Dhaka, Sept 19 – Nobel laureate Prof Amartya Sen and Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales have offered to be signatories to the open letter written by Nobel peace laureate Dr Muhammad Yunus to the United Nation Security Council (UNSC) calling for…
Category: Conflicts
Declare affected areas in Rakhina safe zones: Dhaka
Bangladesh has reiterated its position on Rohingya issue and said the affected areas in Myanmar’s Rakhine State should be declared as ‘safe zones’ so that they could go back. Bangladesh also said implementation of Kofi Annan report should be the…
Suu Kyi speech fails to woo rights watchdogs
Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s address assumed to be aimed at softening the global outrage over the Rohingya issue today visibly failed to woo rights groups and observers while some of them called it an effort to “bury heads…
Myanmar isn’t afraid of outside scrutiny
Myanmar’s de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi has said her government does not fear “international scrutiny” of its handling of the growing Rohingya crisis. It was her first address to the country about the violence in northern Rakhine state…
Worldwide criticism of Suu Kyi’s much-hyped address
Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi has been criticised internationally for failing to address the allegations of abuse by the military on the Rohingya minority in Rakhine state. In her first address since the army crackdown on insurgents in northwestern…
Suu Kyi address aimed to preempt int’l action against genocide
Aung San Suu Kyi said Tuesday she does not fear global scrutiny over the Rohingya crisis, pledging to hold rights violators to account and to resettle some of the 410,000 Muslims who have fled army operations in her country. But…
Rohingya: A misfortune of persecution
By Farid Ahmed Cox’s Bazar, Sep 18 (IPS) – Forsaken and driven out by their home country Myanmar, tens of thousands of Rohingyas are struggling to survive in Bangladesh’s border districts amid scarcities of food, clean water and medical care,…
Hefajat-e-Islam professes Arakan freedom as Rohingya solution
Dhaka – Hefajat-e-Islam Bangladesh on Monday said that a free Arakan is only the solution to Rohingya crises. Leaders of the quaomi madrasha based organizations made this observation while addressing at its Myanmar Embassy gherao programme in the city.
Delhi considers ‘illegal’ Rohingya refugees security threat
The Centre on Monday told the Supreme Court that Rohingyas posed as a serious threat to national security with links to terror outfits, including the Islamic State. The Centre’s affidavit, filed in the apex court registry, said unless the government…
US flies powerful warplanes amid tensions over N Korea
The U.S. military flew advanced bombers and stealth jets over the Korean Peninsula and near Japan in drills with South Korean and Japanese warplanes on Monday, three days after North Korea fired a missile over Japan. The United States often…
Myanmar violates airspace for govt’s subservient policy: BNP
BNP senior leader Nazrul Islam Khan on Monday alleged that Myanmar is repeatedly violating Bangladesh airspace due to the government’s incapability to run the country and its subservient policy. “The Myanmar is now violating our airspace again and again due…
BD Buddhists cancel Probarona Purnima for the Rohingya
The Buddhist community in Bangladesh has decided not to celebrate the upcoming ‘Probarona Purnima’ elaborately in a protest against the ongoing violence against Rohingyas in Myanmar. “We have decided not to celebrate the upcoming ‘Probarona Purnima’ elaborately”, said Swapan Barua…
Rights groups urged UN to punish Myanmar Army
Pressure tightened on Myanmar Monday as a rights group urged world leaders to impose sanctions on the country’s military, which is accused of driving out more than 400,000 Rohingya Muslims in an orchestrated “ethnic cleansing” campaign. The call from Human…
Dhaka to rely on UN for solution to Rohingya crisis
Dhaka, Sept 17 – Bangladesh wants to rely on the United Nations (UN) to find a solution to the problem it is facing now following the killings and persecution in the Rthe Rakhine State of Myanmar resulting in the influx…
RU students protest genocide of Rohingyas wearing black masks
Rajshahi – Wearing black masks students of Rajshahi University (RU) under the banner of United Nation Youth and Students Association of Bangladesh (UNYSAB) formed a human chain on the campus on Sunday to protest the persistent oppression and ‘mass killings’…
Open letter to Aung San Suu Kyi from Desmond Tutu
By Desmond Tutu My dear Aung San Suu Kyi I am now elderly, decrepit and formally retired, but breaking my vow to remain silent on public affairs out of profound sadness about the plight of the Muslim minority in your…
Rohingya refugees could suffer for food scarcity
Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh could die due to a lack of food, shelter and water, given the huge numbers fleeing violence in Myanmar, an aid agency warned on Sunday, as authorities began moving people to camps to streamline the distribution…
UN chief says – Suu Kyi has a last chance
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres today said Aung San Suu Kyi now had her “last chance” to stop atrocities on ethnic Rohingya Muslims amid growing global outrage over her response to the violence in Myanmar’s Rakhine state. “If she does…
Rohingya crisis: ‘Last chance’ for Aung San Suu Kyi
Myanmar’s de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi has “the last chance” to halt an army offensive that has forced hundreds of thousands of the mainly Muslim Rohingya to flee abroad, the UN head has said.
