I will miss you forever, dear friend ๐
Thank you for shining your light everywhere you went and for serving humanity so deeply. Thank you for your constant beaming smile. Thank you for your friendship. Zomi ๐ How blessed I am to have known you. Losing you is unbearable and
The Australian aid worker with Jose Andresโ World Central Kitchen, reported to have been killed by an Israeli air strike, along with 5 of her colleagues, appeared on MSNBC last fall
May her memory and the selfless life she lived be a blessing
Yangon roads & nights r now occupied by theirs true owners.
Such profound sit-in protests r taking place across the country.
We all r breaking records in Myanmar History & setting examples of a strong defiance.
Photos from amazing
@Myanmar_Now_Eng
#WhatsHappeningInMyanmar
I'm one of those foreigners who fell completely in love with Yangon during the years I lived there. It really hurts to see my old neighborhood in this state. In one of these photos you see people hiding from security forces in our neighborhood grocery store.
Rohingya refugees chanting "Gambia, Gambia" today in the camps of Cox's Bazar in anticipation of the first day of the ICJ hearing on Provisional Measures.
@MSawyedullah
Please understand that Rohingya refugees are being terrorized by arson. Terrorized. No one sleeps at night anymore as arson has become a nightly occurrence. Between the horrible camp situation &
#WhatsHappeningInMyanmar
..it's hard to imagine things getting worse. But then they do
Set fire in Kutupalong big market at 3:26 AM, 2 April.
It was stopped by the hard work of Fire services. In this incident 2 people died, 22 shops devastated.
This video shows the scale and devastation of the fire still burning in the Rohingya camps. Many are still missing, thousands are homeless.
No one should have to live in these precarious conditions. Rohingya have to live there because of atrocities committed by Myanmar Army.
"..It is correct to say that we recognise and uphold the citizenship and human rights of the Muslim residents in Arakan."
The Arakan Army responds to Rohingya abuse accusations in Myanmar: (
@newhumanitarian
)
Good to see many new Twitter users joining from Myanmar. Many of us are listening here and will try our best to amplify your voices or be helpful in any possible way.
Was just looking through some old photos and was reminded that Rohingya solidarity with Myanmar folks is nothing new. This is from Cox's Bazar in 2018.
Bangladesh: please reverse your closed border policy to save lives.
International community: please make resources available to address the pending crisis
Hi everyone, I'm back with another urgent fundraiser. Normally we do one a month but this one can't wait. A 10-year-old girl who lives in the Rohingya refugee camp with her parents has been diagnosed with AML - Acute Myeloid Leukemia. She has been admitted to hospital
As some of you know, I sometimes help fundraise medical costs for Rohingya patients in Bangladesh not covered by NGOs. This month, we need 50,000 tk (590 USD) for a 1.5-year-old baby boy who was born in a camp hospital last year and suffered hypoxia due to labor complications.
This is a CRITICAL MOMENT for Rohingya refugees.
Right now, they are fending off the abduction of their sons with sticks as armed groups shoot at them and try to drag terrified youth off to Myanmar as sacrifical lambs.
Have no doubt that the people are unified against these
Rohingya women stand against forced conscription.
In this photo, Rohingya women emerge as defenders of their community, wielding sticks to chase off RSO and ARA cadres. photo: 20th May.
The colour has been removed to prevent identification.
Hi everyone, since a lot of people in Myanmar have followed me here lately for some reason, I want to introduce myself. I'm a researcher working in the Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh since 2017. I lived in Yangon off & on for a bunch of years before that.
Another massive tragedy. Please help if you can. DM me for more details or if you would like to donate via PayPal, Venmo, etc.
Help Rohingya refugee fire victims
Receiving messages from refugees in camp pleading Bangladesh to turn the internet back on even if only for this week, so they can watch the ICJ proceedings.
Internet shutdowns in refugee camps in Bangladesh as well as in northern Rakhine mean Rohingya are totally cut off from the world. As a result they cannot get important updates about the international justice process. They also cannot talk to their relatives, call ambulances, etc
Authorities are demolishing some of the biggest marketplaces in Rohingya camps. Hundreds of shops are being razed, affecting shopkeepers' livelihoods and people's ability to buy items not given as aid by NGOs - including very basic things like shoes, clothes, snacks for kids, etc
There is a lot going on in
#rohingya
camps in Bangladesh that we don't hear much about on the outside bc it's risky for people to speak up.
Rampant, almost daily killings, systematic corruption everywhere. Even if protection actors can't do anything they could at least speak up!
