Japan to contribute $3.5M in aid to Rohingya in Bangladesh

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SM Najmus Sakib
DHAKA, Bangladesh
21.09.2022

Partnership agreement with UN refugee agency signed to help persecuted people living in Cox’s Bazar, Bhasan Char camps with essential services

Japan will provide $3.5 million to support Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh, and on Wednesday it inked a partnership agreement with the UNHCR to help the persecuted people living in two camps with essential services.

Bangladesh currently hosts over 1.2 million Rohingya refugees who fled Myanmar's Rakhine State following a brutal military crackdown in August 2017.

Since the beginning of the emergency in 2017, Japan has been a steadfast supporter of the Rohingya refugee response in Bangladesh, contributing over $170 million to UNHCR and other UN agencies and NGOs in Bangladesh, including through this new funding.

PM seeks UN role in Rohingya repatriation

NEWAGE 

Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha, New York
Sep 21,2022

UN high commissioner for refugees Filippo Grandi pays a courtesy call on Bangladesh prime minister Sheikh Hasina at the bilateral meeting room of Lotte New York Palace hotel on Wednesday. -- BSS photo 

 

Prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday (New York time) reiterated her call to the international community and the United Nations to play intensified role in solving the Rohingya crisis by repatriating the forcibly displaced Myanmar nationals to their motherland.

The prime minister made this call while UN high commissioner for refugees Filippo Grandi paid a courtesy call on her at the bilateral meeting room of Lotte New York Palace hotel.

Rohingya teen dies, several injured after shells fired from Myanmar land in Bangladesh

bdnews24.com 

Bandarban Correspondent
Cox’s Bazar Correspondent,
Senior Correspondentbdnews24.com
Published : 16 Sept 2022,

The shells fell on a refugee settlement across no man's land

 

A Rohin‌gya teenager has reportedly been killed and several others injured after mortar shells fired from Myanmar exploded in Bangladeshi territory, according to officials and community leaders.

The shells fell on a refugee settlement near the Tumabru and Konapara border in Bandarban's Ghumdhum Union around 8 pm on Friday, the latest in a string of violent incidents that have put residents on edge.

Minister: Discussions underway for safe return of Rohingyas

Dhaka Tribune  

September 15, 2022

‘Presence of Rohingyas in our country is causing us trouble,’ says Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan

  File Photo: People walk through a marketplace at a Rohingya refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, on Wednesday, August 11, 2021 Allison Joyce/Dhaka Tribune

Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan has said discussions are underway for safe and voluntary repatriation of the Rohingyas in Bangladesh to Myanmar.

He was addressing a workshop as chief guest in Cox’s Bazar on Thursday.

“The presence of the Rohingyas in our country is causing us trouble. Efforts are underway to repatriate them in a safe and respectful way to Myanmar,” he said.

 

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Release five Rohingya: HC

THE HINDU
HYDERABAD 

September 15, 2022
Marri Ramu

 

 

Condition of Rohingya in Myanmar is not conducive for deportation: counsel


Telangana High Court on Thursday directed the State government to release five Rohingya (who are Myanmar nationals) who were detained in Cherlapally central prison immediately, observing that the State government had no power to detain them.

Pronouncing judgment in a batch of five writ petitions filed by relatives/families of Rohingya, a bench of Justices Shameem Akther and E.V. Venugopal set aside orders issued by DGP M. Mahender Reddy detaining the five Rohingya. Their detention is “wholly unjustified, ex facie illegal and without specific delegation of power under section 3 (2) (g) of the Foreigners Act”, the bench said. 

