Rohingya smugglers nabbed after bodies found

Bangkok Post
WRITER: Post Reporters
PUBLISHED : 18 Oct 2024

Smugglers abandoned some Rohingya for not being able to pay for transportation 

Rescue workers take the bodies of deceased individuals and those injured from a forested area leading to Khao Sek Temple in Lang Suan district, Chumphon, on Thursday. (Photo: Saichon Rescue Team)

Two Thai nationals were apprehended on Friday in Phetchaburi in connection with the smuggling of 26 Rohingya.

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.

Bangladesh government chief calls for UN-backed 'safe zone' in Myanmar’s Rakhine

AA
Sm Najmus Sakib
DHAKA, Bangladesh
15.10.2024

Muhammad Yunus proposes safe zone to aid displaced and reduce Rohingya refugee influx.

Bangladesh transitional government chief Muhammad Yunus on Monday proposed creating a UN-guaranteed "safe zone" in Myanmar’s Rakhine state to aid displaced people and address the ongoing humanitarian crisis.

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.

Bangladesh's interim leader seeks Malaysia's support for repatriation of Rohingya refugees

The Washinton Post
By Julhas Alam | AP
October 4, 2024

This photo provided by by Bangladesh Press Information Department shows Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim, left, being welcomed with a bouquet of flowers by Bangladesh’s interim leader Muhammad Yunus, as he arrives in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Friday, Oct. 4, 2024. (Press Information Department via AP) (Uncredited/Bangladesh Press Information Department)

DHAKA, Bangladesh — Bangladesh’s interim leader, Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus , on Friday sought Malaysia’s help in engaging a regional Southeast Asia bloc on raising the issue of repatriating Rohingya refugees home to 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.

Rohingya refugees bring emergency aid to Bangladesh flood victims

ARAB NEWS
SHEHAB SUMON
August 31, 2024

Rohingya volunteers distribute aid among flood victims in Hasanpur, southeastern Bangladesh on Aug. 31, 2024. (Yassin Abdumonab)

• Flash flooding hit eastern Bangladesh, killing at least 59 people and affecting 5.5 million
• Rohingya refugees from Cox’s Bazar bring food, medicine to thousands of affected families

Dhaka: Rohingya refugees organized on Saturday emergency aid for their host community in Bangladesh, as the worst floods in three decades swept the country’s eastern regions.

Overlapping Atrocities

HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH
By Andrew Stroehlein
August 13, 2024 

The crisis in Rakhine State, in the west of Myanmar, rages on. Recent months have seen yet more atrocities against civilians.

Both the forces of the military junta and the opposition Arakan Army are to blame. They are both attacking civilians and using massive, widespread arson to drive people from their homes and villages, raising the specter of ethnic cleansing.

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.

Nearly 200 Rohingyas killed in single day by Arakan Army, says activists

Maktoob Media
Maktoob Staff
August 9, 2024

Rohingya advocacy groups have said that, on 05 August, the Arakan Army (AA) attacked thousands of refugees gathered at the beach in Maungdaw Township of Rakhine State in Myanmar with drone bombs killing about 200 of them. Two Rohingya activists told

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.

Bodies of 10 Rohingyas washed ashore in Teknaf

The Daily Star
Star Digital Report
Tue Aug 6, 2024 

At least 10 bodies washed ashore at a beach in Teknaf after a boat carrying Rohingyas from Myanmar capsized in the Bay of Bengal this (Tuesday) morning.

The victims include seven women, two men and a child, said locals.

Landslides at Rohingya camps in Cox’s Bazar of Bangladesh, 9 dead

ddnews.gov.
19/06/2024 

In Bangladesh, nine people including eight Rohingyas died in landslides in separate Rohingya camps in Cox’s Bazar on Wednesday amid heavy rain.

The local administration official said big chunks of mud collapsed on a number of houses in No 9 and 10 Rohingya camps around 6 am on Wednesday, leaving six and three people dead respectively on the spot.

Rohingya CSOs support U.S. Congress GAP Act

mizzima
July 20, 2024

Ten Rohingya civil society organisations from Cox’s Bazar Rohingya Camp have released a statement expressing support for the Rohingya GAP Act that has been introduced into the U.S. Congress.

The Rohingya GAP Act was proposed to the U.S. Congress by U.S. Representatives Gregory Meeks (D-NY) and Michael McCaul (R-TX)

MALAYSIA URGED TO LEAD ASEAN AGAINST MYANMAR'S HUMANITARIAN CRISIS, ROHINGYA PERSECUTION

BERNEMA
By Wan Muhammad Aslah Wan Razali
18/07/2024

KUALA LUMPUR, July 18 (Bernama) -- As chair of the upcoming ASEAN Summit in 2025, Malaysia is being called upon to take a leading role in addressing the humanitarian crisis and safeguarding the rights and lives of the Rohingya people in Myanmar.

Repatriation only solution for Rohingya issue: Chinese envoy in Bangladesh

NEW AGE
United News of Bangladesh, Dhaka
16 July, 2024, 

Chinese ambassador to Bangladesh Yao Wen addresses a press conference at Chinese embassy in Dhaka on Tuesday. | UNB photo

Chinese ambassador to Bangladesh Yao Wen on Tuesday said that they agreed that there was no other solution except safe repatriation of the Rohingyas to their homeland.

Bangladesh turns back fleeing Myanmar armed personnel at border

Myanmar Now
AFP
July 17, 2024 

Bangladesh security personnel chase Myanmar border guards seeking refuge in Bangladesh, across the Naf river that borders southeastern Bangladesh and Myanmar on July 14, 2024. (Photo: AFP) 

Teknaf, Bangladesh – Bangladesh stopped dozens of Myanmar security personnel from crossing into its territory to flee advancing anti-regime forces, a local government official based near their river border said Tuesday.

PM Hasina seeks Chinese cooperation to repatriate Rohingyas

prothomalo
BSS Beijing
Updated: 10 Jul 2024,  

A high-level Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, a very important wing of the Chinese Communist Party led by its Chairman Wang Huning called on Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at the Great Hall of the People, Beijing on 9 July 2024BSS

 

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Tuesday called upon China to help Bangladesh repatriate the forcibly displaced Rohingyas to their homeland in Myanmar.

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.