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Myanmar’s military coup prolongs misery for Rohingya in Rakhine
In early August, military officials assigned to Rakhine State by Myanmar’s generals summoned leaders from the mainly Muslim Rohingya community in Buthidaung township to a meeting on the banks of the Mayu River. The officials came with a warning: Rohingya villagers should cut off any ties with the Arakan Army (AA), an armed rebel group […]
Fear sweeps Rohingya camps as Bangladesh razes thousands of ‘illegal’ shops
Rohingya refugees said on Wednesday they had lost their sources of income and daily necessities in Cox’s Bazar, the world’s largest refugee settlement, as Bangladeshi authorities demolished over 2,000 of their “illegal” shops. Bangladesh hosts over 1.1 million Rohingya who fled neighboring Myanmar during a military crackdown in 2017. Most of them live in dozens […]
Thousands of Rohingya shops demolished in Bangladesh, leaving refugees desperate
Bangladesh authorities have bulldozed more than 3,000 Rohingya-run shops since last month, a government official confirmed on Tuesday, as struggling refugee families voiced their dismay at the demolitions. About 850,000 members of the stateless Muslim minority are packed into overcrowded displacement camps in Bangladesh, most having fled neighbouring Myanmar after a 2017 military clampdown that […]
US has no good reason to stall on Rohingya genocide label
Perhaps the two most egregious human rights crises currently unfolding in the world are the situations of the Uighurs in China and the Rohingya in Myanmar. The US has declared a genocide in the case of the Uighurs. It has so far resisted doing the same for the Rohingya. Why? To be sure, the two […]
Fire in Rohingya camp burns down hospital
A fire broke out at a hospital in Balukhali Rohingya camp in Ukhia, Cox’s Bazar on Sunday (2 January). The fire broke out at Rohingya Camp no 20 around 8 pm on Sunday evening and has damaged 60-70 beds, refrigerators, oxygen cylinders and caused an estimated loss of over Tk10 lakh. Confirming the matter, Armed […]
Indonesia to accept dozens of Rohingya refugees stranded at sea
Indonesia has announced it will allow a boat packed with Rohingya refugees, which had become stranded off its coast, to dock after calls from aid organisations to allow the vessel to seek refuge. Local officials in Aceh, a province on the western island of Sumatra, had said on Tuesday that they would provide the roughly 120 passengers […]
Rohingya refugees brought ashore after dramatic Indonesia rescue
A standoff involving a boat carrying Rohingya refugees and the Indonesian navy has ended with a dramatic rescue that took 18 hours to complete due to heavy rains and high seas. The refugees – mostly women and children – were brought ashore at Lhokseumawe in Indonesia’s northwestern province of Aceh in the early hours of […]
Indonesia admits Rohingya refugees on ‘sinking’ vessel
Indonesian authorities on Wednesday allowed a boat carrying an estimated 120 Rohingya refugees to disembark in the country. The decision followed days of warnings that the vessel could sink off the country’s northernmost province of Aceh. The boat was first sighted by local fishermen on Sunday, about 60 miles off the coast of Bireuen Regency. […]
Myanmar terror tactics were perfected against Rohingya
More evidence of mass killings is emerging amid the Myanmar junta’s crackdown on pro-democracy rebels. Last weekend at least 35 civilians were murdered in Hpruso township, and their bodies burned. There is also evidence of at least 40 men being rounded up, tortured and killed in four incidents in June. These follow previous testimonies of […]
Indonesia says it will turn away stricken boat of Rohingya refugees
BIREUEN, Indonesia: Indonesian authorities will help repair a stranded boat packed with more than 100 Rohingya refugees off its coast but will not allow its passengers to seek refuge in the Southeast Asian country and will turn the vessel away, officials told Reuters on Tuesday (Dec 28). Fishermen spotted the skiff on Sunday, adrift off the coast […]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 […]
