Devastating fire at Rohingya camp in Cox’s Bazar

NEWAGE

Our Correspondent . Cox's Bazar

May 12,2020 

Smoke billow from debris after a fire burnt down shanties of Rohingyas at Kutupalang camp in Cox’s Bazar on Tuesday. – New Age photo

A sudden fire totally damaged at least 350 shanties and partially damaged 350 more shanties housing Rohingyas at Kutupalang refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar on Tuesday morning.

‘The fire broke out from a house adjacent to the camp and quickly it spread to the adjacent shanties,’ said Shamsuddoha, additional refugee, relief and repatriation commissioner.

Nowhere to flee, Rohingya refugees are struggling to survive

Dhaka Tribune

Sayedullah, Kamal, Alom Shah
May 3rd, 2020

File photo of Rohingya women and children in a camp in Cox Bazar Mahmud Hossain Opu/ Dhaka Tribune

Instead of looking forward to a better, more peaceful future, Rohingya are starting to flee again. This time, they are fleeing from Bangladesh

In 2017, when the genocidal campaign in Myanmar forced the Rohingya across the border and into Bangladesh, we came seeking refuge and safety. The country opened its borders and its hearts to almost 800,000 Rohingya and we were grateful.

Coronavirus and Rohingya Refugee Camps

THE I DIPLOMAT

By Ana Salvá

March 30, 2020

The first confirmed case in Cox’s Bazar, on March 24, is a serious concern for aid workers. 

As countries close their borders and ask their citizens to stay home to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, aid organizations warn that the impact of the virus on the Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh “could be enormous.” On March 24, the first case was confirmed in the local community in Cox’s Bazar, and it is now only matter of time until the virus reaches the camps, exposing the most vulnerable.

The so-called “social distancing” many countries are practicing to prevent COVID-19 seems a cruel joke to the million-plus Rohingyas who live in the overcrowded refugee camps in Cox’s Bazar. Most of them fled the Myanmar Army-led attacks in 2016 and 2017, and at present, are living in poor conditions without access to clean water or adequate sanitation, making them especially at risk of an outbreak.

First coronavirus case confirmed in Cox's Bazar, near world's largest refugee camp

CNN

March 25, 2020

Rebecca Wright and journalist Salman Saeed 

People cross a stream in a Rohingya refugee camp on January 23 in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh. Allison Joyce/Getty Images

The first case of coronavirus has been confirmed in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh.

According to the United Nations refugee agency, a local Bangladeshi woman was confirmed to be positive on Tuesday afternoon local time.

The hospital in the town of Cox’s Bazar is around one hour’s drive from sprawling camps which are home to nearly one million Rohingya refugees.

What is being done to prevent coronavirus outbreak in Rohingya camps?

Dhaka Tribune 

Humayun Kabir Bhuiyan
March 13th, 2020

File photo of Rohingya refugees at the Kutupalong refugee camp in Ukhiya, Cox’s Bazar Syed Zakir Hossain/Dhaka Tribune

Officials putting great emphasis on prevention, as spread of infection will be difficult to contain

Health officials in Cox’s Bazar Rohingya camps are putting precautionary plans into action to prevent a potential Covid-19 outbreak, as the world faces a pandemic.

Both the government and the international agencies are putting great emphasis on placing preventive measures in the refugee camps, since it will be very difficult to deal with a situation that may arise from any infection, officials told Dhaka Tribune.

Cox's Bazar - External Situation Report (January 2020)

WORLD FOOD PROGRAMME
Source WFP
Published 27 Feb 2020

New armed police to start working in Cox’s Bazar

The Daily Star
Sunday, February 23, 2020
Mohammad Jamil Khan

A new police battalion is going to start its operation in coastal district Cox's Bazar from February 28.

The Armed Police Battalion (APBn)-16 is the second such special battalion to maintain law and order of the district and ensure security of Rohingyas.

"We will begin our operational activities in Cox's Bazar from February 28," Hemayetul Islam, commanding officer (CO) of newly formed APBn-16, told The Daily Star on Thursday.

"We are now finalising appointment of our staff members and official procedures from Dhaka," he added.

