‘They ignore us on purpose’: Cyclone deepens Rohingya suffering

Frontier Myanmar
June 15, 2023

Rohingya children stand by destroyed houses at Ohn Taw Chay camp in Sittwe on May 16, two days after Cyclone Mocha's landfall. (AFP)

 

The persecuted Muslim group made up the bulk of the death toll from Cyclone Mocha, with survivors accusing the military regime of failing to prepare adequate evacuations and issuing warnings at the last minute. 

 

When Cyclone Mocha barrelled through Rakhine State last month, Ko Tun Myint* and his family were unprepared.

“It was announced that there would be a storm, and they told us to relocate, but most of us thought Mocha wasn’t serious,” he said. “That’s why many of us stayed in the village.”

Myanmar puts death toll from Cyclone Mocha at least 145

Morning Star
Friday, May 19, 2023

THE official death toll from the powerful cyclone that struck Myanmar has reached at least 145, including 117 members of the Muslim Rohingya minority, state television reported today.

According to the report, the figure applied to the western state of Rakhine, where Cyclone Mocha did the most damage, but the TV news did not say how many storm-related deaths there had been elsewhere in the country.

Protection Sector - Inclusive of Child Protection and GBV Sub-sectors - Rohingya Refugee Response Plan, Cyclone Preparedness & Response Sector Plan, April 2019

Aid workers race to prepare Bangladesh’s Rohingya refugee camps for monsoon wind, rain.

reliefweb
10 May 2019

Refugees plant vetiver grass on sandy slopes to prevent monsoon-related landslides

© IOM

Cox’s Bazar – When Cyclone Fani – one of the most powerful Indian Ocean storms of the past decade – barrelled up the Bay of Bengal a week ago making landfall in northern India and western Bangladesh, it left 24 people dead, a trail of destruction and thousands displaced. Some 2.6 million people – a million in India and 1.6 million in Bangladesh – were evacuated from its path, potentially saving thousands of lives.

Northern Rakhine refugees resist relocation to Bangladesh island.

MYANMAR TIMES
KYODO | 24 APR 2019

Bangladesh is facing a dilemma over the planned transfer of thousands of Muslims from northern Rakhine State crowded into makeshift camps along the country’s border with Myanmar to an uninhabited island in the Bay of Bengal.

To ease social, economic, environmental and internal security hazards, the government plans to relocate nearly 100,000 refugees from the camps in Cox’s Bazar to Bhasan Char, which is about an hour by motor boat from the nearest shore.

Tent camps face Cyclone Mahasen

CNN

May 20, 2013

CNN's Dan Rivers reports on the ethnic Rohingya people bracing for Tropical Cyclone Mahasen.

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