Let us Stand beside the Rohingyas

[Imran Khan]

i am failed to understand how they are our problem ? let them die they are failed society

The rohingyas are being oppressed for years it seems ,but one thing which cought my eyes in most of the photos is,they have so many babies inspite of being financially not doing well and no real opportunities,how do they take care of so many babies in a family

they are doing it without thoughts proper human think before his actions but they even never think after their actions .

 

[Banglar Bir]

 

[Banglar Bir]

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We the Bangladeshi people have set a unique example in front of the whole world with our greatness, generosity and awakening humanity.

We repeat that history, we have ensured the protection and temporary rehabilitation of the Rohingya people who have been wounded and attacked by the Burmese military.

As you are already known, we the Nagorik Sheba Parishad and Change associated with USDP, IUB Social Welfare Club , Sathe Achi Foundation and SURGE Foundation have distributed food, medicine, toys and clothing to those refugees. Here is the Documentary film of the event "Call of Humanity".
However, we believe in the long-term and sustainable activities rather than the immediate remedy. In continuation of this, we are organizing another event 'Sustainable Project for Rohingya-SPR' collaboration with the IUB Social Welfare Club. Through this, we want to provide them with improved housing, safe drinking water and proper sanitation.
Come on! Let's do a better solution to reduce this disaster. Together we can also prove ourselves to be enough patronizing to share our own habitats and food even after facing hunger, poverty and various natural disasters of our own. Therefore, we are unique for our hospitality.
To contribute our 'Sustainable Project for Rohingya-SPR' event feel free to contact us. Event link : www.facebook.com/events/339902129755604 .HD video link :https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_2mFKc8lek .Thanks!

 

[Banglar Bir]

The Rohingya should be treated as our own
Tanim Ahmed
Published at 07:29 PM September 16, 2017
Last updated at 11:12 PM September 16, 2017

Bangladeshi volunteers from the Chhagalnaiya village council distribute food donations to Rohingya Muslim refugees at Naikhongchhari in Chittagong on September 10, 2017AFP
I would dread repatriation if I were a Rohingya
What is another million when we already have 160 million ourselves?

The prime minister’s sentiment is actually true except that the 160 million she mentioned are Bangladeshis and mostly left to their own devices for a livelihood. Now that the prime minister’s comments will have triggered a predictable sycophantic frenzy of about face among the most voluble and violent critics of Rohingya, it is probably time to recognise that we will not be able to wish them away, however much we want to.

The well over million Rohingya who will have been sheltered in Bangladesh before the yearend, will probably be the highest concentration and one of the few unfortunate examples where an entire ethnic community has been uprooted, an instance of successful ethnic cleansing while the world watched. The Rohingya have been fleeing Myanmar in search of refuge for almost four decades now. And they are not going back.

To begin with, Myanmar is not going to turn around and say, “My bad. So sorry. Come along folks. Lets start over.” Not with China and India cajoling and coaxing the regime. But even if by a miracle Myanmar did say that, the Rohingyas would hardly return. A father who watched his five year old shot, a girl who saw her parents mutilated, people who saw their homes burnt will simply not accept the assurances of the very people who had turned on them. Indeed, if I were a Rohingya I would run and hide in the densest darkest patch of the Sundarbans. I would dread repatriation if I were a Rohingya.

What it basically comes down to is that Bangladesh will have become the new home of the Rohingya for all intents and purposes. But the government has to pretend that it is a ‘temporary problem’ perhaps because of all kinds of political considerations. Easy acceptance of the Rohingya as permanent residents might encourage India to push in a few hundred thousand unwanted Muslims too, for instance.

Be that as it may, there is simply no getting around the point that the Rohigya are here and they are not going anywhere. Bangladesh needs to realise it is a ‘permanent situation’ and change up how to go about it. There should be calls for other countries to pull their share of housing the Rohingya. The obvious candidates, playing the religion card, would be the oil rich gulf countries besides of course Turkey. Then there is Europe or even the North and South American countries.

The government realises that it will not be able to feed and care for so many people but it seems to be holding out for eventual repatriation, which won’t happen. As soon as this sinks in, however, the authorities will realise that there will never be enough funds to care for the refugees. Hence, they must earn their keep whether through food for work schemes of the government or proper paying jobs.

As such the Rohingya must be allowed civic amenities and privileges — citizenship should only be a protracted inevitability — to make a living and stop being a burden. That the Rohingya engage in criminal activity is but natural given that they cannot get proper employment. It will be in everyone’s interest to make sure that Rohingya children receive proper education and health care so that they can take care of their parents and their children.

