Refugees escape Cox's Bazar

DW
December 3'2023

However, life has remained difficult for the Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh, as they lack food, security, education, and work opportunities in the crowded camps.

A report by Human Rights Watch published this year said criminal gangs and affiliates of Islamist armed groups were causing fear at night in the refugee camps in Cox's Bazar.

A 19-year-old Rohingya refugee who recently arrived in Aceh province with her family told the AFP news agency that criminals in Cox's Bazar threatened her and her family every day, and she paid over $1,800 (€1,640) for the boat journey to Indonesia.

Rohingya leader hacked to death in Cox's Bazar

Dhaka Tribune
Tribune Desk
Publish : 25 Nov 2023,

• Police conducting raids to arrest the miscreants

• The Rohingya man was vocal against Arsa
  

File image of Rohingya camp. Photo: Dhaka Tribune

 

A Rohingya community leader has been hacked to death by a group of unidentified miscreants in the Ukhiya refugee camp of Cox's Bazar.

The deceased, Mohammad Ataullah, 50, was the majhi (community leader) of Balukhali camp no 19, Mohamamd Hossain, officer-in-charge (OC) of Ukhiya police station confirmed.

Thailand donates $28,000 for Rohingyas

Dhaka Tribune
Tribune Report
Publish : 20 Sep 2023 

Thailand Ambassador Makawadee Sumitmor hands over the donation to WFP Resident Representative and Country Director Domenico Scalpelli on Wednesday, September 20, 2023 in Cox’s Bazar. Photo: Courtesy

The Thai government has made a donation of 1 million baht (3,085,467.45 taka) or around $28,000 for the Rohingya refugees in Cox's Bazaar.

The assistance will enable World Food Program (WFP) to allocate food to 3,500 displaced persons for one month, the Thai embassy on Wednesday said.

Japan to consider increasing aid to Rohingyas

The Daily Star
Staff Correspondent
Mon Sep 4, 2023 

National Diet delegation set to visit Cox’s Bazar camps 

Rohingya camp. File photo

Japan will consider increasing its humanitarian assistance to the Rohingya refugees living in Bangladesh, a prominent Japanese lawmaker said yesterday.

"We are planning to visit Cox's Bazar tomorrow. We would like to see the situation and provide some humanitarian assistance based on the actual needs there," said Nakanishi Yusuke, director of the committee on general affairs, House of Councillors at the National Diet.

Rohingyas stage rallies for repatriation to Myanmar with full civil rights

dailyobserver
Saturday, 26 August, 2023

Rohingyas stage rallies for repatriation to Myanmar with full civil rights
 

COX'S BAZAR, Aug 25: Displaced Rohingyas staged peaceful rallies in four camps of Ukhiya and Teknaf here on Friday demanding justice for genocide in Myanmar in 2017 and their repatriation to their home land with full civil rights.

Rohingyas raised their voice in support of their return to their homeland in Myanmar during a demonstration in Cox's Bazar on the occasion of Rohingya Genocide Remembrance Day.

Between ifs and buts dwindles the future of the Rohingya

Asia News Network
The Daily Star
Farah Kabir
August 31, 2023 

The Rohingya living in the refugee camps of Teknaf and Ukhiya in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh are humans with the right to life, food, water, education, and dignity. PHOTO: REUTERS/THE DAILY STAR 

 

DHAKA – As we approach the six-year mark of the unprecedented 2017 influx of the Rohingya from Rakhine State in Myanmar, I cannot help but wonder if we are really doing enough for the people who sought support to be alive with safety and dignity. It was between August 24-25, 2017, in the weeks that followed escaping death and persecution, when the Rohingya sought refuge in Cox’s Bazar. They had fled to Bangladesh earlier too; numerous times over the last 50 or 60 years. However, the influx of 2017 was significantly different. The violence had been unleashed with no bars held. The genocide was being committed and it took years to get the global leadership to acknowledge this.

