EU Parliament Voices Support for Myanmar’s Opposition Government

THE I DIPLOMAT

By Sebastian Strangio
October 11, 2021

Despite the motion, Western support for the National Unity Government is likely to remain informal and unofficial.

The European Parliament has voted to support Myanmar’s shadow National Unity Government (NUG) and its parliamentary committee as the legitimate representatives of crisis-hit Myanmar.

In a resolution adopted late last week, the European Parliament expressed its “support for the people of Myanmar in their struggle for democracy, freedom, and human rights.” It said that it “supports the CRPH [Committee Representing Pyidaungsu Hluttaw] and the NUG as the only legitimate representatives of the democratic wishes of the people of Myanmar” and called on the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and other foreign governments “to include and involve them in genuine and inclusive political dialogue and efforts aimed at the peaceful resolution of the crisis.”

Myanmar has been in a state of severe crisis since the coup, which immediately prompted a nationwide movement of protests and work stoppages, which have been complemented in recent months by growing armed resistance.

Bangladesh arrests 16 Rohingya refugees in anti-militant crackdown

Eastern Eye
By: Chandrashekar Bhat
Chandrashekar
11 October, 2021

Members of the Armed Police Battalion stand guard near the office of slain Rohingya leader Mohib Ullah, who was shoot dead by gunmen last month, at Kutupalong refugee camp in Ukhia on October 6, 2021. (Photo by MUNIR UZ ZAMAN/AFP via Getty Images)

BANGLADESH police arrested at least 16 Rohingya refugees in a series of raids on camps in Dhaka after the murder of a top leader of their community last week, officials said on Sunday (10).

Rights advocate Mohib Ullah was gunned down 10 days ago by unidentified assailants outside his office at Kutupalong, the world’s largest refugee settlement in Bangladesh’s southeast.

His family and fellow community leaders have blamed the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA) – a militant outfit behind a series of attacks on Myanmar security posts – saying his growing popularity had enraged the group. ARSA has denied any involvement in the murder.

မိုဟစ်အူလာ လုပ်ကြံခံရမှု ရိုဟင်ဂျာ ၁၆ ယောက် အဖမ်းခံရ

RFA
လွတ်လပ်တဲ့အာရှအသံ 
2021-10-10

 

လုပ်ကြံခံရတဲ့ ဦးမိုဟစ်အူလာကို ဘင်္ဂလားဒေ့ရှ်နိုင်ငံ ကုတုပလောင်ဒုက္ခသည်စခန်းမှာ၂ဝ၁၉ ခုနှစ်က တွေ့ရစဉ် Photo: Reuters

ဘဂ်လားဒေ့ရှ်နိုင်ငံ ကော့ဆက်ဘဇားမြို့က ဒုက္ခသည်စခန်းတစ်ခုမှာ အသတ်ခံလိုက်ရတဲ့ မိုဟစ်အူလာ ဖြစ် ရပ်နဲ့ ပတ်သက်လို့ ရိုဟင်ဂျာ ၁၂ ယောက်ကို ဘင်္ဂလားဒေ့ရှ်ရဲက ဖမ်းထားတယ်လို့ အေအက်ဖ်ပီ သတင်းမှာ မနေ့က ဖော်ပြထားပါတယ်။ ဒါကြောင့် စုစုပေါင်းဖမ်းမိထားတာ ၁၆ ယောက်ရှိပြီလို့ ဒီအမှုကိုကိုယ်တွယ်နေတဲ့ ရဲအရာရှိ နေမူလ်ဟတ်က ပြောပါတယ်။

ရိုဟင်ဂျာဒုက္ခသည်စခန်းတွင်း စစ်သွေးကြွနှိမ်နင်းရေး ဖမ်းဆီးမှု ဆက်လုပ်

VOA
ဗွီအိုအေ (မြန်မာပိုင်း)
11 အောက်တိုဘာ၊ 2021

ကုတုပလောင် ဒုက္ခသည်စခန်းတွင်းမှာ အသတ်ခံရသူ ရိုဟင်ဂျာအရေးခေါင်းဆောင် Mohib Ullah ရဲ့ဈာပန။ (စက်တင်ဘာ ၃၀၊ ၂၀၂၁)

ဘင်္ဂလားဒေ့ရှ်နိုင်ငံက ဒုက္ခသည်စခန်းမှာ ရိုဟင်ဂျာ ခေါင်းဆောင်တဦးဖြစ်တဲ့ Mohib Ullah ပြီးခဲ့တဲ့ သီတင်း ပတ်ထဲ အသတ်ခံခဲ့ရပြီးနောက်ပိုင်း ဒီဒုက္ခသည်စခန်းတွေမှာ ရဲတွေက ဝင်ရောက်ရှာဖွေ ဖမ်းဆီးမှုတွေ လုပ်နေ တာဖြစ်ပြီး အခုချိန်ထိ ရဲကဖမ်းထားသူ အနည်းဆုံး ၁၆ ဦးရှိပြီလို့ ဘင်္ဂလားဒေ့ရှ် အာဏာပိုင်တွေက တနင်္ဂနွေနေ့မှာ ပြောပါတယ်။