Humanitarian crisis management programme: Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh - January 2020

Cox’s Bazar ဒုက္ခသည်စခန်း ကိုရိုနာဗိုင်းရပ်စ် ကာကွယ် ရေး အခြေအနေ

VOA
ဗွီအိုအေ (မြန်မာဌာန
 ရဲမင်းထွန်း
17 ဖေဖော်ဝါရီ၊ 2020
Coronavirus ပိုးကူးစက်မှုတွေကို ကာကွယ်ဖို့ ကမ္ဘာ့နိုင်ငံတွေဟာ နိုင်ငံရဲ့ဝင်ပေါက် ထွက်ပေါက်တွေမှာ ရောဂါ စောင့်ကြည့် စစ်ဆေး ရေးတွေ လုပ်ဆောင်နေရပါတယ်။ Coronavirus ကာကွယ်ရေး ဘင်္ဂလားဒေ့ရှ် နိုင်ငံက ဘယ်လိုလုပ်ဆောင်နေပါသလဲ။ Muazzem Hossain Shakil သတင်းပေးပို့ထားတာကို ကိုရဲမင်းထွန်းက ပြောပြပေးပါမယ်။

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Myanmar team visits Rohingya camps in Cox’s Bazar

Prothum Alo 

Prothom Alo English Desk
Update: 22:16, Dec 19, 2019

Rohingya refugee camp in Cox`s Bazar. File Photo

A nine-member Myanmar delegation visited Rohingya camp in Cox's Bazar on Wednesday and interacted with Rohingyas in an effort to convince them to return to their homes in Rakhine state, reports UNB. 

They will talk to Rohingyas at the camp on Thursday before they leave Cox's Bazar for Dhaka in the afternoon, an official told UNB.

ISCG Situation Report: Rohingya Crisis - Cox's Bazar | September 2019

The Hague Conclave on Justice and Accountability for the Rohingya held

Dhaka Tribune
Tribune Desk
October 19th, 2019

File photo: Rohingya refugees stretch their hands to receive aid distributed by local organisations at Balukhali makeshift refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, September 14, 2017 Reuters

The event was held on October 18 which was organized by the Centre for Peace and Justice (CPJ), BRAC University

The Hague Conclave on Justice and Accountability for the Rohingya has brought together critical issues for consideration by the international community.

The event was held on October 18, 2019 in the Hague, Netherlands which was organized by the Centre for Peace and Justice (CPJ), BRAC University, said a press release.

Having taken note of the abiding generosity and prompt humanitarian response by the Bangladesh government in support of the Rohingyas, the Conclave underscored the importance of the United Nations, relevant member states and regional bodies to each play a role in calling out the impunity of the Myanmar authorities, and finding a long term, viable and acceptable resolution to the Rohingya crisis.

4 countries seek safety of Rohingyas, host communities in Cox’s Bazar

The Daily Star
UNB, Dhaka
September 26, 2019

 Rohingyas from Myanmar wait to be let through by Bangladeshi border guards after crossing the border at Palongkhali of Cox's Bazar on October 16, 2017. File Photo: Reuters

Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Switzerland today said a "safe and secure" situation in the Rohingya camps and surrounding areas in Cox's Bazar must be upheld so that Rohingyas and host communities can feel safe and protected.

Heads of Mission of Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Switzerland, in a joint press statement, laid emphasis on joint efforts by the international community to ensure repatriation of Rohingyas in "voluntary, safe, dignified and sustainable" manner.

US, China envoys visit Rohingya camps in Cox's Bazar

Dhaka Tribune
Abdul Aziz, Cox's Bazar
September 15th, 2019

File photo of a Rohingya Camp Syed Zakir Hossain/Dhaka Tribune  

Both the delegations inspected the overall condition of the camps

Delegations from the United States and China have visited the Rohingya camps in Cox's Bazar.

The American envoys arrived around 9:30am while the Chinese delegation reached around 11:30am on Sunday.

