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Has the UN failed Myanmar's Rohingya Muslims?

Sure, you are born stupid.
India considers rohingyas as potential terrorists and it has been said in country's Supreme Court, yet you wanted me to confirm.
Mayanmar, China, India and Muslim countries are doing or have done what is in their best intrest.
Posters in pdf are doing whatever is in their best interest...Writing mile long articles, which no one reads.
Bangladesh should also do whatever is in it's best interest. Shut the borders...Or else rohingyas will become drain to BD's gain.
Or it should accept them without begging to India, China or the world.
Get well soon.

Did you not read my line which explicitly told you to buzz off if you do not have anything constructive to add?
Some of you Indians are completely pathetic.
 
12:00 AM, October 23, 2017 / LAST MODIFIED: 02:43 AM, October 23, 2017
No real progress yet
Efforts to solve Rohingya crisis fall short; UN pledging conference on aid today
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Rokiya, a Rohingya woman, holds her 10-month-old malnourished son, as a nurse checks him at the Action Against Hunger centre in Kutupalong refugee camp in Cox's Bazar yesterday.
Shakhawat Liton
Rohingyas have been telling the world numerous stories of horror, loss, murder, rape and villages burned to the ground over the last two months. The world's media have been flooded with their harrowing tales.
The atrocities being carried out by the Myanmar military since August 25 have been termed "a textbook example of ethnic cleansing" by the UN and "genocide" by different human rights bodies.

Yet, there has been no real progress in resolving the world's fastest growing humanitarian crisis.

As the global outcry fails to force Myanmar to end the atrocities, their flight continues, increasing the number of refugees in Bangladesh.

The crisis has been crying out for strong global action for a solution. But the actions remain inadequate.

In fact, the role of UN Security Council has been appalling. It was able to issue only a statement in mid-September, expressing concern over "excessive violence" by Myanmar security forces in Rakhine State, home to the majority of Rohingyas.

At the end of September, the UNSC discussed the crisis in an open meeting, but failed to take any decision due to China and Russia's opposition. That was all.


No further action was seen in the last three weeks while the atrocities continued unabated. UN Chief Antonio Guterres and other top UN officials' repeated calls for suspension of military action against the Rohingyas fell flat as UNSC did nothing.

Unless China and Russia--two permanent members of the UNSC with veto power--change their minds and refrain from supporting Myanmar, it is almost impossible for the council to do something to stop the exodus and pave the way fortheir voluntary return to their homeland.

Amid this situation, a ministerial-level conference on the crisis will be held in Geneva today to collect funds for humanitarian aid.

The conference, co-hosted by the European Union and the government of Kuwait, and co-organised by three UN agencies--UNHCR, IOM and OCHA, is being held to raise $434 million. But commitments so far have been made only of $116 million.

The UN agencies have plans to provide humanitarian aid till next February.

Humanitarian aid alone is not a solution to the crisis. It will help Rohingyas survive the next six months. What happens after February is still uncertain. But that Bangladesh will have to bear the brunt in the coming days is certain.

Everybody knows the root causes of this crisis are in Myanmar. But the lack of collective effort, particularly the failure of the UNSC to take decisive action, keeps allowing Myanmar to continue its ethnic cleansing before the eyes of world leaders, who have repeatedly promised in the past to take action on genocide.

After failing to stop genocides in Rwanda and Bosnia in the 1990s, the UN renewed its commitments and developed new mechanisms, including an office of the UN special advisor on prevention of genocides.

World leaders at the United Nations World Summit in 2005 agreed that the international community has a responsibility to use appropriate diplomatic, humanitarian and other means to protect populations from genocide and crimes against humanity.

The leaders also promised to be prepared to take collective action in accordance with the UN charter when a state manifestly fails to protect its population.

That the efforts bore no fruit was exposed by the UN and international communities' failure to protect Rohingyas. They are being treated by the Myanmar military in the same way as the Hutus treated the Tutsis like insects during the Rwanda genocide.

For their failure in Rwanda, Boutros Boutros-Ghali and Kofi Annan, both chiefs of the UN, and several world leaders apologised a few years after the genocide.

"The United Nations and its member states failed Rwanda and its people during the 100-day genocide and expressed 'deep remorse' that more wasn't done to stop it," Annan said in a statement in 1999.

