Bangladesh PM calls for Turkey’s involvement in Rohingya repatriation to Myanmar

bdnews24.com

Staff Correspondent, bdnews24.com
Published: 24 Dec 2020 

Photo: PID

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has urged Turkey to get involved in the process of repatriation of the Rohingya refugees to Myanmar to ensure return to their homeland.

She made the call when visiting Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu met her at the Ganabhaban on Wednesday, her Deputy Press Secretary Hasan Jahid Tusher said at a media briefing.

Bangladesh has long been calling on the international community to pile more pressure on Myanmar to take back their displaced Rohingya nationals in a safe, dignified and sustainable repatriation.

British Banks Tied to A Military Accused of Genocide

BYLINE TIMES 

 Steve Shaw
24 December 2020

Photo: Dominic Lipinski/PA Archive/PA Images

Steve Shaw reports on the loans that connect British banks to a telecommunications firm that provides money for Myanmar’s military, which has been accused of genocide

Standard Chartered and HSBC have provided tens of millions in loans to Viettel Global Investment, a defence company owned by the Vietnamese Government and the biggest investor in Mytel, a telecommunications firm part-owned by Myanmar’s military. Along with being the biggest shareholder in Mytel, Viettel is authorised to provide Myanmar with “defence and security products”.

Japan wants start of Rohingya repatriation process next year: envoy

The Daily Star

UNB, Dhaka
December 24, 2020 

 

Photo courtesy: UNB

 

Japanese Ambassador to Bangladesh Ito Naoki today said they want to see the start of Rohingya repatriation process next year.

"We would like to see the start of repatriation process next year. Japan will continue to help," he told diplomatic correspondents at DCAB Talk at Jatiya Press Club.

Diplomatic Correspondents Association, Bangladesh (DCAB) hosted the DCAB Talk with its President Angur Nahar Monty in the chair. DCAB General Secretary Touhidur Rahman also spoke.

The Japanese Ambassador said they are communicating directly with top military officials and at the government level on the Rohingya crisis.

Rohingya Complain About Myanmar’s Relocation Plans to ‘Flooded’ Camp

The Irrawaddy 

Khine Rola
23 December 2020

Rohingya at the Kyauk Ta Lone camp. / Ko Phyu Che

Sittwe — The Rakhine State government is planning to relocate a camp for displaced Rohingya Muslims near Kyauk Ta Lone pagoda in Kyaukphyu Township.

The plan to close the camp is part of a national resettlement strategy by the Ministry of Social Welfare, Relief and Resettlement adopted in 2018.

Land has been developed near Gone Chein village around 200 meters from the Kyauk Ta Lone camp to resettle the Rohingya and home building will begin soon, according to the state government.

“The current camp is only a shelter but the new camp will have detached houses like a village,” said state municipal minister U Win Myint.

The Politics of Losing Home

The Daily Star  

Md Touhid Hossain
December 24, 2020

COLLAGE: Kazi Akib Bin Asad

In August 2017, the Myanmar military perpetrated a genocide on the Rohingyas, an ethnic group residing in Northern Rakhine. Large numbers of Rohingyas were killed, women and girls were raped, villages burnt and upwards of 800,000 men, women and children were driven out of their homes. They crossed the border into Bangladesh to save their lives and are now sheltered in camps in Teknaf and Ukhia, in the southern tip of Bangladesh.

Although this outrageous event was sort of a 'final solution', atrocities on Rohingyas have a long history. The first mass expulsion took place in 1977-78 when 250,000 were driven across the border. Most of them were sent back through negotiations. However, following the second mass expulsion in 1989-90, many of the 250,000 refugees could not be sent back. Meanwhile, the Burmese Citizenship Act of 1982 disenfranchised the Rohingyas of their citizenship. Under continued atrocities by the military and the local Rakhines led by extremist Buddhist monks, a slow exodus continued till 2016, when another 80,000 were expelled. At least 300,000 Rohingyas were displaced in Bangladesh before 2017.

