Security forces are distributing inflammatory leaflets,stoking anti-Muslim tension,more atrocities are committed in the strife-torn south-east Asian nation.
Among the warrens of tents clinging to Bangladesh’s denuded hills,militants search for recruits,drug traffickers roam,kidnappers prey on women and children.
Mohib Ullah’s high profile made him a target of hardliners. “If I die,I’m fine. I will give my life,” he said in 2019.
Refused entry at every port,90 refugees languished at sea for three months. Indonesian villagers discovered the survivors on a deserted island.
The Department of Home Affairs has launched investigations into relatives of Myanmar’s military government living in Australia,amid concerns they are either harbouring assets or receiving financial support in the wake of the military coup.
At least 400 people were still missing and around 560 were injured after a devastating fire that destroyed thousands of shelters at a Rohingya refugee camp in southern Bangladesh.
A huge fire has swept through a Rohingya refugee camp in southern Bangladesh,destroying thousands of homes and killing several people,officials and witnesses said.
Those searching for motives behind putsch that imprisoned Aung San Suu Kyi and plunged Myanmar back towards oppressive junta rule need look no further than the service ribbons on the chest of General Min Aung Hlaing.
As a pharmacist,the Rohingya man works to treat COVID patients in hospital. His wife-to-be,however,is trapped in Cox’s Bazar after fleeing Myanmar and faces deportation to a remote tsunami and flood-prone island.
A 2017 military crackdown in Myanmar’s Rakhine state sent more than 700,000 Rohingya Muslims fleeing into Bangladesh,where they remain in refugee camps.
The fire struck at a time when officials in Bangladesh look for long-term solutions for the hundreds of thousands of people who fled Myanmar.