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  • given the atrocities perpetrated against them you would be naive to assume that there is no armed resistance germinating .
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    • Malaysia calls for ASEAN to coordinate aid for Rohingya
      19 December 2016


      State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi sits beside members of the Malaysia delegation at a meeting of ASEAN foreign ministers in Rangoon on Monday.
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      • Malaysian NGOs reveal plan to send flotilla to aid Rohingyas in Myanmar
        Lindsay Murdoch
        December 28 2016

        Bangkok: Plans are underway for a "food flotilla" to sail from Malaysia to Myanmar's strife-torn western Rakhine state with emergency supplies for Rohingyas.

        The shipment of 200 tonnes of rice, medical aid and other essential supplies appears to counter the long-held protocol of the 10-member Association of South-east Asian Nations (ASEAN) that countries should not interfere in each other's internal affairs.

        Predominantly Muslim Malaysia has been the most outspoken of Myanmar's neighbours over the treatment of Rohingyas, a predominantly Muslim ethnic minority of more than one million in the Buddhist-majority country.

        Almost 200,000 Rohingyas displaced by previous violence live in Malaysia, many of them labourers on building sites.

        The flotilla is being organised by the Malaysian Consultative Council of Islamic Organisations and a coalition of non-government organisations from the region, the Star/Asia News Network reported.

        Zulhanis Zainol, the organisation's general secretary, indicated the flotilla does not yet have permission from Myanmar's government, which for months has blocked UN and other agencies delivering emergency supplies to the violence-hit areas.


        A Rohingya holds a banner during protest after Friday prayers outside the Myanmar embassy in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, in November.
        Photo: AP being attacked by Myanmar security forces.

        "Access to the area is completely blocked. This resembles Gaza as victims are squeezed between military attacks and closure of the border to a neighbouring country," Mr Zulhanis was quoted as saying.


        Myanmar police officers patrolling Maungdaw in Rakhine State, which neighbours Bangladesh.
        Photo: AP

        "As a result all access is completely blocked and humanitarian agencies are not allowed to enter," he said.

        Organisers of the flotilla say up to 200 people may travel on the ships, including NGO members, doctors, medical teams, politicians, religious leaders and crews.


        Rohingya children at a refugee camp in Rakhine state in 2014.
        Photo: AP

        The scheduled departure date from Malaysia's Port Klang is January 10, with the ships making a two-week journey.

        Myanmar agreed to grant "necessary humanitarian aid" to Rakhine on December 19 after Malaysian Foreign Minister Anifah Aman told a meeting of ASEAN foreign ministers in Yangon of Malaysia's "grave concern" over violence allegedly carried out by Myanmar's military.


        An effigy of Myanmar's Foreign Minister and Nobel Peace laureate Aung San Suu Kyi is held high before being burnt at a protest in Dhaka, Bangladesh, in November.
        Photo: AP

        Myanmar has previously vaguely committed to allowing access.

        Malaysia's presentation to the foreign ministers who were called together by Myanmar's de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi called for "unimpeded humanitarian access to affected areas and an effort by ASEAN to co-ordinate humanitarian assistance to the region".


        Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak, centre, leads a protest in Kuala Lumpur earlier this month against the persecution of Rohingyas in Myanmar.
        Photo: AP

        Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak has shaken ASEAN'S policy on non-interference, maintained since the group was formed in 1967, accusing Myanmar of "genocide" and launching a personal attack against Ms Suu Kyi, a Nobel laureate.

        Mr Najib's critics say he is attempting to shore up his support among mainly Muslim Malays at home to deflect criticism over multibillion-dollar corruption allegations involving the state sovereign wealth fund 1Malaysia Development Berhad, which the prime minister set up and oversaw through an advisory committee.


        Myanmar police officers patrol the border between Myanmar and Bangladesh in October. An attack on police at the border in October sparked the latest surge of violence.
        Photo: AP

        Myanmar has warned Malaysia to respect the principle of non-interference as tensions have risen between the two nations.

        "According to ASEAN principles, a member country does not interfere in other members' internal affairs. We have always followed and respected this principle," Zaw Htay, a spokesman for the Myanmar president's office, was quoted as saying by the Myanmar Times earlier this month.

        "We hope the Malaysian government will continue to follow it."

