Arakan (Rakhine) State


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    Description: 34 videos covering different aspects of the situation of the Rohingya.
    Source/publisher: Al Jazeera
    Date of entry/update: 2015-10-24
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    Language: English (some in Burmese or Rohingya with English sub-titles)
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    Description: "Overview Rakhine State has experienced several waves of violence and displacement since the early 1990s. Among the most significant were intercommunal fighting between the Rakhine and Rohingya communities in 2012, an outbreak of violence that forced hundreds of thousands of Rohingya to flee to Bangladesh in 2017, and armed conflict between the Arakan Army (AA) and Tatmadaw which commenced in 2016. Thus, 708,000 people from different ethnicities, spread across camps, villages and displacement sites are in need of humanitarian assistance. Of this figure, 630,000 Rohingya live in particularly precarious conditions after decades of being denied basic rights, including citizenship, freedom of movement and access to basic services. About 157,000 Rohingya remain displaced including 147,000 in Rakhine’s central townships since 2012 and an additional 10,000 in northern townships since 2017. They remain highly dependent on humanitarian aid. In addition, there are presently 78,000 largely ethnic Rakhine people displaced by the AA-Tatmadaw conflict in 168 sites. UNHCR also monitors the welfare of 31,000 returnees from this conflict. UNHCR has been present in Rakhine State since 1994 and works under its mandate to protect and support stateless populations, returnees, internally displaced people (IDPs), and other vulnerable groups. With offices in Maungdaw, Sittwe and Buthidaung, UNHCR carries out an extensive range of work, from humanitarian assistance, to coordination of relief efforts, rights advocacy and promotion of sustainable longer-term solutions for all communities..."
    Source/publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (Geneva) via Reliefweb (New York)
    2023-07-27
    Date of entry/update: 2023-07-27
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    Sub-title: Why the refugees still aren’t going back to Myanmar.
    Description: "Late last month, some 200,000 Rohingya living in refugee camps in southeastern Bangladesh gathered to mark the anniversary of the brutal crackdown by the Myanmar military that drove more than 700,000 people to flee western Myanmar in August 2017. Citing security concerns, the Bangladeshi government promptly banned phone companies from providing mobile services to the refugees living in the camps of Cox’s Bazar — one million or so. The authorities have become increasingly worried about an uptick in crime in and around the camps, an increase in drug smuggling from Myanmar and the potential influence of foreign jihadists among the Rohingya. Their patience is eroding. Why, then, are there so many Rohingya still in Bangladesh two years after the mass exodus, especially since the government struck a repatriation plan with Myanmar in early 2018? Because many refugees don’t want to return. Because Myanmar doesn’t want them back. And because foreign governments don’t much care. Even as they call for the refugees’ return — which is an impossibility in the near term — those countries are nursing their economic and political relationships with the Myanmar government. Only 200 refugees, both Muslims and Hindus, are thought to have gone back to Myanmar this month. There have been no significant returns in the last two years, and none, to my knowledge, through formal procedures. Recent repatriation deals with Bangladesh — which were really only dusted-off versions of ineffectual agreements from the 1990s — have accomplished nothing..."
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    Source/publisher: "The New York Times" (USA)
    2019-09-24
    Date of entry/update: 2019-09-25
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    Sub-title: Why the refugees still aren’t going back to Myanmar.
    Description: "Late last month, some 200,000 Rohingya living in refugee camps in southeastern Bangladesh gathered to mark the anniversary of the brutal crackdown by the Myanmar military that drove more than 700,000 people to flee western Myanmar in August 2017. Citing security concerns, the Bangladeshi government promptly banned phone companies from providing mobile services to the refugees living in the camps of Cox’s Bazar — one million or so. The authorities have become increasingly worried about an uptick in crime in and around the camps, an increase in drug smuggling from Myanmar and the potential influence of foreign jihadists among the Rohingya. Their patience is eroding. Why, then, are there so many Rohingya still in Bangladesh two years after the mass exodus, especially since the government struck a repatriation plan with Myanmar in early 2018? Because many refugees don’t want to return. Because Myanmar doesn’t want them back. And because foreign governments don’t much care. Even as they call for the refugees’ return — which is an impossibility in the near term — those countries are nursing their economic and political relationships with the Myanmar government. Only 200 refugees, both Muslims and Hindus, are thought to have gone back to Myanmar this month. There have been no significant returns in the last two years, and none, to my knowledge, through formal procedures. Recent repatriation deals with Bangladesh — which were really only dusted-off versions of ineffectual agreements from the 1990s — have accomplished nothing..."
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    Source/publisher: "The New York Times" (USA)
    2019-09-24
    Date of entry/update: 2019-09-25
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    Description: • The situation for Rohingya, often described as one of the world?s most persecuted peoples, has severely deteriorated during President Thein Sein?s presidency, with a spike in hate crimes and the introduction of additional discriminatory draft laws and policies. • Pre-existing discriminatory policies against Rohingya, including restrictions on marriage and birthrates, remain in full force. Stricter enforcement of the 1982 Citizenship Law ensures most Rohingya remain stateless. • The regime has failed to prevent or investigate repeated incidents of violence against Rohingya, including possible mass atrocities that have resulted in 140,000 IDPs. • Regime security forces continue to arbitrarily arrest, beat, rape, torture, and kill Rohingya in Arakan State. • The regime has restricted aid in Arakan State, expelled the state?s biggest provider of healthcare, and limited Rohingya IDPs? access to food, water, and sanitation. Living conditions for Rohingya have severely deteriorated as a result. • The regime denied Rohingya the right to self-identify in the 2014 nationwide census, and forced many to identify as ?Bengali? in a subsequent ?citizenship assessment,? causing widespread fear that they will be deemed ?illegal immigrants? and expelled. The denial of Rohingya identity also extends internationally, as the regime consistently expresses anger at the international community?s use of the term ?Rohingya.”
    Source/publisher: ALTSEAN-Burma
    2015-03-00
    Date of entry/update: 2015-03-15
    Grouping: Individual Documents
    Language: English
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