Myanmar's ruling NLD party says military statement 'suitable explanation'

THE Star ONLINE  

Saturday, 30 Jan 2021

YANGON (Reuters) - Myanmar's ruling National League for Democracy Party (NLD) on Saturday said it accepted a military statement on the situation in the country as a suitable explanation, after the armed forces said it would protect and follow the constitution.

Myo Nyunt, spokesman for Aung San Suu Kyi's ruling party, which won a November election in a landslide, told Reuters the party wanted the military to be an organisation "that accepts people's desire regarding the election".

(Reporting by Shoon Naing; Writing by Martin Petty; Editing by William Mallard)

 

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UN, embassies fret over Myanmar coup talk

Bangkok Post 

AFP
29 Jan 2021

Supreme Court postpones decision on military-linked party's claim of electoral fraud

Myanmar is just a decade out of nearly 50 years of military rule. (AFP Photo)  

YANGON: More than a dozen embassies, including the US and EU delegations, on Friday urged Myanmar to “adhere to democratic norms”, joining the United Nations in a chorus of international concern about a possible military coup.

Political tensions eased slightly on Friday when the Supreme Court postponed considering allegations of electoral misconduct by President Win Myint and election commission chairman Hla Thein.

 
The submissions filed by the military-linked Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) would be “reserved for judgement", the court said.

WHO team meets with Chinese, plans to visit key Wuhan sites

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AP
January 29, 2021

Chinese attendees, some wearing tags which reads “Expert Team,” walk to a restaurant after leaving a conference area where World Health Organization team of researchers are meeting their Chinese counterparts in Wuhan in central China’s Hubei province on Friday, Jan. 29, 2021. (AP)

• Their first in-person meetings should be followed by the first field visits in and around the industrial and transport hub

WUHAN, China: World Health Organization experts in Wuhan, China, to look into the origins of the new coronavirus met with their Chinese counterparts Friday and plan later to visit sites in the central city that will be key to their long-awaited fact-finding mission.

“First face to face meeting with our colleagues. Correction: facemask to facemask given the medical restrictions,” Dutch virologist Marion Koopmans tweeted around 9:30 a.m. (0130 GMT).

“Discussing our visiting program. China teamleader prof Wannian joking about some technical glitches. Nice to see our colleagues after lengthy Zoom meetings,” Koopman tweeted, referring apparently to top Chinese epidemiologist Liang Wannian, who has been a leader of China’s response team.

Bangladesh sends more Rohingya refugees to remote, flood-prone island

REUTERS

Ruma Paul
January 29, 2021

DHAKA (Reuters) - Bangladesh moved another group of Rohingya Muslims on Friday to a remote island in the Bay of Bengal, despite concerns over the risk of storms and floods lashing the site, even as some refugees despaired of finding solutions to their plight. 

FILE PHOTO: Rohingya refugees sit on wooden benches of a navy vessel on their way to the Bhasan Char island in Noakhali district, Bangladesh, December 29, 2020. REUTERS/Mohammad Ponir Hossain/File Photo

The densely-populated south Asian country wants to transfer to the island a tenth of the 1 million refugees living in ramshackle border camps after they fled violence in neighbouring Myanmar.

“What options do we have? How long can we live in the crowded camps under tarpaulins?” asked Mohammed Ibrahim, 25, as he sailed to the island of Bhasan Char, to which some of his relatives have also been moved.

Rohingya crisis: PM Hasina pushes for peaceful solution

Dhaka Tribune 

UNB
January 28th, 2021

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina virtually hands over certificates among participants of Defence Services Command and Staff College (DSCSC) 2020-21 Course at Sheikh Hasina Complex in Mirpur Cantonment in Dhaka on Thursday, January 28, 2021 ISPR

 

Bangladesh is continuing discussions with Myanmar so that they take back their citizens, says the prime minister

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said Bangladesh continues its discussions with Myanmar with a friendly attitude for the repatriation of Rohingyas without engaging in any conflict for the sake of regional security and development.

