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  • Police officer fled deadly mob attack on Rohingya men
    6 July 2017


    FILE PHOTO: Police stand guard as the government embarks on a national census at a Rohingya village in Sittwe, Arakan State, on 30 March 2014.
    (Photo: Reuters)

    A policeman in Burma fled the scene of a deadly mob attack on Rohingya Muslims that has put the troubled western state of Arakan on edge, two police officials said on Wednesday.

    A group of Arakanese Buddhists threw bricks at Rohingya menReutersRohingya insurgent attacks
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    • Originally posted by Mid View Post
      Thailand: Mass Graves of Rohingya Found in Trafficking Camp
      May 1, 2015

      Independent Investigation Needed to Determine Facts, Prosecute Traffickers


      Rescue workers transport one of the bodies found at an abandoned camp in Thailand's southern Songkhla province on May 1, 2015.
      Brad Adams, Asia director
      Thailand should urgently press the government to end official complicity and willful blindness in rampant trafficking in the country.

      On May 1, 2015, a joint military-police taskforce discovered at least 30 bodies at an abandoned human trafficking camp in the Sadao district of Songkhla province close to the Thai-Malaysian border. Many were buried in shallow graves, while others were covered with blankets and clothes and left in the open. Police reports indicate the dead are ethnic Rohingya Muslims from Burma and Bangladesh who starved to death or died of disease while held by traffickers who were awaiting payment of ransoms before smuggling them into MalaysiaBrad Adams

      Thai court issues verdict in Rohingya mass graves case

      19.07.2017

      A Thai court has found dozens of people guilty in the country's biggest ever human trafficking case, which began in 2015 after the discovery of 30 mass graves. The dead bodies are believed to be of Roghingya migrants.



      The trafficking case involves 103 defendants on various charges, including murder, torture, rape and money laundering.

      Although the court started issuing rulings on Wednesday, it was not immediately clear when they would be concluded.

      Thai police officials, bureaucrats and Myanmar nationals are among the defendants. They have all pleaded not guilty.

      Thai officials initiated the case in 2015 after the discovery of more than 30 bodies at an abandoned human trafficking camp in the southern Songkhla province close to the Thai-Malaysian border.

      The authorities believe the graves contained bodies of possible Rohingya refugees from Myanmar and Bangladesh. At least two of them were children.

      Thousands of persecuted Rohingya Muslims, who have been fleeing Myanmar's Rakhine state since 2012, are smuggled into Thailand every year.

      It was not immediately clear what caused the deaths, although police said they believed the people were Rohingya because human traffickers often put the immigrants in temporary shelters before taking them across the border to Malaysia.

      Thailand is considered to be one of the worst places when it comes to human trafficking, according to the US State Department's Trafficking in Persons (TIP) report, which ranks countries by their efforts to deal with human smugglers.

      Just weeks after the discovery of dead bodies in Thailand, Malaysian authorities unearthed mass graves near the Thai border. A total of 139 graves were found at 28 abandoned squalid detention camps believed to have been used by human traffickers to hold people fleeing Myanmar and Bangladesh.

      Rohingya plight

      The mass graves in Thailand and Malaysia highlighted the largely-ignored plight of the Rohingyas in Myanmar and Bangladesh that are regularly exploited by human traffickers.

      Myanmar's Rohingyas live predominantly in the western state of Rakhine. They are not officially recognized by the government as an ethnic minority group, and for decades the nation's Buddhist majority has been accused of subjecting them to discrimination and violence.

      Viewed by the United Nations and the US as one of the world's most persecuted minorities, thousands of Rohingya from Myanmar and Bangladesh flee their countries every year in a desperate attempt to reach Malaysia and Indonesia.

