Rohingya repatriation: Dhaka may seek updates on Beijing's efforts

Dhaka Tribune

UNB
October 19, 2022 

Chinese Ambassador to Bangladesh Li Jiming is scheduled to meet Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen on Thursday

Bangladesh is likely to seek an update from the Chinese side on Thursday regarding its efforts to find ways for repatriation of the Rohingya refugees to Myanmar.

Chinese Ambassador to Bangladesh Li Jiming is scheduled to meet Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen at his office at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Thursday morning where the Rohingya issue is likely to be raised, a senior official told UNB.

4 held on charges of killing 2 Rohingya leaders in Bangladesh

AA
Md. Kamruzzaman 

DHAKA, Bangladesh
18.10.2022

There are no terrorists among refugees, only criminals involved in extortion, drug trafficking, and human trafficking, says police official

Police arrested four people on Tuesday on charges of their involvement in the killing of two Rohingya leaders in a refugee camp in Bangladesh.

The Armed Police Battalion (APBN) said in a statement that the four people arrested are also Rohingya refugees, but from different camps in the southern district of Cox’s Bazaar.

Two Rohingya community leaders killed at Cox’s Bazar refugee camp

bd24news.com
Cox's Bazar Correspondentbdnews24.com
Published : 15 Oct 2022, 

A group of 15 to 20 attackers hacked the victims at Balukhali camp in Ukhiya, police said

Two Rohingya community leaders have been hacked to death at a refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar.

A group of 15 to 20 assailants carried out the attack at the Balukhali camp in Ukhiya on Saturday evening, police said, citing witnesses.

The victims are Mohammad Anwar, 35, head of F2 block at Thaingkhali, and the assistant head of the same block Mohammad Yunus alias Moulvi Yunus, 32.

Two Rohingya community leaders killed in Bangladesh

DAWN
AFP
Published October 17, 2022

COX’S BAZAR: A mob hacked to death two Rohingya community leaders in Bangladesh on Saturday, as security worsens in camps housing almost a million refugees.

Bangladesh has been housing Rohingya refugees in a vast sprawl of camps since they fled a military crackdown in Myanmar in 2017 that is now the subject of a genocide investigation at the UN’s top court.

The squalid settlements have seen escalating violence in recent months, with gangs trying to assert control over drug trafficking and intimidate the refugees’ civilian leadership through killings and abductions.

Two Rohingya leaders killed in Bangladesh refugee camp

THE NEW ARAB
The New Arab Staff
17 October, 2022

Two leaders of the Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh were reportedly hacked to death on Saturday, according to local police.

Violence has escalated in the Rohingya camps in Bangladesh over the past few months [Getty]

Two Rohingya leaders were hacked to death on Saturday in a refugee camp in Bangladesh, according to officials.

Faruk Ahmed, a police spokesperson, said the two leaders were killed by a mob of a dozen men at Camp 13, adding that it was one of the worst such attacks in recent months.

Rohingya man narrates 16 days’ ordeal on route of trafficking

The Daily Star

Mohammad Jamil Khan
Thu Oct 13, 2022 

A transnational syndicate is using a new land route through Myanmar to traffic people, mostly Rohingyas from refugee camps in Bangladesh, to Thailand and Malaysia.

Previously, Rohingyas used to be trafficked to those countries by sea, but traffickers started using the new route as law enforcers increased vigilance in Cox's Bazar and in the Bay of Bengal.

The human trafficking syndicate comprises of Bangladeshis, Rohingyas, people of the Burmese Mog tribe, and Thai and Malaysian nationals and it has been using this land route for around eight months, said sources in law enforcement agencies, Rohingya leaders, and a trafficked youth.

Luring Rohingyas with promises of a better life in Malaysia or Thailand, members of the syndicate first take them from camps in Cox's Bazar, to a village in near Myanmar border, and then send them to the destinations via Rakhine State, they said.

