In Bangladesh, UN chief vows to prevent Rohingya suffering as aid cuts loom

United Nation
Humanitarian Aid
Vibhu Mishra
14 March 2025

UNHCR/Shari Nijman UN Secretary-General António Guterres meets Rohingya refugee students at Cox's Bazar in Bangladesh.

UN Secretary-General António Guterres, during his visit to the Rohingya refugee camps in southern Bangladesh, vowed to do everything in his power to prevent further hardship as drastic aid cuts threaten food supplies and other critical relief efforts.

U.N. to boost food ration for Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh

REUTERS
By Sudipto Ganguly and Ruma Paul
January 2, 2024

Rohingya Muslim refugees receive food as they take rest on a sidewalk outside the government office after they were refused shelter by local residents, following their arrival, in Banda Aceh, Indonesia, December 11, 2023. REUTERS/Riska Munawarah/File Photo Acquire Licensing Rights

DHAKA, Jan 2 (Reuters) - The United Nations will increase the food ration for each Rohingya refugee in Bangladesh by $2 a month, to $10, from Jan. 1, the World Food Programme (WFP) said on Tuesday, as it thanked donors for coming to the rescue of a cash-strapped effort.

Marking lives without trace: Bamboo weaving in a Rohingya refugee camp

Garland Magazine
Loop
31 August 2023

Tasman Munro presents a craft collaboration between Rohingya and Australian makers inside the Kutupalong refugee camp.

For Nuru Salam and Nurus Safar, their practice of weaving bamboo and cane goes back generations. They share memories of simpler times sitting in the shade of a large Banyan Tree in the Rakhine state of Myanmar, telling stories while their hands keep busy weaving baskets and farming tools. These are memories of rest, peace and joyful times with their community. The last six years have not been as simple, both Nuru Salam and Nurus Safar are now refugees living in Kutupalong along with one million other Rohingya people. They were forced to flee Myanmar after successive bouts of state-sponsored violence, the largest of which occurred in 2017, culminating in over 700,000 Rohingya fleeing to Bangladesh. In this predicament of forced displacement and the uncertain future of living in the world’s largest refugee camps, their weaving practice offers solace of familiarity and a vehicle to keep their denied culture alive.

20 children missing after fire at Rohingya refugee camp

Myanmar Now
Poe U
Published on Mar 9, 2023

A child is seen near the Balukhali refugee camp after the fire on March 5 (Supplied)

 

Thousands have been rendered homeless and about 20 children have gone missing after a fire broke out on March 5 at a refugee camp on the Bangladesh-Myanmar border.

The fire started on the afternoon of March 5 in Ward 11 of the Balukhali refugee camp, located in Ukhiya Upazila, Cox’s Bazar District, Bangladesh. It lasted for two hours and resulted in injuries to 50 residents of the camp, according to local sources.

The Balukhali refugee camp was originally made up of around 8,000 shelters housing refugees from northern Rakhine State.

After father, son now killed by miscreants at Rohingya camp in Cox's Bazar

The Daily Star  

Star Digital Report
Tue Oct 18, 2022

Rohingya camps in Cox’s Bazar. Star file photo/Anisur Rahman

A Rohingya youth was killed by miscreants with sharp knives and shooting at Tajnimar Khola 19 camp of Palangkhali union of Ukhia upazila in Cox's Bazar.

The deceased, Syed Hossain (23), was the son of late Jamil Hossain who was killed earlier by miscreants.

The incident took place around 8pm tonight (October 18, 2022), reports our Cox's Bazar correspondent quoting Md Faruk Ahmed, assistant superintendent of police (Media) of APBn.

56 shanties gutted in fire at Rohingya camp in southeast Delhi

Hindustan Times

By Sadia Akhtar and Karn Singh, Hindustan Times, 

New Delhi
UPDATED ON JUN 14, 2021

New Delhi Around 56 shanties housing Rohingya refugees in Madanpur Khadar were gutted in a fire late on Saturday night.

Rohingya refugees look for their belongings amid the charred remains of their camp following a fire incident that broke out earlier today in New Delhi.(AFP)

Around 56 shanties housing Rohingya refugees in Madanpur Khadar were gutted in a fire late on Saturday night. No casualties were reported in the incident.

“It has been revealed that around 56 jhuggis of Rohingyas having a total population of around 270 people were burnt to ashes in the fire. The cause of the fire is not known yet and appropriate legal action is being taken,” said DCP (southeast) RP Meena.

Fire at Rohingya Refugee Camp in Delhi: 230 People Left Homeless

THE QUINT
Updated: 14 Jun 2021,

Rohingya refugee Ali Johar says that in the year 2018 also there was a fire in the refugee camp

Video Producer: Mayank Chawla
Video Editors: Kanishk Dangi, Mohd. Irshad Alam

A massive fire broke out at the Rohingya refugee camp in the Madanpur Khadar area near Delhi's Kalindi Kunj, in which around 55 shanties were gutted. The fire started around 11:30 pm on Sunday, 13 June.

