Monday, October 18, 2021
U.N deal offers no guarantees of free movement for Rohingya on island - leaked agreement
REUTER
Poppy Mcpherson and Ruma Paul
October 15, 2021
Poppy Mcpherson and Ruma Paul
October 15, 2021
A view of sheds and concrete structures built for thousands of displaced Rohingya from Myanmar on Bhasan Char island in Bangladesh, December 29, 2020. REUTERS/Mohammad Ponir Hossain/File Photo
Oct 15 (Reuters) - A deal for the United Nations to start work on a remote Bangladeshi island where the government has sent thousands of Rohingya refugees offers no guarantee they will be allowed to move freely to the mainland, according to a copy of the agreement.
The Bangladesh government has moved nearly 19,000 Rohingya refugees, members of a persecuted mostly Muslim minority from Myanmar, to Bhasan Char island from border camps, despite protests by refugees and opposition from rights groups, who have likened it to an island jail and said some relocations were involuntary.
UN's failure to put pressure on Myanmar cause delay in Rohingya repatriation: Experts
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Md. KamruzzamanDHAKA, Bangladesh
18.10.2021
Out of Rohingya into Bangladesh, out of frying pan into the fire
BIG NEWS NETWORK
Khalid Umar Malik
17th October 2021
Khalid Umar Malik
17th October 2021
DHAKA, Bangladesh - Bangladesh intends to transfer more than 80,000
Rohingya refugees to a distant island in the Bay of Bengal after making a
deal with the United Nations to provide help, officials said Friday.
Friday, October 15, 2021
Thursday, October 14, 2021
After Killing, Bangladesh Launches Crackdown in Rohingya Camps
THE I DIPLOMAT
By Sebastian StrangioOctober 14, 2021
Bangladeshi police have made nearly 40 arrests, including five in connection with last month’s murder of a prominent Rohingya advocate.
“Police so far arrested 38 Rohingya from different refugee camps since the murder of Muhib Ullah,” Rafiqul Islam, an additional police superintendent in Cox’s Bazar, told BenarNews on Tuesday. “Law enforcers are continuing the drives to reduce any offenses or illegal activities in refugee camps.”
According to the officials, five of the suspects were arrested in connection with the recent killing of Mohib Ullah, the head of the Arakan Rohingya Society for Peace and Human Rights (ARSPH), who was reportedly shot and killed by unidentified gunmen outside his office at the Kutupalong refugee camp on September 29.
Wednesday, October 13, 2021
Bangladesh promises that killers of prominent Rohingya activist will be brought to justice
Morning Star
Oct'13 2021
Oct'13 2021
BANGLADESH promised “stern action” against those responsible for the assassination of a Rohingya Muslim leader who was shot dead in a refugee camp on Wednesday.
Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen vowed today to bring the killers of 46-year-old Mohib Ullah, who was gunned down in the Kutupalong camp in Cox’s Bazar, to justice.
Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen vowed today to bring the killers of 46-year-old Mohib Ullah, who was gunned down in the Kutupalong camp in Cox’s Bazar, to justice.
As drugs and arms pour in, Rohingya camps see a rise in crimes
bdnews24.com
Golam Mortuja and Sankar Barua Rumi,
Published: 13 Oct 2021
Golam Mortuja and Sankar Barua Rumi,
Published: 13 Oct 2021
As the sun sets on Bangladesh's south coast, a sense of foreboding fills the air as the dark underbelly of the Rohingya refugee settlements gradually comes to the fore.
Men with arms and weapons, that had hitherto been stowed away, begin to emerge from the shadows, while drugs are used in plain view.
The inhabitants are accustomed to such scenes and even a murder would do little to unsettle them.
The killing of Mohammad Mohib Ullah, a prominent community leader who campaigned for the Rohingya's safe repatriation, however, brought the issue of security and crimes in the camps into sharp focus both at home and abroad.
A group of unidentified gunmen killed him at Lombashiya refugee camp in Cox's Bazar's Ukhiya on Sept 28.
