DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – The efforts to repatriate displaced Rohingya Muslim refugees have been delayed due to the cease-fire breakdown between the junta regime and rebels in Burma, a top Burmese diplomat in Dhaka has said. “Efforts toward the repatriation of displaced persons had been delayed due to the cease-fire breakdown by the Araka...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Bangladesh has called for an “all stakeholders’ conference” to address the Rohingya crisis, as the country “reached its limits” in hosting the world’s most persecuted community. “Bangladesh has reached her limits,” Muhammad Yunus, chief adviser to the transitional government...
COX’S BAZAR, Bangladesh (AA) – For the past three years, Mohammad Lalu had been diligently saving up, bit by bit, for one goal: to ensure that he and his family of eight had $2,000 to cross the Naf River and reach a Rohingya refugee camp in neighboring Bangladesh. Lalu was not among the approximately 750,000 […]
COX ‘S BAZAR, Bangladesh (AA) – Rohingya refugees stranded in camps in southern Bangladesh observed the seventh “Rohingya Genocide Day” on Sunday. The commemoration took place as new refugees, fleeing escalating violence in Myanmar, continued to arrive at the border. Seven years ago, the majority of the Rohingya community was...
As many as 26 Rohingya refugees drowned when their boat capsized while fleeing violence in Burma. This latest disaster underscores the deepening crisis for the Rohingya. The Muslim minority is trapped in the conflict between Burma’s military and the Arakan Army insurgents. Witnesses reported that the boat, overcrowded with 30 passengers, sank ...
GENEVA (AA) – Since atrocities began against the Rohingya Muslims of Burma seven years ago, no one has been held accountable for crimes they endured, and the impunity cycle must be broken, the head of the UN’s Independent Investigative Mechanism for Myanmar (Burma) has said. Nicholas Koumjian, head of IIMM, said that this week mark...
ANKARA (AA) – A drone attack that killed over 200 fleeing Rohingya Muslims near the Bangladesh border on Monday has forced hundreds to return to their hometowns, while thousands are still taking shelter in paddy fields awaiting to cross into neighboring Bangladesh, according to a rights group. Risking their lives, a few hundred have move...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – Bangladesh’s coral rich St. Martin Island is facing a food crisis as communication remains suspended due to intermittent firing from across the border with Burma, officials said. The small island of about 8 square kilometers is located in the northeastern part of the Bay of Bengal with natural beauty which makes [&hell...
Geneva, Switzerland — AFP The United Nations has warned that the escalating fighting in Burma’s Rakhine State has forced around 45,000 minority Muslim Rohingya to flee, amid allegations of killings and burnings of property. “Tens of thousands of civilians have been displaced in recent days by the fighting in Buthidaung and Ma...
ANKARA (AA)- The seizure of Buthiduang town of Myanmar’s Rakhine state by the rebel ethnic Arakan Army (AA) has triggered a fresh exodus, displacing 150,000 Rohingya Muslims, a Rohingya rights group said on Sunday. On Saturday, the rebel group took complete control of Buthidaung township, home to the ethnic Rohingya population, near the ...
