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Violent crackdown fuels humanitarian crisis for unrecognised Rohingya refugees Bangladesh |
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Thursday, 04 March 2010 |
| In June and July 2009, local authorities demolished shelters and forcibly removed their inhabitants in an attempt to clear a space around the perimeter of the official UNHCR camp at Kutupalong. MSF witnessed firsthand violence against the unregistered Rohingya, and provided medical care for some of the consequences. |
Introduction
Stateless Rohingya in Bangladesh are currently victim to unprecedented levels of violence and attempts at forced repatriation. Recent weeks have seen people arrive in their thousands at Kutupalong makeshift camp, as they flee what appears to be a violent crackdown on Rohingya presence in the country.
At its clinic in Kutupalong, Cox's Bazaar, the medical organisation M?©decins Sans Fronti?®res (MSF) has treated victims of beatings and harassment by the authorities and members of the community; people who have been driven from their shelters throughout the district and in some cases forced back into the river which forms the border to neighbouring Myanmar.
Since October, the camp has grown by 6,000 people, with 2,000 of these arriving in January alone. Without official recognition, they are prevented from supporting themselves, and are not permitted to receive official relief. As the numbers swell, nearly 29,000 people find themselves camped on a patch of ground with no infrastructure to support them, posing a serious threat to health. Action is needed now to stop this humanitarian crisis.
MSF has delivered healthcare to the Rohingya and their host communities in Bangladesh since 1992. |
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Press Release:ARNO welcomes the European Parliament Resolution on Burma |
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Saturday, 13 February 2010 |
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ARAKAN ROHINGYA NATIONAL ORGANISATION
ARAKAN, BURMA
12 February 2010
Arakan Rohingya National Organisations (ARNO) welcomes the resolution of the European Parliament dated 11 February 2010 which, inter alia,
• Welcomes the fact that the Government of Bangladesh is allowing a fact-finding mission by its south Asia delegation to examine the situation of the Rohingya population in Cox’s Bazar and Banderban Districts next week, and calls on Bangladesh Government to recognize that the unregistered Rohingyas are stateless asylum seekers who have fled persecution, and to provide them with adequate protection, access to livelihood and other basic services; |
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STATEMENT OF THE ARAKAN ROHINGYA NATIONAL ORGANISATION ON THE 63RD UNION DAY OF BURMA |
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Friday, 12 February 2010 |
ARAKAN ROHINGYA NATIONAL ORGANISATION
Arakan, Burma
12th February 2010
12th February marks the 63rd Union Day, a very important day for the people of Burma. On 12th February 1947 the Union Treaty was signed at Panlong, Shan State, between father of the nation Gen. Aung San and leaders of the nationalities to take the independence together from the British and to form Burma a Federal Union on the agreed upon principle of ‘unity in diversity’.
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People & Power - Myanmar: Beneath the surface - 23 Dec 09 |
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Wednesday, 30 December 2009 |
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The vise tightens on Rohingya in Bangladesh |
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Monday, 09 November 2009 |
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By ALEX ELLGEE TEKNAF, BANGLADESH — "I've lost everything in my life and now I can only pray that I don't get sent back to Burma," Haziqah, a 27-year-old female Rohingya refugee, told The Irrawaddy from her half-built mud hut in the unofficial Kutupalong refugee camp in Bangladesh. Before coming to the camp, Haziqah lived in the Bandarban Hill Tract, about 150 km to the north, where many Rohingya refugees fleeing persecution in Burma have settled. She had just given birth at the time, and so was unable to work, but she and her husband managed to survive on the meager wages he earned from odd jobs in the area. However, their hopes of leading a quasi-normal existence were crushed when one morning soldiers from Bangladeshi border force, the BDR, stormed their village, rounded up all the Rohingyas living there, and marched them towards the border. |
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For Refugees, Australia Should Rethink the ‘Indonesia Solution’ |
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Saturday, 07 November 2009 |
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In January, Australians saw shocking photos of young, emaciated men washing up on the shores of Sumatra. Australian television showed these Rohingyas, members of a Muslim ethnic minority systematically mistreated by Burma’s military regime, describing how Thai authorities beat them and pushed them back out to sea. Video footage captured the Thai navy appearing to tow the men out to sea in their rickety boats. The world was horrified.
Fast forward to last week, when boat people were once again on our TV screens. On Oct. 18, an Australian naval vessel rescued a boatload of Sri Lankans in international waters (though Indonesia’s search and rescue area) and transferred them to a customs boat, which is now trying to set them ashore in Indonesia. |
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Myanmar Rohingyas swap suppression for squalor |
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Tuesday, 03 November 2009 |
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By Shafiq Alam (AFP) – 6 hours ago KUTUPALONG, Bangladesh — As one of Myanmar's ethnic Muslim Rohingya, 45-year-old Manjurul Islam endured a lifetime of oppression before he finally fled the country for a squalid refugee camp in Bangladesh. Described by UN officials as one of the most persecuted minorities on earth, the Rohingya are not even recognised as citizens by the Myanmar junta. They have no legal right to own land and are forbidden from marrying or travelling without permission.   
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