We, the Rohingya, can’t wait for justice from faraway courts

Frontier
MYANMAR

ZAHIDULLAH, SHOHID & ABDULLAH ZUBAIR
Thursday, May 28, 2020

A Rohingya refugee in a camp in southern Bangladesh watches on a mobile phone a live feed of State Counsellor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi speaking at the International Court of Justice in The Hague on December 11, 2019. (AFP) 

 

Expectations about international justice are unrealistically high among Rohingya in the camps in Bangladesh, and the case before the ICJ is likely to end in disappointment.
On May 23, Myanmar had to submit its first report to the International Court of Justice in The Hague about the measures it has taken to prevent the genocide of the Rohingya people. The report was not made public so we can only guess what Myanmar is telling the court about the situation in Rakhine State.

Rohingya Refugee Camps In Bangladesh Are At High Risk Of The Coronavirus Outbreak

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May 26, 2020
Malaka Gharib
One million Rohingya refugees live in camps outside the Bangladeshi town of Cox's Bazar. The conditions there make infection control difficult and put the camps at risk of the coronavirus outbreak.
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In a Bangladesh refugee camp, I'm worried about what lockdown means for the safety of Rohingya women

INDEPENDENT

Sharmin Akter
May 26' 2020

A young woman that I helped recently needed nine stitches after her neighbour’s husband slashed the soles of her feet with a knife – during an argument over hygiene conditions

Now that Covid-19 has reached the Rohingya refugee camps, there is a very real risk that the virus could spread like wildfire. More than 800,000 people are living here in homes that are small, close together and overcrowded. Typically, there are five to seven people living in one 10 x 15 foot shelter made out of bamboo and tarpaulin, and this makes social distancing incredibly difficult.

UN Urges Bangladesh to Move Rohingya to Refugee Camps

telesurtv.net
18 May 2020

The Rohingya, who have faced ethnic persecution in Myanmar, have crowded into camps in Cox's Bazar on the southeast coast of Bangladesh. | Photo: EFE

"We don't want any more Rohingya," Bangladesh Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen said.

Rohingya sent by Bangladesh to a flood-prone island after being stranded at sea for weeks should be moved to refugee camps, the United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told Bangladesh’s foreign minister in a letter obtained Sunday by AFP.

Bangladesh reports coronavirus cases in Rohingya camp

Prothum Alo------ 

Reuters Dhaka
14 May 2020,

Rohingya refugees gather at a market inside a refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, on 7 March 2019Reuters file photo

The novel coronavirus has been detected in one of the camps in southern Bangladesh that are home to more than a million Rohingyas, officials said on Thursday, as humanitarian groups warned that the infection could devastate the crowded settlement.

An ethnic Rohingya refugee and another person have tested positive for COVID-19, a senior Bangladeshi official and a UN spokeswoman said. It was the first confirmed case in the camps, which are more densely populated than most crowded cities on earth.

First coronavirus case found in Bangladesh Rohingya refugee camps

Aljazeera
15 May 2020

Aid groups alarmed as Rohingya tests positive for COVID-19 in the densely populated camps, home to a million refugees.

Rohingya refugees stand in line to collect food aid at the Kutupalong refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh [Shafiqur Rahman/AP]

The novel coronavirus has been detected in one of the camps in southern Bangladesh that are home to more than a million Rohingya refugees, according to officials.

An ethnic Rohingya refugee and a local person tested positive for COVID-19, a senior Bangladeshi official and a United Nations spokeswoman said on Thursday. It was the first confirmed case in the densely populated camps as humanitarian groups warned the infection could devastate the crowded settlement.

First coronavirus cases found in Bangladesh's Rohingya refugee camps

THE STRAITSTIMES
14 MAY 2020

Health experts have been warning for some time that the coronavirus could race through the sprawling, unsanitary camps.PHOTO: AFP

COX'S BAZAR (AFP) - Two Rohingya have become the first to test positive for coronavirus from the vast refugee camps in Bangladesh that house almost a million people, officials said on Thursday (May 14).

