How Should Bangladesh Handle Myanmar’s Fleeing Soldiers?

THEIDIPLOMAT
By Shahariar Sadat and Arafat Reza
March 15, 2024

More and more Myanmar troops are seeking refuge in Bangladesh. Dhaka can use this situation to its advantage.

Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) personnel detain Myanmar Border Guard Police (BGP) and security forces seeking refuge in Cox’s Bazar district in Banglades

On February 6, 264 members of Myanmar’s border and security forces took shelter in Bangladesh to escape heavy fighting between Myanmar’s army and the Arakan Army. They were disarmed by the members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) and taken to a safe shelter. Those who sustained critical injuries were given treatment at local hospitals.

All 330 intruders sent back to Myanmar by ship

daily observer
Staff Correspondent
Published : Friday, 16 February, 2024

No Myanmar citizen will be allowed to enter BD: BGB DG

All 330 Myanmar nationals, including 302 Border Guard Police (BGP)

members, four BGP family members, two army personnel, 18 immigration officials and four civilians, who intruded into Bangladesh territory following escalation of fighting in Myanmar, were escorted by the BGB and handed over to the BGP, a BGB press release said.

ရခိုင်တိုက်ပွဲကြောင့် ပြေးဝင်လာသူများအနက် မွတ်ဆလင်လက်နက်ကိုင် ၂၃ ဦးကို ဘင်္ဂလားဒေ့ရှ်ရဲတပ်ဖွဲ့ ဖမ်းဆီးထား

DMG
ဖေဖော်ဝါရီ ၁၀ 

 
ဘင်္ဂလားဒေ့ရှ်-မြန်မာ နယ်စပ် ရခိုင်ဘက်ခြမ်းမှ တိုက်ပွဲများကြောင့် ပြေးဝင်လာသည့် မွတ်ဆလင်လက်နက်ကိုင် ၂၃ ဦးကို ဖမ်းဆီးထားပြီး ကော့ဘဇားရှိ အူခီးယာရဲစခန်းတွင် တရားစွဲဆိုထားကြောင်း BDNews24 သတင်းတစ်ရပ်တွင် ဖော်ပြထားသည်။

ဘင်္ဂလားဒေ့ရှ်ရှိ မွတ်ဆလင်ဒုက္ခသည်စခန်းတွင် မှတ်ပုံတင်ထားသည့် ဒုက္ခသည်များသည် မြန်မာဘက်သို့ မည်ကဲ့သို့ ဝင်ရောက်သွားပြီး ယခုကဲ့သို့ လက်နက်များနှင့် ပြန်ဝင်လာသည်ကို ဘင်္ဂလားဒေ့ရှ် ရဲတပ်ဖွဲ့က စုံစမ်းစစ်ဆေးလျက်ရှိသည်ဟု သတင်းတွင် ဖော်ပြချက်အရ သိရသည်။

Border guards who fled Myanmar tell of losing contact with commanders

Radio Free Asia
Sharif Khiam and Abdur Rahman
Bandarban and Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh
2024.02.09

Over 300 who crossed into Bangladesh have asked for assistance in returning to their homes.

Bangladeshis deliver an injured Rohingya who tried to cross the border from Myanmar into Bangladesh to members of the Border Guard Bangladesh in Ukhia, Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, Feb. 6, 2024. Abdur Rahman/BenarNews

 

Myanmar border guards and soldiers fled into Bangladesh earlier this week after losing contact with their commanders during fierce fighting in Rakhine state, an interpreter present during their conversation with Bangladesh officials told BenarNews on Friday.

4 Rohingyas held near Patgram border

The Daily Star
UNB, Lalmonirhat
Sun Feb 11, 2024 

Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) detained four Rohingya refugees near Lalmonirhat's Patgram border on Friday afternoon.

 

The detainees are Abdullah, 24, his wife Sharifa Begum, 19, their daughter, 27-month-old Rinus Bibi, and Amena Begum, 15.

Ferdous Wahid, officer-in-charge (OC) of Patgram Police Station, said the Rohingyas were roaming near the corridor post area of Patgram upazila's Dahagram Union border on Friday afternoon.

Police recover bullet-ridden body near Ukhiya border after 2 days

Dhaka Tribune
Tribune Desk
Publish : 10 Feb 2024, 

• BGB helped in the process
• Locals spotted the body

Police recovered a man's bullet-ridden body from the Rahmaterbil area of Cox's Bazar's Ukhiya upazila, as it had been lying along the border for the last two days.

Ukhiya police station Officer-in-Charge (OC) Shamim Hossain said that they recovered the unidentified body with the help of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) on Saturday.

BGB detains four Rohingyas from Lalmonirhat border

daily observer
Published : Saturday, 10 February, 2024

Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) have detained four Rohingya refugees from Lalmonirhat's Patgram border on Friday afternoon.

The detained are Abdullah, 24, his wife Sharifa Begum, 19, and their daughter 27-months-old Rinus Bibi and Amena Begum, 15.

