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Bangladesh, which is hosting over a million Rohingya refugees, has sought India's cooperation to peacefully repatriate the people who were forced to take refuge in the country to evade persecution in Myanmar, officials said on Monday. Parliament Speaker Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury sought India's assistance when Indian High Commissioner in Dhaka Pranay Kumar Verma called on her at the Sangsad Bhaban (Parliament House) on Sunday. "The speaker told the envoy that Bangladesh extended refuge to this huge number of Rohingyas, pointing out that India, as well, had given shelter to Bangladeshis during our 1971 Liberation War and the people recall that episode with respect," a Jatiya Sangsad Secretariat spokesman said. Chaudhury, he said, sought Indian support for the peaceful repatriation of the forcibly displaced Rohingyas to their homeland in Myanmar's Rakhine state, which they fled to evade a ruthless persecution under a military crackdown in 2017. Over a million Rohingyas fled Myanmar to
The United Nations' highest court is ruling Friday on whether to proceed with a landmark case that accuses Myanmar's rulers of genocide against the country's mainly Muslim Rohingya minority
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The United States has formally determined that the Myanmar military committed genocide and crimes against humanity against ethnic Rohingya Muslims in Rakhine State.
Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla said New Delhi has always called for a sustainable and speedy return of displaced persons to Myanmar's Rakhine State
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Authorities here have sent 168 Rohingyas to jail after they were found living illegally in the city, officials said on Sunday.
The Indian coast guard has found a boat adrift in the Andaman Sea carrying Rohingya refugees, including eight people who had died, the Ministry of External Affairs said on Thursday.Speaking at a videoconference briefing, spokesperson Anurag Srivastava said that on February 11, a boat sailed from Cox's Bazar in Bangladesh carrying 64 women including 8 girls and 26 men including 5 boys."The engine of the boat failed on February 15 and since then it has been drifting. Due to the severe conditions, we understand that eight occupants have died and one of the occupants had been missing since February 15," Srivastava said."When we learnt of the boat in distress, we immediately dispatched two coast guard ships to provide food, water and medical assistance to the occupants. Seven of them were administered IV fluids," he added.The spokesperson stated that around 47 of the boat's occupants possessed identity cards issued to them by the UNHCR office in Bangladesh, which stated that they were ...
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Military operations from August 2017 forced about 740,000 Rohingya to flee over the border into sprawling camps in Bangladesh
Flood protection embankments, houses, hospitals and mosques have been built on Bhasan Char, or floating island, in the Bay of Bengal, officials said
The plea has sought a direction to the Centre and the state governments to identify, detain and deport all illegal immigrants and infiltrators
Two men, five women and as many children had tried to enter Sipahijala district, about 50 km from Agartala
The six Rohingya muslims were detained by the railway police here, who were moving 'suspiciously' through the railway station
They confessed to being Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar and had sneaked into India via Bangladesh