'What choice do we have?': Rohingya women face odyssey of misery

THE Edition

24 December 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 kilometres (miles) away in Malaysia.

Wed by phone or video apps, the girls have little say in such unions and rely on occasional calls to build a relationship with their new partners as they begin treacherous journeys to reach them.

၂ဝ၁၇ ခုႏွစ္အေရးအခင္းအတြင္း မီးထဲပါသြားသည့္ ေမာင္ေတာၿမိဳ႕နယ္မွ ေနအိမ္အလုံး၅ဝဝကို UEHRD က ေဆာက္ေပးမည္

နိရဥၥရာ၊
ေဆာင္းဇာျခည္
ဒီဇင္ဘာ ၂၄/ ၂ဝ၂ဝ

ရခိုင္ျပည္နယ္၊ ေမာင္ေတာၿမိဳ႕နယ္တြင္ ၂ဝ၁၇ ခုႏွစ္ အေရးအခင္းအတြင္း မီးေလာင္ပ်က္စီးသြားသည့္ ေက်း  ရြာႏွင့္ ရပ္ကြက္မ်ားမွ မူဆလင္ ေက်းရြာသားမ်ားအတြက္ ရခိုင္ျပည္နယ္အတြင္း လူသားခ်င္းစာနာမႈ အကူ အညီအေထာက္အပံ့ေပးေရး၊ျပန္လည္ေနရာခ်ထားေရးဖြံ့ၿဖိဳးေရးစီမံကိန္း (UEHRD) က ေနအိမ္မ်ား ေဆာက္ လုပ္ ေပးသြားမည္ျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း သတင္းရရွိသည္။

အဆိုပါ ေက်းရြာႏွင့္ ရပ္ကြက္မ်ားမွာ ေမာင္ေတာၿမိဳ႕ရွိ ၿမိဳ႕မအေရွ႕ရပ္ကြက္၊ ၿမိဳ႕ဦးရပ္ကြက္၊ ငါးခူရ၊ ေက်ာက္ ေလွ ကား၊ သီဟိုကၽြန္းေက်းရြာ၊ ပဒင္း၊ အလယ္သံေက်ာ္၊ က်ားေခါင္းေတာင္ေက်းရြာ တို႔ျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း၊ တစ္ ဖက္နို္င္ငံသို႔ ထြက္မေျပးဘဲ က်န္ေနခဲ့သူမ်ား၏ ေနအိမ္မ်ားျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း ေမာင္ေတာခရိုင္အုပ္ခ်ဳပ္ေရးမႉး ဦးစိုး ေအာင္က ေျပာသည္။

ရခိုင္ဘက္မွလာသည့္ မူဆလင္အမ်ိဳးသမီး ၁၂ ဦး၊ အမ်ိဳး သား တစ္ဦးတို႔ကို ဘုန္းႀကီးေက်ာင္းသုံး ယဥ္တစ္စီးႏွင့္ အတူ ျပည္ၿမိဳ႕တြင္ဖမ္းမိ

နိရဥၥရာ
အိမ္စိုးျဖဴ
ဒီဇင္ဘာ ၂၄/ ၂ဝ၂ဝ

ပဲခူးတိုင္း၊ ျပည္ၿမိဳ႕၊ေက်ာင္းႀကီးအိုးတန္းရပ္ကြက္၊ ေရႊဘုန္းပြင့္ဘုရားအနီးတြင္ ရခိုင္ဘက္မွလာသည့္ ဘုန္းႀကီး ေက်ာင္းသုံး ကားတစ္စီးေပၚတြင္ မူဆလင္ အမ်ိဳးသမီး ၁၂ ဦးႏွင့္ အမ်ိဳးသားတစ္ဦးတို႔ကို ယေန႔ ေန႔လယ္ ၁ နာရီခြဲခန္႔က ဖမ္းဆီးရမိခဲ့ေၾကာင္း သတင္းရရွိသည္။

