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Myanmar villages burn as Rakhine unrest rages
AFP
Published at 07:37 PM August 30, 2017
Pictures of victims of violence in the state of Rakhine are displayed on a screen during a news conference held by National security Advisor U Thaung Tun at National reconciliation and peace center office in Yangon, Myanmar August 29, 2017 REUTERS
The violence, which erupted six days ago after Rohingya militants staged surprise raids on police posts, has shown little sign of abating, leaving at least 110 confirmed dead and sending thousands fleeing
Smoke billowed from at least three burning villages in the remote section of Rakhine state where Myanmar’s military is carrying out sweeps for militants.
The violence, which erupted six days ago after Rohingya militants staged surprise raids on police posts, has shown little sign of abating, leaving at least 110 confirmed dead and sending thousands fleeing.
The displaced include ethnic Rakhine Buddhists and the persecuted Rohingya Muslim minority, thousands of whom have massed at the “zero line” border with Bangladesh which they are barred from crossing.
The bodies of two Rohingya women and two children washed up on Bangladeshi soil on Wednesday, an official there said, as villagers took to rickety boats or tried to swim across a frontier river.
On Wednesday villagers in Rakhine continued to flee their homes.
A Rohingya villager near the town of Maungdaw, speaking on condition of anonymity, said residents fled his hamlet as security forces approached and torched their homes.
It was not immediately possible to verify his account but Rohingya who have made it into Bangladesh have brought similar testimony with them.
Large fires were visible early Wednesday from the May Yu river that cuts through the area worst hit by unrest.
Maximum restraint?
Outlying villages have witnessed some of the worst violence, raising fears security operations are shielded from scrutiny by the danger and inaccessibility of the area.
Rohingya villagers are stuck between police and troops hunting down the insurgents and militants offering sporadic resistance.
But testimony gathered from the displaced reaching Bangladesh suggests some Rohinyga men are heeding a call-to-arms by the militants and are staying behind to fight in their villages.
The Arakan Rohingya Solidarity Army claims its men launched Friday’s surprise attacks on police posts, killing 11 state officials, with knives, homemade explosives and a few guns.
After years in which the Rohingya largely avoided violence, the group last October carried out deadly attacks on police posts.
That prompted a months-long security crackdown by Myanmar’s army which left scores dead and forced 87,000 people to flee to Bangladesh.
The UN believes that military crackdown may have amounted to ethnic cleansing of the Rohingya – allegations denied by the army.
On Sunday Pope Francis led mounting international calls for the protection of “our Rohingya brothers”.
The UN has also urged Myanmar to protect civilians during its operations and called on Bangladesh to allow the displaced into their territory – something Dhaka is loath to do given it already hosts 400,000 displaced Rohingya.
A Myanmar government official on Tuesday said security forces would use “maximum restraint” in coming days but insisted on the country’s right to defend itself from “terrorists”.
Myanmar’s Rohingya are the world’s largest stateless minority and endure severe restrictions on their movements.
http://www.dhakatribune.com/world/south-asia/2017/08/30/myanmar-villages-burn-rakhine-unrest-rages/
AFP
Published at 07:37 PM August 30, 2017
Pictures of victims of violence in the state of Rakhine are displayed on a screen during a news conference held by National security Advisor U Thaung Tun at National reconciliation and peace center office in Yangon, Myanmar August 29, 2017 REUTERS
The violence, which erupted six days ago after Rohingya militants staged surprise raids on police posts, has shown little sign of abating, leaving at least 110 confirmed dead and sending thousands fleeing
Smoke billowed from at least three burning villages in the remote section of Rakhine state where Myanmar’s military is carrying out sweeps for militants.
The violence, which erupted six days ago after Rohingya militants staged surprise raids on police posts, has shown little sign of abating, leaving at least 110 confirmed dead and sending thousands fleeing.
The displaced include ethnic Rakhine Buddhists and the persecuted Rohingya Muslim minority, thousands of whom have massed at the “zero line” border with Bangladesh which they are barred from crossing.
The bodies of two Rohingya women and two children washed up on Bangladeshi soil on Wednesday, an official there said, as villagers took to rickety boats or tried to swim across a frontier river.
On Wednesday villagers in Rakhine continued to flee their homes.
A Rohingya villager near the town of Maungdaw, speaking on condition of anonymity, said residents fled his hamlet as security forces approached and torched their homes.
It was not immediately possible to verify his account but Rohingya who have made it into Bangladesh have brought similar testimony with them.
Large fires were visible early Wednesday from the May Yu river that cuts through the area worst hit by unrest.
Maximum restraint?
Outlying villages have witnessed some of the worst violence, raising fears security operations are shielded from scrutiny by the danger and inaccessibility of the area.
Rohingya villagers are stuck between police and troops hunting down the insurgents and militants offering sporadic resistance.
But testimony gathered from the displaced reaching Bangladesh suggests some Rohinyga men are heeding a call-to-arms by the militants and are staying behind to fight in their villages.
The Arakan Rohingya Solidarity Army claims its men launched Friday’s surprise attacks on police posts, killing 11 state officials, with knives, homemade explosives and a few guns.
After years in which the Rohingya largely avoided violence, the group last October carried out deadly attacks on police posts.
That prompted a months-long security crackdown by Myanmar’s army which left scores dead and forced 87,000 people to flee to Bangladesh.
The UN believes that military crackdown may have amounted to ethnic cleansing of the Rohingya – allegations denied by the army.
On Sunday Pope Francis led mounting international calls for the protection of “our Rohingya brothers”.
The UN has also urged Myanmar to protect civilians during its operations and called on Bangladesh to allow the displaced into their territory – something Dhaka is loath to do given it already hosts 400,000 displaced Rohingya.
A Myanmar government official on Tuesday said security forces would use “maximum restraint” in coming days but insisted on the country’s right to defend itself from “terrorists”.
Myanmar’s Rohingya are the world’s largest stateless minority and endure severe restrictions on their movements.
http://www.dhakatribune.com/world/south-asia/2017/08/30/myanmar-villages-burn-rakhine-unrest-rages/
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Deportation move of Rohingya refugees challenged in India
Star Online Report
Two Rohingya refugees have moved India’s Supreme Court challenging the decision to deport them back to Myanmar, where they faced persecution, on various grounds including that such a move is in violation of international conventions.
The Indian apex court today agreed to hear the petition, filed by the Rohingya migrants, on Monday a plea challenging the decision to deport illegal Rohingya Muslim immigrants back to Myanmar, on various grounds including that it violated international human rights conventions, reports our correspondent from New Delhi.
A Supreme Court bench, comprising Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justices A M Khanwilkar and D Y Chandrachud, considered the submissions of lawyer Prashant Bhushan that the plea required urgent hearing in view of the decision of the government to send Rohingyas back to their native land.
India’s National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) had issued notice to the Indian government on August 18 over its plan to deport the Rohingya immigrants who are residing in different states and cities of the country.
The Rohingyas, who fled to India after violence in the Western Rakhine province of Myanmar, have settled in Jammu, Hyderabad, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Delhi and its adjoining areas and Rajasthan.
India’s Minister of State for Home Kiren Rijiju had said in Parliament on August 9 that according to available data, more than 14,000 Rohingyas, registered with the UNHCR, were staying in India.
He had said that around 40,000 Rohingyas were staying in India illegally.
In a communication to all states, the Indian Home Ministry had said the rise of terrorism in the last few decades has become a serious concern for most countries as illegal migrants are prone to getting recruited by terrorist outfits.
The federal Indian government has directed the governments in states to set up a task force at district level to identify and deport illegally-staying foreign nationals.
http://www.thedailystar.net/world/m...m_medium=newsurl&utm_term=all&utm_content=all
Deportation move of Rohingya refugees challenged in India
Star Online Report
Two Rohingya refugees have moved India’s Supreme Court challenging the decision to deport them back to Myanmar, where they faced persecution, on various grounds including that such a move is in violation of international conventions.
The Indian apex court today agreed to hear the petition, filed by the Rohingya migrants, on Monday a plea challenging the decision to deport illegal Rohingya Muslim immigrants back to Myanmar, on various grounds including that it violated international human rights conventions, reports our correspondent from New Delhi.
A Supreme Court bench, comprising Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justices A M Khanwilkar and D Y Chandrachud, considered the submissions of lawyer Prashant Bhushan that the plea required urgent hearing in view of the decision of the government to send Rohingyas back to their native land.
India’s National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) had issued notice to the Indian government on August 18 over its plan to deport the Rohingya immigrants who are residing in different states and cities of the country.
The Rohingyas, who fled to India after violence in the Western Rakhine province of Myanmar, have settled in Jammu, Hyderabad, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Delhi and its adjoining areas and Rajasthan.
India’s Minister of State for Home Kiren Rijiju had said in Parliament on August 9 that according to available data, more than 14,000 Rohingyas, registered with the UNHCR, were staying in India.
He had said that around 40,000 Rohingyas were staying in India illegally.
In a communication to all states, the Indian Home Ministry had said the rise of terrorism in the last few decades has become a serious concern for most countries as illegal migrants are prone to getting recruited by terrorist outfits.
The federal Indian government has directed the governments in states to set up a task force at district level to identify and deport illegally-staying foreign nationals.
http://www.thedailystar.net/world/m...m_medium=newsurl&utm_term=all&utm_content=all
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Who are the Rohingya Muslims?
Why are the more than one million Rohingya in Myanmar considered the 'world's most persecuted minority'?
They are an ethnic Muslim group who have lived for centuries in the majority Buddhist Myanmar. Currently, there are about 1.1 million Rohingya Muslims who live in the Southeast Asian country.
The Rohingya speak Rohingya or Ruaingga, a dialect that is distinct to others spoken in Rakhine State and throughout Myanmar. They are not considered one of the country's 135 official ethnic groups and have been denied citizenship in Myanmar since 1982, which has effectively rendered them stateless.
Nearly all of the Rohingya in Myanmar live in the western coastal state of Rakhine and are not allowed to leave without government permission. It is one the poorest states in the country with ghetto-like camps and a lack of basic services and opportunities.
Due to ongoing violence and persecution, hundreds of thousands of Rohingya have fled to neighbouring countries either by land or boat over the course of many decades.
Where are the Rohingya from?
Muslims have lived in the area now known as Myanmar since as early as the 12th century, according to many historians and Rohingya groups.
The Arakan Rohingya National Organisation has said, "Rohingyas have been living in Arakan from time immemorial," referring to the area now known as Rakhine.
During the more than 100 years of British rule (1824-1948), there was a significant amount of migration of labourers to what is now known as Myanmar from today's India and Bangladesh. Because the British administered Myanmar as a province of India, such migration was considered internal, according to Human Rights Watch (HRW).
The migration of labourers was viewed negatively by the majority of the native population.
After independence, the government viewed the migration that took place during British rule as "illegal, and it is on this basis that they refuse citizenship to the majority of Rohingya," HRW said in a 2000 report.
This has led many Buddhists to consider the Rohingya as Bengali, rejecting the term Rohingya as a recent invention, created for political reasons.
How and why are they being persecuted? And why aren't they recognised?
Shortly after Myanmar's independence from the British in 1948, the Union Citizenship Act was passed, defining which ethnicities could gain citizenship. According to a 2015 report by the International Human Rights Clinic at Yale Law School, the Rohingya were not included. The act, however, did allow those whose families had lived in Myanmar for at least two generations to apply for identity cards.
Rohingya were initially given such identification or even citizenship under the generational provision. During this time, several Rohingya also served in parliament.
After the 1962 military coup in Myanmar, things changed dramatically for the Rohingya. All citizens were required to obtain national registration cards. The Rohingya, however, were only given foreign identity cards, which limited the jobs and educational opportunities they could pursue and obtain.
