Fighting broke out between two Rohingya armed groups along the Burma-Bangladesh border on Jan. 18. The clash forced those living in makeshift shelters in the “Zero Line” – a buffer zone on the border between Burma and Bangladesh – to seek safety. An estimated 500 fled into Burma, while others fled toward Bangladesh, witnesses stated. …
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Teachers are latest to be abducted near the Rakhine-Bangladesh border
Two teachers believed to have been abducted by the militant Islamic Arakhine Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA) have yet to be released as of June 18. Bangladeshi authorities were notified of the incident, and today Burmese Border Guard Forces (BGF) claimed to have arrested 13 suspects, holding them inside the BGF’s Kyee Kan Pyin headquarters in …
Eight hundred Rohingya shops destroyed by Bangladeshi government
Eight hundred shops were destroyed on Thursday morning at Kutupalong refugee camp’s only market by order of the Bangladesh government. Shop owners had only been given one day’s notice before bulldozers razed the area, a source of income for hundreds of Rohingya prohibited from working or seeking education in Bangladesh. Maung Soe Ning, a photographer …
UN starts registering Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh
The UN and Bangladesh have started formally registering hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees who have fled a military crackdown in Burma.
Rohingya toddler among 12 killed as first monsoon rains hit Bangladesh
Pre-monsoonal rains have cost the lives of at least 12 people in Bangaldesh since Monday, including one Rohingya toddler.
In Bangladesh, some 60 babies a day born in Rohingya camps: UN
Around 60 babies a day are being born in vast refugee camps in Bangladesh, sheltering hundreds of thousands of mainly Rohingya Muslims who have fled Burma, the United Nations children’s agency UNICEF says.