၄င္းတို႔ အမ်ိဳးသမီးမ်ားမွာ အသက္ ၂ဝ ဝန္းက်င္မ်ားျဖစ္ၾကၿပီး ရခိုင္ျပည္နယ္ ေမာင္ေတာဘက္မွ မူဆလင္မ်ား ျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း၊ ဖမ္းဆီးစဥ္ ယာဥ္ေမာင္းႏွင့္ သံဃၤာတစ္ပါး ထြက္ေျပးလြတ္ေျမာက္သြားေၾကာင္း ျပည္ၿမိဳ႕နယ္ ရဲမႉး သန္းေဇာ္ဝင္းက နိရဥၥရာသတင္းဌာနသို႔ အတည္ျပဳေျပာၾကားသည္။

ျပည္ၿမိဳ႕ လူစည္ကားရာ ၿမိဳ႕လယ္၌ တရားမဝင္ နယ္စပ္ ၿဖတ္ေက်ာ္ ဝင္ေရာက္လာသည့္ ( ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာ )မြတ္ဆလင္ ၁၃ ဦးအား ဘုန္းေတာ္ႀကီးေက်ာင္းအမည္တပ္ ကားေပၚ တြင္ ဖမ္းဆီး ရမိ

ELEVEN 

Published 24 December 2020

ဝေလင္း (ၿပည္) 

 ပဲခူးတိုင္းေဒသႀကီး (အေနာက္ပိုင္း)၊ ျပည္ၿမိဳ႕ လူစည္ကားရာ ၿမိဳ႕လယ္တြင္ တရားမဝင္ နယ္စပ္ျဖတ္ေက်ာ္ ဝင္ေရာက္လာသည့္ ( ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာ )မြတ္ဆလင္ ၁၃ ဦးအား ဘုန္းေတာ္ႀကီးေက်ာင္းအမည္တပ္ ကားေပၚ တြင္ ဖမ္းဆီးရမိခဲ့ေၾကာင္း ၿမိဳ႕နယ္ရဲတပ္ဖြဲ႕မႉး႐ုံးမွ သိရသည္။

အဆိုပါ ေမာ္ေတာ္ယာဥ္ႏွင့္ တရားမဝင္ နယ္စပ္ျဖတ္ေက်ာ္လာသူမ်ားကို ဒီဇင္ဘာ၂၄ ရက္ မြန္းလြဲ ၁ နာရီခန႔္ က ျပည္ၿမိဳ႕၊ ေက်ာင္းႀကီးအိုးတန္းရပ္ကြက္အနီးတြင္ ဖမ္းဆီးရမိခဲ့ျခင္းျဖစ္ၿပီး COVID-19 သံသယ လူနာ မ်ား ႏွင့္ ေစာင့္ၾကည့္မ်ားထားရွိရာ သူနာျပဳစခန္းသို႔ ပို႔ေဆာင္ထားရွိေၾကာင္း သိရသည္။

ဟိႏၵဴဘာသာေရးဗဟိုအဖြဲ႕ခ်ဳပ္ကို ဗိုလ္ခ်ဳပ္မႉးႀကီး မင္းေအာင္လွိဳင္ က သိန္း ၂၀၀ လႉဒါန္း

VOM 

ဒီဇင္ဘာ ၂၄ . ၂၀၂၀
ယဥ္ပပထြန္း ( VOM)

ရန္ကုန္ၿမိဳ႕၊ ဗိုလ္ေအာင္ေက်ာ္ အလယ္ဘေလာက္မွာရွိတဲ့ သၽွရီ သၽွရီ စႏၵီဘုရားေက်ာင္းကို ဒီကေန႔ ညေန ၃ နာရီက တပ္မေတာ္ကာကြယ္ေရးဦးစီးခ်ဳပ္ ဗိုလ္ခ်ဳပ္မႉးႀကီးမင္းေအာင္လွိုင္လာေရာက္ၿပီး ဟိႏၵဴဘာသာေရး ဗဟိုအဖြဲ႕ခ်ဳပ္အတြက္ ေငြက်ပ္သိန္း ၂၀၀ လႉဒါန္းမူျပဳလုပ္ခဲ့ပါတယ္ ။

