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Over 1 lakh Rohingyas flee to Bangladesh
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Mohiuddin Alamgir with Mohammad Nurul Islam in Cox’s Bazar | Published: 00:25, Sep 05,2017 | Updated: 00:29, Sep 05,2017
An Indian student activist writes posters for a rally against the Myanmar government to protest against the treatment of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar, next to a picture of Myanmar’s civilian leader and Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, in Kolkata on Monday. — AFP photo
The number of Rohingyas fleeing to Bangladesh to save life crossed one lakh on Monday and thousands remained stranded along the border as violence, erupted on August 25, in Rakhine state in Myanmar escalated
Escalation of violence forced aid groups in Myanmar to suspend their humanitarian operations from Saturday amid United Nations’ call for restraint and calm in Rakhine state, cautioning that the situation might otherwise lead to a humanitarian catastrophe.
The ongoing violence erupted on August 25, when Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army reportedly attacked at least two dozen different police posts and checkpoints and one military base across three townships in northern Rakhine state and the Burma Army launched ‘clearance operations,’ left at least 400 people dead.
The insurgent group, later, said that they launched the attacks to pre-empt possible attacks by army and security forces on Rohingyas.
Over one lakh Rohingyas entered Bangladesh fleeing persecution in their homeland Rakhine state amid the ongoing violence and Bangladesh continued struggling to manage such influx, local administrators said on Monday.
Cox’s Bazar deputy commissioner Ali Hossain said
that estimation based on information provided by humanitarian agencies showed that nearly one lakh Myanmar citizen had entered the district.
A top official in Bandarban said that 10,000-12,000 Rohingyas entered the district.
Bandarban deputy commissioner Dilip Kumar Banik however, said that they had no estimation of Myanmar citizens entering the country.
They said that they did not have information how many Rohingyas were stranded along the border.
‘Bangladesh is struggling to cope with influx. Different humanitarian agencies are providing help to the newcomer Rohingyas but that is too little compare to the need,’ Ali Hossain said.
Many of these Myanmar citizens, including children, women and elderly people, were suffering from food, shelter and medicine crisis, he said.
The newcomers are building makeshift shelters in reserved forests in adjacent areas of Kutupalang and Balukhali Rohingya camps, he said.
‘We are not stopping them or taking the makeshift camps down on humanitarian grounds,’ he added.
Bangladesh Coast Guard detained 2,011 Rohingyas from Saint Martin’s island on Sunday, said Ali Hossain, adding that all were brought to safe place in Cox’s Bazar town. Of the detained 1,266 were children, 487 women and 258 male.
Reuters reported that two blasts rocked a Myanmar area near Bangladesh border on Monday, accompanied by the sound of gunfire and thick black smoke.
Border Guard Bangladesh said that a Rohingya woman lost a leg from a blast about 50 metres inside Myanmar and she was carried into Bangladesh for treatment. Reuters reporters heard explosions and saw a black smoke rising near a Myanmar village.
A Rohingya ‘refugee’ who went to the site of the blast––on a footpath near where civilians fleeing violence huddled in no man’s land––filmed what appeared to be a mine: a metal disc about 10 centimetres (3.94 inches) in diameter partially buried in the mud. He said that he believed there were two more such devices buried in the ground.
Two ‘refugees’ also told Reuters they saw members of the Myanmar army around the site in the immediate period preceding the blasts at about 2:25pm.
The spokesman for Myanmar’s national leader Aung San Suu Kyi, Zaw Htay, said that a clarification was needed to determine ‘where did it explode, who can go there and who laid those land mines. Who can surely say those mines were not laid by the terrorists?’
Earlier on Saturday bodies of Rohingya couple Jaker Ullah and Ayesha Begum were found near Tumbroo border. Local people and Rohingays said both were bullet injured and they went inside Mynamanr to collect their belonging.
Border guard battalion-34 commanding officer Manjurul Hassan Khan said that the bodies were found on the zero point.
New York-based rights organisation Human Rights Watch on Monday said that new satellite imagery showed several hundred buildings burned in Rakhine state.
Imagery from the Rohingya Muslim village of Chein Khar Li in Rathedaung township showed 700 buildings burned, a near total destruction of the village, said the rights group.
Myanmar officials blamed Rohingya insurgents for the burning of homes and death of civilians but rights monitors and Rohingyas fleeing to Bangladesh said that the Myanmar army was trying to force Rohingyas out with a campaign of arson and killings.
UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in its weekly regional humanitarian snapshot on Asia and the Pacific on Monday showed that as of September 3, about 87,000 Rohingyas crossed from Myanmar into Cox’s Bazar following violence.
