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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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Mataf bridge ready to ease Umrah for disabled, elderly
JEDDAH: P.K. ABDUL GHAFOUR
The new mataf bridge around the Holy Kaaba opens for pilgrims this week. Only disabled and elderly pilgrims will be allowed to use the circular bridge that can hold 7,000 wheelchair-borne pilgrims per hour.“Since the bridge would be set apart for weak, infirm and disabled pilgrims, the movement of able-bodied pilgrims below on the ground floor will become easier as that area will be free from wheelchairs that used to clutter in an already crowded area,” said the Haj Ministry’s spokesman Hatim Qadi.
Authorities have stepped up preparations to receive millions of pilgrims in the second half of Ramadan as they come from across the world to perform Umrah and attend special prayers at the Grand Mosque in Makkah.
Dhaka wants Rohingyas living in KSA to forego Bangla passports
DHAKA: ARAB NEWS
Hundreds of thousands of the Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar living in the Kingdom, who had received Bangladeshi passports in 1978-79 to flee Buddhist persecution in the Burmese state of Arkan, have been urged by Dhaka to forgo Bangladeshi passports.Bangladeshi Expatriates’ Welfare Minister Mosharraf Hossain recently said around 500,000 Rohingyas are living in Saudi Arabia with Bangladeshi passports.
Dhaka and Islamabad had come forward to rescue the persecuted Rohingyas.
“Pakistan gave them passports with a BM (Burmese Muslims) code without having recognized them as Pakistani nationals.
But the military ruler (in Bangladesh) issued them passports with Bangladeshi nationality. That was not only a historic mistake, but an offense too,” Bangladeshi Foreign Minister Dipu Moni told Dhaka Tribune. “Passports cannot be issued to any foreign national. We are trying to correct the mistake the then government of the country made,” she said.
St. Paul: For Karen immigrants, a ‘big family reunion’ this weekend
Aye Mya Phyu feared for her children as she ran from Burmese soldiers and into the jungle.
She moved from various safe zones along the Myanmar and Thailand border and eventually made her way to the United States. Now a St. Paul resident, she has been helping other immigrants escape the violence of their homeland and adjust to life here.
“It was like finding my freedom,” Phyu recalled thinking when she first arrived to St. Paul. “Now we have no more fear.”
The steady trickle of Karen, an ethnic minority from southern Myanmar, has been immigrating since 2000. More than 7,500 now live in Minnesota, according to the Karen Organization of Minnesota. It is now home to more Karen (pronounced “kuh-REHN”) than any other state, with large populations in St. Paul, Roseville and Maplewood.Letter from America: Why Buddhism Declined? – Part 3
By Dr. Habib Siddiqui
Popular myths circulated and believed amongst many Buddhists about the decline of Buddhism in South Asia or the Indian subcontinent are so bizarre that they are more often than not diametrically opposed to the historical facts. Those myths, unfortunately, define and justify the current genocidal campaigns against non-Buddhists in Buddhist-majority countries. This series of articles aims at an objective study on the causes of such decline.
Against popular Buddhist narrative of history, before Islam came to South Asia Buddhism has already been marginalized by powerful Hindus. Even in Bengal, which is only a short distance from where Siddhartha Gautama Buddha was born, Hindu Brahmins/leaders/rulers were able to reclaim their control over the people.The Fallacy of the American Policy towards Burma
By Kanbawza Win
American scholars and policy makers, construe the Union of Burma, as a monolithic whole. without delving deep into its authentic contemporary history. In its obsession to counter the Chinese influence, it has somehow or other draw the conclusion that this country is endeavouring to change from military dictatorship to that of liberal democracy and as such should help them in any aspect to complete the transaction.