        In September, Ms Suu Kyi invited former UN secretary-general Kofi Annan to head a commission to try to find solutions to the violence in Rakhine, where according to the UN Rohingyas have for decades been subjected to a campaign of grinding dehumanisation, including being stripped of their citizenship rights and rendered stateless in 1982.

        The Myanmar government and military claim the Rohingyas are in fact illegal Bengali immigrants, but Bangladesh also does not recognise them as its citizens.

        The latest violence was sparked by an October 9 attack on Myanmar police border posts, which killed nine officers.

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        • 28 December 2016

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          • Burma, Bangladesh agree to start talks on Rohingya refugees
            13 January 2017

            Members of the Border Guard Bangladesh stand guard on the bank of Naf River near the Bangladesh-Burma border to prevent Rohingya refugees from illegal border crossing, in Teknaf, Bangladesh, on 22 November 2016.
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            • Rohingya Children Give Eyewitness Accounts of Atrocities in Myanmar
              Jesmin Papri
              2017-01-23

              BenarNews/RFA.
              Myanmar security forces have been accused of committing atrocities against the Rohingya population, such as targeted killings, rapes and the burning of homes, while mounting a crackdown after the killings of nine Burmese border guards by suspected militants in October.

              Thrown into flames


              He and the rest of his family members were able to escape by jumping into a river as security forces shot at them, Abdul alleged.

              Two of his siblings, 2-year-old Md Yeasin and 4-year-old Umme Salma, whom he cradled, remain traumatized, Nazim told BenarNews.

              Count under way


              An official with the Dhaka office of the U.N. refugee agency (UNHCR) said it is working to verify the estimate that 65,000 Rohingya have arrived in southeastern Bangladesh since October.

              Md Alam, a leader of Block B at the Leda camps, said officials were finding it difficult to feed all the children in the camp.

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              • Malaysian aid ship sets sail for Burma
                3 February 2017


                Crew members in Port Klang, Malaysia, load supplies on a ship carrying aid for Rohingya, to set sail for Burma on 3 February 2017. (PHOTO: REUTERS) Aung San Suu Kyinine policemen were killedBangladesh.

                ASEANOrganisation of Islamic Cooperationcommunal clashes in 2012 in which hundreds of people were reportedly killed.

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                • Suu Kyi vows to investigate crimes against Rohingya: UN human rights chief
                  4 February 2017

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                  • Australia must speak up about Myanmar's devastating cruelty to Rohingya
                    Lindsay Murdoch
                    February 8 2017

                    Bangkok: A soldier slits a baby's throat for crying out for his mother's milk.

                    Soldiers stomp on the stomach of a mother while she is in labour and then burn down her family home.

                    Mass rapes, murders, forced disappearances, beatings and families locked in torched houses and burnt alive.

                    Entire villages, mosques, shops, and schools destroyed.

                    Where is the outrage?

                    A United Nations report released on February 3 documented atrocities in Myanmar's western Rakhine State that it said "very likely" amount to crimes against humanity.

                    For months Rohingya Muslim families who fled Rakhine to squalid camps at the Bangladesh border had been telling stories so shocking they seemed far-fetched in the country where just over 12 months ago voters rushed into the streets after historic elections to celebrate an end to half a century of repressive military rule.

                    As the reports filtered out from Rakhine, the new government repeatedly denied any human rights abuses were taking place while the military conducted what it called "cleansing operations," after attacks on police posts last October.


                    Sufia Begum, a Rohingya who crossed over to Bangladesh from Myanmar's Rakhine state in late November cries as she describes the violence.
                    Photo: AP

                    But the 43-page UN report headlined "devastating cruelty" provided the first official confirmation that Myanmar authorities were using violence and terror against Rohingya, which the UN concluded raised serious concern that "ethnic cleansing" was underway to force almost one million Rohingya from Myanmar, the country formerly known as Burma.

                    Here were meticulously recorded interviews with 204 victims and witnesses who reported seeing murders (65 per cent) people being seen to be taken away by security forces and never seen again (56 per cent) , see rapes (43 per cent) sexual violence (31 per cent) and destruction of property and looting (40 per cent).


                    Jamalida, 16, says Myanmar military moved into her village in early December, occupying the mosque and beating or killing whoever came in. "One day they attacked our home. I wasn't able to flee in time and they caught me and tied my hands and legs with rope. They tore off my clothes and punched me everywhere with their fists and with the butt of their guns. For 3 hours, 4 soldiers took turns raping me until I lost consciousness."
                    Photo: Getty Images

                    UN officials took images of wounds, burns and broken bones from deeply traumatised survivors.