"Although he could have tried to claim asylum while in the United States or Europe, Mr. Mohib Ullah instead returned to the refugee camp, with its filthy latrines, crowded shelters and deadly landslides and fires."
Today I received a list of 30 unemployed teachers living in one Rohingya refugee camp alone. There are 34 camps. To date, no assessment has been conducted by any actor to determine the number of teachers in the camp. Seems like time.
They all look like they're starving after two months at sea. They say 28 people died on the boat. This is an utter failure to protect those who need it most.
"How much should we Rohingya have to endure? The Rohingya first suffered genocide, then massive fires in the refugee camp, and now massive flooding in Coxโs Bazar. As a refugee, I see my life completely overtaken by shadows,โ said Mohammed Nowkhim.
Thread. It's unclear how the U.S. determination on Rohingya genocide will translate into action. But for refugees in Cox's Bazar with little access to information, the announcement has instantly raised hopes and expectations.
From a camp friend:
It's a really really hard time for youth living in
#Rohingya
refugee camps. Some who I'm in touch with need support to manage trauma, suicidal ideation, despair.
No access to counseling in the camp now.
Any therapists out there who can do a pro bono session online (in English)?
A group of
#Rohingya
youth are working to address rampant Hepatitis C in Cox's Bazar camps. They need to learn about the virus and its public health impacts from someone knowledgable.
Can anyone out there lead a 1-2 hour training? An honorarium will be provided. Please connect!
Hi all, I'm back with a request to help two Hepatitis C patients in the Rohingya camps. Both are mothers of young children and are getting very sick. Treatment is around $500. That's all it costs to save a young family.
โIโm still amazed it took this much for Kirin to finally drop the Myanmar military as their partner,โ said
@simonbillenness
, executive director of the International Campaign for the Rohingya.
(Kirin owns
@newbelgium
,
@BrooklynBrewery
, other U.S. faves)
It looks like Cyclone Mocha will be bad. It is expected to hit CXB on Sunday.
We decided to start fundraising early so the Rohingya youth volunteers can start procuring food and water to hand out as soon as it is needed. Please DM if you can contribute.
A massive fire has destroyed thousands of shelters in one of the
#rohingya
refugee camps in Cox's Bazar. Rohingya youth volunteers were instantly on the ground helping victims
Please DM me if you can chip in. The youth will buy and distribute aid immediately after every donation
Hi all, an elder living in the Rohingya camps is in need of our help for a surgery to remove a large tumor. It will cost 60,000 (700 USD). Your donations have saved several camp residents ' lives this year - pls help us do it again.
Please DM with questions or for Venmo/PayPal.
A few months ago, we funded chemo for a 10-yr-old Rohingya girl in Cox's Bazar with leukemia.
She is doing well but needs 3 more cycles of chemo to finish treatment. The family has exhausted their resources. 800 USD is needed. Please DM me if you can chip in.
#GivingTuesday
Consult Rohingya in decisions about Rohingya.
While we're at it, include Rohingya in all planning around Rohingya humanitarian, justice, and political issues.
And interview Rohingya for articles and news about Rohingya.
Thank you everyone, all the generous donations to our crowdfunding campaign for fire victims in the Rohingya camps have given hope and relief to many.
And we received several donations from Myanmar folks...thank you so much for your generosity at such a dire time. <3
Please read this thread. I've been wanting to make a similar comment and to say something similar about international justice institutions. Neither ICC nor ICJ can force a regime change or a new constitution, just like they can't achieve citizenship or repatriation for Rohingya.
I need to say a few words about the tenor of the public statements made by the UN and โWesternโ nations following the military coup in Myanmar. This is part of a conversation I had today with a friend in a remote part of Rakhine State. 1/
After destroyed the rohingya market in camp 14 Hakimpara and we are facing many challenges to buy vegetable, fish from market also now we need to go camp outside to buy those things why we don't have right to buy anything in Camp but we don't have right to go camps outside
From today's demonstration:
1. Include Rohingya in agreements about Rohingya
2. Dignified repatriation must include full citizenship
3. UNHCR please talk to us about the MoU
These are reasonable, clear, courteous requests. No reason not to honour.
Reaching out!
I'm doing a small study about Rohingya refugee youth who are studying in and teaching online courses.
If this is you, please msg me. I'd love to hear about your experiences with online learning and your ideas for making these opportunities available to more youth.