But this approach is slowly and surely sowing the seeds of discord that can lead to regional destabilization and that of the world at large.. Hence, instead of encouraging democracy and the prevalence of human rights or national self determination, it is indirectly encouraging the ethnic cleansing policy, resurrecting the Tatmadaw (army) together with its crony capitalism in exploiting the near 60 million people that has suffered for more than half a century.Thailand: Ensure access to justice and protection for Rohingya asylum-seekers
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL PUBLIC STATEMENT
Thailand: Ensure access to justice and protection for Rohingya asylum-seekers
Thai authorities must ensure the investigation into the alleged rape of a Rohingya asylum- seeker from Myanmar is impartial and that all those involved, including the police, are held accountable in a trial that meets international standards of fairness. Thailand has a responsibility to ensure effective protection, both in law and practice, of asylum-seekers and migrants arriving at its shores and living within its borders. On 27 May 2013, three Rohingya women and two girls, aged 9 and 12, left a government shelter in Phang Nga province to join two men who promised to take them to Malaysia to reunite with their husbands and other relatives in exchange for payment. One of the men was later identified as a police officer stationed in Khao Lak, Phang Nga province and the other was an undocumented Rohingya man from Myanmar. Between 9 and 11 June 2013, the Rohingya man allegedly held one of the women in a secluded location and repeatedly raped her.Burmese police arrest Kachin activist Bawk Ja
by Kachin News Group
Bawk Ja (also spelt Bauk Gyar and Bauk Ja), a well-known Kachin land rights activist was arrested Thursday night, in southern Kachin state according to a family friend.
Representatives from the Kachin Legal Aid group confirmed Bawk Ja’s arrest but do not know what she has been charged with.
[B]“At the moment, we can confirm she was arrested in Mohnyin. We are still trying to find out about her,” a lawyer from the organization told the Kachin News Group.[/B]
Her arrest may have to do with politics, says Daw Hkawn Ja, general secretary of Kachin Peace Network whose group is very concerned about Bawk Ja’s fate.Myanmar president says not preparing himself for 2015 election
Reuters
PARIS (Reuters) – Myanmar President Thein Sein is not preparing himself at the moment to contest the 2015 presidential election and has “no objections” to Nobel peace laureate Aung San Suu Kyi running, he said in an interview aired on Friday.
Thein Sein was speaking to France 24 television after the former military leader had completed a visit to London and Paris as part of a tour aimed at securing Western aid to help his country, the former Burma, emerge from decades of dictatorship.
“As of now, I have not prepared myself to run for the 2015 presidential election,” he said, through an interpreter.
British Prime Minister David Cameron, who visited the former military dictatorship last year, has pressed Thein Sein to ensure the constitution is changed to allow opposition leader Suu Kyi to contest the election.Myanmar’s Rohingya Exodus Creating Crisis Across Region
By Reuters
Muhammad Muslim, 52, fled Myanmar in 1988 when the junta brutally suppressed a pro-democracy movement in the country then known as Burma.
As a Rohingya from western Rakhine state, he had no passport. Myanmar’s government does not grant citizenship to the ethnic Muslims whom they consider illegal Bangladesh immigrants — even those whose families have been in the country since the colonial British brought them in during the late 19th century.
Muslim left Myanmar illegally, so he has no other papers that tie him to his home country. He spent 17 years in Malaysia as an illegal immigrant, waiting in vain for legal refugee status. And now he waits with his wife, two adult children and 23 other Rohingyas in a dank, no-star hotel near Jakarta’s grubby port, hoping to get that status with the UN refugee office in Indonesia.Reports
Burma: Mass Arrests, Raids on Rohingya Muslims
Brutal and Biased Police Response to Sectarian Violence in Arakan State
July 5, 2012
(New York) – Burmese security forces have responded to sectarian violence in northern Arakan State with mass arrests and unlawful force against the Rohingya Muslim population, Human Rights Watch said today. Local police, the military, and a border security force known as Nasaka have committed numerous abuses in predominantly Muslim townships while combating the violence between the Rohingya and ethnic Arakan, who are predominantly Buddhist, that broke out in early June 2012.
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