Rohingya ‘criminal’ shot dead in Cox’s Bazar: police

The Daily Star

Star Digital Report

March 14, 2021

Rohingya criminals have shot a man dead from the same community, over establishing supremacy between groups, in a refugee camp at Teknaf in Cox's Bazar.

The deceased was identified as Md Jubair (21), a resident of block C of Nayapara refugee camp.

Another Rohingya man -- Md Jalil Prokash Sunia -- was also stabbed over the same issue, our local correspondent reports.

Rohingya face new challenges

MISSION NETWORK NEWS

By Kevin Zeller

March 15, 2021

Bangladesh (MNN) — 81 Rohingya refugees have been rescued after their boat’s engine failed. Eight died of dehydration. The Indian Coast Guard found the boat adrift in the Andaman Sea.

Meanwhile, the government of Bangladesh continues shipping thousands of Rohingya refugees to a new settlement on the small island of Bhasan Char. It’s a new island, recently formed from Himalayan sediment.

Rohingya youth shot to death in Teknaf

Dhaka Tribune

Abdul Aziz, Cox's Bazar 

March 14th, 2021

Another person has been injured in the incident and is undergoing treatment in Cox's Bazar Sadar Hospital

Rohingya terrorists have shot dead a 21-year-old man over exerting dominance in a Rohingya camp in Teknaf, Cox’s Bazar.

The incident took place in the early hours of Sunday at the Nayapara Rohingya camp, Armed Police Battalion (APBN) informed reporters.

The deceased was identified as Dil Mohammad's son, Mohammad Zubair, 21, from block-C of Nayapara camp in Teknaf. He was a member of a local terrorist group named Salman Shah group.

Several More Protesters Die In Myanmar; 'Quad' Leaders Urge Restoration Of Democracy

WYPR

By CATHERINE WHELAN • 

MAR 13, 2021

Protesters against last month's military coup hold a candlelight rally in Yangon, Myanmar, on Saturday. More than 70 people have been killed by security forces since the military overthrew the country's fragile democracy six weeks ago, a United Nations official says.AP

Deadly unrest continues to grip Myanmar as ongoing protests challenge the country's Feb. 1 military coup and President Biden and regional leaders are urging the restoration of democracy in that country.

Several more protesters were killed early Saturday, after 12 died on Thursday, reporter Michael Sullivan tells NPR. Reuters says at least six protesters have been killed in the past day.

Inside Myanmar's bloodthirsty 'TikTok soldiers' gunning down their peers

The Telegraph
ByNicola Smith, 

ASIA CORRESPONDENT 

Nandi Theint 

YANGON and Verity Bowman

13 March 2021 

Young soldiers take to TikTok in threatening videos

The young soldiers in the video clip line the benches of their truck with machetes tucked under their arms. Some crowd over a single mobile phone, cigarette in hand. Others lean on their hoe. “We don’t hold a gun any more," a line of Burmese script reads underneath, in reference to the blunt farm tools littered on the bed of the vehicle.

The message is clear: we don't just shoot, we bury too.

In another video a young soldier reaches for a machine gun, pulls it towards his face and kisses it before fixing his gaze at his smartphone camera with a tender smile. Meanwhile, a separate clip shows a young soldier drawing his fingers across his throat menacingly for his social media followers.

At least 12 killed in Myanmar anti-coup protests

New York Post

By Reuters
March 13, 2021 

An anti military coup protester throw a Molotov cocktail on the other side of the makeshift barricade during a demonstration against the military coup in Myanmar.Aung Kyaw Htet/SOPA Images/Shutterstock

Myanmar security forces killed at least 12 people, witnesses and media reported, as the acting leader of a civilian parallel government vowed in a first public address on Saturday to pursue a “revolution” to overturn the Feb. 1 military coup.

Five people were shot dead and several injured when police opened fire on a sit-in protest in Mandalay, Myanmar’s second-biggest city, witnesses told Reuters.

Another person was killed in the central town of Pyay and two died in police firing in the commercial capital Yangon, where three were also killed overnight, domestic media reported.

For ‘love’: charity-washing colonialism, fascism and genocide

Aljazeera

Azeezah Kanji
Legal academic and writer based in Toronto.
12 Mar 2021

From India and the US to Israel and Myanmar, the ‘non-profit industrial complex’ is serving to enforce deeply-rooted structures of domination.

Signage is seen during the Jewish National Fund Los Angeles Tree Of Life Dinner at Loews Hollywood Hotel on October 29, 2017, in Hollywood, California [Michael Kovac/Getty Images]

In the name of “charity”, the Jewish National Fund of Israel is buying up Palestinian land in the West Bank for colonial settlements and calling it “environmentalism”; far-right Hindutva nationalist organisations are propagating their fascist-inspired ideology across the world and calling it “decolonisation” and “anti-racism”; and monks who justify genocide in Myanmar are running tax-exempt centres across the United States for the practice of “religion for peace” Buddhism.

Myanmar’s Defiant Garment Workers Demand That Fashion Pay Attention

The New York Times

By Elizabeth Paton
March 12, 2021

Female garment industry union leaders are emerging at the forefront of the deadly anti-military protests, and asking global brands to take their side.

