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NCGUB: News on Migrants & Refugees- 18 February, 2010 (English & Burmese)

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NEWS ON MIGRANTS
Malaysia Cracks Down on Migrants
Teenaged Mon migrant brutally murdered
27,000 Burmese pass ID process
Lost faces behind another migration deadline
Millions of Burmese Migrants Could Fall Victim to Deportation and
Exploitation if Thai Migration Deadline is Not Extended

NEWS ON REFUGEES
Boat people resume their voyage to Malaysia
Bangladesh launches 'violent crack down' on Rohingyas: MSF

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Malaysia Cracks Down on Migrants
By ALEX ELLGEE Wednesday, February 17, 2010

The crackdown in Malayisa on illegal workers began on Sunday with the Negri
Sembilan Immigration Department arresting 116 foreigners, according to its director
Pisal Mustafa.

Thirteen of those arrested in the western Malaysian state had come from Burma, he
said, with 68 from Indonesia and the rest originating from India, Cambodia, Pakistan,
Vietnam, Nigeria and Nepal. All were aged between 22 and 38.

The migrants were arrested for overstaying their visas and/ or not being in possession
of travel documents, and were sent to Lenggeng detention center. Thirty immigration
officers were involved in the operation, codenamed “Ops Kutip,” he said.

However, Pranom Somwong, a coordinator for Workers Hub For Change and
Network for Action on Migrants in Malaysia told The Irrawaddy she had received
reports from the Burmese workers that they were, in fact, in possession of travel
documents.

“We’ve been told that some of the workers who were arrested over the weekend were
holding travel documents. When the police came, the workers tried to show their
documents but were beaten up by the police,” she said.

Human rights groups are concerned about what awaits those arrested at the Lenggeng
detention center, where abuses have been frequently documented.

“Having interviewed several people who have been detained there I can tell you it’s
extremely overcrowded and new arrivals are forced to sleep outside without
blankets,” a representative for an ethnic refugee organization told The Irrawaddy.

“There are only eight toilets for nearly 1,500 people, and the food they receive is
inadequate. It took three months for UNHCR card holders to be released,” he added.

According to the coordinator of a local labor rights organization, police have also
been conducting raids in Chinatown district in the capital, Kuala Lumpur.

Speaking to The Irrawaddy on Wednesday, he said many Burmese were among those
detained. He said that “plain-clothes police rounded up the workers and bundled them
into police wagons. Although the trucks are suitable for no more than 30 persons, they
were putting about 40 persons in each one.

“Most of them were released from the police station because their documents were in
order,” he said, adding that the raids have been a nightly occurence this week.

Meanwhile, the Malaysian home minister has told the national press that the
authorities hope to create a system which will allow them to monitor “each and every
foreigner” who enters Malaysia.

Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Tun Hussein said they hope this will create an
environment in which illegal immigrants would “feel afraid and threatened, and be
prepared to leave the country immediately.”

Commenting on the home minister's statement, Pranom Somwong said she felt it
wasn’t the appropriate way to deal with the problem.

“It seems like the government wants to make every foreigner––even if you have
passport or visa––afraid to live in Malaysia. This type of language gives a green light
to the police to carry out heavy-handed raids with impunity,” she said.

“The Burmese migrant communities are very worried. The raids are going on every
day. There are reports on the TV all day in which they only blame the workers.
Instead they need to pressure the employers to document the workers,” she said.

According to Malaysia's Home Ministry, last year Malaysian authorities carried out
7,099 operations against illegal immigrants, which saw 47,310 people being detained,
including 26,545 cases of illegal entry and 8,655 cases of overstaying.
http://www.irrawaddy.org/article.php?art_id=17829

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Teenaged Mon migrant brutally murdered
Wed 17 Feb 2010, IMNA

At 6 pm on February 12th of this year, a 15 year-old Mon migrant worker named

Mehm Banyar Seik was shot at his home in quarter 15 of Narthapi Township, in
Thailand’s Songkhala province. A member of the victim’s extended family agreed to
be interviewed by IMNA for this story.

The victim and several extended family members moved to Thailand one year ago,
from their home in Mudon Township. Mehm Banyar Seik reportedly worked at a
nearby rubber plantation with his uncle and aunt.

According to the victim’s great-aunt, on the night of the shooting Mehm Banyar Seik
was taking a shower, while his younger aunt was cooking and his uncle was busy
making rubber flats in the family’s front yard. Reportedly, 4 Thai individuals on
motorbikes arrived at the house and ordered Mehm Banyar Seik, his uncle, and his
aunt to stand in the front yard, where they were tied up at gunpoint.

According to the victim’s relative, chaos ensued when Mehm Baynar Seik’s aunt
dropped the small child she was holding. She was freed from her bonds long enough
to seize the child and escape on a motorbike; her husband used fled during the
distraction. Mehm Banyar Seik was left bound in the front yard with his captors.

Mehm Banyar Seik’ uncle, who was hiding nearby, reportedly heard shots, and then
witnessed the family’s attackers leaving the property. Family members and neighbors
returned to the property, where they found the victim’s body.

Mehm Banyar Seik had apparently been shot through the neck at point-blank range.
His body was sent to the quarter’s local hospital for investigation. His murderers have
not yet been apprehended.

The family member interviewed by IMNA quoted the policewoman who investigated
the case as saying, “You have to show us those Thai people if you recognize them.
They [Mehm Banyar Seik’s murderers] should not be free. You have to cooperate
with us until we find them.”

Violence against Burmese migrant workers is on the rise in Narthapi Township. The
woman interviewed for this story informed IMNA that a mere month before her
grand-nephew’s murder, a female Mon migrant worker, also from Township Quarter
15, was attacked by a gang of Thai individuals, who cut off her thumb before
departing and avoiding arrest by the local police force. Mehm Banyar Seik’s family
has reportedly decided to avoid further attacks by returning to Burma.

