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By the time the world stands up Myanmar will have gotten rid of all Rohingya
Tanim Ahmed
Published at 01:49 PM September 09, 2017
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The number of Rohingya Muslims fleeing to Bangladesh in the last two weeks stands at 2,70,000Syed Zakir Hossain/Dhaka Tribune
If we continue to handle the refugee situation like we have, soon enough, there will be criticism about the living conditions at the refugee camps and local authorities will have a hard time dealing with the outbreak of crime in the area

That Myanmar had been in the Chinese fold for a long time has been well known. With the recent support of India – as Modi and Suu Kyi seem to be on the same plane regarding their fight against ‘terrorism’ – it seems neither of the regional powerhouses is likely to put any pressure on the Myanmar regime. The United States would also like to see a Myanmar free from the clutches of China and would not want to strain its relations over petty Rohingyas.

With such big players tacitly backing up a rogue regime, at least as far as the Rohingyas are concerned, Suu Kyi’s government has little to worry about, for now. Myanmar can and most likely will continue its pogrom on its own people to free up the lands of Rakhine for business interests. The obvious escape – and evidently the most desirable one for Myanmar – for the Rohingya would lead them across the border to Bangladesh, where they would at least not be hounded down and executed.

The worst humanitarian crisis in recent memory in this region took years and decades to culminate to the present boiling point. All this time, the Bangladesh government has been quiet, not unlike the present situation. There has been little, if anything, from our government to step up pressure on Myanmar and put a stop to what is tantamount to crimes against humanity. Taking back the Rohingya refugees sheltered in Bangladesh still remains a far cry.

Here is another example of a rogue state turning on its own people and carrying out genocide while the world watches without so much as a slap on the wrist for the perpetrators. On the other hand, there is hardly enough international assistance to help Bangladesh deal with the catastrophe. The Bangladesh government, although not officially sheltering Rohingyas with open arms, is at least resigned to the fact that we will have to accommodate them and deal with the crisis as more and more swarm into Bangladesh to escape the systematic pogrom across the border in our south east.

After all is said and done, Bangladesh will very likely have a million Rohingya refugees by the time Myanmar ends its pogrom in Rakhine. In all likelihood, Aung Sung Su Kyi’s government will have got rid of the entire Rohingya population by the time the rest of the world manages to muster enough courage to stand up to the regional powerhouses about serious sanctions and possible charges of human rights violations and crimes against humanity.

Given Bangladesh’s toothless endeavours so far and the drivel that Myanmar has been spewing out, the refugees in Bangladesh will not be returning any time soon. For the time being, Bangladesh looks like a safe haven and we can afford to take the moral high ground. But if we continue to handle the refugee situation like we have, soon enough, there will be criticism about the living conditions at the refugee camps and local authorities will have a hard time dealing with the outbreak of crime in the area. Time we had a sustainable plan.
http://www.dhakatribune.com/world/s...orld-stands-myanmar-will-gotten-rid-rohingya/
 
Who is left in Myanmar’s Rakhine?
Agence France-Presse | Published: 11:38, Sep 15,2017
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In this photograph taken on September 7, 2017, a house is consumed by fire in village Gawdu Tharya near Maungdaw in Rakhine state in northern Myanmar. The wooden structure on fire was seen by journalists during a Myanmar government sponsored trip for media to the region. — AFP photo

A military campaign to wipe out Rohingya insurgents has rained violence down on Myanmar’s Rakhine state, sending nearly 390,000 Muslim Rohingya refugees fleeing for sanctuary in Bangladesh.

Around 30,000 Rakhine Buddhists and Hindus have also been displaced, as ethnic and religious hatreds carve through the western state.

Access to the epicentre of unrest — the northern wedge of Rakhine — has been blocked by the government as the crisis unfolds.

But the weary and wounded Rohingya arriving in Bangladesh have told consistent but unverifiable accounts of village massacres, with soldiers and vigilante mobs teaming up to empty out communities and burn them to the ground.

The UN has accused Myanmar of waging an ethnic cleansing campaign against the Rohingya, a stateless group that the Buddhist-majority country refuses to recognise as citizens.

The government refutes the accusations, instead saying the army has carried out targeted operations to snuff out the militant group, whose attacks on police posts in late August unleashed the massive military response.

Here is what we know about who is left in violence-ravaged Rakhine, where tens of thousands of people are believed to still be on the move.

A census published in 2015 said three million people lived in Rakhine, including an estimated 1.1 million Rohingya.

