Rohingya teen dies, several injured after shells fired from Myanmar land in Bangladesh

bdnews24.com 

Bandarban Correspondent
Cox’s Bazar Correspondent,
Senior Correspondentbdnews24.com
Published : 16 Sept 2022,

The shells fell on a refugee settlement across no man's land

 

A Rohin‌gya teenager has reportedly been killed and several others injured after mortar shells fired from Myanmar exploded in Bangladeshi territory, according to officials and community leaders.

The shells fell on a refugee settlement near the Tumabru and Konapara border in Bandarban's Ghumdhum Union around 8 pm on Friday, the latest in a string of violent incidents that have put residents on edge.

Mortar fired from Myanmar kills Rohingya youth in Bangladesh

Aljazeera
17 Sep 2022

More than a million Rohingya live in camps in southern Bangladesh that comprise the world’s largest refugee settlements.

Rohingya refugees gather at a market inside a refugee camp in Cox''s Bazar, Bangladesh, in 2019 [File: Mohammad Ponir Hossain/Reuters]

A Rohingya teenager has been killed and at least six people were injured when a mortar shell fired from Myanmar exploded inside Bangladesh territory, local officials and a Rohingya leader said.

The youth was killed by a mortar blast late on Friday, said Dil Mohammed, a Rohingya leader, in an area designated as no-man’s land – a strip of land along the Myanmar-Bangladesh border where an estimated 4,000 Rohingya live.

Minister: Discussions underway for safe return of Rohingyas

Dhaka Tribune  

September 15, 2022

‘Presence of Rohingyas in our country is causing us trouble,’ says Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan

  File Photo: People walk through a marketplace at a Rohingya refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, on Wednesday, August 11, 2021 Allison Joyce/Dhaka Tribune

Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan has said discussions are underway for safe and voluntary repatriation of the Rohingyas in Bangladesh to Myanmar.

He was addressing a workshop as chief guest in Cox’s Bazar on Thursday.

“The presence of the Rohingyas in our country is causing us trouble. Efforts are underway to repatriate them in a safe and respectful way to Myanmar,” he said.

 

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Release five Rohingya: HC

THE HINDU
HYDERABAD 

September 15, 2022
Marri Ramu

 

 

Condition of Rohingya in Myanmar is not conducive for deportation: counsel


Telangana High Court on Thursday directed the State government to release five Rohingya (who are Myanmar nationals) who were detained in Cherlapally central prison immediately, observing that the State government had no power to detain them.

Pronouncing judgment in a batch of five writ petitions filed by relatives/families of Rohingya, a bench of Justices Shameem Akther and E.V. Venugopal set aside orders issued by DGP M. Mahender Reddy detaining the five Rohingya. Their detention is “wholly unjustified, ex facie illegal and without specific delegation of power under section 3 (2) (g) of the Foreigners Act”, the bench said. 

KS relief provides Rohingya refugee women and children lifesaving aid

ARAB NEWS
SHEHAB SUMON
September 08, 2022 

In this photo taken in May 2022, Rohingya beneficiaries of KSrelief aid are seen at a refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh. (KSrelief)

• Over $25m already for Bangladesh’s squalid Cox’s Bazar
• Maternal care, food, shelter and education provided

DHAKA: When in 2017 Rohingya Muslims fled persecution in Myanmar, most sought shelter in neighboring Bangladesh’s Cox’s Bazar that now has over 1.2 million living in squalid conditions, and where Saudi Arabia is focusing part of its global relief efforts.

The mass arrival of Rohingyas has turned the coastal region of the country’s southeast into the world’s largest refugee settlement, with women and children being the biggest and most vulnerable group dependent on external aid.

Although Bangladesh is not a signatory to the 1951 UN Refugee Convention, it has been hosting and providing humanitarian support for those displaced. But many complex interventions require costly care, and Saudi Arabia has been a key donor.

Court in Ayeyarwady region sentences 56 Rohingya to 2 years in prison

RFA

Radio Free Asia
RFA Burmese
2022.09.08

The group, including three children, was refused visits from locals offering food and assistance.

 Wakema township’s court in a photograph taken in Jan. 2021.Citizen journalist

A court in Myanmar’s Ayeyarwady region has sentenced 56 ethnic Rohingya to two years in prison.

They were arrested on Aug. 21 in Wakema township and the sentences were handed down by the township’s court on Tuesday under Section 6 (3) of the Residents Registration Act.

The group came from Buthidaung and Maungdaw townships in Rakhine State.

They decided to leave due to a lack of jobs in their townships and the hardships of living there.

Seven Rohingya dead after boat seized, Myanmar authorities say

THE STRAITSTIMES

Sep 2, 2022, 

 Hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims fled a military crackdown in Buddhist-majority Maynmar in 2017. PHOTO: EPA-EFE

 

YANGON - Seven Rohingya people from a group of 65 seized by the Myanmar authorities from a boat off the southern coast died of hunger, thirst and exposure, state media said on Friday.

