Refugee News
- 19/03/2017
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By TRT World There's still no employment or education opportunities for Rohingya Muslims outside their camps in Rakhine State. Thousands of Rohingya Muslims who were forced into camps five years...
Read more- 16/03/2017
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By Naushad Ali Husein, Al Jazeera In cramped and unhygienic camps thousands of refugees face disease, hunger and uncertainty about the future. Balukhali, Bangladesh - Hafiz Shafiq's infant son has been...
Read more- 11/03/2017
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By Jonah Fisher, BBC News A top UN official says "crimes against humanity" are being committed by the military and police against Myanmar's Rohingya Muslim minority. The UN's special rapporteur for...
Read more- 28/02/2017
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By AFP Rohingya refugees who fled violence in Myanmar have told how government forces gang-raped women, slit people's throats and threw children into burning houses, a UN envoy has said...
Read more- 26/02/2017
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By Dhaka Tribune https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmyJ6wQKEr0 Many of the women had their family members, including babies and young children, butchered in front of them More than a dozen young women, some as...
Read more- 24/02/2017
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By Debi Edward, iTV An estimated 70,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled persecution from Myanmar (also known as Burma) to Bangladesh since October last year, joining a population of around 400,000...
Read more- 23/02/2017
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By Aman Ullah Bangladesh Foreign Minister AH Mahmood Ali stressed the need for a peaceful resolution of the longstanding issue of Rohingya influx from Myanmar to Bangladesh while he made...
Read more- 23/02/2017
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By NEHGINPAO KIPGEN, Bangkok Post The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) in its report released on Feb 3 detailed that widespread human rights violations against the...
Read more- 22/02/2017
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By Maaz Hussain, VOA News Many Rohingya Muslims who fled alleged killings and other rights abuses during a Myanmar military crackdown in northern Rakhine state say they are not willing to...
Read more- 22/02/2017
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By Abdul Aziz, Dhaka Tribune She talked to the Rohingya refugees there UN human rights envoy Yanghee Lee has visited Rohingya refugee camps in Cox’s Bazar for the second consecutive day....
Read more- 21/02/2017
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By Arafat Kabir, University of Utah, East Asia Forum Bangladesh is said to be planning to relocate its Rohingya refugees to a remote island. If implemented, tens of thousands of Rohingyas...
Read more- 20/02/2017
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By Rahul Karmakar, Hindustan Times A rights group has accused Dhaka of facilitating ethnic cleansing of indigenous Buddhists by pushing Rohingya refugees from Myanmar into the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) of...
Read more- 19/02/2017
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By Shaikh Azizur Rahman, The Sydney Morning Herald Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh: If you believe the Myanmar government, the military "clearance operation" in northern Rakhine state, which began after an attack on a...
Read more- 18/02/2017
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By Hilal Azmi, Astro Awani COX'S BAZAAR: Upon entering a makeshift camp in Balukhali, Bangladesh, one is reminded of an animal farm. Rows and rows of barns and gunny sacks dot...
Read more- 17/02/2017
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By Saad Hammadi, WION News The Muslim Rohingya minority has urged Bangladesh to coerce neighbouring Myanmar to allow them to return to their ancestral land through international pressure. Scores of thousands...
Read more- 16/02/2017
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By Allison Joyce, Huffington Post In light of a new U.N. report documenting atrocities against Rohingya in Myanmar, photojournalist Allison Joyce profiles Rohingya refugees who recently fled to Bangladesh and have...
Read more- 16/02/2017
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By NEVILLE SPYKERMAN, The Star Online KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia should take the lead in getting the United Nations’ Human Rights Council to set up a Commission of Inquiry on the atrocities...
Read more- 15/02/2017
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Reported by BenarNews, an RFA-affiliated online news service Bangladesh authorities Tuesday welcomed a Malaysian ship bringing humanitarian aid for thousands of Rohingya Muslim refugees as it offloaded food, medicine and...
Read more- 12/01/2017
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Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has asked the state minister for foreign affairs of Myanmar to take back all of those who illegally entered Bangladesh from his country. U Kyaw Tin...
Read more- 06/01/2017
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Kutupalong: Bangladesh Forestry Officials launched 2-day operation to demolish more than 400 makeshift-tents that were built by newly arrived Rohingya for temporary shelter. The demolished tents include one shelter designated...
Read more- 26/12/2016
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The woman with a toddler faces the setbacks of loss of her husband in Myanmar and harsh condition in Bangladesh makeshift camp By Mohammed Imran, The Stateless Rohingya KUTUPALONG: Since...
Read more- 25/12/2016
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By Mizan Rahman Dhaka: Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) has intercepted 34 boats carrying at least 340 Rohingyas at border points near Cox’s Bazar and pushed them back in to Myanmar....
Read more- 24/12/2016
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By Abdul Aziz, Cox's Bazar, Dhaka Tribune Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) has pushed back three boats carrying Rohingyas who were trying to enter Bangladesh to flee military crackdown in Myanmar's Rakhine...
Read more- 21/12/2016
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By Tama Salim, The Jakarta Post Foreign Minister Retno LP Marsudi concluded on Tuesday her visit to Bangladesh to seek lasting solutions for the plight of the Muslim Rohingya minority in...
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