Rakhine’s northernmost Maungdaw district was home to around three quarters of that population, according to government figures.

But nearly forty per cent of its Rohingya villages have been completely abandoned in the past three weeks, said government spokesman Zaw Htay.

‘There are 176 villages where the whole village fled,’ he told reporters Wednesday night, out of 471 Rohingya communities in total.

The recent refugee arrivals in Bangladesh amount to more than a third of the total number of Rohingya once based in Myanmar.

Tens of thousands of ethnic Rakhine Buddhists and Hindus have also been driven from their homes since late August, saying they were targeted by the Rohingya militants.

On Thursday Myanmar’s government said some 4,000 people had started trickling back to their villages in Maungdaw as clashes between the army and militants ebbed, without specifying their ethnicity.

Myanmar’s Information Committee has said over 7,000 homes have been destroyed by fire across at least 59 villages — the vast majority belonging to ‘Bengalis’ as the government pejoratively calls the Rohingya.

New satellite images released by Amnesty International on Friday showed that more than two dozen villages in the Rohingya-majority area had been set alight since August 25, with patches of grey ash marking the area where structures had stood.

AFP reporters on government-steered press trips have seen abandoned villages and homes reduced to ashes.

Columns of smoke from the gutted villages have also been visible almost daily from across the River Naf in Bangladesh, where the Rohingya refugees are massing in ramshackle camps.

Rohingya refugees say Myanmar officers and Buddhist vigilantes started the fires after driving them out of their homes with gunshots and other threats, a tactic that Amnesty has described as an ‘orchestrated campaign’ of ethnic cleansing.

Myanmar authorities deny that, saying the militants have torched the villages in a bid to attract global sympathy.

Tens of thousands of Rohingya are believed to still be trekking through the monsoon-soaked area.

For those fleeing fire-hit areas further south, it may take weeks to cross over difficult terrain, blanketed by security forces, to reach the Bangladesh border.

Aid groups have been unable to access northern Rakhine since the violence erupted in late August, compounding the humanitarian crisis.

‘Thousands, perhaps tens of thousands, may be trapped in remote areas far from the border with limited food and medical supplies and are unable to reach safety,’ said Pierre Peron, a spokesman for the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.

Rohingya who have stayed in their villages are living in fear and struggling to survive without the food deliveries that have supported their impoverished communities for years, said Laura Haigh from Amnesty International.

‘They are essentially locked in and markets are not functioning,’ she told AFP.

Myanmar has said it will establish camps in Rohingya-majority areas of Maungdaw to provide relief, but details of the project are scant.

On Thursday the Information Committee said shelters will be set up for Muslims ‘who can guarantee they are no way connected to the terrorists’.

Government spokesman Zaw Htay has also said the country would not allow all of those who crossed into Bangladesh to return — comments likely to fuel allegations Myanmar is intentionally ejecting the Rohingya, whose presence in Myanmar has incensed powerful Buddhist nationalists for years.

‘Some reached the other side of border. If they come back, we cannot accept all of them,’ Zaw Htay said, adding that returnees would need to be ‘scrutinised’.
http://www.newagebd.net/article/24108/who-is-left-in-myanmars-rakhine

 
Muslim houses burned in new round of Myanmar violence
KHIN MAUNG WIN | AP | Published — Tuesday 1 October 2013
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THANDWE, Myanmar: President Thein Sein toured Myanmar’s conflict-torn west on Tuesday as sectarian violence once again gripped the state of Rakhine, with Buddhist mobs killing a 94-year-old Muslim woman and torching more than 70 homes, officials and panicked residents said.
With attacks reported in at least two other villages on the outskirts of Thandwe, where tensions have been mounting for days, the number of casualties could rise.

More than 700 rioters, some swinging swords, took to the streets in Thabyuchaing, about 20 kilometers (12 miles) north of the coastal town, on Tuesday afternoon, said police officer Kyaw Naing.
An elderly Muslim woman died from stab wounds in the clashes that followed, the officer said, putting the number of houses set on fire at between 70 and 80.

Smoldering buildings — and several injured Buddhist Rakhines — were seen by The Associated Press in Shwe Hlay. And a police officer, speaking on condition of anonymity because he did not have authority to speak to the media, said Linthi also was hit by rioters.

Both villages are about 17 kilometers (10 miles) from Thandwe.
The visit by Thein Sein to the divided region was his first since sectarian violence broke out more than a year ago.

He arrived in the Rakhine state capital of Sittwe under tight security early Tuesday and was scheduled to travel to several more towns, including Maungdaw to the north and, on Wednesday, Thandwe to the south, said a senior official in the president’s office, declining to be identified because he was not authorized to speak about the sensitive trip.

