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ထေα€™့α€—ိုα€€္α€€ ထြα€€္α€œာα€€α€α€Š္းα€€ α€€်ဳပ္တိုα‚” α€—α€™ာေတြα€Ÿာ α€™ုα€žာ၀ါα€’α€€ို ေα€›ွာင္ၾကα€₯္α€–ိုα‚” α€žြα€”္α€žα€„္ ဆံုးမတာ ခံခဲ့ရပါ α€α€š္။ α€‘α€žα€€္ေα€œး α€”α€Š္းα€”α€Š္းα€›α€œာၿပီး α€˜ုα€›ားေα€€်ာင္း α€€α€”္ေဆာα€€္၊ α€žံဃာα€™်ားα€”ဲα‚” ထိေတြα‚• ဆက္ဆံတဲ့ ထခါα€€် ေတာ့α€œα€Š္း “α€™ုα€žာ၀ါα€’ါ ေ၀ရာမဏိ”ဆိုၿပီး တတြတ္တြတ္ α€›ြတ္တတ္αΎα€€α€α€š္။ α€’ါေα€•α€™α€š့္ α€α€€α€š္ေတာ့ α€—α€™ာ တမ်ဳိးα€žားα€œံုးα€Ÿာ α€™ုα€žာ၀ါα€’ α€™ိႈင္းေတြα€™ိၿပီး α€˜ိုးα€˜ြားပိုင္တိုင္းျα€•α€Š္ၾကီးဆိုၿပီး ဇာတိေα€žြး ဇာတိα€™ာα€”္ေတြ တက္ၾကြ ေနတာပါ။ ေရထဲα€€ ငါးေတြ ေα€›α€…ိုတာ α€™α€žိα€žα€œိုပါα€˜ဲ။ α€™ိα€›ုိးα€–α€œာ α€™်ဳိးခ်α€…္ၾကီးေတြ ျα€–α€…္α€™ွα€”္းα€™α€žိျα€–α€…္α€œိုα‚” ႏုိင္ငံေα€›း α€‘α€žိα€™α€›ွိတဲ့ α€˜α€α€™ွာ ထားα€œံုးα€€ ထမ်ဳိးα€žားဇာတ္ပ်α€€္α‚€α€€ီးထဲ “ကမၻာα€™ေၾက”ဆိုတာα€”ဲα‚” တက္ေထာင္ ထကခဲ့၊ ထက ေနၾကတာပါ။

α€…α€₯္းα€…ားαΎα€€α€Š့္ေα€œα€—်ာ။ α€€်ဳပ္တို႔ထားα€œံုးα€€ို α€žြင္းထားတဲ့ ထမ်ဳိးα€žားေα€›းဇာတ္ပဲြα€›ဲα‚• ဇာတ္α€Šႊα€”္းα€€ို αΎα€€α€Š့္ပါ။ α€—α€™ာ ေတြ ေပါα€€ၠံျα€•α€Š္ၾကီးα€™ွာ α€€ိုα€š့္မင္း α€€ိုα€š့္ခ်င္း တိုင္းရင္းα€žား ထားα€œံုးα€”ဲα‚” ခ်α€…္ခ်α€…္ခင္ခင္ α€₯α€™α€€ြဲ α€žိုα€€္မပ်α€€္ေနခဲ့ ၾကတာ ေα€›ွးပေα€α€žα€ီ α€€α€α€Š္းα€€၊ ကမၻာα€α€Š္α€…α€€α€α€Š္းα€€ ဆိုα€™α€š္။ α€’ီေα€›ႊႏိုင္ငံၾကီးα€€ို α€™ိα€…ၧာα€€ုα€œားျα€–ဴေတြ α€€်ဴးေα€€်ာ္ α€”α€š္ခ်ဲα‚•α€œိုα‚”  တိုင္းα€Œာေα€” ထစိတ္α€…ိတ္ ထမႊာα€™ႊာα€€ြဲ၊ ျα€•α€Š္α€žူေတြα€œα€Š္း ႏွα€…္ α€›ာေα€€်ာ္္ ကၽြα€”္α€žေα€˜ာα€€္ α€˜α€ ေα€›ာα€€္ခဲ့α€›α€α€š္α€œိုα‚” ထမ်ိဳးα€žားေα€›း ဇာတ္ထုတ္α€€ ဆိုα€α€š္။

