The United States expresses its support for Rohingya and other Myanmar minorities

United States Mission to
the United Nations
September 30, 2025 

Charles Harder
Special Envoy for Best Future Generations
New York, New York

AS PREPARED

Thank you, Chair. Thank you, to the President of the General Assembly, and all speakers today.

The United States expresses its support for Rohingya and other Myanmar minorities who have been victims of repression and violence. Survivors of that persecution are here with us today. I commend their bravery in speaking out.

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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 

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ASEAN must act now to ease Rohingya crisis

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Saturday, 6 September, 2025 

The Asian Parliamentarians for Human Rights (APHR) has once again sounded the alarm on the escalating crisis facing Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh.

At a press briefing held at the Dhaka Reporters Unity, following a meeting with Nobel laureate Dr. Muhammad Yunus, APHR called on ASEAN to immediately establish a dedicated humanitarian fund to address the dire needs of over 1.3 million refugees stranded in Cox's Bazar.

Stuck in grim camps, Rohingya hope Bangladesh can tackle crisis

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Published: 27 Aug 2025

Bangladesh is this week holding talks aimed at addressing the plight of Rohingya refugees, even as fresh arrivals cross over from war-ravaged Myanmar and shrinking aid flows deepen the crisis. 

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11 July 2025 

© UNHCR/Susan Hopper Rohingya refugees at a camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh.

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Escalating conflict and targeted violence in Myanmar’s Rakhine state have forced some 150,000 Rohingya refugees to flee to Bangladesh over the past 18 months – the largest exodus to the neighbouring country in years.

Rohingya refugees in peril in Bangladesh as support wanes: UN

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Rohingya refugees gather to collect relief materials from a distribution point in the Kutupalong Refugee Camp in Ukhia in Bangladesh's Cox's Bazar district on March 6, 2025. [AFP]

The plight of Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh could rapidly deteriorate further unless more funding can be secured for critical assistance services, according to the United Nations refugee agency.

Experts: Follow up steps should start on Rohingya repatriation after Myanmar’s assurance

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Myanmar has informed Bangladesh that out of 800,000 Rohingyas in the country, 180,000 have been identified as eligible to return.

File image of Rohingya camp. Photo: Dhaka Tribune- BSS

Foreign relations experts on Saturday said follow up talks should start quickly on Rohingya repatriation as Myanmar has confirmed out of over 1.30 million of the ethnic minority Muslim people, who took makeshift refuge in Bangladesh were 180,000 are eligible to return.

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Earlier, 25 Rohingya refugees were rescued alive after their vessel went down near Shah Porir Dwip 

Naf River. File Photo: TBS

Four bodies have been found floating in the Naf River following the capsize of a trawler carrying Rohingyas, who were trying to illegally enter Bangladesh from Myanmar through Teknaf. 

According to Teknaf Upazila Nirbahi Officer (UNO) Sheikh Ehsan Uddin, locals this evening (22 March) reported seeing the bodies of four people floating in the waters of the Naf River near Shah Porir Dwip and Damdamia estuary.

Bangladesh security officials arrest commander of Rohingya armed group

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By ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published:19 March 2025

DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) - Security officials in Bangladesh arrested the leader of a Rohingya insurgent group on charges of illegal entry, sabotage and terrorist activities in the South Asian nation, where there are more than 1 million Rohingya refugees from neighboring Myanmar.

Police said that a team of the Rapid Action Battalion arrested Ataullah Abu Ammar Jununi, known as the commander-in-chief of Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army in a raid Tuesday in Narayanganj district near the capital, Dhaka.

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Attacks by the group, the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army, were used as a pretext by the Myanmar military to launch a campaign of ethnic cleansing that set off a massive refugee crisis.

More than a million Rohingya are confined to a series of tent settlements in Bangladesh, like this one in Cox’s Bazar, seen on Saturday.Credit...Mohammad Ponir Hossain/Reuters

The leader of an armed group representing a persecuted Muslim minority from Myanmar was arrested in a raid in neighboring Bangladesh this week and charged under an antiterrorism law.