Rohingya refugees in Cox’s Bazar pin new hope on OIC support

ARAB NEWS
SHEHAB SUMON
August 13, 2023

A joint delegation from the Organization of Islamic Cooperation and the UN High Commissioner for Refugees conducts a humanitarian visit to Cox’s Bazar in Bangladesh from Aug. 6 to 11. (UNHCR)

• Rohingya refugees believe organization can ‘help us more’ as largest platform of Muslim ummah
• Joint OIC, UN visit seen as ‘positive contribution’ to keeping Rohingya issue at top of global agenda

DHAKA: Rohingya refugees in Cox’s Bazar have sought support from the Organization of Islamic Cooperation as they continue to face uncertainties about their future compounded by a massive cut in UN food rations this year.

A new wave of violence rocks Rohingya camps

THE HINDU
July 18, 2023
Arun Devnath

Armed groups killed over 40 Rohingya refugees in camps in Bangladesh in 2022, while at least 48 refugees were killed in the first half of 2023, according to a rights group

File photo of a Rohingya refugee camp, near Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. | Photo Credit: AP

In a brazen, daylight attack earlier this month, a group of assailants knifed a Rohingya community leader to death in Cox’s Bazar and fled. The death of Mohammad Ebadullah, 35, sent a shockwave through the Kutupalong block where he had provided community service. It all played out when a delegation of the International Criminal Court (ICC), led by Prosecutor Karim A. A. Khan, a British lawyer, was interviewing refugees in another block of the camp.

HRW condemns armed gang violence against Rohingya in Cox's Bazaar

asianews

07/14/2023,

The human rights groups slams Bangladesh for failing to protect Rohingya refugees and take effective steps against drug dealing, human trafficking, and murder in the camps. In Myanmar, the military’s brutal crackdown continues, while ASEAN foreign ministers fail again to do anything in their latest meeting.

Cox's Bazar (AsiaNews/Agencies) – Human Rights Watch (HRW) has accused Bangladeshi authorities of failing to protect Rohingya refugees from armed gangs involved in drug trafficking, extortion, kidnappings, and murders inside refugee camps.

နေရပ်ပြန်ရေးလက်ခံထားသူ ရိုဟင်ဂျာ ၂၃ဦးကို အကူအညီ ဖြတ်

VOA
ဗွီအိုအေ (မြန်မာပိုင်း)
၀၇ ဇွန်၊ ၂၀၂၃

Cox's Bazar စခန်း၊ ကမ္ဘာ့စားနပ်ရိက္ခာအဖွဲ့ WFP ကပေးတဲ့ရိက္ခာထုတ်လာတဲ့ ရိုဟင်ဂျာတဦး

Cox's Bazar ဒုက္ခသည်စခန်းက ရိုဟင်ဂျာဒုက္ခသည်မိသားစု ၄ စု ရဲ့ လူ ၂၃ ယောက်ကို ကုလသမဂ္ဂ ဒုက္ခသည် ဆိုင်ရာ မဟာမင်းကြီးရုံး UNHCR က စားနပ်ရိက္ခာထောက်ပံ့တာ ရပ်နားလိုက်ပါတယ်။ အဲဒီ မိသားစု ၄ စုတို့ စမ်း သပ်စီမံချက်အောက်မှာ ပြန်သွားကြဖို့ သဘောတူညီထားပြီးသားဖြစ်တယ်လို့ ဒုက္ခသည် သက်သာရေးနဲ့ ပြန်ပို့ရေး ကော်မရှင်နာ Md Mizanur ကပြောပါတယ်။

 

UK provides additional support for Rohingya and host communities in Bangladesh, in the aftermath of cyclone Mocha

UK.GOV
From: British High Commission Dhaka
Published21 May 2023

The UK is providing an additional £2.3 million (over 300 million Taka) in humanitarian support for the Rohingya refugees and host communities in Bangladesh. 

