Myanmar Junta: Rohingya Repatriations Planned

February 9, 2023

NEWS DESK Myanmar’s junta says it is working to bring back Rohingya refugees who fled Rakhine State for Bangladesh following the military’s supposed counter-insurgency operations in 2017, The Irrawaddy reports. Junta leaders, including International Cooperation Minister U Ko Ko Hlaing, Border Affairs Minister Lieutenant General Tun Tun Naung, Social Welfare, Relief and Continue Reading

Huge earthquake kills 2,400 in Turkey and Syria, bad weather worsens plight

February 6, 2023

A huge earthquake killed more than 2,400 people across a swathe of Turkey and northwest Syria on Monday, with freezing winter weather adding to the plight of the many thousands left injured or homeless and hampering efforts to find survivors, Reuters reports. The magnitude 7.8 quake brought down whole apartment blocks in Turkish cities and […]Continue Reading

Bangladesh facing internal security threats in fallout of Rohingya crisis

February 5, 2023

Brig Gen (Retd) Dr M Sakhawat Hussain on Tuesday (Jan 31) said that the Rohingya crisis is already creating internal security threats and Bangladesh could become a “hotbed” in the future if the situation turns into a regional conflict involving India-China-the USA. The former Election Commissioner made the remarks at a seminar titled “Restoring Peace […]Continue Reading

New sanctions hit Myanmar junta

February 1, 2023

Myanmar’s junta was granted a six-month extension to a state of emergency, state media reported on Wednesday, likely delaying elections the military had pledged to hold by August, AFP reports. The country has been in turmoil since the army’s power grab in 2021, and a subsequent crackdown on dissent has sparked fighting across swathes of […]Continue Reading

8 Rohingyas jailed for life in Cox’s Bazar for Yaba smuggling

January 30, 2023

NEWS DESK The Cox’s Bazar Additional District and Sessions Judge Court on Monday (Jan 29) sentenced eight Rohingya men to life term imprisonment in a case over smuggling 2 lakh Yaba pills into Bangladesh in 2019. Judge Nishat Sultana of the court pronounced the verdict. The convicts are Md Doula, Robi Alam, Md Alam, Md […]Continue Reading

Surging crime, bleak future push Rohingya in Bangladesh to risk lives at sea

January 24, 2023

REUTERS Mohammed Ismail says four of his relatives were killed by gunmen at the Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh between April and October last year. He recalls the September night when, he says, he almost met the same fate: masked men kidnapped him, cut off parts of his left arm and leg and dumped him […]Continue Reading

2 ‘militants’ held from Rohingya camp after ‘gunfight’: RAB

January 23, 2023

NEWS DESK Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) today (January 23, 2023) arrested two suspected members of new militant group ‘Jamatul Ansar Fil Hindal Sharqiya’ after a gunfight at Kutupalong Rohingya camp in Ukhia upazila of Cox’s Bazar. The arrestees were identified as Ronobir, a Shura member and head of the armed wing of the […]Continue Reading

Fire burns down hundreds of houses at Rohingya camp along border zero line

January 18, 2023

COX’S BAZAR CORRESPONDENT Hundreds of houses have been burnt down centering on a fierce gunfight between Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army and Rohingya Solidarity Organization at a camp near the Tambru zero-line near the Bangladesh-Myanmar border in Bandarban’s Naikhongchhari. Besides, around 7:00 pm, the RSO (Rohingya Solidarity Organization), using a mosque loudspeaker, Continue Reading

Firms in Europe, US helping Myanmar manufacture arms, report says

January 16, 2023

Companies in the United States, Europe and Asia have been helping Myanmar’s military manufacture weapons used in human rights abuses, according to three former United Nations experts, Al Jazeera reports. Companies from 13 countries – including France, Germany, China, India, Russia, Singapore and the United States – have been providing supplies that are “critical” to […]Continue Reading

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