Threadbare facilities, high mortality, cats in the corridors: the realities of life for new Rohingya mothers in Cox’s Bazar

The Guardian
Rebecca Root in Cox's Bazar
Thu 2 Jan 2025

Midwife Sumana Akter checks on a newborn baby inside the Friendship hospital in a Rohingya refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar. In some areas of the camp, maternal mortality is 44% higher than the Bangladesh average Photographs by Thomas Cristofoletti/Ruom for the Guardian

In the world’s largest refugee site, a lack of healthcare coupled with rising gang violence makes the journey to motherhood a perilous one

It is mid-afternoon on a Wednesday and Toyoba Begum, 37, is sitting upright at the end of her hospital bed, the second in a row of eight. Dressed in a beige tunic and canary yellow trousers, a belly recovery belt clasped around her stomach, she watches her two-day-old daughter sleeping under a fleece blanket.

The Disappearance of Dil Mohammed: A Voice for the Rohingya Silenced

THE I DIPLOMAT
Shafiur Rahman
May 19, 2023

On January 18, prominent advocate Dil Mohammed was abducted from a Rohingya camp in No Man’s Land. He has not been heard from since.

A steadfast Rohingya advocate emerged amid the chaos in the volatile borderlands between Myanmar and Bangladesh. Dil Mohammed, a Rohingya refugee who became the de facto spokesperson for the No Man’s Land Rohingya encampment, navigated a complex web of political and military forces to champion the cause of his people. But on January 18, as the encampment burned to the ground in a harrowing attack, Dil Mohammed was apprehended by the long-dormant Rohingya Solidarity Organization (RSO), which had recently re-emerged. No news of his fate has emerged since.

5,000 Rohingyas languishing inside Myanmar, not allowed to go home

Dhaka Tribune
Humayun Kabir Bhuiyan, back from Cox’s Bazar
Published  May 2nd, 2019

Most of the Rohingya refugees are currently living in various camps in Cox's Bazar, however some of them are still trapped in no man's land between the Bangladesh-Myanmar border and are unable to return to their homes Dhaka Tribune

Attitude reflects Myanmar’s unwillingness to take its people back, say officials

Several thousand Rohingyas have been languishing inside Myanmar since the latest influx that started in August, 2017, but they are not allowed back home by their own border police.

During a recent visit to the Gundhum-Tambru border area between Bangladesh and Myanmar, Dhaka Tribune saw the Rohingyas living in weak makeshift homes in an area near the Bangladesh-Myanmar international border.

BSF Hands Over 31 Rohingyas to Tripura Police Ending Standoff With Bangladesh.

The Rohingya Muslims were stuck in no-man's land, beyond the barbed wire fence along the Indo-Bangladesh border in Tripura since last Friday.

PTI Updated: January 22, 2019, 4:03 PM IST

Rohingya refugees are seen in a refugee camp (Representational image: Reuters)

New Delhi: The Border Security Force on Tuesday handed over the 31 Rohingya Muslims, who were stranded on the India-Bangladesh border for three days, to the Tripura police, ending a standoff with its counterpart, the BGB, on the issue, officials said.

They said the border guarding force signed papers and handed over the 31 Rohingyas to the staff of the Amtoli police station in West Tripura district police at 11 am.

No Man's Land အနီး ျမန္မာအစိုးရက တံတား ေဆာက္လုပ္ေနျခင္းသည္ ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာ ဒုကၡသည္ စခန္း ေရၾကီးမႈ အနၱရာယ္ ၾကံဳရန္ တမင္ ၾကံ ရြယ္ ၿခင္းျဖစ္

ရွား၊ Jan 11, 2019 Rohingya Today 

  

ေတာင္ျပိုေခ်ာင္းတြင္ ေဆာက္လုပ္ေနသည့္ တံတား

ေမာင္ေတာ ။ ။ ျမန္မာနိုင္ငံနွင့္ ဘဂၤႅားေဒ့ရွ္နိုင္ငံ နယ္စပ္မ်ဉ္းအနီးရွိ ေတာင္ျပိုေခ်ာင္းတြင္ ျမန္မာအာဏာပိုင္ မ်ားက တံတားေဆာက္လုပ္ေနျခင္းသည္ No Man's Land ရွိ ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာဒုကၡသည္စခန္း ေရျကီးမႈ အနၱရာယ္ ၾကံုေတြ့ရန္အတြက္ တမင္ျကံရြယ္ေနျခင္း ျဖစ္သည္ဟု ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာဒုကၡသည္မ်ားနွင့္ ဘဂၤလားေဒ့ရွ္ နယ္စပ္ အ နီးရွိ ဘဂၤလားေဒ့ရွ္ရြာသားမ်ားက ေဝဖန္သံုးသပ္ေနၾကသည္။