Showing posts with label Rohingya. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Rohingya. Show all posts

Tuesday, May 25, 2021

Bangladesh seeks vaccines from UN, donors for Rohingya

AA
SM Najmus Sakib
DHAKA, Bangladesh
24.05.2021


Rising COVID-19 infections in squalid refugee camps force authorities to impose lockdown

Bangladesh has sought COVID-19 vaccines and other related support for Rohingya refugees in the country from the UN and other donor agencies, said an official on Monday.

Shah Rezwan Hayat, head of the Office of the Refugee Relief and Repatriation Commissioner (RRRC), told Anadolu Agency that they have requested the UN Refugee Agency and held meetings with the World Health Organization to initiate a vaccination campaign for the refugees in the southern district of Cox's Bazar.

Monday, May 24, 2021

Bail denied to two Rohingyas booked for preparing fake documents

DAILY EXCELSOIR
23/05/2021


Excelsior Correspondent

JAMMU, May 22: Additional Sessions Judge Jammu Kishore Kumar today rejected the bail applications of two Rohingyas, who prepared fake documents of Indian citizenship.

As per the police case, Police Station Bahu Fort came to know from reliable sources that Ashiqur Rahman and Abdul Ghafoor, the residents of Myanmar and presently residing at Bathindi Rahim Nagar, have fraudulently prepared some documents–Passport , Aadhar Card , PAN Card etc by impersonating themselves to be the citizens of country .

Saturday, May 22, 2021

International aid for Rohingya in Cox's Bazar camps declines

AsiaNews.it
05/20/2021

Bangladesh is concerned about funding cuts to the refugee aid programme for Muslims who fled Myanmar. Donor conference comes up with only 35 per cent of what is required. UNHCR chief Filippo Grandi tells donors not to take for granted the host community’s patience, asks Asian donors to step up to the plate.

Dhaka (AsiaNews/Agencies) – The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) issued an appeal this week to fund the 2021 Joint Response Plan destined for Rohingya refugees in Bangladeshi camps. So far this year, funding is down.

Donor pledges for the Rohingya not enough

The Daily Star
May 20, 2021

EDITORIAL

A Rohingya refugee girl walks next to a pond at the Balukhali refugee camp near Cox's Bazar, on January 10, 2018. Photo: Tyrone Siu/Reuters

International community must show more solidarity towards refugees


The February military coup in Myanmar has plunged our neighbouring country into unrest and brought its uncertain journey towards democracy to a grinding halt. As the military junta continues to brutally suppress pro-democracy protests and wage war against ethnic armed organisations, driving thousands of its own people into refugee camps, the situation of the Rohingya refugees stranded in Bangladesh has become even more precarious, with mounting uncertainty over their repatriation.

Thursday, May 20, 2021

U.N. Rohingya appeal receives $340 mln in funding

Reuters
May 18, 2021
A Rohingya refugee woman carries her child after a massive fire broke out two days ago in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, March 24, 2021. REUTERS/Mohammad

An appeal for nearly $1 billion to help Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh is more than a third funded, the head of the United Nations refugee agency said on Tuesday, as officials and refugees called on donors not to forget the crisis.



Tuesday, May 18, 2021

The NUG must commit to human rights for all Myanmar’s people

Frontier Myanmar
By LAETITIA VAN DEN ASSUM and SEAN BAIN | FRONTIER
MAY 18, 2021
The mass street protests of February featured regular displays of inter-ethnic solidarity, but making space for more marginalised groups like the Rohingya will require a greater political transformation. Here, the flags of various ethnic groups are help up at an anti-coup demonstration in Yangon on February 18. (AFP)


To secure international support and an inclusive future, the National Unity Government must pledge to defend the rights of everyone in the country – including the Rohingya.

Myanmar’s struggle for democracy is underpinned by a common aspiration for a different future – one free of military rule and the crimes, plunder and discrimination that comes with it. But it is not year clear whether this future includes all of Myanmar’s people.

Wednesday, May 12, 2021

24 Rohingyas rescued while being trafficked to Malaysia

The Daily Star
Star Digital Report 
May 11, 2021

Police rescued 24 Rohingyas -- 14 female, five male, and five children -- from Teknaf upazila of Cox's Bazar while being trafficked to Malaysia.