Members of the Federation of Garment Workers Myanmar — most of them women — have been prominent in the protest movement since the country’s military coup on Feb. 1.Credit...FGWM

Ma Moe Sandar Myint is the leader of one of Myanmar’s largest garment worker unions. Until recently, the 37-year-old mother of three and former sewing machine operator would spend her days representing workers with labor complaints and helping members of the Federation of Garment Workers Myanmar unionize their factories.

World briefs: Turkey resumes ties with Egypt

Pittsburgh Post- Gazette

COMPILED FROM NEWS SERVICES
MAR 13, 2021

Turkey said it had resumed diplomatic contacts with Egypt, a sign it’s making progress in rebooting relations with some Arab nations that for years have been strained over Islamist politics and regional conflicts.

The talks are at the “intelligence and foreign ministry levels,” Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said Friday, according to the state-run Anadolu Agency.

Mr. Cavusoglu said that while neither side had set preconditions, “it’s not that easy to move on as if nothing has happened after years of broken ties.” President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said shortly after that contacts could move to a higher level if they produced results.

UN Official Calls For Coordinated International Action To Oust Myanmar Coup Leaders

eurasia review
By Lisa Schlein
By VOA

March 12, 2021 

Myanmar's military junta leader, General Min Aung Hlaing. Photo Credit: Mil.ru

A United Nations investigator is accusing Myanmar’s military junta of likely crimes against humanity and is urging international coordinated action to isolate and get rid of the regime. The report is under review by the U.N. Human Rights Council.

Special raporteur Thomas Andrews says that since Myanmar’s military seized power from the elected government February 1, security forces have murdered at least 70 people and arbitrarily arrested more than 2,000.

He says there is video evidence of security forces viciously beating protestors, destroying property, looting shops, and firing indiscriminately into people’s homes. He says the junta has been systematically destroying legal protections and crushing freedom of expression and assembly.

UPDATE 1-S.Korea to suspend defence exchanges with Myanmar, reconsider aid

Yahoo Finance
Josh Smith and Sangmi Cha

Fri, March 12, 2021, 

SEOUL, March 12 (Reuters) - South Korea will suspend defence exchanges with Myanmar and ban arms exports to the country after a military coup and violent suppression of pro-democracy protests, the foreign ministry said on Friday.

The ministry also said Seoul would limit exports of other strategic items, reconsider development aid and grant humanitarian exemptions for Myanmar nationals to allow them to stay in South Korea until the situation improves.

"Despite repeated demands of the international community, including South Korea, there are an increasing number of victims in Myanmar due to violent acts of the military and police authorities," the ministry said in a statement.

US imposes sanctions on Myanmar companies as violence against protesters continues

JURIST
Robert Kaufman | U. Pittsburgh School of Law, US
MARCH 12, 2021 

The US Department of the Treasury sanctioned the two adult children of commander-in-chief of the Myanmar military, Min Aung Hlaing, on Wednesday in response to the continued violence by military forces against protesters.

In a press release, the Treasury Department labeled Min Aung Hlang as the leader of the military coup against Myanmar’s democratically elected government, saying:

The United States stands in solidarity with the people of Burma, and we remain committed to promoting accountability for those responsible for the coup and ongoing violence. The United States urges the immediate release of State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi and President Win Myint, as well as all others unjustly detained since February 1, including members of civil society, journalists, and human rights activists.

U.S. Offers Protected Status For People From Myanmar As Coup Leaders Crack Down

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MICHELE KELEMEN

March 12, 2021

Security forces stand guard on a road as people are arrested, next to dismantled barricades that were set up by protesters demonstrating against the military coup, in Yangon, Myanmar, on Friday.AFP via Getty Images

Updated at 6:20 p.m.

The United States will offer temporary protected status to people from Myanmar who fear returning home, the Biden administration said Friday, as it tries to ratchet up pressure on military coup leaders in the Southeast Asian country, and provide protection to some of those criticizing it.

U.S. trying to contact Aung San Suu Kyi, detainees after civilian officials die in Myanmar military custody

CNBC

Christian Nunley@CNUNLEY7
FRI, MAR 12 2021

KEY POINTS

• The U.S. is still trying to contact Aung San Suu Kyi, who was ousted from power as Myanmar’s de facto head of government in a Feb. 1 coup.
• Two members of Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy have died after Myanmar security forces detained them.
• “We’re working through appropriate channels to make contact with those detained,” State Department spokesman Ned Price said.
• The U.S. and China have a meeting in Anchorage, Alaska on March 18 to discuss a wide range of topics. Myanmar may be on the docket.

Myanmar’s State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi looks on before the UN’s International Court of Justice on December 11, 2019 in the Peace Palace of The Hague, on the second day of her hearing on the Rohingya genocide case.

Koen Van Weel | AFP | Getty Images

The U.S. is still working to contact Aung San Suu Kyi and other civilian detainees in Myanmar, the State Department said Friday, after two officials with her National League for Democracy party died in military custody over the past week.

