Search results for ‘Bangladesh’
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UNHCR’s Caroline Gluck: ‘Rohingya need to be moved to safer locations before monsoon’
The UNHCR’s Caroline Gluck, in Bangladesh, discusses the plight of Rohingya refugees.
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‘Prison Island’ of the Rohingya: New island for refugees threatened by monsoon
It’s been six months since the mass exodus of Rohingya refugees began as the Myanmar military and Buddhist vigilantes turned on the Muslims of Rakhine State. Since then, 700,000 have escaped into Bangladesh to join more than 300,000 others who’d fled earlier. Jonathan Miller is there, finding out if a remote uninhabited island, prone to sinking, is really the answer.
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Boris Johnson calls for safe return of Rohingya refugees to Myanmar
The Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson has called for the safe and dignified return of the Rohingya people to Myanmar. Hundreds of thousands of the Muslim minority have fled what the UN has called a textbook example of ethnic cleansing. Speaking during a visit to a refugee camp in Bangladesh, and ahead of meeting Aung San Suu…
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Lily Caprani on Rohingya: ‘I didn’t meet single person who thought it would be safe to go back’
Lily Caprani, UNICEF UK’s deputy executive director has just returned today from visiting the Rohingya camps in Bangladesh.
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UN’s Guterres questions Rohingya repatriation
The UN Secretary-General has joined a chorus of international concern over an agreement to start repatriating hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees from Bangladesh to Myanmar, starting next week. Antonio Guterres has said it is important that the returns are voluntary and that the deal should not simply result in refugees being moved from camps…
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Pope arrives in Myanmar amid controversy over plight of Rohingya Muslims
Pope Francis has arrived in Myanmar which is also known as Burma, on a visit designed to reach out to some of Asia’s poorest communities. But it’s also fraught with political controversy over the plight of the Rohingya Muslims. The Pope has already met the general in charge of security operations in Rakhine state, whose…
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Kate Allen: Rohingya atrocities are a ‘crime against humanity’
Myanmar has signed a deal with Bangladesh to send hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslim refugees back home. Earlier today Myanmar’s leader Aung San Suu Kyi met the Bangladeshi foreign minister to discuss the details of the agreement. They say repatriations will begin within the next two months. More than 600 thousand people have crossed…
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America’s long history of meddling in other countries’ elections
As the FBI investigates claims that Russian meddling helped Donald Trump become president, FactCheck looks at America’s own track record of interfering with democratic elections.
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Mohammed Nazmul Quaunine: ‘Repatriation of Rohingya should be safe and sustainable’
Bangladesh’s High Commissioner to the UK, Mohammed Nazmul Quaunine, discusses the plight of the Rohingya.
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Dozens of Rohingya feared dead after boat capsizes
The crisis for the Rohingya refugees grows. Dozens are feared dead after they fled their homeland in Myanmar and their boat capsized off Bangladesh. Survivors said the boat which had been avoiding coastguard patrols at sea had been anchored off Inani beach, in the Bay of Bengal. It was within sight of land when rough…
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New footage shows hundreds of Rohingya Muslims fleeing Myanmar through jungle
Channel 4 News has obtained new footage from the jungle on the border between Myanmar and Bangladesh. It shows hundreds possibly thousands more still making the desperate journey to safety.
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Conditions for Rohingya refugees worsen
Myanmar’s leader Aung San Suu Kyi won’t be at the UN herself – unsurprisingly perhaps after the UN’s human rights chief condemned her country’s treatment of the Rohingya Muslims as a “textbook example of ethnic cleansing”. Instead she will give a televised address tomorrow, with a spokesman claiming she would call for national reconciliation and…
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Latest on the Rohingya crisis
Conditions for the hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims fleeing into Bangladesh are getting worse by the day: and there’s continued criticism of Myanmar’s leader Aung San Suu Kyi from her fellow Nobel Prize winners. Her officials say the violence is all down to “extremist Bengalis” in Rakhine state.
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Exodus of Rohingya refugees from Myanmar continues
Almost 400,000 Rohingya Muslims have now fled the violence in Myanmar in the last three weeks, including 240,000 children. Refugee camps across the border in Bangladesh are overflowing, and aid agencies fear it could get worse, warning up to a million could flee. The authorities in Myanmar say the army is fighting militants and have denied targeting civilians.Jonathan Miller has…
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Rohingya relate their ordeal after fleeing violence in Myanmar
We report from Southern Bangladesh as the United Nations human rights chief declares Myanmar’s treatment of the Rohingya people is a “textbook example of ethnic cleansing”.
