Around 40 countries in the Asia-Pacific region will convene in Bali from April 14-15 to discuss people smuggling, trafficking and transnational crimes under the Bali Process forum amid the arrival of Rohingya boatpeople from Myanmar to Southeast Asian countries.

Asia-Pacific countries to discuss Rohingya issue

Lilian Budianto , The Jakarta Post , Jakarta | Tue, 04/14/2009 2:56 PM | World

Around 40 countries in the Asia-Pacific region will convene in Bali from April 14-15 to discuss people smuggling, trafficking and transnational crimes under the Bali Process forum amid the arrival of Rohingya boatpeople from Myanmar to Southeast Asian countries.

During the two-day meeting known as the “Bali Regional Ministerial Conference (BRMC) III, the delegates will discuss the plight of the Rohingya people seeking refugee status.

The forum, launched in 2002, is co-chaired by Indonesia and Australia. The Indonesian delegates include the Foreign Minister Hassan Wirajuda and the Justice and Human Rights Minister Andi Mattalata.

“BRMC III is a collaborative effort by more than 40 countries and numerous international agencies to help combat people smuggling, trafficking in persons and related transnational crimes in the Asia-Pacific region and beyond,” the Indonesian Foreign Ministry said in a statement.

Thousands of Rohingya fled Myanmar for Malaysia and Thailand in January, allegedly escaping persecution from the military junta. Those captured by the Thai military were towed back out to sea, while those who survived arrived on the shores of Aceh province. Continue reading “Around 40 countries in the Asia-Pacific region will convene in Bali from April 14-15 to discuss people smuggling, trafficking and transnational crimes under the Bali Process forum amid the arrival of Rohingya boatpeople from Myanmar to Southeast Asian countries.”

Malaysia 2 MPs signed the petition for Free Burma’s Political Prisoners Now

ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံ ႏိုင္ငံေရးအက်ဥ္းသားမ်ားအားလံုးကို ခၽြင္းခ်က္မ႐ိွ အျမန္ဆံုးလႊတ္ေပးေရးကို ေထာက္ခံေသာ Democratic Action Party မွ YB. Charles Anthony Santiago (KLANG MP), Malaysia သည္ ဧျပီလ ၈ ရက္ေန႔တြင္ လက္မွတ္ေရးထိုးေပးျပီး၊

YB. Charles Anthony Santiago (KLANG MP) from Democratic Action Party, Malaysia signed petition for Free Burma’s Political Prisoners Now! On 8 April 2009 & YB.Peoples Justice Party မွ YB. Chau Tian Chang (BATU MP), Malaysia သည္ ဧျပီလ ၉ ရက္ေန႔တြင္ လက္မွတ္ေရးထိုးေပးခဲ့ပါသည္။ ၎အမတ္နွစ္ဦးလံုးသည္ ျမန္မာနိုင္ငံဒီမိုကေရစီေရးအား အေလးထားသည့္ အေနျဖင့္ မေလးရွားပါလီမန္မွာ ျမန္မာနိုင္ငံအားဖိအားေပးရန္ ၾကိဳးစားသြားမည္ျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း ေျပာၾကားလိုက္ပါသည္။

Chau Tian Chang (BATU MP) from Peoples Justice Party, Malaysia signed petition for Free Burma’s Political Prisoners Now! On 9 April 2009.

They said,”Through our parliament, we will urge Burma’s regime to improve human rights and bring true democracy to the country.”

Ye Min Tun
Secretary
Burma Workers’ Rights Protection Committee(BWRPC)
Office: 55B-1B,Jalan Cahaya 26,
Taman Pandan Cahaya.
68000, Ampang.
Selangor D.E
Malaysia
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