Ulema urges Acehnese to uphold human values in dealing with Rohingyas

ANTARA
April 3, 2024

File - Rohingya refugees wait in a truck after attempts to relocate them were rejected by local residents in Ladong, Aceh Besar, Aceh, on December 11, 2023. (ANTARA FOTO/Irwansyah Putra/Spt) 

Meulaboh, Aceh (ANTARA) - A respected ulema has appealed to the people of Aceh to remain wise and uphold human values in responding to Rohingya refugees' presence in the province.

Bangladesh's priority is to repatriate Rohingyas to Myanmar, PM tells Uzra Zeya

THE BUSINESS STANDARD
BSS
22 September, 2023,

The Prime Minister said Rohingya repatriation should start as early as possible otherwise the region will fall into security threats as the Rohingyas have been engaging in criminal activities that included killings, firearms smuggling and trading. 

 

Photo: PID

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said her government attached priority to sending back Rohingyas to their homeland Myanmar.

"Our priority is to repatriate the forcibly displaced Rohingyas taken shelter in Bangladesh to their homeland," she said.

The generals, the Buddhists and the Rohingyas

NEW AGE
Mar 15,2021

Getty Images/R Asad

Protests against the February 1 military coup, which ousted Aun San Suu Kyi, continue in Myanmar despite an increasingly brutal crackdown. At the same time there are signs that widespread public resentment against the country’s Muslim Rohingya minority may be softening, writes Dominik Muller

‘YOU messed with the wrong generation’ is one of the popular slogans chanted by many of the young people who have been demonstrating in Myanmar for weeks. ‘My ex is bad, but military is worse’ or ‘I don’t want dictatorship, I just want boyfriend’ are just a few more of the phrases on signs held up by the young generation. After all, their protest also takes aim at a conservative social order represented by the generals and many Buddhist monks.

5 Rohingyas died adrift in Andaman Sea

The Daily Star

Diplomatic Correspondent
February 24, 2021

 
Says Fortify Rights

More than five Rohingyas, who were among some 90 on a boat adrift in the Andaman Sea, have died and the rest are desperate for food and water, said Fortify Rights, quoting families who talked to the refugees.

"More than five people died today…please try to send water by any means," a Rohingya man told the regional rights body in one recording.

Fortify Rights spoke with Rohingya refugees in Malaysia, Bangladesh, and India, who made phone contacts with passengers on the boat.

8 More Rohingyas From Myanmar Held In Assam

OMMCOM NEWS
Nov 28, 2020

Guwahati: With eight more Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar getting arrested in Assam, 22 Myanmarese, including women and children, have been detained in the last three days for illegally entering into India, officials said on Saturday.

An Assam Police official said that acting on a secret tip-off, eight Rohingyas, suspected to be refugees fleeing from their camps in southeast Bangladesh, were held on Friday from Mazarpar village in Hailakandi district in southern Assam.

Rohingyas, locals to get support from Covid centre in Teknaf

FINANCIAL EXPRESS
 Published: September 01, 2020

UNICEF in partnership with International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b) is supporting a 200-bed isolation and treatment centre in Teknaf upazila of Cox’s Bazar district to provide critical care for Covid-19 patients from both Bangladeshi and Rohingya communities.

175- Rohingyas, Tears Down the Cheeks

Rohingyas, Tears Down the Cheeks