Bangladesh paying the price heavil

daily sun
Nur Uddin Alamgir, Chattogram
Publish: Sunday, 20 October, 2024

Despite having no involvement, Bangladesh has been bearing the brunt of the ongoing conflict between the Myanmar security forces and the rebel Arakan Army (AA) along its frontiers under Cox’s Bazar and Bandarban districts for the past year.

Thailand: Rohingya Found Dead During Escape from Myanmar

HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH
October 18, 2024

Rohingya refugees heading toward a camp at Teknaf, Bangladesh, September 13, 2017. © 2017 Md. Mehedi Hasan/Pacific Press/Sipa USA via AP Photo

 

(Bangkok) – The Thai government should conduct effective investigations into how a group of Rohingya refugees from Myanmar were found dead and injured on Thai soil on October 17, 2024, Human Rights Watch said today. The Thai authorities should urgently provide protection to survivors and prosecute those responsible for abuses.

Create ‘safe zone’ for the displaced people in Rakhine

The Daily Star
DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENT
Tue Oct 15, 2024 

Yunus urges UN to find ways to support them

Chief Adviser Prof Muhammad Yunus in a meeting with Thomas Andrews, UN special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar, at the former’s Tejgaon office yesterday. Photo: PID

Chief Adviser Prof Muhammad Yunus has proposed creating a "safe zone guaranteed by the UN" for the displaced people in Myanmar's Rakhine State and finding ways to support them.

"This will be the best way to get aid to them," he said when Thomas Andrews, Special Rapporteur of the UN on the situation of Human Rights in Myanmar, called on the chief adviser at his Tejgaon office yesterday.

BGB sends back 37 Rohingyas to Myanmar

THE BUSINESS STANDARD
TBS Report
13 October, 2024

File photo: The Guardian

Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) members sent back 37 Rohingyas, including children, when they tried to enter Bangladeshi territory from Myanmar by crossing the Naf River in Teknaf, Cox's Bazar last night (12 October).

The incident happened at around 9pm yesterday at the Keruntoli border point under Sadar union in Teknaf, said Lt Col Mohiuddin Ahmed, the commander of BGB's Teknaf-based 2nd Battalion.

Out of the Spotlight, Myanmar’s Rohingya Face Worst Violence in 7 Years

UNITED STATES INSTITUE OF PEACE
Wednesday, September 25, 2024
By: Laetitia van den Assum

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• The situation of the Rohingya is deteriorating in the absence of credible dialogue.
• In Rakhine, forcible recruitment of Rohingya fighters has deepened societal rifts.
• An initiative is needed to address the Rohingya community as a whole, focusing on their immediate needs and future.

Since early 2024, fighting in northern Rakhine state has led to the worst attacks on the Rohingya population since 2017, when Myanmar’s military drove more than 750,000 across the border into Bangladesh. The new attacks are a stark reminder of the Rohingyas’ vulnerability. The world has known about their plight for decades, and in 2024, only 636,000 Rohingya — or 23 percent of the 2.8 million Rohingya around the world — still live in their homeland, Myanmar.

Out of the Spotlight, Myanmar’s Rohingya Face Worst Violence in 7 Years

USIP
By: Laetitia van den Assum
Wednesday, September 25, 2024

 

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• The situation of the Rohingya is deteriorating in the absence of credible dialogue.
• In Rakhine, forcible recruitment of Rohingya fighters has deepened societal rifts.
• An initiative is needed to address the Rohingya community as a whole, focusing on their immediate needs and future.

Rohingya Muslims risk losing homeland in Myanmar: Rights activist

TRT World
7 September 2024

Buddhist ethnic insurgent group Arakan Army’s efforts to control region led to continued displacement, mass killings, atrocities, human rights violations, co-founder of Free Rohingya Coalition laments.

