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Bangladesh charges Rohingya insurgents with murder
Bangladesh’s main military intelligence agency has charged the leader of a Rohingya insurgent group and more than 60 others over the murder of an intelligence officer this month, police said Sunday. Ataullah Abu Ammar Jununi is the founder of the Arakan Rohingya Solidarity Army (ARSA), which is fighting for an independent homeland in Myanmar’s Rakhine […]
Bangladesh should incorporate the Rohingya scenario within its forthcoming ICCPR report
Bangladesh submitted its initial state party report to the Human Rights Committee (HRC), the monitoring body for the implementation of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), on 19 June 2015, which was reviewed on 6 March 2017. As per the website of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human […]
Rohingya rights groups form alliance for self-determination, dignified survival in Myanmar
For the first time since the genocide against Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar’s Rakhine State in Aug. 2017, several leading organizations and prominent activists have formed a greater alliance titled “Arakan Rohingya National Alliance (ARNA)” with the aim at ensuring the persecuted community’s safe and dignified survival in their homeland. Nay San Lwin, a founding member […]
Rohingyas’ desire to return to their homeland showcased in paintings
“In almost every picture of them, the longing to return to their own country has emerged. They want to get rid of the curse of child marriage, the dream of returning to their country with their families, studies, etc.” Cartoonist Syed Rashad Imam Tanmoy recounted his experience of creating a 170-feet-long painting of hundreds of […]
Rohingya Unite to Launch Myanmar Rights Alliance
It said the Rohingya wanted to be part of a future federal democratic Myanmar to uphold peaceful coexistence through unity in diversity. The groups said it would work with the civilian National Unity Government (NUG) and United League of Arakan in Rakhine State to achieve full and effective equality and the right to self-determination, like […]
The recent Rohingya resolution adopted by the UN offers a glimmer of hope
Since the overwhelming exodus of Rohingya refugees to Bangladesh in 2017, the Rohingya problem has gained worldwide attention. To continue housing more than 1.1 million refugees in Bangladesh, however, is proving to be an incredibly challenging endeavor given the recent emergence of other national and international challenges. A ray of light has come from the […]
Young Rohingya refugees are helping to turn world’s largest camp green
The series of camps that make up the settlement were carved out of the forest in southern Bangladesh in 2017 to shelter hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees fleeing violence in western Myanmar’s Rakhine State. Nearly one million people are now crammed into an area of just 17 square kilometres. Bamboo shelters throng the hillsides […]
Bangladesh helps Rohingya alone, minister says
Bangladesh (MNN) — A foreign minister of Bangladesh says the country has been left alone to help 1 million Rohingya refugees. International funding to help the refugees has decreased every year. The Rohingya fled Myanmar after being attacked by the military. Greg Kelley with World Mission says, “They truly are a stateless people group, which makes the situation all […]
UN adopts resolution on human rights of Rohingya, other minorities in Myanmar
The UN General Assembly (UNGA) has adopted a resolution “on the situation of human rights of Rohingya and other minorities in Myanmar” without a vote. “We would like to see the increased role of the regional countries and the regional organisations in resolving the Rohingya crisis with enhanced urgency, before it turns into a regional […]
Boat carrying 111 Rohingya refugees lands in Indonesia’s Aceh
A boat carrying 111 Rohingya refugees, including women and children, landed on the shores of Indonesia’s northernmost province of Aceh on Tuesday, authorities said, the latest among an annual exodus from northwest Myanmar. The Rohingya, a persecuted Muslim minority, have for years sailed to countries such as Malaysia, Thailand and Indonesia between November and April […]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 […]
