Army extends food and medical aid to tribals fleeing KNF violence

April 7, 2023

STAFF REPORTER Bandarban’s Ruma Army Zone and Upazila Administration have provided essential food and medical assistance to 20 families from Khiang Community who fled home out of fear of the KNF, or Kuki-Chin National Front. The tribal families, hailing from Bandarban’s Rowangchari Upazila, took shelter at the Bom Community Centre in the hill district’s Ruma […]Continue Reading

Thousands flee into Thailand after fighting between Myanmar military, rebels

April 6, 2023

NEWS DESK Fierce fighting between the Myanmar military and armed ethnic rebels has forced about 5,000 people to flee across the country’s border into Thailand this week, officials and media said on Thursday, Reuters reports. The clashes broke out when rebels in the southern Karen state attacked a military border guard outpost, according to reports […]Continue Reading

Myanmar navy arrests 130 Rohingya attempting to flee to Malaysia

April 6, 2023

NEWS DESK Nearly 130 Rohingya Muslims leaving Myanmar for Malaysia by boat were arrested by the junta’s navy in waters off Mon state on Sunday after brokers revealed information about them to local villagers, Radio Free Asia said in a report. A resident said a boat was seized when the arrests were made near the […]Continue Reading

KNF fear paralyzes three upazilas in Bandarban, leaving public in extreme distress

April 5, 2023

ROVING CORRESPONDENT, PARBATTA NEWS Life in the upazilas of Thanchi, Ruma, and Rowangchari in Bandarban has ground to a halt due to the criminal activities of the Kuki-Chin National Front (KNF), an armed terrorist organization. Its negative impact on the lives of the people in these areas has been immense, with millions forced to endure […]Continue Reading

HRW urges Bangladesh to halt Rohingya repatriation plan

April 1, 2023

NEWS  DESK Human Rights Watch on Friday (March 31) urged Bangladesh to suspend plans to repatriate Rohingya refugees to Myanmar, warning conditions there would not be safe for the persecuted and stateless minority. Bangladesh is home to around a million Rohingya, most of whom fled a 2017 military crackdown in neighbouring Myanmar that is now […]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

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