Bhasan Char ကျွန်းက ရိုဟင်ဂျာတွေကူညီဖို့ ကုလနဲ့ ဘင်္ဂလားဒေ့ရှ် သဘောတူ

VOA

ဗွီအိုအေ (မြန်မာပိုင်း)
09 အောက်တိုဘာ၊ 2021 

ဘင်္ဂလားဒေ့ရှ်နိုင်ငံ ဒုက္ခသည်စခန်းက ရိုဟင်ဂျာဒုက္ခသည်တွေ Bhashan Char ကို ပြောင်းရွှေ့နေတဲ့ မြင်ကွင်း။ (ဒီဇင်ဘာ ၂၉၊ ၂၀၂၀)

ပြင်သစ်နိုင်ငံက နာမည်ကျော် ဘိုင်ယူး စစ်သတင်းထောက်ဆု (Bayeux Calvados- Normandy Award) အတွက် ဒီနှစ် ၂၀၂၁ ခုနှစ်မှာ ပထမဆုကို New York Times သတင်းစာက မြန်မာဓာတ်ပုံသတင်းထောက်ကို ချီးမြှင့်လိုက်ပါတယ်။ မြန်မာနိုင်ငံမှာ ရှိနေတဲ့ ဓာတ်ပုံဆရာအတွက် အန္တရာယ်ရှိတာကြောင့် အမည်ကိုတော့ ဖော်ပြမထားပါဘူး။

ရိုဟင်ဂျာခေါင်းဆောင် လုပ်ကြံခံရမှု မျက်မြင်သက်သေ သရုပ်ဖော်ပုံကြမ်း

RFA
လွတ်လပ်တဲ့အာရှအသံ 
Oct 8, 2021 

■ ၂၀၂၁ စက်တင်ဘာလ ၂၉ ရက်နေ့က ဘင်္ဂလား‌ဒေ့ရှ်နိုင်ငံ ကုတုပါလောင် ဒုက္ခသည်စခန်းမှာ ရိုဟင်ဂျာ ဒုက္ခ သည်ခေါင်းဆောင် မိုဟစ်အူလာ လုပ်ကြံသတ်ဖြတ်ခံရ စဉ်က အတူရှိနေခဲ့တဲ့ မျက်မြင်သက်သေတစ်ဦးရဲ့ ပြန် ပြောပြချက်ကို RFA ကာတွန်းဆရာ Rebel Pepper က သရုပ်ဖော်ပုံကြမ်း ရေးဆွဲပေးထားပါတယ်။ 

Link : Here

ရိုဟင်ဂျာ ၈ သောင်းကျော် ဘာဆန်ချာကျွန်း ပြောင်းရွှေ့ဖို့ ဘင်္ဂလားဒေ့ရှ်စီစဉ်

VOA
ဗွီအိုအေ (မြန်မာပိုင်း)
09 အောက်တိုဘာ၊ 2021

ကုတုပလောင် ဒုက္ခသည်စခန်း မြင်ကွင်းတခု။ ၆ အောက်တိုဘာ၊ ၂၀၂၀

ရိုဟင်ဂျာ ၈ သောင်းကျော် ဘာဆန်ချာကျွန်း ပြောင်းရွှေ့ဖို့ ဘင်္ဂလားဒေ့ရှ်စီစဉ်

ကုလသမဂ္ဂက အကူညီပေးဖို့ သဘောတူညီချက်ရခဲ့တဲ့နောက် ဘင်္ဂလားပင်လယ်အော်ထဲက ဘာဆန်ချာ ကျွန်း ဆီကို ရိုဟင်ဂျာ ဒုက္ခသည် ၈၀ ၀၀၀ ကျော် ပို့ ပေးဖို့ ဘင်္ဂလားဒက်ရှ်အစိုးရက စီစဉ်နေပါတယ်။ လူ့ အ ခွင့်ရေးအဖွဲ့တွေက စိုးရိမ်ကြောင်း ပြောနေတဲ့ ကြားက ဒီကျွန်းပေါ်က ဒုက္ခသည်စခန်းကိုပို့ပေးထားတဲ့ ရိုဟင်ဂျာဒုက္ခ သည်က ၁၉ ၀၀၀ လောက်ရှိနေပြီဖြစ်ပါတယ်။