On a 1998 state visit to Rwanda, former US president Bill Clinton apologised for inaction to prevent the genocide in 1994.

“It may seem strange to you here, especially the many of you who lost members of your family, but all over the world there were people like me sitting in offices, day after day after day, who did not fully appreciate the depth and speed with which you were being engulfed by this unimaginable terror,” Clinton said.

Annan's successor Ban Ki-moon in 2014 said, "The UN is still ashamed over its failure to prevent the 1994 genocide in Rwanda."

With the memories of Rwanda and Bosnia still there, the genocide should not have taken place in Myanmar. The world leaders should have taken prompt action to stop Myanmar military.

But the harrowing tales of Rohingyas show how the world leaders failed to deliver on their promises.

Will they apologise in future for their failure? It would seem like they prefer apologising or saying sorry over taking actions.
http://www.thedailystar.net/frontpage/mayanmar-rohingya-refugee-crisis-no-real-progress-yet-1480279
 
The Rohingya crisis: UN official ‘very disappointed’ in Suu Kyi
Tribune Desk
Published at 10:08 AM October 27, 2017
Last updated at 10:33 AM October 27, 2017
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A woman carries her ill child in a refugee camp at Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, September 26, 2017 Reuters
According to UNHCR, at least 604,000 Rohingyas have entered Bangladesh fleeing the violence that erupted in Myanmar on August 25
Yanghee Lee, the United Nations investigator of human rights abuses in Myanmar, has expressed deep disappointment in Aung San Suu Kyi for her indifferent response to the Rohingya crisis.

Speaking to reporters at the United Nations on Thursday, the investigator underscored international frustrations over the behaviour of the state counsellor of Myanmar regarding the persecution of the Rohingya.

Child rights expert Yanghee Lee of South Korea was appointed to her United Nations human rights post in 2014, reports the New York Times.

“Well-documented accounts of killings, rapes, burned villages and forced displacement gets no coverage in Myanmar’s news media,” Lee said while talking about the hatred and hostility against the Rohingyas in Myanmar.

She said: “It has really baffled everyone, and has really baffled me, about Daw Aung’s non-position on this issue.

“She [Suu Kyi] has not ever recognised that there is such a people called Rohingya — that’s a starting point. I’m very disappointed.”

The UN investigator added: “If the Myanmar leader [Suu Kyi] were to reach out to the people and say, ‘Hey, let’s show some humanity,’ I think people will follow her — she’s adored by the public.”

“Unfortunately, there seems to be little sympathy, let alone empathy, for the Rohingya people in Myanmar,” Lee said. “For decades, it has been cultivated in the minds of the Myanmar people that the Rohingya are not indigenous to the country and therefore have no rights whatsoever to which they can apparently claim.”

Suu Kyi skipped the annual United Nations General Assembly in September what was widely viewed as a way to avoid hard questions and confrontations over the Rohingya crisis.

She was criticised by other leaders, including some fellow Nobel laureates, for her response towards the torture on the Rohingyas in her country.
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According to United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHCR), at least 604,000 Rohingyas have entered Bangladesh fleeing the violence that erupted in Myanmar on August 25.

Myanmar’s de-facto leader last month publicly addressed concerns over the deadly conflict in Rakhine State, highlighting her government’s commitment to restore peace, stability and rule of law in the region scarred by armed conflict between insurgents – the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA) – and security forces.

Without mentioning the word Rohingya, she said carefully-worded lines of condemnation, saying that Myanmar has “never been soft on human rights”.

Earlier, on August 29, the Human Rights Watch (HRW) reported that satellite data accessed by the rights body had revealed widespread fires burning in at least 10 areas in Rakhine State, where local residents and activists have accused soldiers of shooting indiscriminately at unarmed Rohingya men, women, and children, and carrying out arson attacks.