Sooner or later they will have adopted this country. Might as well treat them as our own.
http://www.dhakatribune.com/world/south-asia/2017/09/16/rohingya-repatriation-unlikely/

 

[UKBengali]

The Rohingya should be treated as our own
Tanim Ahmed
Published at 07:29 PM September 16, 2017
Last updated at 11:12 PM September 16, 2017

Bangladeshi volunteers from the Chhagalnaiya village council distribute food donations to Rohingya Muslim refugees at Naikhongchhari in Chittagong on September 10, 2017AFP
I would dread repatriation if I were a Rohingya
What is another million when we already have 160 million ourselves?

The prime minister’s sentiment is actually true except that the 160 million she mentioned are Bangladeshis and mostly left to their own devices for a livelihood. Now that the prime minister’s comments will have triggered a predictable sycophantic frenzy of about face among the most voluble and violent critics of Rohingya, it is probably time to recognise that we will not be able to wish them away, however much we want to.

The well over million Rohingya who will have been sheltered in Bangladesh before the yearend, will probably be the highest concentration and one of the few unfortunate examples where an entire ethnic community has been uprooted, an instance of successful ethnic cleansing while the world watched. The Rohingya have been fleeing Myanmar in search of refuge for almost four decades now. And they are not going back.

To begin with, Myanmar is not going to turn around and say, “My bad. So sorry. Come along folks. Lets start over.” Not with China and India cajoling and coaxing the regime. But even if by a miracle Myanmar did say that, the Rohingyas would hardly return. A father who watched his five year old shot, a girl who saw her parents mutilated, people who saw their homes burnt will simply not accept the assurances of the very people who had turned on them. Indeed, if I were a Rohingya I would run and hide in the densest darkest patch of the Sundarbans. I would dread repatriation if I were a Rohingya.

What it basically comes down to is that Bangladesh will have become the new home of the Rohingya for all intents and purposes. But the government has to pretend that it is a ‘temporary problem’ perhaps because of all kinds of political considerations. Easy acceptance of the Rohingya as permanent residents might encourage India to push in a few hundred thousand unwanted Muslims too, for instance.

Be that as it may, there is simply no getting around the point that the Rohigya are here and they are not going anywhere. Bangladesh needs to realise it is a ‘permanent situation’ and change up how to go about it. There should be calls for other countries to pull their share of housing the Rohingya. The obvious candidates, playing the religion card, would be the oil rich gulf countries besides of course Turkey. Then there is Europe or even the North and South American countries.

The government realises that it will not be able to feed and care for so many people but it seems to be holding out for eventual repatriation, which won’t happen. As soon as this sinks in, however, the authorities will realise that there will never be enough funds to care for the refugees. Hence, they must earn their keep whether through food for work schemes of the government or proper paying jobs.

As such the Rohingya must be allowed civic amenities and privileges — citizenship should only be a protracted inevitability — to make a living and stop being a burden. That the Rohingya engage in criminal activity is but natural given that they cannot get proper employment. It will be in everyone’s interest to make sure that Rohingya children receive proper education and health care so that they can take care of their parents and their children.

Sooner or later they will have adopted this country. Might as well treat them as our own.
http://www.dhakatribune.com/world/south-asia/2017/09/16/rohingya-repatriation-unlikely/

I agree with this article to an extent.

BD will have to house and feed and give work opportunities to the Rohingyas for maybe many years to come. However, BD is many times wealthier than Myanmar and so if needs be, it needs to capture at least northern Arakan and the Rohingya can go back to their rightful lands. Allowing the Rohingya to stay permanently would show BD as a meek and weak state and set a terrible precedent for the whole world.

 

[Al-zakir]

I agree with this article to an extent.

BD will have to house and feed and give work opportunities to the Rohingyas for maybe many years to come. However, BD is many times wealthier than Myanmar and so if needs be, it needs to capture at least northern Arakan and the Rohingya can go back to their rightful lands. Allowing the Rohingya to stay permanently would show BD as a meek and weak state and set a terrible precedent for the whole world.

Not going to happen unless our military grow some balls and retaliate in return.

Look at afghan, they fought a super power with nothing but will power. We can not even stand straight in front of pesky Burmese let alone going against India in battlefield. If our military personnel has become ball less than I would suggest neutralize our armed forces and become a full time domesticated state of India. Why spending all these money if there is no intention to use it in the time of need???

 

[UKBengali]

Not going to happen unless our military grow some balls and retaliate in return.