” ဗိုလ္ခ်ဳပ္မႉးႀကီး မင္းေအာင္လွိုင္နဲ႔တပ္မေတာ္အရာရွိေတြက ဟိႏၵိဴဘာသာေရးဗဟိုအဖြဲ႕ခ်ဳပ္ကို အလႉေငြေ တြနဲ႔အတူ ကိုဗစ္ကာကြယ္တဲ့ပစၥည္ေတြလာေရာက္လႉဒါန္းတာပါ ။ ေငြကေတာ့ ဒီႏွစ္မွာ သိန္း ၂၀၀ လႉတာပါ။ မႏွစ္က စက္တင္ဘာ ၁၇ ရက္ကလည္း အလႉေငြ ၇၇ သိန္းနဲ႔အစားအေသာက္ေတြလႉပါတယ္။ 

AA နှင့်တပ်မတော်၊ တပ်မတော်နှင့် NLD ရိုဟင်ဂျာတို့အရေး

ရန်ကုန်ခေတ်သစ်
24 December 2020

 

 မြန်မာပြည်မှာ မျက်စိမှိတ်ပြီးတော့ အမှောင်ထဲမှာ ဗေဒင်ဟောရသလိုပဲ။ တပ်က AAနဲ့ တွေ့နေပြီ မူဆလင် ရိုဟင်ဂျာဆိုတဲ့ စကားလုံးကို စကားလုံးကို စသုံးတယ်။ ဆိုတော့ တပ်ကဘယ်လိုသွားမလဲ။ NLD အစိုးရက ဘယ် လိုသွားမလဲ။ ဗန်းစကားနဲ့ပြောမယ်ဆိုရင် ရွှီးနေတာလား"

အပြည်ပြည်ဆိုင်ရာ တရားရုံးICJ က ၎င်းတို့ချမှတ်ထားသော ကြားဖြတ်အမိန့်များကို အကောင် အထည်ဖော် ခြင်းရှိ၊ မရှိစောင့်ကြည့်စိစစ်မည့် ကော်မတီတစ်ရပ် (ad Hoc committee) ကို ဖွဲ့စည်းလိုက်ကြောင်း ICJ က ဒီဇင်ဘာလ ၂၁ ရက်နေ့က သတင်းထုတ်ပြန်သည်။

OIC အဖြဲ႕ တ႐ုတ္နဖားႀကိဳးထိုးခံေနရဟု ကန္မြတ္စလင္ မ်ား ေဝဖန္

M-Media
ဒီဇင္ဘာ ၂၃၊ ၂၀၂၀

ဝီဂါမြတ္စလင္ေတြကို တ႐ုတ္အစိုးရက ဖိႏွိပ္ညႇင္းပမ္းရာမွာ OIC အဖြဲ႕က ပူးေပါင္းကူညီေပးေနတယ္လို႔ အေ မရိ ကန္မွာရွိတဲ့ မြတ္စလင္အဖြဲ႕အစည္းေတြက ေျပာၾကားလိုက္ပါတယ္။

အစၥလာမ္ဘာသာဝင္ အမ်ားစုရွိတဲ့ နိုင္ငံေပါင္း ၅၇ နိုင္ငံပါဝင္တဲ့ OIC အဖြဲ႕ဟာ ကမၻာတစ္ဝွမ္းမွာ အစၥလာမ္ ဘာ သာ၀င္ေတြ ဖိႏွိပ္ညႇင္းပမ္းခံရမႈေတြအတြက္ ေဝဖန္ေထာက္ျပမႈေတြ လုပ္ေလ့ရွိပါတယ္။

ဒါေပမယ့္ တ႐ုတ္အစိုးရက နိုင္ငံအေနာက္ပိုင္းမွာရွိတဲ့ ဝီဂါမြတ္စလင္ေတြအေပၚ ဖိႏွိပ္ညႇင္းပမ္း မႈေတြနဲ႔ပတ္ သက္ၿပီး OIC က လုံး၀ ေဝဖန္မႈ မျပဳပါဘူး။

