Extremism growing among Rohingya children in Cox’s Bazar camps

AsiaNews
by Sumon Corraya
06/24/2019,

Bangladesh doesn’t allow refugee children to attend schools with their Bangladeshi peers. A radical group, Hefazat-e-Islam Bangladesh, fills the educational gap with its own 1,200 madrassas. Activists warn against the danger of future terrorist attacks.

Cox’s Bazar (AsiaNews) – Abdur Rahaman, 12, a Rohingya refugee has lived in a camp in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh for more than two years. When he was home, in Myanmar, he wanted to be a doctor, but now everything has changed. “Here I cannot go to school. My parents enrolled me in a madrassa. Now I will never be a doctor."

Like Abdur, thousands of other children cannot go to regular school and are increasingly becoming "prey" to Islamic radicalism taught in 1,200 Islamic schools.

'We will lose any hope of going home': Rohingya live in fear of resettlement

The Guardian 

Francesca Morano in Sittwe

Thu 2 May 2019

Plans to relocate Rohingya people in Myanmar’s Rakhine state promise to dash their dreams of returning to traditional life

Since their homes were burned down seven years AGO, an estimated 128,000 ethnic Rohingya have been detained in camps in the west of Myanmar Photograph: Francesca Morano

For the past seven years, Mohammad has been able to see the beach on the outskirts of Sittwe, and the Indian Ocean beyond, only through a barbed wire fence.

Bangladesh jails three Rohingya extremists busted with bomb-making materials for 10 years

the japan times
AFP-JIJI
Apr 29, 2019 

Rohingya refugees look on as Bangladeshi police walk past at the Unchiprang refugee camp near Teknaf last fall. Criminal gangs and militants are increasing their grip on Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh, committing killings and abductions with "impunity," International Crisis Group said Thursday. | AFP-JIJI

DHAKA - A Bangladesh court Sunday sentenced three Rohingya extremists of a now defunct militant group to 10 years in jail for possessing bomb-making materials, a prosecutor said.

The trio were arrested in 2014 in Dhaka with materials to be used for making improvised explosive devices (IEDs), said Salahuddin Howlader, a prosecutor at the Metropolitan Special Tribunal in the capital.