"လူမျိုးတုန်းသတ်ဖြတ်မှုနဲ့ ရိုဟင်ဂျာတွေ ဆက်လက်ရင်ဆိုင် နေရတဲ့ ညှဉ်းပန်းနှိပ်စက်မှု" ဆွေးနွေးပွဲ

VOA
ဗွီအိုအေမြန်မာပိုင်း
နန်းလောင်ဝ်
၁၅ စက်တင်ဘာ၊ ၂၀၂၂ 

Bangladesh Rohingya

"လူမျိုးတုန်းသတ်ဖြတ်မှုနဲ့ ရိုဟင်ဂျာမွတ်ဆလင်တွေ ဆက်လက်ရင်ဆိုင်နေရတဲ့ ညှဉ်းပန်းနှိပ်စက်မှုများ "ဆိုတဲ့ ခေါင်းစဉ်နဲ့ အမေရိကန်ပြည်ထောင်စု၊ Georgetown တက္ကသိုလ်၊ Berkley Center မှာ စက်တင်ဘာလ ၁၄ ရက်နေ့က ဆွေးနွေးပွဲတရပ်ကျင်းပခဲ့ပါတယ်။ ရခိုင်ပြည်နယ်ထဲက ရိုဟင်ဂျာတွေအရေး အကျွမ်းတဝင်လေ့လာ ထားတဲ့ ပညာရှင်တွေ တက်ရောက်ဆွေးနွေးခဲ့ကြပါတယ်။ အပြည့်အစုံကိုတော့ နန်းလောင်ဝ်က ကောက်နုတ် တင်ပြထားပါတယ်။

KS relief provides Rohingya refugee women and children lifesaving aid

ARAB NEWS
SHEHAB SUMON
September 08, 2022 

In this photo taken in May 2022, Rohingya beneficiaries of KSrelief aid are seen at a refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh. (KSrelief)

• Over $25m already for Bangladesh’s squalid Cox’s Bazar
• Maternal care, food, shelter and education provided

DHAKA: When in 2017 Rohingya Muslims fled persecution in Myanmar, most sought shelter in neighboring Bangladesh’s Cox’s Bazar that now has over 1.2 million living in squalid conditions, and where Saudi Arabia is focusing part of its global relief efforts.

The mass arrival of Rohingyas has turned the coastal region of the country’s southeast into the world’s largest refugee settlement, with women and children being the biggest and most vulnerable group dependent on external aid.

Although Bangladesh is not a signatory to the 1951 UN Refugee Convention, it has been hosting and providing humanitarian support for those displaced. But many complex interventions require costly care, and Saudi Arabia has been a key donor.

Court in Ayeyarwady region sentences 56 Rohingya to 2 years in prison

RFA

Radio Free Asia
RFA Burmese
2022.09.08

The group, including three children, was refused visits from locals offering food and assistance.

 Wakema township’s court in a photograph taken in Jan. 2021.Citizen journalist

A court in Myanmar’s Ayeyarwady region has sentenced 56 ethnic Rohingya to two years in prison.

They were arrested on Aug. 21 in Wakema township and the sentences were handed down by the township’s court on Tuesday under Section 6 (3) of the Residents Registration Act.

The group came from Buthidaung and Maungdaw townships in Rakhine State.

They decided to leave due to a lack of jobs in their townships and the hardships of living there.

Rohingya plea for education to deter risks of becoming a lost generation & More News Headlines

AA

Md. Kamruzzaman
September 8, 2022 

  
Only education can ensure future leadership for survival as nation, says father of 3

One early afternoon, thousands of Rohingya Muslims in Bangladesh’s sprawling refugee camps had just completed their midday prayers and were moving toward makeshift tents for lunch.

A sweet sound of the recitation of the Quran by a chorus of children was heard from a camp-based mosque in camp no. 12.

The world’s largest refugee settlement in Bangladesh, divided into 34 camps, is currently home to more than 1.2 million Rohingya, most of whom fled a brutal military clampdown in their home country of Myanmar’s Rakhine State in August 2017.

ရိုဟင်ဂျာအရေးဦးဆောင် လှုပ်ရှားနေသူတစ်ဦး ဖြစ်သည့် ဦးအောင်ကျော်မိုးနှင့် တွေ့ဆုံမေးမြန်းခြင်း

