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

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

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

Chinese envoy hopes for 1st batch Rohingya repatriation soon

March 15, 2023

NEWS DESK Chinese ambassador to Bangladesh Yao Wen hoped that the first batch of displaced Rohingya would be repatriated to Myanmar soon while China to continue its role as mediator to resolve the crisis. “Hopefully on the joint efforts of all the parties, hopefully these are first batch of right issue could be taken place […]Continue Reading

Cox’s Bazar Rohingya camp fire: 35 unidentified people sued

March 15, 2023

NEWS DESK A case was filed on Tuesday (March 14) accusing 35 unidentified individuals in connection with the burning of over 2,800 structures in a massive fire at a Rohingya camp in  Ukhiya upazila of Cox’s Bazar on March 5. One Rohingya youth named Md Selim filed the case at Ukhiya police station on Tuesday, […]Continue Reading

The inside story of Myanmar govt’s info war on Rohingya

March 14, 2023

As sectarian tensions flared over the rape and killing of a Rakhine ethnic woman in May 2012, three reports from the Information Ministry arrived in the newsroom of the state-run Myanma Alin newspaper with orders to publish them without fail, The Irrawaddy writes. Two stories published by the state-run Myanma Alin Daily on June 5, […]Continue Reading

Training commander of Jamatul Ansar, 8 other militants arrested in Bandarban: RAB

March 13, 2023

NEWS DESK Nine members, including a training commander, of militant group Jamatul Ansar Fil Hindal Sharqiya have been arrested in a drive conducted by the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) at Tongkaboti in sadar upazila of Bandarban. Commander Khandaker Al Moin, director of Rab’s legal and media wing, revealed the information while briefing the media on Monday […]Continue Reading