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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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145 Rohingya found off Trang
About 145 Rohingya boat people were found crammed inside a vessel without food or water for 48 hours off Mook island in Trang’s Sikao district on Sunday.
The refugees told authorities that they were headed to Malaysia but their food and water had run out before they reached shore. Feeling exhausted and fatigued from hunger, they then decided to float their vessel off Mook island in the hope of being able to ask for food and water from the locals before they would go on, Pol Col Arthit Damsanit, chief of Marine Police Division 9, said.Asean must address Rohingya on humanitarian grounds : Surin
At the root of the problem is the fact that Myanmar’s constitution and internal laws do not recognise the Rohingya as citizens, he said. Other groups in Myanmar don’t accept the Rohingya, who are based mainly in Rakhine and number about 800,000 in all, he said, adding: “This has to be dealt with gradually, as Myanmar authorities are worried about intervention from the outside world.”
“The United Nations has been working on the Rohingya issue, but has to be careful in dealing with it, and Asean needs to address it, especially on humanitarian grounds,” he said.Rohingya baby born in refugee boat near Phuket
The boat was sinking when it landed at Surin island off Thailand’s southwestern province of Phang Nga near the border with Myanmar on Wednesday, a local government official told AFP.
“Among them there was a new-born baby, aged around a week up to 10 days old,” Manit Pienthong said.
Foreign Minister to lead OIC delegation on Rohingya update trip in Thailand’s South
BANGKOK, 31 January 2013 The Foreign Minister is set to lead a special delegation from the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) to Thailand’s South for first-hand information on how the country has been handling the Rohingya migrants.
Burma: Rights Abuses Endanger Reform
(Bangkok) – Burma’s human rights situation remained poor in 2012, despite some noteworthy actions by the government to adopt rights-respecting reforms, Human Rights Watch said in its World Report 2013 released today.
Red Cross chief upbeat after first-ever Myanmar visit
GENEVA: The head of the International Committee of the Red Cross said on Saturday he had received assurances of cooperation from Myanmar during the first-ever visit to the nation by an ICRC president.
3 Army officers face Rohingya trafficking probe
The Army is investigating at least three military officers accused of trafficking Rohingya refugees into the Kingdom.
The news came as a fresh group of 179 boat people landed in southern Phang Nga province yesterday, with more boats headed this way.
The three military officers were assigned to work for the Internal Security Operation Command (Isoc) Ranong Attachment, according to Fourth Army Area chief Lt-General Udomchai Thammasarorach. They have been stationed in Chumphon province.Analysis: Why civil registration matters in Asia
HIGHLIGHTS
• Two-thirds of children in South Asia unregistered at birth
• Unregistered are open to exploitation
• Harnessing technology to fight child marriages in Bangladesh
BANGKOK, 1 February 2013 (IRIN) – Stronger civil registration systems are needed in Asia, home to 60 percent of the world’s population, to ensure the legal and human rights of all, and facilitate health planning, experts say.
“Civil registration is the most basic requirement for individuals to establish legal identity and to formalize family relationships, and is thus a basic responsibility of the state,” Haishan Fu, director of the statistics division at the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) in Bangkok, told IRIN. “Without a legal identity, individuals may be deprived of the right of access to key public services such as health, education, social welfare and recourse to justice.”No more Rohingya boatpeople, says Thailand
Thailand will turn away any more Rohingya boat people from neighbouring Myanmar [Burma] who try to land on its shores, a top official said Monday after an influx of refugees fleeing sectarian unrest.
“The Thai navy from now on will be stricter with them and will no longer allow them to land,” National Security Council secretary-general Paradorn Pattanathabutr told AFP.Reports
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