Additional Refugee News Today

Refugees mark August 25 as ‘Genocide Day’ to demand justice and safe and voluntary repatriation to their Myanmar homes.

Five years on from the biggest mass exodus of Rohingya to Bangladesh, people in the camps say there is no end in sight. Human rights groups want global actors to mark the anniversary with a coordinated strategy.

Five years on from the biggest mass exodus of Rohingya to Bangladesh, people in the camps say there is no end in sight

Five years on from the biggest mass exodus of Rohingya to Bangladesh, people in the camps say there is no end in sight. Human rights groups want global actors to mark the anniversary with a coordinated strategy.

The Bangladeshi government has now closed all private schools in refugee camps. The government had previously permitted the schools to operate.

Kayaphuri School headmaster Mohammad Showife was printing out questions for the ninth-grade exams when armed police raided his office at Bangladesh’s largest private school for Rohingya refugees. The 32-year-old Showife told VOA that the police confiscated his computer and printer, and in the morning, returned to seize benches and whiteboards and lock the school’s door.…

Since December, roughly 30 schools in Rohingya camps were closed by police or closed on their own in the face of police closures

Fire breaks out at Rohingya camp in Ukhiya

Another 1,800 Rohingyas moved to Bhasan Char A group of nearly 1,800 refugee Rohingyas set sail for Bhasan Char Thursday, as part of the government’s plan to relocate them to the remote Bay of Bengal island from crammed camps in Cox’s Bazar. Five vessels of the Bangladesh Navy carrying 1,759 Rohingyas left the Patenga Naval jetty in Chattogram for the island this morning, said Additional Refugee, Relief and Rehabilitation Commissioner Md Shamsuzzaman Nayan, reports UNB. On Wednesday, some 2...