The military regime on Monday promulgated a law criminalizing the unauthorized transfer of military secrets. The Military Secrets Protection Law defines “military secrets” as “military grand strategies, strategies, tactics, and matters related to military training, technologies and technical systems concerning naval vessels, aircraft, other vehicles, machinery, weapons, ammunition, and military equipment used by the Tatmadaw […]
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Arakan Army Detains Around 60 Rohingya Farmers in Buthidaung Township. The Arakan Army (AA) detained nearly 60 Rohingya civilians from paddy fields and farms in Sein Hnyin Pya and Tha Baik Taung villages in Buthidaung Township on 25 July. Eyewitnesses said the detainees, including at least four members from a single family, were taken while […]
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In August 2017, a deadly crackdown by Myanmar’s army on Rohingya Muslims in Rakhine State sent hundreds of thousands fleeing across the border into Bangladesh. Those persecuted joined around 300,000 people already in Bangladesh from previous waves of displacement, effectively forming the world’s largest refugee camp. Today, Bangladesh is hosting over 1.2 million Rohingyas in […]
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Arakan Army Extorts Rohingya, Imposes Tolls on Their Vehicles for Passage in Maungdaw Since July 22, the Arakan Army (AA), a separatist group, has been extorting money from vehicles owned by Rohingya passing through a stone-paved junction connecting the villages of Hla Phoe Khaung, Pyinphyu, and Kyaukhlaykhar in Maungdaw, Arakan State, western Myanmar. A motorcycle […]
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We are deeply saddened and alarmed to report another tragic incident of forced displacement carried out by the Arakan Army (AA) in northern Arakan State. A group of 70 Rohingya families nearly 200 innocent people from areas around Maungdaw, including Nait Ordil, Shwe Za, Monni Para, and Rohingya Para, were arrested and detained by the […]
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Mohsin Naqvi on 1st official visit to Bangladesh amid strengthening ties between the 2 countries Pakistan on Wednesday said it is “only issuing” passports to displaced members of the Rohingya community, not granting them citizenship, Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi said. “We are not giving them citizenship. But we are giving them passports with a different […]
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Fortify Rights Accuses Arakan Army of Crimes Against Muslims Fortify Rights, a human rights organization that investigates human rights violations, has released a report alleging that members of the Arakan Army (AA) have committed crimes against Muslims in Rakhine State. According to the statement issued on July 23, Fortify Rights accuses AA members of abducting, […]
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Bangladesh Air Force (BAF) training aircraft (F-7 BGI) crashed into a building inside the Milestone College campus at Diabari in the capital’s Uttara after experiencing a technical malfunction shortly after take-off, said ISPR. The Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said this in a statement on Monday evening (July 21). “The aircraft had departed from the Bangladesh […]
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The agreement was signed this week by UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk and Bangladesh’s Foreign Secretary Asad Alam Siam, according to a statement issued Friday by the UN Human Rights Office in Geneva. The Government of Bangladesh and the United Nations Human Rights Office have signed a three-year Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) […]
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Amid rising calls for justice and reconciliation in the Chittagong Hill Tracts, Foreign Affairs Adviser Touhid Hossain affirms the government’s intent to identify and address implementation delays in the 1997 Peace Accord Foreign Affairs Adviser Md Touhid Hossain on Saturday emphasized the government’s commitment to identifying and resolving the longstanding challenges that have stalled the […]
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