Rohingya Crisis: Dhaka seeks active global support

The Daily Star 

January 24, 2021
Unb, Dhaka

Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen. File photoForeign Minister AK Abdul Momen. File photo

Bangladesh has sought effective and proactive support from the international community to find a solution to the Rohingya crisis apart from management of the huge displacement.

"We need effective and proactive support from the international community to manage this huge displacement," said Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen.

He said the Global Forum on Migration and Development (GFMD) provides a voluntary, non-binding and government-led process to discuss all possible solutions.

The minister also said they had the firsthand experience as Bangladesh is hosting 1.1 million Rohingyas who were forcibly displaced from their ancestral home and a good number of Bangladesh population was regularly displaced due to erratic climate change every year.

Indonesia Urges Myanmar to Create Safe Conditions for Rohingya Repatriation

THE I DIPLOMAT

Sebastian Strangio
January 22, 2021

Conditions in Rakhine State are unlikely to be amenable to the safe return of refugees any time soon. 

Indonesia has called on the government of Myanmar to create safe conditions for the return of hundreds of thousands of Muslim Rohingya refugees currently living in Bangladesh. The country’s Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi issued the call at a news conference on January 21, after an online meeting of foreign ministers from the 10 nations of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).

“Indonesia earnestly hopes that the Myanmar government can immediately create favorable conditions in Rakhine State so that repatriation can be done voluntarily, safely, and in a dignified manner as soon as possible,” Retno said.

Rohingyas to be repatriated as per 2017 deal: Myanmar minister writes to FM Momen

The Daily Star

UNB, Dhaka
January 22, 2021

Myanmar is committed to begin the repatriation of Rohingyas as per the bilateral agreement signed with Bangladesh in 2017, said Myanmar's International Cooperation Affairs Minister Kyaw Tin in a recent letter to Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen.

A Rohingya refugee repairs the roof of his shelter at the Balukhali refugee camp in Cox's Bazar on March 5, 2019. File photo: Reuters

Kyaw hoped to begin the repatriation of Rohingyas to Myanmar soon.

A tripartite talk between Bangladesh, Myanmar and China regarding the Rohingya repatriation was held on January 19.

Biden Administration to Probe Rohingya Genocide Claim

THE I DIPLOMAT

Sebastian Strangio
January 21, 2021

What would it mean for the U.S. government to officially declare the Myanmar atrocities “genocide”?

The incoming Biden administration is reportedly planning to launch an interagency review to determine whether Myanmar’s fierce persecution of its Muslim Rohingya minority amounts to genocide. The plan was revealed by incoming Secretary of State Antony Blinken during his confirmation hearing before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee earlier this week, during which he said that if confirmed, he would oversee the review process.

The review would examine events that have taken place since August 2017, when the Myanmar army, or Tatmadaw, launched a brutal “clearance operation” in Rakhine State in the west of the country. Justified as a response to scattered attacks by Rohingya militants, the offensive saw soldiers and vigilantes torch villages, shoot civilians, and drive an estimated 750,000 desperate people over the border into Bangladesh.

There is compelling case to be made that the actions of the Myanmar military amount to genocide, as defined in the 1948 Genocide Convention, which defines the crime as an “intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial, or religious group.” The United Nations’ human rights chief has previously described the military’s actions as possible “acts of genocide,” while formal charges of genocide were later brought against Myanmar by The Gambia in the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague. In January 2020, the ICJ declared that there was prima facie evidence of breaches of the Genocide Convention, warning that the estimated 600,000 Rohingya remaining in Myanmar were “extremely vulnerable” to attacks by the military.

Myanmar: Trafficking issues, plight of Rohingyas in Thailand

ORF  OBSERVER RESEARCH FOUNDATION

Monitors
Jan 21 2021

South Asia Weekly | Volume XIV; Issue 3
News and analyses from South Asia this week.

Enot Poloskun — iStock/Getty

Sreeparna Banerjee

In an appalling event, last week, 19 Rohingyas and a Thai woman accused of housing them were arrested for illegal entry into Thailand. Another group of 100 Rohingyas were uncovered from Yangon in Myanmar. Both these groups were bound to travel to Malaysia in search of a better life. In addition, there are reports that around 33 Thai officials along with civilians will be charged with disciplinary action for facilitating human-trafficking along the Thai-Myanmar border.

