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.Burmese BGF soldiers killed in clash with KIO
By KNG
At least two soldiers of the Burmese government-backed Kachin Border Guard Force (BGF) were killed during a two hour clash with the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) in the northern part of the state over the weekend.
The fighting started after the BGF attacked several KIA bases in the towns of Chipwi and Sawlaw, in Pangwa region, according to San Aung, a peace broker with the KIA’s political wing—the Kachin Independence Organization (KIO).
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It has been over a year since the renowned Burmese political activist Aung San Suu Kyi was elected to the Burmese parliament signalling a groundbreaking change in the country’s government. It has also been over a year since the first story emerged about the plight of the Rohingya, an ethnic Muslim minority in Burma, leaving nothing but a slight murmur on the global conscience.
In this time, Burma’s international relations have markedly improved, with visits to the United States as well as the removal of economic sanctions. Even prominent global corporations have travelled to the country to set up shop. Behind this veil of prosperity and change lies the persecution of the biggest population of stateless people in the world.Burma must address its ‘Rohingya problem’
By Iris C. Gonzales
How do you solve a problem like Burma’s Arakan (Rakhine) State, where violence is almost a daily fare for the men, women and children in the impoverished area?
The solution is not a simple one, but the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and the Burmese government must acknowledge that the problem is affecting the whole region, and act swiftly.
Riots erupted last year between the Rohingya Muslims and the ethnic Rakhine people at the Rakhine State of Burma, killing about 170 people and displacing roughly 140,000 mostly Rohingyans, according to the United Nations.Myanmar rejects UN rights envoy’s claim of attack
By AYE AYE WIN, Associated Press
YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — Myanmar’s government on Thursday disputed accusations that it failed to protect a top U.N. human rights envoy who said his vehicle was attacked by a 200-strong Buddhist mob during a visit to a city where religious violence flared earlier this year.
President Thein Sein’s spokesman, Ye Htut, said U.N. rights rapporteur Tomas Ojea Quintana was never in any danger during his visit this week.
He said members of the crowd approached Quintana’s convoy in the central city of Meikhtila only to give him a letter and a T-shirt, “so what Quintana said is very different from the true situation.”United Nations: Australia must release 46 detained refugees
BBC News-Asia
A United Nations watchdog group says Australia has treated 46 detained refugees in an “inhuman” way and should release them.
The refugees were denied visas and kept in detention centres for more than two years, the UN report said.
The decision comes amid an Australian election campaign in which rival parties debate how to curb an influx of asylum-seekers.
The government says the refugees were considered potential security threats.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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