Situation Report
Source UNHCR
Posted 11 Jan 2021
Tuesday, January 12, 2021
Will Supplementary Elections Be Held in Myanmar’s Rakhine State?
Sebastian Strangio
January 11, 2021
January 11, 2021
The Tatmadaw and Arakan Army are both in favor, but the ruling National League for Democracy remains hesitant.
Last week, Myanmar’s military issued a statement again calling for supplementary elections to be held in areas of Rakhine State where recent national elections were canceled due to an ongoing conflict.
During the November 8 election, around 1.2 million voters in the war-torn region were unable to cast their ballots after the Union Election Commission (UEC) cancelled voting in many townships on security grounds. Voting was also cancelled in parts of Shan and Kachin states.
During the November 8 election, around 1.2 million voters in the war-torn region were unable to cast their ballots after the Union Election Commission (UEC) cancelled voting in many townships on security grounds. Voting was also cancelled in parts of Shan and Kachin states.
The Myanmar army, or Tatmadaw, said in its statement that elections should be held before newly-elected lawmakers are sworn at the beginning of February.
The military’s call follows two months of encouraging progress in efforts to resolve the conflict between the military and the insurgent Arakan Army (AA), which has raged in Rakhine State since 2018, during which time hundreds have been killed and injured and some 226,000 people have been forced from their homes.
The military’s call follows two months of encouraging progress in efforts to resolve the conflict between the military and the insurgent Arakan Army (AA), which has raged in Rakhine State since 2018, during which time hundreds have been killed and injured and some 226,000 people have been forced from their homes.
Woman killed, eight others injured in Minbya artillery explosion
Narinjara News,
11 January 2021
The village administrator confirmed that the incident took place yesterday afternoon where Daw Hla Than Nwe lost her life.
“Hla Than Nwe died on the spot. Out of the eight injured individuals, five were taken to Mrauk-U hospital with serious wounds. Others were sent to Myaungbwe station hospital. Some children also sustained injuries in the explosion,” added the village administrator.
The artillery shell was picked up by a villager from inside the forest and it got exploded when he hammered on it. Many villagers were looking at him during the incident. The shell exploded at around 1:35 pm.
ကာကွယ်ရေးဦးစီးချုပ်နှင့် တရုတ်နိုင်ငံခြားရေးဝန်ကြီး ရိုဟင်ဂျာအရေးဆွေးနွေး
လွတ်လပ်တဲ့အာရှအသံ ( RFA )
မြန်မာဌာန | သတင်းများ
အောင်သိင်္ခ
2021-01-12
တပ်မတော်ကာကွယ်ရေးဦးစီးချုပ် ဗိုလ်ချုပ်မှူးကြီး မင်းအောင်လှိုင်နဲ့ တရုတ်နိုင်ငံခြားရေးဝန်ကြီး ဝမ်ယိ နေပြည်တော်မှာ ၂၀၂၁ ဇန်နဝါရီ ၁၂ ရက်နေ့က တွေ့ဆုံစဉ်
ဓာတ်ပုံ - တပ်မတော်သတင်းမှန် ပြန်ကြားရေးအဖွဲ့
ဓာတ်ပုံ - တပ်မတော်သတင်းမှန် ပြန်ကြားရေးအဖွဲ့
ရန္ကုန္ၿမိဳ႕ေပၚ အေထာက္အထားမဲ့ ႐ိုဟင္ဂ်ာေတြ ဖမ္းဆီး မိ
ေမခ
11 ဇန္နဝါရီ၊ 2021
11 ဇန္နဝါရီ၊ 2021
အေထာက္အထားမဲ့ ႐ိုဟင္ဂ်ာ ၆ ေယာက္ကို ရန္ကုန္ၿမိဳ႕မွာ ဖမ္းဆီးထိန္းသိမ္းခဲ့တဲ့ ျမင္ကြင္း။ (ဓာတ္ပံု - ေဒါက္တာေက်ာ္စြာဦး ေဖ့ဘုတ္ - ဇန္နဝါရီ ၁၁၊ ၂၀၂၁)
