Burma’s landmark census planned for 2014 is likely to exclude and further isolate its Rohingya minority group, which has been denied citizenship by the government since 1982.Although the government has agreed to include all “national races” in the census, the 1.5 million Muslim minority group does not fall under this category and campaigners worry they will be left out.
Wednesday, May 9, 2012
Census risks marginalising Rohingya – Hannah Hindstrom
Burma’s landmark census planned for 2014 is likely to exclude and further isolate its Rohingya minority group, which has been denied citizenship by the government since 1982.Although the government has agreed to include all “national races” in the census, the 1.5 million Muslim minority group does not fall under this category and campaigners worry they will be left out.Burma’s troublesome census
Burma has never
been an easy place to conduct a head count. Dogged by protracted conflicts and populated by communities wary of outsiders, census-takers have had their work cut out in building an accurate dataset of a country rich in demographic diversity, but which for decades has largely been invisible to the world.
Thus the challenges that need broaching prior to a planned 2014 census are daunting. Early indicators were given in the country’s first nationwide census in 1891, five years after the British annexed Upper Burma – thousands had been displaced by colonial troops who fought to bring half the country under rule of the Empire, only adding to a fluid migration of communities that rendered internal boundaries meaningless. Upland tribes fiercely hostile to the presence of foreigners resisted classification, meaning that the majority of Shan state, for instance, was not counted (British expedition leaders risked joining the rows of skulls that adorned Wa villages, whom up until independence considered European heads coveted bounty).
been an easy place to conduct a head count. Dogged by protracted conflicts and populated by communities wary of outsiders, census-takers have had their work cut out in building an accurate dataset of a country rich in demographic diversity, but which for decades has largely been invisible to the world.
Thus the challenges that need broaching prior to a planned 2014 census are daunting. Early indicators were given in the country’s first nationwide census in 1891, five years after the British annexed Upper Burma – thousands had been displaced by colonial troops who fought to bring half the country under rule of the Empire, only adding to a fluid migration of communities that rendered internal boundaries meaningless. Upland tribes fiercely hostile to the presence of foreigners resisted classification, meaning that the majority of Shan state, for instance, was not counted (British expedition leaders risked joining the rows of skulls that adorned Wa villages, whom up until independence considered European heads coveted bounty).
ၿဖိဳးေ၀ေအာင္ ေသဒဏ္ခ်ခံရမႈ ကုလ အထူးကိုယ္စားလွယ္ ျပစ္တင္
၂၀၁၀ ခုႏွစ္တုန္းက ရန္ကုန္သႀကၤန္ဗံုးခဲြမႈနဲ႔ဆက္စပ္ၿပီး သကၤာမကင္းဖမ္းဆီးခံထားရသူ ၿဖိဳးေ၀ေအာင္ ေသ ဒဏ္ အျပစ္ခ်မွတ္လိုက္တဲ့ စီရင္ခ်က္ကိုၾကည့္ရင္ ျမန္မာႏို္င္ငံတြင္း တရားစီရင္ေရးပိုင္းကို အေရးတႀကီး ျပဳျပင္ေျပာင္းလဲမႈေတြ လုပ္ဖို႔လိုေနၿပီဆိုတာ ျပသ လိုက္တာျဖစ္တယ္လုိ႔ ကုလသမဂၢ ရဲ႕ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံဆိုင္ရာ လူ႔အခြင့္အေရး ကိုယ္စားလွယ္ ေသာမတ္အိုေဟး ကင္တာနားက ေျပာပါ တယ္။ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံထဲမွာ က်န္ေနေသးတဲ့ ႏိုင္ငံေရးအက်ဥ္းသားေတြကိစၥကို မေမ့ၾကဖို႔လည္း သူက တိုက္တြန္းပါတယ္။ ဒီအေၾကာင္းကိုသားညြန္႔ဦးက ဆက္သြယ္ေမးျမန္းထားပါတယ္။ထိုင္းအေျခစိုက္ ႏိုင္ငံေရးအက်ဥ္းသားမ်ားကူညီေစာင့္ေရွာက္ေရးအသင္းရဲ႕ စာရင္းမွာ ႏိုင္ငံေရး အက်ဥ္းသား အျဖစ္ သတ္မွတ္ထားခံရတဲ့ ၿဖိဳးေ၀ေအာင္ရဲ႕အမႈကို တရားစီရင္ရာမွာ လြတ္လပ္မႈ၊ ပြင့္လင္းမႈ မရိွသလို တရားခံဘက္က ေခ်ပေျပာဆိုႏိုင္တဲ့ အခြင့္အလမ္းေတြလည္း ဆံုးရံႈးခဲ့တယ္လို႔ လူ႔အခြင့္အေရး လႈပ္ရွားသူေတြ၊ ေရွ႕ေနေတြက ေျပာပါတယ္။ ၿဖိဳးေ၀ေအာင္အမႈကို ႏွစ္ႏွစ္ၾကာ အင္းစိန္အက်ဥ္းေထာင္ အတြင္းမွာပဲ စစ္ေဆးခဲ့တာပါ။ ၿဖိဳးေ၀ေအာင္ကို အခု ေသဒဏ္ခ်မွတ္ လိုက္တာကိုၾကည့္မယ္ ဆိုရင္ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံ တရားေရးစနစ္ရဲ႕ လိုအပ္ခ်က္ေတြကို ေတြ႔ရမယ္လို႔ ျမန္မာႏို္င္ငံဆိုင္ရာ ကုလသမဂၢ လူ႔အခြင့္အေရး ကိုယ္စားလွယ္ ေသာမတ္ အိုေဟးကင္တားနားက ေျပာပါတယ္။
Rohingya in India Seek Refugee Status
Chittagong, Bangladesh: Hundreds of Rohingyas, demanding refugee status, have set up a protest camp at the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) , in Vasant Vihar, South Delhi. The protestors, a Muslim ethnic minority persecuted in Burma, have been camped by the rear compound wall of the office, since April 9.The Rohingyas in India are being discriminated against because of their religion, said Mamoon Rafique, a protestor at the camp.
Tuesday, May 8, 2012
Burma's Aung San Suu Kyi gets passport
Burma's opposition leader Aung San
Suu Kyi has been given a passport for the first time in 24 years.Ms Suu Kyi has spent much of the past two decades under house arrest in Burma as a political prisoner.
But following recent reforms she and other members of her party, the National League for Democracy (NLD), have won seats in parliament.
Kutupalong makeshift camp committee extort money from refugees
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“The makeshift camp has more than 40,000 refugees living in the miserable conditions – small huts with plastics and bushes, no food, no health and no education – and to maintain the camp, the refugees have rights to choose the committee member.”
Singh, Indian head of State, arrives Thursday
(Mizzima) – Two Indian groups urged Indian Prime Minister Dr. Manmaohan Singh to press for further democratic reforms during his three-day visit to Burma starting Thursday.
The Indian Parliamentarians’ Forum for Democracy (IPFDB) in Burma released a statement calling on Singh to push for the release of all political prisoners.
The Burma Centre Delhi released a statement backed by 27 civil society groups calling for Singh to call for an end to “the atrocities targeting ethnic areas particularly in Kachin State, the restoration of the civil and democratic rights of the Rohingya, the end of atrocities in Arakan and safe repatriation of the Rohingya refugees.”
Monday, May 7, 2012
2014 Census in Burma must be universal and inclusive of Rohingya : Rohingya organizations
Chittagong, Bangladesh: Several Rohingya organizations had made a call for the 2014 census in Burma to be universal and inclusive of the Rohingya people on May 5, according to their joint stamen.
The statement was released by the Arakan Rohingya National Organization (ARNO), Burmese Rohingya Organization, UK (BROUK), Burmese Rohingya Association Japan (BRAJ), Burmese Rohingya Community in Australia (BRCA), Burmese Rohingya Community in Norway (BRCN), Burmese Rohingya Association in Thailand (BRAT) and Burmese Rohingya for Democracy in Burma (RLDB).
The statement was released by the Arakan Rohingya National Organization (ARNO), Burmese Rohingya Organization, UK (BROUK), Burmese Rohingya Association Japan (BRAJ), Burmese Rohingya Community in Australia (BRCA), Burmese Rohingya Community in Norway (BRCN), Burmese Rohingya Association in Thailand (BRAT) and Burmese Rohingya for Democracy in Burma (RLDB).
