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In This Issue:
- Editorial: Rohingyas are in a geopolitical crossroad: Global Powers and Competing Interests
- Rohingya Resilience in Exile: Rebuilding Lives in Refugee Camps
- Containing Arakan Army: A Security Imperative for Myanmar and Bangladesh
- Ending Digital Violence against Women and Girls
- Myanmar’s Election: Conflict, Exclusion, and a Crisis of Legitimacy
- Rohingya Families in Maungdaw Prepare to Flee Amid Forced Conscription Fears
- Arakan Army Orders Rohingya to Surrender Household Registration Lists
- Fire Tears Through Rohingya Camp in Cox’s Bazar, Injuring Three Children and Destroying Dozens of Shelters
- Rohingya Men and Women Forced to Join Armed Group in Maungdaw
- ARNO Welcomes UN Third Committee Resolution on Rohingya Rights, Demands Accountability for Armed-Group Abuses
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MESSAGE OF FELICITATIONS TO FIRST INTERNATIONAL BURMESE MUSLIM CONFERENCE
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Act today to save refugees
Monday, 30 June 2008 17:35
Refugees are appealing to their present host countries for temporary documents to allow them to stay and work legally while the UNHCR processes their resettlement to third countries. If they are allowed to work, refugees could signficantly contribute to the economic development of their host countries says Zafar Ahmad Abdul Ghani. Rohingya refugees are also asking the UNHCR to resettle them to third countries just as it does for other refugees.
Dhaka willing to resolve Rohingya, border issues
CA tells Myanmar envoy
Unb, Dhaka
Chief Adviser (CA) Fakhruddin Ahmed has said Bangladesh is willing to resolve the issues of repatriation of the Rohingya refugees and maritime border demarcation with Myanmar through discussion.
The head of the caretaker government said this when outgoing Myanmar Ambassador U Nyan Lynn made farewell call on him at his office yesterday.
Why Bangladesh needs refugee law
Udatta Bikash 
Bangladesh was born experiencing refugeehood. During our liberation war in 1971, an estimated 10 million people (one out of every seven of that time population) took refuge in neighbouring India. Bangladesh has been hosting thousands of Rohingya, a Muslim ethnic minority group from the northern Rakhine state of Myanmar as refugees for last 17 years.
Following the latest persecution generated by the military ruler in Myanmar during 1991-92, thousands of Rohingyas took refuge in neighbouring Bangladesh and other countries. About 258,000 Rohingyas were registered by the Government of Bangladesh and granted refugee status through an executive order.
In addition to that, thousands of Rohingyas continue to arrive here and mix with local population over the years. Some estimates suggest that there are now about 300,000 nationals of Myanmar (mostly Rohingyas) outside the official camps who are 'illegally' staying in the Cox's Bazaar, Bandarban and Chittagong districts. A section of them is active in all sorts of illegal activities. Apart from that an estimated 30
Malaysia: Attest On Clarification Of Illegals
Posted by brcsm under the sail
Burmese refugees from Klang-Malaysia had sent a letter to us and shown that we refugees believe ‘The Sail’ will reserves the right of publication and edition through Freedom of Press. As follows,
Dear editor,
Today 04 July 2008, Rela raids including Immigration started at 1:30 am and ended 3:30 am midnight, in Klang Meru and Kg. Jawa. Total about 200 persons were arrested , out of about 80 are Burmese Rohingy refugees and others are Indonesians. Among them, one of 80 Rohingyas is one month old baby, 15 are children, 3 are under 2 years old and 10 are women.
UN to Take Up Burma Issue Again July 3rd, 2008 Anuar Posted in Burma News | UN to Take Up Burma Is
By LALIT K JHA / NEW YORK IRRAWADDY NEWS
Thursday, July 3, 2008
The UN Security Council will take up the political impasse in Burma this month, the US Ambassador to the United Nations, Zalmay Khalilzad, said on Wednesday. No agreement on the date of the discussion could be reached.
Briefing UN correspondents after a closed meeting of the Security Council on the agenda for July, Khalilzad, who serves as council president this month, said the current crisis in Zimbabwe and a resolution on the Burmese political crisis were two issues raised by member countries during the meeting.
First batch of Rohingya refugees resettled in New Zealand
Cox's Bazaar , Bangladesh : The first batch of 23 Burmese refugees this year from five families, including men, women and children reached New Zealand on June 30, for resettlement to a third country, according to a Majee in the camp.
Five members from one family from Nayapara camp and 18 members from four families from Kuthupalong refugee camp left their respective camps on June 27, for Dhaka and boarded a flight to New Zealand on June 29. They stayed one night at Proval Hotel in Cox's Bazaar before leaving for Dhaka .
UNHCR’s double standards
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The UN Refugee agency, UNHCR has been playing a discriminatory role against the Rohingya refugees from Myanmar in Bangladesh.
The agency has been supporting around 30,000 Rohingya refugees staying in the camps. On the other hand, it is not receiving applications for refugee status from the newly arrived Rohingyas. This amounts to compromising of its mandate.
Government Matriculation Exam Results Announced, 80 Percent Fail
Sittwe: The military government announced yesterday the results of the matriculation exam for the 2007 – 08 school year, but 80 percent of students in Arakan State failed the exam, said an education worker in Sittwe.
He said, "No more than 20 percent of students in Arakan State passed the exam, and 80 percent failed this last matriculation exam."
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