King Salman centre distributes food baskets among Rohingyas

NEWAGE

Staff Correspondent
Published: Jan 12,2021

King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Centre continues to distribute food baskets among Rohingya at Ukhia in Cox’s Bazar.

The centre is set to distribute 15,000 baskets among the refugees in support of the 2020 rapid response plan for the refugee crisis, said a press release.

The Muslim World League is distributing the food baskets, containing basic necessities.

The food baskets are being distributed as an extension of the previous projects that the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has been implementing through the King Salman Relief Centre.

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Myanmar’s lack of cordiality preventing Rohingya repatriation: FM

theindepedent 

UNB, Rangamati
12 January, 2021

Covid-19 vaccination in Bangladesh might start with India, he says 

Rohingya repatriation could not be started because of the lack of cordiality of the Myanmar government, Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen said Monday.

“Not a single Rohingya could be repatriated in the last three and a half years as Myanmar brought up one issue after the other,” he told reporters in Rangamati after inaugurating Bangabandhu Adventure Festival marking the birth centenary of Bangladesh’s founding father.

Hundreds of thousands of Rohingya men, women and children fled to Bangladesh from their homeland in Myanmar’s Rakhine state after the military launched a brutal offensive targeting the mainly Muslim ethnic minority.

Probe into Japan beer firm's links to Myanmar rights abuses 'inconclusive'

 MYANMAR TIMES

AFP
11 JAN 2021

A customer picks up a can of Kirin beer at a liquor shop Tokyo, 19 January 19, 2009. Photo: EPA-EFE

 

Japanese beer giant Kirin said Thursday an investigation into whether money from its joint ventures with the Myanmar military had funded rights abuses was "inconclusive".

Myanmar stands accused of genocide at the UN's top court after a brutal 2017 crackdown by the military forced 750,000 northern Rakhine Muslims to flee to refugee camps in Bangladesh.

 

After mounting pressure from rights groups and UN investigators, Kirin Holdings last year asked consultancy group Deloitte to determine how the money from its business tie-ups with Myanmar military-owned breweries had been used.

"Unfortunately, the assessment was inconclusive as a result of Deloitte being unable to access sufficient information required to make a definitive determination," Kirin said.

It is "wholly unacceptable" for any proceeds from the joint ventures to be used for military purposes, its statement added.

Rape of 15-year-old – Rohingya men out on bail

FMT
January 12, 2021

Shah Alam High Court judge finds no grounds to deny the two men bail.

 

SHAH ALAM: The High Court here today allowed bail for two Rohingya men who are charged with raping a 15-year-old girl.

Judicial Commissioner Norsharidah Awang ordered Mohammad Hassan Mohammad Rafik and Mohd Ali Hossain Odi Rahman to post bail of RM15,000 each with two Malaysians to stand surety.

She also ordered the two to report to the nearest police station on the first week of the month.

Norsharidah, who heard the matter by way of a revision, said she did not find in the notes of evidence of the Sessions Court judge any grounds to deny them bail. 

 

Rohingya Dreams of Better Life Abroad Shattered After Mass Arrest in Myanmar

Vice World News

Aung Naing Soe

“Even an animal would not stay in that kind of trapped situation.”

A member of Myanmar's security forces stands guard in September 2018 at "no-man's land" between Myanmar and Bangladesh, where Rohingya who fled a 2017 crackdown have taken shelter. Photo: Aung Naing Soe

The mass arrest of nearly 100 Rohingya Muslims hiding in safe houses in Myanmar’s biggest city last week cast a harsh spotlight on the lengths to which the persecuted minority go to escape the country, and how a small mistake can shatter dreams of a better life.

Rohingya, who are not recognized as citizens in Buddhist-majority Myanmar and lack access to many basic services, have been fleeing their homes in Rakhine state for decades. But conditions worsened after a 2017 crackdown drove 740,000 Rohingya to Bangladesh in a violent campaign that is now the focus of a genocide investigation.

UNHCR Myanmar Operational Update, 1-30 November 2020

Situation Report
Source UNHCR
Posted 11 Jan 2021 

Will Supplementary Elections Be Held in Myanmar’s Rakhine State?

THE I DIPLOMAT 

Sebastian Strangio
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.

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.

Woman killed, eight others injured in Minbya artillery explosion

Narinjara News,
11 January 2021 

 A 40-year-old woman was killed and eight other persons were injured in an artillery explosion at Spar Htar village under Minbya township of Rakhine State.

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

ရခိုင်ပြည်နယ်ကနေ ဘင်္ဂလားဒေ့ရှ်နိုင်ငံဘက် နေရပ်စွန့်ခွာ ထွက်ပြေးသွားတဲ့ ရိုဟင်ဂျာဒုက္ခသည်တွေ အရေး ကိစ္စကို တပ်မတော်ကာကွယ်ရေး ဦးစီးချုပ် ဗိုလ်ချုပ်မှူးကြီး မင်းအောင်လှိုင်နဲ့ တရုတ်နိုင်ငံခြားရေးဝန်ကြီး ဝမ် ယိတို့ နေပြည်တော်မှာ ဒီကနေ့ တွေ့ဆုံစဉ်မှာ ဆွေးနွေးခဲ့ကြပါတယ်။

ရန္ကုန္ၿမိဳ႕ေပၚ အေထာက္အထားမဲ့ ႐ိုဟင္ဂ်ာေတြ ဖမ္းဆီး မိ

VOA
ဗြီအိုုေအ (ျမန္မာဌာန)

ေမခ
11 ဇန္နဝါရီ၊ 2021

အေထာက္အထားမဲ့ ႐ိုဟင္ဂ်ာ ၆ ေယာက္ကို ရန္ကုန္ၿမိဳ႕မွာ ဖမ္းဆီးထိန္းသိမ္းခဲ့တဲ့ ျမင္ကြင္း။ (ဓာတ္ပံု - ေဒါက္တာေက်ာ္စြာဦး ေဖ့ဘုတ္ - ဇန္နဝါရီ ၁၁၊ ၂၀၂၁)

ရခိုင္ျပည္နယ္ကေန တရားဝင္ခြင့္ျပဳခ်က္ အေထာက္အထားမရွိဘဲ ေရာက္လာသူေတြအျဖစ္ ႐ိုဟင္ဂ်ာ ေနာက္ ထပ္ ၆ ေယာက္ကို ရန္ကုန္ၿမိဳ႕မွာ ဖမ္းဆီးထိန္းသိမ္းလိုက္တဲ့အေၾကာင္း ေျပာျပပါမယ္။ ဗီြအိုေအျမန္မာပိုင္း သ တင္းေထာက္ မေမခက သတင္းေပးပို႔ထားပါတယ္။

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

Nujaree Raekrun

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.

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

Dhaka Tribune  

Anwar Hussain, Chittagong
January 10th, 2021

The only solution to the crisis is taking back the forcibly displaced people, says the foreign minister

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 Ibrahim
January 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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