Showing posts with label Bangladesh. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bangladesh. Show all posts

Wednesday, November 6, 2024

Rohingya man detained with arms, ammunition in Cox’s Bazar

THE BUSINESS STANDARD
TBS Report
04 November, 2024

 The arrest took place early this morning (4 November) in the Naf River's Jhingekhaliarea of Teknaf’s Whykong Union.

The detainee, identified as Md Alam, 19, is a resident of Block G-7 in the Balukhali 12 Rohingya camp in Ukhiya. Photo: Collected

The Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) detained a Rohingya man who was carrying locally-made firearm, five rounds of ammunition, and one used cartridge while returning to Cox's Bazar refugee camp from Myanmar, said Lt Col Md Mohiuddin Ahmed, commanding officer of Teknaf 2 Battalion.

The arrest took place early this morning (4 November) in the Naf River's Jhingekhaliarea of Teknaf's Whykong Union.

Sunday, November 3, 2024

Rohingya Refugee Crisis in Bangladesh: Viewpoints from China’s Belt & Road Initiative

SOUTH ASIA JOURNAL
Dr. Saleh Shahriar
November 3, 2024

The Rohingya refugees have been subjected to violence for a long period of history and the Rohingya refugee crisis has become a global burning issue. The crisis should therefore be explained from a broader lens of geo-political and strategic game of power competition. Then, a few pertinent questions arise: What are the geopolitical and economic factors that have a decisive influence on Bangladesh’s Rohingya refugee crisis? Why does China support Myanmar’s position on the Rohingya refugee crisis? To what extent does the Rohingya refugee crisis impact the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI)? These questions merit rigorous academic analysis for gaining a better understanding and informed insights on the changing global and regional order. 

Saturday, November 2, 2024

2 Rohingya people detained in Tripura’s Gomati district while trying to exfiltrate into Bangladesh

The Indian EXPRESS
Written by Debraj Deb
Agartala | Updated: November 2, 2024


While searching them, the BSF recovered Indian currency, mobile and United Nations High Commission for Refugees card from their possession.
They were detained by the BSF based on secret information regarding movement of people of Rohingya origins in the Karbook area. (Representational photo)

Two people of Rohingya origins were detained at the Karbook bus stand in Tripura’s Gomati district on Friday while they were planning to exfiltrate to Bangladesh, officials said on Friday.

Tuesday, October 15, 2024

Create ‘safe zone’ for the displaced people in Rakhine

The Daily Star
DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENT
Tue Oct 15, 2024 

Yunus urges UN to find ways to support them

Chief Adviser Prof Muhammad Yunus in a meeting with Thomas Andrews, UN special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar, at the former’s Tejgaon office yesterday. Photo: PID

Chief Adviser Prof Muhammad Yunus has proposed creating a "safe zone guaranteed by the UN" for the displaced people in Myanmar's Rakhine State and finding ways to support them.

"This will be the best way to get aid to them," he said when Thomas Andrews, Special Rapporteur of the UN on the situation of Human Rights in Myanmar, called on the chief adviser at his Tejgaon office yesterday.

Sunday, October 6, 2024

Out of the Spotlight, Myanmar’s Rohingya Face Worst Violence in 7 Years

UNITED STATES INSTITUE OF PEACE
Wednesday, September 25, 2024
By: Laetitia van den Assum

KEY TAKEAWAYS

  • The situation of the Rohingya is deteriorating in the absence of credible dialogue.
  • In Rakhine, forcible recruitment of Rohingya fighters has deepened societal rifts.
  • An initiative is needed to address the Rohingya community as a whole, focusing on their immediate needs and future.
Since early 2024, fighting in northern Rakhine state has led to the worst attacks on the Rohingya population since 2017, when Myanmar’s military drove more than 750,000 across the border into Bangladesh. The new attacks are a stark reminder of the Rohingyas’ vulnerability. The world has known about their plight for decades, and in 2024, only 636,000 Rohingya — or 23 percent of the 2.8 million Rohingya around the world — still live in their homeland, Myanmar.