Sunday, May 6, 2012
Burmese Rohingya Muslim Refugees on the verge of starvation on Delhi streets
By Nadim Ahmad, The Milli Gazette
Published Online: May 05, 2012
Print Issue: 1-15 May 2012
New
Delhi: Over a thousand Muslim asylum-seekers from Arakan province of
Myanmar are camping since mid-April on footpaths near the office of the
United Nation’s High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) in New Delhi. They
are on the verge of starvation due to the apathy of UNHCR towards their
plight. They are living on the food offered to them by the local
Muslims from across the road and are deprived of basic amenities and
medical facilities.
Joint Press Release by Rohingya Organisations:
2014 Census in Burma must be universal and inclusive of Rohingya
Recently the United Nations Population Fund UNFPA) has agreed to support Burma’s proposed 2014 population and housing census. But ‘Rights groups worry that if not conducted properly, the census could marginalize minorities such as the Rohingya or those living in one of Burma's many conflict areas.’
No true census has ever been taken in Burma, and great injustice has been done to the ethnic Rohingyas. The government of U Thein Sein is beyond exception. His current wind of change has not touched the Rohingyas yet. Rather racist and xenophobic plans have been patronized and projected against them.
Thursday, May 3, 2012
ေမာင္ေတာျမိဳ႕တြင္ ေငြရွိမွသာ လူေသ အေလာင္းျမွဳပ္ႏုိင္
ကုလားတန္ (ေမာင္ေတာ)။ ။ မုိးၾကိဳးပစ္၍ေသဆုံးသြားေသာ ရုိဟင္ဂ်ာ လူေသအေလာင္း ႏွစ္ ေလာင္းကုိ ေငြေပးမွသာ ျမွဳပ္ႏုိင္ခြင့္ေပးမည္ဟု ေမာင္ေတာျမိဳ႕နယ္အပုိင္ရွိ ရဲအရာရွိတဦးမွ ဧျပီလ ၂၁ ရက္ေန႕တြင္ ေျပာဆုိခဲ့ေၾကာင္း ေက်းရြာအုပ္ခ်ဳပ္ေရးအဖြဲ႕၀င္တဦးက ေျပာဆုိသည္။
ေမာင္ေတာျမိဳ႕နယ္ ေတာင္ျပိဳ လက္ေအာက္ရွိ သဲေခ်ာင္း (ဘာလူခါရီ) ေက်းရြာ အုပ္စု၊မူတီ ေက်းရြာေန ဦးႏူရ္ေဇာ္မန္၏ မိသားစု၀င္မ်ားျဖစ္ေသာ ဇနီးေဒၚတာဟာရာေဘေဂါမ္၊ ၄၈ ႏွစ္ႏွင့္ မေဖၚမီနာေဘေဂါမ္၊ ၁၄ ႏွစ္တုိ႕ သည္ ေက်းရြာ အနီးရွိ ၎သူတုိ႕၏ ငရုတ္ခင္းတြင္ အလုပ္လုပ္ေနစဥ္ မုိးၾကိဳးပစ္ခံရ၍ ဧျပီလ ၂၁ ၇က္ေန႕ နံနက္ ၁၀း ၃၀ ခန္႔တြင္ ေသဆုံးသြား ေၾကာင္း ၎အဖြဲ႕၀င္ကပင္ ေျပာဆုိသည္။
