Tag: Rohingya refugees

Duterte offers to grant Filipino citizenship to Rohingya refugees

(Eagle News)–President Rodrigo Duterte on Tuesday, Feb. 26, offered to give Filipino citizenship to Rohingya refugees. “I am willing to accept Rohingyas. ‘Yung talagang walang mapuntahan tatanggapin ko ‘yan, gawain kong Pilipino,” Duterte said in a speech at Manila Hotel. The Rohingyas are a group of people who have fled Myanmar since 2017 following attacks by security government forces who were previously attacked by militant Rohingyas. President Duterte himself described the situation in the neighboring […]

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Rohingya faces tell the agony of Myanmar exodus

COX’S BAZAR, Bangladesh (AFP) – The lines on their foreheads tell more than the forced smiles on the faces of the Rohingya refugees photographed by AFP for a special series. All are among nearly one million of the stateless Muslim group now crowded into camps in Bangladesh after fleeing a military crackdown in neighboring Myanmar. More than 600,000 have arrived in the past two months alone. Many are emaciated. Some carry the trauma of attacks […]

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Mud and misery for refugees as Bangladesh tent city grows

by Claire Cozens Agence France-Presse KUTUPALONG, Bangladesh (AFP) – Two hours’ walk from the nearest road, with no toilets or clean water and little proper shelter— the vast area of scrubland Bangladesh has set aside for more than 400,000 Rohingya refugees is a miserable place to call home. Over the last week, Bangladesh authorities have cleared hundreds of thousands of newly-arrived refugees from roadsides and private land near the border with Myanmar where they had set up camp, […]

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DSWD ready to aid Rohingya refugees

MANILA, Philippines (Eagle News) – The Department of Social Welfare and Development said that it is ready to use its quick response fund if ever the more than 3, 000 Rohingya refugees from Myanmar and Bangladesh ever land on Philippine shores. (Eagle News Service Jay Paul Carlos, Jericho Morales, Vince Alvin Villarin)

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