In 1982, a new citizenship law was passed, which effectively rendered the Rohingya stateless. Under the law, Rohingya were again not recognised as one of the country's 135 ethnic groups. The law established three levels of citizenship. In order to obtain the most basic level (naturalised citizenship), there must be proof that the person's family lived in Myanmar prior to 1948, as well as fluency in one of the national languages. Many Rohingya lack such paperwork because it was either unavailable or denied to them.
As a result of the law, their rights to study, work, travel, marry, practice their religion and access health services have been and continue to be restricted. The Rohingya cannot vote and even if they jump through the citizenship test hoops, they have to identify as "naturalised" as opposed to Rohingya, and limits are placed on them entering certain professions like medicine, law or running for office.
Since the 1970s, a number of crackdowns on the Rohingya in Rakhine State have forced hundreds of thousands to flee to neighbouring Bangladesh, as well as Malaysia, Thailand and other Southeast Asian countries. During such crackdowns, refugees have often reported rape, torture, arson and murder by Myanmar security forces.
After the killings of nine border police in October 2016, troops started pouring into villages in Rakhine State. The government blamed what it called fighters from an armed Rohingya group. The killings led to a security crackdown on villages where Rohingya lived. During the crackdown, government troops were accused of an array of human rights abuses, including extrajudicial killing, rape and arson - allegations the government denied.
In November 2016, a UN official accused the government of carrying out "ethnic cleansing" of Rohingya Muslims. It was not the first time such an accusation has been made.
In April 2013, for example, HRW said Myanmar was conducting a campaign of ethnic cleansing against the Rohingya. The government has consistently denied such accusations.
Most recently, Myanmar's military has imposed a crackdown on the country's Rohingya population after police posts and an army base were attacked in late August.
Residents and activists have described scenes of troops firing indiscriminately at unarmed Rohingya men, women and children. The government, however, has said nearly 100 people were killed after armed men from the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA) launched a raid on police outposts in the region.
Since the violence erupted, rights groups have documented fires burning in at least 10 areas of Myanmar's Rakhine State. More than 50,000 people have fled the violence, with thousands trapped in a no-man's land between the two countries.
According to the UN, hundreds of civilians who have tried to enter Bangladesh have been pushed back by patrols. Many have also been detained and forcibly returned to Myanmar.
How many Rohingya have fled Myanmar and where have they gone?
Since the late 1970s, nearly one million Rohingya Muslims have fled Myanmar due to widespread persecution.
According to the most recently available data from the United Nations in May, more than 168,000 Rohingya have fled Myanmar since 2012.
In October 2016, military crackdowns on the Rohingya population forced about 87,000 Rohingya to flee to Bangladesh.
Many Rohingya also risked their lives trying to get to Malaysia by boat across the Bay of Bengal and the Andaman Sea. Between 2012 and 2015, more than 112,000 made the dangerous journey.
The UN estimated that there are as many as 420,000 Rohingya refugees in Southeast Asia. Additionally, there are around 120,000 internally displaced Rohingya.
The violence in Myanmar's northwest that began in late August has forced around 27,000 Rohingya to flee across the border into Bangladesh, while another 20,000 are stranded between the two countries, Reuters reported, citing UN sources.
What do Aung San Suu Kyi and the Myanmar government say about the Rohingya?
State Chancellor Aung San Suu Kyi, who is the de facto leader of Myanmar, has refused to really discuss the plight of the Rohingya.
Aung San Suu Kyi and her government do not recognise the Rohingya as an ethnic group and have blamed violence in Rakhine, and subsequent military crackdowns, on those they call "terrorists".
The Nobel Peace Prize laureate does not have control over the military but has been criticised for her failure to condemn indiscriminate force used by troops, as well as to stand up for the rights of the more than one million Rohingya in Myanmar.
OPINION: Aung San Suu Kyi's inexcusable silence
The government has also repeatedly rejected accusations of abuses. In February 2017, the UN published a report that found that government troops "very likely" committed crimes against humanity since renewed military crackdowns began in October 2016.
At the time, the government did not directly address the findings of the report and said it had the "the right to defend the country by lawful means" against "increasing terrorist activities", adding that a domestic investigation was enough.
In April, however, Aung San Suu Kyi said in a rare interview with the BBC that the phrase "ethnic cleansing" was "too strong" a term to describe the situation in Rakhine.
"I don't think there is ethnic cleansing going on," she said. "I think ethnic cleansing is too strong an expression to use for what is happening."
In September 2016, Aung San Suu Kyi entrusted former UN chief Kofi Annan with finding ways to heal the long-standing divisions in the region. While many welcomed the commission and its findings, which were released this August, Azeem Ibrahim, a senior fellow at the Center for Global Policy, argued it was just a way for Aung San Suu Kyi to "pacify the global public opinion and try to demonstrate to the international community that she is doing what she can to resolve the issue".
Annan was not given the mandate to investigate specific cases of human rights abuses, but rather one for long-term economic development, education and healthcare.
When setting up the commission, Aung San Suu Kyi's government said it would abide by its findings. The commission urged the government to end the highly militarised crackdown on neighbourhoods where Rohingya live, as well as scrap restrictions on movement and citizenship. The government has not commented on these recommendations since the report was released in late August.
The government has often denied journalists and aid workers access to Rakhine State. Aung San Suu Kyi's office has also accused aid groups of helping those it considers to be "terrorists".
OPINION: Myanmar needs to get serious about peace
In January, Yanghee Lee, a UN special rapporteur on human rights in Myanmar, said she was denied access to certain parts of Rakhine and was only allowed to speak to Rohingya who had been pre-approved by the government.
The country has also denied visas to members of a UN probe investigating the violence and alleged abuses in Rakhine.
What does Bangladesh say about the Rohingya?
There are nearly half a million Rohingya refugees living in mostly makeshift camps in Bangladesh. The majority remain unregistered.
Bangladesh considers most of those who have crossed its borders and are living outside of camps as having "illegally infiltrated" the country. Bangladesh has often tried to prevent Rohingya refugees from crossing its border.
OPINION: Regional actors should take a stand against Myanmar
In late January, the country resurrected a plan to relocate tens of thousands of Rohingya refugees from Myanmar to a remote island that is prone to flooding and has also been called "uninhabitable" by rights groups. Under the plan, which was originally introduced in 2015, authorities would move undocumented Myanmar nationals to Thengar Char in the Bay of Bengal.
Rights groups have decried the proposal, saying the island completely floods during monsoon season. The UN also called the forced relocation "very complex and controversial".
Most recently, the government in Bangladesh has reportedly proposed a joint military operation in Rakhine to aid Myanmar's battle against armed fighters in the area. The foreign ministry has also expressed fear that the renewed violence will cause a new influx of refugees to cross its border.
What does the international community say about the Rohingya?
The international community has labelled the Rohingya the "most persecuted minority in the world".
The UN, as well as several rights groups such as Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, have consistently decried the treatment of the Rohingya by Myanmar and neighbouring countries.
The UN has said that it is "very likely" that the military committed grave human rights abuses in Rakhine that may amount to war crimes, allegations the government denies.
OPINION: Only international pressure can save Rohingya now
In March, the UN adopted a resolution to set up an independent, international mission to investigate the alleged abuses. It stopped short of calling for a Commission of Inquiry, the UN's highest level of investigation.
The UN investigators must provide a verbal update in September and a full report next year on their findings.
Rights groups have criticised the government's reluctance to accept the UN investigators.
Human Rights Watch warned that Myanmar's government risked getting bracketed with "pariah states" like North Korea and Syria if it did not allow the UN to investigate alleged crimes.
READ MORE: Myanmar - UN probe 'can only aggravate' Rakhine tension
Most recently, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said he was "deeply concerned" about the ongoing violence in Rakhine.
"This turn of events is deplorable," the UN human rights chief Zeid Ra'ad al Hussein said. "It was predicted and could have been prevented," said Hussain, adding that "decades of persistent and systematic human rights violations, including the very violent security responses to the attacks since October 2016, have almost certainly contributed to the nurturing of violent extremism, with everyone ultimately losing."
Both UN officials said they completely supported the findings of the advisory commission, led by Kofi Annan, and urged the government to fulfil its recommendations.
OPINION: The Rohingya crisis and the role of the OIC
What is the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army?
The Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA), formerly known as the al-Yaqeen Faith Movement, released a statement under its new name in March 2017, saying it was obligated to "defend, salvage and protect [the] Rohingya community".
The group is considered a "terrorist" organisation by the Myanmar government.
The group said it would do so "with our best capacities as we have the legitimate right under international law to defend ourselves in line with the principle of self defence".
It added that it does "not associate with any terrorist group across the world" and does "not commit any form of terrorism against any civilian regardless of their religious and ethnic origin".
The statement also said: "We […] declare loud and clear that our defensive attacks have only been aimed at the oppressive Burmese regime in accordance with international norms and principles until our demands are fulfilled."
The group has claimed responsibility for an attack on police posts and an army base in Rakhine State. According to the government nearly 400 people were killed, the majority of whom were members of the ARSA. Rights groups, however, say hundreds of civilians have been killed by security forces.
According to the International Crisis group, the ARSA has ties to Rohingya living in Saudi Arabia.
The Myanmar government formally categorised the group as a "terrorist" organisation on August 25.
Source: Al Jazeera
http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2017/08/rohingya-muslims-170831065142812.html
Why are the more than one million Rohingya in Myanmar considered the 'world's most persecuted minority'?
They are an ethnic Muslim group who have lived for centuries in the majority Buddhist Myanmar. Currently, there are about 1.1 million Rohingya Muslims who live in the Southeast Asian country.
The Rohingya speak Rohingya or Ruaingga, a dialect that is distinct to others spoken in Rakhine State and throughout Myanmar. They are not considered one of the country's 135 official ethnic groups and have been denied citizenship in Myanmar since 1982, which has effectively rendered them stateless.
Nearly all of the Rohingya in Myanmar live in the western coastal state of Rakhine and are not allowed to leave without government permission. It is one the poorest states in the country with ghetto-like camps and a lack of basic services and opportunities.
Due to ongoing violence and persecution, hundreds of thousands of Rohingya have fled to neighbouring countries either by land or boat over the course of many decades.
Where are the Rohingya from?
Muslims have lived in the area now known as Myanmar since as early as the 12th century, according to many historians and Rohingya groups.
The Arakan Rohingya National Organisation has said, "Rohingyas have been living in Arakan from time immemorial," referring to the area now known as Rakhine.
During the more than 100 years of British rule (1824-1948), there was a significant amount of migration of labourers to what is now known as Myanmar from today's India and Bangladesh. Because the British administered Myanmar as a province of India, such migration was considered internal, according to Human Rights Watch (HRW).
The migration of labourers was viewed negatively by the majority of the native population.
After independence, the government viewed the migration that took place during British rule as "illegal, and it is on this basis that they refuse citizenship to the majority of Rohingya," HRW said in a 2000 report.
This has led many Buddhists to consider the Rohingya as Bengali, rejecting the term Rohingya as a recent invention, created for political reasons.
How and why are they being persecuted? And why aren't they recognised?
Shortly after Myanmar's independence from the British in 1948, the Union Citizenship Act was passed, defining which ethnicities could gain citizenship. According to a 2015 report by the International Human Rights Clinic at Yale Law School, the Rohingya were not included. The act, however, did allow those whose families had lived in Myanmar for at least two generations to apply for identity cards.
Rohingya were initially given such identification or even citizenship under the generational provision. During this time, several Rohingya also served in parliament.
After the 1962 military coup in Myanmar, things changed dramatically for the Rohingya. All citizens were required to obtain national registration cards. The Rohingya, however, were only given foreign identity cards, which limited the jobs and educational opportunities they could pursue and obtain.