UN refugee agency UNHCR Bangladesh in a post on its website on Monday said that large groups of Rohingyas had been crossing into Ukhiya and Teknaf areas of south-eastern Bangladesh bordering Myanmar. Many were seen wading through vast paddy fields and making their way to the nearby villages carrying whatever they could salvage from their homes.
Kutupalong camp received about 20,000 new arrivals in 10 days. Another camp, Nayapara, received an estimated 6,500. Other new arrivals were scattered in makeshift shanties and local villages.
‘This is a true crisis,’ said refugee relief and repatriation commissioner in Cox’s Bazar Mohammad Abul Kalam. ‘The number of people has more than doubled in the camps. Kutupalong camp is beyond capacity. Every family has taken in new arrivals, every available space is occupied. I’m not sure how long we can sustain this.’
Body of one more Rohingya woman who was fleeing violence in Myanmar was found floating in the Naf River at Teknaf. With this one local and different Bangladesh forces recovered 54 bodies of Rohingyas in the past seven days from the river.
Leaders of registered and unregistered Rohingya camps in Bangladesh said that Rohingyas were taking the sea route boarding wooden boats in a desperate move to reach Bangladesh to save life.
Reuters reported that nearly 90,000 Rohingyas had fled to Bangladesh in 10 days, pressuring scarce resources of aid agencies and communities already helping hundreds of thousands of refugees from previous spasms of violence in Myanmar.
Indonesian foreign minister Retno Marsudi met Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi and other officials on Monday to urge a halt to the violence.
Suu Kyi’s office said that Marsudi expressed the Indonesian government’s ‘support of the activities of the Myanmar government for the stability, peace and development of Rakhine state.’
They also discussed humanitarian aid and the two countries would collaborate for the development of the state, Suu Kyi’s office said without giving further details.
Retno Marsudi is also scheduled to travel to Bangladesh to urge authorities to protect Rohingya refugees.
There were more anti-Myanmar protests in Jakarta on Monday. Indonesia has the world’s largest Muslim population.
Pakistan, which has a large number of Rohingyas living there, on Sunday urged ‘authorities in Myanmar to investigate reports of massacre, hold those involved accountable and take necessary measures to protect the rights of Rohingya Muslims.’
http://www.newagebd.net/article/23301/over-1-lakh-rohingyas-flee-to-bangladesh
Indonesian FM arrives today
Mohiuddin Alamgir with Mohammad Nurul Islam in Cox’s Bazar | Published: 00:25, Sep 05,2017 | Updated: 00:29, Sep 05,2017
An Indian student activist writes posters for a rally against the Myanmar government to protest against the treatment of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar, next to a picture of Myanmar’s civilian leader and Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, in Kolkata on Monday. — AFP photo
The number of Rohingyas fleeing to Bangladesh to save life crossed one lakh on Monday and thousands remained stranded along the border as violence, erupted on August 25, in Rakhine state in Myanmar escalated
Escalation of violence forced aid groups in Myanmar to suspend their humanitarian operations from Saturday amid United Nations’ call for restraint and calm in Rakhine state, cautioning that the situation might otherwise lead to a humanitarian catastrophe.
The ongoing violence erupted on August 25, when Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army reportedly attacked at least two dozen different police posts and checkpoints and one military base across three townships in northern Rakhine state and the Burma Army launched ‘clearance operations,’ left at least 400 people dead.
The insurgent group, later, said that they launched the attacks to pre-empt possible attacks by army and security forces on Rohingyas.
Over one lakh Rohingyas entered Bangladesh fleeing persecution in their homeland Rakhine state amid the ongoing violence and Bangladesh continued struggling to manage such influx, local administrators said on Monday.
Cox’s Bazar deputy commissioner Ali Hossain said
that estimation based on information provided by humanitarian agencies showed that nearly one lakh Myanmar citizen had entered the district.
A top official in Bandarban said that 10,000-12,000 Rohingyas entered the district.
Bandarban deputy commissioner Dilip Kumar Banik however, said that they had no estimation of Myanmar citizens entering the country.
They said that they did not have information how many Rohingyas were stranded along the border.
‘Bangladesh is struggling to cope with influx. Different humanitarian agencies are providing help to the newcomer Rohingyas but that is too little compare to the need,’ Ali Hossain said.
Many of these Myanmar citizens, including children, women and elderly people, were suffering from food, shelter and medicine crisis, he said.
The newcomers are building makeshift shelters in reserved forests in adjacent areas of Kutupalang and Balukhali Rohingya camps, he said.
‘We are not stopping them or taking the makeshift camps down on humanitarian grounds,’ he added.
