Rohingya crisis

Rohingyas and the cost of kindness

It is certain that the present Rohingya sensation will soon die down, and be replaced in public memory by something far more banal.
19 September 2017, 18:00 PM

Suu Kyi's first public speech

Needless to say that Myanmar's state counselor Aung San Suu Kyi's much awaited public speech regarding the crisis in the Rakhine state is deeply disappointing. We are shocked that she has chosen to gloss over the gross human rights violations carried out by Myanmarese security forces against Rohingyas.
19 September 2017, 18:00 PM

PM expects no help from Trump

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said she spoke to US President Donald Trump yesterday about Rohingyas flooding into Bangladesh from
19 September 2017, 18:00 PM

UN wants unfettered, full access to Rakhine

UN human rights investigators yesterday demanded "full and unfettered" access to Myanmar to probe the situation in its conflict-affected Rakhine State amid an aid group's fear of "very real risk" of deaths of Rohingyas there.
19 September 2017, 18:00 PM

Rains heap further woes on refugees

Nur Begum, 55, came to Bangladesh from Myanmar's Maungdaw with her young son and daughter in tow. She witnessed her husband
19 September 2017, 18:00 PM

Rohingya Crisis: PM seeks global support at UN

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina had talks with some dignitaries, including US President Donald Trump, attending the UN General
19 September 2017, 18:00 PM

UN chief urges Myanmar to halt military campaign against Rohingyas

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres urges Myanmar to halt its military campaign against Rohingya Muslims, just hours after Aung San Suu Kyi failed to quell an international outcry in a much-anticipated address.
19 September 2017, 14:19 PM

Refugees International urges Trump for sanctions on Myanmar

Refugee International urges US President Donald Trump to impose financial sanctions and arms embargo on Myanmar who is accused of ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity.
19 September 2017, 13:37 PM

India deeply concerned at recent spate of violence in Myanmar

India’s permanent representative to UN in Geneva, Rajiv K. Chander says India is deeply concerned about the recent spate of violence in Myanmar's Rakhine state that has forced to flee a large number of Rohingyas to neighbouring Bangladesh.
19 September 2017, 13:31 PM

New satellite imagery shows 214 villages of Rohingyas almost totally destroyed in Rakhine

A new analysis of satellite imagery from Myanmar’s Rakhine state shows 214 villages of Rohingyas almost totally destroyed, Human Rights Watch says.
19 September 2017, 11:20 AM

Hefajat wants end to killing of Rohingyas

Hefajat-e Islam, a Qawmi madrasa-based radical organisation, yesterday submitted memorandums to Myanmar embassy in Dhaka and office of the United Nations Resident Coordinator in Bangaldesh to stop ethnic cleansing of Rohingyas in Myanmar.
18 September 2017, 18:00 PM

Dhaka to deal with Rohingya issue diplomatically: Inu

Information Minister Hasanul Huq Inu says Bangladesh will deal with Myanmar through diplomatic channels to put a peaceful end to the Rohingya crisis.
18 September 2017, 10:22 AM

Rohingyas are security threat, India govt tells SC

Indian government tells the Supreme Court that it has intelligence of links between some Rohingya Muslims and Pakistan’s ISI and terror group Islamic State, making them “a serious security threat to the country”.
18 September 2017, 08:40 AM

Militants can’t penetrate into Rohingyas: IGP

Bangladesh Police rules out any possibility of militant groups penetrating among the vulnerable population of Rohingya refugees sheltered.
18 September 2017, 08:27 AM

‘Leave, or we will kill you all’

Thousands of Rohingya Muslims in violence-racked northwest Myanmar are pleading with authorities for safe passage from two remote villages that are cut off by hostile Buddhists and running short of food.
18 September 2017, 04:23 AM

The limits to history

Public discussions around Rohingya people currently fleeing violence in Rakhine state, Myanmar, have often involved arguments about history. While critical historical analysis is useful in offering insights into conflicts, History—if treated as a single, knowable past—is not. This is especially true when dealing with ethnicity. Whatever the past was, no amount of historical research can justify the current violence against Rohingya people.
17 September 2017, 18:00 PM

Suu Kyi’s last chance

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres says Myanmar's de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi has "a last chance" to halt an army offensive that has forced tens of thousands of Rohingyas to flee to Bangladesh. "The tragedy will be absolutely horrible" unless she acted now, Guterres told BBC's HARDtalk ahead of UN General Assembly that will feature the Rohingya refugee crisis, one of the fastest growing in recent years.
17 September 2017, 18:00 PM

Rohingya was never ethnic group

Myanmar's army chief has urged the country to unite over the "issue" of the Rohingya, a minority group he says was never an ethnic group, and which his troops are accused of systematically purging.
17 September 2017, 18:00 PM

A friend in need is a friend indeed

Two years ago, Bangladesh felt a “strengthened bond” with India that “would benefit people of the two countries as well as of the
17 September 2017, 18:00 PM

Rohingyas fan out

Law enforcers are struggling to stop the spread of Rohingyas from registered as well as temporary camps as middlemen and locals are helping the refugees to settle outside the camps.
16 September 2017, 18:00 PM