Thailand Must Free Captive Rohingya, Says Rights Group
By Human Rights Watch Media Release
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ABOUT 80 of 137 Rohingya men being held in the Immigration centre at Sadao in Thailand’s southern Songkhla province escaped about 3am today, according to aid sources.
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PHUKET: Thailand’s government should release ethnic Rohingya from Burma who are detained under inhumane and unsafe conditions, and ensure their protection needs are met, Human Rights Watch said today.
On August 13, 2013, the Thai cabinet considered a plan to transfer 1839 Rohingya who have been held in immigration detention facilities and social welfare shelters across Thailand to refugee camps on the Thai-Burmese border.U.S. Bilateral Relations Fact Sheets: Burma
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(Menafn – STATE DEPARTMENT RELEASE/ContentWorks via COMTEX) –U.S. Relations With Burma
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Fact Sheet
August 13, 2013
U.S.-BURMA RELATIONS
The United States supports a peaceful, prosperous, and democratic Burma that respects the human rights of all its peoples. Elections in November 2010 led to a peaceful transition from sixty years of military rule to a quasi-civilian government headed by President Thein Sein. Under President Thein Sein, the Government of Burma has initiated a series of political and economic reforms which have resulted in a substantial opening of the long-isolated country. These reforms include the release of many political prisoners, ceasefire agreements with 12 of 13 major non-state armed groups, greater freedom of the press, and parliamentary by-elections in 2012 in which pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi and her opposition party won 43 of the 44 seats they contested (out of 45) gaining approximately 11% representation in parliament.Conflict erupts over Govt teachers deployed to KNU areas
By Saw Eh Na
A move by the Burmese government to send teachers to Karen National Union controlled areas has created tensions with villagers.
Saw Mu Htee, from the Karen Teacher Working Group (KTWG) who is visiting Karen schools in the Pa-an district spoke to Karen News.
“In 2013, Burmese government sent more government teachers to Karen villages and order local educational authorities. Parents and the village education responsible authority were not informed. The government put in place the government’s teaching system [without consultation] and ordered the school to fly the Burma flag.”
KTWG is a Karen non-government organization (NGO) that provides Karen teacher training and educational assistance to villages in eastern Burma, specifically Karen State.Repentance and political will key to Burma’s peace process
Editorial – S.H.A.N
After reading a recent piece, dated 16 August, written by Harn Yawnghwe, in DVB, titled: “Can President Thein Sein be trusted?” two crucial points raised, need to be emphasized. One is “engaging the Bama or Burman” and the other, the need to learn from our “past mistakes”.
In his closing remark, Harn Yawnghwe writes: “Can we learn from our mistakes? Now, as then, conditions are not ideal. Will we wait for ideal conditions or will we make the best of the situation and try to make them better?”
I really don’t think Harn Yawnghwe should worry about the non-Burman ethnic nationalities for not engaging the Bama or political power holder of the day seriously enough.Myanmar risks spiralling anti-Muslim unrest: watchdog
AFP
Myanmar has strongly denied previous accusations of ethnic cleansing
Myanmar must address anti-Muslim propaganda and stamp out a culture of impunity for religious violence or risk “catastrophic” levels of conflict, a rights group warned Tuesday.
Physicians for Human Rights described attacks on Muslims, that have swept the country since fighting first broke out last year as “widespread and systematic,” in a report examining unrest that has killed around 250 people and left tens of thousands homeless.
The US-based group said that while the situation in the country currently appeared calm, a failure to properly investigate and deal with the causes of the tensions risks further clashes.
PHR reported that “the brazen nature of these crimes and the widespread culture of impunity in which these massacres occur form deeply troubling preconditions that make such crimes very likely to continue.”Rohingyas at Large After Breakout at Thai Detention Center
By Nopparat Chaichalearmmongkol and Wilawan Watcharasakwet
BANGKOK – Thai officials continue the search of dozens of Rohingya asylum-seekers, who broke out of an immigration detention center in southern Thailand before dawn on Tuesday.
Of the 87 Rohingya migrants who initially fled, 29 had been apprehended by Tuesday evening, said Maj. Gen. Suwit Chernsiri, police commander of the southern province of Songkhla.
More than 1,800 Muslim Rohingya people, an ethnic minority group from western Myanmar, are being detained across Thailand, according to the country’s Internal Security Operations Command.
The Rohingyas, who number around 800,000, comprise less than 1% of Myanmar’s total population, but around a fifth of the people in Rakhine state, where tensions with local Buddhists run deep.Press Releases
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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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| by Shah Paung November 12, 2007 Although the September protests in Rangoon were led by Buddhist monks, Burmese Muslims were among the first to offer water to the monks as a means of showing support for the peaceful demonstrations. |
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