On Monday, the authorities detained a vessel near Pyapon township, around 120km south of commercial hub Yangon, said the Global New Light of Myanmar newspaper.

"Four traffickers and 65 smuggled Bengalis were temporarily detained," it said, using the term by which Rohingya are pejoratively referred to by many in Myanmar.

Three men and four women later "died due to the bad weather and lack of food and water".

Rohingya Issue May Find Prominence in Modi-Hasina Talks; Bangladesh Keen on Cooperation on Energy & Food Security with India

NEWS18

Abhishek Jha
September 04, 2022, 

An important issue that the Bangladesh PM is expected to discuss with PM Modi is regarding the Rohingya refugees. (File Twitter Photo)

During her visit, Hasina will hold bilateral talks with Prime Minister Narendra Modi on 6th September at Hyderabad House in New Delhi. She will also call on President Droupadi Murmu and Vice President Jagdeep Dhankar the same day.

Bangladesh’s Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will be on a four-day state visit to India from September 5-8. She will be accompanied by a high-level delegation, including a number of ministers and industrialists.

During her visit, Hasina will hold bilateral talks with Prime Minister Narendra Modi on 6th September at Hyderabad House in New Delhi. She will also call on President Droupadi Murmu and Vice President Jagdeep Dhankar the same day.

Myanmar aircraft cross Bangladesh border, fire shells

Dhaka Tribune

S Bashu Das, Bandarban
September 3, 2022 

Law enforcers are on alert, say police 

Myanmar security forces orchestrated a series of fierce attacks from fighter planes and helicopters inside Bangladesh border in Bandarban on Saturday morning.

Shells and gunshots were fired from warplanes and helicopters in the Ghumdhum area at around 9:20am.

Aung San Suu Kyi shares responsibility for Rohingya’s misery

TheJakartaPost
Kornelius Purba (The Jakarta Post) Jakarta
Wed, August 31, 2022

Looking for safety: Scores of Rohingya refugees, including women and children, were stranded in the waters off Aceh on Dec. 27, 2021. (The Jakarta Post/Amnesty International Indonesia

In a recent discussion to commemorate the fifth anniversary of the genocidal acts against the Rohingya minority by Myanmar’s military, civil society groups and Myanmar’s government in exile, the National Unity Government (NUG) urged Indonesia and ASEAN to take tougher actions against the Myanmar junta for the safety of the Rohingya people.

Joint forces operation to stop criminal activities in Rohingya camps soon

dailyobserver

Published : Monday, 29 August, 2022
Staff Correspondent

 
The government has decided to conduct joint operation comprising the forces of Army, Police and other law enforcement agencies to stop criminal activities in the Rohingya camps of Cox's Bazar.

Same time, forces of Army would be deployed in the Rohingya camps along with other law enforcement agencies if necessary to stop drugs smuggling, Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal said while briefing media after a meeting held in his ministry conference room at Secretariat on Sunday.

The regular meeting of the "National Committee on Coordination and Management of Forcibly Displaced Myanmar Nationals and Law and Order" was held at the ministry with the Minister in the chair.

 

Rohingya resettlement in third country not a wise idea: Experts

The Daily Star   

Porimol Palma
Mon Aug 29, 2022

The Rohingya genocide day on August 25 brought to the fore diverse suggestions for a sustainable solution to the Rohingya crisis. Two similar proposals, however, stand out. One was from US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and the other was from the Japanese Ambassador to Bangladesh, Ito Naoki.

In a statement, Blinken said in solidarity with Bangladesh and other Rohingya-hosting countries in the region, the US will increase the resettlement of Rohingyas.

Army Would Be Deployed In Rohingya Camps If Needed: B'desh Home Minister

MENAFN 

(MENAFN- IANS) By Sumi Khan

Date 8/29/2022 

Dhaka, Aug 29 (IANS) Stating that the efforts of the Bangladesh government were underway to repatriate the Rohingya refugees, Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal has said Army troops would be deployed in Rohingya refugee camps if necessary to prevent crimes and check smuggling of drugs into the country.

Incidents of crimes such as murder, robbery, rape, drug smuggling and several other criminal activities have increased nearly seven times in the last five years in the Cox's Bazar area, officials said.

‘This is our documentary of the crisis we face’: the Rohingya smartphone photographers

The Guardian
by Kaamil Ahmed
Mon 29 Aug 2022

A photograph taken by Ro Yassin Abdumonaf  in the refugee camps of Caox's bazar, Bangladesh. Ro Yassib Abdumonaf

Refugees who have fled Myanmar describe the risks and their sense of duty – as well as joy – in recording life around them in the sprawling camps of Bangladesh .