Look at afghan, they fought a super power with nothing but will power. We can not even stand straight in front of pesky Burmese let alone going against India in battlefield. If our military personnel has become ball less than I would suggest neutralize our armed forces and become a full time domesticated state of India. Why spending all these money if there is no intention to use it in the time of need???

Military is controlled by government and current one is ball less.

BNP brought less weapons than Awami has done or is now doing, so their stance would not have been much different.

However, Awami League at least is spending a lot of money buying the hardware to allow a short war to take on Myanmar in a few years if required. Better to have the hardware and so the option is there at least.

 

[Banglar Bir]

Do the right thing
Zahin Hasan
Published at 06:14 PM October 09, 2017
Last updated at 11:58 PM October 09, 2017

They should be made more employable SYED ZAKIR HOSSAIN
The only thing to do in good conscience is to make the Rohingya feel welcome here
Just over one month ago, Myanmar began an intensive campaign to slaughter and expel the Rohingya. Since then, Bangladesh has received over half a million Rohingya refugees.

Our government has asked the international community to pressure Myanmar to take back the refugees, and to create safe zones for them in Myanmar.
Unfortunately, Myanmar enjoys the protection of China; China is likely to use its veto to block any UN resolution aimed at creating safe zones.

Even if safe zones can be created, it is far from certain that the Rohingya refugees will be willing to return to Myanmar. They watched as their young men were lined up and shot; they watched as their teenage girls were gang raped, then shot.

The Rohingya are not going to trust any promises made by Myanmar; many of them returned to Myanmar after being driven out in the 1990’s, only to be driven out again.

It should be pointed out that during the Bosnian war, the “safe areas” created by the UN around towns like Srebrenica were attacked by Serb forces; 8,000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys were massacred in the Srebrenica “safe area.”

UN resolutions created safe areas, but UN member states were not willing to deploy their armed forces in numbers sufficient to protect those areas. The international community is not likely to repeat the mistake of creating imaginary “safe areas;” the only safe area is a state which is protected by its own army.

Insurgents like ARSA will not be able to liberate Arakan from Myanmar. Bangladesh won independence in just nine months because we are disconnected from Pakistan; Pakistan could not easily reinforce or supply its troops in Bangladesh.

Arakan is connected to Myanmar, making it easy for Myanmar to overwhelm ARSA with tanks and warplanes. ARSA will not win a free Arakan; the Rohingya will only be willing to return if Myanmar grants them full citizenship. Myanmar stripped the Rohingya of their citizenship, and Myanmar must be forced to restore it.

Under pressure, Myanmar has recently said it will allow refugees to return after it verifies that they were once residents; however, it has not offered to restore their citizenship.
Myanmar is not negotiating in good faith; it knows that as long as it does not extend citizenship to the Rohingya, they can be driven out again.

Unless safe zones can be created and protected, it is not likely that the Rohingya refugees will be willing to return

The only possible solution lies in tough diplomacy. Bangladesh should impose a trade embargo on Myanmar, and should announce that this embargo will only be lifted if Myanmar repatriates the Rohingya and restores their citizenship. Bangladesh should also try to convince sympathetic countries (including the US, EU, Japan, and powerful Muslim countries like Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Malaysia) to impose trade sanctions on Myanmar until it agrees to allow Rohingya refugees to return as citizens.

Trade sanctions were instrumental in ending apartheid in South Africa; they offer the best hope of ending apartheid against the Rohingya in Myanmar.

Even if we are able to convince like-minded countries to impose trade sanctions on Myanmar, it will probably take a decade (or two) to persuade Myanmar to abandon apartheid; until then, the Rohingya refugees will not be able to return to their homes as citizens. In the meantime, we should do what is right; we should welcome these unfortunate people, who have nowhere else to go.

We should firstly register all the Rohingya refugees, and ask richer countries in Europe and North America to host as many as they can; it’s not fair to expect Bangladesh to host all of them. We should ask the international community to provide food, education and health services to the refugees who are minors.

We should give the adult refugees the right to live and work anywhere in Bangladesh so that they can support themselves. We should ask the international community for funds to train them to make them more employable. Rohingya children born in Bangladesh should be allowed to become citizens of Bangladesh.

Equally important is what we should not do. We should not prevent them from buying sim cards; they need cellphones to contact their surviving family members. We should not confine them to a camps on a remote island where it will be impossible for them to find employment and integrate with our society.

A generation ago, India hosted millions of Bangladeshi refugees who had fled the violence of the Pakistani army; the refugees returned after Bangladesh won independence.