In 1982, a new citizenship law was passed, which effectively rendered the Rohingya stateless. Under the law, Rohingya were again not recognised as one of the country's 135 ethnic groups. The law established three levels of citizenship. In order to obtain the most basic level (naturalised citizenship), there must be proof that the person's family lived in Myanmar prior to 1948, as well as fluency in one of the national languages. Many Rohingya lack such paperwork because it was either unavailable or denied to them.
As a result of the law, their rights to study, work, travel, marry, practice their religion and access health services have been and continue to be restricted. The Rohingya cannot vote and even if they jump through the citizenship test hoops, they have to identify as "naturalised" as opposed to Rohingya, and limits are placed on them entering certain professions like medicine, law or running for office.
Since the 1970s, a number of crackdowns on the Rohingya in Rakhine State have forced hundreds of thousands to flee to neighbouring Bangladesh, as well as Malaysia, Thailand and other Southeast Asian countries. During such crackdowns, refugees have often reported rape, torture, arson and murder by Myanmar security forces.
After the killings of nine border police in October 2016, troops started pouring into villages in Rakhine State. The government blamed what it called fighters from an armed Rohingya group. The killings led to a security crackdown on villages where Rohingya lived. During the crackdown, government troops were accused of an array of human rights abuses, including extrajudicial killing, rape and arson - allegations the government denied.
In November 2016, a UN official accused the government of carrying out "ethnic cleansing" of Rohingya Muslims. It was not the first time such an accusation has been made.
In April 2013, for example, HRW said Myanmar was conducting a campaign of ethnic cleansing against the Rohingya. The government has consistently denied such accusations.
Most recently, Myanmar's military has imposed a crackdown on the country's Rohingya population after police posts and an army base were attacked in late August.
Residents and activists have described scenes of troops firing indiscriminately at unarmed Rohingya men, women and children. The government, however, has said nearly 100 people were killed after armed men from the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA) launched a raid on police outposts in the region.
Since the violence erupted, rights groups have documented fires burning in at least 10 areas of Myanmar's Rakhine State. More than 50,000 people have fled the violence, with thousands trapped in a no-man's land between the two countries.
According to the UN, hundreds of civilians who have tried to enter Bangladesh have been pushed back by patrols. Many have also been detained and forcibly returned to Myanmar.
How many Rohingya have fled Myanmar and where have they gone?
Since the late 1970s, nearly one million Rohingya Muslims have fled Myanmar due to widespread persecution.
According to the most recently available data from the United Nations in May, more than 168,000 Rohingya have fled Myanmar since 2012.
In October 2016, military crackdowns on the Rohingya population forced about 87,000 Rohingya to flee to Bangladesh.
Many Rohingya also risked their lives trying to get to Malaysia by boat across the Bay of Bengal and the Andaman Sea. Between 2012 and 2015, more than 112,000 made the dangerous journey.
The UN estimated that there are as many as 420,000 Rohingya refugees in Southeast Asia. Additionally, there are around 120,000 internally displaced Rohingya.
The violence in Myanmar's northwest that began in late August has forced around 27,000 Rohingya to flee across the border into Bangladesh, while another 20,000 are stranded between the two countries, Reuters reported, citing UN sources.
What do Aung San Suu Kyi and the Myanmar government say about the Rohingya?
State Chancellor Aung San Suu Kyi, who is the de facto leader of Myanmar, has refused to really discuss the plight of the Rohingya.
Aung San Suu Kyi and her government do not recognise the Rohingya as an ethnic group and have blamed violence in Rakhine, and subsequent military crackdowns, on those they call "terrorists".
The Nobel Peace Prize laureate does not have control over the military but has been criticised for her failure to condemn indiscriminate force used by troops, as well as to stand up for the rights of the more than one million Rohingya in Myanmar.
OPINION: Aung San Suu Kyi's inexcusable silence
The government has also repeatedly rejected accusations of abuses. In February 2017, the UN published a report that found that government troops "very likely" committed crimes against humanity since renewed military crackdowns began in October 2016.
At the time, the government did not directly address the findings of the report and said it had the "the right to defend the country by lawful means" against "increasing terrorist activities", adding that a domestic investigation was enough.
In April, however, Aung San Suu Kyi said in a rare interview with the BBC that the phrase "ethnic cleansing" was "too strong" a term to describe the situation in Rakhine.
"I don't think there is ethnic cleansing going on," she said. "I think ethnic cleansing is too strong an expression to use for what is happening."
In September 2016, Aung San Suu Kyi entrusted former UN chief Kofi Annan with finding ways to heal the long-standing divisions in the region. While many welcomed the commission and its findings, which were released this August, Azeem Ibrahim, a senior fellow at the Center for Global Policy, argued it was just a way for Aung San Suu Kyi to "pacify the global public opinion and try to demonstrate to the international community that she is doing what she can to resolve the issue".
Annan was not given the mandate to investigate specific cases of human rights abuses, but rather one for long-term economic development, education and healthcare.
When setting up the commission, Aung San Suu Kyi's government said it would abide by its findings. The commission urged the government to end the highly militarised crackdown on neighbourhoods where Rohingya live, as well as scrap restrictions on movement and citizenship. The government has not commented on these recommendations since the report was released in late August.
The government has often denied journalists and aid workers access to Rakhine State. Aung San Suu Kyi's office has also accused aid groups of helping those it considers to be "terrorists".
OPINION: Myanmar needs to get serious about peace
In January, Yanghee Lee, a UN special rapporteur on human rights in Myanmar, said she was denied access to certain parts of Rakhine and was only allowed to speak to Rohingya who had been pre-approved by the government.
The country has also denied visas to members of a UN probe investigating the violence and alleged abuses in Rakhine.
What does Bangladesh say about the Rohingya?
There are nearly half a million Rohingya refugees living in mostly makeshift camps in Bangladesh. The majority remain unregistered.
Bangladesh considers most of those who have crossed its borders and are living outside of camps as having "illegally infiltrated" the country. Bangladesh has often tried to prevent Rohingya refugees from crossing its border.
OPINION: Regional actors should take a stand against Myanmar
In late January, the country resurrected a plan to relocate tens of thousands of Rohingya refugees from Myanmar to a remote island that is prone to flooding and has also been called "uninhabitable" by rights groups. Under the plan, which was originally introduced in 2015, authorities would move undocumented Myanmar nationals to Thengar Char in the Bay of Bengal.
Rights groups have decried the proposal, saying the island completely floods during monsoon season. The UN also called the forced relocation "very complex and controversial".
Most recently, the government in Bangladesh has reportedly proposed a joint military operation in Rakhine to aid Myanmar's battle against armed fighters in the area. The foreign ministry has also expressed fear that the renewed violence will cause a new influx of refugees to cross its border.
What does the international community say about the Rohingya?
The international community has labelled the Rohingya the "most persecuted minority in the world".
The UN, as well as several rights groups such as Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, have consistently decried the treatment of the Rohingya by Myanmar and neighbouring countries.
The UN has said that it is "very likely" that the military committed grave human rights abuses in Rakhine that may amount to war crimes, allegations the government denies.
OPINION: Only international pressure can save Rohingya now
In March, the UN adopted a resolution to set up an independent, international mission to investigate the alleged abuses. It stopped short of calling for a Commission of Inquiry, the UN's highest level of investigation.
The UN investigators must provide a verbal update in September and a full report next year on their findings.
Rights groups have criticised the government's reluctance to accept the UN investigators.
Human Rights Watch warned that Myanmar's government risked getting bracketed with "pariah states" like North Korea and Syria if it did not allow the UN to investigate alleged crimes.
READ MORE: Myanmar - UN probe 'can only aggravate' Rakhine tension
Most recently, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said he was "deeply concerned" about the ongoing violence in Rakhine.
"This turn of events is deplorable," the UN human rights chief Zeid Ra'ad al Hussein said. "It was predicted and could have been prevented," said Hussain, adding that "decades of persistent and systematic human rights violations, including the very violent security responses to the attacks since October 2016, have almost certainly contributed to the nurturing of violent extremism, with everyone ultimately losing."
Both UN officials said they completely supported the findings of the advisory commission, led by Kofi Annan, and urged the government to fulfil its recommendations.
OPINION: The Rohingya crisis and the role of the OIC
What is the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army?
The Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA), formerly known as the al-Yaqeen Faith Movement, released a statement under its new name in March 2017, saying it was obligated to "defend, salvage and protect [the] Rohingya community".
The group is considered a "terrorist" organisation by the Myanmar government.
The group said it would do so "with our best capacities as we have the legitimate right under international law to defend ourselves in line with the principle of self defence".
It added that it does "not associate with any terrorist group across the world" and does "not commit any form of terrorism against any civilian
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Turkey to Bangladesh: Open your doors to Rohingya Muslims, we'll cover all expenses
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Asia Pacific Over 18,000 Rohingya Muslims fled violence in Myanmar last week, IOM says
DiplomacyErdoğan conducts telephone diplomacy with Muslim leaders on Rohingya crisis
Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu has called on Bangladesh to open its doors to Rohingya Muslims fleeing violence in Myanmar's western Rakhine state.
Speaking at a Justice and Development Party (AK Party) Eid al-Adha celebration event in the Mediterranean province of Antalya on Friday, Çavuşoğlu reiterated Turkey's call to Bangladesh to open its doors to Rohingya people, and said that Turkey would pay all the expenses.
"We have also mobilized the Organization of Islamic Cooperation. We will hold a summit regarding the Rakhine state this year. We need to find a decisive and permanent solution to this problem," the minister added.
He said that no other Muslim country other than Turkey is showing sensitivity towards the massacres happening in Myanmar.
In terms of humanitarian aid in the world, Turkey ranks 2nd after the United States with $6 billion and $6.3 billion respectively, Çavuşoğlu added.
Çavuşoğlu's comments and offer comes as President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is holding numerous phone calls with Muslim leaders all over the world to call for intensified efforts to solve the humanitarian crisis in Myanmar. Erdoğan has so far spoken with the heads of states of 13 countries on the occasion of Eid al-Adha and to convey his concerns about the situation in Rakhine.
Çavuşoğlu also reportedly spoke on the phone with former U.N. Secretary General and head of Advisory Commission on Rakhine State Kofi Annan.
Violence erupted in Myanmar's Rakhine state on Aug. 25 when the country's security forces launched an operation against the Rohingya Muslim community. It triggered a fresh influx of refugees towards neighboring Bangladesh, though the country sealed off its border to refugees.
Media reports said Myanmar security forces used disproportionate force, displacing thousands of Rohingya villagers and destroying their homes with mortars and machine guns.
The region has seen simmering tension between its Buddhist and Muslim populations since communal violence broke out in 2012.
A security crackdown launched last October in Maungdaw, where Rohingya make up the majority, led to a U.N. report on human rights violations by security forces that indicated crimes against humanity.
The U.N. documented mass gang-rape, killings -- including infants and young children -- brutal beatings, and disappearances. Rohingya representatives have said approximately 400 people have been slain during the crackdown.
https://www.dailysabah.com/diplomac...s-to-rohingya-muslims-well-cover-all-expenses
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Asia Pacific Over 18,000 Rohingya Muslims fled violence in Myanmar last week, IOM says
DiplomacyErdoğan conducts telephone diplomacy with Muslim leaders on Rohingya crisis
Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu has called on Bangladesh to open its doors to Rohingya Muslims fleeing violence in Myanmar's western Rakhine state.
Speaking at a Justice and Development Party (AK Party) Eid al-Adha celebration event in the Mediterranean province of Antalya on Friday, Çavuşoğlu reiterated Turkey's call to Bangladesh to open its doors to Rohingya people, and said that Turkey would pay all the expenses.
"We have also mobilized the Organization of Islamic Cooperation. We will hold a summit regarding the Rakhine state this year. We need to find a decisive and permanent solution to this problem," the minister added.
