Rohingya repatriation: Dhaka may seek updates on Beijing's efforts

Dhaka Tribune

UNB
October 19, 2022 

Chinese Ambassador to Bangladesh Li Jiming is scheduled to meet Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen on Thursday

Bangladesh is likely to seek an update from the Chinese side on Thursday regarding its efforts to find ways for repatriation of the Rohingya refugees to Myanmar.

Chinese Ambassador to Bangladesh Li Jiming is scheduled to meet Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen at his office at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Thursday morning where the Rohingya issue is likely to be raised, a senior official told UNB.

Rohingya man hacked to death in Ukhiya camp

Dhaka Tribune

Tribune Desk
October 18, 2022

Two Rohingya leaders were killed in a similar fashion earlier on Saturday

Rohingyas walk on a road at a refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, on Wednesday, August 11, 2021 Allison Joyce/Dhaka Tribune

Rohingyas walk on a road at a refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, on Wednesday, August 11, 2021 Allison Joyce/Dhaka Tribune

Masked men armed with sharp weapons hacked a Rohingya man to death in Tajnimarkhola camp in Ukhiya upazila of Cox’s Bazar on Tuesday.

The deceased is Syed Hossain, 32, a resident of Tajnimarkhola camp No 19.

Armed Police Battalion spokesperson Assistant Superintendent of Police Faruq Ahmed confirmed the matter.

4 arrested over double murder in Rohingya camp

Dhaka Tribune

October 18, 2022

The police are working to arrest others involved in the two murders

BanglaTribune

The Armed Police Battalion has arrested four accused in the case filed over the killing of two people in a Rohingya camp in Cox’s Bazar.

The APBn arrested Shamsu Alam, Rashid Ahmed, Mahbubur Rahman and Nazir Ahmed at camps 13 and 19 on Tuesday.

APBn’s Assistant Superintendent of Police Md Faruq Ahmed confirmed the matter.

A group of unidentified men attacked Maulvi Md Yunus and Anwar Hossain at Balukhali Rohingya camp in Ukhiya upazila of Cox's Bazar on Saturday night.

Two Rohingya community leaders killed at Cox’s Bazar refugee camp

bd24news.com
Cox's Bazar Correspondentbdnews24.com
Published : 15 Oct 2022, 

A group of 15 to 20 attackers hacked the victims at Balukhali camp in Ukhiya, police said

Two Rohingya community leaders have been hacked to death at a refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar.

A group of 15 to 20 assailants carried out the attack at the Balukhali camp in Ukhiya on Saturday evening, police said, citing witnesses.

The victims are Mohammad Anwar, 35, head of F2 block at Thaingkhali, and the assistant head of the same block Mohammad Yunus alias Moulvi Yunus, 32.

Two Rohingya community leaders killed in Bangladesh

DAWN
AFP
Published October 17, 2022

COX’S BAZAR: A mob hacked to death two Rohingya community leaders in Bangladesh on Saturday, as security worsens in camps housing almost a million refugees.

Bangladesh has been housing Rohingya refugees in a vast sprawl of camps since they fled a military crackdown in Myanmar in 2017 that is now the subject of a genocide investigation at the UN’s top court.

The squalid settlements have seen escalating violence in recent months, with gangs trying to assert control over drug trafficking and intimidate the refugees’ civilian leadership through killings and abductions.

Two Rohingya leaders killed in Bangladesh refugee camp

THE NEW ARAB
The New Arab Staff
17 October, 2022

Two leaders of the Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh were reportedly hacked to death on Saturday, according to local police.

Violence has escalated in the Rohingya camps in Bangladesh over the past few months [Getty]

Two Rohingya leaders were hacked to death on Saturday in a refugee camp in Bangladesh, according to officials.

Faruk Ahmed, a police spokesperson, said the two leaders were killed by a mob of a dozen men at Camp 13, adding that it was one of the worst such attacks in recent months.

Israel supported Burma's military against Rohingya Muslims in exchange for international recognition

MEMO MIDDLE EAST MONITOR

October 7, 2022

Rohingya laborers have lunch during their break as they work at a brick production workplace in a village on December 23, 2021, in Sittwe, Rakhine State, Myanmar [Aung Naing Soe/Anadolu Agency]

Recently declassified Israeli Foreign Ministry documents reveal deep Israeli military ties with Burma, now known as Myanmar, and its significant role in the brutal massacre against the Rohingya Muslims.

According to a report published yesterday by Haaretz, the 25,000 pages of documents detail how the Israeli regime armed and trained the Burmese army, from the 1950s until the beginning of the 1980s.

Since the end of British rule in Myanmar in 1948, different parts of the country have been rocked by relentless civil war.