ASEAN may exclude Myanmar junta chief from upcoming summit

THE SCOOP

Ain Bandial

October 6, 2021 

With little progress on an agreed roadmap to restore peace, ASEAN's special envoy says Myanmar's inaction is "tantamount to backtracking" 

FILE PHOTO: Brunei's Second Minister of Foreign Affairs, YB Dato Erywan Yusof, speaks during a press conference in Bandar Seri Begawan on Aug 7, 2021 following the wrap-up of the ASEAN Regional Forum. Photo: Rasidah Hj Abu Bakar/The Scoop

BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN – Southeast Asian countries are in talks to bar the head of Myanmar’s junta from the ASEAN summit later this month, due to a lack of progress on an agreed roadmap to restore peace in the strife-torn country.

The junta’s inaction on a five-point plan reached with ASEAN last April was “tantamount to backtracking”, YB Dato Erywan Yusof, the bloc’s special envoy to Myanmar, told a news conference Wednesday.

ASEAN could bar Myanmar general from leaders’ summit

Aljazeera
7 Oct 2021

Regional envoy says the military has made ‘no progress’ on the peace plan agreed in April, as Malaysia says it could open dialogue with shadow administration.

ASEAN invited Myanmar's armed forces chief to a summit in Jakarta in April - at which a so-called consensus towards peace was agreed, but the group's special envoy says 'no progress' has been made since [File: Courtesy of Rusman/Indonesian Presidential Palace/Handout via Reuters] 

 

 

Countries from Southeast Asia are discussing not inviting the head of Myanmar’s military regime to their leaders’ summit later this month, after the generals failed to make progress on an agreed road map to restore peace after their February coup plunged the country into chaos, a regional envoy has said.

Bangladesh: Who killed Rohingya leader Mohibullah?

DW
Date 05.10.2021
Author Arafatul Islam

The murder of a top Rohingya leader in his office has international leaders calling for an investigation and has stoked anger within Bangladesh's Rohingya refugee communities.

Some have blamed the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army for Mohibullah's death

Mohibullah, a high-profile figurehead for the Rohingya who have fled Myanmar, was killed by unidentified gunmen last week in an event that has left investigators looking for a culprit.

Mohibullah was shot last Wednesday, September 29, in one of the sprawling camps in the coastal Bangladeshi city of Cox's Bazar. The leader left for Bangladesh when over 730,000 Rohingya Muslims fled Myanmar after a military crackdown in August 2017, in the largest Rohingya exodus to date.

Rohingya refugees fear for lives after leader's murder in Bangladesh camp

UCA news

Stephan Uttom, Dhaka
Published: October 06, 2021
Rights group calls for urgent measures to protect Rohingya activists and refuge

Human Rights Watch and the Catholic Church have called for the protection of Rohingya refugees and activists in Cox's Bazar in Bangladesh. (Photo: Stephan Uttom/UCA News)

Human Rights Watch (HRW) has called on Bangladeshi authorities and the United Nations to take urgent measures to protect Rohingya refugees and activists facing threats and violence inside refugee camps.

Many have been scared for their lives since unidentified gunmen shot and killed Mohib Ullah, 46, chair of the Arakan Rohingya Society for Peace and Human Rights (ARSPH), in Kutupalong camp in Cox’s Bazar on Sept. 29.

More U.S. Aid for the Rohingya Refugee Crisis

VOA
EDITORIALS POLICY FOUCUS
October 6th'2021

The United States will contribute nearly $180 million in additional assistance for the humanitarian crisis facing Rohingya in and outside of Burma, and affected host communities in neighboring Bangladesh.

Link : Here

Chairman Meeks, Senator Cardin, and Rep. Chabot Introduce BURMA Act

Foreign Affairs Committee

Press Releases

October 5, 2021

Washington, DC – Today, House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Gregory W. Meeks (D-NY), House Foreign Affairs Asia-Pacific Subcommittee Ranking Member Steve Chabot (R-OH) and Senator Benjamin L. Cardin (D-MD) introduced the “Burma Unified through Rigorous Military Accountability Act of 2021” or BURMA Act.

The legislation condemns the actions taken by the Burmese military during its February 1 coup d’état and its aftermath. By authorizing targeted sanctions against the Burmese military, the State Administrative Council, as well as their affiliated entities and conglomerates, the bill holds accountable those responsible for the perpetration of the coup and the ensuing atrocities that have claimed over a thousand lives. In light of the growing crisis in Burma, the legislation also authorizes support for civil society and humanitarian assistance and calls on the State Department to issue a genocide determination for the persecution of the Rohingya.

