Burma: Internal displacement/forced migration of individual ethnic groups

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Description: "A combined team of security forces and local authorities confiscated 150 rice bags carried by a clerk of Nyaungchaung village-tract and 14 young people on a truck which was heading to Thayettapin village from Kyauktaw Township on 4 April. The Office of Commander in Chief of Defence Services reported that the bags were taken for the internally displaced persons at Nyaungchaung camp from Kyauktaw Township Administration Office which is sharing the rice for the IDP camp every month. Former local administrator U Than Aye was reportedly asked to local clerk U Ohn Naing, aged 55, to take out the rice. However, only two-third of the rations went to the camp, and one-third of them were sent to the AA group..."
Source/publisher: The Global New Light of Myanmar, 2020
2020-04-10
Date of entry/update: 2020-05-03
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Description: "The MoU was first signed in Naypyiday on June 6 last year, which has been extended for one more year. The MoU provides a framework of cooperation to create improved and resilient livelihoods for all communities living in northern Rakhine state, according to a press release. All the parties – UNHCR, UNDP and Myanmar’s Ministry of Labor, Immigration and Population – have reaffirmed their full commitment to the timely and effective implementation of the MoU, it said. Myanmar and Bangladesh signed a deal on repatriation of the Rohingya in November, three months after some 750,000 Rohingya had fled military crackdown by the Myanmar military. Repatriation was scheduled to start in November last year, but the Rohingyas did not agree, saying the conditions in Myanmar were not conducive. Talking about the extension of the tripartite MoU, Ro Nay San Lwin, coordinator of Free Rohingya Coalition, a worldwide network of Rohingya diaspora, said to The Daily Star that it is regrettable that the UN is cooperating with Myanmar, which is not doing anything to improve the conditions of Rakhine for their return. “UN agencies have not even consulted the Rohingyas, the survivors of genocide,” he told The Daily Star from Germany over phone. There is no guarantee of safety of the Rohingya or their citizenship there. The genocide survivors cannot return to a country under such conditions, he said, demanding that the UN should expose these to the world..."
Source/publisher: The Daily Star
2019-05-28
Date of entry/update: 2019-05-29
Grouping: Individual Documents
Language: English
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