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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Rohingya civilians across Maungdaw and Buthidaung Townships are facing a fresh wave of abductions, threats, and forced relocations by the Arakan Army (AA/ULA), according to multiple accounts from villagers and eyewitnesses. On May 25, AA fighters reportedly entered several Rohingya-majority villages, including Atein Ngak The, Nyaung Chaung, Panzi, and Badaga, where they rounded up male […]
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Navigating an existential crisis, refugees continue their desperate effort to assert their status as asylum seekers, not illegal migrants. By Basharat Amin The narrow and shrunken lane of Mecca Masjid Chowk (Mecca mosque square) in Jammu bustled with the usual chaos – shouts of vendors, the chatter of customers. Gouramya, a 40-year-old Rohingya Muslim refugee, […]
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In Rakhine, the Arakan Army – like the military junta – is forcibly recruiting men and women, exacerbating the civil war and aggravating the humanitarian crisis. Meanwhile, Rohingya face continued abuses after fleeing abroad. India is accused of arbitrarily detaining refugees and illegally pushing some back at sea, while fuelling the stigmatisation of Muslim refugees […]
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In Maungdaw town, the Arakan Army (ULA/AA) continues to seize shops owned by Rohingya people, located in prominent and busy commercial areas, according to local residents who spoke to AEN. These properties were originally developed on departmental lands under successive previous governments. Shop owners, including many Rohingya, had legally leased the land for long-term use […]
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Rohingya lives are being traded like contraband while states shirk responsibility Md Ibrahim Khalilullah Something deeply unsettling is unfolding along Bangladesh’s south-eastern frontier. The hills and forests of Bandarban are now a grim backdrop to a crisis that has been slowly boiling over — one that mixes geo-politics, human despair, and systemic neglect. It’s not […]
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It fears extreme desperation led to deaths of 427 Rohingya at sea UNB News UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, has called on the international community to stand in solidarity with the countries in the region including Bangladesh that have been hosting Rohingya refugees. Until the situation in Myanmar’s Rakhine State is peaceful and conducive to […]
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