[🇧🇩] Insurgencies in Myanmar. Implications for Bangladesh

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মিয়ানমার সীমান্তে মাইন বিস্ফোরণে গুরুতর আহত বাংলাদেশি যুবক
Published: February 25, 2023 22:13:14

বান্দরবানের নাইক্ষ্যংছড়ি উপজেলা সীমান্তের মিয়ানমার অংশে মাইন বিস্ফোরণে এক বাংলাদেশি নাগরিক গুরুতর আহত হয়েছেন।

শনিবার বিকালে উপজেলার সদর ইউনিয়নের চাকঢালা এলাকার জামছড়ি সীমান্তের ওপারে মিয়ানমারের অভ্যন্তরে সালুডং এলাকায় এ ঘটনা ঘটে বলে নাইক্ষ্যংছড়ি উপজেলা নির্বাহী কর্মকর্তা (ইউএনও) রোমেন শর্মা জানান। খবর বিডিনিউজ টোয়েন্টিফোর ডটকমের।

আহত গোলাম আকবর (২৫) নাইক্ষ্যংছড়ি সদর ইউনিয়নের চাকঢালা জামছড়ি এলাকার ছৈয়দ আজিমের ছেলে।

ইউএনও রোমেন শর্মা বলেন, "জামছড়ি সংলগ্ন ৪৫ সীমান্ত পিলার এলাকায় মিয়ানমারের অভ্যন্তরে বাংলাদেশি তিন থেকে চারজন কাঠ সংগ্রহে যান। এক পর্যায়ে পুঁতে রাখা স্থলমাইন বিস্ফোরণে আকবর আহত হন।

"সঙ্গীরা আকবরকে উদ্ধার করে নাইক্ষ্যংছড়ি উপজেলা স্বাস্থ্য কমপ্লেক্সে নিয়ে আসে। এ সময় অবস্থা আশঙ্কাজনক হওয়ায় চিকিৎসক তাকে কক্সবাজার জেলা সদর হাসপাতালে স্থানান্তর করেন।"

কক্সবাজার জেলা সদর হাসপাতাল পুলিশ ফাঁড়ির সদস্য মো. রিপন চৌধুরী বলেন, "সন্ধ্যায় মাইন বিস্ফোরণে আহত এক যুবককে হাসপাতালে আনা হয়েছে। চিকিৎসক জানিয়েছেন, বিস্ফোরণে ওই যুবকের বাম পায়ের গোড়ালি সম্পূর্ণ উড়ে গেছে। এ ছাড়া স্পর্শকাতর অঙ্গসহ শরীরের বিভিন্ন অংশে গুরুতর জখমের চিহ্ন রয়েছে।"

এদিকে নাইক্ষ্যংছড়ি থানার ওসি নান্টু সাহা বলেন, "জামছড়ি সীমান্ত দিয়ে মিয়ানমারের ওপার থেকে চোরাই গরু আনতে যান আকবর। সেখানে মাইন বিস্ফোরণে বাম পায়ের গোড়ালিতে গুরুতর আহত হন।"​

 

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No more structures in Rohingya camps: PM

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said the government will not allow new structures in Rohingya camps

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No more structures in Rohingya camps: PM

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Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said the government will not allow new structures in Rohingya camps.

"It would not be wise to allow new structures in Rohingya camps in Cox's Bazar as it has already caused enough ecological imbalance due to massive deforestation," she said.

The PM said this while Japanese Special Envoy for National Reconciliation in Myanmar Yohei Sasakawa called on her at her official residence Gono Bhaban.

The PM's speech writer Md Nazrul Islam briefed reporters after the call on. Hasina said if Rohingyas are taken to Bhashan Char from Cox's Bazar, their quality of life will improve.

She sought the Nippon Foundation chairman's support for the repatriation Rohingyas to Myanmar.

Yohei Sasakawa lauded the accommodation facilities of Rohingyas in Bhashan Char, and said that Nippon Foundation is keen to providing training to the Rohingyas to boost their income as well as education to Rohingya children.​

 

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Arsa leader among five arrested in Cox’s Bazar

Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) has arrested five people, including a top-level leader of the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (Arsa), from the Rohingya camp in Ukhiya of Cox’s Bazar. They were arrested during a drive, conducted by RAB-15, in the early hours of Monday. The arrested Arsa leader wa

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Arsa leader among five arrested in Cox's Bazar
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Jun 10, 2024 12:56
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Jun 10, 2024 12:56

Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) has arrested five people, including a top-level leader of the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (Arsa), from the Rohingya camp in Ukhiya of Cox's Bazar.
They were arrested during a drive, conducted by RAB-15, in the early hours of Monday. The arrested Arsa leader was identified as Maulvi Akiz.

