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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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UNHCR urges action to prevent boatpeople tragedy in Bay of Bengal
Report from UN High Commissioner for Refugees
GENEVA, February 21 (UNHCR) – UNHCR on Friday said it was concerned about the growing number of people dying in the Bay of Bengal after setting out by boat in search of safety and better lives in other countries, including desperate ethnic Rohingya from Myanmar. The refugee agency called on regional governments to do more to prevent further tragedy on the high seas.
UNHCR spokesman Andrej Mahecic, talking to journalists in Geneva, several thousand people were believed to have boarded smugglers’ boats in the Bay of Bengal since the beginning of the year, among them Rohingya from Myanmar’s Rakhine state or from Bangladesh’s refugee camps and makeshift sites.‘Rohingyas need recognition’
The UK Senior State Minister for Foreign Affairs has said that the long-standing Rohingya issue will not be settled until Myanmar recognises their citizenship with the same rights that its citizens currently enjoy.
Baroness Warsi said she talked to the Rohingya community and they said they would go back home if they get their rights.
“Nobody wants to leave their country where they born and raised until some terrible circumstances (force them),” she said on Wednesday at a press briefing after ending her three-day visit to Bangladesh.
She had been to Cox’s Bazar where she met Rohingya communities in official and unofficial camps and termed their condition ‘tragic’.57 Rohingya pushed back to Burma
Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh: Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) pushed backed 57 Rohingya to Burma yesterday, said a local elder from border area- Ukiya.
“They were arrested from different border points of Ukhiya-Teknaf area in Cox’s Bazar district on Saturday morning and Friday evening by BGB after being conducted operation.”
A BGB team of Gumdum and Taungbro out-post conducted a drive in border area and arrested 18 Rohingyas on Friday evening and arrested 10 Rohingyas on Saturday along with children, male and female who came to Bangladesh crossing the border on foot, according to Lt. Col. Md. Khalekuzzaman PSC from BGB Battalion 17 in Cox’s BazarRescued Burmese in limbo after boat deaths
Ben Doherty
South Asia correspondent for Fairfax Media
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THE 32 surviving Burmese asylum seekers who were forced to throw nearly 100 dead shipmates overboard as their Australia-bound boat drifted in open seas off Sri Lanka face a state of limbo – the Burmese embassy is so far refusing to claim them as citizens.
The 31 men and one boy were rescued from their stricken and sinking vessel by the Sri Lankan navy last Saturday, more than 200 nautical miles from land.
They told their rescuers 98 others on board died of dehydration and starvation during nearly two months adrift and their bodies had been pushed into the sea.Update: Stateless Rohingya Living in Prison-like Camps
As a recent TIME article by Jason Motlagh highlights, more and more stateless Rohingya are fleeing persecution in Burma through perilous boat journeys,
A large chunk of Abdul Rahman’s home is gone, and so is his oldest son, Shakur. The ethnic Rohingya farmer tore down nearly half his home for scrap needed to secure his son’s passage on a boat bound for Malaysia. In the wake of bloody sectarian violence last year that left hundreds dead and forced tens of thousands of minority Muslim Rohingya into camps outside the coastal city of Sittwe, Rahman, 52, insists his people are being “strangled” by a Burmese government that does not want them. While foreign donors have supplied basic food rations, checkpoints manned by armed guards prevent the displaced from returning to the paddies and markets their livelihoods depend on. “Even animals can move more freely,” says Rahman.
Rohingya Boat People: A Challenge for Southeast Asia
By Eliane Coates
Synopsis
The exodus of many Rohingya over the past year has brought increased international awareness to their plight, as well as Southeast Asia’s inability to deal effectively with forced migration. A regional approach is needed to find a durable solution to the influx of Rohingya boat people.
Commentary
SINCE THE communal clashes began in Arakan State in June 2012, the scale 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 North Arakan State, with an estimated 100 people having drowned during the process.Rohingyas not ‘illegal immigrants’ in Myanmar, say Nobel laureates
“There is evidence that the Rohingya have been in present-day Myanmar since the 8th century,” they said, writing for the Huffington Post. “It is incontrovertible that Muslim communities have existed in [Rakhine] State since the 15th century, added to by descendants of Bengalis migrating to Arakan [Rakhine] during colonial times.”
Carr rules out Aust asylum for Rohingya
Ron Corben, AAP
Australia will boost aid by $2.5 million to Myanmar’s (Burma’s) displaced ethnic communities, but has ruled out an “open door” policy to ethnic Muslim Rohingya seeking asylum in Australia after fleeing sectarian violence.
No life security of Rohingya people in Arakan
Repeatedly, ruthless stories on Rohingya people in Arakan under the racist Burma’s security forces are taking since long. There are many tragedies that remain untold. As human beings, regardless of the one’s religion, a human being deserves his/her honor and dignity of being human at the place where he/she is present.
Today, every Rohingya has his/her own tragedy concerning their relatives or friends in the unruly Arakan where killing and torturing of Rohingyas, torching of their properties and raping their women and girls. Burmese security forces and some Rakhine extremists have been committing grave crimes against Rohingya minority in every means.
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