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Bangladesh: Protesting Rohingya Refugees Beaten
(New York) – Bangladesh authorities beat refugees protesting their detention on Bhasan Char Island with sticks and tree branches, Human Rights Watch said today. Naval officers allegedly beat the refugees, including children, in retribution for their hunger strike beginning on September 21, 2020 to demand reunification with their families in the Cox’s Bazar refugee camps. […]
Rohingya refugees sent to remote Bangladeshi island after weeks at sea
Hundreds more refugees still stranded on boats after being turned away by Malaysia Rohingya refugees believed to have spent weeks stranded on cramped boats at sea have been sent to a remote, uninhabited island by Bangladesh, while hundreds more remain adrift. Dozens of Rohingya landed on the coast of southern Bangladesh on Saturday, an official said, with some […]
Hundreds of Rohingya Refugees Stuck at Sea With ‘Zero Hope’
Hundreds of Rohingya Refugees Stuck at Sea With ‘Zero Hope’ Somewhere in turquoise waters, perhaps where the Bay of Bengal meets the Andaman Sea, wooden boats filled with Rohingya refugees are listing, adrift now for more than 10 weeks. They were prevented from docking in Malaysia, their preferred destination, and Bangladesh, their port of origin. […]
Britain can shelter Rohingya if it is so concerned, Bangladesh foreign minister suggests
Bangladesh has imposed a lockdown on a southern district, home to refugee camps housing more than a million Rohingya Muslims fleeing from Myanmar, to prevent the spread of coronavirus. Officials said no-one was allowed to enter or exit Cox’s Bazar district. No cases are confirmed in the camps, but aid agencies fear an outbreak could […]
Refugee camps in Bangladesh put under ‘complete lockdown’
Bangladesh has imposed a “complete lockdown” in Cox’s Bazar district — home to over a million Rohingya refugees from neighbouring Myanmar — to halt the spread of coronavirus, officials said. Experts have warned that the disease could spread quickly through the cramped, sewage-soaked alleys where the persecuted Muslim minority are housed in canvas and bamboo […]
COVID-19: Lockdown drives Rohingya refugees to verge of starvation in Hyderabad
The lockdown imposed to deal with the threat of coronavirus has driven Rohingya refugees in Hyderabad to the verge of starvation. In about six different settlements of about 6,000 Rohingyas in the city, more than COVID-19, the hunger and misery is seen as a bigger threat to their survival. Though various social organisations and NGOs […]
Bangladesh: COVID-19 response flaws put older Rohingya refugees in imminent danger
Older Rohingya refugees in overcrowded camps in Bangladesh are being left behind in the humanitarian response to COVID-19, which could have devastating consequences given the high risks older people everywhere face from this deadly pandemic, Amnesty International said today. Bangladesh, together with the UN and other humanitarian partners, has made efforts to reduce the risk […]Donate Now
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It has been close to six years since hundreds of thousands of Rohingya faced a deadly genocide by Myanmar’s military and fled the country in search of protection and refuge in neighbouring Bangladesh. The Rohingya population has been undergoing persecution, discrimination, arbitrary arrests, and atrocities in Myanmar for over seven decades. Their condition is alarmingly […]
