Persecution
- 09/05/2017
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By CHEENA KAPOOR, DNA Last year, during the dengue and chikungunya season, 50 residents fell ill, which broke the back of many families It has been five years since over 1,00,000...
Read more- 05/05/2017
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By UN News Centre The tens of thousands of members of Myanmar’s Rohingya community who fled inter-communal violence in north of the country and sought refuge in Bangladesh remain highly vulnerable...
Read more- 04/05/2017
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By Vivian Tan, UN High Commissioner for Refugees Study finds thousands of Rohingya fleeing violence and desperation have sought safety and stability in countries like Bangladesh and Malaysia in the last...
Read more- 29/04/2017
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By TEHREEM FATIMA, Catch News We escaped to India and lived peacefully in Jammu, but for the past two months, we are being threatened to leave the place. Slums in Bhagwati Nagar...
Read more- 26/04/2017
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By Anjana Pasricha, VOA News NEW DELHI — Accessed from a dusty, unpaved path, a shanty type settlement housing about 70 Rohingya families on the outskirts of New Delhi presents a...
Read more- 24/04/2017
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By Donita Jose, The News Minute For the Rohingyas, who often face hostility from Indian neighbours, football seems one way to turn the tension into camaraderie. “Did you see Barcelona...
Read more- 19/04/2017
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By Javaid Iqbal Bhat, Greater Kashmir We mirror each other in our double standards The fate of the Rohingya Muslims in the winter capital of Jammu and Kashmir hangs in the...
Read more- 16/04/2017
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By Andrew Amsan, Indian Express For a while, they can forget home. They call themselves the Rohingya Shining Stars. On most nights, after they are done with their daily jobs as...
Read more- 30/03/2017
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By Press TV More than 115 refugees, including Rohingya Muslims, have lost their lives due to various diseases and other, unknown causes in Malaysia’s refugee detention centers over the past...
Read more- 22/03/2017
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By Daily Sabah Tens of thousands of Muslims who have fled violence in northern Myanmar are living in "extremely poor" conditions in neighboring Bangladesh and need better shelter as the...
Read more- 20/03/2017
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By Abdul Aziz, Dhaka Tribune Following the visit of the Myanmar delegation, Rohingya refugees in Cox’s Bazar claim their harrowing tales of violence were dubbed lies by the envoys. Rohingya...
Read more- 19/03/2017
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By TRT World There's still no employment or education opportunities for Rohingya Muslims outside their camps in Rakhine State. Thousands of Rohingya Muslims who were forced into camps five years...
Read more- 28/02/2017
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By AFP Rohingya refugees who fled violence in Myanmar have told how government forces gang-raped women, slit people's throats and threw children into burning houses, a UN envoy has said...
Read more- 26/02/2017
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By Dhaka Tribune https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmyJ6wQKEr0 Many of the women had their family members, including babies and young children, butchered in front of them More than a dozen young women, some as...
Read more- 24/02/2017
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By Debi Edward, iTV An estimated 70,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled persecution from Myanmar (also known as Burma) to Bangladesh since October last year, joining a population of around 400,000...
Read more- 23/02/2017
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By Aman Ullah Bangladesh Foreign Minister AH Mahmood Ali stressed the need for a peaceful resolution of the longstanding issue of Rohingya influx from Myanmar to Bangladesh while he made...
Read more- 23/02/2017
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By NEHGINPAO KIPGEN, Bangkok Post The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) in its report released on Feb 3 detailed that widespread human rights violations against the...
Read more- 22/02/2017
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By Maaz Hussain, VOA News Many Rohingya Muslims who fled alleged killings and other rights abuses during a Myanmar military crackdown in northern Rakhine state say they are not willing to...
Read more- 22/02/2017
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By Abdul Aziz, Dhaka Tribune She talked to the Rohingya refugees there UN human rights envoy Yanghee Lee has visited Rohingya refugee camps in Cox’s Bazar for the second consecutive day....
Read more- 21/02/2017
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By Arafat Kabir, University of Utah, East Asia Forum Bangladesh is said to be planning to relocate its Rohingya refugees to a remote island. If implemented, tens of thousands of Rohingyas...
Read more- 19/02/2017
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By Shaikh Azizur Rahman, The Sydney Morning Herald Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh: If you believe the Myanmar government, the military "clearance operation" in northern Rakhine state, which began after an attack on a...
Read more- 18/02/2017
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By Hilal Azmi, Astro Awani COX'S BAZAAR: Upon entering a makeshift camp in Balukhali, Bangladesh, one is reminded of an animal farm. Rows and rows of barns and gunny sacks dot...
Read more- 16/02/2017
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By Allison Joyce, Huffington Post In light of a new U.N. report documenting atrocities against Rohingya in Myanmar, photojournalist Allison Joyce profiles Rohingya refugees who recently fled to Bangladesh and have...
Read more- 25/12/2016
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By Mizan Rahman Dhaka: Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) has intercepted 34 boats carrying at least 340 Rohingyas at border points near Cox’s Bazar and pushed them back in to Myanmar....
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