Asserting that Bangladesh never felt scared in facing problems, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said the country will surely make its great strides in development despite the inflow of tens of thousands of forcibly evicted Myanmar nationals into it.
It has been over three weeks that the UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres had issued a letter, unprecedented in the last 28 years since the 1989 Lebanon conflict, to the Security Council for its action on the ethnic cleansing in Myanmar.
In the backdrops of Rohingya crisis, Al Jazeera has portrayed the flow of weapons to Myanmar from different parts of the world. According to the graphic, most of Myanmar's military imports come from China, Russia, India, Israel and Ukraine.
The government has started recording biometric data of Rohingyas as part of efforts to document the refugees entering Bangladesh to escape genocide in Myanmar.
Dhaka reiterates its call to the international community to help Bangladesh with urgent humanitarian assistances to address the current crisis and provide political support to ensure sustainable return of all Rohingya people to their homes in Myanmar.
Two top US Senators -- Dick Durbin and John McCain – have introduced a resolution condemning the horrific acts of violence being committed against the Rohingya minority in Myanmar.
Indonesia's Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi will arrive in Dhaka on Tuesday to discuss with Bangladesh government officials the current persecution on the Rohingya Muslim minority in Myanmar's western state of Rakhine.
A United Nations human rights expert has expressed alarm at the deteriorating situation in Myanmar’s Rakhine State, affecting not just the Rakhine and Muslim populations but also other communities.
Several hundred members of Hindu community from Maungdaw of Myanmar have fled to Bangladesh through a border in Ukhia of Cox’s Bazar amid attack by an “unidentified armed group”.
About 18,000 Rohingya Muslims are estimated to have crossed into Bangladesh in the last week, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) says, seeking to escape the worst violence in Myanmar's northwest in at least five years.
