾကာမွာေတာ့ အင္ဒိုနီးရွားက ဒုကၡသည္ေလွတစ္စင္းေပၚမွာ သူ႔သမီးနဲ႔ ဇနီးရဲ့ ဓာတ္ပုံကို အြန္လိုင္းကေန ေတြ႕လိုက္ခ်ိန္မွာေတာ့ ၾကက္ေသေသသြားေအာင္ အံ့ဩဝမ္းသာသြားခဲ့ပါတယ္။

အခုလို ပုံဝတၳဳဆန္တဲ့ မိသားစု ျပန္လည္ေပါင္းစည္းနိုင္တဲ့ အေၾကာင္းကို ေအအက္ဖ္ပီရဲ့ ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာေတြ လူ ကုန္ ကူးခံရအေၾကာင္း ေထာက္လွမ္းစုံစမ္းေရးသတင္းမွာ နီမတ္ရွာက ျပန္ေျပာင္းေျပာဆိုတာ ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။

အာရကန် (ရခိုင်ပြည်နယ်) မြန်မာနိုင်ငံအေနာက်ဘက်ဒေ သမှ ပဋိပက္ခမြေ

႐ိုဟင္ဂ်ာဒုကၡသည္နဲ႔ လူကုန္ကူးမႈကြန္ယက္

VOA

ဗြီအိုုေအ (ျမန္မာဌာန)

မသိဂႌထုိက္

16 ဒီဇင္ဘာ၊ 2020 

ေလွတစင္းေပၚေတြ႔ရတဲ့ ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာ ဒုကၡသည္မ်ား။ (ၾသဂုတ္ ၂၆၊ ၂၀၂၀)

ဘဂၤလားေဒ့ရွ္ စခန္းေတြက ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာ ဒုကၡသည္ေတြကို မေလးရွားကို ပို႔ေဆာင္ေပးတဲ႔ လူကုန္ကူးမႈဟာ ဆန္း ၿပား ရႈပ္ေထြးၿပီး စခန္းတြင္းက လူေတြ အဓိက ပါ၀င္ပတ္သတ္ေနတဲ႔ ေဒၚလာ သန္းခ်ီတဲ့ လုပ္ငန္းျဖစ္တယ္ ဆို တာကို ဒီ လူကုန္ကူးမႈ ကြန္ရက္ထဲမွာ ပါတဲ႔ သူေတြနဲ႔ စံုစမ္း ေမးျမန္းမႈကေန ထြက္ေပၚလာပါတယ္။ လူ ၁,၀၀၀ ဆန္႔တဲ့ ထိုင္း မွတ္ပံုတင္ ငါးဖမ္း သေဘာၤေတြ၊ ၿဂိဳဟ္တုဖုန္းေတြ၊ ေထာက္ပံ႔ေရး ေရယာဥ္ငယ္၊ ဘဂၤ လားေဒရွ္႕ စခန္းေတြနဲ႔ အေရွ႕ေတာင္ အာရွ တလႊားက လာဘ္စားတဲ႔ အာဏာပိုင္ေတြဟာ ဒီကြန္ယက္ႀကီး ထဲ မွာ ပါ၀င္ ပတ္သက္ေနတယ္လို႔ AFP ရဲ႕ စံုစမ္းေဖာ္ထုတ္ထားတဲ႔ ေဆာင္းပါးက ေဖာ္ျပပါတယ္။ မသိဂၤ ီထုိက္ တင္ျပေပးမွာပါ။

၁၁၈)ကြိမ်မြောက်ထုတ်ဝေသည့် ရုရှားနိုင်ငံ၏ နိုင်ငံရေးစာ စောင်တစ်ခုဖြစ်သည့် Politics Magazine တွင် ရုရှား-မြန်မာ ချစ်ကြည်ရေးအသင်း၏ဥက္ကဋ္ဌ Mr.Mikhail Dmitriev ရေး သား ဖော်ပြထားသောဆောင်းပါး

(၁၁၈)ကြိမ်မြောက်ထုတ်ဝေသည့် ရုရှားနိုင်ငံ၏ နိုင်ငံရေးစာစောင်တစ်ခုဖြစ်သည့် Politics Magazine တွင် ရုရှား- မြန်မာ ချစ်ကြည်ရေးအသင်း၏ဥက္ကဋ္ဌ Mr.Mikhail Dmitriev ရေးသားဖော်ပြထားသော ''တောင့်တင်းခိုင်မာသော တပ်မတော်သည် အမိမြေ ငြိမ်းချမ်းသာယာရေး၏ အာမခံချက်ဖြစ်သည်''ခေါင်းစဉ်ပါ ပြည်ထောင်စု သမ္မတမြန်မာနိုင်ငံတော် တပ်မတော် ကာကွယ်ရေး ဦးစီးချုပ် ဗိုလ်ချုပ်မှူးကြီး မင်းအောင်လှိုင်အကြောင်း ဆောင်းပါးအား ဘာသာပြန်ဆိုရေးသားဖော်ပြခြင်း

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(၁၁၇)ကြိမ်မြောက်ထုတ်ဝေခဲ့သော Politics Magazine တွင် ရေးသားဖော်ပြခဲ့သော ဆောင်းပါး တစ်ပုဒ် ဖြစ် သည့် ''တပ်မတော်သည် နိုင်ငံတစ်နိုင်ငံ၏ ငြိမ်းချမ်းရေးနှင့် အချုပ်အခြာအာဏာ နယ်နိမိတ်တည်တံ့ ခိုင်မြဲရေး အတွက် အာမခံချက်ဖြစ်သည်'' ခေါင်းစဉ်ပါ ဆောင်းပါးကို မိမိအနေဖြင့် အမှတ်ရနေမိပါသည်။

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