ေမာင္ေတာျမိဳ႕နယ္ ေတာင္ျပိဳ လက္ေအာက္ရွိ သဲေခ်ာင္း (ဘာလူခါရီ) ေက်းရြာ အုပ္စု၊မူတီ ေက်းရြာေန ဦးႏူရ္ေဇာ္မန္၏ မိသားစု၀င္မ်ားျဖစ္ေသာ ဇနီးေဒၚတာဟာရာေဘေဂါမ္၊ ၄၈ ႏွစ္ႏွင့္ မေဖၚမီနာေဘေဂါမ္၊ ၁၄ ႏွစ္တုိ႕ သည္ ေက်းရြာ အနီးရွိ ၎သူတုိ႕၏ ငရုတ္ခင္းတြင္ အလုပ္လုပ္ေနစဥ္ မုိးၾကိဳးပစ္ခံရ၍ ဧျပီလ ၂၁ ၇က္ေန႕ နံနက္ ၁၀း ၃၀ ခန္႔တြင္ ေသဆုံးသြား ေၾကာင္း ၎အဖြဲ႕၀င္ကပင္ ေျပာဆုိသည္။
Rohingya that the World Forget
On April 24, 2012, Professor Dr. Amara Phongsaphit, Chairperson of the National Human Rights Commission of Thailand was invited by the Thai Public Broadcasting Service (Thai PBS) to be a resource person in a seminar, ‘Rohingya that the World Forget,’ convened by the Thai PBS’ Social Capital Network Division, Social Capital Bureau, at Building A, Thai PBS Headquarters in Bangkok with an objective to build up awareness on the existence of Rohingya people through seminar and public media, and to look for solutions to problems faced by this people together. |
Wednesday, May 2, 2012
တစ္ခ်ိန္ကရုိဟင္ဂ်ာအပါအ၀င္တုိင္းရင္းသားလူမ်ဳိး ( ၁၄၄ ) မ်ဳိး ႏွင္႔ နိဳင္ငံျခားသား လူမ်ိဳး (၂၆) မ်ိဳးရွိခဲ႔
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Tuesday, May 1, 2012
ႏွစ္ ၃၀ အတြင္း ျမန္မာ သန္းေခါင္စာရင္း ကုလအကူအညီ ျဖင့္ေကာက္မည္
ဓာတ္ပံု ASSOCIATED PRESS
ကမာၻ႔လူဦးေရေန႔ အခမ္းအနား တြင္ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံ လူ၀င္မႈ ႀကီးၾကပ္ေရး ႏွင့္ ျပည္သူ႔အင္အားဝန္ၾကီးဌာန ၀န္ႀကီး ဦးခင္ရီ မိန္႔ခြန္း ေျပာၾကားပံု။ ေနျပည္ေတာ္၊ ျမန္မာ။ ဇူလိုင္ ၁၁ ၂၀၁၁။
ေျပာင္းလဲမႈေတြ ထဲမွာ လူနည္းစု တိုင္းရင္းသားေတြ အတြက္ ၾကီးမားတဲ့ အေျပာင္းအလဲ ျဖစ္လာေစႏိုင္တဲ့ အဓိက အေျပာင္းအလဲ အျဖစ္ သန္းေခါင္စာရင္း ေကာက္ယူဖို႔ အတြက္ ႏွစ္ေပါင္း ၃၁ ႏွစ္အတြင္း ျပန္ၿပီး စီစဥ္ေနၿပီ ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ ျမန္မာ အစိုးရ နဲ႔ ကုလသမဂၢတို႔ အၾကားရခဲ့တဲ့ ဒီသေဘာ တူညီခ်က္ နဲ႔ ပတ္သက္ၿပီးေတာ့ ဗီြအိုေအ သတင္းေထာက္ ဒယ္နီရယ္ ဘန္စတိန္း (Danielle Bernstein) သတင္းေပးပို႔ ထားတာကို မခင္မ်ိဳးသက္ က တင္ျပထားပါတယ္။
သမၼတၾကီးဦးသိန္းစိန္ထံသို႔ ရခိုင္ျပည္တြင္းမွ ရင္ဖြင္သံ
သမၼတၾကီးဦးသိန္းစိန္ခင္ဗ်ား...
