Between August 2024 and February 2025, Fortify Rights interviewed 15 residents of Rakhine State, Myanmar and newly arrived refugees from Myanmar, including five women, in Bangladesh—including ethnic ...

Rohingya people are still entering Bangladesh from Mymanmar’s conflict-hit state of Rakhine illegally by paying money to ...

By 2014, however, events took a turn. He was arrested again and sent to Buthidaung prison. The reason for his second incarceration remains unclear. When the mass exodus of Rohingya refugees to ...

"The AA men raided our village in Buthidaung, aiming to abduct some Rohingya men. My brother and I slipped out of the village," Alom told DW. Alom said they returned to their village after the rebels ...

"The AA men raided our village in Buthidaung, aiming to abduct some Rohingya men. My brother and I slipped out of the village," Alom told DW. Alom said they returned to their village after the ...

“It was worse than a jail,” says Goni, who finally left Hpa Yon Chaung village in Buthidaung township on January 5. “People at least get food twice a day in jail. We were always ...

Mujib Ullah, 40, a resident of Buthidaung town in the Northen Rakhaine State of Myanmar, entered Bangladesh by boat through the Teknaf border with his wife and six children on December 10, 2024. ‘I ...

The junta has been conscripting and arming civilians from local communities and even from displaced persons (IDP) camps in the Arakan State townships of Sittwe, Buthidaung, Maungdaw, and Kyaukphyu.