I have never spent a day in camp without hearing refugee youth plea for education. This community values learning so deeply and yet has been so denied. Refugee parents and locals alike tell us they are afraid what will become of an entire uneducated lost generation.
In the Rohingya camps, kids like Yasmin, 12, an aspiring doctor, & Kefayat, 16, who wants to be a journalist, were studying in Bangladeshi schools until a gov investigation outed them as refugees & they were expelled. Story w
@ReutersRuma
,
@KuhakanJiraporn
Amid the terrible flooding...a 25-yr-old Rohingya woman in the camps has been diagnosed with a large brain tumor. Brainstem glioma is highly treatable but hers seems advanced and she needs surgery.
We need to raise 50,000 tk / 590 USD. Please DM if you can donate to save a life.
New piece from
@TechnicalShabb3
and me for
@just_security
's Beyond the Coup series - a recap of feedback and reactions collected from Rohingya camp residents about the coup and the emergent waves of solidarity and reconciliation.
No
#rohingya
refugees have had any seat at any table during the myriad coordination meetings around humanitarian and policy decision-making in Cox's Bazar. Inclusivity is needed to amplify their voices in discussions around their own fate as a community.
Since 2012 Rohingya students in Rakhine State have had no access to any university, regardless of their matriculation exam results. Before that they could attend certain majors in Sittwe Uni, but not pre-professional ones, and for years couldn't attend other universities in Mymr.
#Rohingya
students top in 2018/19 Matriculation Exams inside the genocidal land
Unfortunately, this is the DEAD-END since
#Myanmar
bans university education for them. In 2017, over 750,000 became refugees in neighbouring
#Bangladesh
where they too are denied a formal
#education
.
Create job opportunities for refugees.
So many Rohingya, especially youth, have lost NGO jobs during the pandemic due to withdrawal of humanitarian services from the camps. I get multiple requests a day from job-seekers but I don't know of any current opportunities. Really sad.
A request to delegations who visit Rohingya community organizations in the camps: if you say you are going to follow up with support, donations, info, materials...please follow through. Groups are eagerly waiting to hear back on so many promises made but never followed up on.
@MiddleEastEye
One of them was my dear friend. I wish everyone reading this could know her.
She is made of pure light, the purest humanitarian with a heart of absolute gold.
The souls of these murderers shall be forever tormented, every minute, for the rest of their lives.
Raising money for emergency relief. Hundreds of fires have burnt
#rohingya
camps in Cox's Bazar over the years but early reports suggest this is the biggest one yet
Pls DM if you can donate and funds will go immediately to refugee led relief efforts while humanitarians mobilize.
It is the biggest fire we have ever witnessed in the camp in last 5 years which was started around 1 am and devastated thousands of shelters and made thousands of people displaced in this winter..
Another new Rohingya peace group is formed! The proliferation of refugees coming together to serve the community -I now know of 15 CBOs - shows an ongoing sense of dedication against so many odds. The warm welcome of RPI by existing groups shows there's room for everyone
The current health situation in the Rohingya camps is very bad. Attention is needed on this issue.
Hearing that nearly EVERY household has someone sick. This has happened within only a few days. Very few have been tested for Covid. Many people assume/hope it's seasonal flu.
Thanks to
@PRIOUpdates
for allowing me, Roshid Mubarak and Nurul Haque to map teaching activities and compile views of refugee community educators for our new report, "We Must Prevent a Lost Generation:
Community-led education in Rohingya refugee camps."
This article gives the most accurate overview I've seen about the documentation problems in Cox's Bazar camps.
Contrary to a popular view, the problem isn't over-documentation, it's over-engagement of certain fixers and victims with huge gaps elsewhere.
Lambashiya: Streets in this Rohingya camp this evening have transformed into a stand of defiance against youth abductions for forced conscription.
The community's resistance aims to protect their young from the
#Myanmar
military. The abductions are carried out by RSO and
Rohingya camp residents in Kutupalong are lying awake in fear every night this week as criminal activity escalates.
Urgent action by the responsible authorities is *desperately needed* to ensure the safety of innocent people.
Some masjids in
#rohingya
camps are falling apart. Religious leaders have had minimal resources to maintain them since many were built (of tarpaulin and bamboo) after the 2017 refugee influx.
If anyone is out there who can support some renovation costs please reach out
Many
#rohingya
camp friends in Cox's Bazar are looking for donors to help them provide
#iftar
in the camp during
#ramadan
.
People value breaking the fast properly as a matter of dignity and tradition. Not my wheelhouse but pls reach out if you can help or connect
An 8-year old Rohingya refugee girl in Bangladesh is suffering w brain cancer.
