Tag: ASEAN Community
FEATURE-‘Boat people’ crisis a test for ASEAN’s humanitarian resolve
Just days after Cyclone Nargis devastated Myanmar in 2008, Surin Pitsuwan, then secretary-general of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), swiftly called on its member states to provide urgent humanitarian aid to the survivors.
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation - Mon, 18 May 2015 14:41 GMT
Author: Astrid Zweynert
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Malaysia tells Myanmar to address Rohingya issue
Malaysia will issue a stern warning to Myanmar to address the Rohingya issue, an official said Monday, as Southeast Asian countries started to ratchet up pressure on Yangon to tackle a crisis that has left thousands of migrants stranded.
18 May 2015 11:49 (Last updated 18 May 2015 17:36)
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Our history says: Don’t push back the persecuted
It is time for the Thai government to adopt a proper policy response - and temporarily take in Rohingya refugees coming from the Bay of Bengal and Andaman Sea. This is the best way to save lives while searching for a durable solution. Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha was spot-on...
Boatpeople deserve ‘human rights’ – Myanmar opposition
Muslim boatpeople fleeing dire conditions in Buddhist-majority Myanmar are entitled to "human rights", a spokesman for Aung San Suu Kyi's opposition urged Monday, in strikingly bold comments on the plight of the deeply- marginalised group.
Published: 18/05/2015 at 09:23 PM
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Muslim boatpeople fleeing dire conditions in Buddhist-majority Myanmar are entitled...
Send Rohingya to Cambodia: Malaysian Minister
A Malaysian minister has said that the U.N. should send Rohingya and Bangladeshi asylum seekers stranded off his country’s coastline to Cambodia and the Philippines, rather than attempt to persuade his government to house them, Malaysian media reported on Thursday.
By George Wright and Khy Sovuthy | May 15, 2015
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Thailand may set up camps for Rohingya migrants
Thailand may set up temporary camps for boat people, Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha told journalists yesterday, even as a decrepit boat with some 300 desperate Rohingya aboard was found drifting off Koh Lipe island, west of Satun province.
Published on May 15, 2015 5:59 AM
By Nirmal Ghosh, Indochina Bureau Chief...
In refugee crisis, Putrajaya told to lead Asean by example
Malaysia must live up to its position as chair of Asean and the Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights (AICHR) by providing humanitarian aid to refugees of the country’s waters, said PKR president Datuk Seri Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail.
KUALA LUMPUR, May 15 — Malaysia must live up to its...
OPINION | History repeating: Rohingya and the Vietnamese, the Philippines and the ASEAN ‘community’
Four decades ago the Vietnamese, too, fled persecution and ethnic tension in search of political and economic freedom. Fortunately for them, the West, at the time, came to their rescue by resettling most of them, my father included. Unfortunately for the stateless Rohingya, no such solution seems to be...
Refugee crisis: ASEAN’s great moral paralysis
Our region faces a full-blown refugee crisis. Thousands of migrants, many of whom are Rohingya Muslims fleeing state-sponsored persecution in Myanmar, are stranded at sea, caught between a home country that denies them citizenship rights and a regional neighborhood seemingly indifferent to their suffering.
Charles Santiago, Kuala Lumpur | Opinion...
Malaysian lawmaker asks: Where is people-centered ASEAN in Rohingya refugee issue?
ASEAN, which in the last leaders’ meeting in Kuala Lumpur in April called itself people-centered, should take in the thousands of Rohingya refugees who have escaped persecution in Burma and are stranded in boats off Malaysia and Indonesia.
By: InterAksyon.com
May 15, 2015 4:31 PM
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