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      • Thailand general jailed for human trafficking at mass trial







        A former Thai general has been sentenced to 27 years in jail for human trafficking at a landmark trial.
        Manas Kongpan is among more than 60 people convicted in Bangkok of trafficking Bangladeshis and Rohingya Muslims, a minority fleeing Myanmar.
        Another top former official was sentenced to 75 years in prison. More than 100 defendants were on trial.
        Muslim Rohingya have been fleeing Myanmar for years, paying people smugglers to help them escape.
        The arrest of the general in June 2015 was seen as part of an effort by Thailand to close down a human smuggling route through the country.
        The judge found him guilty of human trafficking and organised transnational crime.
        A former head of administration in the southern province of Satun, Ko-Tong (also known as Patjuban Aungkachotephan), received a sentence of 75 years in prison.
        Several other defendants were handed jail terms of similar length. Sentences ranged from four to 94 years.

        http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-40652012
        Last edited by MrBlobby; 07-20-2017, 04:17 AM.

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        • 17 bodies recovered as another Rohingya boat capsizes
          August 31, 2017


          BGB members stand guard at no man's land at Tomru Bazar in Bandarban's Naikhyangchhari upazila as some Rohingya children wade across a canal to collect drinking water.
          Photo: Anisur Rahman/ Files



          With the recovery of the 17 bodies, the death toll from Rohingya boat capsizes rises to 21 as four bodies of Rohingyas were recovered from the river yesterday after a boat, carrying around 25 people, capsized.

          Local sources said hundreds of Rohingyas from Myanmar entered Shah Pori Dweep, an island, riding boats last night.

          When the fleet reached Majhir ghat point, one of the boats capsized around 11:30pm yesterday and all the passengers went missing.

          Later, locals and newly intruded Rohingyas spotted 17 bodies floating at several points of the Naf river in the morning and informed police, said M Mainuddin Khan, officer-in-charge (OC) of Teknaf Police Station.

          A team of police rushed in and recovered the bodies that include 10 children and seven females, said the OC.

          The identity of the victims could not be known immediately.

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          • Malala calls on Aung San Suu Kyi to condemn violence
            4th September 2017

            Malala waves as she arrives for an event with students at Tecnologico de Monterrey University in Mexico City, Mexico, on Aug 31, 2017.
            Source: Reuters/ Edgard Garrido

            My statement on the #Rohingya crisis in Myanmar: pic.twitter.com/1Pj5U3VdDKSeptember 3, 2017
            Reuters on Sunday.

            A police officer stands in a house that was burnt down during the days of violence in Maungdaw, Myanmar, on Aug 30, 2017.
            Source: Reuters/Soe Zeya Tun

            Nearly 400 people are believed to have been killed. Eyewitness accounts have emerged of the army beheading and burning people alive fuelling claims the Burmese military is committing genocide.

            Soldiers reportedly arrested a large group of Rohingya men in the village of Chut Pyin in Rathedaung township, marched them into a nearby bamboo hut, and set it on fire, burning them to death, rights group Fortify Rights said
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            • Mob attacks Muslim homes in Taungdwingyi as police guard mosque
              11 September 2017


              Taungdwingyi, Magwe Division. DVB
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              • http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/worl...ils-inspection

                Bad JuJu
                God, the panic within the Dems, MSM, and left must be horrifying...realizing that Joe is really the best they've got.

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                • Myanmar security forces 'setting northern Rakhine State ablaze'http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/worl...e-state-ablaze

                  Looks pretty bad, man...
                  God, the panic within the Dems, MSM, and left must be horrifying...realizing that Joe is really the best they've got.

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                  • Rohingya trafficker sentenced to 15 years in jailjail Sunan Saengthong, a local businessman in Phang Nga, for 15 years and to fine him 660,000 baht. Sunan was convicted of false confinement, enslavement and human trafficking.

                    The case began on 11 January 2015 when police officers in Nakhon Si Thammarat found five pickup trucks transporting 98 Rohingya from Ranong to Songkhla Province. 30 were male, 26 female and 42 were children aged below 15. They were found stuffed in the back of the trucks.

                    One individual had suffocated to death during the journey, while another individual died later.

                    The police arrested two drivers while the others escaped. The court ruled the two guilty of breaching the Immigration Act but dismissed charges of human trafficking, reasoning that there was no evidence of involvement in the trafficking network. The drivers were sentenced to one year in prison and a 20,000 baht fine.