ရခိုင္ျပည္နယ္ ေမာင္ေတာျမိဳ ႔နယ္အတြင္ တရားဥပေဒမဲ႔စြာနိဳင္ထက္စီနင္း ဗိုလ္က်ခ်ယ္လွယ္မႈ မ်ားအား ဥပေဒအရလိုအပ္သလို ေဆာင္ရြက္တားဆီးေပးပါရန္။
ကြ်န္ေတာ္တို႔ရခိုင္ျပည္နယ္ ေမာင္ေတာျမိဳ ႔နယ္ ေအတိလာအုပ္စု အမွတ္(၅)ရပ္ကြက္တြင္ ေနထိုင္သူ
ဦးအဒူလာမင္းဆိုသူသည္ နစက အရာရွိမ်ားႏွင္႔ ပူးေပါင္းကာ ေမာင္ေတာျမိဳ ႔နယ္အတြင္းေန ေဒသခံ ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာလူမ်ိဳးစု အစၥလာမ္းဘာသာဝင္မ်ားအား အနိုင္က်င္႔ဗိုလ္က်ျခင္း၊ျခိန္းေျခာက္ေငြေတာင္းျခင္း
နစက မ်ားႏွင္႔ေပါင္း၍ မဟုတ္မမွန္အမႈဆင္ ဖမ္းဆီးႏွိပ္စက္ျခင္း၊အေၾကာင္းမဲ႔ လူေနအိမ္မ်ားေပၚ
ဝင္ေရာက္ရွာေဖြျခင္းႏွင္႔ ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာအမ်ိဳးသမီးမ်ားကို မေဖြမရာ ကိုယ္ထိလက္ေရာက္ ေစာ္ကားက်ဴး
လြန္မႈမ်ားမၾကာခဏလုပ္ေနပါသျဖင္႔ ေဒသခံမ်ားမွာ မ်ားစြာစိတ္အေႏွာက္အယွက္ျဖစ္ေနရပါသည္။
ရခိုင္ျပည္နယ္ ေမာင္ေတာျမိဳ ႔နယ္အတြင္ တရားဥပေဒမဲ႔စြာနိဳင္ထက္စီနင္း ဗိုလ္က်ခ်ယ္လွယ္မႈ မ်ားအား ဥပေဒအရလိုအပ္သလို ေဆာင္ရြက္တားဆီးေပးပါရန္။
ကြ်န္ေတာ္တို႔ရခိုင္ျပည္နယ္ ေမာင္ေတာျမိဳ ႔နယ္ ေအတိလာအုပ္စု အမွတ္(၅)ရပ္ကြက္တြင္ ေနထိုင္သူဦးအဒူလာမင္းဆိုသူသည္ နစက အရာရွိမ်ားႏွင္႔ ပူးေပါင္းကာ ေမာင္ေတာျမိဳ ႔နယ္အတြင္းေန ေဒသခံ ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာလူမ်ိဳးစု အစၥလာမ္းဘာသာဝင္မ်ားအား အနိုင္က်င္႔ဗိုလ္က်ျခင္း၊ျခိန္းေျခာက္ေငြေတာင္းျခင္း
နစက မ်ားႏွင္႔ေပါင္း၍ မဟုတ္မမွန္အမႈဆင္ ဖမ္းဆီးႏွိပ္စက္ျခင္း၊အေၾကာင္းမဲ႔ လူေနအိမ္မ်ားေပၚ
ဝင္ေရာက္ရွာေဖြျခင္းႏွင္႔ ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာအမ်ိဳးသမီးမ်ားကို မေဖြမရာ ကိုယ္ထိလက္ေရာက္ ေစာ္ကားက်ဴး
လြန္မႈမ်ားမၾကာခဏလုပ္ေနပါသျဖင္႔ ေဒသခံမ်ားမွာ မ်ားစြာစိတ္အေႏွာက္အယွက္ျဖစ္ေနရပါသည္။
BANGLADESH: Jaheda Begum, “I can’t feed my family”
KUTUPALONG, 1 May 2012 (IRIN) - Jaheda Begum, 25, and her family - Rohingya refugees who crossed into Bangladesh from Myanmar - haven’t had a square meal in days because the heavy pre-monsoon rains have prevented her husband from finding any work.
Rohingyas in India Demand Full Refugee Status
Men, women and children from Burma's Rohingya minority group take shelter in a makeshift camp in New Delhi's Vasant Vihar neighborhood. (Photo: Zarni Mann / The Irrawaddy)
In an echo of the Occupy movement that attracted so much attention around the world last year, hundreds of Rohingya asylum seekers have camped out for nearly four weeks in front of the UN refugee agency’s office in an upscale New Delhi neighborhood to demand full recognition as refugees.
The protesters, who belong to a Muslim ethnic minority persecuted in Burma and shunned by Bangladesh, say they are being unfairly discriminated against by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) because they are denied services granted to refugees
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