The law enforcers also arrested four alleged human traffickers -- Md Ali Chand, Nurul Amin, Rashida Begum, and Razia Begum -- during two separate drives in Borodail Jahajpura and Jaliaghata villages yesterday (Monday), Md Hafizur Rahman, officer-in-charge of Model Police Station, told The Daily Star.

Wife of Rohingya refugee seeks help from Suhakam

FMT
Samuel Chua
May 10, 2021
Maslina Abu Hassan and her son Muhammad Ridwan at the Suhakam office.

KUALA LUMPUR: Fearful of threats and intimidation, Rohingya refugee Zafar Ahmad Abdul Ghani has not stepped out of his house for twelve months.

His family received threatening text messages, his wife’s car tyres were slashed recently, and they live in constant worry every day – and the wife is now seeking a meeting with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) to help protect her family.

It began in April last year when hateful remarks and threats against Rohingya refugees flooded Facebook and Twitter, in the wake of fake news that an activist from the community demanded that they be granted citizenship.

Monday, May 10, 2021

Many Rohingya gather in port city for Zakat, alms

Financial Express
May 09, 2021
File photo used for representation purpose

Despite the government's decision not to allow Rohingya people to go outside their camps at Cox's Bazar and Noakhali's Bhashanchar, scores of refugees from Myanmar's Rakhine have entered the port city in Ramadan and staying here for collecting Jakat.

Around 1.1 million Rohingyas entered Bangladesh in 2016 to escape Myanmar junta's crackdown on the minority Muslim community in Rakhine state.

Many more Rohingyas are either entering Bangladesh to avoid Myanmarese government's continued persecution in that country's Rakhine and other northeastern states or infiltrating Bangladesh from the neighbouring country for shelter, or for livelihood.

Wednesday, May 5, 2021

UN urges Dhaka to relocate Rohingya to island in ‘phased manner’

ARAB News
SHEHAB SUMON
April 17, 2021


Image shows a housing complex where Rohingya refugees are being relocated in the Bhashan Char island of Noakhali District. (File/AFP)


Report follows a three-day study of remote Bhasan Char by UN experts


DHAKA: The UN has followed up a review of a remote island facility set up by Bangladesh for Rohingya refugees by calling on Dhaka to carry out the relocation process in a “phased manner.”

The recommendation comes despite warnings by rights groups that the site is vulnerable to severe weather and flooding.

A UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) spokesperson in Dhaka, Charlie Goodlake, told Arab News on Saturday that the UN team is recommending that any future relocations “are undertaken in a gradual and phased manner.”

Monday, May 3, 2021

Myanmar Fighting, Political Strife Swell Refugee Ranks, Affect Neighboring States

Radio Free Asia
2021-04-30
Ethnic Karen protesters flash a three-finger salute of defiance and display signs calling for the abolishment of the military dictatorship during a demonstration in Dooplaya district, southeastern Myanmar's Kayin state, April 22, 2021.
AFP/KNU Dooplaya district

More than 30,000 Myanmar civilians have fled their villages in the eastern state of Kayin and are hiding in nearby jungles following air strikes in populated areas in response to the seizure of a government military post by a rebel ethnic army, an official from an NGO said Friday.

Fighting that flared up in March in Kayin has driven thousands of ethnic Karen into Thailand, while others cluster near the border. To Myanmar’s west, Bangladesh has beefed up border patrols to stop an influx of Rohingya trying to join fellow members of their ethnic minority in refugee settlements.

Friday, April 30, 2021

Thirty Rohingyas rescued off Teknaf coast in Cox's Bazar

prothomalo
Staff Correspondent
Correspondent
Cox's Bazar, Teknaf
Coastguards rescued 30 Rohingya people from drifting boat on 27 April, 2021.Collected

Bangladesh Coast Guard on Tuesday rescued 30 Rohingyas from a boat drifting in the Bay of Bengal near Teknaf of Cox's Bazar while making a trip from Bangladesh to Malaysia.

According to the coast guard, the rescued Rohingyas are residents of refugee camps in Ukhiya and Teknaf of Cox’s Bazar.

Among the Rohingya people, five were children, five men and 20 women.