                    An investigation into the trafficking case ultimately revealed the involvement of several senior military officers, government officials and police officers. One convicted officer was army adviser Lt Gen Manas Kongpan, who had at one time been assigned a senior Internal Security Operations Command role in the suppression of trafficking. He was sentenced to 27 years in jail for trafficking, taking bribes and transnational crimes.



                    Officers visit Rohingya rescued from the human trafficking network

                    (Photo from Benar News)

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                    • Rohingya crisis: UN to investigate reports of ethnic cleansing by Burmese military of the Muslim minority group
                      Caroline Mortimer
                      Tuesday 19 September 2017

                      At least 400,000 people are believed to have fled over the border into Bangladesh


                      A Rohingya refugee woman is carried in a sling, through a swollen water stream in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh
                      Reuters

                      The UN has announced it will investigate reports of mass killings, torture, sexual violence, and the burning of Rohingya villages in Burma.

                      At least 400,000 people are believed to have fled over the border into Bangladesh to escape widespread rape, murder and the destruction of whole villages in the western state of Rakhine by the Burmese military and mobs from the country's Buddhist-majority population.

                      Desperate refugees have reportedly been seen climbing over wire border fences in an attempt to escape and the Burmese military are reportedly laying land mines to ensure they do not return.

                      One fleeing Rohingya told reporters that ethnic Rakhine Buddhists came to the villages and shouted: "leave or we will kill you all".

                      The Rohingya, who are predominately Muslim, have faced persecution in Burma for decades but there has been a fresh upsurge in violence against them since 25 August after a small group of Islamist militants attacked 30 police stations and a military base.

                      The UN has previously said the violence was a "textbook example of ethnic cleansing"Aung San Suu Kyi, has rejected international condemnation of the violence and claimed the country does not fear global "scrutiny".

                      She invited diplomats to visit Rakhine to see for themselves what was going on and claimed that "more than half" of Rohingya villages remained intact.

                      Additional reporting by Reuters

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                      • Philip Bowring
                        Philip Bowring is one of the founders of Asia Sentinel. A version of this appeared originally in The Globalist.
                        September 18, 2017


                        The issue permeates all of Asia, with the potential for disaster
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                        • Sittwe protesters try to block aid shipment to northern Arakan
                          21 September 2017


                          A Facebook user uploaded this photo purporting to show police officers at the scene of an incident in Sittwe in which protesters sought to put a stop to a humanitarian aid delivery.
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                          • Thai plan to push back Rohingya refugees sparks fears of new wave of boat people
                            Lindsay MurdochSeptember 26 2017


                            Bangkok: Military-ruled Thailand says its navy will push Rohingya refugees back out to sea as fears grow of a new wave of boat people across Asia's waters.

                            Human rights groups describe the policy announced by Thailand's Internal Security Operation Command as "inhumane."


                            Newly arrived Rohingya Muslim Syed Noor rests inside his brother's shelter in Kutupalong refugee camp, Bangladesh.
                            Photo: AP

                            "Rather than sympathy and support for those at risk, Thailand is preparing with the back of its hand," said Sunai Phasuk, a senior researcher at Human Rights Watch.

                            Analysts expect many of 436,000 Rohingya who have fled Myanmar's northern Rakhine State since late August to be recruited by people-smugglers and take to the seas in unsafe boats to try to reach Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia and eventually Australia.

                            The UN has described attacks on Rohingya in Rakhine as "textbook ethnic cleansing."

                            Humanitarian aid has also been severely restricted to 140,000 other Rohingya displaced by previous religious unrest who are confined to squalid camps near the state capital Sittwe.

                            The UN children's agency UNICEF warned on Tuesday the situation among Rohingya in what has grown into one of the world's biggest refugee camps in Bangladesh could become a catastrophe with Rohingya 14,420 children there already classified as severely and acutely malnourished.


                            Aerial photo provided by Proactiva Open Arms shows a new Rohingya refugee camp near Phalungkhali, Bangladesh.
                            Photo: AP

                            Peerawat Saengthong from the Internal Security Operations Command, which is chaired by Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha, said the navy will provide food and water "on humanitarian grounds" to boats yet to enter Thailand's territorial waters.

