DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – At least 342 people died of dengue this August, the deadliest month ever in Bangladesh since the health authorities started recording dengue cases in 2000. On the last day of August, the country reported 17 deaths due to dengue, including 16 in the capital Dhaka, according to the Directorate General of […]
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) — Uprooted from their ancestral lands, a group of young Rohingya Muslims in southern Bangladesh are trying to keep their heritage alive among their community’s children and teenagers. Mohammed Rezuwan Khan, 26, is one of those high school graduates, shunned from higher education in his native Rakhine, a state in western ...
Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh – – AFP Thousands of Rohingya Muslim refugees rallied at camps in Bangladesh on Friday to demand their safe return to Myanmar on the sixth anniversary of the violence that drove them from their homes. Bangladesh is home to around a million members of the stateless minority, most of whom fled the [&hell...
ISTANBUL (AA) – On the eve of the sixth anniversary of the Rohingya genocide in Myanmar, human rights defenders have renewed the call for granting full rights to the persecuted community. “Rohingya are citizens of the country and should be seen by our fellow citizens as valued members of the pro-democratic revolution,” said Zaw Win, […]...
