Tripura police detain Rohingya migrant

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TNT Bureau
AGARTALA:
18 Mar, 2021 ,

Tripura police, on Tuesday, detained a Rohingya migrant while he was returning to Delhi after visiting his mother in Bangladesh.

The Rohingya migrant has been identified as Sona Mia from Myanmar.

According to the police, Mia left his country and fled to Bangladesh in 2009. In 2010, he entered India through the Malda district of West Bengal.

Mia was living in Delhi for the past 11 years and had set up a small business with a Rohingya group.

Rohingya youth lands in Tripura jail on his way to Delhi

THE NORTH EAST AFFAIRS

NEA News Service
March 17, 2021

The accused was identified as Sona Mian (40) has been doing business in New Delhi for over a decade and his family is living in Chittagong of South Bangladesh.

Agartala: A local court of Sepahijala district in West Tripura has sent a Rohingya youth to jail yesterday for illegally crossing the border from Bangladesh.

The accused was identified as Sona Mian (40) has been doing business in New Delhi for over a decade and his family is living in Chittagong of South Bangladesh.

UN team visits remote Bangladesh island where Rohingya relocated

Aljazeera
17 Mar 2021

Delegation on three-day visit to Bhasan Char island in Bay of Bengal where Bangladesh moved more than 13,000 refugees.

Bangladesh says the relocation is voluntary, but some among a first group to be moved spoke of being coerced [File: Mahmud Hossain Opu/ Al Jazeera]

A United Nations delegation is on a three-day visit starting Wednesday to a remote Bay of Bengal island where Bangladesh has moved more than 13,000 Rohingya Muslim refugees since December despite criticism from rights groups.

Bangladesh wants to eventually transfer 100,000 of the more than a million refugees living in overcrowded border camps to Bhasan Char island, which emerged from the sea only two decades ago and is considered vulnerable to floods.

Malaysian field hospital in Cox’s Bazar handed over to govt

The Daily Star

Star Digital Report

March 15, 2021

The Malaysian field hospital, set up in late 2017 in Cox's Bazar by the Malaysian government in response to the Rohingya refugee crisis, was handed over to the Bangladesh government yesterday.

The Malaysian field hospital was handed over to the Bangladesh government on Sunday, March 14, 2021. Photo: Collected

The hospital, situated near Ukhia Degree College was handed over to Bangladeshi authorities in a programme around 11:00am at the college grounds, reports our Cox's Bazar correspondent.

The programme was attended by High Commissioner of Malaysia to Bangladesh Haznah Md Hashim, Refugee, Relief and Repatriation Commissioner Shah Rezwan Hayat, Additional Commissioner Mohammad Shamsud Dauza and other government officials.

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.

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Rohingya ‘criminal’ shot dead in Cox’s Bazar: police

The Daily Star

Star Digital Report

March 14, 2021

Rohingya criminals have shot a man dead from the same community, over establishing supremacy between groups, in a refugee camp at Teknaf in Cox's Bazar.

The deceased was identified as Md Jubair (21), a resident of block C of Nayapara refugee camp.

Another Rohingya man -- Md Jalil Prokash Sunia -- was also stabbed over the same issue, our local correspondent reports.

Rohingya face new challenges

MISSION NETWORK NEWS

By Kevin Zeller

March 15, 2021

Bangladesh (MNN) — 81 Rohingya refugees have been rescued after their boat’s engine failed. Eight died of dehydration. The Indian Coast Guard found the boat adrift in the Andaman Sea.

Meanwhile, the government of Bangladesh continues shipping thousands of Rohingya refugees to a new settlement on the small island of Bhasan Char. It’s a new island, recently formed from Himalayan sediment.

Rohingya youth shot to death in Teknaf

Dhaka Tribune

Abdul Aziz, Cox's Bazar 

March 14th, 2021

Another person has been injured in the incident and is undergoing treatment in Cox's Bazar Sadar Hospital

Rohingya terrorists have shot dead a 21-year-old man over exerting dominance in a Rohingya camp in Teknaf, Cox’s Bazar.