Brazil Should Call Out the Myanmar Junta in No Uncertain Terms

Human Rights Watch

Maria Laura Canineu
Brazil Director, Americas Division

@mlcanineu
Renata Escudero
Brazil office coordinator

Police use a water cannon on a crowd of protesters in Naypyitaw, Myanmar on Monday, February 8, 2021. ©2021 AP Photo

The death toll keeps rising in Myanmar as security forces open fire on peaceful protesters. Yet the demonstrations across the country continue.

Masses of people in Myanmar have made it clear that they reject the military’s February 1 coup that overthrew the democratically elected government. Despite the increasing violence by the security forces, the people are showing that they will not be intimidated.

The generals seized power after Myanmar’s electoral commission dismissed their allegations of fraud in last November’s election in which Aung San Suu Kyi led her National League for Democracy party to win re-election in a landslide, and swept both houses of parliament.

The United Nations Human Rights Council unanimously adopted a resolution on February 12, expressing deep concern over the situation in Myanmar, calling for the release of Aung San Suu Kyi and all those arbitrarily detained, and for the junta to cooperate with international rights entities.

A Small Town and a Spray of Bullets in Myanmar

The New York Times
By Hannah Beech
March 13, 2021,

Police officers shot into a cluster of unarmed civilians in a tiny town on Thursday, killing at least eight people and injuring more than 20.

Protesters during confrontations with security forces in Yangon, Myanmar, on Tuesday.Credit...The New York Times

Until Thursday, Myaing, a small town in central Myanmar, was best known for its production of thanaka, a bark that is ground for use as a cooling cosmetic.

But in the late morning of March 11, the town, which can be traversed in 10 minutes, became synonymous with the brutality of the military that seized power last month. Myaing’s rain-slicked streets were mottled with blood as police officers shot into a cluster of unarmed civilians, killing at least eight people and injuring more than 20, according to witnesses and hospital officials.

U Myint Zaw Win was among the crowd that scattered with the bursts of live ammunition in the late morning, outside Myaing’s police station. When he looked back, he saw a body with half its head blown apart, on a street that he has walked all his life. He did not know whose body it was, but he said a mason and a bus driver were among the dead.

Plea in SC to restrain central govt from deporting Rohingyas detained in Jammu

Samanwaya Rautray
ET BureauLast Updated: Mar 12, 2021

The plea in the top court also sought a court order to have those detained released from the detention centre.

A Rohingya refugee filed a fresh plea in the Supreme Court, urging the top court to restrain the government from deporting hundreds of Rohingyas detained recently in Jammu. 

The Rohingyas, Muslims from Myanmar, have fled a targeted cleansing by the majority Buddhists in that country.

The fresh application, filed by Mohammad Salimullah through advocate Prashant Bhushan, sought to pre-empt any adverse action against the community by the Indian state which has argued that they are a national security threat.

Police recently rounded up 150-170 Rohingyas settled in Jammu, creating panic among the community. Some of them have since been housed in a detention centre.

Rohingyas worst victims of state terror, deserve humanitarian approach: Anjuman Sharie Shian

News Desk
11 Mar 2021

J-K Anjuman Sharie Shian has urged the state and central government to take a humanitarian look at the Rohingya issue who are the worst victims of state terror of Burma .

In a statement, J-K Anjuman Sharie Shain’s Aga Syed Mujtaba Abbas Mosavi said the 2015 Rohingya refugee crisis is epitome of inhuman approach of the forcible displacement of Muslim Myanmar nationals from the Arrakkan and Rakhine state of Myanmar to neighboring Bangladesh, India, Malaysia, Indonesia, Cambodia, Laos and Thailand in 2015, collectively dubbed “boat people” by sane voices .

Saudi Arabia monitoring conflict in Myanmar with ‘great concern’

ARAB NEWS
March 12, 2021

The Rohingya people have faced widespread persecution in Myanmar. (File/Reuters)

• Kingdom’s UN delegation calls for intensifying international efforts to solve Rohingya crisis

LONDON: Saudi Arabia said it is following the suffering of the Rohingya Muslim minority and other minorities in Myanmar with “great concern.”

The comments were made during a UN Human Rights Council meeting with UN Special Rapporteur on Myanmar Tom Andrews.

“The situation of the Rohingya minority is one of the most important issues that the Kingdom pays great attention to,” said Mohannad Al-Basrawi, the human rights department head of the Kingdom’s permanent UN delegation in Geneva.

Streets of blood in Myanmar town as UN fears 'crimes against humanity'

CNN
Helen Regan,

March 12, 2021

(CNN)Bloodshed continues in Myanmar after another violent day Thursday saw at least 12 people killed by the ruling junta, according to a watchdog group, prompting a top UN official to say the crackdown on peaceful protests is "likely meeting the legal threshold for crimes against humanity."

In the small, central town of Myaing, police shot into a crowd of unarmed people, killing at least eight, according to advocacy group Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (AAPP). Images posted on social media showed the town's roads streaked with blood and bodies laying crumpled and lifeless in the street.