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  • Monitoring group SITE reported on Friday that an Iran-affiliated hacking group known as Handala claimed to have breached FBI drones and vowed to target the 2026 World Cup.

Tag: Rohingya Massacre

October 23, 2020

Virtual Fundraiser Collects $600M in Pledges...

According to Min Lwin Oo, a human rights attorney, the COVID-19 pandemic has complicated problems for delivering aid to Rohingya because many countries now face economic hardships

October 13, 2020

Rohingya Refugees, Workers Raise Funds to...

The fighting between the Myanmar military and the AA, an ethnic Rakhine armed force which is battling for greater autonomy in the western state, erupted a year after a scorched-earth military crackdown drove 740,000 Rohingya Muslims from the same region to overcrowded refugee camps in Bangladesh

September 4, 2020

Rohingya Refugee Groups in Bangladesh Urge...

The rights groups who wrote to the election commission represent many of the more than 740,000 Rohingya who fled to neighboring Bangladesh after the Myanmar military launched a brutal crackdown on Rohingya communities in northern Rakhine state three years ago, in the wake of attacks carried out by insurgents on police and army posts there

August 29, 2020

Focus on Rohingya Refugees

This month marks three years since Myanmar’s military launched an escalated campaign against the mostly ethnic Muslim Rohingyas in Rakhine state, with systematic rape, beatings, killings and burning of villages

August 22, 2020

UN Refugee Agency Urges Myanmar Actions...

More than 740,000 Rohingya fled to southeastern Bangladesh from Myanmar after government security forces launched a brutal crackdown in August 2017 in the wake of deadly attacks by Rohingya insurgents on police and army posts in Rakhine state

May 23, 2020

Myanmar Government Fails to Protect Rohingya...

On 11 November 2019, the Gambia filed a case at the ICJ, accusing Myanmar of breaching its obligations under the 1948 Genocide Convention. The complaint included an urgent request for the Court to order “provisional measures” to prevent all acts that may amount to or contribute to the crime of genocide against the Rohingya and protect the community from further harm while the case is being adjudicated.

May 22, 2020

Rohingya Refugees Struggle to Rebuild After...

Hundreds of Rohingya refugee families who lost their homes in a devastating fire last week are struggling to rebuild their lives. The fire in Bangladesh’s Cox’s Bazar burned through more than 600 makeshift shanties that included homes and shops.

May 19, 2020

Covid-19 Among Rohingya Refugees: “Prevention and...

Cox’s Bazar, just beyond the border between Myanmar and Bangladesh, the Bengali government is home to the largest refugee community in the world: 1.1 million Rohingya ethnic and Muslim refugees

May 16, 2020

First Rohingya Refugee in Bangladesh Tests...

The man lives at the Kutupalong camp, the world’s largest refugee camp, said Mahbub Alam Talukder, the commissioner for Refugee Relief and Repatriation. A second man who lives in the host community and is a Bangladesh citizen had tested positive for the virus as well, he said

May 13, 2020

Massive Fire Damages Homes, Shops in...

A massive fire broke out early Tuesday in an overcrowded camp that houses nearly 1 million Rohingya refugees in Cox’s Bazar district in southern Bangladesh.

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