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A huge fire blazed through a section of the crowded Rohingya refugee camps in southern Bangladesh. According to Save the Children, more than 300 temporary shelters made from bamboo and tarpaulin were gutted overnight, rendering more than 1,500 refugees, including 750 children, homeless. Four temporary learning centers were also destroyed. Bangladeshi Fire Service, local law […]
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Indonesia Allows Rohingya Boat of Refugees to Dock, Amid Pressure From Rights Groups
December 31st, 2021 
Awake Goy The Indonesian government has allowed a stranded boat carrying 120 Rohingya refugees near Aceh province to dock, the authorities said on Wednesday, relenting under pressure from rights groups. The boat was first sighted in waters off the coast of Bireuen on Dec. 26. The boat was leaking and damaged, with dozens of Rohingya refugees onboard, […]
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No Comments »Prominent leader’s assassination highlights the plight of Rohingya Muslims
October 3rd, 2021 Awake Goy A prominent Rohingya Muslim leader has been shot dead in a refugee camp in southern Bangladesh. Mohibullah, who was in his late 40s, led one of the largest of several community groups to emerge since more than 730,000 Rohingya Muslims fled Myanmar after a military crackdown in August 2017, Al Jazeera reported. He was talking […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: assassination, highlights, leader, muslims, plight, prominent, rohingya No Comments »Will the Coup in Burma Be a Turning Point for the Rohingya People
August 4th, 2021 Awake Goy Commentary The coup d’état in Burma (also known as Myanmar), earlier this year, may have dismantled the fragile foundations of the country’s democratic government, but the ensuing rise of a fervent pro-democracy civilian movement could be a turning point for the Rohingya population. Burma was thrown into disarray on Feb. 1, when the Tatmadaw, Burma’s […]
Floods Hit Rohingya Refugee Camps In Southern Bangladesh, Forcing Thousands To Flee
July 29th, 2021 Awake Goy DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — Days of heavy rainfall have pelted Rohingya refugee camps in southern Bangladesh, destroying dwellings and sending thousands of people to live with extended family or in communal shelters. Just in the 24 hours to Wednesday alone, more than 30 centimeters (11.8 inches) of rain fell on the camps in Cox’s Bazar […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: bangladesh, camps, floods, forcing, refugee, rohingya, southern No Comments »Fire At Rohingya Refugee Camp Destroys Hundreds Of Shelters
March 23rd, 2021 Awake Goy COX’S BAZAR, Bangladesh (AP) — A devastating fire raced through a sprawling Rohingya refugee camp in southern Bangladesh on Monday, destroying hundreds of shelters and leaving thousands homeless, officials and witnesses said. The fire at Balukhali camp in Cox’s Bazar district broke out in the late afternoon and spread quickly through at least four blocks, […]
Fire destroys homes, displaces thousands in UN Rohingya refugee camp in Bangladesh (VIDEOS)
January 15th, 2021 Awake Goy A devastating blaze swept through a decades-old UN Rohingya refugee camp in Bangladesh in the early hours of Thursday, destroying more than 550 homes and displacing about 3,500 people, UN aid workers said. The fire struck a UN camp in southern Bangladesh, with footage circulating on social media of the flames raging and completely burning […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: bangladesh, destroys, displaces, homes, refugee, rohingya, thousands No Comments »Move to relocate Rohingya refugees to remote island criticised by human rights groups
December 5th, 2020 Awake Goy More than 1,600 Rohingya refugees are being relocated to a remote island as part of the first phase of a controversial relocation program launched by the Bangladeshi goverment. Some 1,640 men, women, and children are being moved from Bangladesh’s southern port of Chittagong to the remote island of Bhasan Char. Around a million Rohingya refugees […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: criticised, human, island, refugees, relocate, remote, rohingya No Comments »The Rohingya, Facing Turmoil in Exile, Welcomed Back to Myanmar With Words but Not Action
May 10th, 2018 Awake Goy The English-language Bangkok Post reported on May 5 that the Rohingya refugees who return to Myanmar will be safe, according to the military there, as long as they stay confined to the camps being set up for them. Myanmar’s current commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces, Senior General Min Aung Hlaing, told a visiting delegation from the UN Security […]
Posted in World News, World Order, World Politics Tags: exile, facing, Myanmar, rohingya, turmoil, welcomed, words No Comments »Rohingya to be safe in areas ‘designated’ for them: Myanmar army chief
May 5th, 2018 Awake Goy “There is no need to be worried about their security if they stay in the areas designated for them,” Senior General Min Aung Hlaing told a United Nations delegation last week, according to a readout of the meeting posted on his official Facebook page on Saturday. The military official, who controls all security matters in […]
Posted in Jew World Order, Jewish News Tags: areas, Chief, designated, Myanmar, rohingya No Comments »UN: Myanmar continuing ‘ethnic cleansing’ of Rohingya
