Beijing to ask Myanmar to put an end to Bangladesh border violence

The Daily Star

Star Digital Report
Mon Sep 26, 2022

Chinese Ambassador Li Jiming. Photo: Collected

Beijing will ask Myanmar to stop violation of Bangladesh's territorial sovereignty and speed up the tripartite mechanism for early Rohingya repatriation.

Chinese Ambassador to Bangladesh Li Jiming made the assurance during a meeting with acting foreign secretary Admiral (retd) Khurshed Alam at the foreign ministry today (September 26, 2022).

Talking to reporters after the meeting, Jiming said the recent incidents on the border are unfortunate.

He said they discussed ways for early repatriation of Rohingya refugees, recent incidents along Bangladesh-Myanmar border, and bilateral cooperation in other areas.

Commanders of Bangladesh, Myanmar meet to resolve border tension

AA
Md. Kamruzzaman
DHAKA, Bangladesh
30.10.2022

Bangladesh wants to resolve all prevailing crises with Myanmar through peaceful discussion, says Border Guard Bangladesh official

Amid nearly three-month-long unrest along the border between Bangladesh and Myanmar, the border forces of the two South Asian neighbors on Sunday held a commander-level meeting to resolve the prevailing tension.

A seven-member team of Myanmar’s Border Guard Police (BGP) attended the flag meeting held in Bangladesh’s southern border town of Tekhnaf while an eight-member squad of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) represented the host country, according to a BGB statement.

Myanmar border police regrets incidents in border areas: BGB

The Daily Star

Star Digital Report
Sun Oct 30, 2022

Myanmar's Border Guard Police (BGP) at the flag meeting has expressed sincere regret for all the recent incidents that took place in the Bangladesh-Myanmar border areas.

Lieutenant Colonel Sheikh Khalid Mohammad Iftekhar, commanding officer of BGB-2 Battalion came up with the devolvement after the BGB-BGP flag meeting in Teknaf in Cox's Bazar today (October 30, 2022) over the recent tensions in border areas, reports our Cox's Bazar staff correspondent.

During the meeting, the two sides expressed their firm determination to perform their respective duties in a bid to maintain and peace and order, and the security of the people living in the border areas, Lt Col Iftekhar said at a press conference at the office of BGB-2 Battalion in Teknaf.

Military council delegation led by Lt Gen Phone Myat visits Dhaka, discusses with Bangladesh chief of the defense staff

Narinjara News

28 October 2022

A three-member Myanmar military council delegation led by lieutenant general Phone Myat met with the Bangladesh chief of the defense staff general SM Shafiuddin Ahmed at Bangladesh Army Headquarters on 26 October last.

Both the generals discussed various issues related to the development of military ties between the two neighbouring countries including the exchange of high-ranking military officers. Phone Myat urged the Bangladesh authority to cooperate in joint natural disaster managementand sharing of relevant information.

 

Bangladesh Army asks Myanmar Army to be cautious during operations at common border

THE BUSINESS STANDARD
UNB
28 October, 2022

Photo: ISPR via UNB

Bangladesh Army has asked the Myanmar Army to maintain more caution in conducting its operations along the common border areas.

A three member delegation of Myanmar Army led by Lt Gen Phone Myat, Command Bureau of Special Operation visited Bangladesh Army Chief General SM Shafiuddin Ahmed at the Army Headquarters on October 26, according to a press release of Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) issued on Thursday night.

The delegation highlighted the ongoing security situation in Myanmar during the visit apart from exchanging courtesies. It said they are trying to keep their country's peace and discipline under control while maintaining mutual friendship with Bangladesh.

Myanmar Army delegation pays courtesy call on Bangladesh Army chief

The Daily Star

Star Digital Report
Fri Oct 28, 2022 

Photo: Courtesy/ISPR

A three-member delegation of Myanmar army met Bangladesh Army in Dhaka, in a new turn of development, when the two sides discussed working on regional peace and security and quick repatriation of the Rohingyas.

Bangladesh Army reminded the Myanmar Army of maintaining caution while conducting any campaign in the bordering areas.