3 lose lives as Rohingya refugee boat sinks off Bangladesh

DAILY SABAH
by Agence France-Presse -
AFP COX'S BAZAR, Bangladesh
Oct 04, 2022

Rohingya refugees arrive on a boat after crossing the Naf River from Myanmar into Bangladesh, Whaikhyang, Bangladesh, Oct. 9, 2017. (AFP Photo) 

At least three people drowned and nearly 20 others were missing off the Bangladesh coast after a boat carrying Rohingya refugees sank in rough weather on Tuesday, authorities said.

Dire conditions in Bangladesh's refugee camps prompt hundreds each year to pay smugglers for passage out of the country.

The fishing trawler left at dawn and was bound for Malaysia before it ran into trouble in the Bay of Bengal, with two coast guard search boats scrambling to rescue survivors.

Twelve people missing after Rohingya refugee trawler sinks off Bangladesh

ALARABIA NEWS

AFP, Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh
Published: 04 October ,2022 

File photo of Rohingya Muslims arriving on a boat from Myanmar to Bangladesh. (AP)

 

At least a dozen people were missing off the Bangladesh coast on Tuesday after a boat carrying Rohingya refugees sank in rough weather, the South Asian country’s coast guard said.

The fishing trawler left at dawn and was bound for Malaysia before it ran into trouble in the Bay of Bengal, with two search boats scrambling to rescue survivors.

“We have rescued 39 people including 35 Rohingya refugees and four Bangladeshis,” coast guard spokesman Lieutenant Al Amin told AFP.

At least three women die after Rohingya boat sinks off Bangladesh

Aljazeera

4 Oct 2022 

More than a dozen missing after a fishing trawler bound for Malaysia runs into bad weather in the Bay of Bengal.

Dire conditions in Bangladesh's refugee camps prompt hundreds of Rohingya each year to pay smugglers for passage out of the country [File: AFP]

At least three people have drowned and nearly 20 others are missing off the Bangladesh coast after a boat carrying Rohingya refugees sank in rough weather, authorities said.

All countries should take in more Rohingya refugees: PM

theSundaily
24-09- 2022

NEW YORK, Sept 23 -- Malaysian Prime Minister Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob giving his speech at the general debate of the 77th session of the United Nations General Assembly at the UN headquarters Friday. - BERNAMAPIX

NEW YORK: It is the responsibility of all countries to take in more Rohingya refugees to be resettled in their respective countries following the crisis in Myanmar, Prime Minister Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob.

He said although Malaysia is not a signatory to the 1951 Convention on the Status of Refugees and the 1967 Protocol, the country, on humanitarian grounds, has accepted nearly 200,000 Rohingya refugees.

International community losing interest in Rohingya crisis, Turkish FM says

AA
Merve Aydogan
ANKARA
22.09.2022

Cavusoglu urges to never give up on efforts for voluntary, sustainable return of Rohingya to Myanmar

The international community is losing interest in the plight of Rohingya, the Turkish foreign minister said on Thursday, urging the international community to do more for the minority Muslims forced to flee Myanmar five years ago.

"Rohingya Muslims have been deprived of their fundamental rights and basic needs. Unfortunately, international community is losing interest to this tragedy," said Mevlut Cavusoglu during a high-level side event on the Rohingya crisis organized by Bangladesh in New York, where the 77th UN General Assembly is ongoing.

Bangladesh spends $1.22 bn a year for 1.2 mn Rohingyas: PM

The Daily Star

UNB, New York

Thu Sep 22, 2022

Photo: PID

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today (September 22, 2022) called upon the international community to take five actions to resolve the prolonged Rohingya crisis, including political and financial support to them.

She made the call at a high-level side event on the Rohingya crisis held at Lotte Palace New York Hotel.

Focusing on the second action, Sheikh Hasina asked the world community to intervene in the proceedings before the International Court of Justice, International Criminal Court and national courts, including supporting the Gambia in the ICJ, in order to enforce international law and to strengthen the fight against human rights violations in Myanmar.

UN expert slams upcoming 'fraud' election in Myanmar

 

By AFP
Published: September 23, 2022

The junta is looking 'to create the sense of legitimacy and inevitability,' says Thomas Andrews, UN's special rapporteur

  UN Special Rapporteur on Myanmar Tom Andrews gives a press conference during the 51th Human Rights Council in Geneva on Sept. 22. (Photo: AFP)

A UN expert on Thursday dismissed as fraudulent an upcoming election in Myanmar, accusing the junta of looking for a veneer of legitimacy and rebuking the international community for not doing enough to challenge the regime.

"The junta is preparing for what it describes as an election," Thomas Andrews, the UN's special rapporteur on the rights situation in Myanmar, told reporters in Geneva.

"This is not going to be an election. It is a fraud."

Myanmar's military seized power and toppled the democratically elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi in February 2021.

