Bangladeshi plan to relocate Rohingya to remote island ‘unrealistic’: UN
GERMAN PRESS AGENCY – DPA DHAKA AFP Photo A Bangladeshi plan to relocate 100,000 Rohingya refugees from crowded mainland camps to an island in the Bay of Bengal was deemed […]
Why the Muslim World Needs to Follow Pope Francis?
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times The broader Sunni Shia conflict, with Saudi Arabia in one corner and Iran in the other, is no […]
About 60 Rohingya Babies Are Born Every Day in Refugee Camps, the U.N. Says
Source: Time By FELIZ SOLOMON Updated: May 16, 2018 10:13 PM ET | Originally published: May 17, 2018 Nine months since military violence in western Myanmar forced hundreds of thousands of […]
Islamic countries call Rohingya crisis ‘ethnic cleansing’
Source: Associated Press DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — A grouping of Islamic countries said Myanmar’s treatment of Rohingya Muslims is a “serious and blatant violation of international law” and it is […]
Why is Bangladesh booming?
May 06,2018 – JORDAN TIMES – Kaushik Basu NEW YORK — Bangladesh has become one of Asia’s most remarkable and unexpected success stories in recent years. Once one of the […]
Top-level UN team meets Myanmar leader in Rohingya probe
Source: Associated Press NAYPYITAW, Myanmar (AP) — Ambassadors from the U.N. Security Council probing Myanmar’s crisis over its ethnic Rohingya Muslim minority met Monday with the country’s leader and military […]
Rohingya refugees tearfully plead for U.N. Security Council help
Reuters International This content was published on April 29, 2018 British United Nations Ambassador Karen Pierce consoles a twelve-year-old Rohingya refugee near Cox’s Bazar, in Bangladesh, April 29, 2018. REUTERS/Michelle […]
The slippery slope of intolerance
Source: DT Bangladesh is not and cannot be allowed to be a land of persecution. To that end, the recent anti-Ahmadiyya rally organized by Islamist group Khatme Nobuat is a dangerously regressive development, that should be cause for serious concern. This is not the first time, unfortunately, that Bangladesh has […]
Bangladesh Looks to Saudi Arabia in a Twist of Irony
April 22, 2018 Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman by James M. Dorsey Bangladesh, in a twist of irony, is looking to Saudi Arabia to fund a $ 1 billion […]
Bangladesh: Anti-Ahmadiyya rally: Qadianis must officially be banned
Ujjal Chakraborty, Brahmanbaria Published at 06:47 PM April 20, 2018 Khatme Nobuat members at an anti-Ahmadiyya rally at Jamiya Ramiziya Siddiquiya Madrasa field in Nasirnagar Sadar on Friday; April […]
Providing better conditions to Rohingyas top priority for Turkish NGOs
ŞEYMA NAZLI GÜRBÜZ @SeymNazli Cox Bazar A Rohingya woman with her child at the Kutupalong camp, Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, March 25. Turkish NGOs operating in Cox Bazar, Bangladesh are […]
Repatriation of Rohingya ‘propaganda’, says Bangladesh
By Asian Correspondent Staff | 16th April 2018 | @ascorrespondent A Rohingya refugee receives identity documentation from a Burmese official in this photo posted by the Ministry of Information, Myanmar […]
Myanmar’s arguments are baseless, Bangladeshi FM says
YUSUF SELMAN İNANÇ @yusufsinanc DHAKA A boy naps under the shade of a tree after an early Sunday fire razed down a Rohingya camp in the Kalindi Kunj area […]
B’desh: Ahmadiyya community in fear after mosque ambush
ANI | Dhaka [Bangladesh] Last Updated at April 12, 2018 The Ahmadiyya community, who are also known as ‘Qadiani’, has been living in fear ever since suspected radical groups allegedly […]
Rohingya in camp tell Myanmar official they survived attacks
Source: Associated Press By JULHAS ALAM DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — A Myanmar Cabinet minister on Wednesday visited a sprawling refugee camp in Bangladesh for Rohingya Muslims, who described the violence […]
Myanmar official meets Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh camp
Source: Associated Press By JULHAS ALAM DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — A Myanmar Cabinet minister on Wednesday visited a sprawling refugee camp in Bangladesh for Rohingya Muslims, who described the violence that forced them to flee Myanmar and presented a list of demands for their repatriation. Social Welfare Minister Win Myat […]
Bangladesh: Ahmadiyya locals are sleepless fearing attacks
Ujjal Chakraborty, Brahmanbaria Published March 31, 2018 Photo:Dhaka Tribune Local leaders of the Islamic sect have applied to the UNO for security, fearing their households might be attacked Members of […]
Bangladesh: Ahmadiyya mosque comes under attack
Our Correspondent, Jamalpur Some 22 people were injured as a mosque of Ahmadiyya community came under attack in Madarganj upazila of Jamalpur district on Friday. Members of the community said […]
Rohingya crisis: UN envoy says refugees facing ‘forced starvation’
Source: BBC News Myanmar has not stopped its ethnic cleansing of the Rohingya people in Rakhine state, a United Nations human rights official said on Tuesday. The UN envoy’s assessment […]
Rohingya refugees test Bangladeshi welcome as prices rise and repatriation stalls
Source: Reuters By Clare Baldwin, Andrew R.C. Marshall KUTUPALONG REFUGEE CAMP, Bangladesh (Reuters) – The first Rohingya refugees who arrived on Jorina Katun’s farmland in Bangladesh last year were worn out and traumatized after fleeing violence in neighboring Myanmar. They wept and begged to stay, and Katun, moved by their plight, […]
