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Bangladesh says Myanmar must build trust, safety for Rohingya repatriation
The government in Myanmar must build trust and ensure safety for Rohingya refugees, Bangladesh’s refugee commissioner has said following calls to suspend the community’s potential return to their homeland. Bangladesh has been hosting and providing humanitarian support to 1.2 million Rohingya Muslims, most of whom fled violence and persecution in neighboring Myanmar during a military […]
Rohingya repatriation: A delicate dance of saving face and saving the neighbourhood
What of the controlled experiment of repatriating a thousand Rohingya refugees from Bangladesh to Myanmar before the onset of the monsoons? This step: That seeks to transition these refugees from camps in Bangladesh to vetting camps in Rakhine, then decant them to holding camps, and, after a month or so — if everything goes well […]
How arson became a gang weapon at Rohingya camps
One week after a fire broke out in a Cox’s Bazar refugee camp earlier this month, Bangladesh government investigators ruled it a “planned act of sabotage” — just the latest among scores of such arson incidents in recent years. The sprawling Kutupalong-Balukhali refugee camps house more than 630,000 Rohingya refugees in crowded, tightly packed, and highly flammable […]
Bangladesh: Halt ‘Pilot’ Plan to Return Rohingya
Bangladesh authorities should suspend plans to send Rohingya refugees back to Myanmar, where their lives and liberty would be at grave risk, Human Rights Watch said today. Rohingya told Human Rights Watch that they were lied to, deceived, or otherwise coerced by Bangladesh administrators into meeting with a recent delegation of Myanmar junta officials as part of […]
3 Rohingya workers died in landslide while cutting hill in Ukhiya
Three Rohingya refugee workers have died in a landslide while illegally cutting a hill at Ukhiya in Cox’s Bazar. The incident occurred in the Muhuripara area in the early hours of Wednesday, said Ukhiya Police Station chief Sheikh Mohammad Ali. The dead were identified as Syed Akbar, Zahid Hussain and Noor Kabir from different refugee […]
‘Becoming visible’: India’s first female Rohingya graduate
Tasmida Johar, India’s first woman graduate from the displaced Rohingya community, says she is going through a “conflicting feeling” these days. “I feel happy about these headlines, ‘first this, first that’, but at the same time, it also makes me sad. I am happy because this is my achievement, of making it this far,” she […]
More than 180 Rohingya Muslims arrive by boat in Indonesia’s Aceh
More than 180 Rohingya Muslims landed in Indonesia’s Aceh province on Monday, officials said, the latest among hundreds who have fled by boat from desperate conditions in Myanmar and in camps in Bangladesh. The United Nations refugee agency has said 2022 may have been one of the deadliest years at sea in almost a decade […]
Rohingya campaigners condemn Myanmar’s ‘opaque’ repatriation plan
The Myanmar military’s “pilot project” to repatriate about 1,000 Rohingya refugees from Bangladesh has been met with scepticism, with rights campaigners calling it a “PR campaign”. Last week, a delegation from Myanmar visited the world’s largest refugee camp in Bangladesh’s Cox’s Bazar district – home to more than 1 million Rohingya – to interview potential candidates for […]
Bangladesh seeks unity, concerted efforts from int’l community to resolve Rohingya crisis
Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen has underscored the urgent need for unity and concerted efforts from the international community to resolve the Rohingya crisis, in the true spirit of responsibility and burden sharing. He urged the UN Secretary General’s Special Envoy on Myanmar, Noeleen Heyzer, to enhance her engagements with Myanmar authorities as well […]
Rohingya refugees ask for citizenship, rights guarantee before Myanmar return
Rohingya refugees said on Monday their citizenship and basic rights must be guaranteed before returning to Myanmar, as the first step of a potential repatriation got underway. Around 1.2 million Rohingya people are living in squalid camps in the coastal district of Cox’s Bazar in Bangladesh, most of whom fled violence and persecution in neighboring […]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 […]