“We would like to go back [to Burma] because we are so sad about what happened to
Mehm Banyar Seik. We saw only this one shooting near us, it is also happening other
places that we can’t see. It [violence] is not less anywhere else here. [Once we are
back] I will not encourage the youths from our land to come Thailand, because some
will get shot and their families will never see or know them again,” the victim’s
relative told IMNA.

Mehm Banyar Seik’ relatives cremated him on February 15 in a religious ceremony.

The victim’s boss contributed 10,000 baht to his former employee’s funeral, and
agreed to present an additional 30,000 to the victim’s family, to be given to his
parents upon the clan’s return to Burma.

According to the relative interviewed by IMNA, Mehn Banyar Seik’s former boss has
also pledged to help the victim’s family pursue the investigation of their relative’s
murder, until the culprits are found.

http://www.monnews-imna.com/newsupdate.php?ID=1671

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27,000 Burmese pass ID process
The Nation, February 18, 2010

Out of nearly one million Burmese workers in Thailand, 27,000 have passed the
national identification process, the Department of Employment (DOE) revealed
yesterday.

DOE chief Jeerasak Sukhonthachat said that some 200,000 Burmese workers applied
for the process but only 26,902 completed it.

Those who applied before February 28 would be allowed to remain and work in
Thailand for another two years pending the process completion, while those failing to
meet the deadline would be repatriated, he said. This arrangement was already
flexible because the agency previously required workers to submit their nationality
identification papers by February 28 but, since there were few applicants, workers
were allowed to apply to remain in Thailand while the process was ongoing.

Deputy PM Sanan Kachornprasart, who chaired the Alien Labour Management

committee, would assign officials to crack down on illegal workers and repatriate
them. They were getting tough because they wanted all workers to be legal, Jeerasak
said.

Researcher from Migrant Working Group (MWG), Adisorn Kerdmongkol, reported

the results of a survey of 273 Burmese workers in Bangkok, Samut Prakan, Pathum
Thani, Chiang Mai, Tak, Ranong, Phuket and Surat Thani about the nationality
identification process.

About 20 per cent didn't know about and saw no need for the nationality identification
which showed, he said, a lack of good PR and proactive measures among government
agencies. Some 54 per cent learned about it from unofficial sources such as friends
and employers. For reasons given for not joining, 50 per cent cited fear of being
arrested if they did it in person, 57 per cent were worried about the impact on their
families in Burma, 48 per cent were concerned about lack of funds (as many believed
it would cost up to Bt10,000), and 46 per cent said they did not understand the process.
Twenty per cent feared the Burmese government because they had fled to Thailand
from political threats, human right violations and ethnicity conflicts. He urged the
government to extend the nationality identification deadline and, through active PR,
keep all workers well-informed.

http://www.nationmultimedia.com/2010/02/18/national/national_30122866.php

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Lost faces behind another migration deadline
18/02/2010 at 09:04 AM

A round 2 million manual labourers from Burma, Cambodian and Laos currently
work in Thailand. Many remain underground. These ``migrants'' could well be seen to
contribute greatly to the economy, and remain an untapped source of cultural and
spiritual vitality that could enrich and diversify Thai society.

Instead, they are seen as commodities or, worse, as one big national security threat.

Many of these workers follow the river of life wherever it takes them. From poorer to
richer lands, from less to more developed countries, from war to peace, from
dictatorships to democracies, from old to new experiences, and importantly, from
supply to demand.

They arrive in Thailand as the economy needs them. Their life experiences often
mean they need Thailand, too.

Consecutive governments have sought to manage irregular migration flows from

neighbouring countries into Thailand. Policy-makers have considered primarily the
short-term needs of the economy, relying on yearly cabinet decisions. So it was that
work permits for over 60,000 migrants, almost all from Burma, were to expire on
January 20, 2010 before the cabinet had considered what to do with them.

On Jan 19, just a day before this and just a day after over 30 domestic and
international rights organisations petitioned the prime minister with concerns of
impending mass deportations, the cabinet issued a resolution on migrants.

The resolution allowed this group of workers until February 28, 2010 to renew their
permits for another two years. But for the first time, extended permission to stay and
work in Thailand formally came with two conditions attached:

1. Migrants must enter into a nationality verification process (NV) before Feb 28,
2010; and

2. Migrants must complete NV before Feb 28, 2012.

``Agreeing'' to NV means submitting biographical information to their governments

via employment offices or, as is more often the case, to brokers.

For the other 1.3 million workers (83% from Burma, the rest from Cambodia and
Laos) who previously had until Feb 28, 2010 to complete an NV process, most have
not even begun, and many to whom NV still means nothing, the same conditions now
apply.

The Ministry of Labour was ordered to conduct effective public awareness campaigns
for migrants and their employers on what NV is. Policy-makers woke up to the reality
that few understand what NV is all about.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has been ordered to bring foreign officials
(presumably they are talking about Burmese officials) into Thailand to conduct NV,
so the Minister of Labour is heading off to Bagan this week.

If any migrant still refuses to enter NV by Feb 28, 2010, the cabinet's resolution is
unambiguous. They shall be rounded up, arrested and deported en masse.

The migrant workers' last opportunity to play by the rules has arrived. NV means
migrants are asked to become ``legal'' to allow Thailand's new era of migration
management to become reality. As they ``illegally'' entered Thailand without
permission (and in the case of migrants from Burma, they ``illegally'' left Burma
without permission too), biographies are established and another country agrees to
acknowledge their citizens, before they are legally imported.

For migrants from Burma, many of whom are from ethnic minorities, both legally and
morally it is more straightforward _ they have to become ``Burmese'' and they have to
do this in Burma.

Less morally challenging, NV means migrants receive documents from their country
of origin (including a ``temporary'' passport) to enter Thailand ``legally''. These
documents allow them to receive more documents (visa, work permit and health
insurance) to ``legally'' reside and work in Thailand for 2 years at a time, for a period
not exceeding 4 years, and then they must go back home.

