COX’S BAZAR (BANGLADESH) (AFP) – 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. The rescued included 14 men, 10 women and nine children who had been living in refugee camps in the southeastern Bangladesh district of Cox’s Bazar, according to Fayezul Islam… Read more »
France 24 UNICEF says the children who make up most of the nearly 600,000 Rohingya Muslims who have fled violence in Myanmar are seeing a “hell on earth” in overcrowded, muddy and squalid refugee camps in neighboring Bangladesh. The U.N. children’s agency has issued a report that documents the plight of children who account for 58 percent of the refugees who have… Read more »
Based on the information from Al Jazeera, that India is not only rejecting Rohingya refugees but is now attempting to deport those already in the country, India is clearly going through a period of xenophobia. This is most likely a result of the increased influence of ISIS in the middle east. However, in many countries, the people have developed xenophobia… Read more »
France 24 He trekked to Bangladesh as part of an exodus of a half million people from Myanmar, the largest refugee crisis to hit Asia in decades. But after climbing out of a boat on a creek on Friday, Mohamed Rafiq could go no further. He collapsed onto a muddy spit of land cradling his wife in his lap a… Read more »
BBC The number of Rohingya refugees crossing from Myanmar into Bangladesh has surged, the UN says, with more than 35,000 new arrivals identified in the last 24 hours. More than 123,000 Rohingya are now said to have fled violence in Myanmar’s Rakhine state since 25 August. The conflict was triggered by an attack by Rohingya militants on police posts. This… Read more »