Rohingya camp fire in Bangladesh kills 2, destroys shelters

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Anadolu staff
24.12.2024

Fire breaks out at Kutupalong Rohingya Camp in Ukhiya area of southeastern Cox’s Bazar district

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A massive fire swept through a Rohingya refugee camp in Bangladesh, killing at least two people and destroying over 1,000 shelters and other structures, rights activists and the UN refugee agency said on Tuesday.

Call for safety in Bangladesh Rohingya refugee camps after fatal fire

VOA
By Sarah Aziz
December 25, 2024 

A fire breaks out in the Kutupalong Rohingya refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, Dec. 24, 2024. (Md. Jamal for VOA)

Kolkata, India —

Sitting before a pile of dilapidated shacks and ashes in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, 80-year-old Rohingya refugee Amena Khatun began weeping as she talked about her 60-year-old son, Abul Hair.

ရိုဟင်ဂျာတွေကို ထပ်မံလက်ခံမှာ မဟုတ်ကြောင်း ဘင်္ဂလားဒေ့ရှ်ဝန်ကြီးပြော

RFA
RFA Burmese
2024.02.07

ဘင်္ဂလားဒေ့ရှ်နိုင်ငံ၊ Kutupalong ဒုက္ခသည်စခန်းတွင် ခိုလှုံနေကြသည့် ရိုဟင်ဂျာများအား ၂၀၂၃ ခုနှစ်၊ မေလ ၁၅ ရက်နေ့က တွေ့ရစဉ်။ AFP

မြန်မာနိုင်ငံက ရိုဟင်ဂျာဒုက္ခသည်တွေကို ထပ်မံလက်ခံတော့မှာ မဟုတ်ဘူးလို့ ဘင်္ဂလားဒေ့ရှ်အစိုးရက ပြောလိုက်ပါတယ်။

RAB detains 9 Rohingyas with arms following fatal Kutupalong clash

Dhaka Tribune  

Abdul Aziz, Cox’s Bazar
October 6th, 2020

Rapid Action Battalion on Tuesday, October 6, 2020 detained nine Rohingyas with arms who were reportedly involved in a clash at Kutupalong camp that left two dead on Sunday Dhaka Tribune

RAB seized four locally made guns and 20 rounds of cartridges from the detainees’ possession during a drive in Chakmarkul hill area in Cox's Bazar's Teknaf on Tuesday,

All of the detainees are residents of Kutupalong Rohingya camp in Ukhiya, Cox's Bazar.

Acting on a tip-off RAB conducted a drive and detained them, said Major Mehedi Hasan, company commander of RAB 15 Cox's Bazar camp.

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4 Rohingya refugees killed as factions battle

The Washington Post 

Associated Press
BANGLADESH

Bangladesh police said at least four people died after members of two criminal factions attacked each other in a sprawling camp for Rohingya refugees late Tuesday, officials said.

Twenty other refugees were wounded as the two groups battled, using locally made guns and sharp weapons, at Kutupalong in Ukhiya in the Cox’s Bazar district, said Rafiqul Islam, a police superintendent.

Christian Rohingya experience persecution in the camps

M

Shafiur Rahman
kutupalong, news & views about Rohingya

Feb 4 2020

Podcast with Simon, Christian Rohingya community leader

Church in Kutupalong. Now demolished. Church has existed since 2006. It was originally a tarpaulin/bamboo structure. In 2019, the structure above was created. 

On 26 January 2020, violence broke out between Christian and Muslim Rohingya in Kutupalong camp, Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. Our first podcast (in English) on this issue is available at this link:

Myanmar delegation holds repatriation talks with Rohingya in Bangladesh

Saudi Gazette
July 27, 2019

Members of the Myanmar delegation team arrive at the airport in Cox's Bazar in southern Bangladesh on Saturday, ahead of expected meetings with Rohingya leaders to inform them of measures they have taken for their return to Rakhine. Security at Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh was tightened for the visit of a high-level Myanmar delegation this weekend for repatriation talks, officials said. — AFP

KUTUPALONG, Bangladesh — A top-level Myanmar government delegation began repatriation talks with Rohingya leaders in a Bangladesh refugee camp on Saturday, an official said, with many of the Muslim minority fearing for their safety if they return home.

Bhashan Char ကၽြန္း ေျပာင္းမယ့္အေရး ႐ိုဟင္ဂ်ာ ဒုကၡသည္ေတြ ရတက္မေအး

VOA

ဗီြအိုုေအ (ျမန္မာဌာန)
မဆုမြန္၊ 22 မတ္၊ 2019 

 ဘဂၤလားေဒ့ရွ္ႏိုင္ငံ Cox's Bazar ခ႐ိုင္ Kutupalong ဒုကၡသည္စခန္း ေစ်းကေန ႐ိုဟင္ဂ်ာ ဒုကၡသည္ အမ်ိဳးသမီး ျပန္လာစဥ္ (ႏို၀င္ဘာ၊ ၂၁၊ ၂၀၁၇)