He said that no other Muslim country other than Turkey is showing sensitivity towards the massacres happening in Myanmar.
In terms of humanitarian aid in the world, Turkey ranks 2nd after the United States with $6 billion and $6.3 billion respectively, Çavuşoğlu added.
Çavuşoğlu's comments and offer comes as President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is holding numerous phone calls with Muslim leaders all over the world to call for intensified efforts to solve the humanitarian crisis in Myanmar. Erdoğan has so far spoken with the heads of states of 13 countries on the occasion of Eid al-Adha and to convey his concerns about the situation in Rakhine.
Çavuşoğlu also reportedly spoke on the phone with former U.N. Secretary General and head of Advisory Commission on Rakhine State Kofi Annan.
Violence erupted in Myanmar's Rakhine state on Aug. 25 when the country's security forces launched an operation against the Rohingya Muslim community. It triggered a fresh influx of refugees towards neighboring Bangladesh, though the country sealed off its border to refugees.
Media reports said Myanmar security forces used disproportionate force, displacing thousands of Rohingya villagers and destroying their homes with mortars and machine guns.
The region has seen simmering tension between its Buddhist and Muslim populations since communal violence broke out in 2012.
A security crackdown launched last October in Maungdaw, where Rohingya make up the majority, led to a U.N. report on human rights violations by security forces that indicated crimes against humanity.
The U.N. documented mass gang-rape, killings -- including infants and young children -- brutal beatings, and disappearances. Rohingya representatives have said approximately 400 people have been slain during the crackdown.
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Turkey’s Erdogan calls killing of Rohingya in Myanmar genocide
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Published at 03:00 PM September 02, 2017
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan talks to media after prayers for the Muslim Eid al-Adha celebration in Istanbul, Turkey September 1, 2017Murat Cetinmuhurdar/Presidential Palace/Handout via Reuters
Erdogan has long strived to take a position of leadership among the world’s Muslim community
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Friday that the death of hundreds of Rohingya in Myanmar over the past week constituted a genocide aimed at Muslim communities in the region.
Nearly 400 people have died in fighting that has rocked Myanmar’s northwest for a week, new official data showed, making it probably the deadliest bout of violence to engulf the country’s Rohingya Muslim minority in decades.
“There is a genocide there. They remain silent towards this… All those looking away from this genocide carried out under the veil of democracy are also part of this massacre,” Erdogan said at his ruling AK Party’s Eid al-adha celebrations in Istanbul.
The army says it is conducting clearance operations against “extremist terrorists” to protect civilians.
Erdogan, with his roots in political Islam, has long strived to take a position of leadership among the world’s Muslim community. He said it was Turkey’s moral responsibility to take a stand against the events in Myanmar.
Around 38,000 Rohingya have crossed into Bangladesh from Myanmar, United Nations sources said, a week after Rohingya insurgents attacked police posts and an army base in Rakhine state, prompting clashes and a military counteroffensive.
Erdogan said the issue would be discussed in detail when world leaders convene for the United Nations General Assembly on Sept. 12 in New York.
http://www.dhakatribune.com/world/2...ogan-calls-killing-rohingya-myanmar-genocide/
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Published at 03:00 PM September 02, 2017
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan talks to media after prayers for the Muslim Eid al-Adha celebration in Istanbul, Turkey September 1, 2017Murat Cetinmuhurdar/Presidential Palace/Handout via Reuters
Erdogan has long strived to take a position of leadership among the world’s Muslim community
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Friday that the death of hundreds of Rohingya in Myanmar over the past week constituted a genocide aimed at Muslim communities in the region.
Nearly 400 people have died in fighting that has rocked Myanmar’s northwest for a week, new official data showed, making it probably the deadliest bout of violence to engulf the country’s Rohingya Muslim minority in decades.
“There is a genocide there. They remain silent towards this… All those looking away from this genocide carried out under the veil of democracy are also part of this massacre,” Erdogan said at his ruling AK Party’s Eid al-adha celebrations in Istanbul.
The army says it is conducting clearance operations against “extremist terrorists” to protect civilians.
Erdogan, with his roots in political Islam, has long strived to take a position of leadership among the world’s Muslim community. He said it was Turkey’s moral responsibility to take a stand against the events in Myanmar.
Around 38,000 Rohingya have crossed into Bangladesh from Myanmar, United Nations sources said, a week after Rohingya insurgents attacked police posts and an army base in Rakhine state, prompting clashes and a military counteroffensive.
Erdogan said the issue would be discussed in detail when world leaders convene for the United Nations General Assembly on Sept. 12 in New York.
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Over 2,600 houses burnt in Rohingya-majority areas of Myanmar
58,600 Rohingyas flee into Bangladesh from Myanmar
A group of Rohingya refugee people walk towards Bangladesh after crossing the Bangladesh-Myanmar border in Teknaf, Bangladesh, September 1, 2017. Photo: Reuters
Reuters, Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh
More than 2,600 houses have been burned down in Rohingya-majority areas of Myanmar's northwest in the last week, the government said on Saturday, in one of the deadliest bouts of violence involving the Muslim minority in decades.
About 58,600 Rohingya have fled into neighbouring Bangladesh from Myanmar, according to UN refugee agency UNHCR, as aid workers there struggle to cope.
Myanmar officials blamed the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA) for the burning of the homes. The group claimed responsibility for coordinated attacks on security posts last week that prompted clashes and a large army counter-offensive.
But Rohingya fleeing to Bangladesh say a campaign of arson and killings by the Myanmar army is aimed at trying to force them out.
The treatment of Myanmar's roughly 1.1 million Rohingya is the biggest challenge facing leader Aung San Suu Kyi, accused by Western critics of not speaking out for the Muslim minority that has long complained of persecution.
The clashes and army crackdown have killed nearly 400 people and more than 11,700 "ethnic residents" have been evacuated from the area, the government said, referring to the non-Muslim residents.
READ MORE: Exodus of refugees turns fatal
It marks a dramatic escalation of a conflict that has simmered since October, when a smaller Rohingya attack on security posts prompted a military response dogged by allegations of rights abuses.
"A total of 2,625 houses from Kotankauk, Myinlut and Kyikanpyin villages and two wards in Maungtaw were burned down by the ARSA extremist terrorists," the state-run Global New Light of Myanmar said. The group has been declared a terrorist organisation by the government.
Rohingya children cross the Bangladesh-Myanmar border fence as they try to enter Bangladesh in Bandarban, Bangladesh on August 29, 2017. Photo: Reuters
But Human Rights Watch, which analysed satellite imagery and accounts from Rohingya fleeing to Bangladesh, said the Myanmar security forces deliberately set the fires.
"New satellite imagery shows the total destruction of a Muslim village, and prompts serious concerns that the level of devastation in northern Rakhine state may be far worse than originally thought," said the group's deputy Asia director, Phil Robertson.
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Near the Naf river separating Myanmar and Bangladesh, new arrivals in Bangladesh carrying their belongings in sacks set up crude tents or tried to squeeze into available shelters or homes of locals.
"The existing camps are near full capacity and numbers are swelling fast. In the coming days there needs to be more space," said UNHCR regional spokeswoman Vivian Tan, adding more refugees were expected.
The Rohingya are denied citizenship in Myanmar and regarded as illegal immigrants, despite claiming roots that date back centuries. Bangladesh is also growing increasingly hostile to Rohingya, more than 400,000 of whom live in the poor South Asian country after fleeing Myanmar since the early 1990s.
Jalal Ahmed, 60, who arrived in Bangladesh on Friday with a group of about 3,000 after walking from Kyikanpyin for almost a week, said he believed the Rohingya were being pushed out of Myanmar.
"The military came with 200 people to the village and started fires...All the houses in my village are already destroyed. If we go back there and the army sees us, they will shoot," he said.
Reuters could not independently verify these accounts as access for independent journalists to northern Rakhine has been restricted since security forces locked down the area in October.
Speaking to soldiers, government staff and Rakhine Buddhists affected by the conflict on Friday, army chief Min Aung Hlaing said there is no "oppression or intimidation" against the Muslim minority and "everything is within the framework of the law".
"The Bengali problem was a long-standing one which has become an unfinished job," he said, using a term used by many in Myanmar to refer to the Rohingya that suggests they come from Bangladesh.
Many aid programmes running in northern Rakhine prior to the outbreak of violence, including life-saving food assistance by the World Food Programme (WFP), have been suspended since the fighting broke out.
"Food security indicators and child malnutrition rates in Maungdaw were already above emergency thresholds before the violence broke out, and it is likely that they will now deteriorate even further," said Pierre Peron, spokesman for the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in Myanmar.
More than 80,000 children may need treatment for malnutrition in northern Rakhine and many of them reported "extreme" food insecurity, WFP said in July.
In Bangladesh, Tan of UNHCR said more shelters and medical care were needed. "There's a lot of pregnant women and lactating mothers and really young children, some of them born during the flight. They all need medical attention," she said.
Among new arrivals, 22-year-old Tahara Begum gave birth to her second child in a forest on the way to Bangladesh.
"It was the hardest thing I've ever done," she said.
http://www.thedailystar.net/world/s...houses-burnt-in-rakhine-state-myanmar-1457272
06:58 PM, September 02, 2017 / LAST MODIFIED: 09:21 PM, September 02, 2017
Over 2,600 houses burnt in Rohingya-majority areas of Myanmar
58,600 Rohingyas flee into Bangladesh from Myanmar
A group of Rohingya refugee people walk towards Bangladesh after crossing the Bangladesh-Myanmar border in Teknaf, Bangladesh, September 1, 2017. Photo: Reuters
Reuters, Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh
More than 2,600 houses have been burned down in Rohingya-majority areas of Myanmar's northwest in the last week, the government said on Saturday, in one of the deadliest bouts of violence involving the Muslim minority in decades.
About 58,600 Rohingya have fled into neighbouring Bangladesh from Myanmar, according to UN refugee agency UNHCR, as aid workers there struggle to cope.
Myanmar officials blamed the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA) for the burning of the homes. The group claimed responsibility for coordinated attacks on security posts last week that prompted clashes and a large army counter-offensive.
But Rohingya fleeing to Bangladesh say a campaign of arson and killings by the Myanmar army is aimed at trying to force them out.
The treatment of Myanmar's roughly 1.1 million Rohingya is the biggest challenge facing leader Aung San Suu Kyi, accused by Western critics of not speaking out for the Muslim minority that has long complained of persecution.
The clashes and army crackdown have killed nearly 400 people and more than 11,700 "ethnic residents" have been evacuated from the area, the government said, referring to the non-Muslim residents.
READ MORE: Exodus of refugees turns fatal
It marks a dramatic escalation of a conflict that has simmered since October, when a smaller Rohingya attack on security posts prompted a military response dogged by allegations of rights abuses.
"A total of 2,625 houses from Kotankauk, Myinlut and Kyikanpyin villages and two wards in Maungtaw were burned down by the ARSA extremist terrorists," the state-run Global New Light of Myanmar said. The group has been declared a terrorist organisation by the government.
Rohingya children cross the Bangladesh-Myanmar border fence as they try to enter Bangladesh in Bandarban, Bangladesh on August 29, 2017. Photo: Reuters
But Human Rights Watch, which analysed satellite imagery and accounts from Rohingya fleeing to Bangladesh, said the Myanmar security forces deliberately set the fires.
"New satellite imagery shows the total destruction of a Muslim village, and prompts serious concerns that the level of devastation in northern Rakhine state may be far worse than originally thought," said the group's deputy Asia director, Phil Robertson.
FULL CAPACITY
Near the Naf river separating Myanmar and Bangladesh, new arrivals in Bangladesh carrying their belongings in sacks set up crude tents or tried to squeeze into available shelters or homes of locals.