Delhi: 56 shanties gutted in blaze at Rohingya refugee camp, 300 residents homeless

The Indian Express

Jignasa Sinha | New Delhi 
Updated: June 14, 2021 

In 2018, many of them lost their homes in a fire at a nearby camp in Madanpur Khadar. The families then moved to the new camp in the same area, which was destroyed on Saturday.

At the refugee camp in Kalindi Kunj, Sunday. (Express Photo by Abhinav Saha)

A massive fire broke out at a Rohingya refugee camp in Southeast Delhi’s Kalindi Kunj on Saturday night, destroying 56 shanties and leaving more than 300 people homeless. The fire broke out at 11.55 pm inside a house before it engulfed the entire camp.

Burning plastic, Dust, and Ash: The Rohingya Refugee Camp Fire

MEDAIR

Lucy Bamforth

29 March 2021

On the afternoon of Monday, 22 March 2021, a massive fire tore through Kutupalong Refugee Camp in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. Flames ate through the plastic sheeting and bamboo-pole structures in seconds, filling the sky with plumes of black smoke. The fire spread rapidly. People grabbed what they could and ran, carrying elderly relatives, children, or the few possessions they had in their arms. Families were separated in the rush to outrun the flames; days later, children are still searching for parents, and spouses are trying to find their significant other.

Thousands left homeless after fire rips through Rohingya camp in Bangladesh

INDEPENDENT
Vincent Wood
@wood_vincent
23 Arch 2021

 
‘It is another devastating blow to the Rohingya refugees who live here’, Country Director of Save the Children in Bangladesh says

A fire in the Rohingya refugee camp in southern Bangladesh has destroyed thousands of homes and killed several people, officials and witnesses have said in the wake of one of the worst blazes to hit the settlement in recent years.

While neither UN nor Bangladeshi officials engaged with the camp could confirm the number of deaths, refugees in the settlement said several had died in the fire that had torn through the Balukhali camp in Cox’s Bazar.

United Stand Against Criminal Activities Against Rohingya In Bangladesh Refugees Camps

Free Rohingya Coaltion

STATEMENT
26th October 2020

 

7 Rohingya held in Munshiganj

NEWAGE

Our Correspondent . Munshiga 

Published:Oct 26,2020

The police on Sunday said that they arrested seven Rohingyas and one Bangladeshi, and seized 900 pieces of Yaba tablets, and Tk 90 thousand in cash in a raid at Muktarpur of Munshiganj on Saturday evening.

Of the arrested, Noor Begum, 50, and her two daughters — Noor Jahan alias Rumana Akhter, 19, and Shakila Jahan alias Ruma, 25 — their relatives Aju Begum, 35, Zia Bal, 30, and Sumaiya Akhter, 16, Noor Kaida, 15, were from Leda Rohingya camp in Teknaf of the Cox’s Bazar. 

Inside the October violence in the Rohingya refugee camps

Dhaka Tribune

Shafiur Rahman
October 23rd, 2020

Continued clashes in Kutupalong Rohingya camp, Octover 7, 2020 Dhaka Tribune

Is it a clash between registered camp refugees and non-registered camp refugees or is there something more sinister afoot?

In the first week of October 2020, a certain number of Rohingya refugee camps in Kutupalong became battlegrounds.

Around 2,000 people left their shelters and sought refuge in nearby camps, away from the violence. Hundreds were injured, and there were nine recorded deaths. There have also been a number of abductions and disappearances.

RAB detains 9 Rohingyas with arms following fatal Kutupalong clash

Dhaka Tribune  

Abdul Aziz, Cox’s Bazar
October 6th, 2020

Rapid Action Battalion on Tuesday, October 6, 2020 detained nine Rohingyas with arms who were reportedly involved in a clash at Kutupalong camp that left two dead on Sunday Dhaka Tribune

RAB seized four locally made guns and 20 rounds of cartridges from the detainees’ possession during a drive in Chakmarkul hill area in Cox's Bazar's Teknaf on Tuesday,

All of the detainees are residents of Kutupalong Rohingya camp in Ukhiya, Cox's Bazar.

Acting on a tip-off RAB conducted a drive and detained them, said Major Mehedi Hasan, company commander of RAB 15 Cox's Bazar camp.

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9 Rohingya men held with firearms in Cox’s Bazar

The Daily Star 

Star Online Report
October 06, 2020

Members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) have detained nine Rohingya men along with firearms in their possession from a hill adjacent to Whykong Chakmarkul Rohingya camp, in Cox's Bazar's Teknaf upazila today.

The detainees are Rashid Ahmed (32), Salimullah (55), Shafiq Alam (20), Abdul Hamid (21), Md Saber (32), Mohammad Salam (50), Mohammad Ismail (25), Harunur Rashid (28) and Md Fayez (22), reports our local correspondent quoting Major Mehdi Hasan, captain of Rab-15 in Cox's Bazar battalion.