Report & Photo Morshed Ali Khan › Hundreds of Rohingyas crossed the Myanmar border into Bangladesh in the wee hours yesterday and took shelter at different places including the Leda refugee camp at Mochina, some 15km north of Teknaf in Cox’s Bazar coastal area. Most of the families who managed to enter Bangladesh leaving the male […]
Report & Photo Morshed Ali Khan › Refugees fleeing the ongoing Myanmar army crackdown on the Rohingya community in northern Rakhine state bring with them harrowing tales of brutal atrocity which shock the conscience. Traumatised and terror-stricken survivors recounted to this correspondent the Myanmar army’s modus operandi of rounding up several families, then forcing men, women […]
Report & Photo Morshed Ali Khan, back from Teknaf › Even though the Bangladesh government has ignored their pleas, a vast majority of 1.5 million Rohingyas in the Rakhaine state of Myanmar are reportedly preparing to flee their country. Since World War II Myanmar has treated the Rohingyas in the most barbaric manner and stripped […]
Report & Photo Morshed Ali Khan › While atrocities on Rohingyas continue across the Naf River, the Border Guard Bangladesh has reinforced its troops from elsewhere of the country and pushed back thousands of Rohingyas fleeing the persecution in the Rakhine state of Myanmar. The Rohingya families, mostly women and children, hungry, tired and some […]
Report & Photos Morshed Ali Khan › In an early morning of November recently, a group of a dozen boys between the ages of six and 15 gather by a betel nut orchard at a remote village of Choto Biraljhuri of Kowkhali upazila 230 km south of the capital Dhaka. The kids are here because […]
