Rohingya

Myanmar blames Bangladesh for delayed Rohingya return

Yangon - Muslimchronicle

Myanmar blamed Bangladesh on Tuesday for delays to the start of a huge repatriation programme for Rohingya refugees, as the UN warned of the dangers of rushing their return to strife-torn Rakhine state. Nearly 690,000 Rohingya escaped to Bangladesh after a brutal Myanmar army crackdown began in the state last August, while around 100,000 fled an earlier bout of violence inRead more

Rohingya deal aims to repatriate refugees in Bangladesh ‘within two years’

Yangon - Muslimchronicle

Myanmar and Bangladesh have agreed to repatriate Rohingya displaced by an army crackdown “within two years”, Dhaka said Tuesday, outlining the first clear timeline for a return of hundreds of thousands of refugees. The agreement says the process will be “completed preferably within 02 (two) years from the commencement of repatriation”, according to a statement from the Bangladeshi government followingRead more

Myanmar security forces took part in killing 10 Rohingya

Yangon - Muslimchronicle

Myanmar security forces took part in the massacre of 10 Rohinyga, the army chief's office said Wednesday, also admitting for the first time the existence of a mass grave of the Muslim minority in Rakhine state. "Some villagers from Inn Din village and security members confessed they killed 10 Bengali terrorists," the office said in a Facebook post about theRead more

Deadlines unlikely to break the deadlock over Rohingya repatriation

Bangladesh - Muslimchronicle

Even as the world acknowledges the festering Rohingya crisis as one of the world’s top 10 conflicts to monitor in 2018, there is little hope that the two key players – Buddhist Myanmar and Muslim Bangladesh – will quickly solve the problem which United Nations has called a “textbook case of ethnic cleansing” and “genocide” by the Myanmar military. AtRead more

Many Rohingya carry memories of persecution in their mobile

Myanmar - Muslimchronicle

With tiny bits of their old lives packed up into small sacks that they clutch onto tightly, more than 630,000 Rohingya refugees have poured across the border from Myanmar into Southern Bangladesh since late August. They bring with them stories of violent persecution by Myanmar's security forces. Their village, their homes, their cattle, their gold, everything that they owned, haveRead more

Quarter of Rohingya refugee children

Geneva - Muslimchronicle

A quarter of Rohingya children under the age of five who fled to Bangladesh from Myanmar suffer from potentially life-threatening levels of malnutrition, the United Nations said Friday. The UN children's agency said that three health and nutrition surveys conducted between October 22 and November 27 showed up to 25 per cent of the young children crammed into Bangladeshi refugee camps haveRead more

Myanmar bans UN rights envoy

Rakhine - Muslimchronicle

The UN's rights envoy for Myanmar said Wednesday the government had banned her from the country, adding her exclusion suggests something "awful" is happening in Rakhine state. UN Special Rapporteur Yanghee Lee had been due to visit Myanmar in January to assess the state of human rights across the country including in Rakhine, which was plunged into crisis by a military crackdownRead more

6,700 Rohingya killed in first month of Myanmar violence: MSF

Yangon - Muslimchronicle

At least 6,700 Rohingya Muslims were killed in the first month of a Myanmar army crackdown on rebels in Rakhine state that began in late August, Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said on Thursday. "At least 6,700 Rohingya, in the most conservative estimations, are estimated to have been killed, including at least 730 children below the age of five years," theRead more

Investigation reveals horrifying rape accounts told by Rohingya women

Myanmar - Muslimchronicle

The newlyweds were asleep in their home in western Myanmar in June when seven soldiers charged in. The woman, a Rohingya Muslim who agreed to be identified by her first initial, F, knew enough to be terrified. She knew the military had been attacking Rohingya villages, as part of what the United Nations has called ethnic cleansing in the mostlyRead more