Ninety-six Rohingya refugees, including seven children, are stranded on Sumatra island in Indonesia after escaping on a rickety boat. Surviving members of the persecuted minority were left stranded on the coast at Meunasah Asan village. Six people died as nearly 100 Rohingya landed by boat in Indonesia’s Aceh province in the late...
A Rohingya rights organization has urged the Indian government to release refugees who have been on hunger strike since Monday in a detention camp in the northeastern state of Assam. India-based Rohingya Human Rights Initiative Director Sabbre Kyaw Min said many of the detained have U.N. refugee cards. He said nearly 1,000 Rohingya refugees fr...
Rohingya refugees in Cox’s Bazar and abroad have united to support victims of recent floods in Bangladesh. This is despite their own lack of resources. Young refugees have been going door-to-door in their camps and reaching out internationally. Through the Al Manahil Welfare Foundation, the refugees have provided relief and cash to 1,60...
The head of Bangladesh’s transitional government Muhammad Yunus has sought UN support for the return of Rohingya refugees. About 1.2 million Rohingya have been in Bangladesh since August 2017, after fleeing a severe military crackdown in Burma’s Rakhine State which has been described as ethnic cleansing. The majority of them live in overcrow...
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Liz Throssell has called on Bangladesh and other nations to safeguard Rohingya refugees. This comes as there are ongoing clashes in Burma. Over a million Rohingya have sought refuge in Bangladesh; 45,000 have fled to the Naf River area near the border. Throssell says tens of thousands have been displaced...
Jakarta, Indonesia – AFP Dozens of Rohingya refugees saved after their boat capsized off Indonesia’s westernmost coast last week have been forced from their temporary shelter due to local protests, a United Nations refugee agency official said Wednesday. The survivors of last week’s capsizing were taken a 10-minute drive away...
Sabang, Indonesia – – AFP More than 200 Rohingya refugees have been huddled on the beaches of a remote Indonesian island after weeks adrift on a wooden boat, as authorities rejected locals’ efforts to push the members of the persecuted Myanmar minority back to sea. The latest arrivals were part of more than 1,000 desperate [&...
Bireuen, Indonesia — AFP As a rickety wooden boat carrying Rohingya refugees approached the shores of western Indonesia, several desperate men swam ashore to plead that the vessel be allowed to land after weeks at sea. But the calls of the men — some of whom collapsed to the sand in exhaustion — fell on […]
ANKARA (AA) – India’s counter-terrorism law enforcement agency has arrested 44 people in raids across the country under an operation that it said was “aimed at dismantling illegal human trafficking support networks,” including in Indian occupied Jammu and Kashmir. A spokesman for the National Investigation Agency said synchronized ...
ANKARA (AA) – Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said that Bangladesh will continue to fight for the rights of Palestinians. “It is worrying that the rights of the Palestinians are not fulfilled,” said Hasina, referring to the 75th commemoration of the Nakba, when Israel declared its independence in occupied Palestinian lands i...
