MYANMAR: Rohingya Resettlements From Bangladesh Increase While Myanmar Instability Grows

Posted by Asia Views | Nov 28, 2023 | 0 |

Irrawaddy-Nov 27

Rohingya resettlement from Bangladesh, mainly to the United States and Canada, has increased this year but more than 1 million refugees remain while Myanmar remains too unstable for large-scale returns. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees has arranged for 355 Rohingya to be resettled in the US while 307 others are having applications verified, according to Bangladesh’s home ministry.Canada received 131 Rohingya and 148 others are being verified.

Australia received 48 while 62 others traveled to the Netherlands, Italy, Argentina, Sweden, the UK, Ireland, Germany and Japan. In August 2022, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced the resettlement process and US migration chief Julieta Noyes visited Rohingya camps in Cox’s Bazar in December last year. Bangladesh has hosted over 1.1 million Rohingya from Myanmar since the 2017 military crackdown in Rakhine State. The resettlement process has been stepped up since the assassination of Rohingya leader Mohib Ullah in the Kutupalang camp in September 2021. His family and associates were resettled in Canada. Numerous Rohingya continue to risk perilous boat journeys to Malaysia, Indonesia and Australia and over the last 10 days, the Bangladeshi authorities have apprehended over 200 Rohingyas in Cox’s Bazar allegedly being trafficked to Malaysia by boat. Read more at: https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/rohingya-resettlements-from-bangladesh-increase-while-myanmar-instability-grows.html

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EXTRICATING NDONESIAN CHILDREN FROM ISIS INFLUENCE ABROAD

Indonesia urgently needs to revisit the possibility of repatriating the neediest of its young citizens stranded abroad, whose families had earlier joined ISIS. Most of these children are in camps in northern Syria but there are also small numbers in the Philippines, Afghanistan and Iraq. “Extricating Indonesian Children from ISIS Influence Abroad”, the latest report from the Institute for Policy Analysis of Conflict (IPAC) argues that the government could begin by bringing back small groups of unaccompanied children under ten years of age, who pose minimal security risk and are most vulnerable to deteriorating conditions in the camps.“The problem is that health and security conditions are worsening by the day in the Syrian camps, and the children are growing older,” says Dyah Kartika, IPAC analyst. “They need access to schools, a nurturing environment, and medical attention. If the government waits too long, the children will be further exposed to ISIS ideology.” The new report examines a 2019 list of Indonesians in camps and prisons run by the Kurdish Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF). The Indonesian government has been trying to verify their citizenship, but with pseudonyms, misspellings and bad transliterations, it is a daunting task. At the time the data was collected, between March and June 2019, there were 555 Indonesians in SDF camps and prisons, including 367 children. Among the children, approximately 277 were under the age of ten and 34 were unaccompanied. In June 2021, there are fewer than ten children who are both unaccompanied and under the age of ten that could be prioritized for return. Bringing back children of ISIS families is no easy task. The report analyses the main challenges faced by the Indonesian government. These include definitional issues, bureaucratic competition, the difficulty of verifying nationality, evaluating the toll of exposure to conflict, assessing security risk, and finding relatives or others willing to provide care once the children are returned. In addition, COVID has meant stringent restrictions on travel, placing further obstacles in the way of repatriation. There are several models for rehabilitation of children exposed to violent extremism in Indonesia that could be modified to accommodate the needs of children repatriated from abroad. The report examines these models and argues that the government does not need to have every detail of rehabilitation programs in place before it starts extricating children from ISIS influence. It can start by bringing back the most vulnerable children and then modify programs as needed.

“It’s important that the government see these children as victims” says Dyah. “They deserve a chance to be children again.”

MYANMAR: Rohingya Resettlements From Bangladesh Increase While Myanmar Instability Grows

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