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Rohingya baby named after Turkish president

Ns News Online DeskNs News Online Desk: A Rohingya baby born at a Turkish field hospital in Bangladesh was named after the Turkish president on Friday.The Turkish Embassy in Dhaka shared a picture of the newborn baby on its official Twitter account. “Recep Tayyip, the first Rohingya baby, born by caesarean section at the Turkish field hospital in Cox’s Bazar, said hello to the world today into the arms of Turkish medical staff.”

The field hospital established by the Turkish Health Ministry in Cox’s Bazaar city began admitting patients in February. “Rohingya refugees in the region have great regard for President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan,” said Jamaladdin Mohammad, chief physician at the hospital. That is why the happy family named their baby after him, he added.

Hospital staff said the baby and the mother are in good health. So far, 10,000 patients have been treated at the hospital.

Turkey provides humanitarian help to Rohingya Muslims through various institutions and organizations such as the Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency (TIKA), Turkish Red Crescent, Turkish Disaster and Emergency Management Authority (AFAD) and Humanitarian Relief Foundation (IHH).

The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum has rescinded its top award to Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi because of her failure to condemn and stop military attacks on her country’s minority Rohingya Muslims, the museum said on Wednesday.The Washington museum’s rescission of its Elie Wiesel Award to Suu Kyi, the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize winner, is the latest honor to be retracted over her silence about widespread abuses against the Rohingya.Suu Kyi and her National League for Democracy have refused to cooperate with United Nations investigators, fed hate attacks on the Rohingya and denied reporters access to areas where alleged abuses have taken place, the museum said in a letter to Suu Kyi that was posted on its website

.”It is with great regret that we are now rescinding that award. We did not take this decision likely,” it said in the letter dated March 6.The Myanmar Embassy in Washington said it regretted that the museum had been “misled and exploited by people who failed to see the true situation” in the western state of Rakhine.The decision to rescind the award would “have no bearing on the determination of the Myanmar people in supporting the leadership” of Suu Kyi, the embassy said in a statement dated March 7.The government would “redouble its efforts in finding a lasting solution” for Rakhine State, it said.The United Nations and human rights organizations have collected evidence of widespread abuses by the Myanmar military against the largely stateless Rohingya, including murder, rape and arson. The attacks have prompted nearly 700,000 to flee to neighboring Bangladesh.Buddhist-majority Myanmar denies the abuse charges and says its security forces are fighting a legitimate campaign against “terrorists” it blames for attacks on security forces.The plight of the Rohingya has sparked outrage around the world. There have been calls for Suu Kyi to be stripped of her Nobel prize, won for her pro-democracy fight, for not speaking out to condemn the Myanmar military’s actions.Suu Kyi is Myanmar’s state counselor and foreign minister. She has had other honors rescinded, including the freedoms of the cities of Dublin and Oxford, England. Last month, three Nobel peace laureates urged Suu Kyi and the military to end the “genocide” of Rohingya Muslims now or face prosecution.

The UN’s human rights chief on Wednesday voiced “strong suspicions” that Myanmar’s ethnic Rohingya might be the victims of genocide and continued “ethnic cleansing”.”My office believes that ethnic cleansing is still underway in Rakhine state,” in Myanmar, High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein told the UN Human Rights Council.Noting that the Rohingya have reported killings, rape, torture, and abductions by security forces and local militia, Hussein highlighted “apparently deliberate attempts to force the Rohingya to leave the area through starvation, with officials blocking their access to crops and food supplies”.Turkish group gives solar power packages to Rohingya”My office has strong suspicions that acts of genocide may have taken place in Rakhine state since August [2017]”, Hussein said.The commissioner also decried authorities in Myanmar destroying potential evidence of international crimes, citing “reports that Rohingya villages which were attacked in recent years, and alleged mass graves of the victims, are being bulldozed”.He added: “This appears to be a deliberate attempt by the authorities to destroy potential evidence of international crimes.””Access for independent human rights monitoring is practically non-existent across Myanmar, but it appears clear that longstanding discriminatory policies and practices also continue against other groups,” Hussein said.Video: Makeshift houses of Rohingya refugees cover hills in southern BangladeshWorld’s most persecuted peopleThe Rohingya, described by the UN as the world’s most persecuted people, have faced heightened fears of attack since dozens were killed in communal violence in 2012.Since Aug. 25, 2017, more than 750,000 refugees, mostly children and women, have fled Myanmar and crossed into Bangladesh after Myanmar forces launched a crackdown on the minority Muslim community, according to Amnesty International.The refugees are fleeing a military operation in which security forces and Buddhist mobs have killed men, women and children, looted homes, and torched Rohingya villages.