                    But inside Myanmar the findings have been suppressed by state-run media and largely buried in most other media outlets.


                    Nearly a dozen fellow Nobel peace laureates criticised Myanmar leader Aunt Sun Suu Kyi in December, saying she failed to ensure equal rights for the minority Rohingya people.
                    Photo: AP

                    The government promised to investigate and referred the report to an already established investigation commission headed by a former general which is widely expected to be a whitewash.

                    Government officials remain in denial.


                    Women and children in a makeshift house they share with six others in a Rohingya refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh.
                    Photo: Getty Images

                    Nobody knows what Aung San Suu Kyi, the country's State Counsellor and de facto leader thinks of the report because she rarely gives interviews to journalists, and has not held a proper press conference since before taking office.

                    It has become clear, though, that the Nobel Peace laureate doesn't control the troops and the generals are determined to hang on to much of their power through control of key security ministries.


                    Rohingya fishermen carry a fishing raft, constructed with empty plastic containers, up the beach in Maungdaw, western Rakhine state, Myanmar. Their usual, sturdy fishing boats were outlawed three months ago.
                    Photo: AP

                    The military has also intensified attacks on Kachin and other minorities in northern Shan State, as Myanmar's future hangs in the balance.

                    The strongest response to the UN report was from the United States, whose State Department spokeswoman described the findings as "deeply troubling".


                    A police officer rides away with a bag of fish from Rohingya fishermen in Maungdaw.
                    Photo: AP

                    Australia's diplomatic and political clout in the region and $42 million of taxpayer's money sent to Myanmar each year for aid projects, including some in Rakhine, gives Canberra significant leverage with the country.

                    But Australia's response to the findings was typically the same as it has been for years when other human rights abuses have emerged in neighbourhood countries, which was to avoid "megaphone diplomacy", a code for falling over backwards not to give offence.


                    Protesters hold a defaced poster of Aung San Suu Kyi during a rally demanding justice for Rohingyas outside Myanmar's embassy in Jakarta in November.
                    Photo: AP

                    When I wrote the news story on the UN report a reader sent me a message saying how she had been worrying about the cost of her son's wedding, the little things like flowers and place cards.

                    But she said after reading about the abuses she realised "how selfish we have all become and narrow minded in how we view the rest of the world".


                    Mohsena Begum, a Rohingya who escaped to Bangladesh from Myanmar, holds her child at an unregistered refugee camp in Teknaf, near Cox's Bazar, in Bangladesh.
                    Photo: AP

                    "I am so ashamed that I thought the world should take care of itself. You have opened my eyes to sorrow beyond belief," she wrote.
                    As US President Donald Trump implements an "America first" policy, the US is expected to be much weaker on human rights issues in other countries than was the previous Obama administration.

                    Australia should now cast aside its reluctance to speak up openly and honestly when serious human rights abuses occur in the region.

                    It should push for the establishment of an independent tribunal supported by the International Criminal Court to hold Myanmar's military to account for some of the most serious state-sanctioned violence committed against innocent families in Asia since Indonesian proxy-militia and soldiers rampaged through East Timor in 1999.

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                    • Rohingya sentenced to death while atrocities continue
                      Lindsay Murdoch
                      February 14 2017

                      Bangkok: A Myanmar court has sentenced a Rohingya Muslim man to death while no one has yet been held to account for more than 1000 documented atrocities, including the slaughter of babies, against other Rohingya in the country's western RakhineState.

                      Police accused Mamahdnu Aka Aula of leading an attack on a police post near the border with Bangladesh in October, one of several attacks which prompted a brutal response from Myanmar's security forces which the United Nations says could amount to crimes against humanity.

                      Report reveals 'devastating cruelty' in Myanmar

                      A United Nations report compiled from 204 victim interviews, exposes the extreme violence and terror used against the Rohingya Muslims by the Myanmar authorities.

                      Nine police officers were killed in the attacks which Myanmar authorities have claimed were backed by a Muslim extremist group based in Pakistan and Saudi Arabia.

                      The sentencing in a court in Rakhine's capital Sittwe comes as intentional pressure grows for an independent investigation into a UN report that documents mass rapes, murders, forced disappearances, beatings and families locked in torched houses and burnt alive.

                      A baby's throat was slit while he cried out for his mother's milk while she was being gang raped and soldiers stomped on the stomach of a pregnant woman while she was in labour.

