The European Union called on Thursday for the United Nations to send an international fact-finding mission urgently to Myanmar to investigate allegations of torture, rapes and executions by the military against the Rohingya Muslim minority.
A U.N. report last month, based on interviews with survivors in Bangladesh, said the Myanmar army and police had committed mass killings and gang rapes of Rohingya in a campaign that may amount to crimes against humanity and ethnic cleansing.
The EU draft resolution, submitted to the U.N. Human Rights Council, strengthens language in an earlier draft circulating that stopped short of demanding an international probe into alleged atrocities. (Courtesy of reuters.com)
March 17, 2017
Myanmar must work to close Rohingya camps, says Kofi Annan panel
Myanmar should immediately start letting Rohingya Muslims return home and ultimately close rundown camps for the displaced in its western Rakhine state, a panel led by former U.N. chief Kofi Annan said on Thursday.
More than 120,000 people, mostly Rohingyas, have been living in what were meant as temporary shelters for internally displaced persons (IDPs) since bouts of communal violence roiled the state in 2012.
"It’s really about time they close the camps and allow the people in the camps, particularly those who have gone through the (citizenship) verification process, access to freedom of movement and all rights of citizenship," Annan told Reuters by telephone from Geneva. (Courtesy of reuters.com)
More than 120,000 people, mostly Rohingyas, have been living in what were meant as temporary shelters for internally displaced persons (IDPs) since bouts of communal violence roiled the state in 2012.
"It’s really about time they close the camps and allow the people in the camps, particularly those who have gone through the (citizenship) verification process, access to freedom of movement and all rights of citizenship," Annan told Reuters by telephone from Geneva. (Courtesy of reuters.com)
March 9, 2017
Myanmar set to dodge full U.N. probe on Rohingya abuse
Myanmar looks set to escape an international investigation into alleged atrocities against its Rohingya minority, after the European Union decided not to seek one at the U.N. Human Rights Council, a draft resolution seen by Reuters showed on Wednesday.
The United Nations said in a report last month that the army and police had committed mass killings and gang rapes of Rohingya Muslims in northern Rakhine state and burned villages in a campaign that may amount to crimes against humanity and ethnic cleansing.
Setting up a full international commission of inquiry into the findings - similar to those for Syria and North Korea - has been seen as a test of international resolve at the main annual session of the Council that ends on March 24.(Courtesy of reuters.com)
March 5, 2017
Persecution of the Rohingya
The United Nations rapporteur on human rights on Thursday has asked that a Commission of Inquiry (COI) be created to investigate Myanmar's treatment of the Rohingya. The UN official stated that the “systematic, structural, and institutional discrimination in policy, law and practice, as well as the long-standing persecution, against the Rohingya and other minorities in Rakhine State” calls for the COI, which is the highest-level probe body of the UN.
The UN rapporteur last month also pointed out how the government of Myanmar is incapable of carrying out a credible investigation and so it is imperative for the human rights council of the UN to act. Indeed, the plight of the Rohingya has been reported widely enough, but the authorities in Myanmar have either denied or downplayed the extent of the persecution of the Rohingya. (Courtesy of thedailystar.net)
The UN rapporteur last month also pointed out how the government of Myanmar is incapable of carrying out a credible investigation and so it is imperative for the human rights council of the UN to act. Indeed, the plight of the Rohingya has been reported widely enough, but the authorities in Myanmar have either denied or downplayed the extent of the persecution of the Rohingya. (Courtesy of thedailystar.net)
‘UK committed to working with Dhaka on Rohingyas’
UK Minister for Asia and the Pacific Alok Sharma made a courtesy call on Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at Ganabhaban on Saturday morning.
Alok said in an earlier tweet that the UK is committed to working with Bangladesh and Myanmar on the Rohingya issue.
He tweeted after the meeting: “Delighted to meet #Bangladesh PM Hasina. Excellent & substantive discussions. Great opportunity 2 further already strong #UK-Bangladesh ties.”
On Friday, Sharma attended a meeting with Bangladesh Foreign Minister AH Mahmood Ali at the State Guest House Padma. They discussed global and regional political issues as well as trade and investment between the UK and Bangladesh. (Courtesy of dhakatribune.com)
Alok said in an earlier tweet that the UK is committed to working with Bangladesh and Myanmar on the Rohingya issue.
He tweeted after the meeting: “Delighted to meet #Bangladesh PM Hasina. Excellent & substantive discussions. Great opportunity 2 further already strong #UK-Bangladesh ties.”