Bangladesh Coast Guard detained 2,011 Rohingyas from Saint Martin’s island on Sunday, said Ali Hossain, adding that all were brought to safe place in Cox’s Bazar town. Of the detained 1,266 were children, 487 women and 258 male.
Reuters reported that two blasts rocked a Myanmar area near Bangladesh border on Monday, accompanied by the sound of gunfire and thick black smoke.
Border Guard Bangladesh said that a Rohingya woman lost a leg from a blast about 50 metres inside Myanmar and she was carried into Bangladesh for treatment. Reuters reporters heard explosions and saw a black smoke rising near a Myanmar village.
A Rohingya ‘refugee’ who went to the site of the blast––on a footpath near where civilians fleeing violence huddled in no man’s land––filmed what appeared to be a mine: a metal disc about 10 centimetres (3.94 inches) in diameter partially buried in the mud. He said that he believed there were two more such devices buried in the ground.
Two ‘refugees’ also told Reuters they saw members of the Myanmar army around the site in the immediate period preceding the blasts at about 2:25pm.
The spokesman for Myanmar’s national leader Aung San Suu Kyi, Zaw Htay, said that a clarification was needed to determine ‘where did it explode, who can go there and who laid those land mines. Who can surely say those mines were not laid by the terrorists?’
Earlier on Saturday bodies of Rohingya couple Jaker Ullah and Ayesha Begum were found near Tumbroo border. Local people and Rohingays said both were bullet injured and they went inside Mynamanr to collect their belonging.
Border guard battalion-34 commanding officer Manjurul Hassan Khan said that the bodies were found on the zero point.
New York-based rights organisation Human Rights Watch on Monday said that new satellite imagery showed several hundred buildings burned in Rakhine state.
Imagery from the Rohingya Muslim village of Chein Khar Li in Rathedaung township showed 700 buildings burned, a near total destruction of the village, said the rights group.
Myanmar officials blamed Rohingya insurgents for the burning of homes and death of civilians but rights monitors and Rohingyas fleeing to Bangladesh said that the Myanmar army was trying to force Rohingyas out with a campaign of arson and killings.
UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in its weekly regional humanitarian snapshot on Asia and the Pacific on Monday showed that as of September 3, about 87,000 Rohingyas crossed from Myanmar into Cox’s Bazar following violence.
UN refugee agency UNHCR Bangladesh in a post on its website on Monday said that large groups of Rohingyas had been crossing into Ukhiya and Teknaf areas of south-eastern Bangladesh bordering Myanmar. Many were seen wading through vast paddy fields and making their way to the nearby villages carrying whatever they could salvage from their homes.
Kutupalong camp received about 20,000 new arrivals in 10 days. Another camp, Nayapara, received an estimated 6,500. Other new arrivals were scattered in makeshift shanties and local villages.
‘This is a true crisis,’ said refugee relief and repatriation commissioner in Cox’s Bazar Mohammad Abul Kalam. ‘The number of people has more than doubled in the camps. Kutupalong camp is beyond capacity. Every family has taken in new arrivals, every available space is occupied. I’m not sure how long we can sustain this.’
Body of one more Rohingya woman who was fleeing violence in Myanmar was found floating in the Naf River at Teknaf. With this one local and different Bangladesh forces recovered 54 bodies of Rohingyas in the past seven days from the river.
Leaders of registered and unregistered Rohingya camps in Bangladesh said that Rohingyas were taking the sea route boarding wooden boats in a desperate move to reach Bangladesh to save life.
Reuters reported that nearly 90,000 Rohingyas had fled to Bangladesh in 10 days, pressuring scarce resources of aid agencies and communities already helping hundreds of thousands of refugees from previous spasms of violence in Myanmar.
Indonesian foreign minister Retno Marsudi met Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi and other officials on Monday to urge a halt to the violence.
Suu Kyi’s office said that Marsudi expressed the Indonesian government’s ‘support of the activities of the Myanmar government for the stability, peace and development of Rakhine state.’
They also discussed humanitarian aid and the two countries would collaborate for the development of the state, Suu Kyi’s office said without giving further details.
Retno Marsudi is also scheduled to travel to Bangladesh to urge authorities to protect Rohingya refugees.
There were more anti-Myanmar protests in Jakarta on Monday. Indonesia has the world’s largest Muslim population.
Pakistan, which has a large number of Rohingyas living there, on Sunday urged ‘authorities in Myanmar to investigate reports of massacre, hold those involved accountable and take necessary measures to protect the rights of Rohingya Muslims.’
http://www.newagebd.net/article/23301/over-1-lakh-rohingyas-flee-to-bangladesh