Rohingya youth gunned down in Ukhiya camp

Dhaka Tribune
UNB
Publish : 06 Feb 2024,

FILE IMAGE: People walk through a marketplace at a Rohingya refugee camp in Cox`s Bazar, Bangladesh, on Wednesday, August 11, 2021 Allison Joyce/Dhaka Tribune

 

Miscreants gunned down a Rohingya youth in Kutupalong camp under Ukhiya upazila of Cox’s Bazar on Monday night, said police.

Rohingya girls fleeing refugee camps becoming trapped and abused child brides

itvX
Wednesday 13 December 2023 

Rohingya child bride, B, age 14, sitting on a bed in an apartment in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, in October. Credit: AP

Scores of underage Rohingya girls fleeing violence and starvation in Myanmar are being forced into arranged marriages with older Malaysian men who regularly abuse them.

As Cyclone Mocha takes aim at Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh preparing to protect Rohingya refugees

bdnews24.com
Moinul Hoque Chowdhury
Published : 11 May 2023,

Rohingya shelters made of bamboo, and tin and polythene sheets are on the potential path of the cyclone gaining strength over the Bay of Bengal

Nearly 1 million Rohingya who fled persecution and brutal military crackdown in Myanmar to take refuge in Bangladesh are at risk of losing their shelters made of bamboo, and tin and polythene sheets as they are on the potential path of a huge storm brewing over the Bay of Bengal.

As the Cyclone Mocha takes aim at Cox’s Bazar, authorities in Bangladesh have scrambled to save the locals, as well as the refugees, from the damage expected to be caused by the storm, which will hit the coasts as a “superstorm” with a wind speed of 180-220 kilometres per hour on Sunday afternoon.

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 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.

‘What will happen to my child?’

The Daily Star

Shuprova Tasneem
June 20, 2021

And other questions that haunt refugees

File photo of a Rohingya child at Unchiparang refugee camp, Bangladesh. Photo: Reuters/Tyrone Siu

I first met six-year-old Amina in the Kutupalong refugee camp in 2019. I couldn't help noticing the forlorn image of life in the camps she depicted—a child alone in a corner, playing with a pair of matchboxes instead of a toy. Later, Amina's mother told me that she was hiding under the bed when the Myanmar military surrounded their household in Rakhine. She watched them kill her father and grandfather, and lay hidden while they gang-raped her mother. She hadn't said a word to anyone outside of her family since then.

Amina's mother also spoke of how lost she felt now that her parents and husband were dead. She lamented, "What will happen to my child?" During visits to the refugee camps, I have heard this refrain over and over again from Rohingya parents—"what will happen to my child?"

2 Rohingyas killed in landslides at Cox’s Bazar refugee camps

Dhaka Tribune
Abdul Aziz, Cox’s Bazar
June 5th, 2021

Heavy rains since Friday night caused landslides at two refugee camps in Ukhiya and Teknaf upazilas of Cox’s Bazar on Saturday Dhaka Tribune

The incidents took place at Mainarghona camp in Ukhiya’s Balukhali union and at Chakmarkul camp in Teknaf’s Hoaikong union on Saturday

Two Rohingya refugees have been killed in separate landslide incidents triggered by heavy rains at two refugee camps in Ukhiya and Teknaf upazilas of Cox’s Bazar.

At least 11 dead as massive fire destroys thousands of homes in Bangladesh Rohingya refugee camps

CNN
By Rebecca Wright, Mitchell McCluskey, Salman Saeed and Salman Saeed,
March 23, 2021

 

Flames engulf a Rohingya refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bagladesh on Monday.

(CNN)A fire swept through a sprawling Rohingya refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, Monday, killing at least eleven people, destroying homes and endangering the lives of tens of thousands of refugees, according to the Bangladesh government.

The fire destroyed at least 10,000 shelters as it tore through the camp, according to the Inter Sector Coordination Group (ISCG) in Bangladesh.

For Rohingya Survivors, Art Bears Witness

The New York Times

By Patricia Leigh Brown
March 19, 2021

They escaped traumatic circumstances in Myanmar and now live in harsh conditions. But refugees are creating murals drawn from their flourishing cultural traditions, reborn in Bangladesh camps.

The Artolution art center at the Balukhali camp in Bangladesh, where Rohingya refugees, trauma survivors, use the power of the paintbrush to create murals about Covid-19, the dangers of domestic violence and other public health concerns.Credit...Bengal Creative Media, via Artolution

 

Before he fled Myanmar in 2017, a witness to unspeakable horrors in his Rohingya village, Mohammed Nur would produce art in hiding, drawing on napkins and trash with bits of charcoal. Art, poetry readings and a university education were among many aspects of life that were not allowed for Rohingya Muslims like himself.

Documentary portraying life at the world’s largest refugee camp makes Canadian debut

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FRINGE ARTS

Léa Beaulieu-Kratchanov 

March 14, 2021

Wandering, a Rohingya Story’ poetically tells a tale of daily resilience

The Kutupalong refugee camp in southeast Bangladesh is currently home to 700,000 refugees, despite only being 13 square kilometres. Courtesy Renaud Philippe

Mélanie Carrier and Olivier Higgin’s latest feature documentary, Wandering, A Rohingya Story made its Canadian debut last month. The Quebec City-based filmmakers take us into the daily lives of persecuted Rohingyas who have sought refuge in southeast Bangladesh.

When he first arrived in the Kutupalong refugee camp in southeast Bangladesh in January 2018, documentary photographer Renaud Philippe was struck by the humanitarian crisis at hand.

The camp’s existence precedes the Rohingya genocide that began in August 2017 in neighbouring Myanmar, which killed at least 6,700 and forced more than 800,000 to seek refuge behind the Bangladeshi border. The increased flow of incoming refugees turned Kutupalong into the world’s most populous camp, currently home to 700,000 refugees, despite its modest 13 square kilometres.