They fled to a no man's land from no-Rohingya land. Now they face an even more uncertain future

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Sankar Barua Rumi, U She Thowai Marma

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Published : 22 Jan 2023, 

Thousands of Myanmar refugees take shelter in tents made of polythene sheets amid winter cold

A group of Rohingya who were living on a strip of land between Bangladesh and Myanmar have taken shelter in Bandarban’s Naikkhyangchhari near the border after a fire incident amid a deadly gunfight.

Myanmar’s Rakhine State Revokes Order Evicting Squatters From Rohingya Land

RADIO FREE ASIA
2020-05-26 

Structures built in Sittwe township's Seyton Su ward in Myanmar's Rakhine state are shown in a file photo.

Authorities in western Myanmar’s Rakhine state have revoked an order requiring Rakhine Buddhist families to vacate land in a former Rohingya Muslim area of Sittwe township that was razed eight years ago during a flare-up of sectarian violence.

The May 14 order was revoked on May 19, frustrating members of the Rohingya community originally displaced from their homes in Sittwe’s Seyton Su Muslim quarter, who called the rescinding of the order evicting thousands of squatters from their former land evidence of a lack of the rule of law in the conflict-torn region.