The camera of a budget smartphone has become a way for many of the Rohingya stuck in Bangladesh’s refugee camps to tell their own stories, capturing photos of their lives in the camps, which became the world’s largest when 700,000 people fled the Myanmar military five years ago, joining 300,000 who had already sought refuge across the border.

‘It’s a nightmare, every day’: Rohingya in India live in fear

Aljazeera
By Rifat Fareed
Published On 25 Aug 2022

Some 40,000 Rohingya refugees live in India where fears are growing as calls for deportations to Myanmar increase.

Rohingya refugees in New Delhi say they live in fear of deportation back to Myanmar [Suhail Bhat/Al Jazeera]

New Delhi, India – On the fifth anniversary of the start of military atrocities against the Rohingya in Myanmar, those of them living in India find themselves caught in a web of uncertainty and fear as the Indian government tightens restrictions on refugees in the country.

Five years after the crackdown, Myanmar’s remaining Rohingya ‘living like animals’

The Guardian

Rebecca Ratcliffe 

South-east Asia correspondent

Thu 25 Aug 2022 

While 700,000 Rohingya Muslims fled Myanmar after 25 August 2017, 600,000 remain, facing harsh restrictions on movement, persecution and poverty‘

• Like an open prison’: a million Rohingya refugees still in Bangladesh camps five years after crisis   

F

ive years ago Muhammad*, his wife and two children sheltered at their home, terrified as they heard of violence tearing through nearby villages. The Myanmar military had launched so-called “clearance operations” in northern Rakhine state, forcing huge numbers of Rohingya people to flee into neighbouring Bangladesh.

Rohingya: ‘Kill us, but don’t deport us to Myanmar’

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Rajini Vaidyanathan
BBC South Asia Correspondent

Yasmin is one among thousands of Rohingya children who are unable to get proper education

In her four fragile years, Yasmin has lived a life of uncertainty, unsure where she belongs.

Born in a refugee camp in Bangladesh, she is unable to return to her ancestral village in Myanmar. At the moment, a dingy room in India's capital, Delhi, serves as home.

Like hundreds of thousands of Rohingya people - an ethnic minority in Myanmar - Yasmin's parents fled the country in 2017 to escape a campaign of genocide launched by the military.

Myanmar Rohingya desperate to leave Bangladesh camps and go home after five years

THE GLOBE

 AND MAIL
RUMA PAUL
DHAKA
REUTERS

Rohingya refugees gather to mark the fifth anniversary of their exodus from Myanmar to Bangladesh, at a Kutupalong Rohingya refugee camp at Ukhiya in Cox's Bazar district, Bangladesh, on Aug. 25.SHAFIQUR RAHMAN/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Myanmar Rohingya Muslims protested across refugee camps in neighbouring Bangladesh on Thursday, the fifth anniversary of clashes between Rohingya insurgents and Myanmar security forces that drove hundreds of thousands of Rohingya from their homes.

More than a million Rohingya are living in squalid camps in southern Bangladesh comprising the world’s largest refugee settlement, with little prospect of returning to Myanmar, where they are mostly denied citizenship and other rights.

Rohingya repatriation: A helpless wait for Bangladesh

Dhaka Tribune

Syed Samiul Basher Anik
August 24, 2022

Uncertainty over repatriation frustrates Rohingyas

 

File photo of a Rohingya camp in Cox’s Bazar Syed Zakir Hossain

Bangladesh generously welcomed the persecuted Rohingyas, who fled Rakhine state to escape atrocities by the Myanmar military five years ago, in the hope that they would be able to return home soon. However, an end to the refugee crisis is still nowhere in sight, as Myanmar stubbornly refuses to create an environment conducive to repatriation.

Bangladesh has held several talks with major global actors over the safe repatriation of the Rohingyas to their homeland, but the international community has so far failed to mount sufficient pressure on Myanmar to take back its citizens. The delays in the repatriation process are frustrating for both the Rohingya refugees and the host community.

Genocide case against Myanmar over Rohingya atrocities cleared to proceed

The Guardian

Rebecca Ratcliffe
in Bangkok
Fri 22 Jul 2022

UN’s international court of justice rejects arguments advanced by military junta over crackdowns against Muslim minority group
Rohingya refugees who fled Myanmar for Jamtoli camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh in January 2018. Photograph: Mohammad Ponir Hossain/Reuters

The United Nations’ highest court has rejected Myanmar’s attempts to halt a case accusing it of genocide against the country’s Rohingya minority, paving the way for evidence of atrocities to be heard.

The international court of justice rejected all preliminary objections raised by Myanmar, which is now ruled by a military junta, at a hearing on Friday.

The case, which was filed by the Gambia, centres on brutal military crackdowns in 2016 and 2017 that forced more than 700,000 Rohingya to flee over the border to neighbouring Bangladesh.