နေ့စဉ် ရေဒီယိုသတင်း (အသံဖိုင် ) ၊ဇန္နဝါရီလ၊ ၂၀၂၁

အသံဖိုင်များကို " သတင်းနားဆင်ရန်လင့် " တွင်ကလစ်လုပ်၍ နဆင်နိုင်ပါသည်။

အောက်ဖေါ်ပြပါ ကော်လံများရှိ အသံဖိုင်များကို သတင်းနားဆင်ရန် လင့်တွင် ကလစ်လုပ်၍ နားဆင်နိုင်ပါသည်။

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႐ိုဟင္ဂ်ာ ၁,၄၀၀ ေက်ာ္ Bhasan Char ကၽြန္း ထပ္မံပို႔ ေဆာင္

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ဗြီအိုေအ (ျမန္မာပုိင္း)
30 ဇန္နဝါရီ၊ 2021 

ဘဂၤလားေဒ့ရွ္ႏိုင္ငံ ဒုကၡသည္စခန္းက ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာဒုကၡသည္မ်ား Bhashan Char သို႔ ေျပာင္းေရႊ႕ေနထိုင္တဲ့ ျမင္ကြင္း။ (ဇန္နဝါရီ ၂၉၊ ၂၀၂၁)
 

ဘဂၤလားေဒ့ရွ္အစိုးရ အေနနဲ႔ ႐ုိဟင္ဂ်ာဒုကၡသည္ ေနာက္တသုတ္ကို ဘဂၤလားပင္လယ္ေအာ္ထဲက ေဝးလံ ေခါင္ဖ်ား Bhasan Char ကၽြန္းရွိ စခန္းသစ္ကို ထပ္ပို႔လိုက္တယ္လို႔ ဘဂၤလားေဒ့ရွ္ ေရတပ္အရာရွိတဦးက ေျပာ ပါတယ္။

အရင္ လူသူမေနခဲ့တဲ့ကၽြန္းမွာ မုန္တိုင္းနဲ႔ ေရႀကီးတာ ျဖစ္ေလ့ရွိတာမို႔ ဒုကၡသည္ေတြကို ကၽြန္းကိုမပို႔ဖို႔ လူ႔အခြင့္ အေရးအဖြဲ႔ေတြ တားေနတဲ့အခ်ိန္မွာပဲ ေနာက္ထပ္ ဒုကၡသည္ ၁,၄၀၀ ေက်ာ္ကို ဘဂၤလားေဒ့ရွ္ အာဏာပိုင္ေတြ က ဒီကေန႔မွာ ေရေၾကာင္းက ထပ္မံပို႔ေဆာင္ခဲ့တာပါ။

The Genocide Label Complicates Biden’s China Policy

Bloomberg  

Eli Lake
January 28, 2021, 

Diplomacy could be difficult with a state officially designated as genocidal. 

 

Now it’s an issue for Biden. Photographer: NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP

 In the final weeks and months of Donald Trump’s presidency, the State Department took some steps that are likely to be reversed. President Joe Biden’s administration is now reviewing these last-minute actions, such as designating the Houthi movement in Yemen a terrorist organization and imposing new sanctions on Iranian leaders and organizations, with a red marker in hand.

One 11th-hour policy change, however, may be here to stay: the designation of China’s repression of Muslim Uighurs in Xinjiang province as genocide. At his confirmation hearing last week, and in his first press briefing this week, Secretary of State Antony Blinken agreed that what China’s government has done to the Uighurs was genocide.

UK stands by Bangladesh on Rohingya issue: envoy

The Daily Star 

City Desk
January 29, 2021

IUB holds daylong event

A daylong event titled "Rohingya: City on the Hill" was held at the Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB) on its Bashundhara campus in Dhaka on Wednesday.

Global Studies and Governance Program of the School of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences at IUB organised the programme that highlighted humanitarian and repatriation challenges in Bangladesh since Rohingyas influx, said a press release.

British High Commissioner to Bangladesh Robert Chatterton Dickson was the chief guest at the inaugural session. He said the UK remains beside Bangladesh in addressing Rohingya-related challenges.

U.N. voices alarm about Myanmar after military threats, coup fears

 REUTERS

Shoon Naing, Poppy McPherson
APAC
January 29, 202

 

FILE PHOTO: Myanmar's Army Chief Min Aung Hlaing salutes during the Martyrs' Day ceremony in Yangon on July 19, 2020.Ye Aung Thu/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo 

YANGON (Reuters) - The United Nations and Western governments voiced alarm on Friday over threats by Myanmar’s military that have stirred fears of a coup in the aftermath of an election the army says was fraudulent.

