Myanmar junta chief family assets found in Thai drug raid

January 11, 2023

Thai officials found assets belonging to adult children of Myanmar’s junta leader during a raid on the Bangkok apartment of a Myanmar tycoon charged with drug trafficking and money laundering, according to an official record and two people with knowledge of the case, Reuters reports. Title deeds and bankbooks belonging to Min Aung Hlaing’s daughter […]Continue Reading

Myanmar jails 112 Rohingya who tried to leave country

January 10, 2023

The UN refugee agency says the number of dangerous boat journeys attempted by the Rohingya rose sixfold in 2022 [File: Amanda Jufrian/AFP] Myanmar has jailed 112 people, including 12 children, from the minority Rohingya after they were caught attempting to leave the country, Al Jazeera reports. The court in Bogale in the southern Ayeyarwady region […]Continue Reading

Rohingya leader stabbed dead in Cox’s Bazar

January 8, 2023

NEWS DESK A Rohingya community leader (Rohingya majhi) has been stabbed to death at Palongkhali camp in Ukhiya upazila of Cox’s Bazar. The deceased was identified as Rashid Ahmed, 36, a resident of no. 15 Jamtoli camp in Palongkhali. Two to three unidentified miscreants stabbed Rashid in his second wife’s shed at the camp around […]Continue Reading

Boat with 185 Rohingya refugees land in Indonesia’s Aceh

January 8, 2023

A boat with 185 Rohingya refugees landed on the shores of Indonesia’s Aceh province on Sunday, a local disaster agency official said, following hundreds who arrived late last year fleeing desperate conditions in refugee camps in Bangladesh, Reuters reports. Over half of those who arrived around 2:30 p.m. Sunday were women and children, Ridwan Jamil, […]Continue Reading

3 Rohingya poets at Dhaka Lit Fest say they want to return home

January 6, 2023

NEWS DESK Attending the 10th edition of Dhaka Lit Fest, three Rohingya poets have expressed their desire to return home. Rohingya poets and photographers Abdullah Habib, Shahida Win, and Ayala Akter expressed such a desire in a discussion session titled “Alternate Voices” at the Bardhoman building in the Bangla Academy on the second day of […]Continue Reading

Rohingya man shot in Cox’s Bazar camp

January 6, 2023

TEKNAF AND PALANGKHALI CORRESPONDENTS A Rohingya man has been shot by miscreants at a Rohingya camp in Cox’s Bazar district. The incident occurred at B-39 Block under Rohingya Camp-8 (East) under the district’s Ukhia upazila around 4:00 pm on Friday (Jan 6, 2023). Identified as Mohammad Nabi, son of Mohammad Kashim, the injured Rohingya has […]Continue Reading

Group of 39 Rohingya arrested in Myanmar

January 5, 2023

NEWS DESK A group of 39 Muslim Rohingya were arrested by the Military Council on 2 January at 10:30 am in Hinthada township, Ayeyarwaddy Region, Mizzima News reports. The Rohingya people were hiding inside a stone-carrying vehicle near Hinthada University Road. According to a local witness, the vehicle did not stop at a checkpoint and […]Continue Reading

Dream of Normal Life Drives Rohingya Girls to Perilous Sea Voyage

January 5, 2023

NEWS DESK Dressed in an embroidered salmon-hued outfit and sparkling silver boots, a girl gazes seriously into the camera. She stands in stark contrast to the dingy background — walls and a roof fashioned out of crisscrossed bamboo sticks and plastic drape sheets, VOA reports. The photograph is sent to a network of relatives and […]Continue Reading

Bangladesh reiterates call for Rohingya repatriation on Myanmar Independence Day

January 4, 2023

Bangladesh has reiterated its call for the repatriation of Rohingyas to their homeland Myanmar in a safe and sustainable manner. “Bangladesh hopes to be relieved from the colossal burden of sheltering displaced Myanmar residents through arranging their long pending safe, dignified, voluntary, and sustainable repatriation to their homeland,” said the Ministry of Continue Reading

Myanmar’s military honours anti-Muslim monk, frees prisoners

January 4, 2023

An ultranationalist monk in Myanmar, who was once dubbed the “face of Buddhist terror” over his role in promoting religious hatred against Muslims, has received a prestigious national award as the country’s military rulers celebrate independence from Britain, AL Jazeera reports. The monk, Wirathu, was awarded the honorific “Thiri Pyanchi” title for his “outstanding work Continue Reading