"The existing camps are near full capacity and numbers are swelling fast. In the coming days there needs to be more space," said UNHCR regional spokeswoman Vivian Tan, adding more refugees were expected.
The Rohingya are denied citizenship in Myanmar and regarded as illegal immigrants, despite claiming roots that date back centuries. Bangladesh is also growing increasingly hostile to Rohingya, more than 400,000 of whom live in the poor South Asian country after fleeing Myanmar since the early 1990s.
Jalal Ahmed, 60, who arrived in Bangladesh on Friday with a group of about 3,000 after walking from Kyikanpyin for almost a week, said he believed the Rohingya were being pushed out of Myanmar.
"The military came with 200 people to the village and started fires...All the houses in my village are already destroyed. If we go back there and the army sees us, they will shoot," he said.
Reuters could not independently verify these accounts as access for independent journalists to northern Rakhine has been restricted since security forces locked down the area in October.
Speaking to soldiers, government staff and Rakhine Buddhists affected by the conflict on Friday, army chief Min Aung Hlaing said there is no "oppression or intimidation" against the Muslim minority and "everything is within the framework of the law".
"The Bengali problem was a long-standing one which has become an unfinished job," he said, using a term used by many in Myanmar to refer to the Rohingya that suggests they come from Bangladesh.
Many aid programmes running in northern Rakhine prior to the outbreak of violence, including life-saving food assistance by the World Food Programme (WFP), have been suspended since the fighting broke out.
"Food security indicators and child malnutrition rates in Maungdaw were already above emergency thresholds before the violence broke out, and it is likely that they will now deteriorate even further," said Pierre Peron, spokesman for the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in Myanmar.
More than 80,000 children may need treatment for malnutrition in northern Rakhine and many of them reported "extreme" food insecurity, WFP said in July.
In Bangladesh, Tan of UNHCR said more shelters and medical care were needed. "There's a lot of pregnant women and lactating mothers and really young children, some of them born during the flight. They all need medical attention," she said.
Among new arrivals, 22-year-old Tahara Begum gave birth to her second child in a forest on the way to Bangladesh.
"It was the hardest thing I've ever done," she said.
http://www.thedailystar.net/world/s...houses-burnt-in-rakhine-state-myanmar-1457272
Over 2,600 houses burnt in Rohingya-majority areas of Myanmar
58,600 Rohingyas flee into Bangladesh from Myanmar
A group of Rohingya refugee people walk towards Bangladesh after crossing the Bangladesh-Myanmar border in Teknaf, Bangladesh, September 1, 2017. Photo: Reuters
Reuters, Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh
More than 2,600 houses have been burned down in Rohingya-majority areas of Myanmar's northwest in the last week, the government said on Saturday, in one of the deadliest bouts of violence involving the Muslim minority in decades.
About 58,600 Rohingya have fled into neighbouring Bangladesh from Myanmar, according to UN refugee agency UNHCR, as aid workers there struggle to cope.
Myanmar officials blamed the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA) for the burning of the homes. The group claimed responsibility for coordinated attacks on security posts last week that prompted clashes and a large army counter-offensive.
But Rohingya fleeing to Bangladesh say a campaign of arson and killings by the Myanmar army is aimed at trying to force them out.
The treatment of Myanmar's roughly 1.1 million Rohingya is the biggest challenge facing leader Aung San Suu Kyi, accused by Western critics of not speaking out for the Muslim minority that has long complained of persecution.
The clashes and army crackdown have killed nearly 400 people and more than 11,700 "ethnic residents" have been evacuated from the area, the government said, referring to the non-Muslim residents.
READ MORE: Exodus of refugees turns fatal
It marks a dramatic escalation of a conflict that has simmered since October, when a smaller Rohingya attack on security posts prompted a military response dogged by allegations of rights abuses.
"A total of 2,625 houses from Kotankauk, Myinlut and Kyikanpyin villages and two wards in Maungtaw were burned down by the ARSA extremist terrorists," the state-run Global New Light of Myanmar said. The group has been declared a terrorist organisation by the government.
Rohingya children cross the Bangladesh-Myanmar border fence as they try to enter Bangladesh in Bandarban, Bangladesh on August 29, 2017. Photo: Reuters
But Human Rights Watch, which analysed satellite imagery and accounts from Rohingya fleeing to Bangladesh, said the Myanmar security forces deliberately set the fires.
"New satellite imagery shows the total destruction of a Muslim village, and prompts serious concerns that the level of devastation in northern Rakhine state may be far worse than originally thought," said the group's deputy Asia director, Phil Robertson.
FULL CAPACITY
Near the Naf river separating Myanmar and Bangladesh, new arrivals in Bangladesh carrying their belongings in sacks set up crude tents or tried to squeeze into available shelters or homes of locals.
"The existing camps are near full capacity and numbers are swelling fast. In the coming days there needs to be more space," said UNHCR regional spokeswoman Vivian Tan, adding more refugees were expected.
The Rohingya are denied citizenship in Myanmar and regarded as illegal immigrants, despite claiming roots that date back centuries. Bangladesh is also growing increasingly hostile to Rohingya, more than 400,000 of whom live in the poor South Asian country after fleeing Myanmar since the early 1990s.
Jalal Ahmed, 60, who arrived in Bangladesh on Friday with a group of about 3,000 after walking from Kyikanpyin for almost a week, said he believed the Rohingya were being pushed out of Myanmar.
"The military came with 200 people to the village and started fires...All the houses in my village are already destroyed. If we go back there and the army sees us, they will shoot," he said.
Reuters could not independently verify these accounts as access for independent journalists to northern Rakhine has been restricted since security forces locked down the area in October.
Speaking to soldiers, government staff and Rakhine Buddhists affected by the conflict on Friday, army chief Min Aung Hlaing said there is no "oppression or intimidation" against the Muslim minority and "everything is within the framework of the law".
"The Bengali problem was a long-standing one which has become an unfinished job," he said, using a term used by many in Myanmar to refer to the Rohingya that suggests they come from Bangladesh.
Many aid programmes running in northern Rakhine prior to the outbreak of violence, including life-saving food assistance by the World Food Programme (WFP), have been suspended since the fighting broke out.
"Food security indicators and child malnutrition rates in Maungdaw were already above emergency thresholds before the violence broke out, and it is likely that they will now deteriorate even further," said Pierre Peron, spokesman for the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in Myanmar.
More than 80,000 children may need treatment for malnutrition in northern Rakhine and many of them reported "extreme" food insecurity, WFP said in July.
In Bangladesh, Tan of UNHCR said more shelters and medical care were needed. "There's a lot of pregnant women and lactating mothers and really young children, some of them born during the flight. They all need medical attention," she said.
Among new arrivals, 22-year-old Tahara Begum gave birth to her second child in a forest on the way to Bangladesh.
"It was the hardest thing I've ever done," she said.
http://www.thedailystar.net/world/s...houses-burnt-in-rakhine-state-myanmar-1457272
06:58 PM, September 02, 2017 / LAST MODIFIED: 09:21 PM, September 02, 2017
Over 2,600 houses burnt in Rohingya-majority areas of Myanmar
58,600 Rohingyas flee into Bangladesh from Myanmar
A group of Rohingya refugee people walk towards Bangladesh after crossing the Bangladesh-Myanmar border in Teknaf, Bangladesh, September 1, 2017. Photo: Reuters
Reuters, Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh
More than 2,600 houses have been burned down in Rohingya-majority areas of Myanmar's northwest in the last week, the government said on Saturday, in one of the deadliest bouts of violence involving the Muslim minority in decades.
About 58,600 Rohingya have fled into neighbouring Bangladesh from Myanmar, according to UN refugee agency UNHCR, as aid workers there struggle to cope.
Myanmar officials blamed the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA) for the burning of the homes. The group claimed responsibility for coordinated attacks on security posts last week that prompted clashes and a large army counter-offensive.
But Rohingya fleeing to Bangladesh say a campaign of arson and killings by the Myanmar army is aimed at trying to force them out.
The treatment of Myanmar's roughly 1.1 million Rohingya is the biggest challenge facing leader Aung San Suu Kyi, accused by Western critics of not speaking out for the Muslim minority that has long complained of persecution.
The clashes and army crackdown have killed nearly 400 people and more than 11,700 "ethnic residents" have been evacuated from the area, the government said, referring to the non-Muslim residents.
READ MORE: Exodus of refugees turns fatal
It marks a dramatic escalation of a conflict that has simmered since October, when a smaller Rohingya attack on security posts prompted a military response dogged by allegations of rights abuses.
"A total of 2,625 houses from Kotankauk, Myinlut and Kyikanpyin villages and two wards in Maungtaw were burned down by the ARSA extremist terrorists," the state-run Global New Light of Myanmar said. The group has been declared a terrorist organisation by the government.
Rohingya children cross the Bangladesh-Myanmar border fence as they try to enter Bangladesh in Bandarban, Bangladesh on August 29, 2017. Photo: Reuters
But Human Rights Watch, which analysed satellite imagery and accounts from Rohingya fleeing to Bangladesh, said the Myanmar security forces deliberately set the fires.
"New satellite imagery shows the total destruction of a Muslim village, and prompts serious concerns that the level of devastation in northern Rakhine state may be far worse than originally thought," said the group's deputy Asia director, Phil Robertson.
FULL CAPACITY
Near the Naf river separating Myanmar and Bangladesh, new arrivals in Bangladesh carrying their belongings in sacks set up crude tents or tried to squeeze into available shelters or homes of locals.
"The existing camps are near full capacity and numbers are swelling fast. In the coming days there needs to be more space," said UNHCR regional spokeswoman Vivian Tan, adding more refugees were expected.
The Rohingya are denied citizenship in Myanmar and regarded as illegal immigrants, despite claiming roots that date back centuries. Bangladesh is also growing increasingly hostile to Rohingya, more than 400,000 of whom live in the poor South Asian country after fleeing Myanmar since the early 1990s.
Jalal Ahmed, 60, who arrived in Bangladesh on Friday with a group of about 3,000 after walking from Kyikanpyin for almost a week, said he believed the Rohingya were being pushed out of Myanmar.
"The military came with 200 people to the village and started fires...All the houses in my village are already destroyed. If we go back there and the army sees us, they will shoot," he said.
Reuters could not independently verify these accounts as access for independent journalists to northern Rakhine has been restricted since security forces locked down the area in October.
Speaking to soldiers, government staff and Rakhine Buddhists affected by the conflict on Friday, army chief Min Aung Hlaing said there is no "oppression or intimidation" against the Muslim minority and "everything is within the framework of the law".
"The Bengali problem was a long-standing one which has become an unfinished job," he said, using a term used by many in Myanmar to refer to the Rohingya that suggests they come from Bangladesh.
Many aid programmes running in northern Rakhine prior to the outbreak of violence, including life-saving food assistance by the World Food Programme (WFP), have been suspended since the fighting broke out.
"Food security indicators and child malnutrition rates in Maungdaw were already above emergency thresholds before the violence broke out, and it is likely that they will now deteriorate even further," said Pierre Peron, spokesman for the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in Myanmar.
More than 80,000 children may need treatment for malnutrition in northern Rakhine and many of them reported "extreme" food insecurity, WFP said in July.
In Bangladesh, Tan of UNHCR said more shelters and medical care were needed. "There's a lot of pregnant women and lactating mothers and really young children, some of them born during the flight. They all need medical attention," she said.
Among new arrivals, 22-year-old Tahara Begum gave birth to her second child in a forest on the way to Bangladesh.
"It was the hardest thing I've ever done," she said.
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Arson attacks push thousands more Rohingya from Myanmar
Myanmar blames armed Rohingya group for burning homes in Rakhine, but survivors pin responsibility on soldiers.