AP,Lwin emphasised that Bangladesh, where Rohingya refugees have sought asylum due to attacks by the Myanmar Army, must persuade the international community to lead the repatriation process. / Photo: AP

Rohingya Muslims face the risk of losing their homeland if the international community fails to address the issue, according to one observer.

“End the Impunity”: Rohingya Muslims Under Attack by Both Burmese Army and Rebel Group

DEMOCRACY NOW
StoryAugust 15, 2024 

Topics

Burma
Rohingya
Bangladesh

Guests

Nay San Lwin
co-founder of the Free Rohingya Coalition.

Up to 200 Rohingya Muslims were killed in drone strikes last week in Burma as they attempted to flee to Bangladesh. This comes amid intensifying conflict between the military junta and the Arakan Army, a rebel armed group. Human Rights Watch says the military and the Arakan Army have both committed extrajudicial killings, unlawful recruitment for combat, and widespread arson against Rohingya civilians. “They are the enemy of each other, but when it comes to the Rohingya issue, they have the same intention,” says Nay San Lwin, co-founder of the Free Rohingya Coalition. Only about 600,000 Rohingya remain in Burma, down from about 1.4 million before a campaign of ethnic cleansing began in 2016, though Nay San Lwin says the Rohingya genocide goes back even further to 1978. 

Children among up to 200 Rohingya killed in Myanmar drone attack

The Guardian
Rebecca Ratcliffe in Bangkok
Mon 12 Aug 2024

Witnesses say people killed in artillery and drone attack that targeted civilians fleeing violence

People mourn near the bodies of Rohingya refugees who drowned in the Naf River last week. Photograph: AFP/Getty Images

Many dozens of Rohingya people, including children, were killed in an artillery and drone attack that targeted civilians as they tried to flee Myanmar last week.

Civilians were trying to escape violence in Maungdaw town, Rakhine state, by crossing the Naf River into Bangladesh when they were targeted last Monday. Videos shared on social media, which appeared to have been taken in the aftermath of the attack, showed bodies and bags strewn across the ground.

More injured Rohingya arriving in Bangladesh as Myanmar war intensifies

Aljazeera
12 Aug 2024

Medical charity MSF warns of urgent need to protect civilians caught up in escalating conflict in western Rakhine State.

Fighting in Rakhine has intensified in recent months [File: AFP]

 

More Rohingya are arriving in Bangladesh from Myanmar with war-related injuries amid escalating conflict between the military and the Arakan Army (AA) in western Rakhine State, according to international medical group Doctors without Borders, known by its French initials MSF.

Ethnic armed group suspected of deadly attack in Myanmar on Rohingya trying to flee fighting

AP
By GRANT PECK
August 10, 2024

BANGKOK (AP) — At least 150 civilians from Myanmar’s Muslim Rohingya minority may have been killed this week in an artillery and drone attack in the western state of Rakhine that survivors suspect was carried out by a major force in the resistance to military rule.

Dozens of Rohingya fleeing Myanmar killed in drone attack

REUTERS
Shoon Naing, Poppy Mcpherson and Devjyot Ghoshal
August 10, 2024

Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, June 27, 2024. REUTERS/Mohammad Ponir Hossain Purchase Licensing Rights

BANGKOK, Aug 10 (Reuters) - A drone attack on Rohingya fleeing Myanmar killed many dozens of people, including families with children, several witnesses said, describing survivors wandering between piles of bodies to identify dead and injured relatives.

Four witnesses, activists and a diplomat described drone attacks on Monday that struck down families waiting to cross the border into neighbouring Bangladesh.

A heavily pregnant woman and her 2-year-old daughter were among the victims in the attack, the single deadliest known assault on civilians in Rakhine state during recent weeks of fighting between junta troops and rebels.

BANGKOK, Aug 10 (Reuters) - A drone attack on Rohingya fleeing Myanmar killed many dozens of people, including families with children, several witnesses said, describing survivors wandering between piles of bodies to identify dead and injured relatives.