NV is ``formally'' about regularisation and is relatively cheap. A Burmese temporary

passport is 100 baht and a Thai 2-year visa is 500 baht. A migrant becoming ``legal''
brings with it potentially higher levels of rights protection. For the first time, migrants
are able to ride motorbikes, access work accident compensation and travel within
Thailand without restrictions _ a marked increase in freedom of movement.

Unruly officials will apparently be hard pressed to exploit these people

anymore. Many remain unsure, however, if all of this will in fact become reality.

But ``informally'', some suggest other motives for NV. Brokers are highly
recommended to navigate a 13-step process, such that cheap becomes expensive. The
initial fee of 600 baht becomes 6,000 baht, as no laws apparently exist to regulate
them. Unconfirmed reports suggest that Burmese officials are using NV to crack
down on democracy activists, extort money from migranst' relatives or confiscate land.

Some fear Burmese intelligence systems are overflowing with data on previously
unmapped ethnic populations. Explanations abound why Burma will not conduct NV
in Thailand, like Cambodia and Laos.
However powerless, voiceless or confused migrants currently remain, there seems a
limit to their cooperation with anyone, let alone governments, in the NV process.

This ``limit'' is related to two major challenges they face in their lives _ personal and
financial security. Especially for workers from Burma, and even more so for those
from Burma's ethnic minorities, they have more experience than most in sensing
impending danger. If you ask them to do that which they genuinely believe (for
whatever reasons) is not in their security interests, they seem to manage risks or find
another way out.

Filling in NV forms with false information by Feb 28 to provide some breathing space
will result.

Most migrants from Burma came to Thailand to find money to survive, educate their
siblings or support their parents. Ask them to expend huge sums of money on a
bureaucratic process so as to live and work without the hope of being able to save
such money, and they perhaps will decide their financial status is no longer secure.
Why should migrants enter into NV for few benefits whilst also risking their lives?

Human rights activists are in a way like environmentalists. They are closer to nature,
to people, even perhaps to anarchy. They like the thought of natural flowing rivers
and seek to limit what they see as un-natural means to stifle the flow which
governments consider an imperative for national security. Some activists genuinely
engage governments to ensure policies that are inclusive and as human rights friendly
as possible. As a migrant voice is currently unheard, some NGOs seek genuinely to
provide a voice for the voiceless here, with little bias and whether they receive
funding or not.

What is the best way to manage migration, as a human rights activist could not be that
which any government would accept or adopt. However, a plethora of on-the-ground
experience suggests that Thailand, in managing irregular migration, is seeking to
manage people with a profound sense of insecurity.

If its migration policy is to genuinely bring stability and security, it will seek to
manage migrants as ``people'' with a past, and not as commodities without a future.

Providing ``people'' information in a way they can understand it, on what you are
requesting them to do, and supporting positive community mechanisms already in
place, may well assist.

Respect migrants' opinions and needs, even nourish organising of migrant

communities, and the real voice of migrants can replace at times eschewed, prejudiced
and funding-orientated voices of NGOs. Make processes as simple, cheap, transparent
and pain-free as possible. Then these ``people'' may well come on board.

The price of migration mismanagement to be paid by economies, societies and,

importantly, ``people'' is a high one. In Thailand, some migrants are packing up and
going home in the face of NV deadlines, threats of deportation and unacceptably high
broker costs.
They are jumping once again on a natural river of life to take them to another place.

Some employers are crying foul as workplaces are being depleted of cheap and hard-
working labour. Human rights activists are sensing random and un-justifiable
deportations may soon occur and are preparing themselves. The world is already
closely watching Burma 2010, and many are now watching as February 28, 2010
approaches in Thailand.

Managing migration effectively is about engaging all viewpoints, mapping the

ferocious and uncontrollable torrents of a natural river to see where it bends and
curves, hearing the missing voices and seeing the missing faces.

If Thailand started to think like this when enacting its future migration policies, then
if a deadline for NV really has to be laid down, observers could at least give some
praise for the inclusive dialogue that was undertaken in a genuine attempt to manage
an unwieldy migration process in which emotional, unpredictable and insecure
migrants are involved.

Thailand has duties, both according to domestic constitutional and international law.

But Thailand has moral duties, too, and as Thailand needs migrants, the economic
imperative for careful reconsideration of the existing NV policy remains strong.

When senior officials suggest the Feb 28, 2010 deadline is more grey than black, and
that perhaps a record of intention to fill in NV forms is enough to get work permits
renewed for now, one senses civil society's campaign on NV is seeing the light.

When you see faces, hear voices, consider experiences and truly understand the
millions of actors behind this tragic story, it would be heartless for any government to
turn away from the truth.

http://www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/opinion/168839/lost-faces-behind-another-
migration-deadline

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Millions of Burmese Migrants Could Fall Victim to Deportation and
Exploitation if Thai Migration Deadline is Not Extended
Thursday, 18 February 2010 17:00 HRDF

Millions of migrants are threatened by the Royal Thai Government (RTG) with
deportation after 28th February 2010 if they fail to enter a nationality verification
process (NV). Senior officials stress this deadline is non-negotiable and mass
deportations will occur if migrants or employers do not comply.

Over 80% of registered migrants in Thailand (or 1.1 million persons) are from Burma
and face ethnic and political conflict as well as continuing economic deterioration in
their homeland, which is controlled by a military government. Migrants from Burma
left their country illegally but are being pressured by the RTG to submit their
biographical information to Burma’s military government. If accepted as “Burmese”
these migrants must return to Burma to complete NV and return to work “legally” in
Thailand with temporary Burmese passports. Hundreds of thousands of unregistered
Burmese migrants are excluded from NV and have no option but deportation after
28th February 2010.

Somchai Homlaor, Secretary General of the Human Rights and Development

Foundation (HRDF) today said: “The RTG must immediately extend the 28th
February deadline and cease threats of mass deportation. Mass deportations will serve
only to harm both Thailand’s economy which remains heavily reliant on migrant
labour as well as Thailand’s international reputation. But more importantly, sticking
to this rigid deadline means after 28th February migrants will fall victim to gross
exploitation as they are forced underground at a politically sensitive time for Thailand.
Systematic corruption will then prosper.”