Myanmar officials blamed a Rohingya armed group for the mass torching of homes [Bernat Armangue/AP]
More than 2,600 houses have been burned down in Rohingya-majority areas of Myanmar's restive northwest in the last week, as tens of thousands more refugees fled into Bangladesh over the past 24 hours.
Myanmar officials blamed the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA) for the torching of homes in Rakhine State. Hundreds of people have been killed since the recent eruption of violence.
Myanmar exodus: Rohingya flee to Bangladesh
"A total of 2,625 houses from Kotankauk, Myinlut and Kyikanpyin villages and two wards in Maungtaw were burned down by the ARSA extremist terrorists," the state-run Global New Light of Myanmar said.
But civilians fleeing the country accused soldiers of a scorched-earth policy.
"Our house was torched by the military... We tried to flee towards the mountain but they shot dead my two children along with their mother. I managed to escape with my other kids," said Rohingya refugee Jamal Hossain.
Human Rights Watch said satellite images show the obliteration of an entire village.
"New satellite imagery shows the total destruction of a Muslim village and prompts serious concerns that the level of devastation in northern Rakhine State may be far worse than originally thought," said Phil Robertson, the group's deputy Asia director.
Jalal Ahmed, 60, who arrived in Bangladesh on Friday with a group of about 3,000 after walking from Kyikanpyin for almost a week, said he believed the Rohingya were being pushed out of Myanmar.
"The military came with 200 people to the village and started fires... All the houses in my village are already destroyed. If we go back there and the army sees us, they will shoot," he said.
READ MORE: Who are the Rohingya Muslims?
Near the Naf river separating Myanmar and Bangladesh, new arrivals in Bangladesh carrying their belongings in sacks set up crude tents or tried to squeeze into available shelters or homes of locals.
Vivian Tan, UNHCR regional spokeswoman, told Al Jazeera from the Cox's Bazar region in Bangladesh that refugee camps in the country were at "breaking point".
"The existing refugees have really stepped up and provided support, mobilised community kitchens, opened their homes," she said. "But these camps are filling up really fast and they are reaching breaking point."
Survivors have accused Myanmar's security forces of deliberately setting villages ablaze [Suvra Kanti Das/AP]
The treatment of Myanmar's roughly 1.1 million Rohingya is the biggest challenge facing leader Aung San Suu Kyi, accused by critics of not speaking out for the Muslim minority that has long complained of persecution.
Benjamin Zawacki, a South Asia analyst, denounced Suu Kyi for denying visas to human rights investigators seeking to investigate ethnic cleansing in Rakhine. He told Al Jazeera the Nobel Peace Prize laureate was failing to acknowledge attacks on unarmed civilians by the army.
"She was right to condemn violence by Rohingya armed forces or armed insurgents, but she didn't go so far as to condemn violence against Rohingya civilians," Zawacki said of Suu Kyi.
"Until or unless she and the military are able to see a peace process in Rakhine State as encompassing more than a military solution, we are likely to see more of what we've seen this past week."
READ MORE: UN suspends food aid to refugees in Myanmar
The Rohingya are denied citizenship in Myanmar and regarded as illegal immigrants, despite claiming roots that date back centuries.
Bangladesh is also growing increasingly hostile to Rohingya with more than 400,000 of whom live in the poor South Asian country after fleeing Myanmar since the early 1990s.
Speaking to soldiers, government staff, and Rakhine Buddhists affected by the conflict on Friday, army chief Min Aung Hlaing said there is no "oppression or intimidation" against the Muslim minority and "everything is within the framework of the law".
"The Bengali problem was a long-standing one which has become an unfinished job," he said, using a term to refer to the Rohingya that suggests they come from Bangladesh.
Why are Rohingya refugees stranded in no-man's land? - Inside Story (25:00)
Source: Al Jazeera and news agencies
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/...ousands-rohingya-myanmar-170902141930883.html
পালিয়ে আসা রোহিঙ্গাদের গরু লুট অব্যাহত, যুবতীদেরকে অপহরণ
পালিয়ে আসা রোহিঙ্গাদের গরু লুট অব্যাহত, যুবতীদেরকে অপহরণ
প্রাণ ভয়ে রাখাইন থেকে পালিয়ে আসা রোহিঙ্গাদের কাছ থেকে মূল্যবান সামগ্রী লুটপাট চলছ্ইে। সীমান্তের প্রভাবশালী ও দালাল শ্রেণির লোকজন অবাধে এসব করে যাচ্ছে।উখিয়া সীমান্তের আমতলী তুলাতলী পয়েন্টে বাংলাদেশে আসা রোহিঙ্গাদের সাথে রয়েছে মূল্যবান স্বর্ণলঙ্কারসহ অন্যান্য সামগ্রী। এছাড়া রয়েছে গবাদি পশুও।
অনুপ্রবেশ পয়েন্টে এক শ্রেণির দালাল অসহায় রোহিঙ্গাদের স্বর্ণ, মুল্যবান জিনিসপত্র ও গরু লুট করে নিয়ে যাওয়ার পাশাপাশি সুন্দরী যুবতীদের অপহরণ করে নিয়ে যাচ্ছে বলে খবর পাওয়া গেছে।
কক্সবাজারের সংবাদকর্মীরা যারা নিয়মিত সীমান্ত এলাকায় গিয়ে এ সংক্রান্ত সংবাদ সংগ্রহ করছেন। তাদের রিপোর্ট ও ফেসুবক স্ট্যাটাসেও বিষয়টি ফুটে উঠছে।
সাংবাদিক এম আর খোকন ফেসবুক স্ট্যাটাসে ক্ষোভ প্রকাশ করে বলেন, ‘না আর সহ্য হচ্ছে না।ওপারে মুসলমানদের উপর চরম নির্যাতন, বর্বরতা, গুলি, বাড়িঘরে আগুন, প্রাণ বাঁচাতে ছুটে আসার পথে নাফনদীতে ডুবে অসংখ্য নারী-শিশুর মৃত্যু। আর যারা জীবিত এপারে পৌঁছে তাদের স্বর্নালংকার লুটপাট, যুবতীদের শ্লীলতাহানি। এই যেন আইয়ামে জাহেলিয়াতকেও হারমানায়।এ অবস্থায় সোচ্ছার না হয়ে কোন পরিণতিতে গেলে আমাদের মানবাধিকার সংগঠনগুলো কথা বলবে।’
উখিয়ার সংবাদ ও সমাজকর্মী নুর মোহাম্মদ সিকদারের ক্ষোভ এভাবেই‘ মাননীয় জেলা প্রশাসক, আসসালামু আলাইকুম ওয়ারাহমতুল্লাহ। উখিয়াবাসীর পক্ষ থেকে ঈদুল আযহার আগাম শুভেচ্ছা রইল। আপনি অবগত থাকলে ও ইসলাম ধর্মের অনুসারী হিসাবে আবেদনের সাথে অভিযোগ করিতে চাই, পার্শ্ববর্তী মিয়ানমারেরর আরকানে রক্তের হুলিখেলা থেকে প্রাণ, ইজ্জত বাচাঁতে নারী, শিশু, বৃদ্ধরা দুর্বল চিত্তের যুবকরাও বান্দরবান, কক্সবাজার জেলার বিভিন্ন উপজেলায় আশ্রয় নিচ্ছে, সরকার নমনীয় হওয়ায় কিন্তু অত্যন্ত দু:খ এবং লজ্জার বিষয় আমাদের উখিয়া উপজেলা ঘেষে বর্ডারের বিশেষ করে রেজু আমতলী, ঘুমধুম জলপাইতলী, পালংখালীর রহমতের বিল বালুখালী দিয়ে ক্যাম্পে প্রবেশের পূর্বে চলছে লুটপাট, ছিনতাই, রাহজানি। যা মুসলিম হিসাবে পরকালে অবশ্যই জবাবদিহীর সম্মুখীন হতে হবে। আপনি এই জবাবদিহীতার বাইরে নয়।
আপনি সর্বোচ্চ ক্ষমতাধর জেলার একমাত্র কর্তা। গত কদিনে শত শত গরু রোহিঙ্গাদের কাছ থেকে ছিনিয়ে নিয়েছে, লুট করেছে স্বর্নালংকার। সুন্দরীযুবতীদের ধর্ষনের অপচেষ্টায় লিপ্ত অনেকেই। সর্বহারা রোহিঙ্গা আবাল,বৃদ্ধ, বণিতারা ফুফিয়ে কাদঁছে। যা অল্লাহার আরশ কাপঁছে। কারন এরা মজলুম। তাই এদের সবক্ষেত্রে বিবেচনায় রাখা সকলের নৈতিক দায়িত্ব। অতএব মহোদয় পবিত্র মাসে পবিত্র হজ্ব দিবসে আপনার কাছে বিনীত আরজ সরকারি দলের অংগ সংগঠনের কতিপয় যুবক, সাবেক, বর্তমান রাজাপালং ইউপির কয়েক মেম্বারকে আইনের আওতায় এনে রাষ্ট্র, জাতির ভাবমূর্তি ও আইন শৃংখলা পরিস্তিতির উন্নয়নে আপনার পবিত্র কঠোর হস্তক্ষেপ আশা করি।
সাংবাদিক সরওয়ার আলম শাহীনের ক্ষোভ প্রকাশ করে বলেন, মিয়ানমার থেকে পালিয়ে আসা রোহিঙ্গাদের ১২ মহিষ লুট করেছে জালিয়াপালং ইউনিয়নের মেম্বার মোজাম্মেল ও মুছা। ১২ টি মহিষের মধ্যে ২ মেম্বার ৪ টি মহিষ রেখে বাকী ৮ টি মহিষ বিক্রি করে দেয় ডিলার কবির, মৌলভী নুরুন্নবী, মোস্তাক, মোসলেম মিয়া, বদি আলম তৈয়বের নিকট। বুধবার রাত সাড়ে ১১ টায় উখিয়া থানার ওসি আবুল খায়ের লুটকৃত মহিষগুলো জালিয়াপালং ইউনিয়ের চেয়ারম্যান নুরুল আমিন চৌধুরীর জিম্মায় নিতে নির্দেশ দেন। বিজিবি ও আইনশৃঙ্খলা রক্ষাকারী বাহিনীর ভাইদের বলছি, রোহিঙ্গা অনুপ্রবেশে বাঁধা দিবেন ঠিক আছে, কিন্ত বাংলাদেশ যারা চলে এসেছে তারা এপারে লুটপাট সহ আরো কয়েক দফা নির্যাতনের শিকার হচ্ছে। তাদের নিরাপত্তা নিশ্চিত করুন।
পালংখালী ইউনিয়নের আওয়ামীলীগ নেতা শাহাদত হোসেন জুয়েল ক্ষোভ প্রকাশ করে বলেন, মাননীয় প্রধানমন্ত্রী শেখ হাসিনার মায়ানমারের সামরিক জান্তার আগ্রাসনের স্বীকার মুসলমানদের প্রতি সহনশীল হওয়ার আহবান সত্ত্বেও পালংখালী আন্জুমান পাড়া সীমান্ত দিয়ে অনুপ্রবেশ করা রোহিঙ্গাদের সাথে নিয়ে আসা তাদের সামান্য সম্বল গরু-মহিষ লুট করে নিচ্ছে স্থানীয় কিছু রাজনৈতিক ছত্রছায়ায় থাকা ঘাপটি মারা নরপশু। গতকাল মধ্যরাতেও বেশ কিছু মহিষ লুট করেছে দলের নাম ভাঙ্গিয়ে। হাইরে মানুষ! পশুর উপর দিয়ে চালালি তুদের নেতৃত্বের কর্তৃত্ব! নির্যাতিতদের সহযোগিতা না করি…কিন্তু লুট করার অধিকার তো কেও দেয়নি!!! কেমন দল করিস তুরা? মমতাময়ী নেত্রীর আহবানকে বৃদ্ধাঙ্গুলি দেখিয়ে? কারা অসহায় মানুষের মানবতা লুট করছে প্রশাসন ও আইনশৃঙ্খলা বাহিনীকে মুখোশ উম্মোচন করে আইনের আওতায় আনার জোর দাবী জানাচ্ছি।
আশ্রয়হীন, নির্যাতিত, অসহায় রোহিঙ্গাদের শেষ সম্বল গরু জোর করে, ভয় দেখিয়ে কেড়ে নেয়ার সংবাদ সর্বত্র ছড়িয়ে পড়েছে! আরকানে মিয়ানমারের সেনা কর্তৃক রোহিঙ্গাদের উপর নির্যাতন শুরুর পর বৈধভাবে এদেশে কোন গবাদি পশু আসেনি। স্থানীয় কিছু প্রভাবশালী মহল, চিহ্নিত অসৎ জনপ্রতিনিধি এমন অমানবিক ব্যবসায় লিপ্ত! এবারের কোরবানি কেমন হবে? ৩০ আগষ্ট রেজু আমতলী বিওপিতে ১ শত ৫৫ টি গরু নিলামে যায়েজ করা হয়েছে!