α€—α€™ာေတြ α€œြတ္α€œα€•္ေα€›း ရတာပဲ ထႏွα€…္ (၆၀) ေα€œာα€€္α€›ွိၿပီဆိုေတာ့ α€€်ဳပ္တိုα‚”ေတြ α€žα€™ိုင္းα€€ို α€™်α€€္α€™ွα€”္α€…ိα€™္းျα€–ဳတ္ၿပီး αΎα€€α€Š့္α€–ိုα‚”၊ ျပန္α€œα€Š္α€žံုးα€žα€•္α€–ိုα‚” α€œိုၿပီ။


Funding Opportunity Announcement
Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration
April 1, 2011


Funding Opportunity Number: PRM-ANE-11-CA-EA-04012011-TH-BGD-MYA
Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) number: 19.511- Overseas Refugee Assistance Programs for East Asia
Announcement issuance date: Friday, April 1, 2011
Proposal submission deadline: Friday, May 6, 2011 at 12:00 p.m. noon (EDT). Proposals submitted after this deadline will not be considered.
ADVISORY:
(1) As of the release of this funding opportunity announcement, the U.S. Government is operating under a Continuing Resolution. As such, all decisions regarding proposal submissions are subject to the availability of funds.
(2) PRM strongly recommends submitting your proposal early to allow time to address difficulties that may arise due to system delays on grants.gov.
Proposed Program Start Dates: May 1, 2011 – September 27, 2011
Duration of Activity:
Program plans for Bangladesh and Malaysia should be no more than 12 months. Applicants must re-compete for PRM funding each year.


ခ်င္းα€™ိုင္ (မဇၩိα€™) ။        ။ α€žα€™αΌα€α€₯ီးα€žိα€”္းα€…ိα€”္၏ ျα€•α€Š္ေထာင္α€…ုα€œႊတ္ေတာ္တြင္ α€—ုα€’αΆα€Ÿူးေα€”α‚”α€€ ပထမဆံုးေျပာၾကားေα€žာ α€™ိα€”္႔ခြα€”္းတြင္ α€…α€…္တပ္ထင္ထား ေတာင့္တင္းေထာင္ α€α€Š္ေဆာα€€္α€žြားα€›α€™ွာျα€–α€…္ေၾကာင္း ထေα€œးထား ေျပာၾကားα€žြားခဲ့α€žα€Š္။

“ ႏုိင္ငံေတာ္ α€€ာα€€ြα€š္ေα€›းα€€ုိ ေပါ့ေပါ့တန္တန္α€”ဲα‚” α€žေα€˜ာထားၾကရင္ ေခတ္α€žα€…္ α€€ြ်α€”္ျပဳခံα€›ျခင္းα€™်ဳိးα€”ဲα‚” ေတြα‚”α‚€α€€ံဳၾကရα€₯ီးα€™ွာ ျα€–α€…္ပါα€α€š္။ ပထဝီဝင္ ထေနထထားေα€›ာ၊ α€…ီးပြားေα€›းထရပါ ထခ်α€€္ထခ်ာα€€်တဲ့ α€™ိα€™ိတုိα‚” ႏုိင္ငံα€žα€Š္ α€”α€š္ခ်ဲα‚•α€œα€€္α€žα€…္ေတြ ဝင္ေα€›ာα€€္α€…ြα€€္α€–α€€္ ျα€α€š္α€œွα€š္ေနတဲ့ ထႏၲα€›ာα€š္α€›ွိေနတာα€€ုိ ထားα€œုံး α€žေα€˜ာေပါα€€္ၾကမွာ ျα€–α€…္ပါα€α€š္။ α€’ါေၾကာင့္ ႏုိင္ငံေတာ္α€€ုိ α€€ာα€€ြα€š္α€–ုိ႔ထတြα€€္ ကမၻာ့ထဆင့္α€™ီ တပ္α€™ေတာ္တရပ္ α€›ွိα€–ုိα‚”α€œုိပါα€α€š္" α€Ÿု ထၿငိα€™္းα€…ား α€—ိုα€œ္ခ်ဳပ္α‚€α€€ီးေα€Ÿာင္း α€₯ီးα€žိα€”္းα€…ိα€”္α€€ α€‘α€Š့္α€žြင္း ေျပာၾကားα€žြားα€žα€Š္။
As many as 129 Rohingya refugees from Burma were moved on Wednesday from Aceh to Medan.

The refugees, who had been rescued by Acehnese fishermen after being stranded at sea for days, are awaiting confirmation of their status from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.