Health experts have been warning for some time that the virus could race through the sprawling, unsanitary camps that have been home to the refugees since they fled a military offensive in Myanmar more than two years ago.

Turkey to raise Rohingya issue at next UNSC meet

Bangladesh Post
By Staff Correspondent
May.09, 2020

Dr Momen ,Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu.

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu has promised to raise the Rohingya issue at the next UN Security Council meeting.
He made the promise while talking to Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen on phone on Saturday.

The Turkish foreign minister said his country would continue all kinds of cooperation for the safe return of the Rohingya refugees residing in Bangladesh to Myanmar.

After Weeks at Sea, 277 Rohingya Land in Bangladesh

The New Yprk Times
By The Associated Press

May 8, 2020

DHAKA, Bangladesh — More than 250 Rohingya Muslim refugees who had been floating for weeks on a fishing boat in the Bay of Bengal arrived Friday on an island in southern Bangladesh, officials said.

The 277 refugees were taken to Bhasan Char island after they reached Bangladesh’s coast, said Mohammed Alamgir Hossain, police superintendent in Noakhali district where the island is located. He said the navy took them there after their boat was spotted.

UNHCR opposes Rohingya transfers to Bhashan Char

Dhaka Tribune 

Humayun Kabir Bhuiyan 
  May 5th, 2020

File Photo: The photo, collected from project official Atikul Islam’s Facebook page, shows houses built under a project to accommodate Rohingya refugees in Bhashan Char, Noakhali, Bangladesh Collected

Like in the past, rescued Rohingyas could be in Cox’s Bazar, says UN refugee agency

The United Nation High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has voiced its opposition to the transfers of a group of Rohingyas rescued on Saturday by Bangladesh Coast Guard to Bhashan Char Island in Noakhali.

Concerns raised after Rohingya quarantined on Bangladeshi island

Aljazeera
5,May 2020

HRW says relocation of 29 Rohingya to flood-prone Bhasan Char island without access to aid poses risk to refugees.

Authorities said the 29 Rohingya were relocated to the controversial Bhasan Char island to prevent coronavirus outbreak in the refugee camps [Mohammad Ponir Hossain/Reuters]

Rights groups and aid agencies have raised concerns after dozens of stranded Rohingya refugees, who landed at Bangladesh's southern coast at the weekend, were sent to an inhabitable island in the Bay of Bengal.

Rohingyas land in Bhasan Char

Bangladesh Post
By Diplomatic Correspondent
May.03, 2020

Bangladesh finally could send few Rohingyas to Bhasan Char.
The government developed the river island at the estuary of Meghna River for human habitation with all the facilities, but due to international pressure could not relocate Rohingyas from Cox’s Bazar to Bhasan Char.

In a new move, the government sent few Rohingyas who entered Bangladesh in the last couple of days by using small boats to Bhasan Char.

ISCG helps host community, Rohingyas prepare for monsoon

Bangladesh Post

By Coxs Bazar Correspondent

May.04, 2020

As rains and thunderstorms batter Cox’s Bazar as a prelude to the monsoon season, and the danger of the COVID-19 pandemic looms in the district, Inter Sector Coordination Group (ISCG) partners in support of Bangladesh are assisting thousands in the host community and Rohingya refugee camps to prepare for possible extreme weather, said a press release.

Rohingya refugees sent to flood-prone Bangladesh island after months at sea

DW
2020.05.04

After being turned away by Malaysia, at least 500 Rohingya refugees facing persecution in Myanmar have spent two months at sea. Now one boat of 29 people has been sent to an "uninhabitable" Bangladeshi island.

After being turned away by Malaysia, at least 500 Rohingya refugees facing persecution in Myanmar have spent two months at sea. Now one boat of 29 people has been sent to an "uninhabitable" Bangladeshi island.

Dozens of Rohingya From Stranded Boat Land in Southern Bangladesh: Official Says

The New York Times

Reuters
May 2, 2020

DHAKA — Dozens of Rohingya believed to be from one of several boats stuck at sea landed on the coast of southern Bangladesh on Saturday, an official said, as concerns grew over hundreds stranded for weeks on trawlers because of coronavirus restrictions.

