Rohingya crisis

Army joins aid operation for Rohingyas

To bring discipline in aid operation for Rohingyas those took shelter recently fleeing the atrocities in Myanmar, members of Bangladesh Army has joined the activities, setting up control room at Ukhiya Degree College.
23 September 2017, 13:51 PM

Bangladesh won’t respond to Myanmar provocation: Quader

Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader says Bangladesh will not respond to any provocation of Myanmar despite repeated violation of its airspace by its drones and helicopters.
23 September 2017, 09:18 AM

World must join to stop Rohingya genocide: Shabana Azmi

The violence against Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar amounts to genocide and the world must get together to stop it, says actor-activist Shabana Azmi.
23 September 2017, 07:29 AM

Half of UN Security Council ask UN chief to publicly brief on Myanmar

Seven members of the United Nations Security Council, including the United States and Britain, ask UN chief Antonio Guterres to publicly brief the 15-member body next week on the violence in Myanmar that he has described as ethnic cleansing.
23 September 2017, 04:37 AM

PM urges quick, effective UN steps

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has sought expeditious UN and global interventions to protect all civilians in Myanmar's Rakhine State and take effective steps for a permanent solution to the protracted Rohingya crisis. Addressing the UN General Assembly in New York on Thursday, she called upon the UN secretary-general to immediately send a “fact-finding mission” to Rakhine.
22 September 2017, 18:00 PM

Expecting mothers in urgent need of food, healthcare

Amid several hundred Rohingya people, Sajeda Begum was trying her best to grab some food or other aid thrown from running vehicles on Cox's Bazar-Teknaf road yesterday.
22 September 2017, 18:00 PM

Fresh fires, blast hit Rakhine

Twenty homes caught fire and a bomb was detonated near a mosque in Myanmar's Rakhine state, the government said yesterday, the
22 September 2017, 18:00 PM

Rohingya crisis: Bangladesh cracking down propagandists on Facebook

Bangladesh is stepping up to face the propagation of hate campaigns and false information regarding the country’s ongoing Rohingya refugee crisis on the social media.
22 September 2017, 13:04 PM

Rohingya refugee camps on the brink of a 'health disaster': MSF

Bangladesh's refugee camps are on the brink of a "public health disaster," Doctors Without Borders (MSF) warns, saying filthy water and faeces flow through shanties now bursting with Rohinyga Muslims who have fled violence in Myanmar.
22 September 2017, 09:27 AM

$200mn needed for Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh for 6 months: UN

The United Nations estimates that $200 million will be needed over the next six months to help Rohingya Muslims refugees who have fled to Bangladesh from Myanmar in "massive numbers" to escape a bloody military campaign.
22 September 2017, 09:13 AM

Permanent Peoples' Tribunal finds Myanmar guilty of Rohingya genocide

The Myanmar government is guilty of genocide against the Rohingya people and other Muslim minorities, according to the international Permanent Peoples' Tribunal.
22 September 2017, 07:58 AM

Rohingya crisis dents Myanmar hopes of Western investment boom

When officials from Myanmar's commercial capital Yangon toured six European countries in June, they were hoping to drum up investment in transport, energy and education.
22 September 2017, 06:09 AM

Act right now for permanent solution to Rohingya refugee crisis: Hasina to UN

Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina urges the United Nations and the international community to take effective steps for the permanent solution to Rohingyas, who fled to Bangladesh for violence, killing and torture in Myanmar.
22 September 2017, 00:24 AM

Force Myanmar to take back Rohingyas

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday urged Director General of the International Organization for Migration (IOM) William Lacy
21 September 2017, 18:16 PM

9,000 logged in nine days

Around 9,000 Rohingya refugees have been brought under biometric registration in nine days after the listing began on September 12.
21 September 2017, 18:00 PM

World must speak up for Rohingyas

As I watched President Trump deliver his speech to the UN General Assembly in New York on the morning of September 19, I couldn't help but be dismayed by the fact that he did not consider the current round of ethnic cleansing carried out by the Myanmarese military rulers egregious enough to mention it even once during his speech.
21 September 2017, 18:00 PM

It's genocide

French President Emmanuel Macron has termed the attacks on Myanmar's Rohingya minority as genocide and called on the international community to act to stop it.
21 September 2017, 18:00 PM

Rohingyas missing in his call

Myanmar's army chief yesterday called for people internally displaced by violence in Rakhine State to go home and rebuild
21 September 2017, 18:00 PM

Myanmar VP's mendacious claims

Myanmar's Vice-President Henry Van Thio's statement on the ongoing Rohingya crisis at the UNGA can only be described as scandalous.
21 September 2017, 18:00 PM

Take back Rohingyas

US Ambassador to Bangladesh Marcia Bernicat has called on Myanmar to immediately end the violence in Rakhine state, restore peace
21 September 2017, 18:00 PM