On a quest to change his fortune, Salamat Ullah left his home in Teknaf for Malaysia in October last year.
Crimes, particularly those related to narcotics and murders, have witnessed a significant rise inside the Cox’s Bazar Rohingya camps over the last seven months.
The EU will continue to support the Rohingya people for their right to return to their homeland, said Eamon Gilmore, the EU’s special representative for human rights.
Amid mounting global pressure, a 17-member Myanmar delegation yesterday started verifying the identities of the Rohingya refugees in Teknaf, as the first group of Myanmar’s displaced people is expected to be repatriated in a few months.
Amid the armed conflicts along the border over the last two months, gang members living in the no-man’s-land entered Bangladesh and engaged in criminal activities, including murders, at the refugee camps, police and locals said.
Panic grips the locals in bordering areas of Cox’s Bazar’s Whaikhyang and Bandarban’s Tambru, as heavy gunfire and intermittent shelling on the Myanmar side have been heard again after a pause of 10 days.
As firing and mortar shelling in Myanmar were now heard from Ukhiya border of Cox’s Bazar yesterday, the local authorities warned the boat owners of not carrying Rohingyas amid fear of their fresh entry.
Amid incessant gunfire and mortar shelling in Myanmar close to the Bangladesh border, the local administration is planning to evacuate around 300 families in Ghumdhum union of Bandarban’s Naikhongchhari upazila.
A few thousand Rohingya refugees entered Bangladesh yesterday slipping through the Rezu Aamtali border in Naikkhangchhari of Bandarban.
Several thousand Rohingyas from Myanmar, mostly women, children and elderly people, are waiting in no man's land along the Naikhyangchhari border to enter Bangladesh territory.
Scarcity of drinking water and food has further aggravated the situation in the flood-hit regions of Sylhet.
Amzad Hossain came from his village Moghnama in Pekua upazila to Cox's Bazar town two decades ago and began working as a newspaper hawker. He bought two decimal land and built a house on a hilltop at Baiddyaghona.
An aging bridge on one of the busiest and most important national roads, the 151-kilometre highway from Chittagong to Cox's Bazar,
Freedom fighter Mozaffar Ahmed, 63, from Fulunir Char village in Kauarkhop union of Ramu upazila in Cox's Bazar, who at the age of 16 took up arms to fight in the 1971 Liberation War, has since been engaged in a new battle.
The killing grounds, mass graves and other places bearing memories of the Liberation War are lying in utter neglect in different places of the district although 46 years have passed after the country's independence.
The visiting Myanmar government delegation yesterday assured Rohingyas staying in Bangladesh that the Myanmar government was
A new slum for the Rohingyas who entered Bangladesh from Myanmar illegally is being set up in the reserved area of forest