3 lose lives as Rohingya refugee boat sinks off Bangladesh

DAILY SABAH
by Agence France-Presse -
AFP COX'S BAZAR, Bangladesh
Oct 04, 2022

Rohingya refugees arrive on a boat after crossing the Naf River from Myanmar into Bangladesh, Whaikhyang, Bangladesh, Oct. 9, 2017. (AFP Photo) 

At least three people drowned and nearly 20 others were missing off the Bangladesh coast after a boat carrying Rohingya refugees sank in rough weather on Tuesday, authorities said.

Dire conditions in Bangladesh's refugee camps prompt hundreds each year to pay smugglers for passage out of the country.

The fishing trawler left at dawn and was bound for Malaysia before it ran into trouble in the Bay of Bengal, with two coast guard search boats scrambling to rescue survivors.

Twelve people missing after Rohingya refugee trawler sinks off Bangladesh

ALARABIA NEWS

AFP, Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh
Published: 04 October ,2022 

File photo of Rohingya Muslims arriving on a boat from Myanmar to Bangladesh. (AP)

 

At least a dozen people were missing off the Bangladesh coast on Tuesday after a boat carrying Rohingya refugees sank in rough weather, the South Asian country’s coast guard said.

The fishing trawler left at dawn and was bound for Malaysia before it ran into trouble in the Bay of Bengal, with two search boats scrambling to rescue survivors.

“We have rescued 39 people including 35 Rohingya refugees and four Bangladeshis,” coast guard spokesman Lieutenant Al Amin told AFP.

At least three women die after Rohingya boat sinks off Bangladesh

Aljazeera

4 Oct 2022 

More than a dozen missing after a fishing trawler bound for Malaysia runs into bad weather in the Bay of Bengal.

Dire conditions in Bangladesh's refugee camps prompt hundreds of Rohingya each year to pay smugglers for passage out of the country [File: AFP]

At least three people have drowned and nearly 20 others are missing off the Bangladesh coast after a boat carrying Rohingya refugees sank in rough weather, authorities said.

Bangladesh spends $1.22 bn a year for 1.2 mn Rohingyas: PM

The Daily Star

UNB, New York

Thu Sep 22, 2022

Photo: PID

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today (September 22, 2022) called upon the international community to take five actions to resolve the prolonged Rohingya crisis, including political and financial support to them.

She made the call at a high-level side event on the Rohingya crisis held at Lotte Palace New York Hotel.

Focusing on the second action, Sheikh Hasina asked the world community to intervene in the proceedings before the International Court of Justice, International Criminal Court and national courts, including supporting the Gambia in the ICJ, in order to enforce international law and to strengthen the fight against human rights violations in Myanmar.

Myanmar, Bangladesh must solve border tensions peacefully

ASIA TIME

By TILOTTAMA RANI CHARULATA

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

The Bangladeshi government’s diplomatic and military preparations need to be strengthened

Myanmar border guard police patrol the fence in the 'no man's land' zone between the Myanmar and Bangladesh border. Photo: AFP / Phyo Hein Kyaw

Many Rohingya people fled from Myanmar a few years ago in fear of their lives, but recently the Myanmar army has had to face strong resistance from other independence-seeking rebels. Along with the Arakan Army, the military is in serious conflict with the Cochin Army, and elements of the Shan, Karen, Mong, Shin and Kaya peoples.

As a result, the Tatmadaw (military) has adopted a slightly different strategy from its persecution of the Rohingya to avoid international surveillance of its suppression of the rebels. As a part of this, it has mounted a campaign on the border with Bangladesh.

PM seeks UN’s intensified role in Rohingya repatriation

THE BUSINESS POSTS
BSS . New York
22 Sep 2022

UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi holds a meeting with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at the bilateral meeting room of Lotte New York Palace hotel on Tuesday– BSS Photo

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has iterated her call to the international community and the United Nations to play intensified role in solving the Rohingya crisis by repatriating the forcibly displaced Myanmar nationals to their motherland.