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said he was following with “great concern” developments in Myanmar, where the army has said it would take action if complaints about the election are not addressed. An army spokesman on Tuesday declined to rule out the possibility of seizing power.

Australia, Britain, Canada, the European Union and United States, and 12 other nations, in a separate statement urged the military to “adhere to democratic norms”.

ဒုကၡသည္စခန္းက ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာ၂၀၀၀ ကေန ၃၀၀၀ အထိ ဘာဆန္ခ်ာကၽြန္းကို ထပ္ပို႔မယ္

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ဇန္နဝါရီ (၂၈) ရက္၊၂၀၂၁။

ဘဂၤလားေဒ့ရွ္အစိုးရဟာ ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာ သုံးေထာင္နီးပါးကို အခုရက္ပိုင္းအတြင္း ဘဂၤလား ပင္လယ္ေအာ္ထဲက ဘာဆန္ခ်ာကၽြန္းကို ထပ္ပို႔မယ္လို႔ ေရတပ္ဗိုလ္မႉးခ်ဳပ္ အယ္လ္မာမမ္ခ်ိဳဒါရီက ရိုက္တာသ တင္းဌာနကို ဇန္နဝါရီ (၂၇)ရက္ေန႔မွာ အတည္ျပဳေျပာဆိုခဲ့ပါတယ္။

ဘာဆန္ခ်ာကၽြန္းဟာ လြန္ခဲ့တဲ့ႏွစ္ (၂၀)ကမွ ပင္လယ္ထဲကေန ကၽြန္းအျဖစ္ေပၚလာခဲ့တာျဖစ္ၿပီး မုတ္သုံရာသီ မွာ ေရျမဳပ္တတ္တဲ့ကၽြန္းျဖစ္လို႔ လူ႔အခြင့္အေရးသမားေတြက ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာေတြကို ဒီကၽြန္းေပၚပို႔တာနဲ႔ပတ္သက္ၿပီး ဆန႔္က်င္ကန႔္ကြက္မႈေတြ ရွိေနခဲ့ပါတယ္။

ဒါေပမဲ့ ကၽြန္းကိုေရႀကီးတာကေန ကာကြယ္နိုင္ဖို႔အတြက္ ၁၂ ကီလိုမီတာ ( ၁.၅ မိုင္) ရွည္လ်ားတဲ့ တာတမံကို လည္း ေဆာက္လုပ္ေပးထားတာေၾကာင့္ ဘာမွစိုးရိမ္စရာမရွိဘူးလို႔ ဘဂၤလားေဒ့ရွ္တာဝန္ရွိသူေတြက တုံ႔ျပန္ ထားပါတယ္။

ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာမ်ားေနရပ္ျပန္ေရးကိစၥအေပၚ ၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းေသာ ေၿဖ ရွင္းခ်က္ရရွိရန္ ဘဂၤလားေဒ့ရွ္ဝန္ႀကီးခ်ဳပ္တိုက္တြန္း

 ဒါကာ၊ ဇန္နဝါရီ ၂၉

ေဒသတြင္းလုံျခဳံေရးႏွင့္ဖြံ့ၿဖိဳးတိုးတက္မႈမ်ားအတြက္ ပဋိပကၡတစုံတခုမျဖစ္ေစဘဲ ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာမ်ား ေနရပ္ျပန္ေရး အတြက္ ရင္းႏွီးေသာသေဘာထားျဖင့္ ျမန္မာနိုင္ငံႏွင့္ေဆြးေႏြးမႈမ်ားဆက္လုပ္သြား မည္ဟု ဘဂၤလားေဒ့ရွ္ ဝန္ ႀကီးခ်ဳပ္ ရွိတ္ ဟာဆီနာက ၾကာသပေတးေန႔တြင္ေျပာသည္။

နိုင္ငံသားမ်ားကိုျပန္ေခၚရန္ ျမန္မာနိုင္ငံႏွင့္ေဆြးေႏြးမႈမ်ားဆက္လက္ျပဳလုပ္ေနသည္ဟုလည္းေျပာသည္။

ၿပီးခဲ့သည့္သီတင္းပတ္မ်ားအတြင္း ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာမ်ားေနရပ္ျပန္ေရးအတြက္ တ႐ုတ္-ျမန္မာ-ဘဂၤလားေဒ့ရွ္ ၃ ပြင့္ ဆိုင္ေဆြးေႏြးမႈမ်ားျပဳလုပ္ခဲ့သည္။

