Displaced by conflict in Myanmar, thousands of Rohingya gather along Bangladesh border seeking refuge

Yeni Safak
21/04/2024 Sunday

Rohingya in Myanmar's Rakhine state becoming victim of ongoing conflict between junta forces, insurgent groups, say community leaders

Thousands of Rohingya displaced due to conflict in Myanmar gathered along the Myanmar-Bangladesh border near the transboundary Naf River to seek refuge, a Rohingya leader in Bangladesh told Anadolu.

Thousands of Burma nationals seek refuge in Thailand; New Zealand unable to block invitation to regime

DVB
FROM THE DVB NEWSROOM,English Editor
April 17, 2024

A Karen soldier burned the Burma flag and hoisted the Karen National Union flag after it repelled a regime attack on Myawaddy Sunday. (Credit: Reuters)

Thousands of Burma nationals seek refuge in Thailand

Rental rates in Mae Sot, Thailand have risen as thousands of Burma nationals have arrived in the town to escape fighting in Karen State. Myawaddy residents have fled to Mae Sot in fear of attacks by the military after the Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA) seized control of the town on April 11.

Rohingya Muslims forcibly conscripted in Myanmar, deployed as human shields

ABNA
Tuesday,16 April 2024

The military in Myanmar military has forcibly recruited over a thousand Rohingya Muslim men and boys while the religious minority members are denied citizenship, a report said.

AhlulBayt News Agency: The military in Myanmar military has forcibly recruited over a thousand Rohingya Muslim men and boys while the religious minority members are denied citizenship, a report said.

ကုလစကာဝိုင်း တက်ရောက်တဲ့ ရိုဟင်ဂျာလူငယ် "Gen Z"

VOA
VOA Burmese
Mar 24, 2024

မြန်မာနိုင်ငံမှာ နှိပ်ကွက်မှုတွေနဲ့ ကြုံရတဲ့ ရိုဟင်ဂျာတွေအတွက် ပညာသင်ကြားခွင့်၊ ကျား၊ မ တန်းတူညီမျှ ရှိရေးတွေကို ကုလသမဂ္ဂမှာ တင်ပြခဲ့တယ်လို ရိုဟင်ဂျာလူငယ်က ပြောပါတယ်။ ဖိနှိပ်ခံလူမှုအသိုက်အဝန်းကနေ ကုလသမဂ္ဂစင်မြင့်ကို ရောက်လာခဲ့တဲ့ ယဆင် အာဖက်ကို GenZ ပရိသတ်တွေအတွက် မခင်လေးက ဆက်သွယ် စကားပြောထားပါတယ်။

 

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  ဗွီအိုအေ အမေရိကန်အသံသည် မြန်မာနှင့် ကမ္ဘာတလွှား နောက်ဆုံးရသတင်းတွေကို ရုပ်မြင်သံကြား၊ ရေဒီယိုနှင့် အင်တာနက်တို့ကနေ မြန်မာဘာသာဖြင့် နေ့စဉ်ထုတ်လွှင့် တင်ဆက်ပေးနေပါသည်။ ဗွီအိုအေ အစီအစဉ်တင်ဆက်မှု အသေးစိတ်ကို အောက်တွင်ကြည့်ရှုနိုင်ပါသည်။ 

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Rohingya mark Eid in Indonesia limbo after treacherous sea voyage

M today
Published April 13, 2024 

Rohingya refugees take part in Eid al-Fitr prayers, marking the end of the holy month of Ramadan, at a temporary shelter in Meulaboh, Indonesia's Aceh province on April 10, 2024.

 

MEUABOH (INDONESIA) — At a damaged temporary shelter in western Indonesia, Rohingya men slick their hair with gel while women apply make-up and colourful hijabs to look the part for prayers at the start of Eid-al-Fitr festivities.

မောင်တောတွင် ခရိုင်အုပ်ချုပ်ရေးမှူးနှင့် ဝန်ထမ်းတချို့ ထွက်ပြေးသွား

BNI
Monday, April 08, 2024

ရခိုင်ပြည်၊ မောင်တောမြို့တွင် တာဝန်ထမ်းဆောင်နေသော စစ်ကောင်စီ၏ ခရိုင်အုပ်ချုပ်ရေးမှူးနှင့် ဌာနဆိုင်ရာ ဝန်ထမ်းတချို့ ထွက်ပြေးသွားကြကြောင်း ခိုင်လုံသည့်သတင်းရင်းမြစ်ထံမှ သိရသည်။

ခရိုင်အုပ်ချုပ်ရေးမှူး ဦးနေဦးမှာ ဧပြီလ ၅ ရက် နံနက်ပိုင်းက ဌာနဆိုင်ရာဝန်ထမ်းတချို့နှင့်အတူ တာဝန်ထမ်းဆောင်ရာနေရာမှ ထွက်ပြေးသွားခြင်းဖြစ်သည်။

Nippon Foundation chief for Rohingya youth’s skills development

BSS NEWS
07 Apr 2024, 

DHAKA, April 07, 2024 (BSS) - Chairman of the Japan-based donor organisation Nippon Foundation, Sasakawa Yohei emphasised the importance of fisheries and skills development for the youth to enhance the quality of life of the Rohingya community in Bhashan Char.

