Goods trucks torched in Khagrachhari protesting killing of UPDF leader

September 2, 2022

STAFF REPORTER/KHAGRACHHARI/GUIMARA CORRESPONDENT Tensions have again run high in the hill tracts as terrorists of UPDF, a regional political party led by Prasit Bikash Khisa, set fire to trucks on the Khagrachhari-Dhaka regional road in protest against the killing of local UPDF (Prasit) leader Angthui Marma on Friday afternoon (Sept 2, 2022). The incidents separately […]Continue Reading

UPDF leader shot dead in Khagrachhari

September 2, 2022

NEWS DESK A leader of a Chittagong Hill Tracts-based political group was shot dead allegedly by his rivals in Guimara upazila of Khagrachhari on Friday (September 2, 2022). The deceased was identified as Angthoi Marma alias Agun, 52, of the Guimara unit of United People’s Democratic Front (UPDF). The crime occurred around 10am near the […]Continue Reading

Dhaka summons Myanmar envoy over mortar shell firing from across border

August 29, 2022

NEWS DESK The Foreign Ministry has today (Aug 29, 2022) summoned the Myanmar Ambassador in Dhaka and lodged a protest over firing mortar shells in Bangladesh’s territory. Myanmar Ambassador U Aung Kyaw Moe was summoned and lodged a strong protest was lodged with him through a diplomatic letter. “We asked him to see that no […]Continue Reading

OIC calls on int’l community to support Rohingya people

August 27, 2022

NEWS DESK The Secretariat-General of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) has reiterated the OIC’s firm support for the Rohingya people, Bahrain News Agency reports. In a statement posted on its website marking five years since the beginning of the massive refugee influx of Rohingya people and other communities from Myanmar’s Rakhine State into Bangladesh, […]Continue Reading

Rohingya must be part of Myanmar crisis solution: UN chief

August 25, 2022

NEWS DESK United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called on Myanmar’s military-installed government Wednesday (Aug 25, 2022) to include ethnic Rohingya in a solution to the country’s political crisis, AP reports. He commented on the eve of the fifth anniversary of the start of a mass exodus by the Muslim minority to Bangladesh to escape a […]Continue Reading

Myanmar’s military regime encourages yaba smuggling to Bangladesh

August 25, 2022

NEWS DESK The number of yaba pills (a contraband drug) smuggled into Bangladesh from neighbouring Myanmar has surged by two and a half times under the current military regime compared to the amount reported during the rule of ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi. This information was obtained from the meeting minutes of the parliamentary […]Continue Reading

Britain’s former Myanmar envoy detained in Yangon

August 25, 2022

NEWS DESK Authorities in Myanmar have detained Britain’s former ambassador to the Southeast Asian nation, where a military junta seized power last year, three people with knowledge of the situation said on Thursday (Aug 25, 2022), Reuters reports. Vicky Bowman, who currently runs the Myanmar Centre for Responsible Business (MCRB), and her husband, Htein Lin, […]Continue Reading

Britain slaps new sanctions on Mynamar military-linked firms

August 25, 2022

  REUTERS Britain on Thursday (Aug 25, 2022) announced a new round of sanctions targeting military-linked businesses in Myanmar in support of the Southeast Asian country’s Rohingya community and in an effort to limit the military’s access to arms and revenue. “We continue to stand in solidarity with the Rohingya people and condemn the Myanmar […]Continue Reading

Rohingya crisis fund is ‘well short of needs’: UN refugee agency

August 24, 2022

An appeal to help Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh is “well short of needs”, the United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR) said on Tuesday, as refugees called on donors not to forget the crisis ahead of the fifth anniversary of their exodus from Myanmar, Reuters reports. More than a million Rohingya are living in squalid camps in […]Continue Reading

A brief history of the UN’s failed missions in Myanmar

August 22, 2022

NEWS DESK Last week’s meeting between UN special envoy Noeleen Heyzer and the Myanmar junta chief ended without any breakthrough, becoming yet another failed UN mission to the country, one of many involving the world body’s diplomats and military rulers of Myanmar since 1990, The Irrawaddy reports. Rather, regime chief Min Aung Hlaing took the […]Continue Reading