This discovery comes at a time when people of Thailand are accusing migrant workers from Myanmar as being responsible for the rising number of the Covid-19 cases in the country. After two months of hate-speech and confusion, Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha was tactful in stating that the recent infections were due to foreign workers smuggled across Thai border and had nothing to do with Myanmar migrants per say. On a positive note, this entire event also uncovered the difficult conditions that the migrant workers, especially those from Myanmar, are facing in Thailand.

US: President Joe Biden signs order to end Trump's Muslim travel ban

Business Standard

ANI | US
January 21, 2021

Hours after taking the office, Biden on Wednesday signed 17 executive orders memorandums and proclamations including ending the Muslim travel ban

US President Joe Biden signs executive orders in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, after his inauguration as the 46th President of the United States 

 

In a blow to his predecessor Donald Trump's actions to limit immigration, US President Joe Biden on Wednesday has ended the 'Muslim travel ban', which blocked travel to the United States from several predominantly Muslim and African countries.

Hours after taking the office, Biden on Wednesday signed 17 executive orders memorandums and proclamations including ending the Muslim travel ban.

He has directed the State Department to restart visa processing for individuals from the affected countries and to develop ways to address the harm caused to those who were prevented from coming to the United States because of the ban, The New York Times reported.

ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာအေရး နိုင္ငံတကာဖိအား ေလၽွာ့ခ်နိုင္မယ့္ နည္းလမ္း

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2021 Jauary 2021

❖   ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာအေရး နိုင္ငံတကာဖိအား ေလၽွာ့ခ်နိုင္ဖို႔ ေဒသခံ နိုင္ငံေရး အင္အားစုအသီးသီးနဲ႔ ညႇိႏွိုင္းေဆာင္ ရြက္ ဖို႔က NLD အစိုးရ ဒုတိယသက္တမ္းမွာ ဘယ္ေလာက္ အေရးအႀကီးဆုံး ျဖစ္ေနပါလဲ။

❖ ရခိုင္ျပည္နယ္အေျခစိုက္ ရခိုင္အမ်ိဳးသားပါတီ ANP ရဲ့  မူဝါဒေရးရာဦးေဆာင္ေကာ္မတီဝင္ျဖစ္သလို ေျမပုံ ၿမိဳ႕ နယ္ ျပည္သူ႔လႊတ္ေတာ္ကိုယ္စားလွယ္ ဦးေဖသန္နဲ႔ ေမးျမန္းတင္ဆက္ေပးထားပါတယ္။

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သမ္မတ Biden လက်ထက် ဖြစ်လာနိုင်တဲ့ ကန်-မြန်မာဆက် ဆံရေး ပုံစံ

VOA
ဗွီအိုအေ (မြန်မာဌာန)
မစုမြတ်မွန်
22 ဇန်နဝါရီ၊ 2021 

 အမေရိကန်သမ္မတသစ် Joe Biden ရဲ့ ဦးစားပေးအစီအစဉ်တွေထဲမှာ ကမ္ဘာတဝန်းက ဒီမိုကရေစီမဟာမိတ်တွေ နဲ့ ဒီမိုကရေစီ ပြန်လည်ခိုင်မာအောင်လုပ်ပြီးတော့ အမေရိကန်ရဲ့ စံတန်ဖိုး ဒီမိုကရေစီမြှင့်တင်ဖို့အတွက်လည်း ပါဝင်ပါတယ်။ ဒီမိုကရေစီနဲ့ လူ့အခွင့်အရေး ကိစ္စတွေ ပြန်လည်မြှင့်တင်တဲ့အခါမှာ လူ့အခွင့်အရေးအားနည်း တယ် လို့အမြင်ခံနေရတဲ့ မြန်မာနိုင်ငံနဲ့ဆက်ဆံရေးမှာရော ဘယ်လိုဖြစ်လာနိုင်ပါသလဲ။ နိုင်ငံတကာ ငြိမ်းချမ်း ရေးနဲ့လုံခြုံရေးဆိုင်ရာ အမေရိကန်အခြေစိုက် Stimson Center တတ်သိပညာရှင်များအဖွဲ့က သုတေသီ ကိုအမ ရသီဟကို မစုမြတ်မွန်က ဆက်သွယ် မေးမြန်းထားပါတယ်။

ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာေတြကို ေက်းရြာအုပ္စုအလိုက္ျပန္လက္ခံေရး ထပ္မံေဆြးေႏြးဖို႔ရွိ

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ဘီဘီစီၿမန္မာပိုင္း
၂၁ ဇန္နဝါရီ ၂၀၂၁

ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာ ဒုကၡသည္ေတြကို စစ္တေကာင္းက ေရလယ္ကၽြန္း ဘာဆန္ခ်ားကို စစ္သေဘၤာနဲ႔ ပို႔ဖို႔ ၂၀၂၀ ဒီဇင္ဘာလကုန္က ျပင္ဆင္ေနစဥ္

ဘဂၤလားေဒ့ရွ္နိုင္ငံေရာက္ ရခိုင္ျပည္နယ္ေျမာက္ပိုင္းက ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာ ေနရပ္စြန႔္ခြာသူေတြကို ျပန္လည္လက္ ခံေရး မွာ ေက်းရြာအုပ္စုအလိုက္ျပန္လည္လက္ခံေရးဆိုတဲ့ ဘဂၤလားေဒ့ရွ္ဘက္က ေျပာဆိုခ်က္ကို ျပန္လည္ ေဆြးေႏြး ဖို႔ ရွိတယ္လို႔ နိုင္ငံျခားေရးဝန္ႀကီးဌာနရဲ့ အျမဲတမ္းအတြင္းဝန္ ဦးခ်မ္းေအးက ဘီဘီစီကို ေျပာပါ တယ္။

ဘဂၤလားေဒ့ရွ္ေရာက္ ေနရပ္စြန႔္ခြာသူေတြ ျပန္လည္လက္ခံေရးနဲ႔ပတ္သက္ၿပီး ဇန္နဝါရီ ၁၉ ရက္က ျမန္မာ၊ ဘဂၤလားေဒ့ရွ္ နဲ႔ တ႐ုတ္၊ သုံးပြင့္ဆိုင္ အြန္လိုင္းအစည္းအေဝး လုပ္ခဲ့ပါတယ္။

Biden executive order repeals Trump travel ban

 Washington Examiner

Anna Giaritelli, Homeland Security Reporter

January 20, 2021

 Memorable Moments from Past Presidential Inaugurations

 

President Biden rescinded the Trump administration's travel ban against citizens from seven countries just hours after being sworn into office.

Biden on Wednesday afternoon repealed the first executive order that former President Donald Trump signed upon arriving at the White House in January 2017. The move was one of 17 reversals aimed at altering policies Trump put into effect.

That ban on travel affected countries in northern Africa and the Middle East: Iran, Iraq, Syria, Libya, Yemen, Somalia, and Sudan. It was the first of three the Trump administration would set into action on the basis that those countries did not adequately vet travelers headed to the United States.

Biden to review whether Rohingya persecution genocide

AA

Michael Gabriel Hernandez 

WASHINGTON 

20.01.2021 

Incoming president's pick to lead State Department says he would oversee process should he be confirmed by Senate 

Antony Blinken, President-elect Joe Biden's nominee to lead the State Department 

 

The incoming Biden administration will launch an interagency review to determine whether Myanmar's persecution of its Rohingya minority amounts to genocide, President-elect Joe Biden's nominee to lead the State Department said Tuesday.

Antony Blinken said during his confirmation hearing before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that if confirmed, he would oversee the process.

OPINION - Leading UN member-states fail to end Rohingya abuse

 AA

Maung Zarni
LONDON
20.01.2021

China-brokered tripartite meeting will bring no solution for either Bangladesh or Rohingya refugees

With an air of renewed optimism, Bangladesh side has widely reported on the Beijing-brokered meeting yesterday to resuscitate the repatriation process of 1 million Rohingya.