He said Thein Sein “is going there to help find a long-term solution to the problem” and would meet with government officials and residents.
A heavy security presence failed to deter the attackers, however, with witnesses saying soldiers and police made no efforts to step in. A 6 p.m. curfew was imposed.

Sectarian clashes that began in Rakhine in June 2012 have since morphed into an anti-Muslim campaign that has spread to towns and villages nationwide. So far, more than 240 people have been killed and more than 140,000 have fled their homes, the vast majority of them Muslims.
Thein Sein, who has been praised for making moves to transition from half a century of military rule, has been criticized for failing to contain the unrest and protect the country’s embattled Muslim minority.

Many of those targeted so far have been ethnic Rohingyas, considered by many in the country to be illegal migrants from Bangladesh, though many of their families arrived generations ago.
But in the latest flare-up, the victims were Kamans, another Muslim minority group, whose citizenship is recognized.
The trouble started Saturday, when a Buddhist taxi driver alleged he’d been verbally abused by a Muslim shop owner while trying to park his vehicle.
Hours later, rocks were thrown at the man’s home. And by Sunday, as anger spread, two houses owned by Muslims were burned to the ground.

The violence has proven to be a major challenge for Thein Sein’s government, which rights groups say has done little to crack down on religious intolerance and failed to bridge a divide that has left hundreds of thousands of Muslims marginalized, many of them trapped in prison-like camps for those who have been displaced.

Initially confined to Rakhine state, sectarian attacks have spread this year into Myanmar’s heartland, ravaging several other cities across the country. At the same time, a Buddhist-led campaign called “969” has taken root nationwide; its supporters urge Buddhists to shop only at Buddhist stores and avoid marrying, hiring or selling their homes or land to Muslims.

While radical monks have helped fuel the crisis, saying Muslims pose a threat to Buddhist culture and traditions, critics say a failure by the government and society as a whole to speak out is helping perpetuate the violence.
“Political, religious and community leaders need to condemn hate speech,” Jim Della-Giacoma of the International Crisis Group said in a statement.

“Those who are spreading messages of intolerance and hatred must not go unchallenged. Otherwise, this issue could come to define the new Myanmar, tarnishing its international image and threatening the success of its transition away from decades of authoritarianism,” he said.

Muslims, who account for about 4 percent of Myanmar’s roughly 60 million people, have been the main victims of the violence since it began. But most criminal trials have involved prosecutions of Muslims rather than members of the Buddhist majority.
http://www.arabnews.com/news/466383
 
Well-off Rohingyas also forced to flee despite paying off the Myanmar military
Udisa Islam Nasirul Islam
Published at 09:21 AM October 21, 2017
Last updated at 11:32 AM October 21, 2017
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Rohingya refugees walk by night after crossing the border from Myanmar, on the Bangladeshi shores of the Naf river in Teknaf on September 29, 2017AFP
As of October 17, around 582,000 Rohingya have fled to Bangladesh since August
When thousands of Rohingya fled the violent persecution inflicted by the Myanmar security forces in the northern region of Rakhine state, some families bribed the military and local influential figures so they would not have to leave home.

In the end, even that could not save them from the military’s wrath, and the wealthy Rohingya were also forced to flee to Bangladesh, leaving everything behind.

Abdur Gafur, 42, is one of the well-off Rohingya who fled to Bangladesh in September.

“When the crackdown began, some of my family members paid off the military and the local big shots so they could live in their own home,” Gafur told the Bangla Tribune.

“But as the situation is escalating, that technique is no longer working. They [the well-off people], too, are being forced to leave Myanmar with the hundreds of thousands of others and flee to Bangladesh.”

Back home, Gafur’s family owns several multistorey buildings. Amid the growing fear that the Myanmar military would abduct and abuse his nieces, he fled to Bangladesh with the girls, leaving his brother and their father behind to take care of their assets. Later, his brother, too, was forced to flee home.

“My brother is now hiding in the jungle. It will take him some time to reach the border and cross over to Bangladesh,” Gafur said.

There are a number of well-off Rohingya families now waiting to cross into Bangladesh. Many of them own vast areas of land, money, small businesses and even factories in Rakhine.

The families with money have paid a hefty amount in bribes to the army, police and local influentials since the crackdown began in August. Despite this, the security forces have raided their houses and businesses and robbed most of their assets.