The country has been in turmoil ever since, with fighting across swathes of the country and the economy in tatters even as the junta says it plans to hold fresh polls next August.

Myanmar spiralling ‘from bad to worse, to horrific’, Human Rights Council hears

UN News
Live on UN Web TV:
Coverage of the 77th General Debate

21 September 2022
Human Rights

World Bank/Tom Cheatham

A child looks after his younger sibling in Myanmar.

Since the Myanmar military launched its “disastrous” coup last year, UN-appointed independent human rights expert Tom Andrews said on Wednesday that conditions have worsened, “by any measure”.

“With each report I have warned that unless UN Member States change course in the way they collectively respond to this crisis, the people of Myanmar will suffer even further,” he told the Human Rights Council in Geneva, saying that conditions have “gone from bad to worse, to horrific for untold numbers of innocent people in Myanmar”.

UN-appointed expert says better sanctions on Myanmar needed

The Washington Post

By David Rising | AP
September 22, 2022

FILE - A school bag lies next to dried blood stains on the floor of a middle school in Let Yet Kone village in Tabayin township in the Sagaing region of Myanmar on Saturday, Sept. 17, 2022, the day after an air strike hit the school. A United Nations-appointed human rights expert called Thursday for governments and companies to coordinate efforts to cut off the military-led government of Myanmar from its revenue and weapons sources, saying life in the Southeastern Asian nation has become a “living hell” for many since the generals seized power last year. (AP Photo, File) (Uncredited/AP

BANGKOK — A United Nations-appointed human rights expert called Thursday for governments and companies to coordinate efforts to cut off the military-led government of Myanmar from its sources of revenue and weapons, saying life in the Southeastern Asian nation has become a “living hell” for many since the generals seized power last year.

Tom Andrews, in Geneva to deliver his annual report on Myanmar to the U.N. Human Rights Council, told reporters that while many countries have been imposing sanctions on individuals, military entities, financial institutions and energy companies, what is needed is “coordinated action.”

PM seeks UN’s intensified role in Rohingya repatriation

THE BUSINESS POSTS
BSS . New York
22 Sep 2022

UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi holds a meeting with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at the bilateral meeting room of Lotte New York Palace hotel on Tuesday– BSS Photo

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has iterated her call to the international community and the United Nations to play intensified role in solving the Rohingya crisis by repatriating the forcibly displaced Myanmar nationals to their motherland.

The prime minister made this call while UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi paid a courtesy call on her at the bilateral meeting room of Lotte New York Palace hotel 0n Tuesday.

Bangladesh police: Suspected Rohingya rebels kill another refugee camp watchman

RFA
By Abdur Rahman and Ahammad Foyez for BenarNews
2022.09.21

Residents of Cox’s Bazar camps say ARSA rebels are behind a spate of such killings.

A Rohingya refugee walks at a refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, March 7, 2019.
Reuters

A Rohingya volunteer watchman was killed at a refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar allegedly by Rohingya insurgents, making him the fifth victim of such an attack by armed rebels, Bangladeshi police said Wednesday.

While police wouldn’t say whether the suspected assailants belonged to the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA) insurgent group, residents of the sprawling camps near the Myanmar border insist that it was behind these attacks on the volunteer Rohingya security guards.

Japan to contribute $3.5M in aid to Rohingya in Bangladesh

 AA

SM Najmus Sakib
DHAKA, Bangladesh
21.09.2022

Partnership agreement with UN refugee agency signed to help persecuted people living in Cox’s Bazar, Bhasan Char camps with essential services

Japan will provide $3.5 million to support Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh, and on Wednesday it inked a partnership agreement with the UNHCR to help the persecuted people living in two camps with essential services.

Bangladesh currently hosts over 1.2 million Rohingya refugees who fled Myanmar's Rakhine State following a brutal military crackdown in August 2017.

Since the beginning of the emergency in 2017, Japan has been a steadfast supporter of the Rohingya refugee response in Bangladesh, contributing over $170 million to UNHCR and other UN agencies and NGOs in Bangladesh, including through this new funding.

PM seeks UN role in Rohingya repatriation

NEWAGE 

Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha, New York
Sep 21,2022

UN high commissioner for refugees Filippo Grandi pays a courtesy call on Bangladesh prime minister Sheikh Hasina at the bilateral meeting room of Lotte New York Palace hotel on Wednesday. -- BSS photo 

 

Prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday (New York time) reiterated her call to the international community and the United Nations to play intensified role in solving the Rohingya crisis by repatriating the forcibly displaced Myanmar nationals to their motherland.

The prime minister made this call while UN high commissioner for refugees Filippo Grandi paid a courtesy call on her at the bilateral meeting room of Lotte New York Palace hotel.