• Only around 25, 000 migrants from Burma have so far completed NV
• Only around 200, 000 migrants from Burma have so far entered NV
• Most migrants in Thailand do not yet understand NV
• Genuine humanitarian concerns remain for migrants forced to go through NV in
Burma
• Unregulated NV brokers are exploiting migrants with exorbitant fees
• Many migrants from Burma cannot and will not enter NV but no strategy to
support them yet exists

Somchai adds: “Thailand’s migration policies must be carefully planned to ensure

protection of migrants’ human rights. The NV process has not been well thought out
and remains a serious threat to the human security of over 2 million workers that
contribute greatly to our economy and society.”

On 16th February 2010 at the UN’s offices in Bangkok, complaint letters were
submitted to Special Rapporteurs on the Human Rights of Migrants and on the
Situation of Human Rights in Myanmar as well as the Director General of the
International Labour Organisation. Over 200 migrants, unionists and rights defenders
then marched to Government House to submit an open letter of concern to Prime
Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva, signed by over 60 domestic, regional and international
rights groups and trade unions. The open letter demanded amongst other things an end
to threats of mass deportation for migrants, NV for Burmese migrants in Thailand and
not Burma and strict regulation of NV brokers.

For further media comment on this press release, please contact:

• Mr. Somchai Homlaor (Secretary General, HRDF): +66 818 995476 (Thai/English)
• Mr. Andy Hall (Director, HRDF’s Migrant Justice Programme): +66 846 119209
(English/Thai)
• Mr. Hseng Htay (Fieldworker, HRDF’s Migrant Justice Programme): +66 830
139736 (Burmese)

http://www.shanland.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2930:mil
lions-of-burmese-migrants-could-fall-victim-to-deportation-and-exploitation-if-thai-
migration-deadline-is-not-extended&catid=102:mailbox&Itemid=279

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Boat people resume their voyage to Malaysia
Wednesday, 17 February 2010 22:43

Cox’s Bazaar, Bangladesh: Since January 30, boat people, mostly Rohingya people
from Arakan and from Bangladesh have resumed their journey to Malaysia from
Bangladesh, said a local from Teknaf on condition of anonymity.

On January 30, nearly 80 boat people went to Malaysia in wooden boats from Cox’s
Bazaar coastline in Bangladesh while the sea was calm in winter. They will reach
Thailand or Indonesia, India or Malaysia. But, we have no information on the boat
people, said one of the relatives of the boat people.

On January 15, another boat with 60 people went to Malaysia from Cox’s Bazaar
district of Bangladesh and from Arakan, in Burma. The boat was commanded by
Khobir Ahmed (25), son of Abdul Khalek and Rohul Amin from Nataung Para of
Teknaf, said a fisherman from Shapuri Dip.

Another boat with over 50 boatpeople will be leaving for Malaysia in the next two
days from Cox’s Bazaar coast. Hafez Ahamed (40), son of late Abul Hashim, from
Nataung Para of Teknaf union and Moulvi Abdu Rahim, from Maungdaw north, now
living in Bangladesh are involved in sending people to Malaysia on the sea route.
Moulvi Abdu Rahim frequently visits Thailand and Malaysia by air for his human
trafficking bsusiness, said a local from Teknaf.

They (traffickers) collect Kyat 20,000 to 30,000 per head from those who want to go
to Malaysia by sea. If a trip succeeds, the human traffickers will profit at least one
million Taka (Bangladesh currency), the local added.

A local Rohingya requested local Bangladesh authorities to stop boatpeople from

risky journeys to Malaysia along the sea route immediately; otherwise, they will be in
trouble like boatpeople last year.

Last year, thousands of Rohingya people who fled Burma because of persecution such
as---denial of citizenship, subject to tight restrictions on movement, employment and
religious freedom and in search of a better life. Many of them make it across a
dangerous sea crossing over in crowded boats to Thailand where they are housed in
camps. The Rohingya has the distinction of being the most devastated people in
Burma. Rohingya people have been the target of abuses by the Burmese military for
decades.

At present, Rohingya people face serious risks of state violence and coercion, after
barbed wire fence building on Burma-Bangladesh border. Regarding this, emergence
of forced relocations, confiscation of lands, forced labour and other abuses have
increased.

A villager elder said, “People leave the country because of arbitrary arrests, torture
and extortion, movement restriction, forced labour, seizing of land and joblessness.”
In Bangladesh refugees have been arrested and pushed back to Burma. They are not
allowed to go out from their camps to support their family members. Therefore
refugees want to go to Malaysia taking risks in wooden boats, said a refugee.

Last year, the boat people were towed out to deep sea and set adrift by Thai forces
without engines and food and water. They were also tortured and beaten up. Hundreds
are thought to have died as a result.

There is need for regional cooperation to help solve the problem of the thousands of
Rohingya fleeing. They are political refugees and not economic refugees, said a
schoolteacher from Maungdaw town.

http://www.kaladanpress.org/v3/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2
437:boat-people-resume-their-voyage-to-malaysia-&catid=117:february-
2010&Itemid=2

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Bangladesh launches 'violent crack down' on Rohingyas: MSF
Feb 18, 2010 (AFP)

Bangladesh has unleashed a crackdown of unprecedented violence against Muslim

refugees from neighbouring Burma, a report by humanitarian group Medecins Sans
Frontieres said Thursday.

Described by the United Nations as one of the most persecuted minorities on earth,
thousands of Rohingyas from Burma's northern Rakhaine state stream across the
border into Bangladesh every year.

Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders) said authorities in Muslim-

majority Bangladesh had begun a campaign of repression against unregistered
Rohingyas who are estimated to number 200,000.

Those living outside of an official Rohingya camp in Kutuplaong on the Burma

border have been subject to "unprecedented levels of violence," the group said in a
report.