Asylum seekers from Burma looking through the window at a temporary shelters, at the port of Malahayati, Aceh, Indonesia, on Wednesday. Asylum seekers from Myanmar were relocated to Medan, North Sumatra, while awaiting a decision from the UNHCR to determine their future destination. (EPA Photo)

Wilmar Sayuti, head of the immigration office in Banda Aceh, told the Jakarta Globe the transfer of the Rohingyas had been carried out on the instructions of the Directorate General of Immigration because their transit shelter at the Malahayati seaport in Krueng Raya, Aceh Besar, had been deemed unsuitable.


Ben Rogers is the author of ‘Than Shwe – Unmasking Burma’s Tyrant’. He recently visited Burma for a week on a tourist visa but was subsequently deported by the Burmese authorities. He works for Christian Solidarity Worldwide. Mizzima interviewed him about his deportation, his experience in Burma before he was deported, and his book on Than Shwe.

Question: Tell us about what had happened in the process of deportation?

Author Benedict Rogers, who was deported from Burma last week in connection with the publication of his biography 'Than Shwe: Unmasking Burma’s Tyrant'.
Author Benedict Rogers, who was deported from Burma last week in




Author Benedict Rogers, who was deported from Burma last week in connection with the publication of his biography 'Than Shwe: Unmasking Burma’s Tyrant'.

Answer:  What happened was around 11 p.m. on Tuesday, I had finished my activities for the day and I was sitting in a hotel bar, there was some music playing, and I was just relaxing for a few minutes before going to bed.  Somebody came to inform me that the authorities wanted to talk to me.  They said that the authorities were waiting in my room. So I went up to my room and there were six people outside the room.








They said they were from immigration but my suspicion is that they were Military Intelligence (MI) because they were not in any uniform, and they didn’t seem like immigration officers. And I think it’s unlikely that immigration officials would come at 11 at night. So, my feeling is that they were intelligence people. They were perfectly civil and they treated me well the whole way through. When I arrived at my room, we sat down and the first thing they said to me was, ‘We have instructions from Naypyidaw to deport you tomorrow’.  
2011-03-29
α€™ေα€œးα€›ွားႏုိင္ငံကတဆင့္ α€€ုα€œα€žα€™α€‚ၢ α€’ုα€€α‘α€žα€Š္ဆိုင္α€›ာ α€™α€Ÿာမင္းα‚€α€€ီး႐ံုးα€›ဲ့ α€’ုα€€α‘α€žα€Š္ေတြထျα€–α€…္ ထေα€™α€›ိα€€α€”္ ျα€•α€Š္ေထာင္α€…ုα€€ို α€žြားေα€›ာα€€္α€™ဲ့ α€’ုα€€α‘α€žα€Š္ ၇၅၀ ေα€œာα€€္α€€ို ထေα€™α€›ိα€€α€”္ ထာဏာပိုင္ေတြα€€ α€œံုျခံဳေα€›း ထေၾကာင္းျပခ်α€€္α€”ဲα‚” ျပန္α€œα€Š္α€…ိα€…α€…္α€–ိုα‚” ဆိုင္းငံ့ထားα€α€š္α€œိုα‚” α€žိရပါα€α€š္။

(Photo: AFP)
α€™ေα€œးα€›ွားႏိုင္ငံ၊ α€€ြာα€œာα€œα€™္ပူၿမိဳα‚•α€›ွိ α€€ုα€œα€žα€™α€‚ၢ α€’ုα€€α‘α€žα€Š္α€™်ားဆိုင္α€›ာ α€™α€Ÿာမင္းα‚€α€€ီး႐ံုး (UNHCR)၏ α€™ွတ္ပံုတင္α€Œာနတြင္ ေα€…ာင့္ဆိုင္းေα€”ေα€žာ ျα€™α€”္α€™ာျα€•α€Š္α€™ွ ဝင္ေα€›ာα€€္α€œာα€žူα€™်ား α€šα€α€„္α€™ွတ္တမ္းဓာတ္ပံု တပံု ျα€–α€…္ပါα€žα€Š္။ (Photo: AFP)


