Mizzima awarded global JTI certificate for reliable news on Myanmar

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Mizzima Mizzima, one of Myanmar ’s most prominent news outlets and a press freedom advocate, obtained the Journalism Trust Initiative ( JTI ) certification from global audit firm Bureau Veritas , JTI says in a press statement 5 January.  Operating in clandestine mode within Myanmar and supported by an exiled team, Mizzima strives to fulfil its role as reliable source of news and information for the Myanmar public. “Your Journalism Trust Initiative certification affirms what audiences already know: that principled, transparent journalism matters. Congratulations on this achievement and on your continued contribution to informing citizens about Myanmar,” says Benjamin Sabbah , director of Journalism Trust Initiative “Myanmar’s ongoing conflict has created an intensely contested media landscape, where mis- and disinformation are increasingly deployed to reinforce state propaganda and the prevailing “official” narrative. Although Mizzima is already regarded as one of the most trusted ...
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UNHCR to interview Rohingya migrants in southern Thailand

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Thursday, 17 January 2013 13:15 Mizzima News

The Thai authorities are to allow the UN’s refugee agency access to 843 Rohingya boatpeople who were arrested over the past week in southern Thailand.

Migrants thought to be from Burma's Rohingya community are pictured on January 16, 2013, at a detention center in southern Thailand after they were rounded up in raids on hidden camps in the Thai south. (Photo: AFP)

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) will then assess whether the immigrants are seeking asylum or employment, and whether any of them are victims of human trafficking.

A UNHCR spokesperson in Bangkok is quoted by the Bangkok Post as saying that no dates have yet been agreed but that the UN was pushing to do the interviews as soon as possible.

However, no announcement has yet been made to confirm that the migrants arrived from Burma.

Thailand’s Defense Minister Sukumpol Suwanatat said on Wednesday the UN and the international community should play a greater role in addressing the migration of Rohingya.

"We have to take care of them when they come ashore," he is reported by the Bangkok Post as saying, noting the next step would be to send them to a third country.

Despite reports in regional media speculating that the Rohingya migrants might join in the Muslim insurgency in Thailand’s southern provinces, the Thai Defense Minister said there was no reason to believe the Rohingyas are linked to such activities.

Between December and February is Southeast Asia’s cool season when economic migrants and refugees from Burma and Bangladesh traditionally take advantage of the calmer waters to attempt journeys across the Andaman Sea, usually aiming to get to Malaysia or Indonesia.

This “sailing season” has seen a particularly high number of Rohingya boatpeople fleeing sectarian violence in Burma’s restive Rakhine State.
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For more background:

http://www.mizzima.com/edop/features/8731-fleeing-rohingya-at-the-mercy-of-a-smuggling-network-greased-by-graft.html

http://www.mizzima.com/news/regional/8721-700-rohingyas-to-be-deported-from-thailand-ap.html

http://www.mizzima.com/news/regional/8678-hrw-calls-on-thailand-not-to-deport-rohingyas.html

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