Indonesian interest must be considered in Rohingya refugee issue: Govt

ANTARA
April 5, 2024 

Rohingnya migrants get a health check upon arrival at the Meulaboh Jetty Harbor, West Aceh, Aceh, Thursday (March 21, 2024). ANTARA FOTO/Syifa Yulinnas/Lmo/foc.

Banda Aceh, Aceh (ANTARA) - The Aceh Office of Indonesia's Law and Human Rights Ministry stressed that the handling of Rohingya refugees in Aceh must take into account the country's national interest.

The Rohingya under pressure: imprisoned, without citizenship, but forced to join the Burmese a

agenzia fides
Friday, 5 April 2024 

Sittwe (Agenzia Fides) - In order to replenish its ranks, decimated by combat losses, the Myanmar army is resorting to the forced recruitment of young men from the Rohingya people and sending them to the front in the fight against the Arakan Army, an ethnic militia that is resisting in Rakhine State, the Burmese state where the Rohingya, a discriminated and marginalized Muslim population in Myanmar, are traditionally based. As Rohingya organizations in the diaspora, including the Burmese Rohingya Organization UK and the Free Rohingya Coalition, report, “the Burmese regime has deliberately forcibly recruited the Rohingya because they are particularly vulnerable. They cannot escape due to movement restrictions imposed by the junta. Rakhine State is, so to speak, an open-air prison for the Rohingya. The junta considers them expendable. It is a cruel way to send the Rohingya to their deaths." At least a thousand young Rohingya men - around half of them internally displaced persons - have been forcibly recruited by the Burmese army in recent weeks. They were abducted from their homes, villages, markets and displaced persons camps and taken to army bases where they received military training. After two weeks of military training, the young men were armed and forced to wear Burmese military uniforms and sent to the front lines in Rakhine State. Non-governmental organizations fear that dozens of people have been killed, "although the exact number of victims is difficult to verify due to the news blackouts imposed by the regime in this region." Other internally displaced Rohingya who have returned to Sittwe, the capital of Rakhine state, after military training will be called to the front lines if necessary. In February last year, the Burmese regime announced that it would implement the 2010 law on compulsory military service. But in the case of the Rohingya, who were deprived of their citizenship by a 1982 law and thus have no protection or recognized rights, there would be no legal basis to impose compulsory military service on them. 

 

Dhaka urges immediate action on Rohingya crisis at UNSC briefing

Dhaka Tribune
Nurul Islam Hasib
Publish : 05 Apr 2024,  

This file image taken on April 2, 2024 shows a United Nations Security Council meeting at UN headquarters in New York City, New York, US, on April 2, 2024. Photo: Reuters

Bangladesh at a UN Security Council briefing has highlighted the “urgent need” for action to resolve the Rohingya crisis.

As Crisis in Myanmar Worsens, Security Council Must Take Resolute Action to End Violence by Country’s Military, Address Humanitarian Situation, Speakers Urge

United Nation
9595th Meeting (AM)
SC/15652
4 April 2024

Meetings Coverage and Press Releases

Senior UN Official Announces Plan to Appoint Special Envoy ‘in the Coming Days’ 

 Bringing the multifaceted crisis in Myanmar to the fore, speakers urged the Security Council today to take decisive measures to end violence by that country’s military and address the deteriorating humanitarian situation, also calling for the swift appointment of a United Nations Special Envoy to enhance the Organization’s engagement on the matter.

Tripura woman arrested for cross-border trafficking of Bangladeshis, Rohingya

The Indian EXPRESS
Written by Debraj Deb
Agartala (tripura) | April 2, 2024  

Government Railway Police officer in-charge at Agartala railway station Tapas Das said Parul Akhter of Matinagar is being interrogated to determine if others are involved in the trafficking operations.

A Tripura-based woman was arrested for allegedly assisting Bangladeshi citizens and Rohingya to cross the international border. (Representational Image)

A joint team of security forces on Tuesday arrested a woman allegedly involved in cross-border trafficking of Bangladeshi nationals and Rohingya, from Matinagar in Sepahijala district along the Indo-Bangla international border.