ၾကားျဖတ္အေရးေပၚ စီမံေဆာင္ရြက္ဖို႔ တရား ရံုး အမိန္႔ဆိုင္ ရာ အထူးေစာင့္ၾကည့္ေရးေကာ္မတီ ICJ ဖဲြ႕စည္း

VOA
ဗြီအိုေအ (ျမန္မာပုိင္း)
22 ဒီဇင္ဘာ၊ 2020

ၾကားျဖတ္အေရးေပၚ စီမံေဆာင္ရြက္ဖို႔ တရားရံုးအမိန္႔ဆိုင္ရာ အထူးေစာင့္ၾကည့္ေရးေကာ္မတီ ICJ ဖဲြ႕စည္း ( REUTERS)

အျပည္ျပည္ဆိုင္ရာတရားရံုး ICJ ကၾကားျဖတ္အေရးေပၚ စီမံေဆာင္ရြက္ဖို႔ ခ်မွတ္ထားတဲ့ ဆံုးျဖတ္ခ်က္ေတြနဲ႔ ပတ္သက္လို႔ အကဲျဖတ္ေစာင့္ၾကည့္ဖို႔ သီးျခား အထူးေကာ္မတီတရပ္ကို ထူေထာင္ခြင့္ ေပးလိုက္ေၾကာင္း ဒီဇင္ ဘာလ (၂၁) ရက္ေန႔ ရက္စဲြနဲ႔ ICJ တရားရံုးက ေၾကညာခ်က္ထုတ္ျပန္လိုက္ပါတယ္။

အဲဒီေၾကညာခ်က္အရ ရံုးတြင္းတရားေရးေဆာင္ရြက္မႈဆိုင္ရာ ဆံုးျဖတ္ခ်က္္ အခန္း ၁၁ ကို အသစ္ထည့္သြင္း ျပဌာန္းလိုက္တာျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ အခန္း ၁၁ အရ တရားရံုးက ၾကားျဖတ္အေရးေပၚ စီမံေဆာင္ရြက္ဖို႔ ခ်မွတ္ထား တဲ့ ကိစၥရပ္တခုအတြက္ အဖြဲ႔ဝင္ ၃ ဦးပါတဲ့ သီးျခား အထူးကိစၥရပ္ေဆာင္ရြက္ေရးေကာ္မတီတရပ္ကိုထူေထာင္ ခြင့္ ေပးလိုက္တာျဖစ္ၿပီး ဒီခ်မွတ္ထားတဲ့ ၾကားျဖတ္အေရးေပၚ စီမံ ေဆာင္ရြက္ခ်က္အတြက္အေကာင္ ထည္ ေဖၚေရးကို ေစာင့္ၾကည့္ရာမွာ ဒီေကာ္မတီက ရံုးေတာ္ကို အကူအညီေပးရမွာပါ။

Community Resilience Programme (CRP) Phase I (January 2017 - June 2020) Programme Completion Report: Central Rakhine (October 2020)

IFRC +
21 Dec 2020

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HSBC, Standard Chartered in hot water for lending to company with links to Myanmar military

The Daily Star 

Star Online Report
December 21, 2020

 AP file photo

 

Two major UK banks face pressure for lending millions of dollars to a technology company that is partly owned and used by the Myanmar military accused of genocide against the Rohingyas.

UK-based The Observer, a sister concern of The Guardian, on Sunday reported that human rights groups are demanding that two of Britain's biggest banks explain why they have lent tens of millions of pounds to such a company.

HSBC and Standard Chartered have loaned a total of $60m (£44.5m) to Vietnamese telecom giant Viettel, which has stakes in Myanmar mobile network Mytel, in the last four years.

Over that period, the Myanmar military has been accused of committing war crimes, genocide and crimes against humanity.