Russian against external intervention on Burma over Rohingya issue
A Russian foreign ministry statement indicates that Moscow considers Rohingya crisis as an internal issue and is against any outside intervention. Attempts at intervening in Myanmar’s “internal affairs” may have only one net effect – still deeper inter-religious discord, Russian…
Rohingya Muslim persecution in the pages of history
Nearly 400,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled renewed violence in Myanmar, crossing the border in Bangladesh in waves following a military crackdown the UN says amounts to ethnic cleansing. It is the latest chapter in a long and tumultuous history of…
UNHCR appeals for $30m to support swelling Rohingya refu
UN refugee agency UNHCR has sought an initial emergency aid of US$ 30 million for Rohingyas, two days after it jointly launched with UN’s migration organization IOM an appeal for enhanced global assistance as surges of refugee continued to hit…
Rohingya crisis one of fastest growing in recent years: UN
The humanitarian situation in parts of Bangladesh sheltering hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees continues to deteriorate, making the crisis one of the fastest growing refugee crises of recent years, according to the United Nations. “[The crisis is] creating enormous…
Govt’s political stance on Rohingya unclear: BNP
BNP standing committee member Amir Khosru Mahmud Chowdhury on Saturday alleged that the government’s political stance is not clear on Rohingya issue. “The entrance of Rohingyas into Bangladesh is an indirect attack on our sovereignty. Though Bangladesh is directly affected…
Bangladesh strongly protests violation of airspace by Burma
Bangladesh has strongly protested the instances of violation of its airspace by Myanmar military drones and helicopters on September 10, 12 and 14. Bangladesh also mentioned that these provocative acts may lead to unwarranted consequences.
Amnesty decries burnings targetting rohingya
Amnesty International says it has turned up evidence of an “orchestrated campaign of systematic burnings” by Myanmar security forces targeting dozens of Rohingya villages over the last three weeks. The human rights group is releasing a new analysis of video,…
Burmese military torches homes near BD border
The Burmese military is deliberately burning ethnic Rohingya villages near the Bangladesh border, Human Rights Watch said today. Such acts of arson, after forcing residents to leave their villages, appear central to the Burmese military’s ethnic cleansing campaign against the…
Tracing the Exclusion of the Rohingya in Myanmar
By Prof. Dr Imtiyaz Yusuf Myanmar is a non-secular Buddhist majority country. The majority of Myanmar peoples are Buddhist, including both ethnic Burmans and non-Burman ethnic minorities. Buddhists make up 89.8 percent of the population, Christians 6.3 percent and Muslims…
Myanmar Rohingyas victims of ethnic cleansing
United Nations, Sept 14 (AP/UNB) – Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said Wednesday that ethnic cleansing is taking place in Myanmar against the Rohingya Muslim minority, and the U.N. Security Council condemned the violence that has led nearly 380,000 Rohingyas to flee…
North Korea fires stronger missile over Japanese airspace
Projectile likely reached altitude of 770 km and flew 3700 km: S. Korean military Chad O’Carroll North Korea launched a missile east towards the Sea of Japan (East Sea), South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said in an alert…