অভিযোগ রয়েছে যে গরু গুলো নিলাম করা হয়েছে তা বাজার মূল্যের চেয়ে অনেক কম। অনেকটা গোপনে নিলাম সম্পন্ন হয়েছে। ১৫৫ টি গরু মাত্র ২০ লাখ টাকায় বিক্রি হয়েছে।
বিজিবি কক্সবাজারের ভারপ্রাপ্ত সেক্টর কমান্ডার লে.কর্নেল মো.আনোয়ারুল আযীম বলেন, এরকম ঘটনা ঘটার কথা না। তুবও বিষয়্িট খতিয়ে দেখা হচ্ছে। বিজিবি কিছু গরু আ্টক করে নিলাম দিয়েছে। সীমান্তে জনবল বাড়ানো হয়েছে এবং সার্বক্ষণিক সতর্ক অবস্থায় রয়েছে বিজিবি।
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Arson attacks push thousands more Rohingya from Myanmar
Myanmar blames armed Rohingya group for burning homes in Rakhine, but survivors pin responsibility on soldiers.
Myanmar officials blamed a Rohingya armed group for the mass torching of homes [Bernat Armangue/AP]
More than 2,600 houses have been burned down in Rohingya-majority areas of Myanmar's restive northwest in the last week, as tens of thousands more refugees fled into Bangladesh over the past 24 hours.
Myanmar officials blamed the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA) for the torching of homes in Rakhine State. Hundreds of people have been killed since the recent eruption of violence.
Myanmar exodus: Rohingya flee to Bangladesh
"A total of 2,625 houses from Kotankauk, Myinlut and Kyikanpyin villages and two wards in Maungtaw were burned down by the ARSA extremist terrorists," the state-run Global New Light of Myanmar said.
But civilians fleeing the country accused soldiers of a scorched-earth policy.
"Our house was torched by the military... We tried to flee towards the mountain but they shot dead my two children along with their mother. I managed to escape with my other kids," said Rohingya refugee Jamal Hossain.
Human Rights Watch said satellite images show the obliteration of an entire village.
"New satellite imagery shows the total destruction of a Muslim village and prompts serious concerns that the level of devastation in northern Rakhine State may be far worse than originally thought," said Phil Robertson, the group's deputy Asia director.
Jalal Ahmed, 60, who arrived in Bangladesh on Friday with a group of about 3,000 after walking from Kyikanpyin for almost a week, said he believed the Rohingya were being pushed out of Myanmar.
"The military came with 200 people to the village and started fires... All the houses in my village are already destroyed. If we go back there and the army sees us, they will shoot," he said.
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Near the Naf river separating Myanmar and Bangladesh, new arrivals in Bangladesh carrying their belongings in sacks set up crude tents or tried to squeeze into available shelters or homes of locals.
Vivian Tan, UNHCR regional spokeswoman, told Al Jazeera from the Cox's Bazar region in Bangladesh that refugee camps in the country were at "breaking point".
"The existing refugees have really stepped up and provided support, mobilised community kitchens, opened their homes," she said. "But these camps are filling up really fast and they are reaching breaking point."
Survivors have accused Myanmar's security forces of deliberately setting villages ablaze [Suvra Kanti Das/AP]
The treatment of Myanmar's roughly 1.1 million Rohingya is the biggest challenge facing leader Aung San Suu Kyi, accused by critics of not speaking out for the Muslim minority that has long complained of persecution.
Benjamin Zawacki, a South Asia analyst, denounced Suu Kyi for denying visas to human rights investigators seeking to investigate ethnic cleansing in Rakhine. He told Al Jazeera the Nobel Peace Prize laureate was failing to acknowledge attacks on unarmed civilians by the army.
"She was right to condemn violence by Rohingya armed forces or armed insurgents, but she didn't go so far as to condemn violence against Rohingya civilians," Zawacki said of Suu Kyi.
"Until or unless she and the military are able to see a peace process in Rakhine State as encompassing more than a military solution, we are likely to see more of what we've seen this past week."
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The Rohingya are denied citizenship in Myanmar and regarded as illegal immigrants, despite claiming roots that date back centuries.
Bangladesh is also growing increasingly hostile to Rohingya with more than 400,000 of whom live in the poor South Asian country after fleeing Myanmar since the early 1990s.
Speaking to soldiers, government staff, and Rakhine Buddhists affected by the conflict on Friday, army chief Min Aung Hlaing said there is no "oppression or intimidation" against the Muslim minority and "everything is within the framework of the law".
"The Bengali problem was a long-standing one which has become an unfinished job," he said, using a term to refer to the Rohingya that suggests they come from Bangladesh.
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Source: Al Jazeera and news agencies
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পালিয়ে আসা রোহিঙ্গাদের গরু লুট অব্যাহত, যুবতীদেরকে অপহরণ
প্রাণ ভয়ে রাখাইন থেকে পালিয়ে আসা রোহিঙ্গাদের কাছ থেকে মূল্যবান সামগ্রী লুটপাট চলছ্ইে। সীমান্তের প্রভাবশালী ও দালাল শ্রেণির লোকজন অবাধে এসব করে যাচ্ছে।উখিয়া সীমান্তের আমতলী তুলাতলী পয়েন্টে বাংলাদেশে আসা রোহিঙ্গাদের সাথে রয়েছে মূল্যবান স্বর্ণলঙ্কারসহ অন্যান্য সামগ্রী। এছাড়া রয়েছে গবাদি পশুও।
অনুপ্রবেশ পয়েন্টে এক শ্রেণির দালাল অসহায় রোহিঙ্গাদের স্বর্ণ, মুল্যবান জিনিসপত্র ও গরু লুট করে নিয়ে যাওয়ার পাশাপাশি সুন্দরী যুবতীদের অপহরণ করে নিয়ে যাচ্ছে বলে খবর পাওয়া গেছে।
কক্সবাজারের সংবাদকর্মীরা যারা নিয়মিত সীমান্ত এলাকায় গিয়ে এ সংক্রান্ত সংবাদ সংগ্রহ করছেন। তাদের রিপোর্ট ও ফেসুবক স্ট্যাটাসেও বিষয়টি ফুটে উঠছে।
সাংবাদিক এম আর খোকন ফেসবুক স্ট্যাটাসে ক্ষোভ প্রকাশ করে বলেন, ‘না আর সহ্য হচ্ছে না।ওপারে মুসলমানদের উপর চরম নির্যাতন, বর্বরতা, গুলি, বাড়িঘরে আগুন, প্রাণ বাঁচাতে ছুটে আসার পথে নাফনদীতে ডুবে অসংখ্য নারী-শিশুর মৃত্যু। আর যারা জীবিত এপারে পৌঁছে তাদের স্বর্নালংকার লুটপাট, যুবতীদের শ্লীলতাহানি। এই যেন আইয়ামে জাহেলিয়াতকেও হারমানায়।এ অবস্থায় সোচ্ছার না হয়ে কোন পরিণতিতে গেলে আমাদের মানবাধিকার সংগঠনগুলো কথা বলবে।’
উখিয়ার সংবাদ ও সমাজকর্মী নুর মোহাম্মদ সিকদারের ক্ষোভ এভাবেই‘ মাননীয় জেলা প্রশাসক, আসসালামু আলাইকুম ওয়ারাহমতুল্লাহ। উখিয়াবাসীর পক্ষ থেকে ঈদুল আযহার আগাম শুভেচ্ছা রইল। আপনি অবগত থাকলে ও ইসলাম ধর্মের অনুসারী হিসাবে আবেদনের সাথে অভিযোগ করিতে চাই, পার্শ্ববর্তী মিয়ানমারেরর আরকানে রক্তের হুলিখেলা থেকে প্রাণ, ইজ্জত বাচাঁতে নারী, শিশু, বৃদ্ধরা দুর্বল চিত্তের যুবকরাও বান্দরবান, কক্সবাজার জেলার বিভিন্ন উপজেলায় আশ্রয় নিচ্ছে, সরকার নমনীয় হওয়ায় কিন্তু অত্যন্ত দু:খ এবং লজ্জার বিষয় আমাদের উখিয়া উপজেলা ঘেষে বর্ডারের বিশেষ করে রেজু আমতলী, ঘুমধুম জলপাইতলী, পালংখালীর রহমতের বিল বালুখালী দিয়ে ক্যাম্পে প্রবেশের পূর্বে চলছে লুটপাট, ছিনতাই, রাহজানি। যা মুসলিম হিসাবে পরকালে অবশ্যই জবাবদিহীর সম্মুখীন হতে হবে। আপনি এই জবাবদিহীতার বাইরে নয়।
আপনি সর্বোচ্চ ক্ষমতাধর জেলার একমাত্র কর্তা। গত কদিনে শত শত গরু রোহিঙ্গাদের কাছ থেকে ছিনিয়ে নিয়েছে, লুট করেছে স্বর্নালংকার। সুন্দরীযুবতীদের ধর্ষনের অপচেষ্টায় লিপ্ত অনেকেই। সর্বহারা রোহিঙ্গা আবাল,বৃদ্ধ, বণিতারা ফুফিয়ে কাদঁছে। যা অল্লাহার আরশ কাপঁছে। কারন এরা মজলুম। তাই এদের সবক্ষেত্রে বিবেচনায় রাখা সকলের নৈতিক দায়িত্ব। অতএব মহোদয় পবিত্র মাসে পবিত্র হজ্ব দিবসে আপনার কাছে বিনীত আরজ সরকারি দলের অংগ সংগঠনের কতিপয় যুবক, সাবেক, বর্তমান রাজাপালং ইউপির কয়েক মেম্বারকে আইনের আওতায় এনে রাষ্ট্র, জাতির ভাবমূর্তি ও আইন শৃংখলা পরিস্তিতির উন্নয়নে আপনার পবিত্র কঠোর হস্তক্ষেপ আশা করি।
সাংবাদিক সরওয়ার আলম শাহীনের ক্ষোভ প্রকাশ করে বলেন, মিয়ানমার থেকে পালিয়ে আসা রোহিঙ্গাদের ১২ মহিষ লুট করেছে জালিয়াপালং ইউনিয়নের মেম্বার মোজাম্মেল ও মুছা। ১২ টি মহিষের মধ্যে ২ মেম্বার ৪ টি মহিষ রেখে বাকী ৮ টি মহিষ বিক্রি করে দেয় ডিলার কবির, মৌলভী নুরুন্নবী, মোস্তাক, মোসলেম মিয়া, বদি আলম তৈয়বের নিকট। বুধবার রাত সাড়ে ১১ টায় উখিয়া থানার ওসি আবুল খায়ের লুটকৃত মহিষগুলো জালিয়াপালং ইউনিয়ের চেয়ারম্যান নুরুল আমিন চৌধুরীর জিম্মায় নিতে নির্দেশ দেন। বিজিবি ও আইনশৃঙ্খলা রক্ষাকারী বাহিনীর ভাইদের বলছি, রোহিঙ্গা অনুপ্রবেশে বাঁধা দিবেন ঠিক আছে, কিন্ত বাংলাদেশ যারা চলে এসেছে তারা এপারে লুটপাট সহ আরো কয়েক দফা নির্যাতনের শিকার হচ্ছে। তাদের নিরাপত্তা নিশ্চিত করুন।
পালংখালী ইউনিয়নের আওয়ামীলীগ নেতা শাহাদত হোসেন জুয়েল ক্ষোভ প্রকাশ করে বলেন, মাননীয় প্রধানমন্ত্রী শেখ হাসিনার মায়ানমারের সামরিক জান্তার আগ্রাসনের স্বীকার মুসলমানদের প্রতি সহনশীল হওয়ার আহবান সত্ত্বেও পালংখালী আন্জুমান পাড়া সীমান্ত দিয়ে অনুপ্রবেশ করা রোহিঙ্গাদের সাথে নিয়ে আসা তাদের সামান্য সম্বল গরু-মহিষ লুট করে নিচ্ছে স্থানীয় কিছু রাজনৈতিক ছত্রছায়ায় থাকা ঘাপটি মারা নরপশু। গতকাল মধ্যরাতেও বেশ কিছু মহিষ লুট করেছে দলের নাম ভাঙ্গিয়ে। হাইরে মানুষ! পশুর উপর দিয়ে চালালি তুদের নেতৃত্বের কর্তৃত্ব! নির্যাতিতদের সহযোগিতা না করি…কিন্তু লুট করার অধিকার তো কেও দেয়নি!!! কেমন দল করিস তুরা? মমতাময়ী নেত্রীর আহবানকে বৃদ্ধাঙ্গুলি দেখিয়ে? কারা অসহায় মানুষের মানবতা লুট করছে প্রশাসন ও আইনশৃঙ্খলা বাহিনীকে মুখোশ উম্মোচন করে আইনের আওতায় আনার জোর দাবী জানাচ্ছি।
আশ্রয়হীন, নির্যাতিত, অসহায় রোহিঙ্গাদের শেষ সম্বল গরু জোর করে, ভয় দেখিয়ে কেড়ে নেয়ার সংবাদ সর্বত্র ছড়িয়ে পড়েছে! আরকানে মিয়ানমারের সেনা কর্তৃক রোহিঙ্গাদের উপর নির্যাতন শুরুর পর বৈধভাবে এদেশে কোন গবাদি পশু আসেনি। স্থানীয় কিছু প্রভাবশালী মহল, চিহ্নিত অসৎ জনপ্রতিনিধি এমন অমানবিক ব্যবসায় লিপ্ত! এবারের কোরবানি কেমন হবে? ৩০ আগষ্ট রেজু আমতলী বিওপিতে ১ শত ৫৫ টি গরু নিলামে যায়েজ করা হয়েছে!