                            Colonel Peerawat said if boats intend to enter Thailand's waters "we will act according to the law by pushing boats away."


                            Rohingya Muslims build new shelters in Balukhali refugee camp, Bangladesh.
                            Photo: AP

                            "If they are discovered on shore we must detain them," he said.

                            Thailand has been criticised in the past for pushing boatloads of refugees back out to sea.


                            A Rohingya Muslim, who crossed over from Myanmar into Bangladesh, beats other refugees as a fight broke out during a distribution of aid near Balukhali refugee camp.
                            Photo: AP

                            Many were kidnapped and abused by people-smugglers.

                            But Thai authorities cracked down on the people-smuggling trade after the discovery in 2015 of mass graves in jungle camps where hundreds of mostly Rohingya refugees had been brutally exploited.


                            A young Rohingya Muslim boy recites verses from the Koran in a crowded little tent that serves as a madrasa or religious school in the Kutupalong refugee camp, Bangladesh.
                            Photo: AP

                            Investigations led to 102 people being convicted and sentenced to long jail terms, including a senior army general and 21 government officials.

                            The crackdown resulted in a secondary crisis in which smugglers, fearing arrest, abandoned boatloads of refugees at sea.

                            Mr Sunai urged Thailand to scrap the push-back policy and take the lead in setting up regional search and rescue operations to help Rohingya boats.

                            Mr Sunai said Thailand should allow the UN refugee agency UNHCR unhindered access to Rohingya who reach Thailand so they can seek refugee status.

                            He said temporary shelters should also be provided before the refugees can be settled in third countries.

                            "In this regard it is critical for other governments to provide necessary assistance to Thailand."

                            Oliver White, UNICEF Australia Senior Policy Adviser, who has just returned from Bangladesh, said the unless life-saving assistance is delivered in a strategic and orderly manner to the Rohingya camps "the threat of death from malnutrition, diseases like cholera and measles, frustration-driven rioting and escalating levels of sex and gender-based violence will see this crisis become a catastrophe."

                            More than 250,000 of those who have arrived in the Bangladesh camps are children.

                            Of these half are under five and almost all need malnutrition prevention and treatment.

                            Almost 55,000 pregnant and lactating women also need treatment.

                            "The need is simply enormous," Mr White said.

                            "We are talking about massive numbers of people who are arriving starving, with sick and wounded children, needing sanitation and shelter on a huge scale," he said.

                            Filippo Grandi, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees said on Tuesday, after visiting the camps, the situation remains desperate.

                            "We risk a dramatic deterioration if aid is not rapidly stepped up," he said.

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                            • Could be like the British in Tasmania all gone
                              Notice no invite from all those rich Muslim Gulf States or Brunei Qatar etc
                              The world is round but the universe is flat.

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                              • Australia defends support of Myanmar despite evidence of 'ethnic cleansing'
                                Lindsay Murdoch
                                September 29 2017

                                Bangkok: The Turnbull government has defended Australia's support to Myanmar's military despite mounting evidence its senior officers are presiding over a campaign of ethnic cleansing in strife-torn Rakhine State that could amount to crimes against humanity.

                                A spokesman for the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade told Fairfax Media it is important that Australia maintains "appropriate lines of communication" with the military.

                                Oppressed Rohingya flee to Bangladesh

                                Makeshift refugee camps spread out over farms in southern Bangladesh as more than 420,000 Rohingya Muslims flee attacks in their predominantly Buddhist homeland of Myanmar.

                                "This engagement allows Australia to promote the role of a professional defence force and highlight the importance of adhering to international humanitarian laws and norms," the spokesman said.

                                Human rights groups have called on countries to cut ties with Myanmar's military, including placing travel bans and asset freezes on those responsible for abuses and imposing a comprehensive arms embargo on the country.

                                Myanmar's security forces are accused of mass arson, killing, looting and rape in a sweeping offensive that has forced almost half a million Rohingya Muslims to flee Rakhine, creating a humanitarian disaster in squalid camps in Bangladesh.