Bangladeshis fret over unconfirmed return of Rohingya militant Nabi Hossain amid Myanmar conflict

bdnews24.com
Golam Mortuja Antu
Published : 9 Feb 2024, 

After the arrest of 23 armed Rohingya trespassers, locals speculate the ethnic Muslims are involved in the ongoing fighting in Myanmar

The arrest of 23 armed Rohingya trespassers has fuelled speculation that the ethnic Muslims have engaged in the ongoing conflict between the Myanmar military and various rebel factions.

နယ်စပ်ဖြတ်ကျော် ပစ်ခတ်မှုအတွက် ဘင်္ဂလားဒေ့ရှ်က မြန်မာကို ပြစ်တင်ရှုတ်ချ

ဧရာဝတီ
by Muktadir Rashid
7 February 2024

ဘင်္ဂလားဒေ့ရှ်၊ ကောက်ဘဇား၊ အူကီယာသို့ ပြေးဝင်လာသော မြန်မာစစ်ကောင်စီနောက်လိုက် ၂၆၄ ဦးကို ဘင်္ဂလားဒေ့ရှ် နယ်ခြားစောင့်တပ် (BGB) က ခေါ်လာစဉ် / Mohibbulla Mohib

 

ဘင်္ဂလားဒေ့ရှ် နိုင်ငံခြားရေးဝန်ကြီးဌာနသည် ဖေဖော်ဝါရီလ ၆ ရက်နေ့တွင် မြန်မာသံအမတ်ကို ဆင့်ခေါ်ပြီးဖေဖော်ဝါရီလ ၅ ရက်နေ့က ဘန်ဒါဘန်တွင် လူ နှစ်ဦး သေဆုံးစေသည့် နယ်စပ်ဖြတ်ကျော် ပစ်ခတ်မှုကို ပြစ်တင်ရှုတ်ချသည်။

Another 116 from Myanmar including border guards, army personnel enter Bangladesh: BGB

CLICK ITTEFAQ
Click Ittefaq Desk
Publish : 06 Feb 2024

photo collected

 

Another 13 members of Myanmar's Border Guard Police (BGP) have taken shelter in Bangladesh fleeing their posts amid reports of heavy gunfights between the government troops and the rebels in the junta-run country.

'Not a single Rohingya would be allowed to enter Bangladesh'

daily observer
Published : Tuesday, 6 February, 2024
Observer Correspondent

Newly appointed Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) Director General Major General Mohammad Ashrafuzzaman Siddiqui speaks to local correspondents after paying respects at the mausoleum of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman at Tungipara in Gopalganj district early Tuesday (February 6) afternoon.

No Rohingya refugee would be allowed to enter Bangladesh afresh in the wake of ongoing tense situation in sequel to internal conflicts in Myanmar, said newly appointed Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) Director General Major General Mohammad Ashrafuzzaman Siddiqui on Tuesday (February 6).

IGP: Police working with BGB to ensure border security

Dhaka Tribune
UNB
Publish : 06 Feb 2024,

Inspector General of Police (IGP) Chowdhury Abdullah Al-Mamun speaking at an event in Dhaka on Tuesday, February 6, 2024. Photo: Courtesy

Inspector General of Police (IGP) Chowdhury Abdullah Al-Mamun On Tuesday detailed the collaborative efforts of Bangladesh Police, Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB), and local administration to maintain law and order at the Ghumdum border in Bandarban, following directives from the government.

264 Myanmar border, security force members now in Bangladesh: BGB

Dhaka Tribune
Tribune Desk
Publish : 06 Feb 2024,

Myanmar Border Guard Police (BGP) members are seen talking to Border Guard Bangladesh members in Bangladesh after seeking refuge due to an attack by rebels on February 4, 2024. Photo: Dhaka Tribune

 

A total of 264 members of Myanmar's border and security forces are now taking shelter in Bangladesh amid clashes between the Myanmar military and the armed rebel group, Arakan Army, Bangladesh Border Guard (BGB) has said.

Won't allow Rohingya to enter Bangladesh anymore: BGB chief

The Daily Star
Star Digital Report
Tue Feb 6, 2024

Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) Director General Major General Mohammad Ashrafuzzaman Siddiqui today said they would no longer allow Rohingya refugees to enter Bangladesh territory.

ARSA, RSO gun down Rohingya at Tambru border camp

dailyobserver
Published : Thursday, 19 January, 2023

COX'S BAZAR, Jan 18: A Rohingya man was killed and another injured in a firing at Konarpara Rohingya camp in the zero line area near Tambru border in Bandarban's Naikhong-chhari upazila on Wednesday.

Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA) and Rohingya

Solidarity Organisation (RSO), two armed groups from Myanmar, are behind the shooting, said Dil Mohammad, a community leader of the camp.

Hamid Ullah, 27, a Rohingya man, suffered bullet injures and was rushed to the MSF-run hospital in Kutupalong, where doctors declared him dead, said Sheikh Mohammad Ali, Officer-in-Charge of Ukhiya Police Station.

