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.

2 women among 5 Rohingya persons held in Tripura, police say they wanted to move to Hyderabad in search of jobs

THE INDIAN EXPRESS
Written by Debraj Deb
Agartala | Updated: July 10, 2024

In the last few weeks, a large number of Bangladeshi and Rohingya persons were arrested at the Agartala Railway Station and different parts of Tripura for illegally entering the state.

On July 5, 25 Rohingya persons were held in North Tripura district while they were trying to leave for Hyderabad in search of jobs. File photo

Barely five days after 25 Rohingya persons were held in Tripura, five others of Rohingya origin, including two women, were arrested from Agartala Railway Station on Tuesday night.

Hate speech: BJP's Nitesh Rane targeted Rohingyas, not Indians, police tells court

INDIA TODAY
Vidya, Mumbai,
UPDATED: Jul 9, 2024

Four cases were lodged against Rane for allegedly promoting enmity and disharmony amongst religious groups with speeches made during his rally in January this year. 

The Maharashtra police told the High Court that no case was established for Section 295A against BJP MLA Nitesh Rane. (File photo).

 

The Maharashtra police informed the Bombay High Court on Tuesday that they have chosen not to invoke provisions for outraging religious sentiments against BJP leaders, including Kankavli MLA Nitesh Rane. This decision stems from the understanding that the words "Rohingyas and Bangladeshis" used in their speeches were not targeted at Indians.

Four cases were lodged against Rane for allegedly promoting enmity and disharmony among religious groups with speeches made during his rally in January this year. 

 

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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.

UN World Food Program decries looting and burning of its warehouse in western Myanmar combat zone

The Washinton Post
By Associated Press
June 25, 2024 

The United Nations’ food agency has strongly condemned the looting of food supplies and burning of one of its warehouses in a war-torn area in Myanmar’s western state of Rakhine

BANGKOK — The United Nations’ food agency on Tuesday strongly condemned the looting of food supplies and burning of one of its warehouses over the weekend in a war-torn area in Myanmar’s western state of Rakhine.

A statement released by the World Food Program said the destroyed building in Rakhine’s Maungdaw township held 1,175 metric tons (1,295 U.S. tons) of food and supplies — enough to sustain 64,000 people for a month in case of an emergency.

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.

Fresh attacks against Rohingya in Myanmar, UN decries beheadings, violence

ABC News
By Libby Hogan and wires
Posted Mon 17 Jun 2024

                        The UN has denounced signs of new attacks on Rohingya civilians.(Reuters: Jorge Silva)

• In short: A powerful ethnic armed group has asked residents to leave a town ahead of their planned offensive in Myanmar.
• The Rohingya primarily inhabit Maungdaw town.
• What next? The Rohingya say they have nowhere to flee to and fear their homes will be burned down.

Thousands of Rohingya feared trapped in fighting in western Myanmar

REUTERS
June 17, 2024 

June 17 (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of Muslim minority Rohingya are feared to be caught in fighting in western Myanmar, as a powerful armed ethnic group bears down on junta positions in a coastal town on the border with Bangladesh, which is reluctant to accept them.

Arsa gun commander Zakaria arrested from Rohingya camp in Ukhiya

THE BUSINESS STANDARD
14 June, 2024, 

RAB arrests Arsa leader Md Zakaria. Photo: TBS

Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) has arrested the gun commander of the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (Arsa), Md Zakaria, from Ukhiya Rohingya Camp.

They also recovered a G3 rifle and five rounds of fresh bullets from the spot, said Colonel HM Sajjad Hossain, captain of RAB 15, during a press conference around 11:30am today (14 June).

Eid-ul-Azha: Over 2,000 sacrificial animals to be distributed in Rohingya camps 1,

Dhaka Tribune
Tribune Desk
Publish : 16 Jun 2024, 

File image of cows at a cattle market. Photo: Mahmud Hossain Opu/Dhaka tribune

 

Some 2,200 sacrificial animals will be distributed in the refugee camps in Cox's Bazar on the occasion of Eid ul-Azha.

The animals provided by various donor agencies for the Rohingyas sheltered in Bangladesh are already being sent to the camps in Ukhiya and Teknaf.

ARSA commander killed in ‘gunfight

The Daily Star
Staff Correspondent, Cox’s Bazar
Thu Jun 13, 2024

A gunfight between a Rohingya armed group and police left a Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army commander killed in a Ukhiya camp of Cox's Bazar early yesterday, said police.

5 including Arsa leader arrested in Cox’s Bazar Rohingya camp

Dhaka Tribune
Abdul Aziz
Publish : 10 Jun 2024,

• Weapons, ammunition, and explosives were seized from them
• Operation at Rohingya Camp-4 on Sunday night

RAB arrests five people including the top leader of the separatist group Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (Arsa) at a Rohingya camp in Ukhiya of Cox's Bazar on Sunday, June 9, 2024. Photo: Dhaka Tribune

The Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) has arrested five people including the top leader of the separatist group Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (Arsa) at a Rohingya camp in Ukhiya of Cox's Bazar.

Hundreds of Rohingya flee shelters in Indonesia’s Aceh region

Benar
Nurdin Hasan
2024.06.04
Banda Aceh, Indonesia

Many of the refugees who escaped are likely trying to head to Malaysia, observers say.

Newly arrived Rohingya refugees rest at a shelter as they wait to be registered by the United Nations refugee agency UNHCR in Kuala Parek, East Aceh, Indonesia, Feb. 2, 2024. Cek Mad/AFP

 

 Hundreds of Rohingya refugees have escaped from temporary shelters in Indonesia’s Aceh province, likely aided by human smugglers they paid to ferry them to Malaysia, for better opportunities and family reunions, officials and observers said.

Immigration topples human trafficking syndicate, nabs six Rohingyas

the Sun
BERNAMA
03-06- 2024 

The Immigration Department (JIM) Director-general, Datuk Ruslin Jusoh. - BERNAMAPIX

KOTA BHARU: The Immigration Department toppled a human trafficking syndicate and arrested six Rohingyas during a special operation here on Saturday.