Showing posts with label Myanmar Delegation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Myanmar Delegation. Show all posts

Wednesday, March 22, 2023

Myanmar delegation returns home after verifying info of 500 Rohingyas in Cox’s Bazar

Dhaka Tribune
Tribune Desk
Published: March 22, 2023 

Bangla Tribune

A delegation from Myanmar has returned home after verifying the information of about 500 Rohingyas who are in the process of repatriation in the refugee camps of Cox's Bazar.

The delegation left Bangladesh on a trawler through the Teknaf-Myanmar transit jetty at Jaliapara of Teknaf at around 10am on Wednesday.

The delegation comprising 17 members arrived in Bangladesh on March 15.

Friday, October 28, 2022

Myanmar Army delegation pays courtesy call on Bangladesh Army chief

The Daily Star

Star Digital Report
Fri Oct 28, 2022 
Photo: Courtesy/ISPR

A three-member delegation of Myanmar army met Bangladesh Army in Dhaka, in a new turn of development, when the two sides discussed working on regional peace and security and quick repatriation of the Rohingyas.

Bangladesh Army reminded the Myanmar Army of maintaining caution while conducting any campaign in the bordering areas.

The Myanmar delegation led by Lt Gen Phone Myat, Command Bureau of Special Operation, made a courtesy call on Bangladesh Army Chief Gen SM Shafiuddin Ahmed at the Army Headquarters on October 26, according to a statement issued on ISPR website yesterday (October 27, 2022).

Thursday, August 1, 2019

Myanmar Delegation Fails to Make Convincing Case for Safe Return


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Meenakshi Ganguly
South Asia Director
@mg2411
July 31, 2019
Rohingya refugee girls cross a makeshift bamboo bridge at Kutupalong refugee camp, where they have been living amid uncertainty over their future after they fled Myanmar to escape violence a year ago, in Bangladesh on Tuesday, August 28, 2018.
Myanmar officials arrived at the sprawling refugee settlement in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh this week to discuss the repatriation of the Rohingya population.

Monday, July 29, 2019

Bangladesh hands list of 25,000 Rohingya refugees to Myanmar for verification

bdnews24.com
29 Jul 2019
Bangladesh has handed over a fresh list of 25,000 Rohingyas to Myanmar for verification as the repatriation process lingers.

With the new list, Bangladesh has so far handed over names of around 55,000 Rohingyas to the Myanmar authorities following singing the deal two years back soon after the massive exodus in August 2017.

Thursday, July 25, 2019

Security tightened as Myanmar delegation visits Rohingya camps

malaymail
25 July 2019

A Rohingya child walks down from a hill at Kutupalong refugee camp in Ukhia, Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh on July 24, 2019. — AFP pic 
DHAKA, July 25 — Security at Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh will be tightened during the visit of a high-level Myanmar delegation this weekend for repatriation talks, officials said today.

Some 740,000 Rohingya fled a crackdown by Myanmar’s military in 2017 in Rakhine state and are living in nearly three dozen refugee camps in Bangladesh’s south-eastern border district of Cox’s Bazar.

Monday, July 1, 2019

Myanmar to send envoys to Rohingya camps in Bangladesh

About 740,000 Rohingya have fled Rakhine state to Bangladesh since August 2017 following a brutal military crackdown that UN officials described as "ethnic cleansing" (AFP Photo/Ed JONES)
 
Myanmar is sending a high-level delegation soon to camps in Bangladesh to explain to hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims how they can return home, Myanmar's UN ambassador said Monday.

Some 740,000 Rohingya fled a crackdown by Myanmar's military in 2017 in Rakhine state and are living in camps in Cox's Bazar. Many refugees have been traumatized, providing accounts of rape, mass killings and razing of villages.