Crimes in the Rohingya camps

The Daily Star
Sunday, "March 31, 2019"

Security needs to be beefed up

PHOTO: REUTERS

THE recent discoveries by police of the bullet-hit body of a 35-year-old Rohingya man near Noyapara Rohingya refugee camp in Teknaf and the body of an 18-year-old Rohingya woman recovered from Balukhali refugee camp in Ukhiya are chilling reminders of deteriorating law and order in the Rohingya refugee camps. On Wednesday, two Rohingya men, both allegedly drug traders, were killed in “shootouts” with the police in Cox's Bazar. Lack of security has become a major concern in the densely populated Rohingya camps where refugees are either becoming the victims or the perpetrators.

What is behind the rising chaos in Rohingya camps?

DhakaTribune

Abdul Aziz, Cox’s Bazar
Published at March 24th, 2019

File photo of a Rohingya camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh Syed Zakir Hossain/Dhaka Tribune

The current situation is leaving the host community more frustrated than ever in Cox’s Bazar

Criminal activities, attempts to establish dominance, and internal conflicts have become the major reasons behind the recent chaos in the Rohingya camps, which currently shelter more than 1.1 million refugees in Cox’s Bazar.

India's Rohingya shame.

The Indian government has adopted attitudes similar to Myanmar's towards the Rohingya.

by Ashley Starr Kinseth

29th January 2019

A girl from the Rohingya community stands outside her family's shack in a camp in New Delhi, India on October 4, 2018 [File: Adnan Abidi/Reuters]

 

Earlier this month, India sparked panic among its long-suffering Rohingya refugee population by deporting a family of five to their home country of Myanmar, where they will most certainly face human rights violations and imprisonment. This expulsion came on the heels of the controversially forced repatriation of seven Rohingya men last October.

Man Shot Dead Outside Home in Rakhine’s Minbya Township

The Irrawaddy
by Min Aung Khine

January 24, 2019

A Minbya Township signpost. / Min Aung Khine / The Irrawaddy

SITTWE—A resident of Pann Myaung village in Rakhine State’s Minbya Township was shot dead in front of his house on Wednesday evening, according to township police.

U Maung Aye Thein, 56, was shot five times at close range at around 9 p.m., Police Captain Mya Zaw told The Irrawaddy.