Bangladesh's interim leader seeks Malaysia's support for repatriation of Rohingya refugees

The Washinton Post
By Julhas Alam | AP
October 4, 2024

This photo provided by by Bangladesh Press Information Department shows Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim, left, being welcomed with a bouquet of flowers by Bangladesh’s interim leader Muhammad Yunus, as he arrives in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Friday, Oct. 4, 2024. (Press Information Department via AP) (Uncredited/Bangladesh Press Information Department)


DHAKA, Bangladesh — Bangladesh’s interim leader, Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus , on Friday sought Malaysia’s help in engaging a regional Southeast Asia bloc on raising the issue of repatriating Rohingya refugees home to Myanmar.

Sunday, September 1, 2024

Uncertainty, despair grip Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh

UCA News
Updated: August 30, 2024
 


Most of the estimated 1 million Rohingya refugees are frustrated with no visible sign of repatriation and poor camp life 

This photo taken on May 24 shows Rohingya refugees walking down a path at a refugee camp in Ukhia in Bangladesh's southeastern Cox's Bazar district. (Photo: AFP)

Sitting in his tiny one-room home in the congested Shalbagan refugee camp in Teknaf of Cox’s Bazar on a hot and humid monsoon day, Abu Sufian laments the loss of a relatively happy life in Myanmar's Rakhine state seven years ago.

Wednesday, August 21, 2024

'My family died in front of my eyes’: Harrowing tales from a Myanmar massacre

BBC
20 August 2024
Yogita Limaye
South Asia & Afghanistan correspondent
Reporting from Bangladesh-Myanmar border

Nisar lost his family in the attack on the banks of this river

Warning: This article contains details some readers may find distressing.

Fayaz and his wife believed they were moments from safety when the bombs began to fall: “We were getting on the boat one after another - that’s when they started bombing us.”

Wails and shouts filled the air around 17:00 local time on 5 August, Fayaz* says, as thousands of scared Rohingyas made their way to the banks of the Naf river in the town of Maungdaw.

Monday, August 12, 2024

More injured Rohingya arriving in Bangladesh as Myanmar war intensifies

Aljazeera
12 Aug 2024

Medical charity MSF warns of urgent need to protect civilians caught up in escalating conflict in western Rakhine State.

Fighting in Rakhine has intensified in recent months [File: AFP]
 
More Rohingya are arriving in Bangladesh from Myanmar with war-related injuries amid escalating conflict between the military and the Arakan Army (AA) in western Rakhine State, according to international medical group Doctors without Borders, known by its French initials MSF.

Saturday, July 20, 2024

Landslides at Rohingya camps in Cox’s Bazar of Bangladesh, 9 dead

ddnews.gov.
19/06/2024 

In Bangladesh, nine people including eight Rohingyas died in landslides in separate Rohingya camps in Cox’s Bazar on Wednesday amid heavy rain.

The local administration official said big chunks of mud collapsed on a number of houses in No 9 and 10 Rohingya camps around 6 am on Wednesday, leaving six and three people dead respectively on the spot.

Wednesday, July 17, 2024

Repatriation only solution for Rohingya issue: Chinese envoy in Bangladesh

NEW AGE
United News of Bangladesh, Dhaka
16 July, 2024, 

Chinese ambassador to Bangladesh Yao Wen addresses a press conference at Chinese embassy in Dhaka on Tuesday. | UNB photo

Chinese ambassador to Bangladesh Yao Wen on Tuesday said that they agreed that there was no other solution except safe repatriation of the Rohingyas to their homeland.

Bangladesh turns back fleeing Myanmar armed personnel at border

Myanmar Now
AFP
July 17, 2024 

Bangladesh security personnel chase Myanmar border guards seeking refuge in Bangladesh, across the Naf river that borders southeastern Bangladesh and Myanmar on July 14, 2024. (Photo: AFP) 

Teknaf, Bangladesh – Bangladesh stopped dozens of Myanmar security personnel from crossing into its territory to flee advancing anti-regime forces, a local government official based near their river border said Tuesday.