In sharp contrast, today's [Wednesday's] Global New Light of Myanmar, Naypyidaw's official mouthpiece, completely downplayed the significance of this resumed virtual meeting by sticking the news of the "Tripartite Informal Vice Ministerial Meeting" on page 6, under "National" news and allocating less a quarter of a page, at the bottom.

WFP Bangladesh | Rohingya Refugee Response Situation Report #45 - December 2020

Situation Report
Source WFP
Posted 20 Jan 2021

တ႐ုတ္စီမံကိန္းေတြ လုပ္ဖို႔ ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာေတြကို ရည္ရြယ္ခ်က္ နဲ႔ နယ္ေျမရွင္းလင္းခဲ့ဟုဆို

MCN TV NEWS CHANNEL

2021 January

❖ တ႐ုတ္နိုင္ငံရဲ့ စီမံကိန္းေတြကို အေကာင္အထည္ေဖာ္ ေဆာင္ရြက္ဖို႔ ရခိုင္ျပည္နယ္‌ ေျမာက္ပိုင္းမွာ (ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာ) ေတြကို  တဖက္နိုင္ငံ ထြက္ေျပးသြားေအာင္ တပ္မေတာ္နဲ႔ အရပ္သားအစိုးရ ရည္ရြယ္ခ်က္နဲ႔ နယ္  ေၿမ ရွင္းလင္းေရး ေဆာင္ရြက္ခဲ့ဟု ဒီမိုကေရစီႏွင့္လူ႔အခြင့္အေရးပါတီ DHRP က ထုတ္ေဖာ္ေျပာ ၾကား လိုက္ ပါတယ္။


❖ MCN သတင္းဌာနအေနနဲ႔ ရခိုင္ျပည္နယ္အတြင္း ၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းစြာအတူယွဥ္တြဲေနထိုင္နိုင္ေရးနဲ႔ လူမႈသဟဇာ တျဖစ္ေရးကိစၥရပ္ေတြနဲ႔ ပတ္သက္ၿပီး (ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာ) နဲ႔ ရခိုင္နိုင္ငံေရးအင္အားစုေတြနဲ႔ အရပ္သားအစိုးရ ေဆြးေႏြး ညႇိႏွိုင္းမႈ ရွိ၊ မရွိ ေမးျမန္းရာမွာ DHRP ပါတီ ဥကၠဌ ဦးေက်ာ္မင္းက အဲ့ဒီလို ထုတ္ေဖာ္ေျပာၾကားလိုက္တာပါ။

Link : Here

ဟိႏၵဴဒုကၡသည္မ်ားကို အျမန္ဆုံး ျပန္ပို႔ရန္ ဘဂၤလားေဒ့ရွ္ထံ ျမန္မာ ေတာင္းဆို

ဧရာဝတီ

By ဇင္လင္းထက္
21 January 2021 

ျမန္မာ၊ တ႐ုတ္၊ ဘဂၤလားေဒ့ရွ္ တို႔ ဗီဒီယိုကြန္ဖရင့္ျဖင့္ သုံးပြင့္ဆိုင္ ေဆြးေႏြးေနစဥ္ ( / MOFA)

ဟိႏၵဴဘာသာဝင္ ဒုကၡသည္မ်ားကို ေဆာလ်င္စြာျပန္ပို႔ေပးရန္ ဘဂၤလားေဒ့ရွ္အစိုးရထံ ျမန္မာအစိုးရက ေတာင္း ဆိုလိုက္ သည္။

ရခိုင္ျပည္နယ္မွ ေနရပ္စြန႔္ခြာသြားသည့္ မြတ္စလင္ ဒုကၡသည္မ်ားႏွင့္ ပတ္သက္၍ ဇန္နဝါရီလ ၁၉ ရက္က အြန္ လိုင္းမွ တဆင့္က်င္းပသည့္ ျမန္မာ၊ တ႐ုတ္၊ ဘဂၤလားေဒ့ရွ္ သုံးပြင့္ဆိုင္ ေဆြးေႏြးပြဲတြင္ ျမန္မာနိုင္ငံ အျပည္ ၿပည္ ဆိုင္ရာ ပူးေပါင္း ေဆာင္ရြက္ေရး ဒုဝန္ႀကီး ဦးေဟာက္ဒိုဆြမ္းက ဘဂၤလားေဒ့ရွ္ နိုင္ငံျခားေရး အတြင္းဝန္ Mr. Masud Bin Momen အား ေျပာၾကားလိုက္ျခင္းလည္း ျဖစ္သည္။