႐ုိဟင္ဂ်ာ ဒုကၡသည္ေတြကုိ Bhashan Char ကၽြန္းေပၚ ေျပာင္းေရႊ႕ေပးမယ့္ ဘဂၤလားေဒ့ရွ္အစိုးရ အစီအစ ဥ္အေပၚ ကုလသမဂၢ အႀကီးတန္း အရာရွိတဦးက ႀကိဳဆုိလုိက္ေပမဲ့၊ ဒုကၡသည္ေတြရဲ႕ ဆႏၵအတုိင္းျဖစ္ဖုိ႔ လုိတဲ့အေၾကာင္း ေျပာဆုိလုိက္တဲ့အေပၚ ဘဂၤလားေဒ့ရွ္ေရာက္ ဘယ္ဒုကၡသည္ကမွ သူတို႔အတြက္ အ သက္ အႏၱရာယ္ရွိတဲ့ ကၽြန္းေပၚ မေျပာင္းေရႊ႕ၾကလိုဘူးလို႔ တုန္႔ျပန္ ေျပာဆိုလုိက္ၾကပါတယ္။ လိုအပ္တဲ့ အစားအေသာက္ေနထိုင္မႈေတြ စီစဥ္ထားေပးမယ္လို႔ဆိုေပမဲ့ အသက္ေဘးရန္ေၾကာက္လို႔ ျမန္မာျပည္က ထြက္ေျပးလာၾကတဲ့သူတို႔အတြက္ ေဘးထပ္ျဖစ္ႏုိင္မယ့္ ေနရာကို မသြားလိုၾကသလို လူသားတဦးခ်င္းစီရဲ႕ လူ႔တန္ဖိုးကို ေလးစားေစလိုပါတယ္လို႔ ဆိုပါတယ္။ မဆုမြန္က ဆက္သြယ္ေမးျမန္းထားပါတယ္။

Football fever in Kutupalong

The Daily Star

March 12, 2019

Locals and visitors alike enjoy watching a recreational match between Rohingya FC and Footie HAGS at a field inside the Kutupalong refugee camp in Ukhiya on Saturday. PHOTO: COLLECTED

Last Saturday, Kutupalong was abuzz with the sound of boot striking leather and the accompanying cheers of an engrossed and sizeable crowd as a Dhaka-based football club squared off in a match against Rohingya FC.

Three German journalists among 6 injured in Rohingya camp

NEWAGE

 Our Correspondent . Cox’s Bazar | Published: 00:53, Feb 23,2019 | 

Six people including three German journalists were attacked inside the Rohingya camp during their filming at Lambashia camp of Kutupalnong in Ukhiya of Cox’s Bazar on Thursday afternoon.

The ARD German TV cameraman, Gunder Stegner, 61, along with his German colleagues Stefanie Appel, 49, and Ernico Leube, 44, and Bangladeshi fixer Mohammad Shihabuddin was beaten and were given treatment at a nearby hospital afterwards.

Top ARSA Commander Killed in ‘Gunfight’ in Cox’s Bazar.

The Irrawaddy

Nurul Alam after his arrest by RAB in Kutapalong, Cox’s Bazar on March 1, 2017. / RAB

22 February 2019

By MUKTADIR RASHID 

DHAKA—A senior military commander of the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA), also known by its former name Harakah al-Yaqeen, was killed on Friday morning in what is being called a “gunfight” with the Bangladesh police’s specialized unit, Rapid Action Battalion (RAB), in the Teknaf sub-district of the Cox’s Bazar.

ARSA has not yet made any statement on the death of their commander and top arms collector, Nurul Alam.

မေလးရွားေရာက္ ႐ိုဟင္ဂ်ာ မိန္းကေလးေတြ ဘ၀လံုု ၿခံဳမႈလိုအပ္

VOA

ဗြီအိုုေအ (ျမန္မာဌာန)

ဘဂၤလားေဒ့ခ်္နိုင္ငံ Kutupalong ဒုကၡသည္စခန္းက ႐ိုဟင္ဂ်ာမိန္းကေလးငယ္မ်ား ေရအိုးသယ္ေနစဥ္ (ႏို၀င္ဘာ၊ ၁၉၊ ၂၀၁၇) 

မေလးရွားႏိုင္ငံေရာက္ေနတဲ့ ႐ိုဟင္ဂ်ာမိန္းကေလးငယ္ေတြ အတင္းအၾကပ္အိမ္ေထာင္ျပဳခိုင္း ခံရ တာ မ်ိဳးေတြကို အကာအကြယ္ေပး အေရးယူဖို႔ Fortify Rights လူ႔အခြင့္အေရးအဖဲြ႔က မေလးရွားအာဏာ ပိုင္ေတြကို တိုက္တြန္းခဲ့ပါတယ္။

Rohingya Urgently Need Relief, but is World Willing to Make an Effort?

THE GLOBAL POST

by Vincent Auger, February 13, 2019 in Opinion

A Rohingya refugee girl in Bangladesh. Photo: AFP 

Eighteen months after being driven from their homes in Myanmar by what U.N. officials described as a campaign of genocidal violence by the military, the situation facing Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh remains perilous. Hundreds of thousands of people live in camps (the camp in Kutupalong alone houses more than 600,000 people), relying on aid from the World Food Program and help from the government of Bangladesh.

Angelina Jolie visits Kutupalang Rohingya camp

the daily Observer
Published : Tuesday, 5 February, 2019
By Mohammad Farhad Iqbal 

The UNHCR special envoy and Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie visited Kutupalang Rohingya camp in Ukhiya upazila of Cox's Bazar for the second consecutive day on Tuesday.

Back to School in Cox's Bazar

Back to School in Cox's Bazar

              

More than 145,000 Rohingya refugee children return to school

As a new school year begins, more than 145,000 Rohingya refugee children are heading back to school in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh.

A huge effort from the humanitarian community has seen a network of around 1,600 Learning Centres constructed throughout the refugee camps, providing vital access to education for children who fled violence in Myanmar.