The Arakan Express News
2022 September 4 

မြန်မာ့နိုင်ငံရေး၊ ရိုဟင်ဂျာအရေး၊ ရခိုင်ပြည်နယ်အတွင်း နိုင်ငံရေးနှင့် ဒေသတွင်း ရှေ့အလားအလာ အခြေအနေ များကို AEN သတင်းဌာနမှ မြန်မာဘာသာဖြစ် တိုက်ရိုက်မေးမြန်းထုတ်လွှင့်မည့် အစီအစဉ်အတွင်း လူ့အခွင့်အ ရေး နှင့် ရိုဟင်ဂျာအရေးဦးဆောင် လှုပ်ရှားနေသူတစ်ဦး ဖြစ်သည့် ဦးအောင်ကျော်မိုးကို "မေးချင်တာ လာမေးပါ။ မေးစရာရှိတာ မေးပါ။ မေးဖို့လိုတာတွေကို မေးပါ" မည်သူမဆို အောက်ဖော်ပြပါ လင့်ကနေတဆင့် မေးမြန်းလို သည့် မေးခွန်းအကြောင်းအရာများကို ပေးပို့ကာ တိုက်ရိုက်မေးမြန်းထုတ်လွှင့်မည့် အစီအစဉ်အတွင်း ကိုယ်တိုင် ကိုယ်ကျ ပါဝင်နိုင်ရန် စီစဉ်ထားပါသည်။

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Seven Rohingya dead after boat seized, Myanmar authorities say

THE STRAITSTIMES

Sep 2, 2022, 

 Hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims fled a military crackdown in Buddhist-majority Maynmar in 2017. PHOTO: EPA-EFE

 

YANGON - Seven Rohingya people from a group of 65 seized by the Myanmar authorities from a boat off the southern coast died of hunger, thirst and exposure, state media said on Friday.

On Monday, the authorities detained a vessel near Pyapon township, around 120km south of commercial hub Yangon, said the Global New Light of Myanmar newspaper.

"Four traffickers and 65 smuggled Bengalis were temporarily detained," it said, using the term by which Rohingya are pejoratively referred to by many in Myanmar.

Three men and four women later "died due to the bad weather and lack of food and water".

Aung San Suu Kyi shares responsibility for Rohingya’s misery

TheJakartaPost
Kornelius Purba (The Jakarta Post) Jakarta
Wed, August 31, 2022

Looking for safety: Scores of Rohingya refugees, including women and children, were stranded in the waters off Aceh on Dec. 27, 2021. (The Jakarta Post/Amnesty International Indonesia

In a recent discussion to commemorate the fifth anniversary of the genocidal acts against the Rohingya minority by Myanmar’s military, civil society groups and Myanmar’s government in exile, the National Unity Government (NUG) urged Indonesia and ASEAN to take tougher actions against the Myanmar junta for the safety of the Rohingya people.

‘This is our documentary of the crisis we face’: the Rohingya smartphone photographers

The Guardian
by Kaamil Ahmed
Mon 29 Aug 2022

A photograph taken by Ro Yassin Abdumonaf  in the refugee camps of Caox's bazar, Bangladesh. Ro Yassib Abdumonaf

Refugees who have fled Myanmar describe the risks and their sense of duty – as well as joy – in recording life around them in the sprawling camps of Bangladesh .

The camera of a budget smartphone has become a way for many of the Rohingya stuck in Bangladesh’s refugee camps to tell their own stories, capturing photos of their lives in the camps, which became the world’s largest when 700,000 people fled the Myanmar military five years ago, joining 300,000 who had already sought refuge across the border.

Around 1M Rohingya are living in Bangladesh camps, five years after crisis

TRT World Now
Aug 25, 2022

Nay San Lwin, co-founder of the Free Rohingya Coalition talks to TRT World about the condition of nearly one million Rohingya refugees living in Bangladesh camps five years after fleeing Myanmar’s brutal oppression.

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‘It’s a nightmare, every day’: Rohingya in India live in fear

Aljazeera
By Rifat Fareed
Published On 25 Aug 2022

Some 40,000 Rohingya refugees live in India where fears are growing as calls for deportations to Myanmar increase.

Rohingya refugees in New Delhi say they live in fear of deportation back to Myanmar [Suhail Bhat/Al Jazeera]

New Delhi, India – On the fifth anniversary of the start of military atrocities against the Rohingya in Myanmar, those of them living in India find themselves caught in a web of uncertainty and fear as the Indian government tightens restrictions on refugees in the country.