Saturday, June 22, 2024

Rohingya may have entered Bangladesh in recent Myanmar clashes, refugee official says

REUTERS
By Sudipto Ganguly and Ruma Paul
June 21, 2024

Rohingya refugees cross a bamboo-made bridge during an ongoing heatwave in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, May 2, 2024. REUTERS/Ro Yassin Abdumonab/File Photo Purchase Licensing Rights

DHAKA, June 21 (Reuters) - Escalating violence in Myanmar's western Rakhine state in recent months may have spurred some Rohingya Muslims to cross into Bangladesh, a key refugee official said, although Dhaka insists it cannot accept more refugees from its war-torn neighbour.

Tuesday, June 18, 2024

Thousands of Rohingya feared trapped in fighting in western Myanmar

REUTERS
June 17, 2024 

June 17 (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of Muslim minority Rohingya are feared to be caught in fighting in western Myanmar, as a powerful armed ethnic group bears down on junta positions in a coastal town on the border with Bangladesh, which is reluctant to accept them.

Sunday, June 16, 2024

Eid-ul-Azha: Over 2,000 sacrificial animals to be distributed in Rohingya camps 1,

Dhaka Tribune
Tribune Desk
Publish : 16 Jun 2024, 

File image of cows at a cattle market. Photo: Mahmud Hossain Opu/Dhaka tribune
 
Some 2,200 sacrificial animals will be distributed in the refugee camps in Cox's Bazar on the occasion of Eid ul-Azha.

The animals provided by various donor agencies for the Rohingyas sheltered in Bangladesh are already being sent to the camps in Ukhiya and Teknaf.

Wednesday, June 12, 2024

US to remain Bangladesh’s partner in Rohingya crisis response: Envoy

NEWAGE
United News of Bangladesh .
Dhaka
12 June, 2024, 


Regional refugee coordinator at the US embassy Mackenzie Rowe addresses a small group briefing at the American Centre on Wednesday. | UNB photo

The United States said that it would continue to advocate with countries in the region, and at the United Nations, for a peaceful resolution of the conflict in Myanmar so that the Rohingyas and others displaced by the violence could safely return home.

Tuesday, June 11, 2024

Prioritizing safety in the Rohingya camps

Dhaka Tribune
Tribune Editorial
Publish : 11 Jun 2024, 


It is a matter of great concern that at least three Rohingya refugees were killed and seven others injured when a clash broke out at a camp. What is more concerning is that incidents of violence and unrest have only increased in frequency over the years, and this volatile environment at the camps could have ramifications that soon get out of control.

Monday, June 3, 2024

Who are the ‘outsiders’ blamed for Rohingya camp fires?

Dhaka Tribune
Udisa Islam
Publish : 03 Jun 2024,  

  • Balukhali camp most affected in 5 years
  • Most fires erupted at night

BGB members assist firefighting units at Ukhiya Rohingya camp-13 fire in Cox’s Bazar on Saturday, June 1, 2024. Photo: Courtesy
 

Two recent fire incidents destroyed hundreds of houses at Ukhiya Rohingya camp in Cox’s Bazar. The first fire incident occurred on May 24 and the latest on Saturday. The Rohingyas have always referred to the fire incidents at the camp as sabotage. However, they also mention that some unknown people or outsiders had set fire to the camp. 

Rohingya Camps Turn Into Hub Of Global Terrorism; Pose Big Security Threat To India, B’Desh: OPED

The Eur Asia
Guest Author
June 3, 2024

OPED By: Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury

Officials of law enforcement agencies in Bangladesh have been consistently saying radical Islamic militancy outfit Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA) is involved in murders, and members of this outfit regularly enter Bangladesh from Myanmar and commit a series of crimes while they also run drug peddling, arms trafficking, human trafficking, and kidnapping.

Recently, Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan told reporters that Rohingya camps in Bangladesh may become the hub of international terrorists. He said, “There may be an influx of arms. Many things can happen. And we already see some signs of these”.

Sunday, June 2, 2024

Rohingya need emergency humanitarian corridor between Bangladesh and Rakhine State

mizzima
May 31,2024 

Burmese Rohingya Organisation UK (BROUK) has made a statement calling for an emergency humanitarian aid corridor from Bangladesh into areas of northern Rakhine State under the control of the Arakan Army.