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.

A wooden boat carrying dozens of Rohingya Muslim refugees capsizes off Indonesia's coast

AP
YAYAN ZAMZAMI and EDNA TARIGAN
March 20, 2024

BANDA ACEH, Indonesia (AP) — A wooden boat carrying dozens of Rohingya Muslims capsized off Indonesia’s northernmost coast on Wednesday, according to local fishermen who rescued six people. The survivors said more people were still on the boat.

Indonesian fishermen rescue dozens of Rohingya after boat capsizes

REUTERS

March 20, 2024

JAKARTA, March 20 (Reuters) - Indonesian fishermen were scrambling on Wednesday to rescue dozens of Rohingya after high tides capsized their boat in waters off the province of Aceh, a regional fishing chief said.

 
The United Nations' refugee agency (UNHCR) estimates about 2,000 Rohingya have reached Indonesia since last October, among droves of the persecuted religious minority in Myanmar who fled to the Southeast Asia nation over the past year, mostly to Aceh.

A wooden boat carrying dozens of Rohingya Muslim migrants capsizes off Indonesia's coast

INDEPENDENT
Yayan Zamzami , Edna Tarigan
March 20 2024 

UN chief decries violence in Myanmar as 25 Rohingya killed in airstrikes

TRTWORLD
19 March 2024 

Myanmar's military is increasingly using airstrikes to counter the widespread armed struggle against its rule since its seized power from the elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi in February 2021. 

Reuters Archive

Soldiers stand next to military vehicles as people gather to protest against the military coup, in Yangon, Myanmar. / Photo: Reuters Archive

Military airstrikes in western Myanmar killed at least 25 members of the country’s Muslim Rohingya minority, including children, local media reported, prompting the UN chief to express concerns over the escalating violence.

UN ‘alarmed’ by reports of civilian casualties in Myanmar air attacks

Aljazeera
19 March 2024 

Continuing air raids in the restive country’s Rakhine state are reported to have killed dozens. 

The United Nations chief has expressed “alarm” at reports that the Myanmar military is bombing civilian areas.

Antonio Guterres called for calm late on Monday following reports that continuing air attacks on villages in the restive country’s Rakhine state have killed dozens.

‘Piles of corpses’ left after Myanmar junta attacks village

RFA
By RFA Burmese
2024.03.18 

An aerial attack left 20 people dead and 33 injured in a township under Arakan Army control.

A junta aerial bombardment killed and injured dozens in western Myanmar, residents told Radio Free Asia.

Most residents in Thar Dar, a predominantly Rohingya village in Myanmar’s Rakhine state, were sleeping when a fighter jet dropped a bomb around 1 a.m. Friday, a resident said.

PM calls upon UNDP to raise more funds for Rohingya

Dhaka Tribune
UNB
Publish : 18 Mar 2024, 

The visiting UNDP goodwill ambassador and Crown Princess of Sweden Victoria pays a courtesy call to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at a hotel in Dhaka on Monday, March 18, 2024. Photo: PID

 

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday urged the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) to make an effort to raise a larger international funds for the support of the Rohingya people.

AA unable to confirm reported deaths of 100 Muslims at battlefront

Narinjara
Date: 15 March 2024 

The Arakan Army (AA) is yet to confirm the reports claiming that 70 to 100 Muslims, who were forcibly enlisted and deployed at frontlines, were killed at Ah Ngu Maw battlefront in Rathedaung township of Rakhine State.

4 men arrested for Rohingya leader’s killing claim to be ARSA members

RFA
By Kamran Reza Chowdhury and Sunil Barua for BenarNews
2022.03.16 

The Bangladeshi home minister again insists that Rohingya insurgent group has no presence inside the country. 

Police escort three men accused of links to a Rohingya leader’s killing to a court in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, Oct. 6, 2021.

Four of 15 people arrested by Bangladesh police in recent months on suspicion of ties to the murder of Rohingya leader Muhib Ullah have confessed to the crime and say they belong to the ARSA insurgent group, police told BenarNews on Wednesday.

Myanmar man nabbed in Rohingya torching case

FTM
Predeep Nambiar
14 Mar 2024,

Cheras police chief Zam Halim Jamaluddin said a magistrate has allowed the man to be remanded for seven days. (Bernama pic)

 

PETALING JAYA: Police have detained a Myanmar national over the torching of a Rohingya woman in Cheras last weekend.

