Recently, a national daily, citing anonymous sources, reported that the Chinese special envoy for Asian Affairs Deng Xijun during his visit to Dhaka told Bangladesh authorities that Myanmar had signalled their willingness to take back the Rohingyas. They would take them back to their own villages in North Maungdaw and nearby places instead of any […]
The government of Bangladesh has prohibited Rohingya refugees from finding formal employment and confined them to camps. These forcibly displaced refugees are more or less entirely dependent on food assistance. Bangladesh’s government’s decision to restrict the free movement of the Rohingya refugees has prevented them from finding self-sufficiency in food and medical emergencies in a […]
Every day, I read many articles in the Western press about the war in Ukraine, the terrorists in Syria, the state in Libya and Iraq; mostly about how many millions the U.S and NATO countries have paid to feed these wars and what are the latest arms that are going to be sent to Ukraine […]
In the last five years or so, various initiatives have been taken in bilateral and international forums to repatriate the displaced Rohingya or to resolve the crisis, but to no avail. The adoption of a unanimous resolution for the first time in the Third Committee of the United Nations on this issue on Wednesday is […]
The Rohingya issue is currently an important international one. More than 1.1 million Rohingya have taken refuge in Bangladesh since August 2017 due to genocide and ethnic cleansing in Myanmar. About 50,000 newborn Rohingya children are added to this number every year. The Rohingya had been subjected to systematic discrimination, deprivation of the right to […]