The incident took place in the early hours of Sunday at the Nayapara Rohingya camp, Armed Police Battalion (APBN) informed reporters.

The deceased was identified as Dil Mohammad's son, Mohammad Zubair, 21, from block-C of Nayapara camp in Teknaf. He was a member of a local terrorist group named Salman Shah group.

Plea in SC to restrain central govt from deporting Rohingyas detained in Jammu

Samanwaya Rautray
ET BureauLast Updated: Mar 12, 2021

The plea in the top court also sought a court order to have those detained released from the detention centre.

A Rohingya refugee filed a fresh plea in the Supreme Court, urging the top court to restrain the government from deporting hundreds of Rohingyas detained recently in Jammu. 

The Rohingyas, Muslims from Myanmar, have fled a targeted cleansing by the majority Buddhists in that country.

The fresh application, filed by Mohammad Salimullah through advocate Prashant Bhushan, sought to pre-empt any adverse action against the community by the Indian state which has argued that they are a national security threat.

Police recently rounded up 150-170 Rohingyas settled in Jammu, creating panic among the community. Some of them have since been housed in a detention centre.

Rohingyas worst victims of state terror, deserve humanitarian approach: Anjuman Sharie Shian

News Desk
11 Mar 2021

J-K Anjuman Sharie Shian has urged the state and central government to take a humanitarian look at the Rohingya issue who are the worst victims of state terror of Burma .

In a statement, J-K Anjuman Sharie Shain’s Aga Syed Mujtaba Abbas Mosavi said the 2015 Rohingya refugee crisis is epitome of inhuman approach of the forcible displacement of Muslim Myanmar nationals from the Arrakkan and Rakhine state of Myanmar to neighboring Bangladesh, India, Malaysia, Indonesia, Cambodia, Laos and Thailand in 2015, collectively dubbed “boat people” by sane voices .

Canada must help find a safe zone for Rohingya in Myanmar

HAMILTON THE SPECTATOR

By Washim Ahmed
Wed., March 10, 2021

Myanmar is once again attracting international attention after its military overthrew Aung San Suu Kyi’s elected government declaring a state of emergency for a period of one year. All G7 members condemned the coup and Canada has introduced sanctions against nine additional Myanmar military officials under the Special Economic Measures (Burma) Regulations passed in 2007, bringing the total count to 54.

Shahriar: Saudi Arabia won't send back Rohingyas to Bangladesh

Dhaka Tribune
UNB
March 10th, 2021

File photo of Scores of Rohingya Muslims sit on the floor of the Shumaisi detention centre in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, as the authorities prepare to deport the men to Bangladesh Nay San Lwin/Al Jazeera

KSA assures of interim arrangement for irregular Bangladesh expatriates to have health facilities and employment, he said

The Saudi government did not say that the Rohingyas, living in Saudi Arabia, will be sent back to Bangladesh, said State Minister for Foreign Affairs Md. Shahriar Alam on Wednesday.

“No, Saudi Arabia didn’t say that they’ll send back Rohingyas to Bangladesh,” he told reporters at his office at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs referring to his meeting with his Saudi counterpart Adel Al-Jubeir during his recent visit there.

The state minister said his Saudi counterpart made it clear that “they’ve no as such issue” with Bangladesh.

Japan to give $19 mil. grant aid to support Myanmar's Rohingya

The Mainichi

March 9, 2021 (Mainichi Japan)

In this Feb. 15, 2021 file photo, Rohingya refugees heading to the Bhasan Char island prepare to board navy vessels from the south eastern port city of Chattogram, Bangladesh. (AP Photo)

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japan will contribute $19 million in emergency grant aid via international organizations to support Myanmar's Rohingya people who have fled homes in the country's Rakhine State to escape persecution and violence by the military, the Foreign Ministry said Tuesday.

Japanese officials said Tokyo will maintain humanitarian assistance to Myanmar even as it condemns the military coup on Feb. 1 that ousted a democratically elected government and saw State Councillor Aung San Suu Kyi and other civilian leaders detained.