Myanmar authorities, on the other hand, claim that Rohingya “extremist terrorists” have been setting these fires during fights with government troops. Human Rights Watch reports they could not obtain any comments on this issue from any government spokesperson.
http://www.dhakatribune.com/world/2017/10/27/rohingya-crisis-un-official-disappointed-suu-kyi/
 
‘Baffled’ by Rohingya Stance, U.N. Official Scolds Aung San Suu Kyi
By RICK GLADSTONE
OCT. 26, 2017
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Yanghee Lee of South Korea, a leading child rights expert appointed to her United Nations human rights post in 2014, underscored international frustrations over the behavior of the Myanmar leader, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, regarding the persecution of the Rohingya.

Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi, a hero of democratic rights who endured years of house arrest by Myanmar’s military to become the top civilian politician of her country and de facto head of the government, has not criticized the deadly campaign against the Rohingya, who are widely reviled among the country’s Buddhist majority.

The campaign, carried out by Myanmar’s armed forces and allied militias, has uprooted hundreds of thousands of Rohingya from their villages in the western border state of Rakhine since August. The fallout has created a refugee and public health crisis in Myanmar’s impoverished neighbor, Bangladesh, as more than 600,000 people have fled across the border.

Other top United Nations officials have called the anti-Rohingya purge a campaign of ethnic cleansing or worse. Diplomats of the Security Council are discussing a draft resolution aimed at pressuring the Myanmar military to end the violence. The Trump administration also has threatened to take punitive action.
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Speaking to reporters at the United Nations on Thursday, Ms. Lee said “there is so much hatred and hostility against the Rohingya” in Myanmar that few dare speak out against it. Well-documented accounts of killings, rapes, burned villages and forced displacement get no coverage in Myanmar’s news media.

Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi skipped the annual United Nations General Assembly last month in what was widely viewed as a way to avoid hard questions and confrontations over the Rohingya crisis.

Other leaders have criticized her seemingly insensitive response, including some fellow Nobel laureates. But Ms. Lee’s comments were particularly pointed.
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“It has really baffled everyone, and has really baffled me, about Daw Aung’s non-position on this issue,” Ms. Lee said. “She has not ever recognized that there is such a people called Rohingya — that’s a starting point. I’m very disappointed.”

She said if the Myanmar leader were to “reach out to the people and say, ‘Hey, let’s show some humanity,’ I think people will follow her — she’s adored by the public.”

There was no immediate response to Ms. Lee’s comments from Myanmar’s diplomatic mission to the United Nations.

Myanmar officials have previously denied accusations of ethnic cleansing and have asserted that outside depictions of the crisis are distorted or fabricated by pro-Rohingya sympathizers. They have also sharply restricted access to Rakhine.

Ms. Lee spoke a day after she delivered a sharp critique of Myanmar’s human rights situation to the United Nations General Assembly. Ms. Lee said she was particularly appalled by the anti-Rohingya mood in the country.

“Unfortunately, there seems to be little sympathy, let alone empathy, for the Rohingya people in Myanmar,” she said. “For decades, it has been cultivated in the minds of the Myanmar people that the Rohingya are not indigenous to the country and therefore have no rights whatsoever to which they can apparently claim.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/26/world/asia/myanmar-rohingya-aung-san-suu-kyi.html?smid=fb-share
 
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Rohingyas have historically rebelled against myanmarese national integration efforts. Its time they are deported to Bangladesh.
 
Rohingyas conspired against myanmar local population when japan attacked it as a british colony !
Aung San also conspired and sided with british at later date

Rohingyas have historically rebelled against myanmarese national integration efforts. Its time they are deported to Bangladesh.
They were indian at the time of independence. They all should be settled in India..
 
Rohingyas conspired against myanmar local population when japan attacked it as a british colony !

Japanese were killing and raping their way through Asia. Rohingyas were right to fight with
British Indian army under the circumstances.
Were British Indian army also "traitors" who saved India + Burma during WW2 from Japanese killers and rapists?
 
UN council weakens response to Myanmar after China objects
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Rohingya refugees near the Naf River, which separates Myanmar and Bangladesh. Villages in Myanmar burned in the background. (Photo: Adam Dean for The New York Times)
By AFP
November 6, 2017
United Nations -- The UN Security Council today dropped plans to adopt a resolution demanding an end to the violence in Myanmar in the face of strong opposition from China and instead opted for a statement, diplomats said.

The statement calls for an end to the violence, full access for humanitarian aid workers to Myanmar's Rakhine state and for the return of hundreds of thousands of Muslim Rohingya who have fled to Bangladesh.

