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Pressure should be squarely on Myanmar for Rohingya repatriation: US
US Ambassador to Bangladesh Earl R Miller says they will continue to put pressure on Myanmar to create conditions on the ground for the “voluntary, safe, dignified and sustainable” return of all Rohingyas to Myanmar’s Rakhine State.
UN finds 'systemic failures' in its Rohingya response
The United Nations experienced "systemic failures" in its handling of the situation in Myanmar leading up to the 2017 mass exodus of Rohingya, a UN report said on Monday.
Two Rohingya youths held with yaba
Police yesterday arrested two Rohingya youths with 2,000 yaba pills, concealed inside their sandals, from Firingi Bazar area of Chattogram city.
In exile in Bangladesh, a bittersweet revival of Rohingya culture
Chain-smoking singer Gudar Mia, who recently turned 80 in a refugee camp in Bangladesh, lit another cigarette, closed his eyes, and crooned the opening words of a Rohingya folk song.
Remove all barriers to repatriation
Bangladesh has urged Myanmar to remove all barriers to the repatriation of Rohingyas and take concrete steps to create conditions conducive to their return.
12 held with over one lakh yaba pills in Cox's Bazar
Bangladesh Coast Guard yesterday detained 11 Rohingya men with 100,000 yaba pills from a fishing trawler on the Bay of Bengal in Teknaf upazila of Cox's Bazar.
Two Rohingyas among four arrested with hemp, yaba
Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) and Department of Narcotics Control (DNC) arrested four persons including two Rohingya women with 10kgs of hemp and 3,000 yaba pills in Chattogam city yesterday.
Malaysia-Bound Rohingyas: 33 rescued from trawler in Bay
Bangladesh's coast guard rescued 33 Rohingya and detained six alleged human traffickers from a fishing trawler headed for Malaysia in the Bay of Bengal, an official said Wednesday.
Rohingya youth arrested with 8,800 yaba pills
Officials of Department of Narcotics Control (DNC) during a drive in Chittagong city's Chowmuhuni area arrested a Rohingya youth with 8,800 yaba tablets yesterday afternoon.
Call for justice, safe return
As he walked through the alleys of the makeshift camps in rains and met Rohingya boys and girls, he remembered his granddaughters and tried to imagine what it would be like to see them in such conditions.
'We are all Rohingya'
The international community cannot turn its head away from the Rohingya crisis, World Bank President Jim Yong Kim said yesterday.
A cruel mockery of 'Never Again'
1994 should have been a watershed year in human history; a year to feel ashamed of humanity's failure to stop a genocide that resulted in the deaths of 800,000 mostly Tutsis in Rwanda; a year to mend the mistakes that allowed the atrocities to happen, and to build solid defence against such atrocities in the future; it should have been truly a year of re-learning the lessons from death and destruction.
Myanmar's Proposal: All that glitters is not gold
Myanmar's promise to take back the Rohingyas, who have taken refuge in Bangladesh, looks empty and seems to be a tactic to ease international pressure. This is reflected in the contents of a hasty statement put on the official website of State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi hours after Myanmar Union Minister U Kyaw Zeya concluded his Dhaka visit.
Rohingya held with Yaba pills
Police arrested a Rohingya woman with 1,000 Yaba pills in Baro Awlia area of Sitakunda in Chittagong yesterday
Don't let Myanmar go Rwanda's way
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.
So low, so fast
Seldom, if ever, in history has a world hero fallen so fast into disrepute. Never have so many people and organisations representing
Caught in the thick
Indian Premier Narendra Modi's stance on the Rohingya issue has emerged as another example of how the plights of the ethnic
The Myanmar Cauldron: Birth of Arsa
The Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army or Arsa, an armed group that emerged in Rakhine state in 2013, has no sizable weaponry to sustain the struggle. But that is how things remain in the beginning – small but potent.
