Police find bodies of two ‘Rohingyas’ with bullet wounds and yaba stash in Cox’s Bazar

Police say they have recovered the bullet-ridden bodies of two Rohingya camp residents and nearly 50,000 yaba tablets in Cox’s Bazar.

The BGB says they fired upon two suspected intruders early on Saturday morning, but adds that it cannot confirm whether anyone was killed in the shooting.

( 21.11.2016 ) Myanmar Denies Bangladeshi Accounts of Muslims Trying to Flee Over Border ( Jakarta Globe)

Yangon. Myanmar's state media on Saturday (19/11) denied Bangladesh border guards' accounts of Rohingya Muslims fleeing conflict at home by trying to cross into the northern neighbor. 

A commanding officer of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) said on Friday his staff provided food and medicines to 82 people, including women and children, attempting to leave Myanmar but turned them back from the frontier. Two boats with 86 people were pushed back on Tuesday.

( 20.11.2016 ) Bangladesh on alert as military crackdown in Myanmar stokes fears of Rohingya Muslims influx ( Globale Times.ca )

Source:Xinhua Published: 2016/11/20

The Bangladeshi government, anticipating further influx of Rohingya Muslims, has ordered its border and coast guards and local administration to heighten their vigilance along its border with Myanmar.

( 20.11.2016 ) Ethnic cleansing in Myanmar

Published : 19 Nov 2016,

Letter

Recently Myanmar army has reportedly carried out a planned ethnic cleansing in its Arakan province against the ethnic minority, Rohingyas following a riot. The media reported that 160 people were killed and 16 thousand Rohingyas were displaced and many are stranded in Bangladesh-Myanmar border. The Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) intercepted the fleeing Rohingyas and stopped them from crossing into our border. Many Rohingyas were pushed back to Myanmar.

( 20.11.2016 ) Kamal: Rohingya migration an uncomfortable issue

Dhaka Tribune
Shohel Mamun

Published at 03:25 PM November 20, 2016 

The home minister told reporters at the secretariat that the BGB and Coast Guard were alerted to prevent potential crimes at the borders.

Rohingya migration is an uncomfortable issue for Bangladesh, Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal has said.

( 19.11.2016 ) Reports of Rohingyas at Bangladesh border 'false' ( Reuters )

YANGON • Myanmar's state media has denied Bangladesh border guards' accounts of Rohingya Muslims fleeing conflict at home by trying to cross into the northern neighbour.

A commanding officer of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) said on Friday his staff provided food and medicine to 82 people, including women and children, attempting to leave Myanmar, but turned them back from the frontier. Two boats with 86 people were pushed back last Tuesday.

State-run English newspaper Global New Light of Myanmar said yesterday a newly created information task force had found the reports to be untrue.

"An inquiry into news reports by Reuters that nearly 200 people fleeing Myanmar had been arrested and repulsed yesterday by Bangladesh border guards has been found to be false," said the newspaper, quoting BGB officials.

Soldiers have flooded the north of Rakhine state, along Myanmar's frontier with Bangladesh, responding to attacks by alleged Muslim militants on border posts on Oct 9.

Sixty-nine suspected insurgents and 17 members of the security forces have been killed since the violence began, according to official reports. Earlier this month, Myanmar denied accusations by the Rohingya that its military had killed people fleeing the conflict, which has displaced up to 30,000 people.

Rohingya residents have told Reuters that hundreds have tried to flee to Bangladesh after fighting intensified a week ago. The United Nations refugee agency has said the border should be kept open for people fleeing violence.

The Global New Light of Myanmar said the government planned to create an investigation commission to look into the "violent attacks in Maungdaw", the region in Rakhine at the centre of the unrest.

The report did not specify whether the probe would include an investigation of allegations of human rights abuses that the UN, the United States and Britain have called for.

REUTERS

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( 18.11.2016 ) News that some people fled to Bangladesh scrutinized

News that some people fled to Bangladesh scrutinized

November 18, 2016

Myanmar Border Guard Police Force asked 2nd BGB Battalion Commander Lt-Col Arbu Waihar Zarhiy and 34th BGB 2IC Mohamad Arhul Nile through an interpreter about 200 people who fled to Bangladesh across Naf River and were arrested by Bangladesh border guard force and sent back to Myanmar. They replied that it had not happened actually on the ground, although they had heard about this information.