အင္ဒိုနီးရွား ဒုကၡသည္စခန္းမွာ ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာဒုကၡသည္ ရာနဲ႔ခ်ီ ၿပီး ေပ်ာက္ဆုံး

mizzima 

Jan 29, 2021

အင္ဒိုနီးရွားနိုင္ငံက ဒုကၡသည္စခန္းတစ္ခုမွာ ရာနဲ႔ခ်ီတဲ့ ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာ ဒုကၡသည္ေတြ ေပ်ာက္ဆုံးလ်က္ရွိေနၿပီး အိမ္ နီးခ်င္း မေလးရွားနိုင္ငံဆီ လူကုန္ကူးခံရတာ ျဖစ္နိုင္တယ္လို႔ တာဝန္ရွိသူေတြနဲ႔ သတင္းရင္းျမစ္ေတြက ၾကာသ ပေတးေန႔မွာ ေျပာၾကပါတယ္။  

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႐ိုဟင္ဂ်ာဒုကၡသည္ တတိယအသုတ္ Bhasan Char ကၽြန္း ေျပာင္းေရႊ႕

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ဗြီအိုေအ (ျမန္မာပုိင္း)
29 ဇန္နဝါရီ၊ 2021

ဘဂၤလားေဒ့ရွ္ႏိုင္ငံ ဒုကၡသည္စခန္းက ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာဒုကၡသည္မ်ား Bhasan Char သို႔ ေျပာင္းေရႊ႕တဲ့ ျမင္ကြင္း။ (ဇန္နဝါရီ ၂၉၊ ၂၀၂၁)

ဘဂၤလာေဒ့ရွ္အစိုးရအေနနဲ႔ ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာဒုကၡသည္ တတိယေျမာက္အုပ္စုကို ဘဂၤလားပင္လယ္ေအာ္ထဲက Bhasan Char ကၽြန္း စခန္းသစ္ကို ထပ္ပို႔လိုက္ပါၿပီ။

အခုလိုမပို႔ဖို႔ လူ႔အခြင့္အေရးအဖြဲ႔ေတြ တားေနတဲ့အခ်ိန္မွာ ဘဂၤလားေဒ့ရွ္အစိုးရဘက္ကေတာ့ ဒီဒုကၡသည္ ၁,၀၀၀,၀၀၀ ေက်ာ္ကို ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံျပန္ပို႔ဖို႔ ၾကိဳးပမ္းေနခ်ိန္ အခုေျပာင္းတဲ့ရည္ရြယ္ခ်က္က ဒုကၡသည္ေတြ ပို ေကာင္းတဲ့ အေျခအေနေအာက္မွာ ေနခြင့္ရဖို႔ျဖစ္တယ္လို႔ ဆိုပါတယ္။

Biden Administration Should Tread Carefully on Myanmar’s Rights Issues: Observers

Irrawaddy

Nyein Nyein
27 January 2021

Then US Vice President Joe Biden and Myanmar State Counselor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi meet in Washington in September 2016. / State Counselor’s Office

 

US foreign policy under new President Joseph Biden will be centered on promoting democracy and human rights around the world, Antony Blinken, the administration’s nominee for secretary of state, told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee during his confirmation hearing in Washington on Jan. 19. Unlike Republican President Donald Trump, the new Democratic administration is likely to make human rights its top priority in dealing with Myanmar.

The UN Human Rights Commission said in September that ongoing and severe human rights violations continue to occur in armed conflict areas of Myanmar, including in the ethnic states of Kachin, Shan, Rakhine and Chin, despite the country’s ongoing democratic reform and peace-building processes.

It urged Myanmar to take concrete steps toward accountability for rights violations and said the current government’s initiatives to address the situation have been “inadequate and fallen short of international standards”.

Can India Turn the Rohingya Crisis’ Tide?

THE I DIPLOMAT

Anuttama Banerji
January 26, 2021

New Delhi shares moral as well as legal obligations in making sure it does its share to redress the humanitarian crisis.

India is not a party to the 1951 United Nations Refugee Convention or its 1967 Protocol since India believes “its borders are porous and any conflict can lead to mass movement of people” straining its limited resources. However, India has traditionally opened its doors to Tibetans and Afghan refugees. Therefore, its response to the Rohingya crisis catches us by surprise.