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Category: Conflicts
Merkel’s defeat confirms dismal trend for Europe
By Roberto Savio Rome, Sep 29 (IPS) – Generally, media have failed to analyse why the result of German elections is the worst possible. Merkel is not a winner, but a leader now in a very fragile position, who will…
Worsening Rohingya crisis BD’s diplomatic failure: BNP
Dhaka – The opposition BNP on Friday alleged that the present government has been failed to bring neighbouring leading nations and the United Nations together in resolving the Rohingya crisis.
UN to launch inter-agency appeal to fund Rohingyas
Fate of other 68 Rohingyas on boat remains unknown, says IOM Dhaka, Sept 29 – The UN will launch an updated inter-agency appeal in the coming week as lack of funding to address the needs of Rohingyas in Bangladesh remains…
Diarrhoeal diseases rise alarmingly among Rohingyas
IFRC appealing for 12.7mn Swiss francs to support 100,000 Rohingyas Dhaka, Sept 29 – Red Crescent mobile clinics in Cox’s Bazar are treating an increasing number of people with acute watery diarrhoea, raising concerns about a possible outbreak of disease…
IS reclusive leader rallies followers in purported new audio
Cairo, Sep 29 (AP/UNB) — The leader of the Islamic State group urged followers to burn their enemies everywhere and target “media centres of the infidels,” according to an audio recording that the extremists said was by Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
Burma must stop operation, take back refugees: UN chief
UN, Sep 29 (AP/UNB) — Secretary-General Antonio Guterres urged Myanmar’s authorities on Thursday to immediately end military operations that have sent over 500,000 Rohingya Muslims fleeing to Bangladesh, calling the crisis “the world’s fastest developing refugee emergency and a humanitarian…
End violence – execute Annan report : UK asks Burma
Dhaka, Sept 28 – Assuring that it will always be there with Bangladesh over Rohingya issue, the United Kingdom on Thursday proposed three ‘options’, including the full implementation of the recommendations of the Kofi Anan Commission to resolve the crisis.
Dhaka asks UN for Rohingyas’ sustainable return
It’s ready to engage with Myanmar, int’l community to resolve crisis Dhaka, Sept 29 – Bangladesh has called for measures to ensure the safe, voluntary and sustainable return of all those displaced from Myanmar into Bangladesh territory over the years,…
IOM concerned at reports of sexual assaults on Rohingyas
Dhaka, Sept 28 – UN Migration Director General William Lacy Swing has said they are seriously concerned about increasing reports by vulnerable Rohingya arriving from Myanmar into Bangladesh of sexual and gender-based violence. IOM is providing urgent medical and psychological…
Rohingyas have ‘absolutely nothing’: UN refugee chief
A perilous journey for Rohingya refugees (CNN)Rohingya refugees who have fled violence in Myanmar for shelter in neighbouring Bangladesh are in desperate need of help, UN refugee chief Filippo Grandi said Wednesday, as he called on the Myanmar authorities to…
Gandhi’s truth: Ending human violence one at a time
Robert J. Burrowes Gandhi Jayanti – 2 October, the date of Mohandas K. Gandhi’s birth in 1869 and the International Day of Nonviolence – offers an opportunity to reflect on human violence and to ponder ways to end it. There…
Attack on Rohingyas in Sri Lanka alarms UN refugee body
Colombo, Sep 28 (AP/UNB) — The U.N. refugee agency said Wednesday it was alarmed by a mob attack on Rohingya Muslim refugees in Sri Lanka, where government leaders called for stern legal action against perpetrators that included Buddhist monks.
Convince Russia, China to resolve Rohingya crisis: BNP
Cox’s Bazar, Sept 27 – BNP on Wednesday urged the government to intensify its diplomatic efforts to convince Russia and China not to exercise their veto power against the United Nations Security Council’s any move to resolve the Rohingya crisis.
B Chy and Dr Kamal for bringing Burmese arsonists to justice
Dhaka – Prof Dr Badruddoza Chowdhury and Dr Kamal Hossain, the two veteran politicians, have called for taking immediate measure to create world opinion and hold a meeting with Myanmar to send back the Rohingya refugees immediately.
