Rohingya Noticeably Absent From U.N. Conference

FP 
Foreign Policy
Alexandra Sharp,
September 30, 2025, 

Rohingya refugees gather to listen United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres during his visit to a refugee camp in Ukhia, Bangladesh, on March 14. Munir Uz Zaman/AFP via Getty Images 

Welcome back to World Brief, where we’re looking at U.N. efforts to address the Rohingya crisis, an internet blackout in Afghanistan, and the collapse of one of Indonesia’s oldest Islamic schools.

AA captures 6th border guard police battalion in Inn Din of southern Maungdaw

Narinjara
Naung Min Thu,
6 May 2024

The 6th border guard police battalion in Inn Din of southern Maungdaw township is now completely occupied by the Arakha Army (AA) fighters on Sunday morning after thousands of junta soldiers deserted the base, said local residents.

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.

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.

Border guards who fled Myanmar tell of losing contact with commanders

Benar News
Sharif Khiam and Abdur Rahman
Bandarban and Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh
2024.02.09 

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.

Bangladesh arrests 23 armed Rohingya trespassers from Myanmar

bdnews24.com
Senior Correspondent
Cox’s Bazar Correspondent
Published : 9 Feb 2024, 

Police have arrested 23 armed Rohingya men who were caught by Border Guard Bangladesh after trespassing from Myanmar amid fighting between the military and rebels.

AA နှင့် တိုက်ပွဲတွင် ဘင်္ဂလားဒေ့ရှ်သို့ ထွက်ပြေးသော စစ်ကောင်စီတပ်ဖွဲ့ဝင် ၂၀၀ ကျော် ရှိလာ

Myanmar Now
February 6, 2024

ဖေဖော်ဝါရီ ၃ ရက်မှ စတင်သော နယ်ခြားစောင့်ရဲစခန်း ၂ ခုကို တိုက်ခိုက်နေသော တိုက်ပွဲများအတွင်း စစ်ကောင်စီတပ်ဖွဲ့ဝင် ၂၀၀ ကျော်သည် ထွက်ပြေးသွားကြပြီး စခန်းတစ်ခုကို AA က သိမ်းယူထားပြီး ကျန်စခန်းကို ဆက်လက်တိုက်ခိုက်နေသည်။

ရက္ခိုင့်တပ်တော် (AA) က တိုက်ခိုက်နေသည့် မြန်မာ-ဘင်္ဂလားဒေ့ရှ် နယ်စပ်မျဉ်းအနီးရှိ တောင်ပြို (လက်ဝဲ) နယ် ခြားစောင့်ရဲစခန်းမှ နောက်ထပ် စစ်ကောင်စီတပ်ဖွဲ့ဝင် ၁၀၀ ကျော် ထွက်ပြေးလာသောကြောင့် စုစုပေါင်း ၂၂၄ ဦး ရှိပြီဖြစ်ကြောင်း ဘင်္ဂလားဒေ့ရှ်သတင်းတစ်ရပ်တွင် ယနေ့ ဖော်ပြထားသည်။

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.

Myanmar: Scores Of Border Guards Flee To Bangladesh Amid Fighting With Rebels

eurasiareview
By Abdur Rahman
By BenarNews
February 6, 2024

Members of the Myanmar junta-affiliated Border Guard Police (BGP) are seen at a Bangladesh Border Guard encampment in Bandarban, Bangladesh, after they fled from fighting across the border in Myanmar, Feb. 5, 2024. Photo Credit: Minhaz Uddin/BenarNews

More than 100 members of the Burmese junta’s border police force, including some wounded men, crossed into southeastern Bangladesh since Sunday to flee fierce fighting with Arakan Army rebels, Bangladeshi officials said Monday.

Myanmar troops keep fleeing to Bangladesh

NEW AGE
Muktadir Rashid and Mustafizur Rahman 
Published: Feb 07,2024

Border Guard Bangladesh personnel detain a Myanmar national (centre), who crossed the Bangladesh-Myanmar border illegally, in Ukhia of Cox’s Bazar on Tuesday. ­— AFP photo 

 

At least 158 Myanmar troops with arms and ammunition and government officials fled conflicts to bordering Bangladesh alone on Tuesday and sought shelter crossing the international border amid intense fighting between Myanmar forces and the ethnic rebel group, the Arakan Army.

'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).

Myanmar: A New Muslim Insurgency in Rakhine State

Crisis Group
15 December 2016 

Recent attacks by an émigré-led force of trained Rohingya fighters mark a dangerous turn. To remove a main root of the violence – Rohingya despair – the government must reverse longstanding discrimination against the Muslim minority, moderate its military tactics, and reach out to Myanmar’s Muslim allies. 