The Rohingya have fled Arakan, but there is no chance that the ARSA insurgents will be able to win a free Arakan state; they have no home to which they can return. The only thing we can do in good conscience is to make them feel welcome in our country.
Kazi Zahin Hasan is a businessman, and a member of the board of directors of the Dhaka Tribune.
http://www.dhakatribune.com/opinion/op-ed/2017/10/09/do-the-right-thing/

 

[Banglar Bir]

 

[UKBengali]

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[Banglar Bir]

United Nations OCHA
The Rohingya refugee crisis is now the fastest-growing refugee crisis in the world. This is how the UN & aid organisations are helping.

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[Banglar Bir]

Al Jazeera Investigates - Genocide Agenda.
Al Jazeera Englishhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrQRYrpp2cI&t=370s
Outcast: Adrift with Burma's Rohingya - REWIND

 

[livingdead]

not trying to be insensitive to rohingyas but can we have rohingya sticky like syrian war sticky ... where @Banglar Bir can post all his articles.

 

[Banglar Bir]

not trying to be insensitive to rohingyas but can we have rohingya sticky like syrian war sticky ... where @Banglar Bir can post all his articles.

By the way,this site is meant for Bangladesh Defence related matters,why are you Indians trolling in this thread instead of the Indian Forum?

 

[Well.wisher]

I really want to help my muslim brother n sisters in need . They really in need of help .
Do one of here know any bro or sis i can help financially ? . May Allah ease their pain , oh Allah have mercy on them ..

i am failed to understand how they are our problem ? let them die they are failed society .

For God's sake .. dont speak such words which u cant carry on qayammah .

The Rohingya should be treated as our own
Tanim Ahmed
Published at 07:29 PM September 16, 2017
Last updated at 11:12 PM September 16, 2017

Bangladeshi volunteers from the Chhagalnaiya village council distribute food donations to Rohingya Muslim refugees at Naikhongchhari in Chittagong on September 10, 2017AFP
I would dread repatriation if I were a Rohingya
What is another million when we already have 160 million ourselves?

The prime minister’s sentiment is actually true except that the 160 million she mentioned are Bangladeshis and mostly left to their own devices for a livelihood. Now that the prime minister’s comments will have triggered a predictable sycophantic frenzy of about face among the most voluble and violent critics of Rohingya, it is probably time to recognise that we will not be able to wish them away, however much we want to.

The well over million Rohingya who will have been sheltered in Bangladesh before the yearend, will probably be the highest concentration and one of the few unfortunate examples where an entire ethnic community has been uprooted, an instance of successful ethnic cleansing while the world watched. The Rohingya have been fleeing Myanmar in search of refuge for almost four decades now. And they are not going back.

To begin with, Myanmar is not going to turn around and say, “My bad. So sorry. Come along folks. Lets start over.” Not with China and India cajoling and coaxing the regime. But even if by a miracle Myanmar did say that, the Rohingyas would hardly return. A father who watched his five year old shot, a girl who saw her parents mutilated, people who saw their homes burnt will simply not accept the assurances of the very people who had turned on them. Indeed, if I were a Rohingya I would run and hide in the densest darkest patch of the Sundarbans. I would dread repatriation if I were a Rohingya.

What it basically comes down to is that Bangladesh will have become the new home of the Rohingya for all intents and purposes. But the government has to pretend that it is a ‘temporary problem’ perhaps because of all kinds of political considerations. Easy acceptance of the Rohingya as permanent residents might encourage India to push in a few hundred thousand unwanted Muslims too, for instance.

Be that as it may, there is simply no getting around the point that the Rohigya are here and they are not going anywhere. Bangladesh needs to realise it is a ‘permanent situation’ and change up how to go about it. There should be calls for other countries to pull their share of housing the Rohingya. The obvious candidates, playing the religion card, would be the oil rich gulf countries besides of course Turkey. Then there is Europe or even the North and South American countries.

The government realises that it will not be able to feed and care for so many people but it seems to be holding out for eventual repatriation, which won’t happen. As soon as this sinks in, however, the authorities will realise that there will never be enough funds to care for the refugees. Hence, they must earn their keep whether through food for work schemes of the government or proper paying jobs.

As such the Rohingya must be allowed civic amenities and privileges — citizenship should only be a protracted inevitability — to make a living and stop being a burden. That the Rohingya engage in criminal activity is but natural given that they cannot get proper employment. It will be in everyone’s interest to make sure that Rohingya children receive proper education and health care so that they can take care of their parents and their children.

Sooner or later they will have adopted this country. Might as well treat them as our own.
http://www.dhakatribune.com/world/south-asia/2017/09/16/rohingya-repatriation-unlikely/

MAY allah swt reward u all who help these innocent brethern.
Plz do more .