Ataullah, an ethnic Rohingya and the commander of the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army, or ARSA, was arrested on Monday, the Bangladeshi police said in a statement. He was captured in Narayanganj District, on the outskirts of Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, according to a local police officer. Nine other suspected members of ARSA were also nabbed in raids.

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The Rohingya community in Ukhiya, Coxs Bazar, observed International Mother Language Day, honoring linguistic heritage and unity, on Friday, February 21, 2025. Photo: Bangla Tribune

International Mother Language Day 2025 was observed at the Rohingya camp in Ukhiya, Cox’s Bazar.

To mark the occasion, a gathering was held on Friday morning at Block C of Camp 9 in Palongkhali union.

The event began with a tribute to the martyrs of the 1952 Language Movement. Religious leaders, teachers, youth activists, and Rohingya leaders delivered speeches during the program.

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US Charge d'affaires to Bangladesh Tracey Ann Jacobson stressed that elections for a new government should be free, fair and inclusive. She also enquired about 'Operation Devil Hunt', recently launched by the country's security forces.

 

US Charge d'affaires to Bangladesh, Tracey Ann Jacobson, met Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus at the State Guest House Jamuna in Dhaka on 11 February 2025.PID

Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus on Tuesday sought continued US support for key projects and reforms as US Charge d'affaires to Bangladesh Tracey Ann Jacobson met him in the city.

UN SG reaffirms continued support to Rohingya crisis in Bangladesh

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High Representative of Bangladesh's Chief Adviser on Rohingya Issue and Priority Matters Dr. Khalilur Rahman met UN Secretary-General António Guterres on Friday. Photo: PID

DHAKA, Feb 8, 2025 (BSS) - United Nation (UN) Secretary-General António Guterres has reiterated the UN's continued commitment to a durable solution to the Rohingya crisis and assured Bangladesh of ensuring funding for the issue.

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A refugee camp of the Rohingya at Kutupalong in Bangladesh's Cox's Bazar/ Credit - Rajeev Bhattacharyya

 
Among the many consequences of Bangladesh’s growing bonhomie with Pakistan seems to be the emergence of a united front of Rohingya armed groups that could have a far-reaching impact on the region, including India.

Accountability for crimes committed against Rohingya is critical for future peace, says Head of the Myanmar Mechanism during Bangladesh visit

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MECHANISM FOR MYANMAR

Dhaka/Geneva, 24 January 2025 – Pursuing justice for crimes committed against the Rohingya is critical for their future return to their homes in Rakhine State in Myanmar and future peace, said Nicholas Koumjian, the Head of the Independent Investigative Mechanism for Myanmar, on the conclusion of his five-day official visit to Bangladesh.

During his visit, Koumjian met with high-level government officials, as well as more than 100 Rohingya activists and representatives of community organizations from the refugee camps in Cox’s Bazar.

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A massive fire in the Rohingya Camp in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. [twitter/x@UNICEFBD] 

A massive fire swept through a Rohingya refugee camp in Bangladesh, killing at least two people and destroying over 1,000 shelters and other structures, rights activists and the UN refugee agency said today.

The fire, which lasted two hours, broke out at the Kutupalong Rohingya Camp in Ukhiya in the southeastern Cox’s Bazar district.

Rohingya rights activist Ro Nay San Lwin said: “At least two refugees, including a child, tragically lost their lives.”

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Fire breaks out at Kutupalong Rohingya Camp in Ukhiya area of southeastern Cox’s Bazar district

FILE PHOTO

A massive fire swept through a Rohingya refugee camp in Bangladesh, killing at least two people and destroying over 1,000 shelters and other structures, rights activists and the UN refugee agency said on Tuesday.

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A fire breaks out in the Kutupalong Rohingya refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, Dec. 24, 2024. (Md. Jamal for VOA)

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Sitting before a pile of dilapidated shacks and ashes in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, 80-year-old Rohingya refugee Amena Khatun began weeping as she talked about her 60-year-old son, Abul Hair.

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