report in Prothom Alo, Feb 20, 2023The United Nations plans to slash food aid to Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh, blaming a funding shortfall for cuts that agencies warned on Friday would deepen food insecurity and malnutrition in the world’s largest refugee settlement, reports news agencies Reuters and AFP. About 730,000 Rohingya, a persecuted mostly Muslim minority from Myanmar’s Rakhine state, fled to Bangladesh in 2017 to escape an army crackdown the UN said was carried…
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report in Pr thom Alo, Jan 19, 2023Hours after the gunfight of two Myanmar armed groups, some houses of Rohingya refugee camps on Ghumdhum-Tumbru border in Bandarban’s Naikhongchhari were set on fire. As of writing this report around 8:00pm on Wednesday, the fire was tearing through the makeshift shelters. Refugees are fleeing the scene to escape fire: some have taken shelter at Ghumdhum high school while some entered inside Myanmar, crossing the border. However, the…
report in Prothom Alo, 30 Nov 2022Some unidentified assailants shot and stabbed to death a Rohingya leader in a refugee camp in Ukhiya upazila of the district early Tuesday, reports UNB. Shahab Uddin, 35, was a sub-leader, locally known as sub-majhi, of the No 12 Rohingya camp. He was also son of Monir Ahmed of the H/14 Block of the same camp. Sheikh Mohammad Ali, officer-in-charge (OC) of Ukhiya police station, said a group of…