Rohingyas

8 Rohingyas among 9 killed in Ukhiya landslides

Cox's Bazar has been witnessing heavy rainfall since yesterday

Uncertainty over repatriation pushing Rohingyas towards crimes, Hasina tells UNHCR

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today said that Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh are getting frustrated due to prolonged uncertainty over repatriation to their homeland, Myanmar.

‘AAP supporting Rohingyas and Bangladeshis’ says Delhi BJP Chief

Protests today erupted in Delhi’s Shaheen Bagh area, which was a key centre of a prolonged agitation against the Citizenship Amendment Act in 2019-20, as hundreds of people opposed the local civic body’s anti-encroachment drive armed with bulldozers in presence of heavy police deployment.

Illegal Migration Bid: 16 Rohingyas held in Teknaf

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.

16 Rohingyas held while going to Malaysia from Cox’s Bazar

Bangladesh Coast Guard members detain 16 Rohingya people including women and children while they were trying to go to Malaysia through river route from Teknaf of Cox’s Bazar.

Fake Visas to Rohingyas: Bangladesh mission staffer involved?

A Bangladesh High Commission official stationed in Canberra has been alleged to be involved in issuing fake tourist visas to a group of Rohingyas living in Australia.

Myanmar guilty of genocide, war crimes

Two US organisations said they had found clear evidence that Myanmar military committed genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity against the Rohingyas and urged the international community to set about a criminal investigation into the atrocities.

Editorial / Genocide against Rohingyas goes on!

United Nations (UN) investigators submitted a 444-page report to the UN Security Council on October 24 about the ongoing genocide in Myanmar against the Rohingyas.

Rohingya protesters call for freedom for Reuters reporters in Myanmar

About 50 Rohingya Muslim refugees gathers in a muddy sports field in a camp in Bangladesh to protest against the conviction in Myanmar of two Reuters reporters, who were arrested while covering the plight of their community.

May 28, 2015
May 28, 2015

Only 1 body per grave found at trafficking camps: Malaysia

The 139 graves uncovered near people-smuggling camps in northern Malaysia appear to hold only one body each, says Malaysia's deputy home minister.

May 22, 2015
May 22, 2015

Southern Philippines region willing to provide sanctuary to Rohingyas

The Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) is willing to host Rohingyas, who fled the massive persecution and human rights abuses they suffered in Myanmar (Burma), Gov.

May 20, 2015
May 20, 2015

Myanmar must recognise Rohingyas as its citizens

In the wake of a much publicised international humanitarian crisis relating to boatpeople, thousands of whom are languishing in the high seas, Myanmar's reluctance to attend Thailand's May 29 regional summit to solve the issue, is disconcerting.

May 20, 2015
May 20, 2015

Floating coffins

Since 2012, thousands of Rohingyas died in Arakan, and more than 150,000 people have been herded in the so-called Internally Displaced People Camps.

May 15, 2015
May 15, 2015

US for local solution to migrant issue

The US stress on regional solution to the issue of drifting sea migrants and urge countries to accommodate the people at their vicinity.

May 14, 2015
May 14, 2015

'10 deaths' on stranded Myanmar migrant boat

Myanmar migrants on a boat stranded for a week in the Andaman Sea with no food or water say 10 people have died, while some are resorting to drinking urine.

May 11, 2015
May 11, 2015

'Thousands' of Rohingya and Bangladeshi migrants stranded at sea

An international migration agency says thousands of refugees from Bangladesh and Myanmar are stranded at sea close to Thailand.

May 8, 2015
May 8, 2015

25,000 Rohingya, Bangladeshi fortune-seekers trafficked in 3 months: UNHCR

UNHCR report says some 25,000 Rohingyas and Bangladeshis boarded smugglers' boats from the Bay of Bengal between January and March this year, almost double the number over the same period in 2014.

April 2, 2015
April 2, 2015

No place to belong

THAI authorities detained 76 migrants including six suspected Rohingyas in Thailand's southern Nakhon Si Thammarat province on Monday.

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