"We are seeing what appears to be a violent crackdown which is driving the Rohingya
out of the community," MSF head of mission in Bangladesh Paul Critchley told AFP.
"We have treated many patients who have been victims of violent attacks, who tell us
they have been beaten by police... arrested, handed over to the Bangladesh border
security and forced to swim back to Myanmar(Burma)," he said.

The new crackdown has also forced unregistered Rohingyas in local towns to flee to a
unofficial, makeshift camp in Kutuplaong, where conditions are rapidly deteriorating,
MSF said.

More than 6,000 people have arrived at the makeshift camp since October, 2,000 of
those in January alone, the report said.
"People are crowding into a crammed and unsanitary patch of ground with no
infrastructure to support them. Prevented from working to support themselves, neither
are they permitted food aid," said Critchley.

Bangladesh recognises 28,000 Rohingya as official refugees, who live in official

camps under the supervision of the United Nations. This figure is a fraction of the
estimated 200,000 unofficial refugees, MSF says.

There are an estimated 700,000 Rohingya in Burma, where they are not recognised as
citizens and have no right to own land and are forbidden from marrying or travelling
without permission.

Police on the border with Burma told AFP Thursday that although a crackdown on
unregistered Rohingya was under way, there had been no police brutality against the
refugees.

"Any refugees who go to seek medical treatment likely got hurt by each other -- they
are always fighting," said Rafiqul Islam, chief of the local police in Kutuplaong on the
Burma border, when asked about MSF's findings.

He said the crackdown was necessary to prevent further mass migration.

"If we don't stop them, the floodgates will open," he said.

http://english.dvb.no/news.php?id=3327

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ခ်င္းမိုင္ (မဇၥ်ိမ)။ ။ ျမန္မာေရႊ႕ေျပာင္း
လုပ္သမားမ်ားက ထိုင္းႏိုင္င

ံ တြင္း
လုပ္လုပ္ခင
ြ ့္
သက္တမ္းတိုးႏိုင္ရန္ သက္တမ္း ေနာက္ဆံုးကာလကို ရက္ထပ္တိုးေပး ရန္ ယမန္ေန႔က ဘန္ေကာက္တင
ြ ္
ဆႏၵျပၾကသည္။

ဆႏၵျပသူ ၃ဝဝ ခန္႔က
ဂၤါေန႔နံနက္ ကိုးနာရီခန္႔မွစ၍ ကုလသမဂၢ႐ုံး၊
ျပည္ျပည္ဆိုင္ရာ
လုပ္သမား

ဖြ႔ခ
ဲ ်ဳပ္႐ုံးႏွင့္ ဝန္ၾကီးခ်ဳပ္႐ုံးတို႔တင
ြ ္ ျမန္မာေရႊ႔ေျပာင္း
လုပ္သမားမ်ား
ား
စုလိုက္
ၿပံဳလိုက္ ျပန္လည္
ပို႔ေဆာင္မည္

့ ေပၚ ျပန္လည္သံုးသပ္ရန္၊ ထိုင္းႏိုင္ငံတင
ြ ္ ႏိုင္ငံသား စီစစ္ေရး စင္တာ ထားရွိေပးရန္ႏွင့္

ခ်ိဳ႕ေသာ
ခ်က္မ်ား ေတာင္းဆိုခ့ၾဲ ကသည္။

သန္းႏွင့္ခ်ီေသာ ျမန္မာေရႊ႔ေျပာင္း
လုပ္သမားမ်ားသည္ ယခုလ ၂၈ ရက္ေန႔ေနာက္ဆံုးထား၍ ႏိုင္ငံသား

စီစစ္ျခင္းျပဳလုပ္ရန္ပ်က္ကက
ြ ္ခ့ဲလွ်င္ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံသို႔ ျပန္လည္ပို႔ေဆာင္ျခင္းခံရမည္ဟု ထိုင္း
စိုးရ၏
ထုတ္ျပန္ခ်က္မ်ားတြင္ပါဝင္သည္။

ႏိုင္ငံသားစီစစ္ျခင္း
ဆင့္သည္ ယာယီ ႏိုင္ငံကူးလက္မွတ္ ေလွ်ာက္ထားရန္
တြက္ လို
ပ္ေသာ


ဆင့္တဆင့္ျဖစ္သည္။ ယာယီႏိုင္ငံကူးလက္မွတ္ရွိမွသာလွ်င္
လုပ္လုပ္ခင
ြ ့္ သက္တမ္းတိုးႏိုင္သည္ ဟု
ဘန္ေကာက္
ေျခစိုက္ ေရာင္ျခည္Uီး
လုပ္သမား
ဖြဲ႔မွ ကိုေစာဂ်က္က ရွင္းျပသြားသည္။

သူကပင္ဆက္လက္၍ “၂၈ ရက္ေန႔ဆိုတာက ေရႊ႔ေျပာင္း
လုပ္သမားေတြ
တြက္
လုပ္လုပ္ခင

ြ ့္ (ဘတ္)
သက္တမ္းတိုးရမယ့္ ေနာက္ဆံုးေန႔ေပါ့ေနာ္။
ဲဒီေန႔မွာ သက္တမ္းမတိုးတဲ့လူေတြေတာ့ ဖမ္းဆီးခံ
ထိမယ္ေပါ့။
ဲဒီရက္ကို ေနာက္ထပ္ တိုးေပးဖို႔ေပါ့ေနာ္၊
ဲဒါကိ

ု ဓိကထား ေတာင္းဆိုတာပါ” ဟု
ေတာင္းဆိုခ်က္မ်ားကို ရွင္းျပသြားသည္။

ႏိုင္ငံသားစီစစ္ျခင္းျဖည့္စက
ြ ္ရာတြင္ မိမိတို႔၏ ကိုယ္ေရး
ခ်က္
လက္မ်ား
ားလံုးနီးပါးကို ေဖာ္ျပရသျဖင့္

