COX’S BAZAR: Security personnel patrol a street near a refugee camp on Wednesday. AFP
DHAKA: At least four people died late on Tuesday when members of two criminal factions attacked each other in a sprawling camp for Rohingya refugees, Bangladesh police said.
Twenty other refugees were injured as the two groups opened fire with locally made guns and used sharp weapons at Kutupalong in Cox’s Bazar district, said Rafiqul Islam, an additional police superintendent.
Security was heightened in the camps in the district, where more than 700,000 Rohingya refugees from Myanmar have been sheltered by the government, he said.
Chinas plan to construct a 2000-km high-tech border fence on its southern border has riled Myanmar.China argues that the fence will curb coronavirus spread by stopping illegal border crossings. The generals in Naypyitaw will have none of that. On the contrary, the Myanmar military has accused China of violating the 1961 border pact. Myanmarese media reports that the military has written to Chinese officials objecting to the unilateral construction of the barbed fence in the northern Shan state. Major General Zaw Min Tun told The Irrawaddy newspaper: The local battalion sent a letter of objection to the Chinese side. We objected based on our 1961 treaty on the China-Myanmar boundary,
China builds high-tech border fence, Myanmar unhappy
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New Delhi, Dec 24 : Chinas plan to construct a 2000-km high-tech border fence on its southern border has riled Myanmar. China argues that the fence will curb coronavirus spread by stopping illegal border crossings. The generals in Naypyitaw will have none of that. On the contrary, the Myanmar military has accused China of violating the 1961 border pact.
Myanmarese media reports that the military has written to Chinese officials objecting to the unilateral construction of the barbed fence in the northern Shan state. Major General Zaw Min Tun told The Irrawaddy newspaper: The local battalion sent a letter of objection to the Chinese side. We objected based on our 1961 treaty on the China-Myanmar boundary,
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In August 2017, the Myanmar military perpetrated a genocide on the Rohingyas, an ethnic group residing in Northern Rakhine. Large numbers of Rohingyas were killed, women and girls were raped, villages burnt and upwards of 800,000 men, women and children were driven out of their homes. They crossed the border into Bangladesh to save their lives and are now sheltered in camps in Teknaf and Ukhia, in the southern tip of Bangladesh.
Although this outrageous event was sort of a final solution , atrocities on Rohingyas have a long history. The first mass expulsion took place in 1977-78 when 250,000 were driven across the border. Most of them were sent back through negotiations. However, following the second mass expulsion in 1989-90, many of the 250,000 refugees could not be sent back. Meanwhile, the Burmese Citizenship Act of 1982 disenfranchised the Rohingyas of their citizenship. Under continued atrocities by the military and the
US Pledges to Continue Support for Myanmar’s Democratic Transition
10 December 2020
US Pledges to Continue Support for Myanmar’s Democratic Transition
Union Minister for International Cooperation U Kyaw Tin and Deputy US Secretary of State Stephen Biegun. / Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
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By Nan Lwin 18 December 2020
YANGON The United States has pledged to continue its support for Myanmar’s democratic transition and discussed cooperation on Rakhine State development, including creating a better environment for the Rohingya, according to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
In a teleconference with Myanmar’s international cooperation minister, U Kyaw Tin, the outgoing deputy US secretary of state, Stephen Biegun, on Thursday, praised the Nov. 8 general election and discussed positive cooperation over Rakhine State, the ministry said.