Rohingya refugees on an island of no return

ASIA TIMES

by Bertil Lintner
December 21, 2020 

Bangladesh is moving Rohingya refugees to an isolated island amid fears militant Islamic groups are penetrating border camps

Rohingya refugees perform prayers as they attend a ceremony organized to remember the first anniversary of a military crackdown that prompted a massive exodus of people from Myanmar to Bangladesh, at the Kutupalong refugee camp in Ukhia on August 25, 2018. Photo: AFP / Dibyangshu Sarkar

CHIANG MAI – They were told that they would be the first to be repatriated to Myanmar.

But when the first lot of 1,642 Rohingya Muslim refugees arrived on Bangladesh’s Bhasan Char island on December 3, they were herded into a huge, newly built settlement consisting of concrete living quarters, two hospitals, clinics, mosques, teaching centers, cyclone shelters, playgrounds and a police station.

Located 34 kilometers from the mainland, or a three-hour journey by boat, the island and what has been constructed there show that the Bangladeshi authorities are accepting the fact that they are stuck with a permanent refugee population. None of the estimated one million Rohingyas in Bangladesh are going back to Myanmar in the foreseeable future, if at all.

Rohingya Refugee Crisis Forces Thousands Of Families to Dangerous, Uninhabited Island

GREN MATTERS

By Lizzy Rosenberg
22nd December 2020

Source: Getty

One of the most devastating examples of ongoing genocide is currently taking place in the Southeast Asian country of Myanmar, where a marginalized group of people called the Rohingya people have been suffering from the effects of "ethnic cleaning" for many years. Now, they are being relocated to a potentially unsafe island off the coast of Chattogram, which will likely pose serious environmental and human rights risks.

Talks between Tatmadaw, Arakan Army proceed smoothly

MYANMAR TIMES

SAI WUNNA
22 DEC 2020

 

 Residents, who fled from conflict between the Myanmar army and the Arakan Army (AA), arrive at a temporary refugee camp at a monastery in Sittwe, Rakhine State on June 29. Photo: AFP

 

Talks between the Tatmadaw (military) representatives and the Arakan Army are proceeding smoothly as both sides keep their desire to reach a ceafire agreement after over two years of clashes.

Major General Zaw Min Tun, chief of Tatmadaw True News Information Term, said the negotiation between representatives of the Tatmadaw and the ethnic Rakhine armed group is progressing so the relative peace in the strife-torn state remains.

“We have to continue the negotiations so as to end the fighting and move forward the peace process in the Rakhine State,” he told the Myanmar Times on December 21. “The Tatmadaw and the AA have the view that we need to keep on negotiating because the civilians in Rakhine support the negotiations for peace.”

WFP Bangladesh: Rohingya Refugee Response | Situation Report #44 (November 2020)

WFP
Situation ReportSource
21 Dec 2020

864,281 Rohingya refugees in the camps*

(52% children, 45% adult, 3% older persons and 1% persons with disability)

113,157 household (570,000 people) in the host community received assistance through the COVID-19 special support programme from April to November 2020.

Highlights

• WFP currently has nine operational Fresh Food Corners at e-voucher outlets and inkind distribution points and provided fresh vegetables to over 99,000 vulnerable Rohingya refugees in November.

• WFP conducted environment and social safeguard screenings of 115 community workfare schemes and 18 camp-wide tree maintenance sites to ensure that planned activities will not have an adverse impact on ecosystems and communities.

Concern among Muslims over halal status of COVID-19 vaccine

ARAB NEWS
AP
December 20, 2020

• Spokespeople for Pfizer, Moderna and AstraZeneca have said that pork products are not part of their COVID-19 vaccines
• But limited supply and preexisting deals worth millions of dollars with other companies means that some countries with large Muslim populations will receive vaccines that have not yet been certified to be gelatin-free

JAKARTA: In October, Indonesian diplomats and Muslim clerics stepped off a plane in China. While the diplomats were there to finalize deals to ensure millions of doses reached Indonesian citizens, the clerics had a much different concern: Whether the COVID-19 vaccine was permissible for use under Islamic law.

As companies race to develop a COVID-19 vaccine and countries scramble to secure doses, questions about the use of pork products — banned by some religious groups — has raised concerns about the possibility of disrupted immunization campaigns.