                      For months Myanmar's government denied claims of atrocities by Rohingya who had fled the violence in Rakhine and arrived in squalid refugee camps in Bangladesh.

                      But after an international outcry over the UN report, including condemnation by Pope Francis, Myanmar's government on Monday set up a team of five high-ranking police officers to investigate.

                      The report was earlier referred to a government commission led by a retired general that was widely seen as a whitewash.


                      A girl carries a water jug in Kutapalong Rohingya refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh.
                      Photo: Getty Images

                      The Ministry of Home Affairs instructed the new team to follow "international standards" in accordance with the criminal code following a series of secret meetings between Myanmar's leader Aung San Suu Kyi and powerful military chief Min Aung Hlaing.

                      Nobel peace laureate Suu Kyi, who led her National League for Democracy to a landslide victory at historic elections in late 2015, appears to have had little sway over the country's military that controls key security ministries.


                      Mist hangs in the air above Kutapalong Rohingya refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh.
                      Photo: Getty Images

                      She has been widely criticised for failing to stand up for more than one million Rohingya in Rakhine who have been denied basic rights, including citizenship, despite the fact they have lived in the Buddhist majority country for generations.

                      Police say 13 other Rohingya men have been arrested and were awaiting sentencing in Sittwe on charges of intentional murder in relation to the police post attacks, the AFP newsagency reported.


                      A Rohingya refugee family Muhammad Rofiq, mother Hamidah and their children in a refugee camp in Medan, North Sumatra, Indonesia.
                      Photo: Ulet Ifansasti

                      The International Crisis Group has said the attackers were from a group called Harakah al-Yaqin, which had spent years recruiting and training fighters in Bangladesh and northern Rakhine.

                      Aparupa Bhattacherjee, who studies religious radicalism in south-east Asia at the National institute of Advanced Studies in Bangalore, said a new generation of Rohingya did not see any hope for any political or peaceful resolution to their plight in Rakhine and were "ready to fight for their rights".


                      Mohamad Hossain takes a bath in Kutapalong Rohingya refugee camp.
                      Photo: Getty Images

                      Videos of the group posted on YouTube show mostly men in their 20s or younger.

                      Meanwhile, the Refugee Council of Australia has called on the Australian government to act to pressure Myanmar authorities to end the violence and ensure protection of the vulnerable.


                      Myanmar State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi speaks during "Peace Talk" in Naypyitaw, Myanmar, in January.
                      Photo: AP

                      "We should increase humanitarian assistance to those who had fled the crisis and ensure aid quickly reaches those who remain displaced and affected," said Paul Power, the council's chief executive officer.

                      "Australia has resettled just 37 Rohingya since 2013 and we should urgently increase the number of Rohingya who are resettled in our country as refugees," he said.

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                      • This is so sad. Nobody wants them anywhere. What are they supposed to do?

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                        • Rohingyan girls forced to become child brides after fleeing to Malaysia
                          15th February 2017
                          A growing number of Rohingya are becoming victims of human traffickers who sell women and girls to Rohingya men as brides.
                          Pic: APTens of thousands of Rohingya Muslims have been forced to flee Burma.
                          Source: AP.

                          Malaysia criticised
                          Child Marriages Allowed
                          A Rohingya child bride who ran away from her husband carries her sister outside a shack she shares with her mother and siblings, on the outskirts of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, February 9, 2017.
                          Source: Reuters/Lai Seng Sin
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                          • Rohingya militants call for international peacekeeping troops
                            29 March 2017

                            A police officer stands guard during the arrival of former UN secretary-general Kofi Annan as he visits in his capacity as the Burmese government-appointed chairman of the Advisory Commission on Rakhine State, near Sittwe Airport on 2 December 2016.
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                            • 25 April 2017


                              Abdul Salam, a 47-year-old Rohingya Muslim, asks a friend in Malaysia for advice from an internet hut in Thae Chaung village, home to thousands of displaced Rohingya near Sittwe, Arakan State, on 29 January 2015.
                              (Photo: Reuters)
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                              • Hunger rife among Rohingya children after crackdown in northern Arakan: WFP
                                6 July 2017


                                Rohingya Muslim children stand in U Shey Kya village outside Maungdaw in Arakan State on 27 October 2016.
                                (Photo: Reuters) is refusing to grant access to a United Nations-mandated mission
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