Commanders of Bangladesh, Myanmar meet to resolve border tension

AA
Md. Kamruzzaman
DHAKA, Bangladesh
30.10.2022

Bangladesh wants to resolve all prevailing crises with Myanmar through peaceful discussion, says Border Guard Bangladesh official

Amid nearly three-month-long unrest along the border between Bangladesh and Myanmar, the border forces of the two South Asian neighbors on Sunday held a commander-level meeting to resolve the prevailing tension.

A seven-member team of Myanmar’s Border Guard Police (BGP) attended the flag meeting held in Bangladesh’s southern border town of Tekhnaf while an eight-member squad of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) represented the host country, according to a BGB statement.

Myanmar border police regrets incidents in border areas: BGB

The Daily Star

Star Digital Report
Sun Oct 30, 2022

Myanmar's Border Guard Police (BGP) at the flag meeting has expressed sincere regret for all the recent incidents that took place in the Bangladesh-Myanmar border areas.

Lieutenant Colonel Sheikh Khalid Mohammad Iftekhar, commanding officer of BGB-2 Battalion came up with the devolvement after the BGB-BGP flag meeting in Teknaf in Cox's Bazar today (October 30, 2022) over the recent tensions in border areas, reports our Cox's Bazar staff correspondent.

During the meeting, the two sides expressed their firm determination to perform their respective duties in a bid to maintain and peace and order, and the security of the people living in the border areas, Lt Col Iftekhar said at a press conference at the office of BGB-2 Battalion in Teknaf.

Rohingya youth killed in ‘gunfight’ with BGB at Ghumdhum border

Dhaka Tribune

Abdul Aziz, Cox’s Bazar
April 23rd, 2021

Representational image. BIGSTOCK

The alleged gunfight took place in the early hours of Friday

A Rohingya youth named Mohammad Ibrahim was killed reportedly in a gunfight with Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) members on Bangladesh-Myanmar border at Ghumdhum in Naikhongchhari, an upazila in Bandarban adjacent to Cox's Bazar district.

BGB says the deceased was a yaba peddler. He was from Kutupalong Rohingya refugee camp in Ukhiya, Cox's Bazar.

Bangladesg Navy Commissions Five Warship In A Day

H20U
11/11/2020

ဘဂၤလားေဒ့ရွ္နယ္ျခားေစာင့္တပ္တြင္ ေခတ္မီစစ္သည္တင္ သံခ်ပ္ကာယာဥ္ႏွင့္ အဓိက႐ုန္းႏွိမ္နင္းေရး ယာဥ္ မ်ား အသုံးျပဳမည္။ ေခတ္မီေရတပ္မေတာ္တည္ေဆာက္ေရး ၂၀၃၀ အိမ္မက္ အေကာင္အထည္ေဖာ္ရန္ တစ္ရက္တည္း၌ ပဲ့ထိန္းဒုံးက်ည္တင္ စစ္သေဘၤာ ၅ စီးကို ရွိတ္ဟာစီနာ တပ္ေတာ္ဝင္ေပး၊ အေမရိကန္ေရ တပ္ႏွင့္ ပူးတြဲစစ္ေရးေလ့က်င့္

ဝန္ႀကီးခ်ဳပ္ ရွိတ္ဟာစီနာသည္ ဘဂၤလားေဒ့ရွ္နယ္ျခားေစာင့္တပ္ ( BGB ) အား ေဝဟင္၊ ေျမျပင္ေရေ အာက္ ႏွင့္ ၿမိဳ႕ျပစစ္နည္းဗ်ဴဟာ စြမ္းရည္ ၃-ရပ္တို႔၌ နိုင္ငံတကာအဆင့္မီ တိုက္ပြဲဝင္နိုင္မည့္ နယ္ျခားေစာင့္တပ္ျဖစ္ ေရး ‘BGB Vision 2041’ အစီအစဥ္အရ ေခတ္မီစစ္သည္တင္ သံခ်ပ္ကာယာဥ္ႏွင့္ အဓိက႐ုန္းႏွိမ္နင္းေရး ယာဥ္မ်ားကို တပ္ေတာ္ဝင္ေပးလိုက္သည္ဟု Dhaka Tribune က ယမန္ေန႔ ေရးသားသည္။

5,000 Rohingyas languishing inside Myanmar, not allowed to go home

Dhaka Tribune
Humayun Kabir Bhuiyan, back from Cox’s Bazar
Published  May 2nd, 2019

Most of the Rohingya refugees are currently living in various camps in Cox's Bazar, however some of them are still trapped in no man's land between the Bangladesh-Myanmar border and are unable to return to their homes Dhaka Tribune

Attitude reflects Myanmar’s unwillingness to take its people back, say officials

Several thousand Rohingyas have been languishing inside Myanmar since the latest influx that started in August, 2017, but they are not allowed back home by their own border police.

During a recent visit to the Gundhum-Tambru border area between Bangladesh and Myanmar, Dhaka Tribune saw the Rohingyas living in weak makeshift homes in an area near the Bangladesh-Myanmar international border.