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Rohingyas lock down at the world’s largest refugee camp
To date, there have been no cases of COVID-19 amongst the close to a million Rohingya refugees currently sheltering at camps in southern Bangladesh. However, in the Cox’s Bazar region — where the largest camp, Kutupalong, is situated — there have been confirmed virus cases. Right now, the refugees are in lockdown. The majority of […]
Rohingya survivors tell of misery and death at sea; hundreds still adrift
Rohingya refugee Shahab Uddin thought the wooden trawler he boarded in February would be his ticket out of a camp in Bangladesh to a better life in Malaysia. Instead, the voyage nearly killed him. The 20-year-old was among almost 400 survivors pulled from the water, starving, emaciated and traumatized after the boat failed to reach […]
Bangladesh: Rohingya Refugees Stranded at Sea
(Bangkok) – The Bangladesh government should immediately allow hundreds of Rohingya refugees stranded in two trawlers in the Bay of Bengal to come ashore and receive necessary food, water, and health care, Human Rights Watch said today. The United Nations refugee agency, UNHCR, warned that the Rohingya may have been at sea for weeks without adequate food and water. On April […]
Keep calm, senior minister says on Rohingya issue
KUALA LUMPUR: Investigations will be carried out into news, videos and audios circulating on social media about the Rohingya community. Senior Minister (Security Cluster) Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob said for now, Malaysians should keep calm and not raise issues that could result in unwanted incidents. He said police were investigating the matter as some […]
Hundreds of Rohingya refugees stuck at sea, say rights groups
Hundreds more Rohingya refugees remain stuck at sea, rights groups have warned, just one day after it emerged that dozens of people died onboard a boat that was refused entry to Malaysia and left adrift for two months. On Friday, Malaysia’s air force confirmed it had denied entry to a second boat carrying about 200 Rohingya people, claiming it […]
Myanmar ships 800 freed Rohingya prisoners back to Rakhine
The Myanmar Government shipped hundreds of recently released Rohingya inmates back to the country’s restive western borderlands on Monday (April 20), after fears that its overcrowded prisons could become hotbeds for runaway Covid-19 (coronavirus) outbreaks. Men, women and children belonging to the stateless and long-persecuted Muslim minority were among nearly 25,000 prisoners freed last week […]
Malaysia: Allow Rohingya Refugees Ashore
Malaysia’s government is risking lives by pushing back overloaded boats of Rohingya refugees, Human Rights Watch said today. The government can appropriately respond to the Covid-19 pandemic without blocking life-saving rescues of seaborne asylum seekers. Malaysia has recently pushed back to sea at least two boats filled with Rohingya refugees. On April 16, 2020, the Malaysian […]
Govt, humanitarian community to ensure health services in Rohingya camps: IOM
The government and the humanitarian community, including the International Organization for Migration (IOM), are now delivering a “wide array of supports” to ensure that health services for both Rohingyas and the host community are ready. The initiatives are taken recognising the risks that the COVID-19 outbreak could pose to one of the largest refugee camps in […]
Rohingya camps in Bangladesh under complete virus lockdown
The Bangladesh government has imposed a “complete lockdown” in the Cox’s Bazar district, where over a million Rohingya refugees from neighbouring Myanmar are living in cramped camps. Experts have warned the disease could spread quickly through the alleys of the settlements. No coronavirus cases have been confirmed in the camps as yet, but one infection has been […]
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 […]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 […]
