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Rohingya leader Mohib Ullah murder accused dies in Chittagong jail
One of the accused in the Rohingya leader Mohib Ullah murder case has died at Chittagong Central Jail. The deceased has been identified as Moulovi Zakaria, 53, son of late Abdul Karim of Block D/8 in Rohingya camp of Ukhia upazila in Cox’s Bazar district. Chittagong Jail’s Deputy Jailer Monir Hossain said Zakaria was a […]
Dengue patients higher in Rohingya camps than in rest of the country
A total of 39 people have died from dengue in the country so far this year. Of them, 17 were from Cox’s Bazar, 17 from Dhaka, four from Barishal and one was from Chattogram. According to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS), 9,837 people have been infected with dengue across the country since yesterday […]
1 killed as six Myanmar mortar shells explode at Ghumdum
Six mortar shells fired from Myanmar exploded inside Bangladesh on the Ghumdum border in Bandarban on Friday, leaving one Rohingya dead and at least six others injured. Dil Mohammad, a local Rohingya leader, said intense gunshots and mortar shell explosions had been heard from the Myanmar side since Friday evening. Around 8pm, four mortar shells […]
Japan envoy highlights need for Rohingyas’ skills development
The Ambassador of Japan to Bangladesh Ito Naoki paid a two-day visit to Cox’s Bazar just after the fifth anniversary of the Rohingya influx and Japan’s new contribution to UNHCR and WFP of $8.2 million. He visited the learning center and multi-purpose center of Unicef, the Rohingya Cultural and Memory Centre of IOM, and an […]
Govt to Raise Rohingya Crisis, Food Security at UNGA
Foreign minister AK Abdul Momen on Wednesday said that Bangladesh would raise Rohingya crisis, food and energy security and climate change as its priority issues in the 77th Session of the United Nations General Assembly beginning on September 19. He said that prime minister Sheikh Hasina would deliver her speech at the UNGA on September […]
Bangladesh Leader: Prolonged Rohingya Stay Impacts Stability
Bangladesh’s prime minister said Monday that the prolonged stay of more than 1 million Rohingya refugees in crowded camps in the country has become a serious security and stability concern. “Apart from their own miseries, their prolonged presence is causing a serious impact on the economy, environment, security and sociopolitical stability of Bangladesh,” Prime Minister […]
Bangladesh opens trial in murder of Rohingya leader Mohib Ullah
A Cox’s Bazar court has indicted 29 people for the murder of prominent Mohammad Mohib Ullah, a civilian leader of Myanmar’s forcibly displaced Rohingya community, at a refugee camp in Ukhiya in 2021. District and Sessions Judge Md Ismail Court framed the charges against the suspects on Sunday, paving the way for a trial in […]
Allow Rohingyas to work
The Bangladesh government should provide the Rohingya refugees with livelihood opportunities as their repatriation to Myanmar would not be taking place anytime soon, said diplomats yesterday. “We are holding Myanmar accountable in the United Nations Security Council. However, the current dispositions in the security council do not make it easy,” said Robert Chatterton Dickson, the […]
Panic grips Rohingyas at zero line as shelling heard in Myanmar
Myanmar military and Arakan Army have been fighting fiercely for a month in Walidong hill inside Myanmar territory opposite to the Bangladesh border at Ghumdhum area in Bandarban’s Naikhongchhari. Since the beginning of the battle, both groups exchanged bullets, artillery and mortars between morning and afternoon, but on Friday, they suddenly started shelling mortars from […]
Rohingya Crisis and the need for political unity
Aung San Suu Kyi has been sentenced to five years of imprisonment – although this does not account for the other charges levelled against her, as well as her advanced age. It could very well be that Myanmar’s erstwhile paragon of democracy and human rights will never be free again. It is a thumping victory […]Donate Now
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Facebook owner Meta’s dangerous algorithms and reckless pursuit of profit substantially contributed to the atrocities perpetrated by the Myanmar military against the Rohingya people in 2017, Amnesty International said in a new report published today. The Social Atrocity: Meta and the right to remedy for the Rohingya,details how Meta knew or should have known that Facebook’s […]
