May 17, 2022 editormilton2020 Articles & Interviews, Bangladesh, Education, Guidance, Help Refugees, Human Rights, Myanmar, Refugee instruction, Refugees Issues, Refugees issues, Women Comments Off on Healing Power of Playtime for Refugee Camp Moms and Kids
In a Rohingya refugee camp in the south-eastern district of Cox-Bazar in Bangladesh, children play happily with toys and brightly coloured learning tools, helped by their mothers. For a brief time, these children – and their mothers – can forget their surroundings and find respite from the pain of being persecuted and forced from their […]May 16, 2022 editormilton2020 Bangladesh, Help Refugees, Human Rights, Myanmar, Refugee instruction, Refugees Issues, Refugees issues Comments Off on Rohingya Refugee, Demographic Imbalance and Security Implications
On 25 August 2017, Myanmar Army enacted the ‘ARSA drama’ that led to the mass exodus of Rohingyas from their ancestral abode and pushed them into Bangladesh. There has been little progress in the repatriation of refugees over the last five years. Myanmar’s military regime, the mastermind behind the eviction and genocidal crimes against the […]May 11, 2022 editormilton2020 Bangladesh, Help Refugees, Human Rights, Myanmar, Refugee instruction, Refugees Issues, Refugees issues Comments Off on Bilateral Move Finds No Progress in Rohingya Repatriation
Bangladesh seeks cooperation from international communities for the safe return of the forcefully displaced Rohingya people as there was no substantial progress in the bilateral move with Myanmar for their repatriation since 2018. ‘There is no significant progress in the repatriation of the forcefully displaced Rohingyas to their home land Myanmar. We seek cooperation from […]Apr 29, 2022 editormilton2020 Bangladesh, Help Refugees, Human Rights, Malaysia, Myanmar, Refugee instruction, Refugees Issues, Refugees issues, Religious Rights, World Comments Off on Allow Rohingya Refugees to Work So They Can Contribute to Malaysian Economy, Putrajaya Urged
The protests and breakout at the temporary immigration detention centre in Sungai Bakap, Penang, last week have renewed calls for a legal framework and policy to deal with refugees, especially Rohingyas. Six Rohingya asylum-seekers, including two children, were killed while trying to cross a highway after fleeing the detention centre on April 20. Police said they […]Apr 20, 2022 editormilton2020 Bangladesh, Help Refugees, Human Rights, Myanmar, Pictures, Refugee instruction, Refugees Issues, Refugees issues Comments Off on 95 Newborns Each day: Rohingya Baby Boom Worries Bangladesh
Some 95 new babies are born every day in Rohingya camps of Bangladesh, according to an official count, sparking population boom concerns in the country hosting hundreds of thousands of minority refugees, mainly Muslims, from Myanmar. Authorities say the growing Rohingya population in the southeast Cox’s Bazar camps has them worried, prompting birth control steps, […]Apr 01, 2022 editormilton2020 Bangladesh, Guidance, Help Refugees, Human Rights, Myanmar, Refugee instruction, Refugees Issues, Refugees issues, Religious Rights, Video - Human Rights Comments Off on Family of Slain Rohingya Leader Mohib Ullah Leaves for Canada Amid Safety Fears
They left Dhaka on a Turkish Airways flight at 11:45 pm on Thursday, said human rights activist Noor Khan, who is also a friend of the family. Mohib Ullah’s wife Nasima Khatun, their nine children and son-in-law flew to the North American country as ‘refugees’ under the Government Assistance Programme of Canada, having previously expressed […]Mar 26, 2022 editormilton2020 Bangladesh, Help Refugees, Human Rights, Malaysia, Myanmar, Refugee instruction, Refugees Issues, Refugees issues Comments Off on 58 People, Mostly Rohingya, Rescued from Sea While Being Trafficked to Malaysia
Members of Rapid Action Battalion rescued fifty-eight people off Teknaf coast in Cox’s Bazar while they were being trafficked to Malaysia by a trawler through the Bay of Bengal. Lt Col Khairul Islam Sarker, commander of RAB-15, confirmed the matter to our Cox’s Bazar staff correspondent. RAB also arrested two members of human trafficking gang […]Mar 21, 2022 editormilton2020 Bangladesh, Help Refugees, Human Rights, Myanmar, Refugee instruction, Refugees Issues, Refugees issues Comments Off on Biden Administration Acknowledges Myanmar’s Action Against Rohingya as Genocide
Myanmar’s armed forces launched a military operation in 2017 that forced at least 730,000 of the mainly Muslim Rohingya from their homes and into neighboring Bangladesh, where they recounted killings, mass rape and arson. In 2021, Myanmar’s military seized power in a coup. The Biden administration has formally determined that violence committed against the Rohingya […]Mar 14, 2022 editormilton2020 Bangladesh, Documents, Guidance, Help Refugees, Human Rights, Myanmar, Refugee instruction, Refugees Issues, Refugees issues Comments Off on China Expects Rohingya Return to Begin in 2022
Chinese ambassador to Bangladesh Li Jiming on Sunday expressed hope that the repatriation of Rohingya people from Bangladesh to Myanmar would begin this year. ‘China is making relentless effort to speed up early repatriation of Rohingya people…this year we’ll achieve the goal,’ he said in a press conference styled as spring dialogue with China in […]Mar 07, 2022 editormilton2020 Bangladesh, Help Refugees, Human Rights, Myanmar, Refugee instruction, Refugees Issues, Refugees issues Comments Off on More Than 100 Rohingya Refugees Arrive in Indonesia after Month at Sea
More than 100 Rohingyas, the persecuted mainly-Muslim minority in Myanmar, were rescued on Sunday by fishermen and locals in the northern province of Aceh on the Indonesian island of Sumatra after being adrift for almost a month. The 114 Rohingyas, most of them men and children, arrived in a small boat on the shores of […]May 18, 2022
Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen on Tuesday said a good number of Rohingyas are coming to Bangladesh from India through fence areas in recent times, which he sees as a matter of concern. “Unfortunately, many Rohingyas are coming to Bangladesh from India,” he told reporters, adding that those Rohingyas went to India in 2012. […]