This new UK support will provide Rohingya communities with health care, shelter, and basic site management support. It will also strengthen safeguarding systems for Rohingya refugees and host communities in Cox’s Bazar.

Acting British High Commissioner to Bangladesh, Matt Cannell, announced this additional funding during a visit to the Rohingya camps and host communities in Cox’s Bazar in the aftermath of cyclone Mocha.

Bangladesh: IRC warns that over 850,000 Rohingya refugees are at risk if Cyclone Mocha reaches Cox’s Bazar

 

                                          Press Release

Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, May 12, 2023 — The International Rescue Committee (IRC) warns that Cyclone Mocha is set to strike Cox's Bazar refugee camp, home to over one million Rohingya refugees.

The cyclone's expected landfall this weekend could cause severe damage. Still reeling from a devastating fire in March that destroyed more than 2,600 shelters and critical infrastructure, over 850,000 refugees risk losing their homes and livelihoods. Strong wind, heavy rains, and subsequent flash floods and mudslides could destroy shelters, community centers, and health clinics, depriving thousands of essential services and humanitarian aid. Host communities, including Teknaf, Kutubdia, Saint Martin's Island, and nearby areas, may also be heavily affected.

In preparation, more than 3,000 Rohingya refugees have been trained to respond to flooding and mudslides. Meanwhile, the International Rescue Committee (IRC) is scaling up its emergency response in Cox's Bazar. Three mobile medical teams will be deployed to remote areas in the camps and communities to provide emergency medical treatment. Additionally, a Mobile Protection Unit designed for emergency settings will offer protection services to vulnerable groups such as women, girls, the elderly, and those with disabilities.

As Cyclone Mocha takes aim at Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh preparing to protect Rohingya refugees

bdnews24.com
Moinul Hoque Chowdhury
Published : 11 May 2023,

Rohingya shelters made of bamboo, and tin and polythene sheets are on the potential path of the cyclone gaining strength over the Bay of Bengal

Nearly 1 million Rohingya who fled persecution and brutal military crackdown in Myanmar to take refuge in Bangladesh are at risk of losing their shelters made of bamboo, and tin and polythene sheets as they are on the potential path of a huge storm brewing over the Bay of Bengal.

As the Cyclone Mocha takes aim at Cox’s Bazar, authorities in Bangladesh have scrambled to save the locals, as well as the refugees, from the damage expected to be caused by the storm, which will hit the coasts as a “superstorm” with a wind speed of 180-220 kilometres per hour on Sunday afternoon.

Cox's Bazar, Rohingya delegation in Myanmar to consider repatriation

asianews

Sumon Corraya
05/08/2023

A group of 27 members visited several villages built in Maungdaw district, but to return to Myanmar they demanded security guarantees and citizenship. The pilot project, supported by Beijing, plans to involve at least 1,100 refugees. Previous attempts have failed due to fears of a resurgence of violence. 

Cox's Bazar (AsiaNews) - A 27-member delegation travelled to Burma's Rakhine State in recent days to assess the repatriation of the Rohingya from the Cox's Bazar refugee camp that is home to around one million of them, most of whom fled persecution by the army in 2017.

With China's support, Bangladesh and Myanmar are trying to implement a pilot project to begin repatriating the Muslim minority before the monsoon season, hoping that the Rohingya who have visited Rakhine will convince others to return.

Ratchet­ing imbroglio

millennium post
10 Apr 2023

More than a mil­lion Rohingyas now live in refugee camps in Bangladesh, mostly in Cox’s Bazar

 

 

The reports of col­lab­or­at­ive func­tion­ing between the armed forces of Bangladesh and Myan­mar at refugee camps could fur­ther invig­or­ate the politi­cised Rohingya issue

Very recently, a con­fid­en­tial memo from a high-level meet­ing of Myan­mar’s junta has revealed that the Arakan Rohingya Sal­va­tion Army (ARSA), a Rohingya mil­it­ant armed group, was the tar­get of a deadly crack­down by a joint col­lab­or­a­tion of the armies of Myan­mar and Bangladesh. Although pre­vi­ous accounts of the memo high­lighted internal dis­sent against the Myan­mar gov­ern­ment, the newly revealed minutes also expose the hitherto undis­closed func­tional col­lab­or­a­tion between Bangladesh and Myan­mar in deal­ing with the issue of ARSA.