ရန္ကုန္ၿမိဳ႕ကို တရားဝင္ အေထာက္အထားမရွိဘဲ ေရာက္လာသူေတြအျဖစ္ ႐ိုဟင္ဂ်ာ ၁၀၀ နီးပါးကို ဖမ္းဆီးမိ ခဲ့ၿပီး ရက္ပိုင္းအတြင္းမွာပဲ ေနာက္ထပ္ ၆ ေယာက္ကို စစ္ေဆးေတြ႕ရွိၿပီး ထိန္းသိမ္းလိုက္တာ ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ တန ဂၤေႏြေန႔လယ္ပိုင္းက သဃၤန္းကြၽန္းၿမိဳ႕နယ္ ေလးေထာင့္ကန္လမ္းက ေမခအိမ္ရာေ႐ွ႕မွာ ေတြ႕ရွိၿပီး အာဏာပိုင္ ေတြ ထိန္းသိမ္းလိုက္သူေတြဟာ မေလးရွားႏိုင္ငံကို သြားေရာက္ဖို႔ ပြဲစားေတြကို အခေၾကးေငြေပးၿပီး ရခိုင္ျပည္ နယ္ ေက်ာက္ေတာ္ၿမိဳ႕နယ္က လာေရာက္သူေတြ ျဖစ္ၾကေၾကာင္းလည္း ကနဦးစစ္ေဆးခ်က္အရ သိရွိရ ေၾကာင္း လည္း သဃၤန္းကြၽန္းၿမိဳ႕မရဲစခန္းက ရဲမွဴး ေကာင္းႏိုင္က ဗြီအိုေအကိုေျပာပါတယ္။ ထိန္းသိမ္းလိုက္ သူေတြ ကိုေတာ့ ကိုဗစ္ကပ္ေရာဂါပိုး ကူးစက္မႈ ရွိ၊ မရွိစစ္ေဆးဖို႔ လႊဲေျပာင္းေပးထားတယ္လို႔လည္း ေျပာပါ တယ္။
Fleeing Rohingya recaptured after mystery escape
Bangkok Post
11 Jan 2021 
District officials and police check a room in Chien Yai district of
Nakhon Si Thammarat where three Rohingya women were detained on Saturday
and escaped from on Sunday. (Photo by Nujaree Raekrun)
NAKHON SI THAMMARAT: Three Rohingya women were re-arrested on Monday after mysteriously escaping from a room where they had been detained.
NAKHON SI THAMMARAT: Three Rohingya women were re-arrested on Monday after mysteriously escaping from a room where they had been detained.
Chien Yai district chief Kittipong Rongdet said on Monday the three women were apprehended by police in Cha-uat district on Sunday night, along with a Rohingya man he described as a "middle man". All were sent back to Chien Yai for interrogation, he added.
Momen: Myanmar’s lack of sincerity delaying Rohingya repatriation
Anwar Hussain, Chittagong
January 10th, 2021
The only solution to the crisis is taking back the forcibly displaced people, says the foreign minister
January 10th, 2021
Reiterating Myanmar was not sincere about taking back the Rohingyas, Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen says that talks over the matter have resumed after it was stalled due to the pandemic and national elections in the neighbouring country.
Speaking at an event in Chittagong on Sunday, Momen, however, said that he was optimistic about the repatriation initiative, but was not sure when it would start.
The foreign minister made the remarks while speaking at a book launching ceremony held at the Chittagong Press Club.
At the event, two books by former ambassador to Myanmar Maj (retd) Md Emdadul Islam published by Prothoma Prakashan and Kharimati were unveiled.
Education crucial if Rohingya are to avoid ‘lost generation’
ARAB NEWS
Dr. Azeem IbrahimJanuary 10, 2021
Noor and Aziz will be part of new educational content to support
children and families affected by the Rohingya refugee crisis.
(@sesamestreet)
A heartwarming initiative from the creators of “Sesame Street” shows that the international community is finally beginning to understand how to effectively approach the perennial issue of education for refugees. Sesame Workshop, the nonprofit that creates the early education TV show, has unveiled Aziz and Noor, two new Muppet characters who are twin brother and sister Rohingya children.
