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Bangladesh building barbed-wire fences around Rohingya

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Najmus Sakib
DHAKA, Bangladesh
16.02.2020
Rights groups say move denies refugee rights, will turn area into concentration camps 

Bangladesh started erecting barbed-wire fences around Rohingya refugee camps to rein in illegal trafficking of the vulnerable refugees, the government said Saturday.

Other measures, including “installation of watchtower and CCTV cameras have also been started to this effect to strengthen the surveillance on the Rohingya people and the refugee camps,” according to Bangladesh Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal.

Army tasked with fencing Rohingya camps

NEWAGE

Muktadir Rashid
Jan 11,2020


The disaster management and relief ministry has given the Bangladesh Army the responsibility to install barbed-wire fences around the Rohingya camps in Cox’s Bazar where over a million displaced Myanmar nationals have been living for over two years.

State minister for the ministry Md Enamur Rahman said on Friday that they formally asked the army last week to fence the camps in order to separate the host population and the displaced community.

Bangladeshi Army Installs Barbwire Fence Along Rohingya Camps

The Irrawaddy
By Muktadir Rashid
10 January 2020

Bangladeshi soldiers oversee the installation of pillars for a barbwire fence near a Rohingya refugee camp in Ukhia, Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh in December 2019. / Helal Uddin

 

DHAKA—The Bangladeshi army has started installing a barbwire fence along the edge of Rohingya refugee camps in Cox’s Bazar district where 1.1 million refugees are currently living.

A highly placed source in Bangladesh told The Irrawaddy that a 2.09 billion-taka budget (US$24.6 million) was approved for the installation of a fence along the camps in Ukhia and Teknaf subdistricts in Cox’s Bazar following instructions from the prime minister’s office, in order to protect the refugees from crimes.

‘Discuss the root causes’

The Daily Star
December 21, 2019
Diplomatic Correspondent

Rohingyas asked Myanmar, Asean delegation at refugee camp

The joint delegation of Myanmar and Asean that recently visited the Rohingya camps in Cox’s Bazar to persuade them to return to Myanmar allegedly faced a volley of questions from the refugees as to why Myanmar authorities were not discussing the root causes of the problem.

During the two-day visit, Rohingya representatives upheld their basic demands that include recognition of the Rohingya identity, granting of their citizenship, and assurance of their safety and security in Rakhine in presence of the international community.

Vulnerabilities in the Rohingya refugee camps ( ANALYSIS HUB )

Bangladesh orders closure of Rohingya advocacy office

Press TV
Friday, 06 December 2019

A Rohingya refugee man (foreground) works at the Kutupalong refugee camp, in Ukhia, Bangladesh, on September 13, 2019. (Photo by AFP)

Bangladesh has ordered the closure of the headquarters of a leading Rohingya advocacy group, which has become a key voice for the Muslim minority stuck in squalid camps, amid a clampdown by the country's authorities on the refugees.

A spokesman for the Arakan Rohingya Society for Peace and Human Rights (ARSPH) said officials had told community leaders in the camps in southeast Bangladesh to keep the office of the ARSPH at Kutupalong — the world’s largest refugee settlement — padlocked until further notice.

The refugee camp in Bangladesh – two years after displacement

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Myanmar – Diverse or Divided?

Private: November 2019

 In the camps in Cox's Bazar district. Photo: SRK, Remo Nägeli

A large number of displaced persons sought refuge in Bangladesh in 2017 from the violence in Myanmar. The Swiss Red Cross (SRC) has been active in Bangladesh for almost 50 years and has also been in Cox’s Bazar since 2017. In this interview, Benedikt Kaelin, Program Officer for Bangladesh at the SRC, talks about the lives of people in the camps and assesses how they can move forward.

Rohingya Refugee Crisis - WHO Bangladesh Bi-Weekly Situation Report #20, 10 October 2019

Rohingya Refugee Crisis - WHO Bangladesh Bi-Weekly Situation Report #19, 26 September 2019

World Health Organization
Report, 26 Sep 2019

Rohingya militants active in Bangladeshi refugee camps

DW
Date 24.09.2019
Author Naomi Conrad, Stefan Czimmek, Arafatul Islam

In 2017, a Rohingya militant group attacked several police posts in Myanmar. As the army responded with brutal force, thousands of Rohingya fled to Bangladesh. Today, the militants threaten those who dare to defy them.

Myanmar Ready to Receive Returning Rohingya, Ministry Says

The Irrawaddy
Nyein Nyein & Muktadir Rashid
16 August 2019

Rohingya refugees are reflected in rain water along an embankment next to paddy fields after fleeing from Myanmar into Palang Khali, near Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh Nov. 2, 2017. / REUTERS  

CHIANG MAI, Thailand and DHAKA, Bangladesh—Myanmar has long been ready to accept the repatriation of displaced people who fled from Rakhine State to Bangladesh, in line with the agreement reached by the two countries, the Ministry of Social Welfare, Relief and Resettlement said.

Some 3,450 people out of a total of 55,511 who completed verification forms have been cleared to return, according to U Zaw Htay, the President’s Office spokesman.

