A huge fire was blazed at Rohingya refugee camp on Monday, at Balukhali in Cox’s Bazar district, Bangladesh, destroying hundreds of tents, health centers and endangering the lives of tens of thousands of refugees. According to Mohammad Shamsud Douza, additional commissioner of the government’s Refugee, Relief and Repatriation Commission (RRRC), the blaze erupted in the late afternoon […]
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UN failed before Rohingya crackdown in Myanmar: Expert
An independent review of United Nations operations in the years before hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims fled a violent crackdown by Myanmar’s military concluded that the organization’s many bodies failed to act together, resulting in “systemic and structural failures.” The 36-page review by Gert Rosenthal, Guatemala’s former foreign minister, released Monday said the UN […]
Myanmar soldiers jailed for Rohingya killings freed after less than a year
Myanmar has granted early release to seven soldiers jailed for the killing of 10 Rohingya Muslim men and boys during a 2017 military crackdown in the western state of Rakhine, two prison officials, two former fellow inmates and one of the soldiers told Reuters. The soldiers were freed in November last year, the two inmates […]
Malaysian inquiry probes trafficking camps, migrant graves
A Malaysian inquiry into the 2015 discovery of suspected human-trafficking camps and graves in the jungle heard Thursday police found one of the sites months before authorities publicly revealed their existence. The public inquiry, which began this week, is examining the conduct of law enforcement agencies with regard to the discovery of almost 150 graves […]
Bangladesh stops 115 Rohingya seeking to reach Malaysia
Bangladesh police have prevented 115 Rohingya refugees from being smuggled to Malaysia in rickety fishing boats, officials said Saturday, but no suspected traffickers were detained. The group from the Kutupalong camp near Bangladesh’s border with Myanmar — the biggest refugee settlement in the world — were stopped as they headed to boats in the Bay […]
Bangladesh confident Rohingya will be returned
Bangladesh on Wednesday stuck by plans to begin repatriating some of the hundreds of thousands of Rohingya minority who fled Myanmar last year, despite UN warnings and trepidation among the refugees themselves. “All necessary arrangements and preparation have been taken,” Bangladesh’s refugee commissioner Mohammad Abul Kalam told reporters, adding: “Our primary target for tomorrow (Thursday) […]
Young girls primary victims of humanitarian strife
Girls are the primary victims of humanitarian crises, suffering abuse from forced marriage to denial of schooling and are “14 times more likely to die than boys in a conflict,” the Plan International NGO said Sunday. The group will Monday unveil at the United Nations conclusions from three investigations into the fate of youngsters — […]
One year on: Daily struggle makes Rohingya forget wounds and worries
Rohingya labourer Jamal struggles to carry bricks in the Bangladesh camp that is now home, having lost an arm after being shot and left for dead fleeing an attack in Myanmar one year ago. But like many who fled the violent crackdown by Myanmar forces, the 20-year-old has strived to rebuild his life since joining […]
Catalogue of abuse: seeking justice for the Rohingya
Cross-legged in a windowless, almost pitch-black bamboo shack, the investigator pressed record on a video camera and asked the young Rohingya woman to describe the night the Myanmar soldiers came. “They broke down our door. They took my husband outside and shot him,” recalled the 20-year-old, one of around 700,000 Rohingyas driven from Myanmar into […]
Reuters reporters to face Myanmar trial for ‘breach’ of secrecy act: court
AFP/File / YE AUNG THUWa Lone, 32, will face trial along with Kyaw Soe Oo, 28, after being “charged under the state secrets act” Two Reuters reporters accused of breaking Myanmar’s draconian secrecy law during their reporting of the Rohingya crisis must face trial, a judge ruled Monday, for an offence that carries up to […]