ဘဂၤလားေဒ့ရွ္ အစိုးရအေနႏွင့္ ေနရပ္စြန႔္ခြာသြားေသာ ဟိႏၵဴ ၄၀၀ ေက်ာ္ကို ျပန္ပို႔ေပးရန္ ဆႏၵရွိေသာ္လည္း ဟိႏၵဴဘာသာ ဝင္မ်ား သီးသန႔္ျပန္ပို႔ေပးရန္ ကိစၥအေပၚ စိုးရိမ္ပူပန္ေနပုံရေၾကာင္း ျမန္မာနိုင္ငံ နိုင္ငံျခားေရးဝန္ ႀကီး ဌာန အျမဲတမ္း အတြင္း ဝန္ ဦးခ်မ္းေအးက ဧရာဝတီသို႔ ေျပာသည္။

ေမာ္လၿမိဳင္ကၽြန္းၿမိဳ႕နယ္ထဲက ရာဇူဒိုင္ျမစ္ထဲမွာ ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာ ၃၄ ဦး ဖမ္းဆီးရမိ

လြတ္လပ္တဲ့အာရွအသံ ( RFA )

ျမန္မာဌာန | သတင္းမ်ား
စိုးသိမ္း
2021-01-20

ဧရာဝတီတိုင္း ေမာ္လၿမိဳင္ကၽြန္းၿမိဳ႕နယ္ထဲက ရာဇူဒိုင္ျမစ္ထဲမွာ ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာ ၃၄ ဦးကို ရဲတပ္ဖြဲ႕က ဖမ္းဆီးရ မိခဲ့ ပါတယ္။ ဒါဟာ ဧရာဝတီတိုင္းအတြင္းမွာ ဒီႏွစ္ထဲ ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာေတြကို ဖမ္းမိတာ ဒုတိယအႀကိမ္ေျမာက္ ျဖစ္ပါ တယ္။

ဧရာဝတီတိုင္းေဒသႀကီး၊ ေမာ္လၿမိဳင္ကၽြန္းၿမိဳ႕နယ္၊ ကၽြဲၿခံဝေက်းရြာအုပ္စု သစ္ပုတ္ေက်းရြာအနီးက ရာဇူဒိုင္ျမစ္ ထဲက စက္ေလွတစ္စီးေပၚမွာ ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာ ၃၄ ဦးကို ဇန္နဝါရီလ ၁၉ ရက္ေန႔က စစ္ေဆးေတြ႕ရွိခဲ့တာလို႔ ဧရာဝတီ တိုင္းေဒသႀကီးရဲတပ္ဖြဲ႕က ဒုတိယရဲမႉးႀကီး ထြန္းေရႊ က ေျပာပါတယ္။

“က်ား ၇ ဦး၊ မ ၂၇ ဦး ၃၄ ဦးပါ။ ရခိုင္ျပည္နယ္က လာတာပါ။ သယ္ေဆာင္လာတဲ့ သူေတြေတာ့ လိုက္စုံစမ္း ဖမ္းဆီးေနတယ္။ စစ္ေဆးေနတုန္းပါပဲ"

ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာဒုကၡသည္ေတြ ဇြန္လမွာ ဌာေနျပန္ႏိုင္ဖို႔ ဘဂၤလား ေဒ႔ရွ္ေမွ်ာ္လင္႔

VOA
ဗြီအိုေအ (ျမန္မာပုိင္း)
21 ဇန္နဝါရီ၊ 2021

၂၀၂၁ ဇန္န၀ါရီလ ၁၄ ရက္ေန႔က မီးေလာင္သြားတဲ့ ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာဒုကၡသည္စခန္း