The Myanmar delegation led by Lt Gen Phone Myat, Command Bureau of Special Operation, made a courtesy call on Bangladesh Army Chief Gen SM Shafiuddin Ahmed at the Army Headquarters on October 26, according to a statement issued on ISPR website yesterday (October 27, 2022).

2 Rohingya men shot dead in Cox’s Bazar

The Daily Star

Star Digital Report
Thu Oct 27, 2022

Criminals shot dead two Rohingya men after picking them up from their houses in the refugee camp of Ukhiya upazila in Cox's Bazar early today (October 27, 2022).

The deceased are Ayat Ullah (40) and Mohammad Yeasin (30).

With them, at least seven Rohingya men including a child were shot dead in Cox's Bazar this month.

Today's shooting took place at Block-C in Balukhali camp around 3:30am, said Syed Harun-or-Rashid, commanding officer of Armed Police Battalion-14.

Looking forward to working closely: PM in greeting Rishi Sunak

The Daily Star

UNB, Dhaka
Tue Oct 25, 2022

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today (October 25, 2022) greeted new British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak saying she was looking forward to working closely with him in further strengthening "our long-standing political, economic, and strategic partnerships".

"I, on behalf of the Government and the people of Bangladesh, extend the heartiest congratulations to Your Excellency on your assumption of the Office of the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland," she said in a congratulatory letter.

World has left Bangladesh to shelter 1m Rohingya refugees alone, says minister

The Guardian

Kaamil Ahmed

Wed 26 Oct 2022 

Shahriar Alam criticises international community for doing ‘absolutely nothing’ to press Myanmar’s junta to guarantee a safe return

Rohingya refugees behind a barbed-wire fence in a temporary settlement in a ‘no man's land’ border zone between Myanmar and Bangladesh. Photograph: Ye Aung Thu/AFP/Getty Images

The world has done “absolutely nothing” to ensure safety in Myanmar for its persecuted Rohingya minority, said Bangladesh’s foreign minister, complaining that his country is sheltering more than 1 million refugees without support.

Foreign minister Shahriar Alam told the Guardian financial support for the Rohingya has decreased each year and there has been no real progress towards repatriation in the five years since more than 700,000 fled massacres by Myanmar’s military. That wave, in August 2017, joined approximately 300,000 people that had already fled Myanmar because of previous security crackdowns.

UN: World has failed people of Myanmar

Dhaka Tribune

AFP
October 27, 2022 

More than 2,300 people have been killed in the military's crackdown on dissent since the coup in February last year

File Photo: Protesters hold banners as they take part in a demonstration against the military coup in Yangon on December 5, 2021 AFP

The international community has failed the people of Myanmar since a military junta took power last year, the UN human rights rapporteur for the southeast Asian country said on Wednesday.

Myanmar has been in turmoil since the military coup, with swathes of the country engulfed by fighting.

More than 2,300 people have been killed in the military's crackdown on dissent since the coup, which rights groups say includes razing villages, mass extrajudicial killings and air strikes on civilians.

Two Rohingya men shot dead in Cox’s Bazar camp

Dhaka Tribune

Abdul Aziz, Cox's Bazar
October 27, 2022

File photo of a Rohingya camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh Reuters

Two Rohingya man has been shot dead by a group of miscreants in the Kutupalong Rohingya camp of Ukhiya in Cox's Bazar.

The incident took place in the early hours of Thursday in the C block of Kutupalong camp no 17.

Two Arakan Army soldiers sentenced to 20 years in prison, flogging for rape: AA spokesman

DMG
Friday, October 21, 2022
Development Media Group

An Arakan Army (AA) military tribunal on Thursday sentenced two of its soldiers to 20 years in prison with hard labour plus flogging for raping a Muslim woman from Buthidaung Township, according to AA spokesman U Khaing Thukha.

The AA formed a court martial and carried out an investigation following a complaint from the victim. The two AA members were convicted of raping the 30-year-old woman at her home in Kyaung Taung Village-tract at gunpoint on October 1.

'Rohingya' featuring persecution on Myanmar ethnic group hits cinema halls

Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha  (DSS)

21 Oct 2022

DHAKA, Oct 21, 2022 (BSS) - 'Rohingya', a Bangla film on brutal persecution on ethnic Rohingya population of Myanmar who took refuge in Bangladesh, hit the country's major cinema halls.