The prime minister made this call while UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi paid a courtesy call on her at the bilateral meeting room of Lotte New York Palace hotel 0n Tuesday.

Bangladesh police: Suspected Rohingya rebels kill another refugee camp watchman

RFA
By Abdur Rahman and Ahammad Foyez for BenarNews
2022.09.21

Residents of Cox’s Bazar camps say ARSA rebels are behind a spate of such killings.

A Rohingya refugee walks at a refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, March 7, 2019.
Reuters

A Rohingya volunteer watchman was killed at a refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar allegedly by Rohingya insurgents, making him the fifth victim of such an attack by armed rebels, Bangladeshi police said Wednesday.

While police wouldn’t say whether the suspected assailants belonged to the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA) insurgent group, residents of the sprawling camps near the Myanmar border insist that it was behind these attacks on the volunteer Rohingya security guards.

Japan to contribute $3.5M in aid to Rohingya in Bangladesh

 AA

SM Najmus Sakib
DHAKA, Bangladesh
21.09.2022

Partnership agreement with UN refugee agency signed to help persecuted people living in Cox’s Bazar, Bhasan Char camps with essential services

Japan will provide $3.5 million to support Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh, and on Wednesday it inked a partnership agreement with the UNHCR to help the persecuted people living in two camps with essential services.

Bangladesh currently hosts over 1.2 million Rohingya refugees who fled Myanmar's Rakhine State following a brutal military crackdown in August 2017.

Since the beginning of the emergency in 2017, Japan has been a steadfast supporter of the Rohingya refugee response in Bangladesh, contributing over $170 million to UNHCR and other UN agencies and NGOs in Bangladesh, including through this new funding.

ဘင်္ဂလားဒေ့ရှ်အပါအဝင်နိုင်ငံတကာမှ ULA/AAကိုအသိ အမှတ်ပြုပြီးပူပေါင်းရပ်တည်ပေးလျှင် မူဆလင်ဒုက္ခသည် များ နေရပ်ပြန်ရေးလုပ်ဆောင်နိုင်မည်ဟုဆို

Narinjara
နိရဉ္စရာ၊ စက်တင်ဘာ ၁၉/၂၀၂၂

ဘင်္ဂလားဒေ့ရှ်သို့ ရောက်ရှိနေသည့် ရခိုင်ပြည်နယ်မြောက်ပိုင်းက မူဆလင်ဒုက္ခသည်များ နေရပ် ပြန်နိုင်ရေး အ တွက် ဘင်္ဂလားဒေ့ရှ်အပါအဝင် ကုလသမဂ္ဂနှင့်နိုင်ငံတကာတို့မှ ရက္ခိုင်အမျိုးသားအဖွဲ့ချုပ်( ULA)ကို အသိအ မှတ် ပြုပြီး ပူးပေါင်းဆောင်ရွက်လျှင် နေရပ်ပြန်ရေးကိုလုပ်ဆောင်နိုင်မည်ဖြစ်ကြောင်း ယနေ့ စက်တင်ဘာ ၁၉ ရက်နေ့တွင် ပြုလုပ်သည့် သတင်းစာ ရှင်းလင်းပွဲတွင် ULA/AAပြောရေးဆိုခွင့်ရှိသူ ဦးခိုင်သုခက ပြောဆိုသည်။

မြန်မာနိုင်ငံခြားရေးဝန်ကြီးဌာနက ဘင်္ဂလားဒေ့ရှ်သံအမတ် ကြီးကိုတွေ့ဆုံပြီး လက်နက်ကြီးကျည်များမှာ AA ကပစ် ခတ်ခြင်း ဖြစ်ကြောင်း၊ ဘင်္ဂလားပိုင်နက်ထဲအေအေ စခန်း များရှိကြောင်း ပြောဆိုခဲ့ဟုဆို