The inhabitants are accustomed to such scenes and even a murder would do little to unsettle them.
The killing of Mohammad Mohib Ullah, a prominent community leader who campaigned for the Rohingya's safe repatriation, however, brought the issue of security and crimes in the camps into sharp focus both at home and abroad.
A group of unidentified gunmen killed him at Lombashiya refugee camp in Cox's Bazar's Ukhiya on Sept 28.
Bangladesh Cracks Down on Crime at Rohingya Camps, Nets Dozens of Suspects
Radio Free Asia - RFA
2021-10-12
Police launched the operation after the killing of refugee leader Muhib Ullah last month.
Courtesy Armed Police Battalion, Cox's Bazar
Bangladesh police have arrested nearly 40 refugees, including many suspected of involvement with illegal weapons and drugs, since they launched a crackdown against criminality at Rohingya camps after community leader Muhib Ullah was slain last month, an official said Tuesday.
Among the dozens of Rohingya refugees taken into custody as part of the crackdown, five are suspected of being linked directly to the Sept. 29 killing of Ullah, a prominent Rohingya activist, at his office in the Kutupalong refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar district, according to the authorities.
Tuesday, October 12, 2021
Rohingya Influx Next to NCR Demands Home Ministry and NIA’s Full Security Attention
NEWS 18
K Yatish Rajawat
October 12, 2021,
The Tablighi Jamaat, which was founded in Nuh district in Haryana but has expanded globally, could be facilitating the entry of Rohingyas into the region.
The airport in Delhi
is a few kilometers away from the millennium city of Gurgaon, and just
50 kilometers from the millennium city is the district of Nuh (Mewat).
Despite its proximity to Delhi, the district has the dubious distinction
of being the only backward district of Haryana; the callousness now
extends to security matters. The district has been witnessing a
continuous, rising influx of Rohingya immigrants in the last few years,
yet the district administration, while being aware of this influx, is
limited in its action and can do little to prevent it.
There is a perception about the district built by the administrators in Gurgaon—that it is a den of criminals. This baseless perception has done immense harm to the development, and even to the security, of the district. The national media also picks up selective stories about the district based on this perception.
UN, Bangladesh sign deal to aid Rohingya relocated to island
Aljazeera
11 Oct 2021
Authorities said another 81,000 refugees would be relocated to the remote Bhasan Char island over next three months.
Rohingya refugees prepare to board a ship as they move to Bhasan Char
island, near Chattogram, Bangladesh [File: Mohammad Ponir
Hossain/Reuters]
The United Nations and Bangladesh’s government have signed an agreement to work together to help Rohingya refugees on an island in the Bay of Bengal where thousands have been relocated from crammed camps near the Myanmar border.
More than 19,000 Rohingya have already been moved to Bhasan Char island by the government, and the UN said one of the key reasons to sign the agreement was to start serving that population.
Rohingyas were promised a new home in Bangladesh. They are now trying to escape it
New York Times
By Saif Hasnat, Sameer Yasir,
Oct 11, 2021,
By Saif Hasnat, Sameer Yasir,
Oct 11, 2021,
Buildings meant to accommodate Rohingya refugees at Bhasan Char, Bangladesh, in the Bay of Bengal.Credit...Mahmud Hossain Opu/Associated Press
They Were Promised a New Home. Then They Tried to Escape It.
Bangladesh is relocating Rohingya refugees who fled Myanmar to a vulnerable, environmentally unstable island that is giving some cause to run again.
DHAKA, Bangladesh — Its name translates into “floating island,” and for
up to 100,000 desperate war refugees, the low-slung landmass is supposed
to be home.
One refugee, Munazar Islam, initially thought it
would be his. He and his family of four fled Myanmar in 2017 after the
military there unleashed a campaign of murder and rape that the United
Nations has called ethnic cleansing. After years in a refugee camp prone to fires and floods, he accepted an invitation from the government of neighboring Bangladesh to move to the island, Bhasan Char.
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