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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.

Bangladesh: Rampant Police Abuse of Rohingya Refugees

H U M A N

R I G H T S

W A T C H

January 17, 2023

Police officers stand guard in front of Rohingya refugees at Kutupalong camp in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, September 30, 2021. © 2021 Mushfiqul Alam/NurPhoto via AP

(Bangkok) – Bangladesh’s Armed Police Battalion (APBn) is committing extortion, arbitrary arrests, and harassment of Rohingya refugees already facing violence from criminal gangs and armed groups, Human Rights Watch said today. Donor governments should press the Bangladesh authorities to investigate alleged abuses against Rohingya living in refugee camps in Cox’s Bazar, ensure that victims have effective remedies, and develop measures to better protect refugees.

Second Rohingya leader killed in span of 12hrs

Dhaka Tribune

Tribune Desk
January 8, 2023 

Rohingyas walk on a road at a refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, on Wednesday, August 11, 2021 Allison Joyce/Dhaka Tribune

Another Rohingya leader was killed in a span of 12 hours, in Balukhali camp in Ukhiya upazila of Cox's Bazar early Sunday.

The deceased was Mohammad Selim, 35, son of Abdus Sobhan of the camp.

Officer-in-Charge (OC) of Ukhiya police station Sheikh Mohammad Ali said Selim was killed after a group of miscreants “from Arsa” called him from his house early in the morning and shot him.

A police team reached the spot after receiving the information, but the miscreants had already fled the area, he said.

Rohingya hold rally seeking return to homeland

KHMER TIMES
January 3, 2023

A file photo of Rohingya refugees in India. ANI

DHAKA – “2023 should be Rohingya Home Year,” read a placard held up by a refugee boy as nearly 1,000 Rohingya people in Bangladesh’s refugee camp in the southern border district of Cox’s Bazar held a rally, demanding a peaceful and dignified return to their home country of Myanmar’s Rakhine State.

Carrying banners and placards with various slogans like “Rohingya Want to Smile in 2023,” “No NVC (National Verification Cards)” and “Enough is Enough, Let’s Go Home”, a large number of the persecuted people attended the rally on Saturday. 

US-Myanmar-Bangladesh: Humanitarian Significance Of US Rohingya Rehabilitation Announcement – OpEd

eurasiareview
By Samina Akhter
December 6, 2022

US State Department Assistant Secretary of State for Population, Refugees and Immigration Julieta Valls Noyes promoting gender-based violence Safe from the Start Revisioned initiative at Cox’s Bazar. Photo Credit: US State Department

According to the announcement of the State Department, US State Department Assistant Secretary of State for Population, Refugees and Immigration Julieta Valls Noyes arrived in Bangladesh on a four-day visit on Saturday (December 03). She visits the Rohingya camp in Cox’s Bazar. Considering the humanitarian crisis in Myanmar, Valls Noyce will meet with government officials during her visit to Bangladesh for showing generosity by sheltering Rohingya and other refugees. She will also meet with the officials of private and international partner organizations to highlight the commitment of the United States to support the Rohingya refugees and the local people of the populated country who have received shelter in this country. On December 7, the US Assistant Secretary of State will leave Bangladesh for Thailand.

Netherlands, IOM join hands to strengthen resilience of Rohingyas in Cox’s Bazar

Dhaka Tribune

Tribune Desk
November 28, 2022

The project aims to provide multi-sectoral support assistance for the Rohingya refugees and the host communities in Cox’s Bazar

Courtesy

The Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Dhaka and the International Organization for Migration (IOM) have signed an agreement based on which the Netherlands will provide $7.5 million to IOM for the implementation of the “Restoring the Environment and Strengthening Resilience of Rohingya Refugees and Host Communities in Cox's Bazar” project.

The project aims to provide multi-sectoral support assistance for the Rohingya refugees and the host communities in Cox's Bazar.

Bangladesh Launches Police Probe on ARSA Chief and Others Over Intelligence Officer’s Death

The Irrawaddy
Muktadir Rashid
26 November 2022

Bangladesh security personnel stand guard during a crackdown in a Rohingya refugee camp against suspected criminals and insurgents in October. / AFP

 

DHAKA — An investigation has been launched in Bangladesh into 66 alleged members of a Rohingya militant group over a shootout earlier this month on Myanmar’s border in which a Bangladeshi security officer was killed.

An investigation into Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA) commander-in-chief Ataullah abu Ammar Jununi and 65 others was launched on Wednesday over the killing of Directorate General of Forces Intelligence (DGFI) officer Rizwan Rushdee and injuring of a Rapid Action Battalion member during an anti-smuggling operation in hilly Bandarban district on November 14.

Bangladesh launches a campaign of raids in the Rohingya refugee camps against the elements "criminal"

East Post 

2022-10-31

Elite Bangladesh police forces have launched a crackdown on criminals and suspected insurgents in Rohingya refugee camps, following an upsurge in attacks on camp officials, police officials said Sunday.

The “armed police battalion” in charge of security in 34 camps housing about one million Rohingya refugees said it had arrested at least 56 people since Friday night.

About 740,000 Rohingya fled to Bangladesh to escape a military campaign against them in Myanmar in 2017, joining more than 200,000 Rohingya who were previously in camps in Cox’s Bazar, southeastern Bangladesh.

2 Rohingya men shot dead in Cox’s Bazar

The Daily Star

Star Digital Report
Thu Oct 27, 2022

Criminals shot dead two Rohingya men after picking them up from their houses in the refugee camp of Ukhiya upazila in Cox's Bazar early today (October 27, 2022).

The deceased are Ayat Ullah (40) and Mohammad Yeasin (30).

With them, at least seven Rohingya men including a child were shot dead in Cox's Bazar this month.

Today's shooting took place at Block-C in Balukhali camp around 3:30am, said Syed Harun-or-Rashid, commanding officer of Armed Police Battalion-14.

After father, son now killed by miscreants at Rohingya camp in Cox's Bazar

The Daily Star  

Star Digital Report
Tue Oct 18, 2022

Rohingya camps in Cox’s Bazar. Star file photo/Anisur Rahman

A Rohingya youth was killed by miscreants with sharp knives and shooting at Tajnimar Khola 19 camp of Palangkhali union of Ukhia upazila in Cox's Bazar.

The deceased, Syed Hossain (23), was the son of late Jamil Hossain who was killed earlier by miscreants.

The incident took place around 8pm tonight (October 18, 2022), reports our Cox's Bazar correspondent quoting Md Faruk Ahmed, assistant superintendent of police (Media) of APBn.