Her single mother has raised nearly half of the 200,000 tk ($1900) for her treatment by begging in the camp, trying very hard to save her.
110,000 tk ($1000) is still needed. Please chip in if u can
Really cool and exciting to learn about the accomplishments of Rohingya diaspora women. For the most part women in the camps remain so drastically disenfranchised, and it feels like diaspora women are starting to play a huge role in shaking things up and showing what is possible.
#Rohingya
girl born in
#Bangladesh
Nayapara Refugee camp & resettled in
#Bradford
, now represents
#England
for cricket.
A great advocate for Rohingya, refugees & women. She lost her father. She has her severely injured mother in car accident. A TREASURE.
As we approach August 25, the third commemoration of what has become known by Rohingya people as Genocide Day, it is painful to reflect on the lack of progress to resolve the crisis. My thoughts are with all Rohingya communities as this difficult anniversary nears. 1/
Our team is hearing from people who have made it to the border area that they really need food. There is NO humanitarian aid but we can reach them through mutual aid. Please consider donating and retweeting.
I bought a blue checkmark in the hope that more people will see this.
Attention Rohingya learners: Please DM me if you are studying online (through YouTube, WhatsApp, Coursera, open university, etc.)
I would like to speak to you and learn about your experiences for a study.
"There is a saying circulating in the Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh: To destroy a people, it is not necessary to kill them, only to deny them an education."
Rohingya Refugee Children Are Being Denied an Education
@Diplomat_APAC
A lot of Rohingya refugees, especially youth, in Bangladesh are just as addicted to social media as any of us. They can't leave the camps, can't go to school, can't get a real job. Social media is where they learn, express themselves, and connect with peers.
Excellent news that inspires some degree of hope in the new administration's foreign policy after our 4-year dumpster fire here
Biden to review whether Rohingya persecution genocide
12 newly arrived Rohingya refugee young women will be taking university entrance exams this weekend from a shelter in the camp ๐ hoping it works out but we need to do so much work on higher ed development ๐
After extensive planning, Centre for Peace and Justice at BRAC University (
@cpj_bracu
) has launched two projects in Cox's Bazar. In partnership with BRAC we are bringing university-level experiential learning opportunities to the camp and host community. Congrats to all involved!
Just realized I've been in the U.S. for three months already due to Covid.
Missing all the Rohingya, Bangladeshi and international colleagues and friends I've worked with closely for the last few years in Cox's Bazar.
Not sure when we'll meet again...
The rights and protections Rohingya people want are SO basic. Most of us have never pondered what life would be without basic rights, yet they endure the threat of trafficking and a million other concerns every day. The world's failure to do better for them is a shame on us all.
VIDEO: From the crowded camps of Bangladesh, Rohingya refugees take a dangerous and sometimes deadly trip by land and water as they try to reach Malaysia.
An
@AFP
investigation has pieced together the human trafficking network running the dangerous passage to a new life
The need for immediate relief for fire victims is overwhelming. People sitting in the ashes, no water, food, clothes...
So many pleas for help.
I know we are all fatigued from witnessing the endless tragedies, but our support is desperately needed, again.
DM if you can donate
Internet and mobile phone access should be immediately restored in Rohingya camps.
This is an emergency situation and protecting people is critical. Communication is part of that.
Another fire emergency...setting up an emergency fundraiser. DM me if you can donate.
At least 400 shelters burned down. People don't have shelter, food or clothes.
We can at least help fill gaps for some families as humanitarian services mobilize.
Hi all, we have another medical emergency for a patient, 6 mo pregnant, in critical condition with a kidney condition, in intensive care awaiting an operation. We need 582 USD (50,000 BDT).
Yes, we tried for days to get humanitarian support and could not. Pls DM if you can help.
A group of Rohingya youth in Cox's Bazar are trying to donate Iftar foods to the community during Ramadan. They are having a harder time finding supporters than in previous years.
Please get in touch if you can contribute or connect them to anyone who can. Thanks!
All over the
#rohingya
camps, the educated youth are voluntarily, quietly teaching basic English and Burmese literacy to young adults, elders and religious leaders alike who didn't have a chance to attend school due to discrimination, but still have a dream of learning to read.
Civilians in northern
#Rakhine
State in
#Myanmar
are facing the worst humanitarian crisis since 2017 and it is quickly getting worse. There may already be *tens of thousands* of people gathering near border areas. They need urgent humanitarian assistance but there is NONE.