“Some families moved toward the city area to survive, but that did not work out either. Eventually, they were forced to flee to Bangladesh,” Gafur said.

The security forces also make frequent rounds of the Rohingya villages to make lists of young girls.

“They visit our villages and enlist the names of young girls. During each round, they come and collect the girls and take them away. Most of those girls ever come back. Their mutilated bodies are found later,” Gafur said.

Azharul Haq, 44, fled his home in Rashidhang area of Rakhine with his wife and a group of children.

“Only one of these children are mine; the others are my nephews and nieces,” he told the Dhaka Tribune.

“I managed to make it here in Cox’s Bazar, by my brother stayed behind to look after our mobile phone shop, hoping that the situation would get better some day and we would be able to go back home.”

However, a few days after he arrived in Cox’s Bazar, Azhar learnt that their shop had been attacked. “It wasn’t burnt down, but they [the military] took away the mobile handsets.”

Zohar used to be the chairman of his local government council in Rakhine. To escape the violence, he had to flee Rakhine and take refuge in a shanty inside one of the refugee camps in Cox’s Bazar.

“I never thought I would see the day when I would have to live like a refugee, forced to abandon my ancestral home,” he told the Bangla Tribune.

It is evident that Zohar comes from power and money; his appearance and attitude makes him stand out among the ordinary Rohingya refugees.

“The rich from our village tried to escape the violence by moving to the city, but that did not work in the end. Now they are contacting us to find a way out of Rakhine and into Bangladesh. They just lost everything. No one could do anything,” said a dejected Zohar.

As of October 17, around 582,000 Rohingya have fled to Bangladesh since the latest military crackdown began in Rakhine in August, according to the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR).

Officials working on the ground have also said that at least 15,000 Rohingya are currently stranded near the border at Palangkhali in Cox’s Bazar’s Ukhiya upazila, waiting to enter Bangladesh.
The story was first published on banglatribune.com
http://www.dhakatribune.com/world/s...forced-flee-despite-bribing-myanmar-military/
 
‘Rohingya numbers will probably reach a million before the flow of people stops’
Afrose Jahan Chaity
Published at 06:09 PM October 19, 2017
Last updated at 11:54 PM October 19, 2017
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Director general of the International Organisation for Migration (IOM), William Lacy Swing, during his visit to refugee settlements in Cox's Bazar on October 16, 2017 |Abdul Aziz/Dhaka Tribune
More than 582,000 Rohingya have fled to Bangladesh from Rakhine state since late August
William Lacy Swing, director general of International Organization for Migration (IOM), arrived in Dhaka on October 15 on a four-day official visit. He travelled to Cox’s Bazar refugee camps to see for himself the Rohingya crisis unfolding in South Asia, which has been dubbed the fastest-growing humanitarian emergency by the UN.

More than 582,000 Rohingya have fled their homes in Rakhine state after Myanmar military launched a violent “clearance operation” targeting the mainly-Muslim ethnic minority. The UN has described the violence as a “textbook example of ethnic cleansing” and said the “systematic crackdown” aimed at driving the Rohingya away from their homes permanently.

The UN investigation also found that the “clearance operations” had in fact begun earlier, possibly in early August, contradicting the military’s claim that it launched the crackdown in response to insurgent attacks on police posts and an army base on August 25.

Bangladesh had already been hosting an estimated 400,000 Rohingya refugees, who crossed the border over the years to escape targeted violence in the Buddhist-majority country, which does not recognise them and calls them illegal immigrants from Bangladesh.

IOM’s Director General Swing speaks to the Dhaka Tribune’s Afrose Jahan Chaity about the current situation and what his organisation is doing to tackle the issue.
How would you describe the scale and magnitude of the Rohingya crisis at the moment, both for the refugees and host country?
It is the fastest-growing refugee displaced persons crisis in this part of the world right now. It’s been the speed, scope and size of the arrivals that have overwhelmed all of us trying to provide assistance. But I think under these circumstances, the response of the Bangladesh government, the prime minister and people of Bangladesh, has been quite extraordinary. We are grateful for that.
What role is IOM playing in all this?
We have been doing this (providing assistance to refugees) since September 2013. Now many more partners are coming in. We are concentrating primarily on shelter, medical and logistical services and providing non-food items, basic things like pots and pans, and blankets, to help them (Rohingya), and doing whatever we can with our partners to support them.
How IOM is coordinating the relocation process of the Rohingya people?
We would suggest the government to shift them to manageable sized camps, not to some large mega camp or some offshore facility, where we can provide the support they require. That would allow us more control over gender based violence and providing health services.
What should be the official status of the Rohingya people? Are they displaced migrants or refugees?
Well, we are part of the UN which considers them to be refugees. So we call them refugees. But the [Bangladeshi] government I think calls them “forcefully displaced persons from Myanmar”. I don’t think it’s the designation that counts, [rather] it’s the response that matters. [But] we are all working together to try to help them.
Is the amount of relief sufficient?
At present, no, not enough. Because we have been overwhelmed by the numbers. And this why the donors are holding a pledging conference on October 23. It will be co-sponsored by the European Union and Kuwait, and the three agencies – IOM, UNHCR, and OCHA – will be responsible to raise fund.
For how long will the relief distribution continue?
We do not know. Because, the number [of refugees] is still growing. We already have 850,000 of them, approaching 900,000 and will probably reach a million before the flow of people stops.