Narinjara
နိရဉ္စရာ၊ စက်တင်ဘာ ၁၉/၂၀၂၂

မြန်မာနိုင်ငံခြားရေးဝန်ကြီးဌာနက မြန်မာနိုင်ငံဆိုင်ရာ ဘင်္ဂလားဒေ့ရှ် သံအမတ်ကြီးမစ္စတာ မန်ဂျူရူလ် ကရင်လ် ချောင်ဒရီအား ယနေ့နံနက် (၉) နာရီခွဲတွင် တွေ့ဆုံခဲ့သည်ဟု သတင်းရရှိသည်။ 

Rohingya teen dies, several injured after shells fired from Myanmar land in Bangladesh

bdnews24.com 

Bandarban Correspondent
Cox’s Bazar Correspondent,
Senior Correspondentbdnews24.com
Published : 16 Sept 2022,

The shells fell on a refugee settlement across no man's land

 

A Rohin‌gya teenager has reportedly been killed and several others injured after mortar shells fired from Myanmar exploded in Bangladeshi territory, according to officials and community leaders.

The shells fell on a refugee settlement near the Tumabru and Konapara border in Bandarban's Ghumdhum Union around 8 pm on Friday, the latest in a string of violent incidents that have put residents on edge.

Mortar fired from Myanmar kills Rohingya youth in Bangladesh

Aljazeera
17 Sep 2022

More than a million Rohingya live in camps in southern Bangladesh that comprise the world’s largest refugee settlements.

Rohingya refugees gather at a market inside a refugee camp in Cox''s Bazar, Bangladesh, in 2019 [File: Mohammad Ponir Hossain/Reuters]

A Rohingya teenager has been killed and at least six people were injured when a mortar shell fired from Myanmar exploded inside Bangladesh territory, local officials and a Rohingya leader said.

The youth was killed by a mortar blast late on Friday, said Dil Mohammed, a Rohingya leader, in an area designated as no-man’s land – a strip of land along the Myanmar-Bangladesh border where an estimated 4,000 Rohingya live.

Myanmar’s threat on Bangladesh’s sovereignty

dailyobserver 

Published : Monday, 5 September, 2022 

Mehjabin Bhanu

 

Despite strong protests, Myanmar continues to violate the border. A week after firing mortar shells on the Bangladesh border, the Myanmar forces again fired from warplanes on the Bangladesh border. Yesterday (On September 03), two shells fired by the Myanmar army exploded in Bangladesh territory near the zero line of the Naikshyongchari border in Bandarban. Although it exploded within 120 meters of the terrain, no one was injured or injured in the incident. In the morning, the place where the two bullets fell is an uninhabited area. 6 days before this incident, on August 28, mortar shells landed in the populated area of Ghumdhumpara, north of Naikshyongchari.

But it did not explode. With two such incidents in a row and ongoing fighting between Myanmar's insurgent group Arakan Army (AA) and Myanmar's security forces, the local residents of the Bangladesh border are suffering from fear and insecurity. Those who cultivate jum(One kind of cultivation method in the hilly area) in the hillsadjacent to the border are staying at home instead of farming. Security analysts said that such incidents are disrupting the normal life of the residents of the border areas.

Rohingya Issue May Find Prominence in Modi-Hasina Talks; Bangladesh Keen on Cooperation on Energy & Food Security with India

NEWS18

Abhishek Jha
September 04, 2022, 

An important issue that the Bangladesh PM is expected to discuss with PM Modi is regarding the Rohingya refugees. (File Twitter Photo)

During her visit, Hasina will hold bilateral talks with Prime Minister Narendra Modi on 6th September at Hyderabad House in New Delhi. She will also call on President Droupadi Murmu and Vice President Jagdeep Dhankar the same day.

Bangladesh’s Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will be on a four-day state visit to India from September 5-8. She will be accompanied by a high-level delegation, including a number of ministers and industrialists.

During her visit, Hasina will hold bilateral talks with Prime Minister Narendra Modi on 6th September at Hyderabad House in New Delhi. She will also call on President Droupadi Murmu and Vice President Jagdeep Dhankar the same day.