This will be the first time that Rohingya children will have seen anyone like them in a mainstream media production. What is more, the two characters will appear alongside Elmo and other beloved characters in shows in the Rohingya language that are dedicated to topics in math, science and health, among others. This is all part of a curriculum developed by Sesame Workshop, alongside a number of other high-profile charities, specifically for Rohingya children.
Gunfight kills one person, injures 10 in Bangladesh in Rohingya refugee
MENAFN
Date 1/10/2021
(MENAFN)According to an official and sources, on Sunday, at least one Rohingya refugee was killed and 10 others wounded in a gunfight amid two rival factions in Cox's Bazar, a sprawling refugee camp in Bangladesh.
According to Anadolu Agency, Mahbub Alam Talukder, Bangladesh’s refugee relief and repatriation commissioner stated that, "Some rival groups among Rohingya refugees are involved in a power struggle."
It further declared that dead has been identified as 30-year-old Nur Hakim, and his body has been sent for autopsy.
They also stated, the wounded have been shifted to a camp-based medical facility run by Save the Children.
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Monday, January 11, 2021
ထိုင္းေရာက္ ႐ိုဟင္ဂ်ာ ၁၉ ဦးနဲ႔ လက္ခံထားတယ္ဆိုသူကို ထိုင္းရဲဖမ္းဆီး
VOA
11 ဇန္နဝါရီ၊ 2021
႐ိုဟင္ဂ်ာ ၁၉ ဦးကို ထိုင္းႏိုင္ငံကို တရားမဝင္ ဝင္ေရာက္မႈနဲ႔ ဖမ္းဆီးခဲ့ၿပီး သူတို႔ကို ေနအိမ္မွာ လက္ခံထားတယ္ ဆိုတဲ့ ထိုင္းအမ်ိဳးသမီးတဦးကိုလည္း ဖမ္းဆီးခဲ့ေၾကာင္း ထိုင္းရဲတပ္ဖြဲ႔က စေနေန႔က ေျပာၾကားခဲ့တယ္လို႔ AFP သတင္းဌာနမွာ ေဖာ္ျပထားပါတယ္။
ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံကေန ထြက္ေျပးလာၾကတဲ့ မြတ္စလင္လူနည္းစုေတြအတြက္ လူကုန္ကူးမႈ လမ္းေၾကာင္းေတြနဲ႔ ပတ္သက္လို႔ စိုးရိမ္မႈေတြ တိုးလာေနခ်ိန္ အခုလို ထိုင္းအာဏာပိုင္ေတြက ဖမ္းဆီးခဲ့တာပါ။
19 Rohingya held in Bangkok for illegal entry
Bangkok Post
9 Jan 2021
Seven test positive for Covid after raid in Don Muang district raises new concerns about human trafficking
A picture taken by the Immigration Bureau on Jan 3 and released on Saturday shows immigration officers watching over a group of Rohingya migrants who were arrested in Don Muang district of Bangkok after being smuggled overland from Rakhine state in Myanmar. (Immigration Bureau handout via AFP)
Nineteen Rohingya migrants have been arrested in Bangkok for illegal entry to Thailand and a Thai woman accused of housing them has also been detained, police said on Saturday.
The arrests have raised concerns about trafficking routes for the Muslim minority fleeing Myanmar, at a time when illegal migrants from that country have been linked to a second wave of coronavirus infections accross Thailand.
Sunday, January 10, 2021
China’s BRI Dream Could Turn Nightmare As Myanmar Puts ‘Roadblocks’ Before Key Infra Projects
The Eur Asian Times
Jayanta Kalita
January 9, 2021
Unlike China’s ‘iron brother’ Pakistan, which has rolled out the red carpet for its BRI projects, Southeast Asian nation Myanmar is set to clip the wings of the dragon.
China may be aiming to conquer the world with its ambitious Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) undermining local sentiments in certain host countries, but the dragon is not invincible it seems. Myanmar is one country where citizens are resisting aggressive and intrusive policies Beijing is known for.
A global infrastructure strategy, BRI reflects President Xi Jinping’s
dream of taking China to the ‘numero uno’ spot in the world. It
envisages road, rail, and port projects in six economic corridors spread
across Southeast Asia, South Asia, Middle East, Africa, and Central and
Eastern Europe.