လုပ္သမား
မ်ားစုက ေၾကာက္ရံ႕ြ ေနၾကေၾကာင္း၊ ႏုိင္ငံသာစီစစ္ျခင္းကို ျဖည့္စြက္လွ်င္လည္း
နယ္စပ္
ထိ ျပန္၍ ျဖည့္စက
ြ ္ရေသာေၾကာင့္
ႏၲရာယ္မ်ားေၾကာင္းလည္း လူ႔
ခြင

့္ ေရးႏွင့္
ဖြံ႔ၿဖိဳးတိုးတက္ေရး ေဖာင္ေဒးရွင္း ဒါ႐ိုက္တာ Mr. Andy Hall က ေ
ာက္ပါ
တိုင္းေျပာသြားသည္။

“ေရႊ႔ေျပာင္း
လုပ္သမားေတြ
တြက္
ခ်ိဳ႕ေသာ
ႏၲရာယ္ေတြလဲ ျဖစ္ေပၚလာႏိုင္ပါတယ္၊ Uပမာ

ယာU္တိုက္မႈ၊ ယာU္မေတာ္တဆမႈတို႔၊ ေနာက္ လူကုန္ကူးမႈ
ႏၲရာယ္ေတြကေန ေရွာင္ရွားႏိုင္ဖို႔
ျမန္မာ
စိုးရဟာ ထိုင္းႏိုင္ငံထက
ဲ ိုလာၿပီးေတာ့ ႏိုင္ငံသားစိစစ္ေရးစင္တာ တခုဖင
ြ ့္ဖို႔လ

ို ပ္ေနပါတယ္” ဟု
Mr. Andy Hall က ေျပာသည္။

ေရႊ႔ေျပာင္း
လုပ္သမားမ်ား
တြင္းတြင္
လုပ္သမားကဒ္ရွိသူမ်ား
နက္မွ ႏွစ္ဆယ္ ရာႏႈန္းခန္႔သာ

ယာယီႏိုင္ငံကူးလက္မွတ္ရရွိၿပီးသူမ်ားျဖစ္ၿပီး က်န္ရွစ္ဆယ္ရာႏႈန္းခန္႔မွာ ယာယီႏိုင္ငံကူးလက္မွတ္
ေလွ်ာက္ထားျခင္း မျပဳရေသးသူမ်ားျဖစ္သည္ ဟု ကိုေစာဂ်က္ကေျပာသည္။

ဆႏၵျပပြတ
ဲ င
ြ ္ ပါဝင္ခ့ေ
ဲ သာ ေရႊ႔ေျပာင္း
လုပ္သမားတUီးက “က်ေနာ္ကေတာ့
လုပ္သမားကဒ္ (ဘတ္)
ေတာ့ရွိပါတယ္၊ ဒါေပမယ့္ ယာယီႏိုင္ငံကူးလက္မွတ္ေတာ့ မလုပ္ရေသးဘူး။ က်ေနာ္ရတဲ့ လခနဲ႔က
ဘယ္လိုမွလုပ္ဖ

ို႔ ဆင္မေျပဘူးေလ၊ ပြစ
ဲ ားေတြကို ေပးေနရတာက ေျခာက္ေထာင္ေက်ာ္
ခုႏွစ္ေထာင္ေတာင္ေပးေနရတယ္” ဟု မဇၥ်ိမကိုေျပာသည္။

ေရႊ႔ေျပာင္း
လုပ္သမားတUီးျဖစ္သူ ကိုေနလင္းေ
ာင္က “တကယ္လို႔ သူတို႔ျပန္ပို႔မယ္ဆိုရင္ေတာ့

က်ေနာ္

့ ေနနဲ႔ ျပန္သာြ း႐ုံကလြၿဲ ပီး ဘာမွမတတ္ႏိုင္ဘူးေလ။ သူတို႔ဖမ္းလဲ ခံရမွာပဲေပါ့” ဟု ေျပာသြားသည္။

ထိုင္းႏိုင္ငံတင
ြ ္ ေရႊ႔ေျပာင္း
လုပ္သမားမ်ား ၁ သန္းမွ ၅ သန္း
ထိ ရွိႏိုင္သည္ဟု NGO မ်ားမွ
ခန္႔မွန္းၾကေသာ္လည္း ထိုင္း
ာဏာပိုင္မ်ားက မျဖစ္ႏိုင္ဟုဆိုကာ ျငင္းဆိုထားသည္ဟု MAP Foundation
ထံမွ သိရသည္။

http://www.mizzimaburmese.com/news/regional/4843-2010-02-17-11-59-55.html

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နာဂစ္ဒုကၡသည္ (၅) သိန္း
တြက္
ုိး
ိမ္လ

ုိ ပ္ဆဲ
ဝီရ/ ၁၇ ေဖေဖာ္၀ါရီ ၂ဝ၁ဝ
နာဂစ္မုန္တုိင္းဒဏ္သင့္ ဒုကၡသည္မ်ား
တြက္ ျပန္လည္ထူေထာင္ေရး လုပ္ငန္းမ်ား လုပ္ေဆာင္ရာတြင္

ုိး
ိမ္လုိ
ပ္ေနသူ လူUီးေရ (၅) သိန္းေက်ာ္ က်န္ရွိေနေသးေၾကာင္း ေရႊ႕ေျပာင္းလုပ္သားမ်ားဆုိင္ရာ

ျပည္ျပည္ဆုိင္ရာ
ဖြ

႔ဲ စည္း (IOM) က ေျပာၾကားသည္။

“လာမယ့္ မုိးရာသီကုိ ရင္ဆုိင္ၾကဖုိ႔
ကူ
ညီလုိ
ပ္ေနတဲ့
ုိး
ိမ္မဲ့ မိသားစုဝင္ေပါင္း (၁)