Türkiye's TIKA to serve iftar to Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh

DAILY SABAR
by Daily Sabah with AA
ISTANBUL Mar 14, 2024

Staff of the Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency (TIKA) provide food as part of the iftar program for refugees in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, March 13, 2024. (AA Photo)

The Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency (TIKA) will distribute hot meals for iftar throughout the holy month of Ramadan in the camps in Cox's Bazar, where Rohingya Muslim refugees are housed in Bangladesh.

Video Shows Rohingya Forcibly Recruited Into Myanmar Military

VOA
Ingyin Naing

March 14, 2024

 Dozens of young Rohingya men ride a military truck on March 9, 2024. (UGC courtesy video) 

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VOA has recently obtained video footage depicting Rohingya from Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camps being trained as soldiers in Rakhine state, the scene of heavy fighting between Myanmar’s military junta and ethnic armed groups.

5 Rohingyas arrested with weapons during raid in Ukhiya's camp

THE BUSINESS STANDARD
TBS Report
11 March, 2024, 

Police have arrested five Rohingyas withholding weapons during a raid at the camps in Cox's Bazar’s Ukhiya. Photo: Collected

Two one-shooter guns, two rounds of bullets, and one short gun cartridge were also recovered from their possession on Sunday (10 March)

The arrestees are – Mohammad Salam, Ziaur Rahman, Hashim Ullah alias Master Hashim, Rahim Ullah, and Ataullah.

Myanmar junta shelling kills eight displaced Rohingya people in Sittwe

Myanmar Now
Yaung Ni
March 11, 2024 

Rohingya people mooring their boats near Thea Chaung village, Sittwe Township, trying to prepare for Cyclone Mocha in early May 2023 (Photo: Myanmar Now)

Eight Rohingya civilians were killed and nine injured around 9pm on Saturday by a heavy artillery shell fired by junta forces into the Rakhine State capital of Sittwe, local sources said.

Videos appear to show Myanmar military training Rohingyas

RFA
By RFA Burmese
2024.03.11 

Meanwhile, conscription law is driving Burmese youth to flee to Thailand and Malaysia. ‘We no longer feel safe,’ said one. 

People who appear to be Rohingya Muslims in Rakhine state undergo weapons training by junta military personnel on March 10, 2024. Image form citizen journalist video 

Videos have emerged on social media in recent days that appear to show junta personnel providing military training to ethnic Muslim Rohingyas at a site in western Myanmar’s Rakhine state, amid reports of forced recruitment around the country.

Report: 21% of Rohingya girls have access to education

Dhaka Tribune
Abdul Aziz
Publish : 11 Mar 2024, 

Rohingya children pose with smiles at a school in a refugee camp in Bangladesh. Photo: Courtesy

Only 21% of Rohingya girls between the ages 12-18 years in the Rohingya camps of Cox’s Bazar continue their education, according to the Joint Multi-Sector Needs Assessment (MSNA) report 2022-2023.

How do Rohingyas use mobile banking services in camps?

Dhaka Tribune
Siam Sarower Jamil
Publish : 10 Mar 2024, 

• Such illegal activities take place in broad daylight without any obstacles
• Refugees using the mobile networks of Myanmar and Bangladesh
• Mobile banking available because of the availability of illegal SIM cards
• Authorities in the dark 
  

 

The image shows a shop at a Rohingya camp in Cox's Bazar. Photo: SK Sharifuddin Ahad/Dhaka Tribune

While the Bangladesh government, foreigners, and development partners are sympathetic towards the Rohingya community living in the world’s largest refugee camps at Ukhiya and Teknaf in Cox’s Bazar, their involvement in various crimes involving drugs, arms, and human trafficking has been commonplace since the biggest exodus in history in 2017.

Village locals raise hygiene, safety concerns over rising Rohingya population

NEW
Straits Times
By OMAR AHMAD - March 11, 2024 

The presence of a large group of Rohingyas in Kampung Kangkar Tebrau in Johor Baru has caused concern and anxiety among more than 200 families of the village. -NSTP/OMAR AHMAD

 

JOHOR BARU: The presence of a large group of Rohingyas in Kampung Kangkar Tebrau here has caused concern and anxiety among more than 200 families of the village, which is located in the middle of the city.

1,250 more Rohingya refugees taken to Bhasan Char

Dhaka Tribune
Tribune Desk
Publish : 01 Mar 2024, 

A bird’s eye view of Rohingya camps in Bhasan Char. Photo: Dhaka Tribune

Another 1,250 Rohingyas have left for Noakhali's Bhasanchar from Teknaf and Ukhiya Rohingya camps in Cox's Bazar.

The Rohingyas willing to go to Bhasanchar voluntarily were taken to Ukhiya Degree College grounds in Cox's Bazar by bus from various shelter camps around 11:30pm on Thursday night.