FLAG MEETING: Myanmar BGP regrets as BGB raises airspace breach, border shelling

October 30, 2022

HNILA, TEKNAF CORRESPONDENTS Myanmar’s Border Guard Police (BGP) has sincerely expressed regret over the recent shelling inside Bangladesh and the violation of its airspace. They also assured that such things will not repeat in the future as their (Myanmar’s) internal crisis that led to such things will be resolved soon. The BGP came up with […]Continue Reading

41 arrested during drives in Cox’s Bazar Rohingya camps

October 29, 2022

NEWS DESK Armed Police Battalion (APBn) arrested 41 Rohingyas, including six accused in murder cases, during a combing operation in Rohingya camps of Cox’s Bazar. Of the arrestees, 28 were later jailed for different terms by mobile courts for various offences, said Faruk Ahmed, assistant superintendent (media) of APBn-8 in Cox’s Bazar. The six murder […]Continue Reading

Myanmar warns ASEAN that pressure would be counterproductive

October 28, 2022

NEWS DESK Myanmar’s military government has warned that any pressure from its Southeast Asian neighbours to put a time frame on a peace plan would create “negative implications”, Al Jazeera reports. The military government made the statement in response to a meeting earlier on Thursday by foreign ministers from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations […]Continue Reading

Myanmar army pledges to maintain peace along border with Bangladesh

October 28, 2022

NEWS DESK The Myanmar army has pledged to maintain peace and security at the border with Bangladesh in the face of an upsurge in incidents of shells landing in the neighboring nation while fighting armed rebel groups, Anadolu Agency reports. The assurance was given by a Myanmar army delegation at a meeting with Bangladesh Army […]Continue Reading

ASEAN chair warns over rising Myanmar violence ahead of meeting

October 27, 2022

NEWS DESK The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is gravely concerned about escalating violence in Myanmar, the bloc’s chair Cambodia said, in remarks ahead of a special meeting of its foreign ministers on Thursday to discuss the crisis. “We are deeply saddened by the growing casualties, and the immense suffering that ordinary people in […]Continue Reading

Myanmar junta strips Rohingya of ownership of land they were forced to flee in 2017

October 27, 2022

NEWS DESK Noor Kamal, 31, was one of more than 700,000 ethnic Rohingya from northern Rakhine State who marked the fifth anniversary of their painful exodus from their homeland this past August. Now living at the Shofiullah Kata refugee camp in Bangladesh, Noor can hardly imagine what his native village of Myin Hlut, in conflict-torn […]Continue Reading

2 Rohingya men shot dead in Cox’s Bazar

October 27, 2022

NEWS DESK Criminals shot dead two Rohingya men after picking them up from their houses in the refugee camp of Ukhiya upazila in Cox’s Bazar early today (October 27, 2022). The deceased are Ayat Ullah (40) and Mohammad Yeasin (30). With them, at least seven Rohingya men including a child were shot dead in Cox’s […]Continue Reading

Maj Gen Hamidul Haque made DGFI chief

October 26, 2022

NEWS DESK Major General Hamidul Haque, the GOC of 17 Infantry Division and Area Commander of Sylhet, has been assigned to Directorate General of Forces Intelligence (DGFI) as its director general (DG), according to an official order of the army headquarters issued by the AHQ’s military secretary Major General Khan Firoz Ahmed on Wednesday (Oct […]Continue Reading

ANALYSIS: Rohingya look on Arakan Army as saviours in fight with Myanmar’s junta

October 26, 2022

NEWS DESK Civilian casualties have been reported in renewed fighting between Myanmar’s junta troops and the Arakan Army (AA) in Rakhine State. Fierce fighting has taken place in Maungdaw, Buthidaung and Rathedaung townships, known as Mayu region in western Rakhine and neighboring Paletwa Township in Chin State since early August. More than 10,000 people have […]Continue Reading

World has left Bangladesh to shelter 1m Rohingya refugees alone, says minister

October 26, 2022

NEWS DESK The world has done “absolutely nothing” to ensure safety in Myanmar for its persecuted Rohingya minority, said Bangladesh’s foreign minister, complaining that his country is sheltering more than 1 million refugees without support, The Guardian reports. Foreign minister Shahriar Alam told the Guardian that financial support for the Rohingya has decreased each year Continue Reading