ရိုဟင်ဂျာ Cox's Bazar ဒုက္ခသည်စခန်း 3G နဲ့ 4G အင်တာ နက် ဖြတ်တောက်ခံရ

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ဗွီအိုအေ (မြန်မာပိုင်း)
11 စက်တင်ဘာ၊ 2019 

မိုဘိုင်းဖုန်းဖြင့် သတင်းဗွီဒီယိုကြည့်နေသည့် ဘာလုခါလီ ဒုက္ခသည်စခန်းက ရိုဟင်ဂျာဒုက္ခသည်များ။

 

ဘင်္ဂလားဒေ့ရှ်နိုင်ငံအစိုးရဟာ အင်္ဂါနေ့မှာ ရိုဟင်ဂျာ ဒုက္ခသည်စခန်းတွေအတွင်း 3G နဲ့ 4G အင်တာနက် ဝန် ဆောင်မှုတွေကို ဖြတ်တောက်လိုက်ပြီ ဖြစ်ပါတယ်။ Teknaf နဲ့ Ukhia စခန်းနယ်မြေတွေမှာ ဝန်ဆောင်မှု ပေးနေတဲ့ ကုမ္ပဏီတွေအားလုံး အင်တာနက်လိုင်းတွေကို ဖြတ်တောက်ပစ်ဖို့ အစိုးရက အမိန့်ပေးခဲ့တယ် လို့လည်း ဘင်္ဂလားဒေ့ရှ် မိုဘိုင်း ဆက်သွယ်ရေးလုပ်ငန်း ဆောင်ရွက်သူများ အသင်း အထွေထွေ အတွင်း ရေးမှူး S. M Farhad က ကြေညာချက်ထုတ်ပြန် ပြောကြားခဲ့ပါတယ်။

Cox’s Bazar pvt university suspends ‘Rohingya girl’

daily Observer

Sunday, 8 September, 2019,
Observer Online Desk

Cox’s Bazar International University has suspended a girl student following media reports that she belongs to the Rohingya community. DrAbulKashem, Vice Chancellor of the university, said the authorities have decided to suspend LLB(Hons) student Rahima Akhter alias Rahi Khushi following media reports identifying her as a Rohingya girl. A three-member probe committee was formed on Saturday asking it to submit a report within seven days, the VC added, reports UNB.

Bangladesh bars 41 NGOs from undertaking any activity in Cox's Bazar Rohingya Camps

ALL INDIA RADIO
Aug 31, 2019

The Government of Bangladesh has barred 41 NGOs from undertaking any activity in Cox's Bazar Rohingya Camps for their alleged wrongdoings.

This was announced today by Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen in Sylhet. He said A total of 139 NGOs have been operating in the Rohingya camps since the refugee crisis began in August 2017.

Tens of Thousands of Rohingya Mark 'Genocide Day

VOA
By VOANews
August 25, 2019

utuRohingya refugees gather to mark the second anniversary of the exodus at the Kpalong camp in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, Aug. 25, 2019.

Tens of thousands of Rohingya refugees rallied to mark the second anniversary of their exodus out of Myanmar.

Almost 200,000 Rohingya participated in a peaceful gathering, which was attended by UN officials, at the Kutupalong camp in Bangladesh's Cox's Bazar on Sunday.

Omar Faruk murder: 2 Rohingyas killed in Cox’s Bazar 'gunfight'

The Daily Star  

Star Online Report
August 24, 2019

Two Rohingya people, also accused of Jubo League leader Omar Faruk murder case, are killed in a reported gunfight with police in Cox’s Bazar on August 24, 2019. This is an undated photo of Jubo League leader Omar Faruk. Photo: Collected

Two Rohingya people, also accused of Jubo League leader Omar Faruk murder case, were killed in a reported gunfight with police in Cox’s Bazar early today.

Deceased Muhammad Shah and Abdu Shukkur were residents of Zadimura Rohingya refugee camp at Hnila union of the district’s Teknaf upazila, our Cox's Bazar correspondent reports.

“Rohingys” gun down Jubo League leader in Cox’s Bazar

Asian Age Online
Asian Age Online 
23 August 2019

A Jubo League leader was shot dead reportedly by Rohingyas at Jadimura in Teknaf upazila on Thursday night.

The victim was identified as Omar Faruk, 30, president of ward No 9 unit of Jubo League and son of Abdul Monaf.