A large number of Rohingya refugees are in dire need of aid. How is IOM prioritising needs to provide relief?

We are doing it in partnership with the government, UN agencies, and some of the large non-government organisations. We are all partners, we are doing it together, trying to strengthen our coordination so that everybody can be part of the action to assist the people.
What is the biggest risk at this moment?
The biggest need and risk right now is the shelter. Because they (Rohingya refugees) have taken a long trip here, walking through a very difficult trail. When they get here, they really need to have shelter right away. That’s a major challenge when you have nearly 900,000 people. That means you have to build 200,000 shelters.

The government has made 3,000 acre of forest reserves available for the refugees. They have said they can increase the area if needed. We are very grateful for that and are working together with the government to build shelters. We have already built more than 40,000 shelters, enough for 250,000 to 260,000 people. We need more money now.

The good news is that the WHO has already vaccinated nearly 800,000 people to prevent outbreak of diseases.

The other thing we have to worry about is gender-based violence because the majority of the refugees are women and children. The big concern is ensuring that they stay healthy and they are not in any way sexually exploited, or abused. That’s very important.
How should IOM prepare to tackle the situation if Rohingya refugees end up staying here for an indefinite period?
There is no humanitarian solution to political problems. The answer really lies in Myanmar. They are from Myanmar and they need to be able to go back voluntarily under safe conditions. The emphasis initially should be on assistance to keep them safe and sound here and also on [their] return [to their homeland], as soon as that can be done.

They (the refugees) won’t go back if we cannot have them (Myanmar) create the conditions that guarantee that they (the Rohingya) can come back safely. They have been living there for a long time. They have lost their homes and livelihood. They have to reconstruct villages that have been burnt down. How do people who own the land can get their land back should be part of the issues to be discussed during negotiations [with Myanmar].
http://www.dhakatribune.com/world/s...ill-probably-reach-million-flow-people-stops/
 
Pretty much all Rohingya will have been cleansed by end of this year.
BD will have to host them for the next few years while it builds up it's military capabilities.
 
In the meantime, war of attrition should continue,bleed these Primates Economically till death.
Disintegration from within.


What has happened is tragic for Rohingyas but will turn out to be a blessing for BD.

Not only is Indian false claim of friendship exposed for the lie it is but all BD governments will now have to build and maintain strong military capability.
 
Are you guys not a part of the OIC or the Muslim NATO I read about here- what is their stance on accepting these refugees into their nations?
 
589,000 Rohingyas Have Fled to Bangladesh Since August 25
Last Updated: October 20, 2017 8:26 PM
Margaret Besheer
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FILE - Rohingya refugees, who crossed the border from Myanmar two days earlier, walk after they received permission from the Bangladesh army to continue their way to Kutupalong refugee camp, near Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh,
Oct. 19, 2017.
The United Nations said Friday that 589,000 Rohingya refugees have fled Myanmar to Bangladesh since August 25.

Spokesman Farhan Haq told reporters that just over half of them are staying at a large site known as the Kutupalong Expansion, where aid partners are working to improve basic services, infrastructure and road access.

The president of aid group Refugees International, Eric Paul Schwartz, visited Bangladesh last month. He said that by early September, it was already clear from conversations with refugees that the situation had become ethnic cleansing and that crimes against humanity were taking place.

"What was so chilling was the consistency of the conversations we had with people about what had happened," Schwartz told an audience at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York. He said the Myanmar military would fire bomb villages, often unannounced or without warning, and as civilians fled they would systematically shoot them.
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FILE - Houses are on fire in Gawdu Zara village, northern Rakhine state, Myanmar, Sept. 7, 2017.
"Person after person after person told us the same story," he said. "If you want to push 580,000 people out of a country in six weeks, that's what you have to do. You have to terrorize them in ways that are sort of breathtaking," he added.
Humanitarian crisis
The U.N. and international partners are struggling to meet the needs of the constantly increasing refugee population. An international pledging conference is set for Monday in Geneva. It aims to raise $434 million to assist 1.2 million refugees through February 2018.