ျα€™α€”္α€™ာႏိုင္ငံထေα€•αš α€…ီးပြားေα€›းထရ ထေα€›းα€šူ ဒဏ္ခတ္α€™ႈေတြα€€ို ႐ုပ္α€žိα€™္းေပးၾကဖိုα‚” ျα€™α€”္α€™ာႏိုင္ငံတြင္း တိုα€€္တြα€”္းα€™ႈတခ်ဳိα‚• α€›ိွေα€”ေပမဲ့ α€…α€…္α€™ွα€”္တဲ့ ႏိုင္ငံေα€›း ေျပာင္းα€œဲα€™ႈေတြ α€™ေတြ႕ရမခ်င္း ျα€™α€”္α€™ာႏိုင္ငံထေα€•αš ထေα€›းα€šူ ပိတ္ဆိုα‚”α€™ႈေတြ ဆက္ထားα€›ိွα€™ွာ ျα€–α€…္α€α€š္α€œိုα‚” ထေα€™α€›ိα€€α€”္ ႏိုင္ငံျခားေα€›းα€Œာα€”α€€ ေျပာပါα€α€š္။ ထျα€•α€Š့္ထစုံα€€ို α€…ံုα€…α€™္းေα€™းျα€™α€”္းထားတဲ့ α€€ိုα€žားၫြα€”္α‚”α€₯ီးα€€ တင္ျပေပးထားပါα€α€š္။

Teknaf, Bangladesh: Rohingya refugees at Leda Camp have been facing problems from unhygienic conditions for more than two weeks since local villagers in the area blocked the drain which carries wastewater from the refugee camp.

A few days ago, the wastewater drain was jammed. Some of the refugees went to the drain and cleared it without the knowledge of local villagers. However, the villagers soon blocked the drain again.
2011-03-28
In a program aired on March 11, Aung San Suu Kyi discusses Burma’s budget, the problems of drug abuse, and the Burmese people’s disappointment at the results of the 2010 elections.
Q:  I am the secretary of the Karen Nationals Organization in Denmark. I would like to know what road the NLD will take in the future so that political changes can occur in Burma.


New ID card will make it even harder for Rohingya men to get work
DHAKA, 29 March 2011 (IRIN) - The introduction of national ID cards may lead to further institutionalized discrimination of Burmese Rohingya asylum-seekers (unregistered refugees) living in southeastern Bangladesh, experts warn.

A report by US-based NGO Refugees International to be released next month is expected to highlight how lack of access to public services and gainful employment for non-ID card holders will contribute to severe food insecurity for the Rohingyas.
PRESS RELEASE
24th March 2011

Concern on Narinjara’s concocted news linking Rohingyas with Taliban

We, the undersigned Rohingya organisations, strongly condemn the Narinjara News Agency for its disinformation of describing the innocent Rohigya people as suspected Talibans.

According to a pre-plan to extort money from the Rohingyas, the Nasaka collaborators informed the Nasaka of the area that some insurgents had entered in North Maungdaw and held a meeting with people in Kamaung Seik village (Fokira Bazar) whereupon, taking advantage of opportunities and circumstances, the Nasaka started arresting and torturing the innocent villagers arbitrarily. So far, about 50 innocent Rohingya villagers were arrested under false and concocted allegation of having link with insurgents which Narinjara fabricated as Talibans in its news on 20 March, 2011. It has exaggerated news giving cry wolf mentioning the name of one imaginary Taliban Maulvi Harun as imparting combat and bomb making training to the villagers in the jungles. It further concocted that a seal and documents, which identified them as members of the Taliban, were seized. According to Irrawaddy news of March 22, 2011, the Narinjara editor Khaing Mrat Kyaw said, “Nasaka told us about Maulvi Harun, who entered the country from Bangladesh and had given training.” It hints his involvement in the plan of the Nasaka against the innocent Rohingya villagers.
Sunday, March 27, 2011

Rohingya refugee mother and child in a refugee camp near the border of Bangladesh and Burma.
Two days after staging a rooftop protest, Burmese Rohingyan refugees inside the Northern Immigration Detention Centre (NIDC), received a notice on March 17 from the immigration department.
“Your concerns about the delays in finalising cases are understandable,” it said.

The Rohingya community of Arakan, Burma (Myanmar) is one of the most in dangerous ethnicminorities of the world. They are facing unexpected exercises in their ancestral land by political oppression, economic exploitation and cultural slavery in their ancestral land Arakan where they have been living for centuries.
Monday, 21 March 2011 14:04

Maungdaw, Arakan State: The information of spreading rumor about linking with Taliban and villagers of Kamaung Seik (Fokira Bazaar) in Maungdaw north is a creation, according to Nasaka official.
The Burma border security force, or Nasaka Director Lt. Col Aung Gyi said to the public in a meeting held at Maungnama Madrasa of Maungdaw Township today afternoon that the linking with Taliban is a creation, the official said.

“The linking with Taliban with the villagers of Kamaung Seik village under the Nasaka area number 2 is a creation of some political offences between USDP and NDPD supporters.”

Rohingya Exodus