On Friday, December 4 more than 1600 Rohingya refugees, previously in hardscrabble camps outside Cox’s Bazar in Bangladesh, were moved by boat to the flood-prone island of Bhasan Char in the Bay of Bengal. For more than two years the government of Bangladesh has been building shelters for large numbers Read more…
Rohingya Camps Face the Monsoon The monsoon season in South and Southeast Asia has arrived. Al-Jazeera wrote on July 15: In the overcrowded refugee camps in Bangladesh’s Cox’s Bazar district – home to nearly one million Rohingya who have fled a military crackdown in Myanmar—nearly 5,000 tarpaulin and bamboo homes were Read more…
On July 3rd, the Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development (FORUM-ASIA), Progressive Voice (PV) and Myanmar Alliance for Transparency and Accountability (MATA) issued a joint statement “call[ing] on the international community to expedite the full operationalisation of the independent investigative mechanism for Myanmar (IIM) established by the UN Human Read more…
Richard Reoch, former president of Shambhala, has written an article for Lion’s Roar about his trip to the Rohingya refugee camps outside of Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. In the article, Richard grapples with how Buddhists in Myanmar could condone, even encourage, violence against the Rohingya people. “The Buddha was no stranger Read more…
The Religious New Service published a piece by Hozan Alan Senauke, recounting his experiences in the Rohingya refugee camps in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. The need for aid and support is paramount, writes Senauke. “This is vital, not just for the Rohingya people, but for other ethnic minorities in Myanmar — Read more…