At least 9,000 Rohingya were killed in Rakhine state from Aug. 25 to Sept. 24 last year, according to Doctors Without Borders.In a report published last Dec. 12, the doctors’ group said the deaths of 71.7 percent or 6,700 Rohingya were caused by violence. They include 730 children below the age of five.The UN documented mass gang rapes, killings — including of infants and young children — brutal beatings, and disappearances committed by security personnel. In a report, UN investigators said such violations may have constituted crimes against humanity.

A group affiliated with Turkey’s Religious Affairs Directorate has distributed solar panel systems to 500 refugee families living in Rohingya camps in southeastern Bangladesh, said an official of the group on Wednesday.Abdullah Ucak, Bangladesh coordinator for the Turkiye Diyanet Foundation, told the solar systems were distributed to refugees in the Kutupalong Rohingya camp in the Cox’s Bazar district.The border district in southeastern Bangladesh near Myanmar is hosting some 1 million Rohingya refugees, including over 650,000 who fled attacks on the minority Muslim community starting late last August.Ucak said the solar packages include three energy-saving lamps, a solar panel, and a charger.The Diyanet Foundation will distribute a total of 2,000 solar panel systems as part of its humanitarian support to the devastated community, Ucak added.He said the group has been doing aid work in the camps, including digging wells and sanitation systems and building mosques and shelters for the Rohingya.“We have built four mosques, six bridges, and four deep-tube wells on the ‘Turkish hill’ in the Kutupalong camp,” he said, adding that they also launched a project to build 120 bamboo shelter centers in the area.The group also distributes food and hygienic supplies to refugees on a daily basis.-Fleeing violence Since Aug. 25, 2017, more than 750,000 refugees, mostly children and women, have fled Myanmar and crossed into Bangladesh after Myanmar forces launched a crackdown on the minority Muslim community, according to Amnesty International.The refugees are fleeing a military operation in which security forces and Buddhist mobs have killed men, women and children, looted homes, and torched Rohingya villages.At least 9,000 Rohingya were killed in Rakhine state from Aug. 25 to Sept. 24 last year, according to Doctors Without Borders.In a report published last Dec. 12, the doctors’ group said the deaths of 71.7 percent or 6,700 Rohingya were caused by violence. They include 730 children below the age of five.Turkey has been at the forefront of providing aid to Rohingya refugees, and President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has raised the issue at the UN.The Rohingya, described by the UN as the world’s most persecuted people, have faced heightened fears of attack since dozens were killed in communal violence in 2012.The UN documented mass gang rapes, killings — including of infants and young children — brutal beatings, and disappearances committed by security personnel.In a report, UN investigators said such violations may have constituted crimes against humanity.

Since Aug. 25, 2017, more than 750,000 refugees, mostly children and women, have fled Myanmar and crossed into Bangladesh after Myanmar forces launched a crackdown on the minority Muslim community, according to Amnesty International.

The refugees are fleeing a military operation in which security forces and Buddhist mobs have killed men, women and children, looted homes, and torched Rohingya villages. At least 9,000 Rohingya were killed in Rakhine state from Aug. 25 to Sept. 24 last year, according to Doctors Without Borders. In a report published on December 12, 2017, the global humanitarian organization said the deaths of 71.7 percent or 6,700 Rohingya were caused by violence. They include 730 children below the age of five. The Rohingya, described by the UN as the world’s most persecuted people, have faced heightened fears of attack since dozens were killed in communal violence in 2012.

The UN documented mass gang rapes, killings — including of infants and young children — brutal beatings, and disappearances committed by security personnel. In a report, UN investigators said such violations may have constituted crimes against humanity.

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