Rohingya Crisis
Bangladesh focusing on repatriation; Bhasan Char temporary arrangement: Shahriar
Bhasan Char issue will be there in the 2021 Joint Response Plan (JRP) but the details will be known after its formal launching on Tuesday, State Minister for Foreign Affairs M Shahriar Alam said today.
17 May 2021, 14:14 PM
Rohingya relocation: UN positive about Bhasan Char
The UN has expressed its positive attitude on the Bhasan Char project, which is meant to relocate 100,000 Rohingya from the camps in Cox’s Bazar.
16 April 2021, 05:32 AM
Eleven killed as Myanmar protesters fight troops with handmade guns, firebombs: media
Anti-coup demonstrators in Myanmar fought back with handmade guns and firebombs against a crackdown by security forces in a town in the northwest but at least 11 of the protesters were killed, domestic media reported on Thursday.
8 April 2021, 12:50 PM
Happy with Bhasan Char facilities: Rohingyas tell visiting foreign diplomats
Rohingyas, now living in Bhasan Char, today interacted with visiting foreign diplomats and expressed their willingness to return to their homeland, Myanmar.
3 April 2021, 16:28 PM
Foreign envoys visit Bhasan Char
Ambassadors and High Commissioners of Australia, Canada, the European Union, Japan, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Turkey, the United Kingdom, and the United States of America today visited Bhasan Char to see the facilities in place for the Rohingyas.
3 April 2021, 14:54 PM
Not writing off ‘subversion’ behind Rohingya camp fire: home minister
Home Minster Asaduzzaman Khan has said they are not writing off a “subversive plan” behind the massive fire in Balukhali Rohingya camp.
24 March 2021, 11:11 AM
$20m required to respond to urgent needs after Rohingya camp fire: IOM
International Organization for Migration (IOM) has pledged US$ 1 million from its emergency fund for the relief efforts in the Rohingya camps following Monday's fire. It said further US$ 20 million is required to respond to the most urgent needs.
24 March 2021, 09:41 AM
Ukhiya Rohingya camp fire: Official death toll 11
Authorities have so far recovered 11 bodies from the ruins at Balukhali refugee camp in Ukhiya, Cox's Bazar in the aftermath of the deadly fires that burned several thousand shanties yesterday.
23 March 2021, 12:56 PM
Relocation to Bhasan Char: 1,073 Rohingyas leave Cox’s Bazar
A total of 1,073 Rohingyas left Ukhiya of Cox’s Bazar today, to go to Noakhali’s Bhasan Char.
2 March 2021, 08:39 AM
Malaysia to ask Bangladesh to take back Rohingya refugees found at sea
Malaysia will ask Bangladesh to take back about 300 Rohingya refugees detained after a boat carrying them entered its waters this week, the southeast Asian nation's defence minister said on Tuesday.
9 June 2020, 11:16 AM
Rohingya repatriation: Bangladesh urges EU for more pressure on Myanmar
Bangladesh has urged the European Union to put more pressure on Myanmar to take back Rohingya refugees living in makeshift camps in Cox’s Bazar.
3 June 2020, 19:11 PM
Evidence of genocide still stands in Myanmar: Gambia
The Gambia claims that the evidence of Rohingya genocide by the Myanmar military still stands in Rakhine. They place documents including pictures of torturing and killing Rohingya people as the evidence of Genocide before UN top court.
12 December 2019, 09:07 AM
Remove hatred from your heart: Rights bodies to Suu Kyi
Different international rights bodies condemn Aung San Suu Kyi’s argument in social media as the Myanmar leader ruled out the allegation of ongoing genocide at Rohingya villages in Rakhine.
11 December 2019, 17:13 PM
95 Rohingyas in Myanmar face jail as Hague hears 'genocide' case
Nearly 100 Rohingya appeared in a Myanmar court Wednesday after being arrested for trying to flee persecution, their lawyer said, as leader Aung San Suu Kyi addressed the UN's top court to deny allegations of a genocidal campaign against the ethnic minority.
11 December 2019, 11:59 AM
PM places 4 proposals before UNGA, dubs Rohingya crisis a regional threat
With a pleading that Myanmar must manifest a clear political will for sustainable return and reintegration of Rohingyas to their homeland, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has placed a four-point proposal before the 74th United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) to resolve the protracted Rohingya crisis.
28 September 2019, 03:54 AM
'People are dying': UN official urges aid access for Myanmar's Rakhine state
A UN official has urges Myanmar to grant aid workers “predictable, sustained access” to Rakhine state, where fighting between government troops and rebels has displaced nearly 33,000 people since late last year, saying lack of aid has cost lives.
16 May 2019, 10:48 AM
Myanmar not working as per commitment on Rohingya repatriation: PM
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said Myanmar is not working as per its commitment with Bangladesh on the repatriation of their Rohingya nationals to their homeland.
25 February 2019, 15:43 PM
Help repatriate Rohingyas
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday invited UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to visit Bangladesh to see for himself the plight of
6 April 2018, 18:00 PM
Myanmar militarising Rohingya villages
Myanmar is militarising Rakhine Sate at an alarming pace as it is building security force bases and bulldozing Rohingya villages, making the voluntary, safe and dignified return of Rohingya refugees an even more distant prospect, Amnesty International said yesterday.
12 March 2018, 18:00 PM
UN to gather evidence on genocide in Myanmar
The UN has planned to amass evidence of genocide on Rohingyas through a judicial investigation, said United Nations Special Adviser on Genocide Prevention Adama Dieng in a meeting with National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) Chairman Kazi Reazul Hoque.
11 March 2018, 18:00 PM