On Friday, Sharma attended a meeting with Bangladesh Foreign Minister AH Mahmood Ali at the State Guest House Padma. They discussed global and regional political issues as well as trade and investment between the UK and Bangladesh. (Courtesy of dhakatribune.com)
Time for the UN to show its Teeth
It is not surprising that the United Nations Rapporteur on Human Rights in Burma called the creation of a Commission of Inquiry (COI), the UN’s highest-level probe, to investigate abuses in the country.
The 47-member body must establish a COI “to investigate the systematic, structural, and institutional discrimination in policy, law and practice, as well long-standing persecution, against the Rohingya and other non-Myanmar ethnic nationalities” reports both from inside Burma and from the Bangladesh undoubtedly proves the authenticity that the Tadmadaw, which has been committing gross human rights violations for more than seventy years on the non-Myanmar ethnic nationalities, is a crime against humanity. Now it is time that these SA (Self Appointed) Generals should be tried at The Hague. How come, a country with hundreds different kinds ethnic nationalities miserably suffering ethnic cleansing for more than half a century was not responded by the international community? The answer is simple, because Ka Lar Rohingya is not an ethnic. In this respect a Burmese proverb coming true, literal translation means that “you hear only when the Ka Lar (any one whose complexion is black and is not a degrading word as many foreign scholars use to describe,) shouts and believe only when he cries” is proven true in this Rohingya case.
Now it has reached at the civilized world forum that Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, either has to accept the shame on behalf of the entire Myanmar race or bent to the Tatmadaw’smotto of, “Lying the very concept of truth” in the international forum and be branded forever that that Myanmar race itself are liars and cannot be trusted placing her between ‘devil or the deep sea.’ It is high time that the UN Security Council should recommend the UN Human Rights Office of the High Commission (UNHRC) to enquire Burma’s latest crime against humanity. In fact the UNHRC has a good record of doing excellent work in Eritrea, Darfur, Burundi, and Gaza and currently in Syria. The Burmese Generals knew that in March 2013 its bosom friend and nuclear partner North Korea was investigated by the UNHRC for the systematic widespread and grave violations and now it is her turn to be investigated. (Courtesy of asiantribune.com)
The 47-member body must establish a COI “to investigate the systematic, structural, and institutional discrimination in policy, law and practice, as well long-standing persecution, against the Rohingya and other non-Myanmar ethnic nationalities” reports both from inside Burma and from the Bangladesh undoubtedly proves the authenticity that the Tadmadaw, which has been committing gross human rights violations for more than seventy years on the non-Myanmar ethnic nationalities, is a crime against humanity. Now it is time that these SA (Self Appointed) Generals should be tried at The Hague. How come, a country with hundreds different kinds ethnic nationalities miserably suffering ethnic cleansing for more than half a century was not responded by the international community? The answer is simple, because Ka Lar Rohingya is not an ethnic. In this respect a Burmese proverb coming true, literal translation means that “you hear only when the Ka Lar (any one whose complexion is black and is not a degrading word as many foreign scholars use to describe,) shouts and believe only when he cries” is proven true in this Rohingya case.
Now it has reached at the civilized world forum that Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, either has to accept the shame on behalf of the entire Myanmar race or bent to the Tatmadaw’smotto of, “Lying the very concept of truth” in the international forum and be branded forever that that Myanmar race itself are liars and cannot be trusted placing her between ‘devil or the deep sea.’ It is high time that the UN Security Council should recommend the UN Human Rights Office of the High Commission (UNHRC) to enquire Burma’s latest crime against humanity. In fact the UNHRC has a good record of doing excellent work in Eritrea, Darfur, Burundi, and Gaza and currently in Syria. The Burmese Generals knew that in March 2013 its bosom friend and nuclear partner North Korea was investigated by the UNHRC for the systematic widespread and grave violations and now it is her turn to be investigated. (Courtesy of asiantribune.com)
Bangladesh, UK to hold first strategic dialogue
Bangladesh and the United Kingdom will hold their first ever strategic dialogue later this month with a view to strengthening bilateral relations between the two countries.
UK Minister for Asia and the Pacific Alok Sharma and Bangladesh Foreign Minister Abul Hassan Mahmood Ali agreed to hold the dialogue during a meeting on Friday.
The dialogue will be held between the foreign secretary of Bangladesh and the permanent undersecretary of the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office. (Courtesy of dhakatribune.com)
UK Minister for Asia and the Pacific Alok Sharma and Bangladesh Foreign Minister Abul Hassan Mahmood Ali agreed to hold the dialogue during a meeting on Friday.
The dialogue will be held between the foreign secretary of Bangladesh and the permanent undersecretary of the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office. (Courtesy of dhakatribune.com)
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