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Rohingya team to visit Myanmar’s Rakhine State to observe situation
A Rohingya delegation will visit Rakhine State of Myanmar as part of confidence-building measures to encourage Rohingya repatriation. The 20-member Rohingya team, along with Bangladeshi officials, is scheduled to visit the western Myanmar state on Friday to monitor whether a supportive environment has been created for repatriation. Depending on their opinion, preparations are underway to […]
4 Arsa members arrested after gunfight in Ukhiya Rohingya camp
Police arrested four people after a reported gunfight between the Armed Police Battalion (APBn) and members of Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (Arsa) at Kutupalong Rohingya camp in Ukhiya of Cox’s Bazar on Friday. The arrestees are members of militant group Arsa. Among the arrestees, two were women. The operation was conducted in the Rohingya camp-7 […]
PM Hasina, Kishida for resolving Rohingya crisis to ensure regional peace, stability
Prime minister Sheikh Hasina and her Japanese counterpart Kishida Fumio have shared the view that protracted displacement of the Rohingyas will lead to increased burden on the host communities and “instability in the region”. They laid emphasis on realizing a “sustainable, safe, voluntary, and dignified” repatriation of the displaced persons to Myanmar as an ultimate […]
OHCHR Needs To Be More Sincere In Myanmar-Bangladesh Rohingya Repatriation – OpEd
Currently, more than 1.2 million Rohingya are living in camps in Cox’s Bazar, Teknaf. Although Bangladesh sheltered these Rohingyas for humanitarian reasons, it has been making strong demands to the international community to take this oppressed population back to Myanmar safely, sustainably and with dignity. The United Nations has described the operation as an act […]
For Rohingya women in Bangladesh, Ramadan brings back memories of life in Myanmar
DHAKA: Anwara Begum used to find herself busy with preparations in the days leading up to Ramadan, when it had meant stocking up on chickpeas and noodles, and making plans to distribute food for orphans and the elderly in her village in Myanmar’s Rakhine State. For the 50-year-old, the holy month had once been filled […]
Rohingya repatriation: With a little help from our friend
In March 2023, the Myanmar government announced that it would start repatriating 1,140 Rohingya refugees from Bangladesh from mid-April. The pilot repatriation program took off owing to the mediation of China, the Asian power that maintains close ties with both Bangladesh and Myanmar. However, the other big regional power in South Asia, that is, India, […]
Another Rohingya held for supplying arms to Arsa in Cox’s Bazar
The Rapid Action Battalion has detained another arms trader while supplying the firearms to the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (Arsa). The detainee is Arif Hossain alias Naigya, 27, a resident of Bloc B of Rohingya camp-1. Lieutenant Colonel Saiful Islam Sumon, commanding officer of the RAB-15, said Arif Hossain was detained during a raid conducted […]
Thousands flee into Thailand after fighting between Myanmar military, rebels
Fierce fighting between the Myanmar military and armed ethnic rebels has forced about 5,000 people to flee across the country’s border into Thailand this week, officials and media said on Thursday. The clashes broke out when rebels in the southern Karen state attacked a military border guard outpost, according to reports in Thailand’s Khaosod English […]
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 […]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 […]