                                The exodus is the largest movement of a civilian population in Asia since the 1970s.

                                "The time has come to impose tougher measures that Burma's (Myanmar's) generals cannot ignore," said John Sifton, Human Rights Watch's Asia advocacy director.

                                Tirana Hassan, Amnesty International's crisis response director, called for UN member states to impose an immediate arms embargo and end all military training and assistance to Myanmar.


                                A Rohingya woman carries a child after crossing a stream on a small boat in Bangladesh after escaping violence in Myanmar.
                                Photo: AP/Bernat Armangue

                                "The Myanmar military is forcibly displacing and killing Rohingya, a campaign of crimes against humanity that amounts to ethnic cleansing," Ms Hassan said.

                                "UN member states must ask themselves what side of history they want to be on and do everything they can do to end this nightmare."


                                Rohingya Muslim children, who crossed over from Myanmar into Bangladesh, stretch their arms out to collect chocolates and milk distributed by Bangladeshi men at a refugee camp.
                                Photo: AP/Dar Yasin

                                The DFAT spokesman described Australia's defence engagement with Myanmar as limited to non-combat areas such as humanitarian assistance and disaster relief, peacekeeping, English-language training, officer education and aviation safety.

                                The spokesman said Australia maintains an arms embargo on Myanmar "due to concerns about ongoing conflict, weapons proliferation and human rights".


                                Supporters of Pakistani religious party Jamaat-e-Islami stage a rally in Pakistan to condemn ongoing violence against the Rohingya Muslim minority in Myanmar.
                                Photo: AP/B.K. Bangash

                                The spokesman said "modest" engagement will continue, however "we will review any defence activities on a case-by-case basis".
                                Fairfax Media revealed on Thursday the Turnbull government insisted on softening a resolution on Myanmar at the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva.

                                The words "violations and abuse" were replaced with the non-accusative "violence".

                                Human rights groups accused Australia of whitewashing the reality of the abuses in Rakhine, Myanmar's poorest state that has been home for more than one million Rohingya for generations.

                                The DFAT spokesman said Australia opposed language that could be seen as pre-judging the outcomes of a UN fact-finding mission that Myanmar's government has refused to allow to enter Rakhine.

                                Australia co-sponsored the resolution in the human rights council to extend the mission's mandate for six months to March next year.

                                The spokesman said Australia also supported the inclusion of stronger language in the resolution, including a reference to concerns expressed by the UN Secretary-General and the UN High Commissioner for Refugees.

                                "Where human rights abuses have been committed those responsible must be held to account," the spokesman said.

                                Foreign Minister Julie Bishop said last week she has refrained from condemning Myanmar's government because its de factor leader Aung San Suu Kyi "can't be blamed for what's happening".

                                "She has to be part of the solution, otherwise we will be going back decades in terms of Myanmar's growth and prosperity," Ms Bishop said.

                                Ms Suu Kyi has faced scathing criticism across the world and calls for her Nobel peace prize to be returned for failing to speak-up for persecuted Rohingya, a minority population in Buddhist-majority Myanmar.

                                Ms Bishop said the Rohingya crisis has come as a "reality check" and "shock".

                                "It has uncovered a very complex and complicated history in Myanmar," she said.

                                Myanmar's military launched what it called "cleaning operations" in Rakhine after Muslim insurgents attacked 30 police posts and a military base on August 25, killing 12 people.

                                The death toll during the military's brutal response is unknown but is believed to be in the hundreds.

                                UN agencies and international aid agencies are warning of an imminent health catastrophe in the Bangladesh camps.

                                Myanmar has also stopped convoys delivering desperately needed aid to tens of thousands of people in Rakhine's north.

                                International aid groups, including Care International, Oxfam and Save the Children, issued a joint statement expressing increasing concern about restrictions on providing humanitarian assistance.

                                "We urge the government and authorities of Myanmar to ensure that all people in need in Rakhine State have full, free and impeded access to life-saving humanitarian assistance," the statement said.

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