Rohingya

UNHCR says 26 Rohingya died, 180 missing at sea making hazardous journey

At least 26 Rohingya Muslims had died in dire conditions during a month at open sea while making a dangerous voyage that brought scores of others to safety in Indonesia, a UN agency said Tuesday, adding there will likely be more. Exhausted women and children were among 185 people who disembarked from a rickety wooden boat on Monday in a coastal village in Aceh's Pidie district, authorities said. A distressing video circulated widely on social media showed the Rohingya worn out and emaciated, with many crying for help. They are very weak because of dehydration and exhaustion after weeks at sea, said local police chief Fauzi, who goes by a single name. The U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees said that survivors told the agency that 26 people died during the long journey. One of the refugees, who identified himself as Rosyid, told The Associated Press that they left the refugee camp in Bangladesh at the end of November and drifted on the open sea. He said at least 20 of us died aboard

Helter-skelter shelter: Why are Rohingya refugees in the news again?

No sooner did the union minister Hardeep Puri hail giving Rohingyas a permanent shelter than the MHA denied any such order

Election fraud trial of Myanmar's ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi begins

The army seized power and arrested Suu Kyi in February last year, claiming widespread voter fraud in the 2020 general election, an allegation not corroborated by independent election observers

Illegal Rohingya immigrants living in 12 states, UTs: Govt to Rajya Sabha

The minister said detection and deportation of illegal migrants, including the Rohingya from Myanmar, after due process of nationality verification was a continuous process

Game of the name

Move to rename Hyderabad revives a long-buried past

India, B'desh to hold JCC meeting today; water sharing, Rohingya on agenda

The issues related to Rohingya crisis, water sharing in common rivers, energy, connectivity, bilateral trade and border are expected to be on the agenda of Joint Consultative Commission

Brinda Karat cites fate of Rohingya, Ahmadiyya communities to take on CAA

Asks why the two communities persecuted in Myanmar and Pakistan have been excluded at a rally in Raipur's 'Shaheen Bagh'

Hasten effort to eliminate discrimination against Rohingya: UN to Myanmar

Buddhist-majority Myanmar has long considered the Rohingya to be 'Bengalis' from Bangladesh even though their families have lived in the country for generations

Aung San Suu Kyi defends genocide charges against Myanmar, Gambia hits out

Once regarded as an international rights icon for standing up to Myanmar's brutal junta, Suu Kyi's reputation has been tarnished by her decision to side with the military over the Rohingya crisis

Refugee status or deportation for Rohingyas? SC may rule before CJI retires

The Rohingya petitioners have said that the UNHCR in 2016 registered and recognised the 40,000-odd Rohingyas in India and granted refugee identity cards to them

US seeks probe on Hindus massacred in Myanmar; Muslim groups slam Amnesty

Amnesty International said a Rohingya armed group brandishing guns and swords was responsible for at least one, and potentially a second, massacre

Malaysian coast guard intercepts boat carrying 56 Rohingya refugees

The refugees were in good health and they were provided with food and water

Myanmar erects security posts on burned Rohingya land: Amnesty

Rakhine state has been largely sealed off from rights groups, the media and UN investigators

Rohingya crisis: UN chief asks Suu Kyi to allow return of Muslim refugees

Over 6,00,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled to Bangladesh from predominantly Buddhist Myanmar's Rakhine state

18,000 Rohingya flee violence in Myanmar into Bangladesh

Myanmar government blames Rohingya insurgents for the violence