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World
Don't let Myanmar go Rwanda's way
It has been over three weeks that the UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres had issued a letter, unprecedented in the last 28 years since the 1989 Lebanon conflict, to the Security Council for its action on the ethnic cleansing in Myanmar.
25 September 2017, 18:00 PM
Solution lies with Myanmar
Solution to the Rohingya crisis lies in the refugees returning voluntarily to Myanmar from Bangladesh in a safe and dignified manner, said United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi.
25 September 2017, 18:00 PM
Mount pressure to halt Myanmar military crackdown, APRRN asks int’l community
Asia Pacific Refugee Rights Network urges international community to apply all possible measures to mount pressure on Myanmar to halt military operations for protecting civilians and unfettered humanitarian access to Rakhine State.
25 September 2017, 15:53 PM
Malaysia's dissent on Myanmar statement reveals cracks in ASEAN facade
Dissent surfaces again in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) after Malaysia disavows a statement issued by the bloc's chairman, the Philippines, as misrepresenting "the reality" of an exodus of 430,000 ethnic Rohingya from Myanmar
25 September 2017, 14:39 PM
25,000 Rohingyas to be shifted from Bandarban to Cox’s Bazar: Quader
Bangladesh government will shift the nearly 25,000 Rohingyas, who have taken shelter in Naikhongchhari upazila of Bandarban, to Cox’s Bazar, Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader has said.
25 September 2017, 13:34 PM
Solution to Rohingya crisis lies with Myanmar: UNHCR chief
UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi says that the solutions to Rohingya refugee crisis lie with Myanmar.
25 September 2017, 12:55 PM
Undocumented Rohingyas see 3.7-fold rise: Report
Some 607,735 undocumented Rohingyas have been identified in four upazilas of Cox's Bazar district and 53 percent of them are women and girls, says a new report.
25 September 2017, 12:18 PM
China favours permanent solution of Rohingya crisis
Communist Party of China assures Bangladesh of convincing Myanmar government to resolve the Rohingya problem permanently. The assurance comes from a meeting in Beijing between the CPC and visiting 18-member Awami League delegation headed by its presidium member Lt Col (retd) Faruk Khan.
25 September 2017, 12:03 PM
India has no right to mistreat refugees: HRW
Human Rights Watch slams Indian authorities for “mistreating” the Rohingya refugees and said the country had no rights to conduct such behaviour.
25 September 2017, 07:35 AM
Horrific tale of a rescued Rohingya child
Bangladesh police rescue a Rohingya minor child, who came to the country fleeing persecution in Myanmar, from Muslimbagh residential area in Srimangal upazila of Moulvibazar.
25 September 2017, 06:37 AM
Bodies of 28 Hindu villagers found in Rakhine State: Myanmar
Myanmar government forces found on Sunday the bodies of 28 Hindu villagers who authorities suspected were killed by Muslim insurgents last month, at the beginning of a spasm of violence that has sent 430,000 Muslim Rohingya fleeing to Bangladesh.
25 September 2017, 04:43 AM
Night at a refugee camp
7:00pm
As the last relief truck departs, Shafiuallah Kata Pahar, a group of hillocks, reverts back to a strange sense of calm. People, carrying sacks of rice and packs of food, begin to return to their tents.
Suddenly, the hills seem to be dotted with fireflies. Lamps and candles masquerade as shining stars in the sky on a dark night, lighting up one by one.
24 September 2017, 18:00 PM
World's most urgent refugee crisis: UNHCR
As Rohingyas have continued to flee into Bangladesh, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Filippo Grandi warned of humanitarian disaster.
24 September 2017, 18:00 PM
No refugee status now for Rohingyas
The government is not now considering giving “refugee status” to the Rohingyas, who are entering Bangladesh fleeing persecution in Myanmar's Rakhine State, Industries Minister Amir Hossain Amu said yesterday.
24 September 2017, 18:00 PM
Influx, again
The influx of Rohingyas fleeing violence in Myanmar's Rakhine state had slowed in the last few days, but thousands have started pouring into Bangladesh again.
24 September 2017, 18:00 PM
Global community must step up Rohingya aid: UN
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees says that the exodus of Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar to Bangladesh is “the most urgent refugee emergency in the world” right now.
24 September 2017, 12:18 PM
Rohingyas in Bangladesh need 'massive' assistance: UN
Bangladesh needs "massive international assistance" to feed and shelter the 436,000 Rohingyas who have fled Myanmar in recent weeks, the head of the UN refugee agency says.
24 September 2017, 12:12 PM
Unicef aids for Rohingyas arrive
The first consignment of Unicef’s emergency supplies for Rohingya refugee children, that contains 100 tonnes of supplies, has arrived in Dhaka.
24 September 2017, 11:42 AM
Gang rape horrors haunt Rohingya refugees
Shamila clutches her daughter's hand so tightly it turns white as she recounts how soldiers broke into her home in Myanmar and gang-raped her in front of her children -- a story heard over and over in Bangladesh refugee camps.
24 September 2017, 11:24 AM
Turkey to build refugee camps for 1 lakh Rohingyas
Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency (TCCA) Coordinator Ahmed Rafiq says his country will build refugee camps for one lakh Rohingyas, who fled the persecution in Rakhine state of Myanmar, in the southeastern districts of Bangladesh.
24 September 2017, 10:57 AM