Four Indonesians arrested over Rohingya refugees smuggling

ARAB NEWS
AFP
02 April 2024

Four Indonesian suspects in connection with the smuggling of Rohingya refugees are seen during a press conference at the West Aceh Police Station in Meulaboh, West Aceh, on April 2, 2024. (AFP)

• One of the suspects said that he received five million rupiah ($314) per refugee from an agent in Malaysia 

 

MEULABOH: Four Indonesians have been arrested in connection with the smuggling of dozens of Rohingya refugees whose boat capsized in waters off the archipelago’s westernmost coast last month, police said Tuesday.

Dozens of Rohingya killed in 5 months of renewed fighting in western Myanmar

RFA
By RFA Burmese
2024.04.01

The attacks have left an already traumatized community in constant fear for their lives.

Residents of Thada village, Minbya township, Myanmar, mourn villagers killed during an overnight airstrike by the military junta, March 18, 2024. ,AA Info Desk

Junta airstrikes and artillery bombardments in western Myanmar’s Rakhine state have killed 79 Rohingya Muslims and injured 127 more since ethnic Arakan Army rebels ended a ceasefire with the military in November, according to data compiled by RFA Burmese.

Angry Indonesians in Aceh again storm a shelter, push Rohingya out

Benar News
Pizaro Gozali Idrus
2024.03.27
Jakarta

A Rohingya refugee looks out of a National Search and Rescue Agency (BASARNAS) vessel after he and many other refugees were rescued from their capsized boat in waters off the coast of Aceh, Indonesia, March 21, 2024 Zahlul Akbar/AF

For the second time in three months, a belligerent and resentful crowd of locals in Indonesia’s Aceh province made authorities move dozens of newly arrived Rohingya refugees from their shelter by storming the facility, officials said Wednesday.

Weeping, weak and soaked, Rohingya refugees rescued from hull of capsized boat

abc News
ByREZA SAIFULLAH Associated Press and EDNA TARIGAN Associated Press
March 21, 2024, 

An Indonesian search and rescue ship has located a capsized wooden boat that had been carrying dozens of Rohingya Muslim refugees, and began pulling survivors who had been standing on its hull to safety

MEULABOH, Indonesia -- An Indonesian search and rescue ship on Thursday located a capsized wooden boat that had been carrying dozens of Rohingya Muslim refugees, and began pulling survivors who had been standing on its hull to safety.

Rohingya rescued off Indonesia relocated after local anger

CNA
27 Mar 2024

Rohingya refugees wait to be rescued from the hull of their capsized boat as a National Search and Rescue Agency (BASARNAS) vessel approaches in waters some 29km off west Aceh on Mar 21, 2024. (Photo: AFP/Zahlul Akbar)

JAKARTA: Dozens of Rohingya refugees saved after their boat capsized off Indonesia's westernmost coast last week have been forced from their temporary shelter due to local protests, a United Nations refugee agency official said on Wednesday (Mar 27).

11 Rohingya found dead after Indonesia boat capsize: officials

ARAB NEWS
AFP
March 25, 2024

Rohingya refugees hold a morning prayer in a temporary shelter at the Indonesian Red Cross Office, after being evacuated from the sea at Meulaboh, West Aceh, Indonesia. (AP)

•  The head of the local search and rescue operation, Muhammad Fathur Rachman said nearly half-a-dozen Rohingya were found dead at sea 14 nautical miles from shore
  

MEULABOH: The bodies of at least 11 Rohingya refugees have been recovered off Indonesia’s westernmost coast after their boat believed to be carrying around 150 people capsized last week, officials said Monday.

Arsa chief Ataullah Jununi's bodyguard among 3 arrested

Dhaka Tribune
Abdul Aziz
Publish : 14 Feb 2024, 

• Two foreign weapons seized
• Four rounds of cartridges also seized

Three arrestees along with RAB members are seen pose for a photo in Ukhiya, Cox's Bazar. Photo: Dhaka Tribune

 

The Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) has arrested three miscreants, including Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (Arsa) chief Ataullah Jununi's bodyguard, from the Rohingya camp in Ukhiya, Cox's Bazar.

Myanmar Junta ‘Orchestrating Rohingya Protests’ Against Arakan Army in Rakhine

The Irrawaddy
by Hein Htoo Zan
March 22, 2024

Rohingya stage a protest against the Arakan Army in Buthidaung, Rakhine State on Tuesday. / Han Nyein Oo

 

Myanmar’s military regime is orchestrating Rohingya protests against the Arakan Army to sow ethnic division in Rakhine State, according to a Rohingya activist, an ethnic Rakhine politician, and community leaders.