Bangladesh is in contact with the Myanmar junta government in Naypyidaw and Arakan Army in Rakhine state on the issue of stability, humanitarian aid, and Rohingya repatriation, National Security Adviser Khalilur Rahman said yesterday.
The refugee camps in Cox’s Bazar have become overwhelmed with the recent inflow of Rohingyas arriving since November 2023, with authorities now scrambling to arrange accommodation and food for them.
BNP and several other parties have voiced concern over reported developments regarding a UN-backed humanitarian corridor into Myanmar’s war-torn Rakhine State, calling it a potential threat to national sovereignty and regional security.
'The interim government has agreed in principle to allow a humanitarian corridor under UN supervision with certain conditions'
Dhaka agrees in principle with the UN proposal for a humanitarian corridor to Myanmar's Rakhine State, but certain conditions must be met for its implementation, said Foreign Adviser Touhid Hossain yesterday.
Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus is attending a roundtable on Rohingya issue in Doha this morning.
BIMSTEC should step in to address the crisis
Another 70,000 pending further scrutiny
Calls for regional unity, visible impact
Former UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon calls for political solution to the Rohingya crisis allowing them to return to their places of origin in Rakhine state "freely and safely".
Htoo Maung sits down to lunch, sharing a bowl of traditional noodle soup with old friends, an ordinary act that has become extraordinary in Myanmar's Rakhine state -- because he is Muslim, and they are Buddhist.
Gambia will open its case against Myanmar before the UN's top court in December accusing the mainly Buddhist state of genocide against its Rohingya Muslims, the tribunal says.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has placed a four-point proposal at the 74th UN General Assembly to resolve the Rohingya crisis which she says is becoming a regional threat.
Members of the coast guard detained 16 Rohingyas from Habirchhara in Teknaf upazila when they were trying to go to Malaysia on a fishing trawler on Saturday night.
Myanmar’s army says will court-martial soldiers after a new finding in an inquiry into atrocities in Rakhine state, from which more than 730,000 Rohingya Muslims fled a 2017 army-led campaign the United Nations says was executed with “genocidal intent”.
Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader blames BNP for its “plot to split the nation” in the name of forging a national unity over Rohingya repatriation issue.
Two Rohingyas, accused in a case filed over the murder of a Jubo League leader, were killed in a “gunfight” with police in Cox’s Bazar’s Teknaf upazila early yesterday.
Tensions ran high in Teknaf’s Hnila union yesterday after some Rohingya criminals killed a Jubo League leader at a refugee camp in the area on Thursday night.
The Rohingyas in the refugee camps in Cox’s Bazar feel like they are trapped and this is breeding frustration among them.