Five years after the crackdown, Myanmar’s remaining Rohingya ‘living like animals’

The Guardian

Rebecca Ratcliffe 

South-east Asia correspondent

Thu 25 Aug 2022 

While 700,000 Rohingya Muslims fled Myanmar after 25 August 2017, 600,000 remain, facing harsh restrictions on movement, persecution and poverty‘

• Like an open prison’: a million Rohingya refugees still in Bangladesh camps five years after crisis   

F

ive years ago Muhammad*, his wife and two children sheltered at their home, terrified as they heard of violence tearing through nearby villages. The Myanmar military had launched so-called “clearance operations” in northern Rakhine state, forcing huge numbers of Rohingya people to flee into neighbouring Bangladesh.

Rohingya: ‘Kill us, but don’t deport us to Myanmar’

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Rajini Vaidyanathan
BBC South Asia Correspondent

Yasmin is one among thousands of Rohingya children who are unable to get proper education

In her four fragile years, Yasmin has lived a life of uncertainty, unsure where she belongs.

Born in a refugee camp in Bangladesh, she is unable to return to her ancestral village in Myanmar. At the moment, a dingy room in India's capital, Delhi, serves as home.

Like hundreds of thousands of Rohingya people - an ethnic minority in Myanmar - Yasmin's parents fled the country in 2017 to escape a campaign of genocide launched by the military.

Myanmar Rohingya desperate to leave Bangladesh camps and go home after five years

THE GLOBE

 AND MAIL
RUMA PAUL
DHAKA
REUTERS

Rohingya refugees gather to mark the fifth anniversary of their exodus from Myanmar to Bangladesh, at a Kutupalong Rohingya refugee camp at Ukhiya in Cox's Bazar district, Bangladesh, on Aug. 25.SHAFIQUR RAHMAN/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Myanmar Rohingya Muslims protested across refugee camps in neighbouring Bangladesh on Thursday, the fifth anniversary of clashes between Rohingya insurgents and Myanmar security forces that drove hundreds of thousands of Rohingya from their homes.

More than a million Rohingya are living in squalid camps in southern Bangladesh comprising the world’s largest refugee settlement, with little prospect of returning to Myanmar, where they are mostly denied citizenship and other rights.

Rohingya repatriation: A helpless wait for Bangladesh

Dhaka Tribune

Syed Samiul Basher Anik
August 24, 2022

Uncertainty over repatriation frustrates Rohingyas

 

File photo of a Rohingya camp in Cox’s Bazar Syed Zakir Hossain

Bangladesh generously welcomed the persecuted Rohingyas, who fled Rakhine state to escape atrocities by the Myanmar military five years ago, in the hope that they would be able to return home soon. However, an end to the refugee crisis is still nowhere in sight, as Myanmar stubbornly refuses to create an environment conducive to repatriation.

Bangladesh has held several talks with major global actors over the safe repatriation of the Rohingyas to their homeland, but the international community has so far failed to mount sufficient pressure on Myanmar to take back its citizens. The delays in the repatriation process are frustrating for both the Rohingya refugees and the host community.

Who Will Champion the Rohingya?

THE I DIPLOMAT
By Paul McPhun
August 22, 2022

“Failing meaningful and safe return to Myanmar, I worry what the future holds. How long can people live with so little basic protection and hope?”

I have spent nearly 30 years exposed to emergencies and humanitarian crises. Yet, standing at our “Hospital on the Hill” in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, now the world’s largest refugee camp, I was taken by the sheer scale of this makeshift setting. A jumble of humanity packed together in precarious bamboo and plastic shelters, all contained within kilometers of razor wire fencing.

As we mark five years since the brutal campaign of violence meted out at the hands of the Myanmar military, I remember a Rohingya mother of six who said, “The military were brutally killing Rohingya and burning our houses… now, we live here in the refugee camps. It is five years of living in distress…”

The plight of the Rohingya – persecuted in Myanmar, living in containment in Bangladesh, trafficked and living illegally in Malaysia and elsewhere – is fast becoming a pressure cooker that no one seems inclined to take off the stove.