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Some 1,160 Rohingya refugees arrested – Attacks by security forces and citizens’ committees

12 March 2010

Source: Society for Threatened Peoples (GfbV)Date: 10 Mar 2010 Some 1,160 Rohingya refugees from Burma have been arrested since January 2010 in Bangladesh and most of them deported to their homelands, states the Society for Threatened Peoples STP (Gesellschaft für bedrohte Völker GfbV). There they are threatened with further persecution. “At least 366 of those [...]

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The News Today, Bangladesh: Separate cells for female expat workers on the cards

25 November 2009

The government is considering setting up separate cells at different Bangladesh missions abroad to look after female expatriate workers” interest.

“The government will take initiative to assist female expatriate workers abroad through Bangladesh missions,” said Labour and Employment Minister Engineer Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain. The minister was addressing a study report launching ceremony as the chief guest at Dhaka Sheraton Hotel in the city on Tuesday.

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The terrifying voyage of Burma’s boat people

24 November 2009

Here’s a formula for making a killing in times of crisis. Go to the south-eastern tip of Bangladesh, on the border with Burma, and buy an old fishing boat. It’ll cost 100,000 taka, or about £900. Then budget 450 pounds, for rice and drinking water, and maybe another £450 for bribes. Then head off and trawl for clients among the most destitute communities in Bangladesh – a country so densely populated country and so poor that for Britain to be on similar economic terms it would have to have a population of 200 million with an average income around four per cent of what a Briton’s is today.

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