“A small boat carrying 43 people came to shore today,” the government official said, declining to be named because they were not authorized to speak to media.

Some of the arrivals were sent to Bhasan Char, a remote island off the coast where authorities previously planned to house Rohingya, the official said.

Dozens of stranded Rohingya refugees land in Bangladesh

Aljazeera
3,May-2020

Officials say a small boat carrying about 40 people, including 'starving' children, came ashore in southern Bangladesh.

Belongings of Rohingya refugees lay on the shore as their carrier boat remains anchored nearby in Teknaf [File: Suzauddin Rubel/AFP]

Dozens of Rohingya believed to be from one of several boats floating in the Bay of Bengal for weeks have landed on the coast of southern Bangladesh, according to officials, as fears grow over hundreds of people stuck at sea on vessels because of coronavirus restrictions.

Security officials quoted by news agencies said on Sunday that a small boat carrying about 40 people, including "starving" women and children, had come ashore the previous day. 

Rohingya refugees sent to remote Bangladeshi island after weeks at sea

The Guardian 
Rebecca Ratcliffe
Bangkok and agencies
Sun 3 May 2020

Hundreds more refugees still stranded on boats after being turned away by Malaysia 

A boat carrying Rohingya refugees is detained in Malaysian territorial waters off the island of Langkawi on 16 April. Photograph: Maritime Enforcement Agency Handout/EPA 

 
Rohingya refugees believed to have spent weeks stranded on cramped boats at sea have been sent to a remote, uninhabited island by Bangladesh, while hundreds more remain adrift.

Dozens of Rohingya landed on the coast of southern Bangladesh on Saturday, an official said, with some sent to Bhasan Char, a silt island in the estuary of Bangladesh’s Meghna river.

'Stranded' Rohingyas land on Bangladesh coast

THE STRAITSTIMES
2020.05.02

Rohingya refugees are seen in Kutupalong refugee camp in Ukhia, Bangladesh, on March 24, 2020.PHOTO: AFP

COX'S BAZAR (AFP) - Dozens of Rohingya refugees believed to have come from two boats stranded at sea for weeks as they tried to reach Malaysia landed on the Bangladesh coast on Saturday (May 2), Rohingya community leaders said.

Bangladesh has refused to let the two trawlers carrying about 500 people land on its territory despite UN calls to allow them in as a powerful storm bears down on the region.

Bangladesh urged to open ports to allow in Rohingya refugee boats

The Guardian
Rebecca Ratcliffe
South-east Asia correspondent
Mon 27 Apr 2020

More than 500 stranded on trawlers in what UN calls ‘human tragedy of terrible proportions’

A boat carrying suspected Rohingya refugees off the island of Langkawi, Malaysia. Earlier this month, Bangladesh rescued a boat that had been left adrift for two months after attempting to reach Malaysia. Photograph: Maritime Enforcement Agency Handout/EPA

The Bangladeshi government has been urged to open its ports and allow two boats carrying hundreds of Rohingya refugees to come ashore so they can be given urgent medical care, food and water.

Bangladesh coast guard rescues 396 Rohingya from drifting boat; 32 dead

REUTERS

Ruma Paul

April 16, 2020

 

DHAKA (Reuters) - At least 32 ethnic Rohingya died on a ship that drifted for weeks after it failed to reach Malaysia, officials of the Bangladesh coast guard said on Thursday, following the rescue of 396 starving survivors.

Rohingya refugees who were rescued by Bangladesh Coast Guard, sit on the shore in Teknaf, subdistrict of Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh April 15, 2020. Picture taken April 15, 2020. Abdul Aziz/Handout via REUTERS THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY. NO RESALES. NO ARCHIVES

 

For years, Rohingya from Myanmar have boarded boats organised by smugglers in the hope of finding refuge in Southeast Asia, usually making voyages during the dry season from November to March, when the waters are calm.