{"id":141526,"date":"2019-09-02T12:01:30","date_gmt":"2019-09-02T11:01:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=141526"},"modified":"2019-08-27T11:11:21","modified_gmt":"2019-08-27T10:11:21","slug":"100000-rohingyas-rally-in-bangladesh-to-mark-genocide-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2019\/09\/100000-rohingyas-rally-in-bangladesh-to-mark-genocide-day\/","title":{"rendered":"100,000 Rohingyas Rally in Bangladesh to Mark Genocide Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

The commemorations took place amid heightened tensions in parts of the camps after security forces shot dead two Rohingya Saturday [24 Aug].<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Rohingya refugees gather to mark the second anniversary of the exodus at the Kutupalong camp in Cox\u2019s Bazar, Bangladesh, August 25, 2019. | Photo: Reuters<\/p><\/div>\n

25 Aug 2019 – <\/em>At least 100,000 Rohingya refugees rallied in camps in Bangladesh today, marking two years since the start of a brutal military crackdown in Myanmar that forced more than 730,000 to flee across the border.<\/p>\n

Massive crowds gathered in the morning on a hillside for memorial prayers for relatives killed in the violence.<\/p>\n

Others marched under the sweltering sun chanting, \u201cWe want justice\u201d and \u201cNo more genocide\u201d, some wearing white shirts bearing the words \u2018Rohingya Genocide Remembrance\u2019.<\/p>\n

The commemorations took place amid heightened tensions in parts of the camps after security forces shot dead two Rohingya Saturday, saying they were involved in the murder of a ruling party official.<\/p>\n

More than one million people live in the camps in southern Bangladesh in the world\u2019s largest refugee settlement. The majority having fled violence in 2017 that the United Nations says was executed with \u201cgenocidal intent\u201d.<\/p>\n

Refugees say Myanmar\u2019s security forces and Buddhist civilians carried out mass killings and gang rapes during weeks of \u201cclearance operations\u201d. Myanmar denies those accusations and says they were conducting legitimate operations against Rohingya insurgents who attacked police posts.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe miss our home, our relatives, our beloved ones who were killed in Myanmar,\u201d said Chekufa, the leader of the Rohingya Women\u2019s Empowerment and Advocacy Network, which organized one of the demonstrations. \u201cWe miss them very much today.\u201d<\/p>\n

Efforts to begin repatriating 3,450 Rohingya<\/a> cleared by Myanmar failed Thursday after none agreed to go.<\/p>\n

In Myanmar, Rohingya are denigrated as illegal immigrants from Bangladesh, denied citizenship, and subjected to human rights violation.<\/p>\n

Despite squalid conditions in the Bangladesh camps, refugees are fearful of returning home without assurances of citizenship and security.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are very grateful to the Bangladesh government, but we are living here not like humans but like animals, just eating and sleeping,\u201d Chekufa said.<\/p>\n

Iqbal Hossain, additional superintendent of police in Cox\u2019s Bazar, told Reuters at least 100,000 Rohingya took part in the protests, which were peaceful.<\/p>\n

But tensions were high in the southern part of the camp, where security forces have been hunting suspects in the murder of a youth wing official from the ruling Awami League.<\/p>\n

Omar Faruk was killed in a settlement near Teknaf Thursday, police said. The death sparked riots the following day, with a mob of local people burning tires and destroying shops frequented by refugees.<\/p>\n

\u201cA tense situation is prevailing there,\u201d Hossain said \u00a0Sunday, adding that the two Rohingya shot were killed \u201cin self-defense. We are continuing our drive to arrest others in connection with the killing,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Two refugees, who asked not to be named for fear of retribution, said most people from the camp had fled.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are very worried and afraid,\u201d said a local mahji, or camp leader. \u201cWe don\u2019t know what will happen.\u201d<\/p>\n

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25 Aug 2019 – At least 100,000 Rohingya refugees rallied in camps in Bangladesh today, marking two years since the start of a brutal military crackdown in Myanmar that forced more than 730,000 to flee across the border. The commemorations took place amid heightened tensions in parts of the camps after security forces shot dead two Rohingya yesterday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":141527,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[677],"tags":[229,240,1149,1198,526,120,1199,865,267,260,487,926,866,651,291,287,103,107,527,985,380,124,126,92,118],"class_list":["post-141526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asia-updates-on-myanmar-rohingya-genocide","tag-activism","tag-asia","tag-asia-and-the-pacific","tag-buddhism","tag-burma-myanmar","tag-conflict","tag-ethnic-cleansing","tag-genocide","tag-geopolitics","tag-history","tag-human-rights","tag-humanitarianism","tag-indigenous-rights","tag-justice","tag-military","tag-power","tag-racism","tag-religion","tag-rohingya","tag-social-justice","tag-solutions","tag-united-nations","tag-violence","tag-violent-conflict","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141526\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}