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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 […]
Corona Situation Alert Has Been Declared in the Rohingya Refugees Camps of Coxbazar And Teknaf is Under 10 Days Lockdown.
Staff Correspondence Mr Toha., National Operation Officer, Site Management, IOM shared that Due to increasing numbers of positive COVID-19 cases in the Rohingya refugee camps the RRRC office has locked down camps 2W, 3, 4, 15, and 24 and placed additional restrictions on all 34 camps. Team is sharing the official meeting minutes on behalf […]
Between a Refugee Camp and a Silt Island: Rohingyas and the Question of Resettlement
Bangladesh has accommodated more than a million Rohingya refugees at a significant cost to its economy. Nevertheless, it now finds itself subject to international condemnation for relocating some Rohingyas to Bhasan Char — a silt island built up through tidal activity over the last twenty years. Even so, Bangladesh has now relocated 14,032 Rohingyas to […]
Winter Bringing Rain Continues at Coxbazar & There is Signal Number Three Since the Weather is Quite Bad.
Heavy Rain and Bad Weather Worry Rohingya Refugees as There is a Threat of Cold and Corona. Staff Reporter People are suffering and daily life has stopped due to rain and continuous drizzling. Abdur Sukkur at Camp 16 told to our correspondence that “due to rain, walkways are slippery and people are feeling cold. It […]
US Holocaust Museum Calls Atrocities Against Myanmar’s Rohingya ‘Genocide’
A United States museum dedicated to the Holocaust said Monday that “compelling evidence” indicates that Myanmar’s armed forces committed ethnic cleansing, crimes against humanity, and genocide against Rohingya Muslims during crackdowns in 2017 and 2016. “The Burmese military’s campaign against the Rohingya, especially the attacks of August 2017, have been deliberate, systematic, and widespread,” […]
Fatima, the Rohingya, tells her story
The rhythmic pitter-patter of the rain on the white tarpaulin roof is the only sound to be heard in the camp: no television, no music, no children laughing. The silence is in stark contrast to the noisy streets of Cox’s Bazar, which we passed through on our way here. The quiet is only interrupted […]
‘I don’t think they will come back’: Inside a killing zone, 1 year later
As the widely acknowledged site of a massacre, the village of Inn Din in northern Rakhine seemed a peculiar place for Myanmar government officials to kick off a foreign press tour. Walking into the rain-soaked village more than a year later, there were no specific signs of the outburst of sudden, gruesome violence that killed […]
Theresa May condemns ‘what looks like ethnic cleansing’ of Muslim refugees in Myanmar
Theresa May has strongly condemned the crisis in Myanmar which ‘looks like ethnic cleansing’ of Muslims. Hundreds of thousands of refugees have poured over the border into Bangladesh, with harrowing stories of starvation, rape, and loss of their homes. The Rohingya people who live in western Rakhine state are a minority in the mainly Buddhist […]
Young refugees pushed into prostitution in Germany
Security workers at Berlin's refugee accommodation centers are pushing young refugees into prostitution, public broadcaster ZDF reported on Tuesday. Social workers, refugees and security company insiders told the German-language "Frontal 21" program that security employees were even pimping out minors as part of a prostitution ring. The guards reportedly meet with young refugees and convince […]
Foster couple welcomed two refugees home
The foster parents for the 18-year-old now considered the prime suspect in the Parsons Green bucket bombing knew little about him before taking him in, friends said today. Penny and Ronald Jones reportedly learned more from police about the teenager in the past three days than they learned from Surrey County Council, who placed him in Sunbury-on-Thames. Neighbours […]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 […]