Abu Salam Chowdhury, Additional Superintendent of Police and Senior Assistant Director (Law and Media) of RAB-15, confirmed the matter.

The elite force also recovered a cache of weapons, ammunition, and explosives during the drive.​

 

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Myanmar junta orders evacuations around Sittwe

Myanmar’s junta has ordered thousands of people living outside a state capital threatened by ethnic rebels to leave their homes and head into the...

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Myanmar junta orders evacuations around Sittwe
Agence France-Presse . Yangon 15 June, 2024, 00:25

Myanmar's junta has ordered thousands of people living outside a state capital threatened by ethnic rebels to leave their homes and head into the city, residents said on Friday.

Sittwe city is one of the few holdouts for junta troops in western Rakhine state, where the military has lost swathes of territory to the Arakan Army in recent weeks.

The AA, which says it is fighting for autonomy for the state's ethnic Rakhine population, has vowed to capture Sittwe, home to an India-backed deep sea port and around 2,00,000 people.

Residents of 15 villages around Sittwe were given five days to leave their homes and move to the state capital, a resident of one of the villages said.

'The army threatened to shoot and kill if they found someone after the deadline' which expires on Saturday, she said.

A resident of Sittwe put the number of villages ordered to evacuate at around 10, saying that residents had been told 'to move out for security reasons' by Saturday.

The villages were home to around 3,500 people, the Sittwe resident said, requesting anonymity.

They added the military had not arranged for temporary shelters in Sittwe.

'People have to move to their relatives' homes from other villages,' they said.

Local media also reported the order to evacuate villages in the area.

AFP was unable to reach a junta spokesman for comment.

In November, the AA launched a wave of attacks on the military across Rakhine, shattering a ceasefire that had largely held since the military's 2021 coup.

It has since seized territory along the border with India and Bangladesh, piling further pressure on the junta as it battles opponents elsewhere across the Southeast Asian country.

It has also held the town of Pauktaw, around 25 kilometres from Sittwe, since January.

AFP images from the town last month showed gutted buildings, vacant windows and blocks bombed to rubble by the fighting, which has emptied the fishing port of its residents.

This month, the AA said junta troops had killed more than 70 civilians in a raid on Byain Phyu village, north of Sittwe.

The junta said the claim was 'propaganda' and accused AA fighters of launching attacks on Sittwe from surrounding villages.

Phone and internet services have been all but cut off across Rakhine state, making it difficult to verify reports of violence.​

 

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Thousands of Rohingya feared trapped in fighting in western Myanmar

Tens of thousands of Muslim minority Rohingya are feared to be caught in fighting in western Myanmar, as a powerful armed ethnic group bears down on junta positions in a coastal town on the country’s border with Bangladesh. The Arakan Army (AA), which is fighting for autonomy for Myanmar&rsq

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Thousands of Rohingya feared trapped in fighting in western Myanmar
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Jun 17, 2024 11:35
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Jun 17, 2024 11:35

Rohingya refugees rescued by fishermen are seen on a boat behind a patrol boat near the coast of Seunuddon beach in North Aceh, Indonesia, Jun 24, 2020. Photo : Reuters

Tens of thousands of Muslim minority Rohingya are feared to be caught in fighting in western Myanmar, as a powerful armed ethnic group bears down on junta positions in a coastal town on the country's border with Bangladesh.

The Arakan Army (AA), which is fighting for autonomy for Myanmar's Rakhine region, said late on Sunday that residents of Maungdaw town, inhabited primarily by the Rohingya, should leave by 9 pm ahead of a planned offensive on the settlement.

The AA's attack on Maungdaw is the latest in a months-long rebel onslaught against the Myanmar junta, which took power in a February 2021 coup, and now finds itself in an increasingly weakened position across large parts of the country.

"We are going to attack the remaining posts" of junta, the AA said in a statement, asking residents to stay clear of military positions in Maungdaw for their own safety.

A junta spokesman did not respond to a call seeking comment.

Around 70,000 Rohingya who are currently in Maungdaw are trapped as the fighting draws closer, said Aung Kyaw Moe, the deputy human rights minister in Myanmar's shadow National Unity Government.

"They have no where to run to," he told Reuters.

Thousands of Rohingya fled towards neighbouring Bangladesh last month, seeking safety from the escalating conflict, although the neighbouring country is reluctant to accept more refugees.

Their movement was triggered by battles in and around the town of Buthidaung, around 25 km (15 miles) away to the east of Maungdaw, that was captured by the AA after intense fighting during which the rebel group was accused of targeting the Rohingya community.

The AA denies the allegations.

Rohingya have faced persecution in Buddhist-majority Myanmar for decades. Nearly a million of them live in refugee camps in Bangladesh's border district of Cox's Bazar after fleeing a military-led crackdown in Rakhine in 2017.​