Members of a UN Security Council team probing Myanmar’s crisis over its ethnic Rohingya Muslim minority arrive in the country’s capital after a visit to Bangladesh, where about 700,000 Rohingya who have fled military-led violence live in refugee camps.

UN Security Council delegates complete visit at the Rohingya camps in Ukhia and assess first-hand the plight of the refugees sheltered there and Bangladesh's role in handling the responsibility of 700,000.

The latest incident of the Rohingya refugee influx into Bangladesh has produced a scenario which is different from earlier influxes in two aspects: one is humanitarian, which can be legally interpreted in various ways, from forced displacement to genocide. Killings, torture, rape, forced expulsion and starvation has driven nearly one million Rohingyas to take refuge in Bangladesh since August 2017.

The recent comments made by three Nobel laureates when they visited Rohingya refugee camps in Cox's Bazar, have brought to the fore the need for the international community to be unanimous in taking concerted action against the genocide that forced more than a million Rohingyas to flee their homeland, Myanmar.

Diplomats stationed in Dhaka lay emphasis on "safe, voluntary and dignified" return of Rohingyas from Bangladesh to Myanmar to make their return sustainable.

We are appalled to learn that there are around 40,000 orphans among the three lakh children in the Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh.

Myanmar's civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi says it is “positive” that the country's military is taking responsibility for the actions of troops, after the army said soldiers are involved in killing 10 captured Rohingya Muslims.

Korea will provide more US $1.4 million as humanitarian assistance for Rohingya refugees who have crossed into Bangladesh from Myanmar following persecution.

Myanmar is to take back 450 Hindu refugees from Bangladesh at a refugee camp set up in Rakhine as the first step of repatriation process.

The United Nations' independent investigator into human rights in Myanmar calls for international pressure on China and Russia to try to get them to oppose human rights abuses in Myanmar.

The UNHCR has said it is increasingly worried about the deterioration of the overall environment in which Rohingya refugees are living, facing a multitude of protection risks.

The UN Refugee Agency will begin distributing warm clothing to Rohingya refugees sheltered in Cox’s Bazar of Bangladesh from Sunday, the organisation says.

The United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR) says that peace and stability must be restored in Myanmar's northern Rakhine state before any Rohingyas can return from Bangladesh, under international standards on voluntary repatriation.

A total of 83 HIV-infected Rohingya patients are traced in Cox's Bazar till August 25 last, Health Minister Mohammad Nasim tells parliament.

Bangladesh and Myanmar are expected to sign an 'Arrangement on Return of Displaced Persons from Rakhine State' in Naypyitaw on Thursday as some vital points are still to agree on.

Dhaka and Naypyitaw are in negotiation for reaching a bilateral agreement in a couple of days on repatriation of over six lakh Myanmar nationals who have taken shelter in Bangladesh to escape persecution in Rakhine State.

Rohingya refugees cannot return to Rakhine state until "real Myanmar citizens" are ready to accept them, the country's army chief said yesterday, casting doubt over government pledges to begin repatriating the persecuted Muslim minority.

The International Rescue Committee fears around two lakh more Rohingyas will flee to Bangladesh in coming weeks, exacerbating an already "unimaginable humanitarian crisis" in Cox's Bazar that already hosts over eight lakh refugees.

With no food, money and in constant fear in Rakhine State, Rohingyas are still trickling into Bangladesh.

The Commissioner of the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) Filippo Grandi lays emphasis on ensuring security, establishing human rights and rule of law for repatriation of the displaced Rohingya people in Rakhine state of Myanmar.