Syed Wahiduzzaman Diamond, a national film award winning director, directed the film which was entirely shot in Teknaf Rohingya camp and surrounding areas in southeastern Cox's Bazar district.

Bangladesh requests Libya to continue cooperation in Rohingya issue

THE LIBYA
OBSERVER
October 22, 2022

Upon assuming his charges in Bangladesh, Libya's Ambassador Abdulmutalib Suleiman paid a visit to the Bangladeshi Foreign Minister A.K. Abdul Momen at his office on Thursday.

A statement by the Bangladeshi Foreign Minister on Facebook said that FM Abdul Momen highlighted the distinguished relationship binding the two countries and underlined the importance of continued cooperation in different sectors of mutual interest.

Myanmar military authority informed Beijing they are willing to take back Rohingyas after verification- Bangladesh Foreign Minister

News On AIR
ByAIR News
October 21, 2022

Bangladesh Foreign Minister Dr. A K Abdul Momen has said that Myanmar military authorities informed Beijing that they are willing to take back the displaced Rohingyas after verification, reports the official news agency BSS. Briefing the media about the outcome of the meeting with the Chinese Ambassador Li Jiming in Dhaka on Thursday, Dr. Momen said that Myanmar’s military government has conveyed that they would honour all the previous deals signed between Dhaka and Naypyidaw to commence Rohingya repatriation. However, Myanmar did not mention any specific date for the process to start. He said that China has assured Bangladesh that it will continue its efforts to resolve the Rohingya crisis.

Bangladesh urges UN to highlight Myanmar’s crimes against Rohingyas

Dhaka Tribune 

Tribune Desk
October 21, 2022

Facebook/Kazi Nabil Ahmed

Bangladesh has requested the United Nations (UN) Department of Global Communications (DGC) to play a strong role in raising awareness about Myanmar's brutal crimes against Rohingya.

Kazi Nabil, a member of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, highlighted Bangladesh’s position at the United Nations Conference Room 4 on Friday.

Speaking on the Rohingya issue, he said: "I request the United Nations DGC to play a strong role in raising awareness about the brutal crimes committed against the Rohingya in Myanmar.

4 held over Rohingya man’s murder in Ukhiya camp

Dhaka Tribune 

Abdul Aziz, Cox's Bazar
October 21, 2022 

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

Armed Police Battalion (APBn) on Friday arrested four people in connection with the murder of a Rohingya man in Tajnimarkhola camp in Ukhiya upazila of Cox's Bazar.

The arrested are- Zahid Hossain of camp-13, Mohammad Yasin of camp-15, Noor Alam of camp-19, Mohammad Gani of camp-13, Assistant Superintendent of Police of APBn-8 Faruq Ahmed said.

Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh face backlash as resentment among locals grows

South China Morning Post

October 21, 2022

Rohingya refugees face increasing backlash in Bangladesh, where many live in exile after fleeing persecution in Myanmar in 2017. Since then, public opinion has turned against the stateless Muslim people from Rakhine state in Myanmar’s northwest. During a speech at the United Nations General Assembly on September 23, 2022, Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said her country risked socio-political instability because of the prolonged presence of Rohingya refugees.

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Using Soccer to Spread the Word About the Plight of the Rohingya

FP
OCTOBER 21, 2022

A team of Rohingya refugees forms a soccer club in Australia and becomes a beacon of hope.

Robi Alam is a Rohingya refugee. His family fled violence and persecution in Myanmar. A decade later, Alam was born in a refugee camp in Bangladesh. Life was hard in the camps, and Alam and his friends would wrap rubber bands around a wad of plastic bags and play soccer until the ball fell apart. When Alam was 10, his family emigrated to Australia, where many people have never even heard of the plight of the Rohingya. To help ease their transition, Alam and some of his fellow Rohingya started playing soccer again, informally at first in nearby parks. But their passion grew, and they formed an official club. They call themselves Rohingya United, and their goal is to raise awareness of the Rohingya issue. Now, there are Rohingya soccer teams scattered across Australia as well as in Canada, the United States, and other countries.

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

daily sun
UNB
19th October, 2022 

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.