Till 1:00pm, the rescued people were kept under the coast guard custody at Baharchhar in Teknaf upazia. They were being handed over to the police at the time.

Thursday, April 29, 2021

Coast guard rescues 30 Rohingyas stranded at sea

Dhaka Tribune
Abdul Aziz, Cox's Bazar
April 27th, 2021
Rescued Rohingyas with Baharchara Coast Gaurd members on April 27, 2021 Dhaka Tribune


They set out from Teknaf on a fishing boat on Friday

Bangladesh Coast Guard members have rescued 30 Rohingya men, women, and children who were illegally travelling to Malaysia by sea, in Cox's Bazar’s Teknaf upazila.

They were rescued along with a fishing trawler from Bara Dale beach area of Baharchara union in Teknaf upazila at around 8am on Tuesday. Among them, 20 are women, five men and five children.

Bangladesh rescues 30 Rohingya adrift for days after pirate attack

FMT
AFP
April 27, 2021
The refugees would be sent to an island facility named Bhashan Char. (AP pic)

COX’S BAZAR: The Bangladesh coastguard on Tuesday rescued 30 Rohingya refugees adrift in the Bay of Bengal for two days after they were attacked by pirates, an official said.

About a million Rohingya refugees live in sprawling camps in southeast Bangladesh, having fled repression in Myanmar.

Many pay often-unscrupulous traffickers to put them on dangerous sea journeys to Southeast Asian countries – in this case Malaysia, home to a sizable Rohingya diaspora.

Monday, April 26, 2021

OP-ED: A wake-up call for Bangladesh?

Dhaka Tribune
Nisath Salsabil Rob
April 25th, 2021

In handling the Rohingya crisis, it is time Bangladesh prepared for the long haul

In the wee hours of February 1, 2021, Myanmar’s military -- the Tatmadaw -- declared a one-year state of emergency and arrested democratically elected leaders of the ruling party, the National League for Democracy (NLD), including Myanmar’s former de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi, thereby putting a nail on the coffin of Myanmar’s fledgling democracy.

Ramadan For The Rohingyas is Another Sad Story

albawaba
April 22nd, 2021
About 600k ethnic Rohingya escaped to Bangladesh due to cruelty in Myanmar. (Shutterstock)

Highlights

“Ramadan in Bangladesh is just a religious commitment for us with no celebration.”

Painfully estranged from their homeland, the holy month stirs up memories of harmony and festivity for one of the world’s most persecuted peoples.


Maryam Begum, 35, was busy passing her time feeding her two-year-old child on the eve of iftar, the end of the daily fast during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. Begum’s congested makeshift tent, made of tarpaulin sheets in the Cox Bazaar camp in southern Bangladesh, is located on the slope of a hill from where the crimson glow of the setting sun is clearly visible.

Sunday, April 25, 2021

Myanmar’s genocidal military is still a friend to Israel

+972 MAGAZINE
By Eitay Mack 
April 23, 2021

Public pressure has forced Israel to halt arms sales to the brutal military junta, but the state’s political support remains strong.
Myanmar's military marches in a parade in the city of Naypyidaw, Myanmar, March 27, 2021. (Mil.ru/CC BY 4.0)


The message that the world was silent during the extermination of Jews during the Holocaust is routinely cited by the State of Israel and its Holocaust museum, Yad Vashem. And yet, Israel itself is complicit in silence surrounding a present-day atrocity: the crimes committed by the Myanmar military junta, which Israel is supporting with weapons, training, and political backing. Although legal, media, and public pressure has forced some change in Israel’s defense export policy to Myanmar, political support for the junta has remained strong.

Bodies of three Rohingya found with throats cut in Cox's Bazar camp

bdnews24.com
Cox's Bazar Correspondent, 
Published: 24 Apr 2021
 
The bodies of three people, including a married couple, have been found with their throats slashed in a Rohingya refugee camp in Cox's Bazar's Ukhia.


The Armed Police Action Battalion (APBN) recovered the bodies from the Kutupalong Rohingya Camp 2 East in Rajapalong Union on Friday.

The dead have been identified as Nurul Islam, 33, his wife Mariam Khatun, 26, and sister-in-law Halima Khatun, 20, all residents of the camp, according to SP Naimul Haque, captain of APBn's Cox's Bazar-14 unit.
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