Bangladesh Police Abuses Rampant in Rohingya Camps - HRW

TAMIL GURDIAN
25 January 2024

A recent article published by Human Rights Watch (HRW) highlights the Bangladeshi police abuse occurring in Rohingya camps.

In the past decade, nearly a million Rohingya have fled persecution by the Myanmar military. Those who have fled currently live in refugee settlements in Bangladesh.

Bangladesh Police Arrest Rohingya Militant Leader

The Irrawaddy
by Muktadir Rashid
July 25, 2023

Hazeef Noor Mohammad (third from right) with other arrestees. / RAB

A commander of the militant Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA), who was allegedly responsible for the killing of Squadron Leader Rizwan Rushdi of Bangladeshi military intelligence in November 2022, has been captured in Cox’s Bazar.

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.

Bukit Aman: Police deploy helicopter to track down remaining Rohingya detainees

malay mail
Thursday, 21 Apr 2022 07:32 PM MYT

Bukit Aman Internal Security and Public Order Department director Datuk Seri Hazani Ghazali said the Royal Malaysia Police aircraft was today sent to the search area which has been expanded from time to time depending on police intelligence. — Picture by Firdaus Latif

KUALA LUMPUR, April 21 — The police have deployed an Air Operations Force (PGU) helicopter to track down the remaining Rohingya detainees who are still at large after escaping from the Sungai Bakap Immigration Detention Depot yesterday.

Police detain over 300 Rohingya for venturing outside Cox’s Bazar refugee camps

RFA
Radio Free Asia
By BenarNews
2022.04.05

Some of the Rohingya who were detained by police for leaving their refugee camps are seen at the Ukhia police station in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, April 5, 2022. Abdur Rahman/BenarNews

Bangladesh authorities were holding more than 300 Rohingya in transit camps after police caught them working outside their refugee camps in Cox’s Bazar, or while leaving their shelters for other purposes, officials said Tuesday.

Human Rights Watch meanwhile renewed its call for the government to ease movement restrictions on Rohingya, saying that barring refugees from leaving the camps for work or shutting down their shops within the camps only compounds their misery.

Rohingya man missing from quarantine centre in Tanjung Rambutan

THE MALAYSIA INSIGHT
1 Jun 2020

POLICE are searching for a Rohingya man who reportedly escaped from a quarantine centre at the Health Ministry’s Malaysia’s Training Institute in Tanjung Rambutan yesterday. Ipoh district police chief A. Asmadi Abdul Aziz said Rohim Mohd Zokoria, 27, was found missing when a ministry staffer was monitoring those quarantined at block E-2-83 of the facility at about 11am

 

Link :https://www.themalaysianinsight.com/s/250243

Police deny Rohingya and MPS enforcement team clash in Selayang

THE EDGE MARKETS
Bernama / Bernama
May 15, 2020

 KUALA LUMPUR (May 14): Police have denied that there was an altercation between a group of Rohingya refugees and Selayang Municipal Council (MPS) personnel at the Selayang Wholesale Market.

Gombak District police chief ACP Arifai Tarawe said police did not receive any report on the incident which was said to have been caught on camera and shared on social media.

 

Bangladesh Police Kills Seven Suspected Rohingya Robbers In Raid

NEWS
NATION
Reuters | Updated on: 02 Mar 2020,
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Dhaka:

At Least 50 Rohingya People Have Been Killed In Shootouts In Bangladesh Since The Latest Mass Influx Of Rohingya Refugees In August 2017, According To Police.

Police in Bangladesh killed seven members of a gang of armed robbers on Monday during a raid on their hideout on a hillside overlooking a camp for Rohingya refugees in the southeast of the country, a police spokesman said. Crime and violence are on the rise in the squalid, sprawling camps around the coastal city of Cox's Bazar, where hundreds of thousands of ethnic Rohingya took shelter in recent years after fleeing persecution in neighbouring Myanmar.

AA issues 2nd warning against police ( Supplymentry )

BNI 

Wednesday, August 14, 2019
Development Media Group

 

The Arakan Army (AA) issued a statement against the Myanmar Police on August 12 warning its officers to stop arresting and torturing Arakan people by misusing their authority. The letter also warned the police force not to frighten people or disturb Arakan national activities.

The AA released a similar warning to police on February 8, 2019.  

 

Bangladesh police kill three suspected Rohingya traffickers; rescue 15 refugees

REUTERS

World News

June 25, 2019

COX’S BAZAR, Bangladesh (Reuters) - Bangladesh police killed three people suspected of trying to smuggle 15 Rohingya Muslim refugees to Malaysia in a clash on Tuesday near the South Asian nation’s main refugee camp, an official said, the second such incident in as many months.