Mohammed Zonaid

Nov 25, 2024 | myanmar-now.org | Su Chay |Mohammed Zonaid

“My village was under a genocidal attack. We had no escape but to run to Bangladesh.” Anika*, 29, recalled how she had fled her home—located in Buthidaung Township’s Taung Bazar village in northern Rakhine State—along with her husband and daughter in 2017, escaping the lethal, targeted violence of a “clearing operation” that the Myanmar military carried out on August 25.

Aug 26, 2024 | myanmar-now.org | Mohammed Zonaid

Thousands of Rohingya refugees gathered in Cox’s Bazar refugee camps in Bangladesh on Sunday to mark the seventh anniversary of the Myanmar military’s large-scale “clearance operations” against them on August 25, 2017. The violent crackdown, described by the United Nations as a textbook example of ethnic cleansing, included numerous extrajudicial killings and the burning of homes and villages.

Aug 22, 2024 | myanmar-now.org | Su Chay |Mohammed Zonaid

The conflict for control of northern Rakhine State’s Maungdaw Township is continuing to claim the lives of Rohingya civilians, with more dying on Sunday during an attempt to reach Bangladesh. According to survivors and local rescue workers, the victims were aboard a boat that capsized as it was carrying 36 refugees across the Naf River, which forms part of the border between Myanmar and its neighbour to the north.

May 16, 2024 | myanmar-now.org | Su Chay |Mohammed Zonaid

The names of sources quoted in this story have been changed to protect their security. Threats of abduction and conscription by the junta and shadowy local militia groups have now spilled over into neighbouring Bangladesh, as Rohingya refugees describe how they and their relatives have been taken back across the border to Myanmar as forced recruits to the military.