It does not threaten sanctions against Myanmar's military.


Britain and France circulated a draft resolution last month, but diplomats said veto power China, a supporter of Myanmar's former ruling junta, had argued that a resolution was not the appropriate response to the crisis.

Following negotiations, China agreed to the formal statement to be adopted later today, which includes almost all of the demands of the proposed resolution but does not carry the same weight.
"The important thing is the content," British Deputy UN Ambassador Jonathan Allen told reporters. "Gaining a very strong, unanimous statement I think was the real prize here."


Since late August, more than 600,000 Rohingya have been driven from their homes by an army campaign in Rakhine state that the United Nations has denounced as ethnic cleansing.

Myanmar authorities say the military operation is aimed at rooting out Rohingya militants who staged attacks on police posts.

The council statement was agreed as UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is to travel to Manila this week to join leaders of the Southeast Asian (ASEAN) bloc for a summit.

The Rohingya refugee crisis is expected to be a top issue of discussion at the summit, to be attended by US President Donald Trump, who will dispatch US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson to Myanmar later this month.

The Rohingya have faced decades of discrimination in Buddhist-majority Myanmar and have been denied citizenship since 1982, which has effectively rendered them stateless.

More than two months after the crisis erupted, rights groups have accused the Security Council of dragging its feet and are calling for tougher measures, such as an arms embargo and targeted sanctions against those responsible for the attacks against the Rohingya.

On Friday, Human Rights Watch urged the council to ask the International Criminal Court to open war crimes investigations in Myanmar, describing the torching of villages, killing, rape and looting as crimes against humanity.
http://www.rohingyablogger.com/2017/11/un-council-weakens-response-to-myanmar.html
 
Lack of UN pressure on Myanmar encourages further attacks on Rohingyas
SAM Report, November 9, 2017
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The executive director of the International Campaign for the Rohingya (ICR), Simon Billenness, has told Sputnik that the lack of pressure by the United Nations on Myanmar encourages the country’s government to deny the excessive use of force by its military.
“Given the failure of the UN Security Council to agree on a mere resolution on the Rohingya crisis in Burma, it is clear that this lack of real pressure from the UN on Myanmar will simply encourage the army of Myanmar to continue its attacks on the Rohingya.
It will also encourage the government to continue to deny the widespread proof of atrocities by the military,” Billenness said.

The head of the non-governmental organization has expressed doubt that the Myanmar authorities would implement its UN Security Council declaration, which urged the Asian nation’s government to stop the excessive use of military force in the state of Rakhine, unless pressured politically or economically.

According to Billenness, Rohingya refugees in neighboring Bangladesh have shared stories of multiple violations perpetrated by Myanmar military forces against civilians.
Also Read: UN steps up pressure on Myanmar
“Despite international condemnation, Burmese authorities continue to restrict access to the region for most international humanitarian organizations, a UN fact-finding mission, and independent media,” the head of the ICR said.

The ICR is urging national governments to support a global arms embargo, stop supplying any equipment or providing any training to Myanmar’s military, scrap investment into and deals with military-owned companies and review cooperation with the country’s government.
Significant Step
Dr Simon Adams, executive director of the Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect, has expressed hope that Myanmar would choose to follow the UN Security Council resolution and stop using excessive force against the Rohingya minority rather than face international isolation.

“Hopefully the Presidential Statement will make the Myanmar authorities realize that there are two paths available to them from here. One leads to further international isolation, bilateral sanctions and the shame of being known as a state guilty of ethnic cleansing. The other is the path of accountability, the rule of law and upholding human rights of all your people, regardless of their religion or ethnicity. I hope they choose the second path,” Adams told Sputnik.
Also Read: Myanmar warns U.N. pressure could harm talks with Bangladesh
According to the head of the non-governmental organization, the official condemnation by the UNSC was a significant step.

“I hope this very public international rebuke will focus the minds of those in Myanmar who have the power to halt the burning of villages and end the mass displacement of Rohingya civilians,” Adams said.
SOURCE SPUTNIK
https://southasianmonitor.com/2017/11/09/lack-un-pressure-myanmar-encourages-attacks-rohingyas/
 

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