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...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – Bangladesh transitional government chief Muhammad Yunus has proposed creating a UN-guaranteed “safe zone” in Burma’s Rakhine state to aid displaced people and address the ongoing humanitarian crisis. Yunus made the suggestion during a meeting with Thomas Andrews, the UN special rapporteur on hum...
India’s ruling Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is ramping up its campaign rhetoric by demonizing Rohingyas and Bangladeshis to galvanize Hindu voters. Ahead of provincial assembly elections in the eastern state of Jharkhand, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah claim the two groups have infiltrated th...
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 […]
Secretary of State Antony Blinken pledged support on the seventh anniversary of Rohingya Genocide Day, which was observed on Sunday. He said the US continued to honor the victims and stand with the survivors seeking justice and accountability for these atrocities. Seven years ago, the majority of the ethnic Rohingya Muslim community was forced...
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...
Dhaka, Bangladesh – AFP Bangladesh will maintain support for its immense Rohingya refugee population, Nobel laureate and new leader Muhammad Yunus said Sunday in his first major policy address. Yunus, 84, returned from Europe this month after a student-led revolution to take up the monumental task of steering democratic reforms in a coun...