မြန်မာနယ်စပ်က ရာဇဝတ်မှုတွေကို ဘင်္ဂလားဒေရှ့်ဘက်က ပစ်ခတ်နှိမ်နင်းမည်

VOA

ဗွီအိုအေ (မြန်မာပိုင်း)
06 အောက်တိုဘာ၊ 2021

ဘင်္ဂလားဒေ့ရှ် မြန်မာနယ်စပ်မှာ မြန်မာနိုင်ငံဘက်ကနေ တရားမဝင် ဝင်ရောက်လာမှု၊ မူးယစ်ဆေးဝါးနဲ့ လက် နက်မှောင်ခိုတင်သွင်းမှု တွေကို ရပ်တန့်အောင် တားဆီးရမှာဖြစ်ပြီး လိုအပ်ပါကပစ်ခတ်နှိမ်နင်းမှာဖြစ်ကြောင်း ဘင်္ဂလားဒေ့ရှ် နိုင်ငံခြားရေးဝန်ကြီးက အင်္ဂါနေ့မှာ ပြောဆို လိုက်ပါတယ်။

Bangladesh urges UN again to resolve Rohingya crisis

rising bd.com
Dhaka,
Chhabed Sathee, Staff Reporter, USA || risingbd.com
Published: 5 October 2021

Ambassador Rabab Fatima

Ambassador Rabab Fatima, Permanent Representative of Bangladesh to the United Nations, said, “The international community and regional countries must continue their efforts to resolve the Rohingya crisis. Creating conducive environment in the Rakhine State and ensuring accountability for the horrendous crimes committed against them are critical in this regard.”

Ambassador Rabab Fatima said this while delivering her statement at the 3rd committee general debate held at the UN headquarters on Monday (October 4).

ASEAN ‘disappointed’ with Myanmar military’s peace commitment

Aljazeera
4 Oct 2021

Indonesia FM says country’s military rulers have made no significant progress in implementing the group’s peace road map.

The military leader has pledged to hold fresh elections in two years and cooperate with ASEAN on finding a political solution. [Reuters]

Myanmar’s military has made no significant progress in implementing a Southeast Asian roadmap for peace following their coup or given any feedback on the work of a regional envoy in the country, Indonesia’s foreign minister has said.

Bangladesh arrests five over the killing of Rohingya activist

Aljazeera
3 Oct 2021

Mohibullah was a high-profile figurehead for the nearly one million-strong Muslim minority based in Bangladesh [File: Mohammad Ponir Hossain/Reuters]

Five Rohingya men have been arrested in connection with the killing of a prominent community leader in a refugee camp in Bangladesh, according to the police, adding that they were probing links to an armed group.

Mohibullah – a high-profile figurehead for the nearly one million-strong Muslim minority in Bangladesh – was killed by gunmen late on Wednesday in one of the sprawling camps in Cox’s Bazar district.

PM Hasina: UNGA discussion will help continue international pressure for Rohingya repatriation

Dhaka Tribune

BSS
October 4th, 2021

She hopes Bangladesh delegation's participation in the session would strengthen Dhaka's position in the multilateral forum

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday said international pressure on Myanmar would continue for a permanent solution to the protracted Rohingya crisis as the issue was widely discussed in the 76th United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) session.

She said: "The issue of the Rohingya crisis and its permanent solution was discussed elaborately in the UNGA session which I believe will help to continue global pressure on Myanmar for bringing back their Rohingya nationals from Bangladesh."

Rohingya leader Mohib Ullah murder: 2 placed on 3-day remand

the independent

UNB, Cox’s Bazar

A Cox’s Bazar court on Sunday placed two people on a three-day remand in a case over the killing Rohingya leader Mohib Ullah.

Cox’s Bazar Senior Judicial Magistrate Tamanna Farah passed the order in the morning.

Those remanded are—Mohamamd Selim alias Lamba Selim and Shawkat Ullah.

Earlier on Saturday, police produced them before the judge with a 7-day remand prayer, said court inspector Chandan Kumar Chakrawarty.

UN Seeks Investigation Into Killing of Rohingya Rights Defender

VOA
Lisa Schlein
October 02, 2021 

FILE - Rohingya activist Mohib Ullah speaks with Rohingya refugees in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, April 7, 2019. Unidentified gunmen shot and killed Ullah at Kutupalong refugee camp, also in Cox's Bazar, Sept. 29, 2021.

GENEVA —

U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet is calling on Bangladeshi authorities to conduct a prompt and thorough investigation into the killing of Rohingya activist Mohib Ullah while he was visiting a Cox’s Bazaar refugee camp in Bangladesh earlier this week.

Bachelet paid tribute to the prominent human rights defender, who she said spent his life fighting to end decades of discrimination against the Rohingya people. She said Ullah lost his life while seeking to restore his people’s basic rights in Myanmar, including their rights to nationality, land, health, and education.