STAFF CORRESPONDENT, BANDARBAN Ethnic minorities have said they have nothing to do with the newly launched Kuki-Chin National Front (KNF), an armed separatist group based in Chittagong Hill Tracts. They announced this at a press conference at Arun Sarki Town Hall in Bandarban district town on Tuesday amid claims by the KNF that ethnic minorities […]Continue Reading
A Rohingya community leader (majhi) was shot dead by unknown criminals at a camp in Ukhiya upazila of Cox’s Bazar. Deceased Shafi Ullah, 40, was a resident and the leader of Block B of Balukhali Camp 8, said Sheikh Md Ali, officer-in-charge of Ukhiya Police Station. The incident took place at Balukhali camp (East) in […]Continue Reading
At least 180 ethnic Rohingya stranded at sea for weeks after leaving Bangladesh in November are feared dead, as their rickety boat is thought to have sunk this month, the United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR) said, Reuters reports. Citing unconfirmed reports, the agency said the “unseaworthy” boat probably sank after it went missing in the […]Continue Reading