‘I appeal to all, no lip service ple

The Daily Star
Diplomatic Correspondent
March 09, 2021

Foreign minister urges int’l community about Rohingya repatriation

Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen. File photo

Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen has appealed to the international community to work sincerely, instead of paying "lip service" for repatriation of the Rohingyas to Myanmar.

"There are 1.1 million Rohingyas in camps in Bangladesh. The majority of them are girls and women. It's time for the world leaders to come forward to help repatriate and reintegrate them in Rakhine and give them a future," he said yesterday.

Separated from families, uncertainty looms over deportation in Rohingya settlements

Hindustan Times

Ravi Krishnan Khajuria, 

Jammu
UPDATED ON MAR 09, 2021 

Over the weekend, police rounded up the 169 people from the city and took them to the Hiranagar jail detention centre

Rohingyas at Kiryani Talab in Jammu on Monday (HT Photo)

The family members of the 169 Rohingya community members who were taken to a detention centre at a prison in Jammu have now been confined to their settlement clusters in the city’s Kathua district, where many described a sense of dread since the detentions and repeated appeals to the government of India not to deport them to Myanmar.

Work sincerely instead of giving lip service to Rohingya repatriation talks: Foreign minister

The Daily Star

Star Digital Report
March 08, 2021

Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen. File photo

Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen has made an appeal to the international community to work sincerely instead of giving "lip service" to repatriation talks for the Rohingyas.

"There are 1.1 million Rohingyas in the camps of Bangladesh and majority of them are girls and women. It is time for us, the world leaders…we must come forward to repatriate them and reintegrate them in Rakhine and give them a future," he said.

The minister was addressing an International Women's Day event titled "Women in Diplomacy: How are We Doing?" as chief guest. It was organised by the Diplomatic Correspondents' Association of Bangladesh (DCAB) with support of the Bangabandhu Research Centre for Foreign Policy and Diplomacy at the Foreign Service Academy today.

Panic grips displaced Rohingyas in Jammu

THE HINDU

Peerzada Ashiq
JAMMU, MARCH 07, 2021

SecSecurity personnel stand guard outside the central jail in Srinagar. File | Photo Credit: NISSAR AHMAD

150 immigrants rounded up during “verification drive”

Panic gripped the displaced Rohingya population in Jammu on Sunday, a day after the J&K administration rounded up over 150 immigrants as part of “a verification process”.

“We will go one day. It’s just that the situation in Myanmar is not safe for us. The police are summoning our people [in Jammu]. Thirteen men who were asked to visit the police stations on Saturday have not returned,” Salamtullah, a Rohingya Muslim who escaped the genocide in Myanmar between 2016-17, said.

168 Rohingya living illegally in Jammu sent to jail, say officials

The Tribune
Jammu, March 7

The Rohingyas are a Bengali-dialect speaking Muslim minority in Myanmar

Authorities here have sent 168 Rohingya to jail after they were found living illegally in the city, officials said on Sunday.

The Jammu and Kashmir administration on Saturday had began a drive to collect biometric and other details of Rohingyas staying here. The drive is part of an exercise to trace foreigners living in the city without valid documents.

“At least 168 illegal immigrant Rohingyas have been sent to Hiranagar jail,” a senior police officer told PTI.

Bhashan Char better for living but focus must be on Rohingya return

Dhaka Tribune
Humayun Kabir Bhuiyan
March 6th, 2021

Rohingyas living in camps are trapped there for long, people are born into camps, grow up in camps and become adults in camps Syed Zakir Hossain/Dhaka Tribune

International community should support the relocation and put pressure on Myanmar to take back its people, experts tell a seminar

As compared with Cox’s Bazar, the Bhashan Char island is way better for the Rohingyas to live, but since the shelter is temporary the main focus must be given on the repatriation of the displaced people from Myanmar’s Rakhine, speakers told a seminar on Saturday.

Urging the international community not to oppose the government’s relocation plan, they requested them to put pressure on Myanmar to take its own people back with safety and dignity.