Dhaka seeks steps thru UN to send back the Rohingya
Bangladesh expects concrete steps through the UN Security Council so that the ‘forcibly displaced people from Myanmar’ in Bangladesh can go back to their homeland smoothly and without any fear. “…we expect such steps through which they (Rohingyas) will return…
35,000 more Rohingyas reach Cox’s Bazar: ISCG
Dhaka, Sept 27 – Some 35,000 more Rohingya refugees reached the makeshift camps in Cox’s Bazar district in the last couple of days fleeing the persecution in the Rakhine state of Myanmar rising the cumulative arrival to 4,80,000 since fresh…
Govt not sincere to solve Rohingya crisis: Fakhrul
Cox’s Bazar, Sept – BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Tuesday alleged that the government is not sincere about resolving the Rohingya crisis.
Concrete steps through UNSC awaited on Thursday
Dhaka, Sept – Bangladesh, at this point, is expecting a ‘concrete steps’ through UNSC resolution to resolve the crisis as “forcibly displaced people from Myanmar” continued flooding Bangladesh as the current figure of new arrivals stand at 449,000. “We’re working…
UN Security Council to meet on Myanmar Thursday
The UN Security Council will meet Thursday to discuss the violence in Myanmar and hear a briefing from UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on the crisis, diplomats said. Britain, France, the United States and four other countries requested the meeting after…
Refugee number soars to 480000
The refugees are fleeing a Myanmar military offencive launched in response to about 30 coordinated attacks by Rohingya Muslim insurgents on Aug 25. “The change in the new arrivals figure … is due, in large part, to the additional estimated…
Burmese Army committing crimes against Humanity in Rakhine
Human Rights Watch has found that serious violations committed by members of Burma’s state security forces against the Rohingya Muslim population in northern Rakhine State since August 25, 2017, amount to crimes against humanity under international law. The crimes against…
Expat Bangladeshis in NY raise fund for Rohingyas
New York – Conscious expatriate Bangladeshis at a meeting in New York on 22 September demanded an immediate end to the atrocities on Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar and called for implementing the Kofi Annan Commission recommendations for a lasting solution…
Myanmar says no ‘ethnic cleansing,’ genocide of Muslims
UN, Sept 26 (AP/UNB) – Myanmar’s U.N. ambassador insisted Monday that there is no “ethnic cleansing” or genocide taking place against Muslims and objected “in the strongest terms” to countries that used those words to describe the situation in Rakhine…
The urbanization of malnutrition
By Manipadma Jena New Delhi – India, Sep 25 (IPS) – Rapid urbanization is increasingly shifting the impacts of malnutrition from rural to urban areas. One in three stunted under-five children out of 155 million across the world now lives…
China favours permanent solution to Rohingya crisis
The Communist Party of China (CPC) today assured Bangladesh of convincing Myanmar government to resolve the Rohingya problem permanently. The assurance came from a meeting in Beijing between the CPC and visiting 18-member Awami League (AL) delegation headed by its…
Int’l community not quick to denojunce ‘Buddhist terror’: Erdogan
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday accused the security forces in Myanmar of waging a “Buddhist terror” against the Rohingya Muslim minority in the country, hundreds of thousands of whom have fled to neighbouring Bangladesh. Erdogan, who has repeatedly…
Witness to carnage in Myanmar
Hasina is a soft-spoken 20-year-old Rohingya woman from Rakhine State in Burma. She asked us to use her picture and tell her story so the world knows what is happening there. Her village, Tula Toli, was attacked in late August…
Rohingya crisis origin-solutiion lies in Myanmar
UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi on Monday reiterated its position saying both the origin of and solution to the Rohingya crisis lie in Myanmar. “The origin of this crisis and the solution to this crisis both lie in…
Iraqi Qurds vote in referendum on independence from Baghdad
Iraqi Kurds were casting ballots on Monday in Iraq’s Kurdish region and disputed territories on whether to support independence from Baghdad in a historic but non-binding vote that has raised regional tensions and fears of instability. More than 3 million…