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Driven by desperation, Rohingya refugees risk their lives at sea
COX’S BAZAR, Bangladesh — Six days into Mohammad Hossain’s boat journey to a new life, the engine broke down. Hossain, 17, a Rohingya refugee living at a camp in Bangladesh, had paid brokers $1,000 to take him across the Andaman Sea to Malaysia, a trip that was supposed to take two weeks. Now, he and about 150 […]
Rohingya crisis calls for more than just diplomacy
A seminar was held recently at the initiative of Jahangirnagar University’s newly opened Bangladesh Centre for Indo-Pacific Affairs of its international relations department. The topic of discussion was ‘Bangladesh and Indo-Pacific Collaboration, Priority and Concern.’ The concept of Bangladesh’s general people about the Indo-Pacific Strategy (IPS) so far has basically been based on a proposal […]
UN expert warns of another Rohingya genocide if world continues to do nothing
NEW YORK CITY: The independent UN expert tasked with investigating the situation in Myanmar has called on the international community to “do a lot more” to protect the vulnerable Rohingya population in the country’s Rakhine State. Tom Andrews, whose official title is UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar, warned that […]
RAB DG: Rohingyas have become a big challenge
RAB Director General Additional Inspector General of Police M Khurshid Hossain on Monday said that the Rohingyas have become a big challenge. “They are getting involved in terrorism and militant activities, fleeing abroad on fake passports,” said the RAB DG. However, the elite force is working to prevent Rohingya’s terrorism activities, said M Khurshid Hossain […]
Funding gaps in joint response plan for Rohingyas concern UNHCR
UNHCR, the UN refugee agency, together with the Bangladesh government will soon launch the Joint Response Plan for 2023 to appeal to donor partners for funding to meet the needs of Rohingyas in Bangladesh and the local communities hosting them here. “We shall appeal for approximately $876 million in all relevant sectors, of which some […]
What the Rohingya crisis looked like in 2022
The year 2022 was a “year of confluence” for the Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh, where many positive developments happened in favour of their repatriation. Alternatively, there were some negative developments as well where new impediments emerged to hinder the repatriation process. Though Bangladesh has successfully included the Rohingya crisis in the international discussion and displayed […]
Tambru Border: Verification of Rohingyas begins today
The government is going to start from today the verification of the Rohingyas who took shelter in Bandarban’s Naikhongchhari upazila amid armed fighting on the no-man’s-land near Tambru border since January 19. The National Taskforce on the Forcibly Displaced Myanmar Nationals on Wednesday held a meeting and formed a committee to verify nearly 3,000 Rohingyas […]
USAID provides $75m in aid to Rohingya, host community in Bangladesh
The US Agency for International Development (USAID) is providing an additional $75 million in humanitarian assistance to help vulnerable Rohingya refugees in Cox’s Bazar and members of the Bangladeshi host community meet ongoing needs exacerbated by the increasing costs of food and fuel. With this new funding, USAID will work with the United Nations’ World […]
Rohingya are drowning at sea. Asia’s leaders are to blame
In early January, a boat with 185 Rohingya refugees washed ashore on the coast of Indonesia’s Aceh province. They had spent weeks at sea in desperate conditions, fleeing cramped and overcrowded camps in Bangladesh in search of a better life. More than half were women and children. Sadly, they are far from alone. Since November […]
Rohingya insurgent claims Wednesday’s gunfight was against Myanmar military, not ARSA
A Rohingya insurgent who is being treated at a hospital in Chattogram has claimed that the gunfight that took place on Wednesday along the Tumbru border at Ghumdhum in Bandarban’s Naikkhyangchhari was between his insurgency group and the Myanmar security agency. The 23-year-old injured man, Muhib Ullah, who claimed to be a member of the […]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 […]
