Meulaboh, Indonesia – AFP Dozens of Rohingya refugees stranded on the rusty hull of a capsized ship were rescued Thursday after the dehydrated and sunburnt group had drifted at sea for more than a day. Those rescued were 69 men, women and children, some of whom had been at sea for weeks on a rickety […]
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – Bangladesh summoned Myanmar’s top envoy in Dhaka concerning the killing of two people by mortar shells fired from across the border amid armed fighting between the regime and rebel groups. The Foreign Ministry summoned U. Aung Kyaw Moe to strongly protest the killings and events that took place on the Myanm...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – Internally displaced Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar’s Rakhine state have fled to Bangladesh in a new wave of forced migration in search of safety, refuge, and food as clashes between military junta forces and rebel groups escalate. Many have crossed into the Rohingya refugee camp in southeastern Cox’s Bazar,...
Banda Aceh, Indonesia – AFP A boat believed to be carrying over 100 Rohingya refugees landed in Indonesia’s westernmost province on Thursday, a UN official said, part of the biggest influx into the Muslim-majority country since 2015. The mostly Muslim Rohingya are heavily persecuted in Myanmar, and thousands risk their lives each y...
ISTANBUL (AA) – The UN human rights chief has said that the Rohingya Muslim community have been hit hard by the ongoing battles between the ruling junta in Myanmar and the opposition groups. Rakhine State has been “particularly hard hit” since fighting restarted there last November, said UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk....
ANKARA (AA) – Over a dozen Rohingya Muslims were killed in Myanmar army’s artillery attacks in the country’s western Rakhine state, said a human rights activist on Saturday. Ro Nay San Lwin, co-founder of Free Rohingya Coalition, an umbrella network of Rohingya refugees, said the Myanmar military targeted the community in Hpo...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – Several thousand Rohingya people were left homeless in bone-chilling winter after a massive fire burnt down tents in the southeastern city of Cox’s Bazar early Sunday. At least 1,040 refugee tents and shelters were completely burnt down, Atish Chakma, the Cox’s Bazar fire service deputy assistant director, told Anadolu...
ANKARA (AA) – Hundreds of young students stormed a Rohingya refugee shelter in Indonesia’s westernmost province of Aceh and forced them to leave the building, local media reported. A group of students entered a building where the authorities had housed around 135 Rohingya refugees, including women and children, and attacked them, accordi...
Lhokseumawe, Indonesia — AFP On a remote island in northwestern Indonesia, just miles from the white sand beaches where more than a thousand Rohingya refugees have arrived since mid-November, throngs of residents marched outside a temporary shelter housing the newcomers. “Shoo them away!” a protest leader chanted, met by chee...
Banda Aceh, Indonesia – AFP Nearly 200 Rohingya refugees, mostly women and children, were stranded on a beach in western Indonesia Sunday after local authorities said they would not accept the new arrivals, AFP witnessed. The refugees arrived by boat at 3:00 am local time (2000 GMT Saturday), the latest in what has been the […]