No wonder, the Communist regime has already incorporated the BRI in the country’s Constitution as China plans to invest $1.5 trillion in the next decade.
According to global financial services group Nomura, more than 80 countries are likely to benefit from the BRI project. At the same time, it “will have enormous economic, geopolitical and investment implications for China”, Nomura warns.
No wonder, the Communist regime has already incorporated the BRI in the country’s Constitution as China plans to invest $1.5 trillion in the next decade.
According to global financial services group Nomura, more than 80 countries are likely to benefit from the BRI project. At the same time, it “will have enormous economic, geopolitical and investment implications for China”, Nomura warns.
Tales of the 21st Century: Rohingyas Without home
IPS
Inter Press ServiceDHAKA, Bangladesh, Jan 8 2021 (IPS) - Mohammad Rakibul Hasan is a Bangladeshi documentary photographer, photojournalist, filmmaker and visual artist who has been visiting the camps in Cox’s Bazaar to document the Rohingya refugee crisis.
Rakibul Hasan is a recipient of the Lucie Awards Discovery of the Year 2018. He also received the 23rd Human Rights Press Awards from The Foreign Correspondents’ Club Hong Kong, Amnesty International and the Hong Kong Journalists Association, for his series “The Looted Honor” which documents Rohingya refugee rape survivors.
Rakibul Hasan is a recipient of the Lucie Awards Discovery of the Year 2018. He also received the 23rd Human Rights Press Awards from The Foreign Correspondents’ Club Hong Kong, Amnesty International and the Hong Kong Journalists Association, for his series “The Looted Honor” which documents Rohingya refugee rape survivors.
Rakibul Hasan has shared with IPS a selection of images document life in the Rohingya refugee camps.
Thailand arrests 19 Rohingya, Thai woman for illegal entry
FRANCH 24
Bangkok (AFP)
09/01/2021
Immigration officers watch over the group of Rohingya who are said to
have illegally entered Thailand after being smuggled overland from
Myanmar's Rakhine state Handout THAILAND IMMIGRATION BUREAU/AFP
Nineteen Rohingya and a Thai woman accused of housing them have been arrested for illegal entry to Thailand, police said Saturday, as concerns grow about trafficking routes for the Muslim minority fleeing Myanmar.
The embattled Rohingya have long faced persecution in Myanmar, where they are denied freedom of movement and citizenship, and lack access to work, healthcare and schools.
A 2017 military crackdown in western Rakhine state sent almost 750,000 fleeing across the border to Bangladesh, while many choose to embark on treacherous journeys with human smugglers to reach Malaysia and Indonesia, sometimes going through Thailand.
A 2017 military crackdown in western Rakhine state sent almost 750,000 fleeing across the border to Bangladesh, while many choose to embark on treacherous journeys with human smugglers to reach Malaysia and Indonesia, sometimes going through Thailand.
Saturday, January 9, 2021
“ရခိုင်ရွေးကောက်ပွဲ မကျင်းပနိုင်ရင် ဒီမိုကရေစီပစ်ပယ် ရာရောက်” - နိပွန်ဖောင်ဒေးရှင်းဥက္ကဋ္ဌ မစ္စတာ ဆာဆာကာဝါ
VOA
ဗွီအိုအေ (မြန်မာဌာန)
သားညွန့်ဦး
