Rohingya Refugees Lack Schools, Qualified Teachers

VOA

South & Central Asia

May 11, 2019

 

Aid groups in the Rohingya refugee camps are slowly building an education system for 300,000 children in Bangladesh. 

 Shamsuddin, a Rohingya refugee himself, teaches Burmese language to Rohingya children. Like many of the teachers in the refugee camps he has only finished high school.

Aid Groups Face Challenges in Educating Rohingya Refugee Children

VOA
South & Central Asia
May 11, 2019
Dave Grunebaum

                                       Rohingya Refugees Lack Schools, Qualified Teachers

COX’S BAZAR, BANGLADESH —

Ruksana Begum and her classmates repeat after their teacher: “respect.”

The students are all Rohingya refugees who fled to Bangladesh from neighboring Myanmar. Nine-year-old Ruksana says she hopes to become a teacher herself one day. But her current instructor, as hard as he tries, is not really qualified for the job.

UAE minister visits Rohingya camps

The Daily Star

Sunday, "April 21, 2019"

Diplomatic Correspondent

UAE State Minister for International Cooperation Reem Ebrahim Al Hashimy visited a Rohingya refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar yesterday.

She also visited Rohingya refugee communities and UAE-sponsored Malaysian Field Hospital in the district’s Ukhiya upazila.

Race, Ethnicity, and Culture: How do Rohingya Explain Concepts that Undermine their Existence?

THE GLOBAL POST
By Cresa Pugh
April 9, 2019

Myanmar Rohingya refugees in a refugee camp in Teknaf, in Bangladesh's Cox's Bazar. Photo: Munir Uz Zaman, AFP

Following a series of state-sponsored military campaigns involving torture, rape, and mass killings, nearly 800,000 Rohingya, Myanmar’s largest Muslim ethnic minority group, have fled the country since August 2017.

In addition to these attacks, Rohingya and other Muslims throughout the Asian country have, over the last seven years, been the target of intercommunal violence at the hands of Buddhist nationalists.

CIS, APADM officials visit Rohingya camps, host communities

NEWAGE
Staff Correspondent |
Published: Mar 21,2019

Community Initiative Society and Asia Pacific Alliance for Disaster Management officials visited Rohingya camps and host communities in Cox’s Bazar on Wednesday, said a press release.

The CIS arranged the field visit at Hakimpara and Jamtoli Rohingya camps.

The APADM officials from Japan, Indonesia, Republic of Korea, Sri Lanka and the Philippines visited the camps and host communities.

Rohingya camps in Bangladesh face cyclone risk

Brinkwire
March 16, 2019Brinkwire

DHAKA, Bangladesh

Measures should be taken in a coordinated way ahead of the monsoon season to address risk factors at the Rohingya camps in Bangladesh, experts said on Wednesday.

The experts were speaking at a workshop, titled Cyclone and Monsoon Preparedness: Cox’s Bazar District and Camp Settlements, jointly organized by Inter Sector Coordination Group (ISCG) and the government of Bangladesh in southern Cox’s Bazar city, said a press release issued by the United Nations Development Program (UNDP).

Doctors address mental health crisis among Rohingya refugees

Science Blog
March 13, 2019

A 12-year-old Rohingya boy flatly, stoically tells of how, within three hours one day in August 2017, the Myanmar military murdered 56 members of his family in their village in western Myanmar. Of his immediate family, his parents and three sisters were slain; only he and his brothers — ages 27, 25 and 10 — survived.

A mother weeps as she describes how she and her 10-year-old daughter escaped to Bangladesh after their heads were sliced open with machetes, the woman was raped and their home set ablaze. Her husband and their three other children, ages 4, 2 and 1, were killed — the baby, as she held him.

Rohingyas are violent as they are stateless: Foreign minister.

The Daily Star

February 24, 2019
Our Correspondent, Sylhet

Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen yesterday said Rohingyas are violent as they do not have citizenship anywhere.

Attacking German journalists at Ukhia Rohingya Camp in Cox's Bazaar was an unfortunate act by the Rohingyas, he said.

Rohingya youth shot dead in Teknaf.

Dhaka Tribune
February 24th, 2019

Representational photo

The incident took place at the Shalbagan Rohingya camp in Nayapara 

A Rohingya youth was shot dead by miscreants at the Shalbagan Rohingya camp of Nayapara in Teknaf on Friday night.

The deceased was identified as Mohammad Hamid, 36, son of Md Hossain.

Inspector of Nayapara police outpost Abdus Salam said a gang of miscreants took Hamid to a nearby hill at gunpoint and killed him.

Police recovered the body and sent it to Sadar Hospital for an autopsy.

SOURCE:

Dhaka Tribune/Bangladesh/Nation/2019/02/24/Rohingya youth shot dead in Teknaf.