News24bd.com
September 4, 2019
Bangladesh has banned two international non-government organisations (INGOs) from operating in the country for “financing an anti-repatriation campaigns” at Rohingya refugee camps in Cox’s Bazar.
INGOs ADRA (Adventist Development and Relief Agency) and Al Markazul Islami face allegations of financing and organising an anti-repatriation rally at the Rohingya camps, said Cox’s Bazar Additional Deputy Commissioner (ADC) Mohammad Ashraful Afsar.
They provided dresses including T-shirts during an anti-repatriation rally at Rohingya camps on Aug 25, according to the ADC.
Both INGOs were ordered to shut their operation across Bangladesh, said Afsar adding banks were also told to halt the INGOs’ transactions.
On Aug 31, the country’s NGO Affairs Bureau withdrew 41 NGO’s from their operations at Rohingya camps “because of their wrongdoings.”
On Aug 29, it also suspended six projects of an NGO, Mukti Cox’s Bazar, on allegation of making sharp weapons for Rohingyas.
The authorities had earlier halted operations of six NGOs working for the refugees namely Islamic Relief, Islamic Aid, Muslim Aid, Small Kindness Bangladesh, Bangladesh Chashi Kalyan Samity, and Nomijan Asthabi Foundation.
Bangladeshi currently hosting 1.1 million of Rohingya.
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