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In This Issue:
- Editorial: Myanmar’s Federal Vision Hinges on Rohingya Inclusion
- Myanmar’s Draft Law and Women Under Arms
- Independence Promises and the Systematic Stripping of Minority Rights in Myanmar
- The Arakan Army’s Divide-and-Rule Tactics Against the Rohingya
- Rohingya Security and Peace in Rakhine
- IIMM Shares Evidence of Crimes Against Rohingya with International Courts
- Dhaka Declaration: Rohingya Speak with One Voice
- A Mosque Reopens in Maungdaw but What Does It Really Mean?
- Rohingya Women are Forced into Arakan Army Ranks
- On the 8th Anniversary of the Rohingya Genocide the Crisis Continues, the World Must Act
- ARNO Expresses Concern Over Crisis Group Report’s Misrepresentation of Rohingya Realities
- Eight Years On, Genocide Against Rohingya Persists
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Postponed: Changes and challenges facing new Burma and plight of Rohingya
Kabita Chakraborty
The world has watched for decades, hoping for political reform that would bring freedoms to Burma. While the past two years have brought remarkable political and cultural changes, the hope of freedoms quickly gave way to ethnic conflict and communal violence targeting Muslims.
The three panellists, Anwar S. Arkani, Kabita Chakraborty and Antoine Nouvet, bring a wealth of experience and knowledge to the panel, says Professor Alicia Turner of York’s Department of Humanities who organized the event.
Over 100 Rohingya asylum seekers found after drifting at sea
Over one hundred Rohingya Muslims fleeing the onging violence in Myanmar have been found adrift off Indonesia’s coast.
The wooden boat was discovered by fishermen about 25 kilometers (16 miles) north off the coast Aceh Province on Wednesday.
A doctor at a hospital in the city of Lhokseumawe said the 121 passengers, including six women and two children under the age of five, are weak from hunger and dehydration.
The passengers said that the boat had experienced engine trouble but there are no reports regarding the group’s destination.
Recently, another boat was found off Sri Lanka’s coast, with 33 dehydrated Rohingya refugees and additional 97 dead. The surviving passengers said Thai military took the boat’s engine and left them to float at sea for 25 days without water and food before being rescued.Rohingya boat people: a new challenge for SE Asia
Eliane Coates
RSIS
Singapore
Since the communal clashes began in Arakan State in June 2012, the number of Rohingya fleeing by boat to neighbouring Southeast Asian countries has increased significantly.
According to a reliable source from the human rights organisation, The Arakan Project, it is estimated 19,500 registered and unregistered Rohingya, including some Bangladeshis, have fled by boat from Bangladesh and northern Arakan State, with an estimated 100 people having drowned during the process.
Rapes by Burmese security forces ‘may cause more strife’ in troubled region
Teenage victim describes how at least 13 women were raped overnight in Arakan state, which has been focus of ethnic riots
At least 13 women, including teenagers, have been subjected to prolonged rape by Burmese security forces in a remote village in the western state of Arakan. Human rights groups have warned that the incident threatens to trigger further violence in a region where several waves of ethno-religious rioting since June last year have killed more than 1,000 people.
UNICEF gives assistance Rohingya children, women in southern Thailand
BANGKOK: UNICEF began this week delivering footballs and other play and recreation supplies to eight Ministry of Social Development and Human Security shelters caring for Rohingya children in southern Thailand.
Some 270 Rohingya children, many who were separated from their parents or who came to Thailand unaccompanied by adults, are being cared for at nine shelters in eight provinces across the South.
About 70 Rohingya women are also being assisted at the shelters, while more than 1,400 Rohingya men are in government immigration detention facilities.Rohingya: Testing democracy in Myanmar
Jose Ramos-Horta and Prof. Muhammad Yunus
One of the fundamental challenges of a democracy is how to ensure the voice of the majority does not trample the essential rights of the minority. In the founding of the United States this was addressed by the Bill of Rights, some form of which is integrated into most democracies today.
Even as we applaud and rejoice in the new freedoms enjoyed by the Myanmar people, the country’s newly elected government must face this challenge as they evolve from autocratic rule into a democratic state. The tragedy of the Rohingya people, continuing to unfold in Rakhine State in the country’s western corner, on the border of Bangladesh, will be its proving ground.No ‘Rohingya’ in Myanmar ethnic groups, deputy minister says
No Rohingya is included in Myanmar’s more than 100 national races, says a government deputy minister.
The Deputy Minister for Immigration and Population, Kyaw Kyaw Tun replied to a question of Khin Saw Wai, an MP representing Rakhine State, during a parliamentary session of the Lower House on Wednesday.
“There has never been a Rohingya race in Rakhine State. According to the censuses collected in the colonial period, in 1973 and in 1983, the country’s ethnic groups include no Rohingya. That term was not mentioned either in the British gazettes,” the deputy minister said.
He added that according to the 1973 and 1983 censuses, non-ethnic citizens in Myanmar include Chinese, Indian, Pakistani, Bengali and Nepalese.A robust helping hand for displaced Rohingya, please
Are Rohingyas and Kamans Less (Than) Human Beings?
If the vulnerable situation of Rohingyas and Kamans continue, it will not take long for the humanity to see exterminations of more ethnic communities in the modern time, why?
(KUALA LAMPUR) – The world has been witnessing the well-planned Genocide of Rohingyas and Kamans in Arakan, Burma for more than eight months now. Consequently, Rohingyas and Kamans are now without foods, any access to medical treatments and their other ways to livelihoods are blocked. They are being arbitrary arrested, tortured and killed. Their properties are being looted and women being raped. Religious buildings are locked down and so and so atrocities have been being carried out against them under the so-called international radar. Not surprisingly though, the heinous crimes Rohingyas and Kamans are successfully being covered up. Their outcries are falling into deaf ears. Less attention and (less) importance are given to their dying plights. No effective steps to prevent the continuing Genocide of them have been taken yet. Nor does it seem it will be taken in the future.
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