Officials: Myanmar, Bangladesh Working to Repatriate 3,450 Rohingya Refugees

Radio Free Asia
2019-08-16

A Rohingya man and children appear outside a makeshift home at a refugee camp in Bangladesh’s Cox Bazar district, July 7, 2019. BenarNews

Bangladesh and Myanmar said Friday they were working on the first repatriation of Rohingya refugees since members of the ethnic minority fled a massive military crackdown in Rakhine state two years ago, amid confusion over how the process would unfold.

“Myanmar has given clearance to about 3,450 people [to return from refugee camps in Bangladesh],” Mohammad Abul Kalam, chief of Bangladesh’s Refugee Relief and Repatriation Commission, told BenarNews, an RFA-affiliated online news service.

Myanmar Announces Plan to Repatriate 3,450 of the 700,000 Rohingya Who Fled to Bangladesh

TIME 

By JERRY HARMER and JULHAS ALAM / AP

August 16, 2019

Myanmar's government spokesman Zaw Htay talks to journalists during a press briefing at the Presidential Palace in Naypyitaw, Myanmar, Friday, Aug. 16, 2019. Myanmar and Bangladesh are making a second attempt to start repatriating Rohingya Muslims after more than 700,000 of them fled a security crackdown in Myanmar almost two years ago, the U.N. refugee agency said Friday.
Aung Shine Oo—AP

(BANGKOK) — Myanmar and Bangladesh will soon make a second attempt to start repatriating Rohingya Muslims, 700,000 of whom fled a security crackdown in Myanmar almost two years ago, officials from the two countries and the United Nations said Friday.

Boredom is a struggle for Rohingya children missing out on vital education in refugee camps

CHRISTIANS TODAY 
Staff writer   
Tue 13 Aug 2019 

 Rohingya children show their thirst for learning by joining one of Tearfund's safe spaces, where they can play, draw, write poems, talk to a trained therapist, do informal maths and sing songs together.

No school might seem like the dream for most British children but for young Rohingya refugees, they want nothing more than to get back into education to pursue their dreams.

Myanmar officials hold repatriation talks with Rohingya leaders

Al Jazeera
Published on Jul 27, 2019

  A high-level delegation from Myanmar has visited Rohingya camps in Bangladesh, to persuade refugees to return home. Hundreds of thousands have been sheltering there since fleeing a violent crackdown.. Al Jazeera's Tanvir Chowdhury reports from Cox's Bazar.

Link :https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGyzr9NnYkA

ICC delegation in Bangladesh to discuss Rohingya crisis

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Md. Kamruzzaman

DHAKA, Bangladesh  
16.07.2019

Visit is to engage with relevant stakeholders and explain judicial process and 'status of situation', says ICC

A delegation of the International Criminal Court (ICC) arrived in Bangladesh’s capital Dhaka on Tuesday on a weeklong visit to assess the Rohingya crisis and judicial process, local media reported.

The delegation is led by ICC’s Deputy Prosecutor James Kirkpatrick Stewart.

As monsoon rains pound Rohingya refugee camps, UN food relief agency steps up aid

UN News 
12 July 2019

Humanitarian Aid

 

WFP/Gemma Snowdon,Days of heavy monsoon rains and wind have pounded the refugee camps in the Cox’s Bazar area of Bangladesh since 4 July 2019.

Since 4 July, heavy monsoon rains and wind have pounded the refugee camps in Bangladesh’s Cox’s Bazar, with deaths, displacement and major damage following in their wake, the World Food Programme (WFP) said on Friday. 

Those in the most vulnerable living situations have been relocated to safer, newly developed land in the camps”, WFP Spokesperson Herve Verhoosel told the regular news briefing in Geneva, noting that 5,600 people had been displaced.

Rohingya issue could turn into unbearable crisis for Bangladesh: ex-UN chief

THEWEEK
By PTI  
July 10, 2019 
 
Ban Ki-moon criticised Myanmar for being reluctant in taking back Rohingya Muslims

The Rohingya issue would eventually become an unbearable crisis for Bangladesh, former UN chief Ban Ki-moon said Wednesday as he criticised Myanmar for being reluctant in taking back tens of thousands of persecuted Rohingya Muslims.

According to the UN estimates, nearly 700,000 minority Rohingya Muslims have fled to Bangladesh to escape violence in the Rakhine state since August 2017 when the Myanmar army launched a military crackdown

Monsoon rain destroys 273 Rohingya shelters

The Daily Star

July 06, 2019

At least 11 Rohingyas were injured and 273 shelters were destroyed during three days of continuous rain in Cox’s Bazar settlements, according to UN Refugee Agency.

More than 900,000 Rohingya refugees, who escaped persecution in Myanmar’s Rakhine state since August 2017, are living in the settlements.

An estimated 350mm of rain fell in 72 hours from Monday and more downpours are expected throughout the next week, with four months of the monsoon to go.

According to preliminary reports, there have been 26 landslides, UNHCR said.