 

Myanmar delegation returns home after verifying info of 500 Rohingyas in Cox’s Bazar

Dhaka Tribune
Tribune Desk
Published: March 22, 2023 

Bangla Tribune

A delegation from Myanmar has returned home after verifying the information of about 500 Rohingyas who are in the process of repatriation in the refugee camps of Cox's Bazar.

The delegation left Bangladesh on a trawler through the Teknaf-Myanmar transit jetty at Jaliapara of Teknaf at around 10am on Wednesday.

The delegation comprising 17 members arrived in Bangladesh on March 15.

Myanmar team visits Cox’s Bazar for Rohingya repatriation project

Aljazeera
15 Mar 2023

Myanmar delegation is visiting camps this week to verify a few hundred potential returnees for the project.

Nearly a million Rohingya are living in camps in Bangladesh in the border district of Cox's Bazar, most having fled a military-led crackdown in Myanmar in 2017 [File: Ed Jones/AFP]

A delegation from Myanmar is visiting Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh this week to verify a few hundred potential returnees for a pilot repatriation project.

A Bangladeshi official said on Wednesday it was unclear when the mainly Muslim refugees would be going home.

Another 273 Rohingya refugees moved to Cox’s Bazar transit camp from Tumbru

bdnews24.com  

Cox’s Bazar Correspondentbdnews24.com
Published : 6 Feb 2023,


They had taken refuge at the Tumbru border in Bandarban’s Naikhongchhari after their houses in the camp on the border were burnt down 

The Bangladeshi authorities have relocated another 273 Rohingya people from 53 families, who had taken refuge at the Tumbru border in Bandarban’s Naikhongchhari, to a transit camp in Cox’s Bazar.

The operation to evacuate the refugees from Tumbru, who took shelter there after their camp on the borderline was burnt during a gunfight between armed Rohingya groups, continued for the second day on Monday, said Refugee Relief and Repatriation Commissioner Md Mizanur Rahman Chowdhury.

In Bangladesh’s border with Myanmar, 2 Rohingya militant groups fight for dominance

RFA
Nazmul Ahasan for BenarNews
2023.02.02
Oakland, CA

The Rohingya Solidarity Organization emerged in 2021 to fight the military but finds itself up against a rival.

Rohingya women and children rest in a village in Naikhongchhari, a sub-district of Bandarban, Bangladesh after fleeing from a clash between rival Rohingya insurgent groups and a blaze in their refugee settlement along the Bangladesh-Myanmar border, Jan. 18 , 2023.[Abdur Rahman/BenarNews]

A 12-hour gunbattle and the torching of a refugee settlement along the Bangladesh-Myanmar border thrust the Rohingya Solidarity Organization, an old armed insurgent group, back into the spotlight.

The fighting last month between members of RSO and the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA) insurgents left at least one person dead and forced hundreds of Rohingya refugees to flee the encampment.

AIDS increasing among Rohingya population in Cox’s Bazar

THE
BUSINESS
STANDARD  

TBS Report
29 July, 2022

Out of 958 AIDS infected patients in Cox’s Bazar 771 are Rohingyas 

Around 40,000 Rohingya refugees are estimated to have fled to India from neighboring Myanmar. Photo: Bloomberg.

The number of AIDS cases has been increasing in Cox's Bazar every year, with Rohingyas being the most affected.

According to the information provided by ART (Anti-retroviral Therapy) and HIV wing of Cox's Bazar Sadar Hospital, HIV scanning programme started in Cox's Bazar Sadar Hospital in 2015.