March 6th, 2018 Awake Goy More than 700,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled Myanmar since its military launched a bloody campaign against them across the western Rakhine State following a number of alleged attacks on security checkpoints on August 25 last year. The refugees have settled at squalid camps in a region in Bangladesh known as Cox’s Bazar. There, they have been […]
Posted in Jew World Order, Jewish News Tags: cleansing, continuing, ethnic, Myanmar, rohingya No Comments »UN demands unhindered access to Rohingya camps newly built in Myanmar
January 24th, 2018 Awake Goy The Taung Pyo Letwe refugee camp, built by Myanmar outside the town of Maungdaw in Rakhine State and near the Bangladeshi border, consists of long, plywood structures constructed on a rocky field and surrounded by a wire mesh fence topped with barbed wire. The UN refugee agency, the UNHCR, on Wednesday called on Myanmar “to allow the […]
Posted in Jew World Order, Jewish News Tags: access, built, camps, demands, newly, rohingya, unhindered No Comments »An Intro To The Rohingya Crisis
December 30th, 2017 Awake Goy By Brandon Turbeville As the Syrian military gains more and more ground by the day, the United States seems ready to at least partially direct its focus in other areas of the world like North Korea. Indeed, the “Pivot to Asia” is now in full swing and all the horrific consequences that may […]
Going Underground – Ep. 560: Forgotten Sides of Rohingya Crisis & George Galloways Revolutionary Socialism
December 20th, 2017 Awake Goy Going Underground – Ep. 560: Forgotten Sides of Rohingya Crisis & George Galloways Revolutionary Socialism Going Underground with Afshin Rattansiyoutube.com In this episode, we speak to Senior Communications Officer at the UN Refugee Agency Matthew Saltmarsh. George Galloway on socialist movements from the 1970s to today. Plus, we review this weeks headlines! LIKE Going Underground […]
Posted in World News, World Politics Tags: crisis, forgotten, george, going, rohingya, sides, underground No Comments »UN Human Rights Commissioner Points to Genocide of Rohingya in Myanmar
December 20th, 2017 Awake Goy The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, says “You cannot rule out the possibility that acts of genocide have been committed” against Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar. Around 650,000 have fled Myanmar into Bangladesh since August where most have no other option than to remain in refugee camps at the Bangladesh border, […]
Posted in World News, World Order, World Politics Tags: Commissioner, Genocide, human, Myanmar, points, rights, rohingya No Comments »Bangladesh indicates Rohingya repatriation could be delayed
December 20th, 2017 Awake Goy Press TV- A deal signed between Bangladesh and Myanmar for the repatriation of Rohingya Muslim refugees into their homeland in Myanmar’s state of Rakhine may not be implemented soon, authorities in Bangladesh have suggested. A Bangladeshi Foreign Ministry official said Tuesday that the January 21 deadline set as the date for the start of repatriation […]
Posted in Jew World Order, Jewish News Tags: bangladesh, could, delayed, indicates, repatriation, rohingya No Comments »Genocide: 6,700 Rohingya killed in Myanmar only in one month: MSF
December 14th, 2017 Awake Goy The international medical charity Doctors Without Borders says at least 6,700 members of the persecuted Rohingya Muslim minority group were killed in state-sponsored violence in Myanmar only in a period of one month beginning on August 25. The announcement was made by Doctors Without Borders, also known by its French acronym MSF, on Thursday. “At […]
US May Finally Acknowledge Myanmar’s Ethnic Cleansing Of Rohingya
October 24th, 2017 Awake Goy WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. officials are preparing a recommendation for Secretary of State Rex Tillerson to declare that “ethnic cleansing” is occurring against Myanmar’s Rohingya Muslims. That assessment would raise pressure on the Trump administration and U.S. lawmakers to consider new sanctions on a country that had been lauded for its democratic transition. Tillerson could […]
Posted in World News, World Order, World Politics Tags: acknowledge, cleansing, ethnic, finally, Myanmar, rohingya No Comments »Iranian jurists urge UN action on Rohingya Muslim crisis
October 22nd, 2017 Awake Goy Tasnim– A number of Iranian jurists and lawyers called on the United Nations secretary general to push for an end to the ongoing military crackdown and ethnic violence against Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar. In a letter to UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, 70 Iranian jurists asked him to take practical action to address the plight of […]
Posted in Jew World Order, Jewish News Tags: action, crisis, iranian, jurists, muslim, rohingya No Comments »10,000 Rohingya waiting at border to cross into Bangladesh: Report
October 3rd, 2017 Awake Goy Press TV- Over 10,000 more Rohingya refugees fleeing a military crackdown at home in Myanmar’s Rakhine State have amassed near a crossing point with Bangladesh awaiting entry into the neighboring country. The refugees “are arriving at the western grove between Letphwekya and Kwunthpin village to emigrate to the neighboring country,” the state-backed Global new Light […]
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