Karim Ullah, a Rohingya who fled Maungdaw town in Myanmar’s Rakhine State, described the dire situation: “Since the Arakan Army took control, I’ve been unable to work. There’s no medical care, and Arakan Army members raid my home, beating me on false pretexts.” He relocated his family to Bangladesh’s Balukhali camp in Cox’s Bazar. He […]
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Rohingya refugees, who fled Myanmar to escape persecution and genocide, have called for their return to their homeland, describing their life in Bangladesh as that of “birds in a cage”. The Rohingya leaders stressed that returning home is the only solution to their suffering, but the growing influence of the Arakan Army insurgent group in […]
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The Burmese Rohingya Organisation UK (BROUK) released a new report on 12 June entitled ‘Starving to death: the latest phase of the Rohingya genocide’ detailing the use of deliberate starvation as a strategy by the Myanmar junta and calling for action by the British government and international community. The text of the press release for […]
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The Border Security Force of India has recently pushed at least 122 Rohingyas, including 48 registered by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in India, into Bangladesh. The Office of the Refugee Relief and Repatriation Commissioner said that they could detect 117 Rohingyas, including 43 registered by the UNHCR in India, who were pushed […]
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Myanmar declaring a portion of Rohingya refugees eligible for repatriation might sound like overwhelmingly good news. But in reality, they cannot return as long as the Arakan Army controls Rakhine A Facebook post from the verified page of the Chief Adviser to Bangladesh’s interim government broke the internet on Friday. After all, it offered […]
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Amid escalating violence in Myanmar’s Rakhine State, Rohingyas are trespassing into Bangladesh every day, crossing the border allegedly to escape the brutality of Myanmar’s rebel group, the Arakan Army (AA). Rohingya sources said back in Rakhine State, they faced killings, enforced disappearances, torture and forced recruitment into the rebel group as human shields against junta forces and […]
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Church members recall receiving calls from family members after India cast them into the sea, forcing them to swim to Myanmar’s shores. For the past 13 years, the small Christian Rohingya community in Delhi—which numbers 150—has rented rooms to worship in three congregations each Sunday. The two pastors had been going through the Sermon on […]
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May 6 marked the final day of Rohingya human rights defender Mohammad Arfat’s arbitrary detention in Indian jails. After more than four years behind bars, he was taken to the Bangladesh border and deported under the cover of darkness along with two other Bangladeshi migrants. “Don’t come back. We will shoot you directly,” warned an […]
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Rohingya refugees and Bangladeshi host communities alike live in an area highly susceptible to flooding, landslides, cyclones and other weather shocks, says UN official Gwyn Lewis UNB The United Nations (UN) on Monday urgently called on donors to step forward and contribute generously to ensure that the vulnerable communities in Cox’s Bazar – Rohingyas and […]
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According to reliable sources, the United League of Arakan (ULA)/Arakan Army (AA) has been resettling Rakhine families in vacant Rohingya villages within Buthidaung Township after forcibly evicting Rohingyas from these areas. Following AA’s military operations in Buthidaung Township that began around March 2024, many Rohingya villages were reportedly burned, and Rohingyas were forcibly expelled by […]
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