Monthly Archives: December 2018
Look back 2018: Year of hope and despair for South-east Asia
Rohingya Muslim Kalim Ullah, his wife Taiyeba Begum and their children are taking shelter in their relatives' tent at a camp in Bangladesh to avoid forced repatriation to Myanmar.
Rohingya Muslim Kalim Ullah,...
Smokescreen Rohingya: the bad actors exploiting a growing refugee crisis
Since the latest influx of Rohingya refugees began in August 2017, more than 140 NGOs and aid agencies have launched operations in Cox’s Bazar, with thousands of aid workers in tow.
Many of those arriving...
What life is like in a refugee camp
The heat and dust in Kutupalong refugee camp is unrelenting, even now during what’s considered the winter period.
It’s the sort of weather that drives most Australians to the beach or indoors to the cool...
Lost Idol: New Wave of Myanmar Youth Activists Look Beyond Suu Kyi
YANGON — Myanmar youth activist and television host Thinzar Shun Lei Yi would once have called herself one of Aung San Suu Kyi's greatest fans. Now, she is one of her most vocal critics.
The...
Rohingya Refugee Killed in Fighting between Bangladesh Army and Chakma Rebels
Cox's Bazaar – A Rohingya refugee working as a day labourer in a road construction project was killed in fighting between Bangladesh's army and Chakma separatist rebels in Bangladesh on Sunday (Dec 23), sources...
Myanmar Rohingya Crisis: Recent Development
Tensions between Buddhist and Muslim communities in Myanmar's Rakhine State have escalated dramatically since late August 2017. A series of attacks by a group of Rohingya militants calling itself the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army...
Rohingya End Hard Year Still in Limbo
More than 750,000 Rohingya Muslim refugees who fled military attacks in Myanmar remain in Bangladesh camps as future repatriation and resettlement plans remain unclear. Steve Sandford reports on the challenges that lie ahead for...
Fake News and Massacre Marketing in the Rohingya Crisis – PART I: Questioning the...
Myanmar’s Rohingya crisis gripped the world’s conscience like never before in late 2017, as the largest-yet exodus of Muslim refugees poured from northern Rakhine state into Bangladesh. An estimated 600,000 or more made the...
Hampstead aid worker on spending Christmas helping Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh
While Hampstead families tuck into their Christmas dinner today, Kristiana Marton will be doing the same more than 5,000 miles away.
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Opinions | Myanmar forced Rohingya from their homes. Now it’s trying to make the...
A newly arrived Rohingya refugee child licks the cheek of her mother, Azida Khatoon, 20, as they wait in a food line in the Kutupalong refugee camp near Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, earlier this year.©...
SA vote in support of UN resolution on human rights in Myanmar part of...
Normal life returned to a Rohingya Muslim refugee camp in Bangladesh after government officials postponed plans to begin repatriating residents to Myanmar when no one volunteered to go. (Dar Yasin, AP)
Normal life returned to...
A gift from God’: the Rohingya refugees adopting orphaned babies
Dildar Begum with her adopted daughter Rahima, in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. She shares her hut with her husband, who is in his 70s, and her son, who is in his 20s and has...
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Hundreds of Rohingya families flee India for fear of deportation, persecution
Hundreds of Rohingya families flee India for fear of deportation, persecution
Some 2,000 Rohingya Muslims, who had fled to India from death and violence...
Myanmar army kills 13 in attack on Rakhine rebels
Myanmar’s Brigadier General Zaw Min Tun, Major General Soe Naing Oo, and Major General Tun Tun Nyi say the army hit back at...
From India to Bangladesh: 1,300 Rohingya fear repatriation to Myanmar
The refugees are from far away Indian Kashmir. To reach south-east Bangladesh, refugees cross the Indian states of Assam, Tripura or West Bengal. On...
31 Rohingyas waiting to make border crossings to Bangladesh from India
More Rohingyas are waiting to enter Bangladesh through Brahmanbaria’s Kasba border from India amid fears of deportation to Myanmar.
“As many as 31 Rohingya women,...
Speakers: Bangladesh needs to intensify action to resolve Rohingya crisis
It should move to deportation issues rather than genocide for international prosecution
Speakers at a symposium have said Bangladesh’s diplomatic and humanitarian initiatives...