သိန္းေက်ာ္
ထိ ရွိေနေသးတယ္။ ဒီ ၂၀၁၀ ေမလမွာမွ
ကူ
ညီ
သစ္ေတြ မရရင္
Eရာဝတီတုိင္း
ေျခစုိက္ က်ေနာ္တုိ႔ ႐ုံး (၃) ႐ုံးကုိ ပိတ္ပစ္ရေတာ့မယ့္
ေျခ
ေနနဲ႔ ရင္ဆုိင္ရႏုိင္တယ္။
ၿပီးေတာ့ က်ေနာ္တုိ႔ရ႕ဲ
ုိး
ိမ္တည္ေဆာက္ေရး
စီ
စU္ကုိလည္း ရပ္ဆုိင္းရမွာ ျဖစ္တယ္” ဟု
ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံဆုိင္ရာ IOM
ဖြ႔ဲတာဝန္ခံ မာရီကုိး တုိမီရာမ က ေဖေဖာ္ဝါရီ (၁၆) ရက္ ထုတ္ျပန္သည့္
ေၾကညာခ်က္တင
ြ ္ ေျပာၾကားခ့သ
ဲ ည္။

ုိး
ိမ္မ်ား
ေရးတႀကီး လုိ
ပ္ေနေသာ နာဂစ္ဒုကၡသည္ မိသားစု၀င္ေပါင္း (၅) ေသာင္း
တြက္

ေမရိကန္ေဒၚလာ (၁၇) သန္း ထပ္မံရရွိရန္ IOM က
လႉရွင

္ ဖြ

ဲ႔ စည္းမ်ားထံ တင္ျပထားေၾကာင္း
သိရသည္။

က်န္ရွိေနေသးေသာ
ုိး
ိမ္မ်ား
တြက္
ျခား
ဖြဲ႔
စည္းတုိ႔က တည္ေဆာက္ေပးႏုိင္ရန္

စီစU္ေနေၾကာင္းလည္း မာရီကုိး တုိမီရာမ က ဆုိသည္။

IOM
ဖြ႔သ
ဲ ည္ နာဂစ္တုိက္ခတ္ၿပီးေနာက္ပုိင္း Eရာဝတီတုိင္းရွိ ဒုကၡသည္ (၄) သိန္း
တြက္

ုိး
ိမ္
ပါ
ဝင္ က်န္းမာေရး၊ စိတ္ဓာတ္ေရးရာႏွင့္ လူမႈေရးရာ
ေထာက္
ကူျပဳ လုပ္ငန္းမ်ားကုိ
လုပ္ေဆာင္ေပးခဲ့သည္။

IOM ၏ နာဂစ္မုန္တုိင္း ျပန္လည္တည္ေဆာက္ေရးစီမံကိန္းကို ၂၀၀၈ ခုႏွစ္၊ ေ
ာက္တိုဘာမွ

စတင္ေဆာင္ရက
ြ ္ခ့ၿဲ ပီး ဂ်ပန္ႏုိင္ငံမွ ေထာက္ပံ့ေငြျဖင့္ ေဆာင္ရြက္ခဲ့ျခင္းျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း သိရသည္။

၂၀၀၈ ခု ေမလက တုိက္ခတ္သြားသည့္ နာဂစ္မုန္တုိင္းေၾကာင့္ ေသဆုံးသူ (၁) သိန္း (၄)

ေသာင္း
ထိရွိခ့ၿဲ ပီး
ုိး
ိမ္မ့သ
ဲ ူ (၂) သန္းေက်ာ္ရွိသည္။

(၁၈) လေက်ာ္ ၾကာျမင့္လာသည့္ နာဂစ္ေဒသ ျပန္လည္ထူေထာင္ေရး
ေျခ
ေနသည္

လုပ

္ ကုိင္ရွားပါးျခင္း၊ စီးပြားေရး ဖြံ႔ၿဖဳိးမႈ ေႏွးေကြးျခင္းတုိ႔ေၾကာင့္ ပကတိ
ေန
ထားသုိ႔
ျပန္လည္ေရာက္ရွိရန္
ကူ
ညီ
မ်ား
ျပား လု

ိ ပ္ေနေသးေၾကာင္း သုံးပြင့္ဆုိင္ကူညီေရး
ဖြဲ႔၏
ေနာက္ဆုံးထုတ္ျပန္ေသာ
စီရင္ခံစာတြင္ ေဖာ္ျပထားသည္။

ဘက္ေပါင္းစုံမွ
ကူ
ညီ လုိ
ပ္ေနဆဲ နာဂစ္ဒုကၡသည္မ်ား
တြက္
လႉေငြ
ေမရိကန္ေဒၚလာ (၈၈)

သန္း ရရွိခ့ရ
ဲ ာ၌
ုိး
ိမ္တည္ေဆာက္ေရးစီမံကိန္း
တြက္
ေမရိကန္ေဒၚလာ (၂) သိန္း (၅) ေသာင္းသာ
သုံးစြခ
ဲ ့ရ
ဲ ေၾကာင္း သုံးပြင့္ဆုိင္ ဗဟု

ိ ဖြ႔က
ဲ ေျပာၾကားထားသည္။

ရရွိသည့္
လႉေငြ
ေပၚ မူတည္ၿပီး နာဂစ္ဒဏ္သင့္သူမ်ား လုံးဝ နာလန္ထူလာေ
ာင္

ျပန္လည္ထူေထာင္ေရးလုပ္ငန္း
တြက္ (၃) ႏွစ္မွ (၄) ႏွစ္ထိ ၾကာျမင့္ႏုိင္သည္ဟု သုံးပြင့္ဆုိင္
ဖြဲ႔
လႈမႈေရးညႇိႏႈိင္းမႈတာဝန္ခံ ကုလကုိယ္စားလွယ္ Mr. Bishow Parajuli က ခန္႔မွန္းထားသည္။

http://www.khitpyaing.org/news/February%2010/17210f.php

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သဘာ၀ ေဘး

ေဘး
ႏၱရာယ္ ကာကြယ္တားဆီးေရးဆုိင္ရာ ေဆြးေႏြးပဲြ ထိုင္းႏိုင္ငံ ေတာင္ပိုင္း၌
က်င္းပ
Thursday, 18 February 2010 15:42