09 ဇန်နဝါရီ၊ 2021
ဂျပန်အထူးသံတမန် Sasakawa Yohei. (နိုဝင်ဘာ ၂၈၊ ၂၀၂၀။ ဓာတ်ပုံ - သက်နိုင် (ဗွီအိုအေ))
ေရႊျပည္သာမွာ အဖမ္းခံထားရတဲ့ ႐ိုဟင္ဂ်ာေတြထဲ ကိုဗစ္ ကူးသူေတြ ရွိ
ေ႐ႊျပည္သာၿမိဳ႕နယ္မွာ ထိန္းသိမ္းခံခဲ့ရတဲ့ ႐ိုဟင္ဂ်ာမူဆလင္မ်ား။ (ဓာတ္ပံု - ကိုေတဇာေအာင္ (ရွင္သန္ျခင္း ပရဟိတလူမႉကူညီေရးအသင္း ဘုံရွည္ကုန္း) - ဇန္နဝါရီ ၀၆၊ ၂၀၂၀)
ရန္ကုန္တိုင္း၊ ေ႐ႊျပည္သာၿမိဳ႕နယ္မွာ ထိန္းသိမ္းခံခဲ့ရတဲ့ ႐ိုဟင္ဂ်ာမူဆလင္ ၁၀၀ နီးပါးထဲက ကိုဗစ္ေရာဂါပိုး ကူးစက္သူ ေတြ႕ရွိခဲ့တာေၾကာင့္ သီးသန႔္ခြဲ ကုသမႈေပးဖို႔ ျပင္ဆင္ေနတဲ့အေၾကာင္း ေျပာျပပါမယ္။ ဗီြအိုေအ ၿမန္မာ ပိုင္းသတင္းေထာက္ မေမခက သတင္းေပးပို႔ထားပါတယ္။
ေ႐ႊျပည္သာၿမိဳ႕နယ္မွာ တရားမဝင္ ေရာက္ရွိေနသူေတြအျဖစ္ အာဏာပိုင္ေတြ ဒီသီတင္းပတ္ထဲမွာပဲ ထိန္း သိမ္းလိုက္တဲ့ ႐ိုဟင္ဂ်ာ ၉၉ ေယာက္ အနက္ ၅ ေယာက္မွာ ကိုဗစ္ေရာဂါကူးစက္ေနေၾကာင္း စစ္ေဆးေတြ႕ရွိခဲ့ တာ ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ ကြန္ပ်ဴတာတကၠသိုလ္မွာ ထိန္းသိမ္းထားသူေတြကို ကိုဗစ္ရာဂါပိုး ႐ွိ၊ မ႐ွိ မေန႔တုန္းက စစ္ ေဆးရာမွာ အမ်ိဳးသမီး ၅ ေယာက္မွာ ေရာဂါပိုး ကူးစက္ေနတာ ေတြ႕ရွိခဲ့တာလို႔လည္း ေ႐ႊျပည္သာ ၿမိဳ႕နယ္ ရဲစ ခန္းက ရဲအုပ္ ေဇာ္လင္းႏိုင္က အတည္ျပဳပါတယ္။
Friday, January 8, 2021
Yangon Police Arrest Nearly 100 Rohingya Being Trafficked From Myanmar to Malaysia
Radio Free Asia ( RFA )
2021-01-07
2021-01-07
Rohingya Muslims sit on the ground
during a police raid on two houses where they were staying while en
route to Malaysia, in Shwepyitha township, Myanmar's Yangon region, Jan.
6, 2021.Photo courtesy of Yangon Region Police Force
Myanmar police arrested nearly 100 undocumented Rohingya Muslims from western Myanmar’s Rakhine state for illegal travel after raiding two houses in Yangon on Wednesday, saying that they had been trafficked and were heading to Malaysia.
Authorities, who discovered the group after following a suspicious man who could not speak Burmese to one of the houses in the country’s largest city, said Thursday that they charged four people with criminal persuasion and human trafficking.
Authorities, who discovered the group after following a suspicious man who could not speak Burmese to one of the houses in the country’s largest city, said Thursday that they charged four people with criminal persuasion and human trafficking.
Myanmar police arrest nearly 100 Rohingya in raid on house
YANGON (Reuters) - Myanmar police arrested nearly 100 ethnic Rohingya on Wednesday after raiding a house in the commercial capital of Yangon, police and local media said.
Photos published by the local Tomorrow News Journal showed several barefoot men and dozens of women in colourful head scarves sitting on the ground in a courtyard.
Photos published by the local Tomorrow News Journal showed several barefoot men and dozens of women in colourful head scarves sitting on the ground in a courtyard.
Myanmar frequently detains Rohingya, members of a Muslim minority, on grounds of “illegal travel” for attempting to leave their native western Rakhine state.
Tin Maung Lwin, a police captain from Shwe Pyi Thar township, where the group was found, confirmed the arrests but declined to give further details.
Tin Maung Lwin, a police captain from Shwe Pyi Thar township, where the group was found, confirmed the arrests but declined to give further details.
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