Hundreds of Rohingya Muslims killed in Myanmar

 Updated: 06.08.2024

In Myanmar, at least 200 people were reportedly massacred in the brutal attacks of the Buddhist army against Rohingya Muslims.

Nay San Lwin, a Rohingya activist from the Rohingya and co-founder of the "Free Rohingya Coalition," shared on his social media account that the Arakan Army hit Rohing civilianyas with UAV and cannon shots in the town of Maungdaw in the province of Rakhine.

UN Human Rights Council adopts unanimous resolution calling for repatriation of Rohingyas

daily sun
Daily Sun Report, Dhaka
Publish: Wednesday, 10 July, 2024 

Over a million Myanmar nationals, popularly known as Rohingya, sheltered in Bangladesh amid military brutality in August 2017.

Photo : Collected

 

The 56th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva on Wednesday (10 July) unanimously adopted a resolution on repatriation of forcible displaced Rohingya population to Rakhine State in Myanmar.

CNA Explains: Myanmar’s ex-president visited China, followed by its junta No 2. What’s the play?

CNA
Leong Wai Kit
10 Jul 2024

Myanmar correspondent Leong Wai Kit unpacks recent trips to China by Thein Sein and Soe Win, and what both countries want from each other.

This handout photograph taken on Jul 6, 2024 and released by the Myanmar Military Information Team shows Myanmar's military deputy commander in chief of defence services Soe Win (C), upon his arrival at Qingdao in Shandong province of China. (Photo: AFP) 

Beijing has been regularly inviting Myanmar’s junta-appointed ministers to China on various official visits.

Rohingya ‘genocide intensifying’ as war rages in Myanmar’s Rakhine: BROUK

Al Jazeera
By Al Jazeera Staff
Published On 26 Jun 2024

Warning from rights group comes as fighting between Myanmar’s military and Arakan Army traps Rohingya in the western state.

People can be seen on the Myanmar side of the border, during the continuing conflict in Rakhine State, in the Teknaf area of Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, on June 24, 2024 [Mohammad Ponir Hossain/ Reuters]

 

 A United Kingdom-based rights group has called for global action over what it called an “intensifying genocide” against Myanmar’s mostly Muslim Rohingya minority as fighting between the Southeast Asian country’s military and a powerful ethnic armed group escalated in the western Rakhine State.

What’s Unsaid | Who can the Rohingya rely on?

The New Humanitarian
27 June 2024

‘Generations have convinced themselves that Rohingyas are foreigners’ 

 The current military rulers of Myanmar came to power in a February 2021 coup. Since then, they have been accused of massive rights abuses towards civilians, especially the Rohingya.

Rohingyas need security to return home in Myanmar: Swedish envoy

Financial Express
Jun 25, 2024 

Outgoing Swedish Ambassador to Bangladesh Alexandra Berg Von Linde on Tuesday said that the forcibly displaced Rohingyas can’t return to their homeland unless a conducive atmosphere is restored in Myanmar.

Rohingya Refugees in Bangladesh Pressured to Join Myanmar’s Civil War

THE I DIPLOMAT
By Dayna Santana Pérez
June 21, 2024

After the midday prayers on a hot Wednesday, Hussain* was summoned by an armed group to a “community meeting” in his block within the world’s largest refugee settlement.

Rohingya may have entered Bangladesh in recent Myanmar clashes, refugee official says

REUTERS
By Sudipto Ganguly and Ruma Paul
June 21, 2024

Rohingya refugees cross a bamboo-made bridge during an ongoing heatwave in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, May 2, 2024. REUTERS/Ro Yassin Abdumonab/File Photo Purchase Licensing Rights

DHAKA, June 21 (Reuters) - Escalating violence in Myanmar's western Rakhine state in recent months may have spurred some Rohingya Muslims to cross into Bangladesh, a key refugee official said, although Dhaka insists it cannot accept more refugees from its war-torn neighbour.