ဒုတိယ
ႀကိမ္ ျဖစ္ေပၚလာႏုိင္ေသာ ဆူနာမီေရလိႈင္း ေဘး
ႏၱာရာယ္
တြင္း ေဆာင္ရန္ႏွင့္ ေရွာင္က်U္ရန္

ခ်က္မ်ားကုိ
ဓိကထား ေဆြးေႏြးခဲ့သည့္ “သဘာ၀ေဘး
ႏၱရာယ္ ကာကြယ္တား ဆီးေရးဆုိင္ရာ
ေဆြးေႏြးပဲြ” ကုိ ထုိင္းႏိုင္ငံေတာင္ပိုင္း ဖန္ငခရုိင္ တေကာပါၿမိဳ႕နယ္ ဘန္နီယန္ေက်းရြာရွိ Sam Sung
community center တြင္ ၁၄.၂.၁၀ ရက္ေန႔က ျပဳလုပ္ခဲ့ၾကသည္။

ထုိင္းလူမ်ိဳး လူမႈကယ္ဆယ္ေရး
ဖြ႔ဲ ကိုယ္စားလွယ္ (၄)Uီးႏွင့္ သသာ၀ပတ္၀န္းက်င္ ထိန္းသိမ္းေရးဆုိင္ရာ

ဖြ႔က
ဲ ိုယ္စားလွယ္ တစ္Uီးတို႔မွ Uီးေဆာင္ေဆြးေႏြးသည့္ ပြသ
ဲ ုိ႔ ဆူနာမီေရလိႈင္း
ႏၱရာယ္ျဖစ္ႏုိင္ေသာ

ပင္လယ္ကမ္းေျခ တေလွ်ာက္ ေနရာေဒသမ်ားမွ ေရႊ ႔ေျပာင္းျမန္မာ
လုပ္သမားမ်ားႏွင့္ ထုိင္းလူမ်ိဳးမ်ား

စုစုေပါင္း (၆၀)ခန္႔တက္ ေရာက္ခ့သ

ဲ ည္။

ေဆြးေႏြး
ား Uီးေဆာင္ျပဳလုပ္ခ့ေ
ဲ သာ ထုိင္းႏိုင္ငံ ေတာင္ပိုင္း၊ ဖန္ငေဒသ
ေျခစုိက္ ပညာေရးႏွင့္

ဖြံ႔ၿဖိဳးတိုးတက္ေရး ေဖာင္ေဒးရွင္ (FED)မွ လူထု ပညာေပးေရး ဌာနမွဴး Uီးေက်ာ္လင္းUီးက “ကၽြန္ေတာ္တုိ႔

ဒီေဆြးေႏြးပဲြ လုပ္ရျခင္းရဲ့ ရည္ရယ

ြ ္ခ်က္ ကေတာ့ ကမၻာေပၚမွာ သဘာ၀ေဘး
ႏၱရာယ္

မ်ိဳးမ်ိဳးက်ေရာက္ေနတယ္ေလ။ ၿပီးခဲ့တဲ့
ပတ္ကလည္း ေဟတီမွာ ငလ်င္လႈပ္တယ္။ မၾကာခင္မွာပဲ

ကၽြန္ေတာ္တုိ႔ ေဒသမွာ ဆူနာမီလာေတာ့မယ္လုိ႔ ခန္႔မွန္း ထားတယ္။ ပထမ
ေခါက္တုန္းကလုိ

ေသ
ေပ်ာက္န႔ဲ ပ်က္စီးဆုံးရႈံးတာေတြ နည္းပါးေ
ာင္ဆုိတဲ့ ရည္ရြယ္ခ်က္နဲ႔ ေဆြးေႏြးပဲြကုိ ႀကိဳတင္ၿပီး

ျပဳလုပ္ရတာပါ” ဟု ေျပာၾကားခဲ့သည္။

ထုိင္းလူမႈ ကယ္ဆယ္ေရး
ဖဲ႔ြ နန္႔မခင္းေက်းရြာတာ၀န္ခံ ႏုိင၀

္ မ္ခ်ဳိင္း ကလည္း “ဒီေန႔ ဒါမ်ိဳး ေဆြးေႏြးပဲြ

လုပ္တာ တ
ား ေကာင္းပါတယ္။ ေႏြးေထြးမႈကုိလည္း ရေစပါတယ္။ ထုိင္းျမန္မာ မခဲျြ ခားပဲ သဘာ၀

ေဘး
ႏၱရာယ္
တြက္ ႀကိဳတင္ ကာကြယ္ ေဆြးေႏြးမႈလုပ္တာဟာ တကယ္တမ္း
ခက္
ခဲ

ႀကံဳလာတဲ

့ ခါ ရင္းႏွီးမႈ၊ ယုံၾကည္မႈကိုလည္း ရေစပါတယ္” ဟု ေျပာၾကားခဲ့သည္။

၂၀၀၄ ခုႏွစ္ ဒီဇင္ဘာလ ၂၄ ရက္ေန႔တင

ြ ္ ျဖစ္ပြားခဲ့ေသာ ဆူနာမီ ငလ်င္လိႈင္းေၾကာင့္ ထိုင္းႏိုင္ငံ ေတာင္ပိုင္း

ကမ္းေျခ ေဒသမ်ား႐ွိရာ ခရိုင္ေျခာက္ခု၌ ျမန္မာေရႊ႕ေျပာင္း
လုပ္သမားမ်ား
ပါ
၀င္ ေသဆံုးခဲ့ရသူ

(၅၃၉၅)Uီး၊ ထိခိုက္ ဒဏ္ရာရသူ (၈၄၅၇) Uီးႏွင့္ ေပ်ာက္ဆံုးသူ (၁၇၆၂) Uီး ရွိခဲ့ေၾကာင္း သိရသည္။

http://www.ghre.org/mm/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=464:2010-02-18-
08-47-29&catid=1:latest-news&Itemid=54
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