অভিযোগ রয়েছে যে গরু গুলো নিলাম করা হয়েছে তা বাজার মূল্যের চেয়ে অনেক কম। অনেকটা গোপনে নিলাম সম্পন্ন হয়েছে। ১৫৫ টি গরু মাত্র ২০ লাখ টাকায় বিক্রি হয়েছে।
বিজিবি কক্সবাজারের ভারপ্রাপ্ত সেক্টর কমান্ডার লে.কর্নেল মো.আনোয়ারুল আযীম বলেন, এরকম ঘটনা ঘটার কথা না। তুবও বিষয়্িট খতিয়ে দেখা হচ্ছে। বিজিবি কিছু গরু আ্টক করে নিলাম দিয়েছে। সীমান্তে জনবল বাড়ানো হয়েছে এবং সার্বক্ষণিক সতর্ক অবস্থায় রয়েছে বিজিবি।
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58,600 Rohingyas fled to Bangladesh: UNHCR
Staff Correspondent | Published: 19:54, Sep 02,2017 | Updated: 20:07, Sep 02,2017
At least 58,600 Rohingyas have so far crossed into Bangladesh from Myanmar, fleeing persecution in their homeland Rakhine state since the eruption of the latest spell of violence on August 25, estimates UN refugee agency UNHCR.
UNHCR Bangladesh spokesman Joseph Tripura told New Age Saturday evening that different humanitarian agencies’ cumulative estimations showed that at least 58,600 Myanmar citizen had entered Bangladesh after the fresh violence erupted in Rakhine state.
He said that many of these Myanmar citizens, including children, women and elderly people, were suffering from food, shelter and medicine crisis.
‘So far we do have no estimation of Myanmar citizens stranded along Bangladesh border,’ Joseph Tripura said.
Local people in Bandarban and Cox’s Bazar and leaders of registered and unregistered Rohingya camps, however, said that the number of Rohingyas entering Bangladesh was much higher than the UNHCR estimation.
They also said that more Rohingyas added on Saturday to thousands of Rohingyas trapped in the border, and were suffering food and drinking water crisis.
They said that the minority Muslims in Rakhine state were on the run on Saturday when Muslims of neighbouring countries celebrated one of their biggest religious festival Eid-ul-Azha, crowding mosques and prayer grounds to offer prayers and sacrificing cattle.
The recent violence erupted on August 25, when Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army reportedly attacked at least two dozen different police posts and checkpoints and one military base across three townships in northern Rakhine State and the Burma Army launched ‘clearance operations’.
The insurgent group, later, said that they launched the attacks to pre-empt possible attack my Myanmar army and security forces on Rihingyas.
Officials in Dhaka said that Rohingyas had continued entering Bangladesh fleeing persecution of the ethnic minority in Myanmar since 1978.
The problem turned acute after the influx of Rohingyas in 1991-92, 2012 while 87,000 Rohingya refugees had entered Bangladesh in 10 months since October 2016, according to an estimate of International Organization for Migration.
Currently, only 33,000 Rohingyas are registered in the two official refugee camps in Cox’s Bazar. The Planning Commission in its project proposal for a census said that 3-5 lakh unregistered Rohingya refugees were living in Bangladesh.
http://www.newagebd.net/article/23263/58600-rohingyas-fled-to-bangladesh-unhcr
Staff Correspondent | Published: 19:54, Sep 02,2017 | Updated: 20:07, Sep 02,2017
At least 58,600 Rohingyas have so far crossed into Bangladesh from Myanmar, fleeing persecution in their homeland Rakhine state since the eruption of the latest spell of violence on August 25, estimates UN refugee agency UNHCR.
UNHCR Bangladesh spokesman Joseph Tripura told New Age Saturday evening that different humanitarian agencies’ cumulative estimations showed that at least 58,600 Myanmar citizen had entered Bangladesh after the fresh violence erupted in Rakhine state.
He said that many of these Myanmar citizens, including children, women and elderly people, were suffering from food, shelter and medicine crisis.
‘So far we do have no estimation of Myanmar citizens stranded along Bangladesh border,’ Joseph Tripura said.
Local people in Bandarban and Cox’s Bazar and leaders of registered and unregistered Rohingya camps, however, said that the number of Rohingyas entering Bangladesh was much higher than the UNHCR estimation.
They also said that more Rohingyas added on Saturday to thousands of Rohingyas trapped in the border, and were suffering food and drinking water crisis.
They said that the minority Muslims in Rakhine state were on the run on Saturday when Muslims of neighbouring countries celebrated one of their biggest religious festival Eid-ul-Azha, crowding mosques and prayer grounds to offer prayers and sacrificing cattle.
The recent violence erupted on August 25, when Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army reportedly attacked at least two dozen different police posts and checkpoints and one military base across three townships in northern Rakhine State and the Burma Army launched ‘clearance operations’.
The insurgent group, later, said that they launched the attacks to pre-empt possible attack my Myanmar army and security forces on Rihingyas.
Officials in Dhaka said that Rohingyas had continued entering Bangladesh fleeing persecution of the ethnic minority in Myanmar since 1978.
The problem turned acute after the influx of Rohingyas in 1991-92, 2012 while 87,000 Rohingya refugees had entered Bangladesh in 10 months since October 2016, according to an estimate of International Organization for Migration.
Currently, only 33,000 Rohingyas are registered in the two official refugee camps in Cox’s Bazar. The Planning Commission in its project proposal for a census said that 3-5 lakh unregistered Rohingya refugees were living in Bangladesh.
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Rohingya women: The face of unspeakable horror
Shafiur Rahman
Published at 12:31 PM September 03, 2017
Screenshot of a documentary on Rohingya women by Shafiur Rahman
Having had their dignity compromised by the Myanmar security forces, more than a dozen Rohingya young women abandoned their niqab while sharing stories of murder and rape with Shafiur Rahman, an independent documentary maker
This story was originally published in February 2017. It is being republished in light of the recent conflict in Myanmar which has seen overwhelming casualties and forced displacement of the Rohingya people, which nations and media are calling a genocide.
The victims described to a UK-based film maker how they had been shamed and abused in front of their families and communities during the army’s four-month-long “clearance operations” in Rohingya-dominated Rakhine State.
Click here to read the full version of the story
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http://www.dhakatribune.com/opinion/special/2017/09/03/rohingya-women-face-unspeakable-horror/
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বিক্ষোভকারীরা ইন্দোনেশিয়া থেকে মিয়ানমারের রাষ্ট্রদূতের বহিষ্কারের দাবি জানায়। তারা অং সান সুকির সরকারের বিরুদ্ধে শ্লোগান দেয়। এ সময়ে তারা সুকির ছবি সংবলিত পোস্টার পদদলিত করে। পোস্টারে সুকির ছবির নিচে ‘সবচেয়ে আমানবিক নারী’ কথাটি লেখা ছিল।
বিক্ষোভে ইন্দোনেশিয়ার সর্বশ্রেণীর মানুষ অংশ গ্রহণ করে। বিক্ষোভকারী দক্ষিণপূর্ব এশিয়ার দেশটিতে মুসলমানদের বিরুদ্ধে সহিংসতা বন্ধের জোরালো আহ্বান জানান। এদিকে, জাতিসংঘ এবং জাকার্তা সরকারকে রোহিঙ্গা নির্যাতন বন্ধে কার্যকর ব্যবস্থা নেওয়ার পৃথক আহ্বান জানিয়েছে ইন্দোনেশিয়ার সবচেয়ে বড় মুসলিম সংস্থা নাহদাদুল উলেমা।
রোহিঙ্গা মুসলমানদের বিরুদ্ধে হত্যাকাণ্ড বন্ধের দাবিতে ইন্দোনেশিয়ায় বিক্ষোভ
উৎসঃ আস
http://www.newsofbd.net/newsdetail/detail/34/333055
Rohingya women: The face of unspeakable horror
Shafiur Rahman
Published at 12:31 PM September 03, 2017
Screenshot of a documentary on Rohingya women by Shafiur Rahman
Having had their dignity compromised by the Myanmar security forces, more than a dozen Rohingya young women abandoned their niqab while sharing stories of murder and rape with Shafiur Rahman, an independent documentary maker
This story was originally published in February 2017. It is being republished in light of the recent conflict in Myanmar which has seen overwhelming casualties and forced displacement of the Rohingya people, which nations and media are calling a genocide.
The victims described to a UK-based film maker how they had been shamed and abused in front of their families and communities during the army’s four-month-long “clearance operations” in Rohingya-dominated Rakhine State.
Click here to read the full version of the story
Also Read- Special: Kutupalong- Playing ping pong with Rohingya lives
http://www.dhakatribune.com/opinion/special/2017/09/03/rohingya-women-face-unspeakable-horror/
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