Almost 60 percent of the refugees are children, and the U.N. children's agency, UNICEF, says children are particularly threatened by desperate living conditions and waterborne diseases.

"Of course, many of them have been walking for days — thirsty, hungry, on foot — bare feet, exhausted," spokeswoman Duniya Aslam Khan told VOA in an interview Friday. "So, the children were sick and malnourished. They were stranded at the border for a few days and it was only Tuesday and Wednesday this week that we received a post that finally they were allowed to come in."
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FILE - A Rohingya Muslim man, who crossed over from Myanmar into Bangladesh, builds a shelter for his family in Taiy Khali refugee camp, Bangladesh, Sept. 20, 2017.
Khan said the priority among aid groups now is "decongesting the existing settlements" in Bangladesh, one of the most densely populated nations in the world, "providing decent living conditions, and providing better health and sanitation and hygiene assistance to the refugees."

Hygiene is a particular concern, Khan said, to stave off the spread of disease.

The agency has also called for access to Rohingya children who are still in Myanmar's northern Rakhine state — the agency has no access there.

Bangladesh's government also is trying to help the surging refugee population. It has designated a new 3,000-acre site to build shelters, but experts say that will take time to be inhabitable because access roads and provisions for water, sanitation and other basic services need to be made.

In the meantime, Bangladesh's military has moved refugees stranded near the border to several makeshift settlements, where they are being given food, water, medical checks and temporary shelter.
VOA's Marissa Melton contributed to this report.
https://www.voanews.com/a/half-million-rohingyas-fled-bangladesh-since-late-august/4079559.html
 
12:38 PM, October 24, 2017 / LAST MODIFIED: 01:03 PM, October 24, 2017
Rohingya crisis: Next report will be more detailed, with importance, says UN envoy
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United Nations Special Rapporteur Yanghee Lee (2nd right) tells Dr Dipu Moni, president of Parliamentary Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs in Bangladesh, (2nd left) that she will convey the ongoing Rohingya crisis issue in her next report with more details and importance. The duo met at the Permanent Mission of Bangladesh to the UN in New York on Monday, October 23, 2017. Photo courtesy: Permanent Mission of Bangladesh to the UN
Star Online Report
United Nations Special Rapporteur Yanghee Lee has said she will convey the ongoing Rohingya crisis issue in her next report with more details and importance.

Lee, the UN human rights expert, told this when she met with Dr Dipu Moni, president of Parliamentary Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, at the Permanent Mission of Bangladesh to the UN in New York yesterday afternoon (US time).

So far, over 603,000 Rohingyas fled violence in Myanmar to Bangladesh since August 25 following Myanmar's security forces operations against them in response to insurgent attacks.

The crisis created a global outcry, but the UN Security Council has failed to take any decisive action against Myanmar, where the Rohingyas are denied citizenship and have been persecuted for decades.
Press Release-74 on Dipu Moni MP's Meetings and Statement on Palestine Issue by Daily Star on Scribd
Meanwhile in New York, Dipu Moni, while meeting Lee and several UN high ups, conveyed the message on behalf of Bangladesh that that the international community including the UN must make Myanmar understand that it (Myanmar) must take back over a million citizens of Rakhine State who were forced to leave their land with security and dignity, reads a press statement issued by the Bangladesh mission.

There is no alternative to it, Dipu Moni added.

She also met with Jeffrey David Feltman, American diplomat and UN under-secretary-general for Political Affairs, and Pramila Patten, under-secretary-general and Special Representative on Sexual Violence in Conflict on the same day.

Dipu Moni urged all international quarters to play a strong role in resolving Rohingya refugee crisis, the press release said.

In another meeting, Pramila Patten told Dipu Moni that she is fully aware of the sexual violence conducted against Rohingya women.

She will speak directly to the victims of sexual violence during her visit to Bangladesh in the first week on November, Patten said.

Jeffrey David Feltman brought the attention of the Bangladesh lawmaker about his recent visit to Myanmar and stated that he had spoke with Myanmar leadership on UN’s considerations what Myanmar should do to resolve the Rohingya crisis.
http://www.thedailystar.net/rohingy...m_medium=newsurl&utm_term=all&utm_content=all
 

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