Bangladesh Perspective of Human Rights: A Retrospective Analysis with an Eye to the Future 38

March 31, 2023

Dr AK ABDUL MOMEN Bangladesh is probably unparallel in the world in a sense that very birth of Bangladesh was aimed for upholding democracy, human rights and justice. In 1970, when Bangladesh Awami League (AL) won majority votes to form the new government (out of 299 seat election AL got 167 plus 32 =199, PPP […]Continue Reading

An innocent Bawm villager killed by Bawm party terrorists in Mizoram

March 31, 2023

NEWS DESK It has been alleged that an innocent villager named Sanglianjual Bawm alias Passen Bawm (29) from Bandarban of Bangladesh was murdered by terrorists of Kuki-Chin National Front known as Bawm Party in Longtlai District of Mizoram State, India, HIll Voice reports. According to the sources, on March 19, 2023, the terrorists of the […]Continue Reading

Myanmar junta dissolves Suu Kyi’s party as election deadline passes

March 28, 2023

Myanmar’s military government has dissolved the ousted ruling party of former leader Aung San Suu Kyi and 39 other parties, state media announced on Tuesday, over their failure to register for an election set to prolong the army’s grip on power, Reuters reports. The National League for Democracy (NLD) is among dozens of parliamentary parties […]Continue Reading

‘Becoming visible’: India’s first female Rohingya graduate

March 28, 2023

Tasmida Johar, India’s first woman graduate from the displaced Rohingya community, says she is going through a “conflicting feeling” these days, AL Jazeera reports. “I feel happy about these headlines, ‘first this, first that’, but at the same time, it also makes me sad. I am happy because this is my achievement, of making it […]Continue Reading

22 pilgrims, mostly Bangladeshis, dead in Saudi bus crash: Mission

March 28, 2023

Most of the 22 pilgrims who were killed in a bus accident in Saudi Arabia on Monday are Bangladeshis, the Bangladesh Mission in Jeddah said on Tuesday. The bus carrying 47 people to the holy city of Makkah crashed and burst into flames in the Abha district of Asir Province of Saudi Arabia on Monday […]Continue Reading

More than 180 Rohingya Muslims arrive by boat in Indonesia’s Aceh

March 27, 2023

More than 180 Rohingya Muslims landed in Indonesia’s Aceh province on Monday, officials said, the latest among hundreds who have fled by boat from desperate conditions in Myanmar and in camps in Bangladesh. The United Nations refugee agency has said 2022 may have been one of the deadliest years at sea in almost a decade […]Continue Reading

Rohingya campaigners condemn Myanmar’s ‘opaque’ repatriation plan

March 25, 2023

The Myanmar military’s “pilot project” to repatriate about 1,000 Rohingya refugees from Bangladesh has been met with scepticism, with rights campaigners calling it a “PR campaign”, AL Jazeera reports. Last week, a delegation from Myanmar visited the world’s largest refugee camp in Bangladesh’s Cox’s Bazar district – home to more than 1 million Rohingya – […]Continue Reading

US imposes fresh sanctions on Myanmar, targets jet fuel suppliers

March 25, 2023

The United States on Friday announced further sanctions against Myanmar, targeting the supply of jet fuel to Myanmar’s military following air strikes in civilian populated areas, the US Treasury Department said, Reuters reports. The Treasury in a statement said it imposed sanctions on two people and six entities connected to Myanmar’s military that Washington Continue Reading

KNF abduction of retd Segreant Anwar Hossain sparks protest

March 24, 2023

CONTENT CREATOR, BANDARBAN BUREAU, Kuki Chin National Front, an armed terrorist group in Chittagong Hill Tracts, has abducted a retired sergeant, Anwar Hossain, (26 ECB) engaged in the border road construction along Ruma Upazila in Bandarban. The abduction prompted a protest by the Bandarnban district chapter ofParbatta Chattagram Nagarik Parishad (PCNP) at a human chain Continue Reading

Myanmar arrests 150 Rohingya fleeing to Malaysia

March 24, 2023

Myanmar authorities have arrested around 150 Rohingya suspected of trying to flee to Malaysia, an official told AFP on Friday. The group of men, women and children was arrested in Thanbyuzayat township in southern Myanmar, the official said, requesting anonymity as they were not authorized to talk to the media. The official did not specify […]Continue Reading