 

ဘဂၤလားေဒ့ရွ္နယ္စပ္ ဒုကၡသည္စခန္းမွာ ခုိလႈံေနၾကတဲ့ ႐ိုဟင္ဂ်ာေတြ ေနရပ္ျပန္ပုိ႔ေရး တတိယအႀကိမ္ေျမာက္ ႀကဳိးပမ္းမႈကုိ လာမယ့္ ဇြန္လထဲမွာ အေကာင္အထည္ေဖၚႏိုင္လိမ့္မယ္လို႔ ဘဂၤလားေဒ့ရွ္ တာဝန္ရွိသူေတြက ေမွ်ာ္လင့္ေနပါတယ္။ ေသာင္းနဲ႔ခ်ီတဲ့ ႐ိုဟင္ဂ်ာေတြကို ျမန္မာျပည္ဖက္ ျပန္ပို႔ဖို႔ ျပင္ဆင္ေနတာပါ။

႐ုိဟင္ဂ်ာေတြကို ေနရပ္ျပန္ပို႔ေရး ဘဂၤလားေဒ့ရွ္-ျမန္မာ ေဆြးေႏြးပြဲေတြ အခ်ိန္အေတာ္ၾကာ ရပ္ဆုိင္းေနခ့ဲရာက တရုတ္အစိုးရရဲ႕ ၾကားဝင္ေစ့စပ္ေပးမႈနဲ႔ ဇန္နဝါရီလ(၁၉)ရက္ေန႔မွာ အြန္လိုင္းကတဆင့္ (၃)ႏို္င္ငံ ေဆြးေႏြးပဲြ လုပ္ခဲ့ၾကပါတယ္။

Myanmar agrees to start taking back Rohingya this year

AA

SM Najmus Sakib

DHAKA, Bangladesh 

20.01.2021 

 

Tripartite meeting facilitated by China also agrees to keep global community in Rakhine State during repatriation.

Rohingya refugees sit on a Bangladesh Navy ship as they are relocated to the controversial flood-prone island Bhashan Char in the Bay of Bengal, in Chittagong on December 29, 2020. ( Stringer - Anadolu Agency ) 

 

Myanmar agreed to calls by Bangladesh at a tripartite meeting facilitated by China to start the much-awaited repatriation of Rohingya in the second quarter of this year, officials said Tuesday.

Bangladesh pushed hard to begin the repatriation, but Myanmar again delayed it, seeking time for logistical arrangements.

“We pushed to initiate the repatriation in the first quarter, but Myanmar sought more time for logistical arrangements and some physical arrangements. So we asked to start repatriation in the second quarter, and they agreed on it,” Bangladesh’s Foreign Secretary Masud Bin Momen said after the meeting.

The Shoah Foundation: Recording the Voices of Genocide Survivors

BORGEN
January 20, 202

SARTELL, Minnesota—Today at the Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial Site, visitors may tour the death camp in which thousands of prisoners died of disease, malnutrition, forced labor, execution and gruesome medical experiments between 1933 to 1945. As visitors reflect on the horrors committed at the site, they may also view a monument of the phrase, “Never Again.” For Holocaust survivors and human rights watchers alike, “Never Again” has been a rallying cry for preventing the atrocities of the Holocaust from recurring. One organization, the Shoah Foundation, is ensuring that “Never Again” will the world see such horrors by documenting the stories of genocide survivors to spread awareness.

Global Knowledgeability about the Holocaust

Bhasan Char: Home minister

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Prothom Alo English DeskNoakhali
Published: 19 January 2021

Rohingya exodus from their homeland, making their way to Bangladesh Reuters

Home minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal, MP said more Rohingyas are now showing interest to go to Bhasanchar as they feel comfortable and secure there due to steps taken by the government for their comfort and safety, reports BSS.

“A good number of Rohingyas, who have been forcibly displaced from their motherland Rakhine state by Myanmar Army over three years ago, are now showing interest to go to Bhasan Char from Cox’s Bazar, as the government has taken steps to ensure their safety and comfort,” he said.