Executive Summary

The deadly attacks on Border Guard Police (BGP) bases in Myanmar’s northern Rakhine State on 9 October 2016 and the days following, and a serious escalation on 12 November when a senior army officer was killed, signify the emergence of a new Muslim insurgency there. The current violence is qualitatively different from anything in recent decades, seriously threatens the prospects of stability and development in the state and has serious implications for Myanmar as a whole. The government faces a huge challenge in calibrating and integrating its political, policy and security responses to ensure that violence does not escalate and intercommunal tensions are kept under control. It requires also taking due account of the grievances and fears of Rakhine Buddhists.

Failure to get this right would carry enormous risks. While the government has a clear duty to maintain security and take action against the attackers, it needs, if its response is to be effective, to make more judicious use of force and focus on a political and policy approach that addresses the sense of hopelessness and despair underlying the anger of many Muslims in Rakhine State. Complicating this is that Aung San Suu Kyi has some influence, but under the constitution no direct control over the military.

The insurgent group, which refers to itself as Harakah al-Yaqin (Faith Movement, HaY), is led by a committee of Rohingya émigrés in Saudi Arabia and is commanded on the ground by Rohingya with international training and experience in modern guerrilla war tactics. It benefits from the legitimacy provided by local and international fatwas (religious judicial opinions) in support of its cause and enjoys considerable sympathy and backing from Muslims in northern Rakhine State, including several hundred locally trained recruits.

The Disappearance of Dil Mohammed: A Voice for the Rohingya Silenced

THE I DIPLOMAT
Shafiur Rahman
May 19, 2023

On January 18, prominent advocate Dil Mohammed was abducted from a Rohingya camp in No Man’s Land. He has not been heard from since.

A steadfast Rohingya advocate emerged amid the chaos in the volatile borderlands between Myanmar and Bangladesh. Dil Mohammed, a Rohingya refugee who became the de facto spokesperson for the No Man’s Land Rohingya encampment, navigated a complex web of political and military forces to champion the cause of his people. But on January 18, as the encampment burned to the ground in a harrowing attack, Dil Mohammed was apprehended by the long-dormant Rohingya Solidarity Organization (RSO), which had recently re-emerged. No news of his fate has emerged since.

Buthidaung township, Tha Peik Taung village is being burnt down by the terrorist military

Myanmar Pressphoto Agency
MPA
September 24, 2022

Residents have confirmed that the 22nd Division of the terrorist military started burning Tha Peik Taung village (Rakhine) near the No. 8 Border Guard Police Battalion in the southern Buthidaung Township on September 23rd at 9:00 p.m. today.

There is Ah Lal Chaung Rohingya village near No.8 Border Guard Police Battalion, and the Tha Peik Taung village is also located nearby.

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.

Curious revival of Myanmar’s rag-tag Rohingya rebels

ASIA TIMES

by David Scott Mathieson
May 5, 2020

Myanmar military is pumping up the poorly armed and shadowy insurgent group's threat to justify its Rohingya genocide

A silhouetted Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army fighter against the rebel group's flag. Photo: Youtube

As armed conflict rages between the insurgent Arakan Army (AA) and Myanmar military, or Tatmadaw, killing scores of civilians and displacing tens of thousands in incessant artillery and air strikes in Rakhine and Chin states, another largely forgotten armed group has re-entered the fray.

2 Rohingyas with Bangladeshi passports held in B’baria

Dhaka Tribune 

Ujjal Chakraborty, Brahmanbaria

July 5th, 2019

They were caught trying to cross over to India via Akhaura

Bangladesh Immigration Police has detained two Rohingyas in Brahmanbaria with Bangladeshi passport on their way to India.

They were held from Akhaura land port on Thursday afternoon.

The detainees are - Md Kamal, 24, and Sabbir Mollah, 22, according to the police. They have confessed to being Rohingya.

ဘင်္ဂလာဒေ့ရှ်ရဲ ပစ်ခတ်၍ ဒုက္ခသည် ပြန်ပေးသမား ၃ ဦး သေဆုံး

နိရဉ္စရာ
နိရဉ္စရာ၊ ဇွန်လ ၇ / ၂ဝ၁၉

ဘင်္ဂလာဒေ့ရှ် ရဲ၏ ပစ်ခတ်မှုကြောင့် မြန်မာနိုင်ငံမှ ထွက်ပြေးလာသည့် မွတ်ဆလင် ဒုက္ခသည်နေထိုင်ရာ လေဒါစခန်းမှ ပြန်ပေးသမား ၃ ဦးသေဆုံးသွားကြောင်း ဘင်္ဂလာဒေ့ရှ် မီဒီယာများတွင် သတင်းဖော်ပြသည်။