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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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Campaigners Demand Action, Not Words, From Myanmar
By Agence France-Presse
Yangon. Activists on Tuesday urged Myanmar President Thein Sein to “turn his words into action” after the former general promised to free all political prisoners by the end of the year.
“I guarantee to you that by the end of this year there will be no prisoners of conscience in Myanmar,” Thein Sein said Monday during a visit to London.
Pro-democracy campaigners, however, have accused the former junta premier of using a series of headline-grabbing amnesties to secure foreign aid and investment.
“President Thein Sein is very good at PR but he needs to turn his words into action,” said Bo Kyi of the Thailand-based Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (Burma), who estimates there are still more than 150 political prisoners behind bars.Smugglers and Security Forces Prey on Asia’s New Boat People
By Reuters
Anti-trafficking campaigners have produced mounting evidence of the widespread use of slave labor from countries such as Myanmar on Thai fishing boats, which face an acute labor shortage.
Fishing companies buy Rohingya men for between 10,000 baht ($320) and 20,000 baht ($640), depending on age and strength, said the smuggler in Phang Nga in southern Thailand.
He recounted sales of Rohingya in the past year to Indonesian and Singapore fishing firms. This has made the industry a major source of US concern over Thailand’s record on human trafficking. About 8 percent of Thai seafood exports go to supermarkets and restaurants in the United States, the second biggest export market after Japan.Indonesia, Rudd Back International Talks on Asylum Seekers
By Olivia Rondonuwu
Bogor. Indonesia’s president and Australia’s newly reinstated Prime Minister Kevin Rudd on Friday backed talks with originating countries to try to stem a tide of asylum-seeker boats staging perilous journeys to Australia.
Barely a week after ousting Julia Gillard in a dramatic party coup, Rudd held talks with President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono in Indonesia on an issue that looms large at upcoming elections in Australia.
As the leaders met, the problem was highlighted anew when a vessel carrying about 80 asylum-seekers ran into trouble in seas south of Indonesia.
Despite Canberra banishing asylum-seekers to remote Pacific islands for processing, thousands of would-be refugees continue to attempt the sea crossing to Australia every year, often from transit hubs in Indonesia.Watchdog calls for probe into crimes against the media in Burma
By Zin Linn
Reporters Without Borders has written an open letter dated 16 July 2013 to Burmese President Thein Sein, who began a two day visit to France on Wednesday, calling for an investigation into the former military government’s crimes against the media since 1962.
Even though the organization was on a blacklist in Burma for more than 20 years, it kept a record of cases of journalists who were killed by the previous junta. Some journalist-prisoners died as a result of torture they suffered in the junta-run prison system.
Reporters Without Borders says authorities announced the death of Ne Win, a correspondent for the Japanese newspaper Asahi Shimbun, at a press conference on 14 May 1991 saying he had died in hospital from cirrhosis of the liver. The army had accused him of being an opposition supporter but he had never been formally charged or tried, the watchdog said.Analysis: How to reverse Buddhism’s radical turn in Southeast Asia?
By Dana MacLean
HIGHLIGHTS
* Monks rationalize dehumanization of Muslims
* Rakhine Buddhists marginalized in past
* Danger of regional spread of Muslim-Buddhist violence
“The Burmese Buddhist monks may not have initiated the violence but they rode the wave and began to incite more,” said Michael Jerryson, a religious studies professor and co-editor of Buddhist Warfare, a recent 2010 publication examining the violent side of Buddhism in Southeast Asia and how Buddhist organizations there have used religious images and rhetoric to support “military conquest”.
18 Burmese among 62 asylum seekers held in Indonesia
Narinjara News
The Indonesian police have arrested 62 asylum seekers from Burma, Bangladesh and Nepal. A police patrol of the island nation caught 18 Burmese along with 41 asylum seekers from Bangladesh and three from Nepal on Friday while they were travelling by a boat in the Indonesian cost.
The immigration official source said that the arrests were made following a tip-off from the local Indonesian residents who observed the boat plying in the coast of Karawang of west Jeva.
Soon the officials searched them and found that their boat was leaking that compelled them for stranding adrift on the Karawang shore.Launching ‘A Burmese Journey’
By Charles M. Sennott
Editor-at-Large, The GroundTruth Project
YANGON, Myanmar — A group of 20 top, young journalists — 11 from Myanmar and 9 from the United States — set out on a series of journeys last month through a country undergoing dramatic change.
They formed five teams chosen for a highly competitive reporting fellowship which was put together as a partnership between GlobalPost and the New York City-based Open Hands Initiative.
One team set out to navigate the great capitals of Myanmar, also known as Burma.
They started at the ancient city of Bagan, looking at the politics of renovating sacred space; and then on to the colonial town of Mandalay to look at a rising Buddhist nationalism that seems to be taking root; and finally on to the surreal, empty modern capital of Naypyidaw.UN welcomes Myanmar’s abolition of notorious border force
The United Nations on Tuesday welcomed Myanmar’s decision to abolish the border security force blamed for many of the atrocities committed against Muslims in the Rakhine State last year.
Myanmar President Thein Sein, who is currently on an official visit to Britain and France, announced the abolition of the Nasaka force in a statement posted on his website on July 14.
The Nasaka were accused of human rights violations in suppressing the sectarian clashes in the Rakhine State last year that left at least 167 people dead, mostly Rohingya Muslims, and up to 140,000 displaced.
The force was accused in a report by the UN special rapporteur on human rights in Myanmar, TomOjea Quintana, of extrajudicial killings, arbitrary arrest and detention, and torture in detention.Myanmar leader visits Britain, may be challenged on human rights
Reuters
By Andrew Osborn
LONDON (Reuters) – President Thein Sein, the first leader of Myanmar to visit Britain in more than a quarter of a century, will hold talks on Monday with Prime Minister David Cameron, who is under pressure to confront him on human rights.
Sein is due to talk trade, aid and democracy with Cameron and his ministers during a two-day visit at a time when Myanmar is opening up its oil, gas and telecoms sectors to foreign investors, with further liberalisation likely.
Sein, a former military commander, is trying to get the West to help Myanmar’s economy recover from decades of military dictatorship, Soviet-style planning and international sanctions.
Western leaders have praised him for ending the house arrest of opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, releasing some political prisoners, and allowing the opposition to contest an election.
But they want him to loosen further the military’s grip on the mineral-rich state formerly known as Burma before a 2015 presidential election which the British-educated Suu Kyi hopes to contest.Reports
ERT Launches Situation Report on Rohingya Crisis in Myanmar and Bangladesh
ondon, 02 July 2012
The Equal Rights Trust (ERT) today launches its situation report Burning Homes, Sinking Lives: A situation report on violence against stateless Rohingya in Myanmar and their refoulement from Bangladesh. The report presents the findings and observations of ERT researchers.
The report, which includes testimony collected from over 50 interviews with Rohingya in the period 13-29 June 2012, paints an extremely bleak picture, which demands urgent action to prevent further human rights violations including loss of life, suffering, forced displacement and damage to property. In addition to the testimony of victims, the report reviews the legal obligations of the parties to this crisis and makes recommendations to the governments of Myanmar and Bangladesh, the UNHCR and the international community.
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