Military crackdown in Myanmar: Over 1,000 Rohingyas flee to Teknaf

Top, Persecuted Rohingya Muslims enter into Bangladesh through Teknaf frontier in Cox’s Bazar from the northwest Myanmar amid a military crackdown there. — New Age photo. Right, AP releases this combination of two satellite images taken by DigitalGlobe Monday. The image illustrates before in 2014, top, and after the building destruction on Nov. 10, 2016, bottom, in a Maungdaw village in Myanmar.

Over 500 more Myanmar ethnic minority people known as Rohingya entered Bangladesh through Teknaf border in Cox’s Bazar on Monday taking to over 1,000 the number of Rohingyas sneaking into the country as Rohingyas continued flee violence against them in Rakhaine State. Border Guard Bangladesh briefly held at least 64 Rohingyas including elderly men, women and children from Hoykong border guard checkpoint on the Cox’s Bazar-Teknaf road in the afternoon and later pushed them back to their homeland, Border Guard Bangladesh officials said. The Rohingyas fleeing violence in their homeland were taking shelters in hilly areas of Ukhiya and Teknaf in Cox’s Bazar, said local people and officials. Over 1,000 Rohingyas sneaked into Bangladesh over the past week despite enhanced surveillance as Myanmar military escalated crackdown on the Muslim minority community in Rakhine state, they said. Rohingya Muslims were entering Bangladesh illegally through the river Naff from different points, said the commanding officer of border guard battalion at Teknaff, Lieutenant Colonel Abujar Al Jahid. The persecuted Rohingyas were intruding through the country’s porous river and land borders with Myanmar after the killing of scores of people in escalation of fresh attacks on them in Northern Maungdaw township of Arakan province. Rohingyas continued crossing the borders through the river Naff and land border Tumbrow of Nikyangchari upazila in cialis generic online india Bandarban, said local people and officials. Border guard officials said that those detained were pushed back to Myanmar through the river Naff by boats. Over 500 Rohingyas were staying near Kutupalong camp areas under Ukhiya upazila till afternoon, local people said, adding that they, mostly elderly men, women and children, crossed the river Naff through Zimmongkhali and Unciprong points of Teknaf upazila in the morning. Rajim Ullah, 31, of Nandakhali in Myanmar was crushed under wheel and his father Dodo Mia was injured when they were crossing the Cox’s Bazar-Teknaf road at Zimmong Khali point at about 6:30am. Local people later recovered the body and sent the injured to Kutupalong camp. herbal viagra from india The deceased was buried at a local graveyard in the afternoon. Dodo Mia and his five family members were going to Kutupalong after they crossed the river Naff through Zimmongkhali point at about 3:00am. Saidul Alam, 61, of Jamboniya village of Northern Maungdaw of Arakan province arrived at Kutupalong hill of Ukhiya with his five family members at about 10:30am. Saidul told New Age that he crossed the river Naff at about 3:30am by a small boat. ‘Myanmar military set fire to my home a week ago and shot dead four of my relatives in front of me…So, I decided to leave my homeland and crossed the border,’ he said. Marium Khaton, 35, of Amtali village in Maungdaw arrived at Kutupalong in the morning with seven family members. Her husband Rahamat Ullah was shot dead by Myanmar military after the troops set fire to their house, she said. Mohammad Hossain, 30, of Keari Prong in northern Maungdaw said that his father Sydur Rahman was shot dead by military and he crossed the border with 10 members of the family. All the newcomers were taking shelter in hilly areas of Kutupalong of Ukhiya upazila. International Organisation of Migration national programme officer Saikat Biswas visited Kutupalong when hundreds of Rohingyas arrived at about 11:30am. ‘We are observing situation of the arrivals of Rohingyas crossing the border,’ he told journalists. Border Guard Bangladesh and Coast Guard pushed back about 700 Rohingyas to their homeland through the river Naff and land border Tumbrow over the past week as they attempted to enter illegally, officials confirmed. Home minister Asaduzzman Khan on Sunday said that Bangladesh would not allow anyone to trespass on its territory in the wake of ‘unease’ along the border with Myanmar. Border Guard Bangladesh and Bangladesh Coast Guard were put on pomegranate viagra alert near Bangladesh-Myanmar frontier. Additional border guards were patrolling the border. Troops poured into a strip of land along the Bangladesh border, an area which largely housed Rohingyas, since coordinated attacks on police posts in October. The http://chineseviagra-fromchina.com/ government has increased surveillance along the border with Myanmar as it was concerned over the tension created after the killing of scores of people in escalation of fighting in Rakhine state. Scores were killed and up to 30,000 people had been displaced by violence in Rakhine state, half of them over the course of the past weekend when dozens of people died in xanax and viagra interaction clashes with the military, the United Nations said on Friday. United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees on Friday urged Myanmar to protect its civilians in northern Rakhine state. According to a rough government estimate, about 3-5 lakh undocumented Myanmar nationals and about 30,000 refugees, widely known as Rohingyas, viagra testosterone have been residing in at least six districts in Bangladesh generic cialis cost causing serious threat to the country’s security, and environment and economy in the localities they reside. Myanmar is major producer of both refugees and internally displaced people, with over 9,01,800 people altogether staying in countries including Bangladesh, Thailand and Malaysia, according to the UN body.

Source: New Age